Chapter 274: Troublesome Autumn Moss Emergency

I have to say that Sister Bai is very patient.

She was promoted to the Martial God Realm at the end of the 533rd year of Dawu, and then she would be in semi-seclusion for five years.

The eldest lady had long known from Gu Ke that the "old aunt" had woken up, so she did not return to Yulong Cave Mansion, and had been waiting for her to come to "reminisce the past".

Who knew that she would wait and see.

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When she could not help asking Gu Ke, she learned that Bai Suqing had been promoted to the Martial God Realm and was in semi-seclusion to consolidate her strength.

Hearing this "good news", the eldest lady was immediately depressed.

At the same time, she was deeply dissatisfied with someone's behavior of "concealing the enemy's situation". She gritted her teeth and insisted on being angry for most of the day before she reluctantly accepted his apology (adjustment) (play).

Of course, she would inevitably say some words like "working behind closed doors" and "having ill intentions", but she was secretly alert in her heart: I'm afraid that the old lady doesn't follow the morals of martial arts and is hiding to make progress secretly.

Gu Ke pretended not to hear it, so as to prevent the normal comparison from turning into a battle of hatchets.

He was not afraid of being chopped, anyway, the Wuxiang Zhenjing protected his body, and none of them could chop him to death.

I'm afraid that the young lady would get excited for a while and put herself on the stage and couldn't get down, so he had to give her a way out.

Besides, Bai Suqing would definitely not respond to her. If the one-man show couldn't be performed, why bother.

Sure enough, the young lady, who had no one to support her, lost her temper in less than two days.

Gu Ke quickly pulled her and devoted himself to research, taking the martial arts secret book obtained from Bai Suqing, and analyzing the similarities and differences of other martial arts realms.

This time, the young lady was obsessed with new martial arts, and she didn't have the energy to think about what was going on with the old aunt every day. Anyway, she would not take the initiative to meet her.

In fact, although Bai Suqing never admitted it herself, Gu Ke knew that Qin Bai and Qin Bai had similar attitudes towards each other.

The eldest lady suspected that Bai Suqing was working hard secretly, and Bai Suqing also knew that the eldest lady would not slack off in martial arts.

The eldest lady had been promoted to the Martial Soul Realm for several years, while Bai Suqing herself had just entered the Martial God Realm.

Even if they met, it was because her strength was unstable and it was easy to weaken her momentum that she chose to retreat.

This was not simply stingy.

Think about it, she was willing to enter the state of meditation for twenty years, wasn't it just to narrow the gap with the eldest lady.

I didn't think about overtaking, which was not very realistic, but at least she couldn't be easily dominated by the eldest lady.

If she was shown off by the opponent's strength as soon as she came out, then her twenty years would not be in vain!

Therefore, Bai Suqing would rather wait for a few years, and she and Gu Ke do have more common language in this regard.

The eldest lady has always been too straightforward, and never thought of actively looking for trouble, and it is more likely that she disdains to take such an advantage.

Well, dealing with monsters doesn't count, they are not human, and the young lady has fun sneaking up on them.

However, in the past five years, the war situation between humans and monsters in Dawu has reversed.

Sixty to seventy percent of the areas in Yiting and Siguo are considered safe areas. It is not uncommon for monsters to roam occasionally, but it is rare for them to break through the county.

Moreover, as the number of monsters decreases, the remaining monsters have become popular, and many people are jealous of them.

In novels, they are "monsters" at the level of "natural materials and treasures".

As long as you are a warrior, no matter how strong you are, there is a huge demand for them.

In the past, when people saw a slightly larger number of monsters, they were always worried and felt that they were unlucky.

In this situation now, at most one or two days, there will be large and small hunting teams swarming from all directions, vowing to make a fortune.

Unlike decades ago, most of these hunting teams are now professional and long-standing elite veterans.

They do not engage in any production, nor participate in the daily garrison of the city, but they spend ten months out of the twelve months of the year.

The life plan of the members of this hunting team is probably - kill monsters → exchange resources for use → go out to kill monsters again. Every day, they are either killing monsters or on the way to kill monsters.

Because the rewards are high and the pace is fast, the warriors of the hunting team who can persist in high-intensity battles have made rapid progress in strength.

In recent years alone. The number of martial masters who have come out of the hunting team is several times more than the number of garrisoned cities.

In addition, there are more than two-digit new martial masters who are from the hunting team, which has become the most widely circulated inspirational story among the people.

Because these martial masters have no background in government and local major forces.

In other words, they all climbed up step by step from the grassroots people and small forces, and the resources they originally had were either no or limited.

Although it cannot be said that ordinary people can be replaced, at least people with some family background and talent feel that they have the opportunity to replicate this success.

If you want to take this path to get ahead, the price is a high mortality rate, and it is not uncommon for the whole family to be wiped out.

But becoming a third-round strongman, even if it is just the most "ordinary" Wu Zong, means personal wealth and prosperity, and the whole family will rise to heaven.

In the previous life, winning a lottery of hundreds of millions of dollars cannot compare with Wu Zong in terms of living a good life.

After all, the US dollar is dead, and Wu Zong is not dead, everything will come in an endless stream.

Even if the number of Wu Zongs in Dawu has entered an explosive period, it is still no problem to occupy a large county with a population of hundreds of thousands and radiate hundreds of miles around.

As long as you don't commit suicide and provoke Wu Zun, or die halfway, it's not too easy to be a local emperor for a hundred years.

If you are lucky enough to achieve Wu Zun, you can at least classify thousands of miles as your own territory and rule over tens of millions of people, which is no less powerful than the king of a small country in the previous life.

Everything seems to be developing in a good direction, and the people of Dawu think so.

Even Gu Ke felt that the demons and ghosts would not be able to cause any trouble.

There was no other reason, they had too many factions.

The demons and ghosts were fighting each other, barely maintaining the most basic restraint, and the top spiritual masters and demon gods did not personally participate.

Further subdivided, there were more than a hundred spiritual masters, and there were even more demon gods.

Three or five people from the same tribe formed a group, which was a faction, and there were dozens of factions on both sides.

But there was no absolutely strong existence that could suppress the entire tribe.

Of course, if there was really an alliance with outstanding strength among them, or an existence that surpassed the level of spiritual masters and demon gods, they would have unified the demon world long ago.

Five hundred and ten years before Dawu, all the demons and ghosts would have attacked Dawu at all costs, and the four countries would have absolutely no chance to resist and would have been destroyed in an instant.

And now? Gu Ke had already passed the ten thousandth level of the Wuxiang Zhenjing, with the secret realm in hand and the blessed land blooming everywhere.

If he could not be solved, Dawu could not be destroyed.

In fact, the demon and ghost tribes have been quarreling quite a lot in recent years.

But the two demon gods, one dead and one injured, are living negative examples. No one wants to learn from them and come to Dawu to get killed.

The lifespan of the spirit master and the demon god is thousands of years, and no one really thinks that they are tired of living.

Even the virtual ghost and the demon king, whose lifespan starts at a thousand years, are the absolute generals under the spirit master and the demon god. No one wants to lose them in vain.

However, they did not live so long in vain. Some spirit masters and demon gods still had some small ideas and successfully made some small moves.

In the autumn of the 538th year of Dawu, the eternal ice peak, which had collapsed and cracked in many places, moved again.

The obvious shock spread to the whole Dawu. Within a month, many cracks collapsed for the second time, becoming a gap that is not inferior to the two major channels of the extreme north and the South China Sea.

A huge amount of alien soul sources in the demon world once again poured into Dawu, triggering the second heaven and earth phenomenon.

Unlike before, this anomaly had an extremely obvious impact on the natural environment of Dawu.

The sunlight became increasingly dim, and the heat emitted was greatly reduced. After only one month, the temperature in Dawu dropped by more than ten degrees.

The Far North Outer Region was covered with thick snow almost overnight, and small snowflakes also fell across the entire Northern Desert and the northern part of the courtyard.

The Western Wasteland was slightly better, with snow only in the western plateau, but the temperature dropped sharply, which was no different from entering winter early.

The two countries in the southeast were a little better, with temperatures close to the late autumn and early winter in the Northern Desert.

But now that martial arts training is popular in Dawu, it is still impossible for the elderly, children, and weak patients to resist the low temperature by their bodies.

Moreover, the lowest winter temperature in most parts of the southeast has always been above ten degrees. This time, they were caught off guard, and the two countries were in a state of emergency for cold-resistant clothing and bedding.

It was only by relying on the three countries in the middle, north, and west to urgently transport a large number of thick clothing and bedding through the fairy mountain that there was barely a large-scale death.

This is just the beginning.

When the real winter comes, there will be a huge gap in the cold-resistant materials of the whole Dawu.

Under such a temperature, the urgent planting of cotton and linen in the two southeast countries will not be harvested, and a large number of people will surely freeze to death.

Under the great changes, Dawu was in a state of chaos.

First, the cloth shops and clothing stores were sold out, and then firewood and charcoal, which are heating consumables, were also collected crazily by everyone.

Next, kapok flowers, reed flowers, straw stalks, some weeds, etc. that can be filled into the interlayer of clothing for warmth are also being gathered crazily.

Martial artists cannot rely solely on themselves to resist low temperatures, but adding some insulation effect to clothing and bedding will make it much easier.

Dawu was in chaos, and Gu Ke would naturally not be idle anymore.

At the first time, he released a variety of skills through Xianshan.

These include adding insulation layers to buildings, building kangs, manufacturing and using honeycomb coal stoves, etc.

Then, after harvesting the latest batch of grain, the major blessed lands immediately began to plant exotic mosses.

In the last life, there was a famous branch of moss in China, called Ula grass.

Its stems are relatively hard, and its leaves are slender, leathery, and relatively rough.

It can be used as fodder when it is young, and it is a good weaving material when it grows up, and... it can be used for warmth.

After harvesting, it is dried in the sun, and then beaten to be soft, and can be stuffed into boots, or used as a mattress.

Now it is used to make clothes and quilts for emergency use. There are many shortcomings, but it is better than nothing.

Ordinary varieties of moss can grow to more than two feet, and the length of the exotic moss cultivated by Gu Ke can exceed four feet.

I dare not say about other places, but in the blessed land, by changing the environment in a targeted manner, this exotic moss can be harvested five times a year.

It is also a perennial herb, sowing once and benefiting multiple times, there is no shortage of seeds, and it is not difficult to quickly expand the scale of planting.

From this point of view, even if the comfort of using moss for warmth is far less than that of cotton, it is the most suitable for large-scale emergency use in the short term.

And now the weather changes are so obvious, who knows what the situation will be next spring.

If it is still as cold as in previous winters, it means that there will be a few months less time to grow food.

The impact on exotic food may be smaller, just one less season or a reduction in production, but ordinary food may be completely lost on a large scale.

Even after the changes in the world, the difficulty of growing exotic food is also decreasing, but in the daily diet of the people, the proportion of exotic food and ordinary food is still about 50-50.

The failure of ordinary food means that the people of Dawu will have half of their food rations.

At this time, freeing up time to grow moss will further reduce the harvest of food, which is definitely a double blow to the people.

Thinking of this, Gu Ke also had a headache. He sighed and continued to work.

How can things in the world go as one wishes? He just wanted to have a clear conscience.

First of all, the scope of Yulong Cave Mansion was expanded again.

The first expansion was one million soul sources, the second was two million, the third was four million, the fourth was eight million, and the fifth was sixteen million.

You get what you pay for. Double the cost means double the land.

However, there are only a few of them in Yulong Cave Mansion. Even with the help of the palace spirit Saranzhu and the automatic processing of system buildings, the workload is close to the normal limit.

If it doubles again, everyone will spend a lot of time working every day.

Gu Ke considered the cost-effectiveness of it, and Dawu was gradually resuming production, so the demand for food was not so urgent, so he did not continue.

But in the current situation, he certainly can't think about being leisurely anymore.

Fighting with monsters and ghosts and killing and wounding is a competition for survival resources and territory. It will not end until two of the three monsters are defeated. This requires the long-term efforts of Dawu people to change.

The sudden change in the environment was an unexpected event.

As the saying goes, you can help for a while, but not for a lifetime.

The former is "a lifetime", while the latter is just "a while", so Gu Ke's attitude is naturally different.

The accumulated soul source instantly dropped 32 million, doubling the expansion of the cave, with a diameter of more than 300 miles.

A large area of ​​flat fields appeared in the distance, and it seemed endless to the naked eye.

Next, even Bai Suqing, who was in semi-retreat, helped, sweeping a large area of ​​blood and energy to complete the new land reclamation.

Gu Ke, on his side, tried his best to draw idle fairy fields and cultivate heterogeneous moss seeds on a large scale.

First, he collected some of the daily picked medicinal materials of low age in the Xuling Fairy Field, and then sowed heterogeneous moss wherever he could.

The reason for doing so is that the Xuling Fairy Field has the strongest growth rate effect.

The growth rate of black soil for ordinary heterogeneous species is about ten times, and the Chiling Fairy Field doubles again, between twenty and thirty times.

The effect of the Xuling Fairy Field is stronger, and the growth rate is fifty to one hundred times.

Moreover, Gu Ke has passed the novice period and can control some functions of the fairy field.

For example, this time he only increased the growth rate of moss, not the quality.

If the quality is improved, the demand for fertilizer will be higher, which is not conducive to the promotion of moss.

In the past, moss generally grew in the wetlands with more water in the north of Dawu, but the temperature still needs to rise during the growth period.

Now the temperature in the north has dropped, and it is still unknown what it will be like next year.

However, there are many water veins in the southeast countries, and now the temperature has dropped to the same level as the previous northern region, which just meets the growth environment of moss.

There is no need to worry about the low quality of the alien moss. At that time, the southeast countries can mobilize the people to sow it on a large scale in the wild wetlands.

Originally, Dawu was sparsely populated, and there were many places not suitable for farming.

Just send people to a slightly remote place, throw the moss seeds down, and let them fend for themselves.

When the time comes, go and harvest a batch, and there is no need to spend extra manpower and material resources if it doesn't grow.