Chapter 276: An Unexpected Truce to Survive the Cold Winter
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Compared with those high-ranking and hard-to-reach powerful clans and forces, the common people are still more familiar with these small families and are more susceptible to their influence.
Well, it’s similar to the previous generation when Accountant Jia went abroad, and the people realized it later and could only make up jokes afterwards for fun.
Huang He from Jiangnan Leather Factory ran away with his sister-in-law, but it was known to everyone on the road.
Of course, these things are just a small splash to Dawu as a whole.
They were all chain reactions caused by dramatic changes in weather, and together they formed a huge and uninterrupted wave. Everyone, including Gu Ke, was too busy to touch the ground.
It’s no wonder that the ancients ranked “timing” first. In the face of natural disasters, manpower always has limited time.
Gu Ke's biggest confidence now is that he is not an ordinary person, and he has more than just "manpower".
With the help of blessed lands and secret realms, he quickly transferred the population, transporting hundreds of millions of people across a distance of tens of thousands of miles out of thin air, directly to Nanye.
This alone has reduced the total human and material losses in large-scale migration by more than 90%.
The first batch of Carex produced in the Jade Dragon Blessed Land was all transported to the Northern Desert and the northern part of the Zhongting.
The migration of billions of people is just the beginning, and more people will migrate later. It will not be completed this winter.
The people who stay need to try their best to save their lives, otherwise the number of people who die from the cold will exceed the number who die from the monsters, which would be a huge failure.
The amount of carex transported to the Northern Desert and Zhongting was huge and used for different purposes, so Gu Ke only used his own workshop and processing workshop to complete part of the work.
Judging from the current situation, what everyone urgently needs most is not clothing, shoes and hats, but housing renovation.
Because you can go out less in winter, and even the whole family can sit on the kang to keep warm. However, if the house is not warm enough, the whole family will have to endure the cold together.
The construction of houses in different places is different. The further north you go, the more important the insulation layer is.
If you "move" a house thousands of miles south to the north, it will really freeze people to death.
Winter has just begun in the Northern Desert and the northern part of Zhongting, and most residential buildings can still withstand it.
But when it comes to the severe cold weather, most of them will definitely not be able to survive. After all, no one thought about resisting the low temperature of minus 20 degrees when they were built.
So from the first batch of Carex, it was necessary to increase the thermal insulation of the house for a long time.
With the newly arrived liverwort materials, there is no shortage of craftsmen from all over the country, and the people are extremely active.
No one wants to freeze to death. For the sake of the lives of their children and fellow villagers, they have to work hard to complete the project before the severe cold winter arrives.
In the face of survival, almost everyone has great potential.
But another thing made everyone feel strange.
That was from the second collapse of the Eternal Ice Peak at the end of July to mid-September. For more than a month, Dawu was in chaos, but there was never much movement on the part of the demons and ghosts.
The monsters in Dawu were running around like crazy, but instead of attacking humans, they took the opportunity to escape to remote areas.
This situation has left many people scratching their heads: Previously, the situation in Dawu was gradually stabilizing, and you were making trouble everywhere, as if you were not afraid of death. Now that you have a great opportunity, you are running away collectively?
Of course, Gu Ke knew this best, and only the top officials in Beimo were informed about it.
However, Su Yulou did not continue to spread the news.
In fact, the reason why the monsters ran away was very simple, because no one wanted to die in vain before their own side fully invaded.
The desperate efforts before were out of necessity.
The Twelve Guarding Blessed Lands blocked most of the escape routes, and they had nowhere to go unless they fought hard.
But now that the Eternal Ice Peak has collapsed in many places, the Twelve Guarding Blessed Lands can no longer prevent them from escaping back to the Demon Realm.
Even if there is a strict order from the top of the monsters that they must fight in Dawu, they can still hide in various passages and wait for the subsequent army to arrive before acting together.
As for whether they are fighting here and how long they have been fighting, it is impossible for the spirit master and the demon god to come and supervise in person.
With so many people of the same kind dying before, who can be resurrected to find the spirit master or demon god to receive the reward?
In a sense, this can also be regarded as a mutated version of "The Encirclement of the Master".
Gu Ke didn't do this before because he couldn't let outside monsters enter, and he also wanted to use the monsters in Dawu as a whetstone for the people.
Due to the current situation, we just let them go.
Otherwise, these are a lot of soul sources, and it would be a pity to lose almost a third of them in one go.
Having said that, the escape of the monsters is a good thing for the great migration, but the speculation that a large number of reinforcements may follow is not.
Needless to say, everyone knows the former, so it is natural to feel at ease.
The latter is something almost no one knows about because it only creates huge panic.
The lesser of two evils, this matter can only rot in the belly of Bei Wang Su Yulou.
Gu Ke didn't care much about it either.
If the monster really wants to invade the territory with a large army, then the troops will come to cover it up with water and earth.
Not to mention anything else, it is very difficult for the opponent to move the basic base of more than fifty blessed land cities.
Even in the worst case scenario, the rest of the population in Dawu would be wiped out.
The population of more than fifty blessed land cities is still as high as hundreds of millions, which is enough for the Dawu people to continue their bloodline.
Of course, this is the worst case scenario.
If it was not a last resort, Gu Ke would not let the situation develop to this point.
Yaogui really dares to play the trick of overwhelming the country with an army and exterminating the human race. He will never mind starting the crazy mode.
Anyway, all the people out there are projections. At worst, every time I send Sister Bai, she will ride into the enemy camp alone, turn up the speed of light, and die together with the enemy.
A martial god-level warrior comes to die several times a month, and then ask the demons and ghosts which side can withstand it!
At most, three or five spirit masters and demon gods will die, and the two sides will be scared and shrink back.
If the other side realizes that Sister Bai can "resurrect + self-destruct" infinitely, I'm afraid that their mentality will completely collapse.
As the saying goes, the arrogant are afraid of the stupid, the stupid are afraid of the desperate, and the desperate are afraid of cheating.
There is nothing more desperate than risking your life while others are unscathed.
Under such a coincidence, Dawu has rarely entered a "truce period".
The human side is busy migrating, and those who do not migrate are also frantically collecting winter supplies to accumulate survival capital for the coming severe winter.
The demons and ghosts fled and hid, waiting for the arrival of reinforcements, and no longer showed up.
Soon, the cold winter of Dawu's 538th year came, which was also the full 40 years since Gu Ke came to Dawu.
In previous years, he would deliberately release a large amount of snow and wind to form a snow scene in some areas of Yulong Valley, and enjoy the soft and warm firewood and the fun of Xiaoman and I not going out.
But this year, he has no interest in celebrating the "40th anniversary".
At this moment, let alone the Yulong Cave Mansion, even the blessed land outside consumes some free soul sources to maintain the internal temperature and accelerate the growth of moss.
Compared with saving people, all snow scenes have to stand aside.
The population of Beimo has migrated many times, and people are hiding in large and medium-sized prefectures, with sufficient manpower to clear the snow.
However, the migration in the northern part of the courtyard has only been completed by about one-third. A large number of people do not have enough time to leave and can only gather in the prefecture or even the county.
Even if all the blessed lands are used to grow moss, the demand gap is still large.
In December, the temperature in these places has dropped to more than ten or twenty degrees below zero, and they can only take the method of digging caves to resist this terrible cold.
At least the caves only need to complete the solidity of the upper covering layer.
Moreover, there is no need for exotic mosses. The snow several feet deep is a kind of insulation layer. The top is strong enough, and it can be supplemented with thick straw.
The disadvantage of the cave is that it is inconvenient to live in and is not suitable for long-term residence.
But facing the low temperature of the ground that turns into ice when you breathe, at least you will not be frozen to death in the cave.
Everyone gritted their teeth and endured, hoping that this winter would pass quickly and the new year would come soon.
Once the temperature rises, they will have more than half a year to move.
This year's experience has dispelled everyone's fluke mentality. Most families will find it difficult to survive this winter.
Even this time, they have to barely survive. If it is like this every year, the whole family will die sooner or later.
Of course, those who can spend the winter in the cave are still lucky.
The official rescue teams of Beimo and Zhongting are busy all day long, running around on the snowfield every day.
Xianshan will release the location information of the disaster-stricken people in various places to them at any time, so that they can rush to rescue people.
The disaster information that can be released to them will affect at least thousands of people.
These rescue teams will directly transfer people to the nearest county city.
To move at high speed in such cold weather, the leader must be a martial master, and the team members must be two-wheeled six-turn masters.
Only with a fleet of combat-grade snow slides can thousands of people be pulled at a time.
What makes the rescue team so diligent is naturally not just kindness. The fairy mountain treasure medicine is distributed according to the number of rescued victims.
Now that the monsters have all escaped, the hunting teams have basically no place to use their skills. They have adapted to the fast-paced and high-intensity life, and are undoubtedly not used to the three-no days of "nothing to do, no income, and no progress".
Therefore, most of them have changed their careers to become rescue teams and continue to be busy.
The harvest is not as crazy as when hunting monsters, but there are always victims in the wind and snow in the vast northern part of the courtyard.
And the life of saving people is better in a steady and long-term flow.
In addition, Gu Ke specially made a batch of combat-grade snow sleds for the rescue team to use, which are enough to resist the severe cold on the surface.
Except that driving the snow sleds requires continuous consumption of blood and energy, which is relatively hard, there is almost no danger.
So hunting monsters is risking your life, and saving people is just simple hard work, and lower income is acceptable.
Everyone is busy, and the New Year's Eve is coming in a blink of an eye. Gu Ke's New Year's blessings this year are extra many, and they are biased towards those affected by the disaster.
There is no way, fairness is always relative.
In order to save people, he had to relax the standards a little.
The hardcore sincere people will get less blessings, but at the same time they have received verbal praise from the fairy mountain, so no one cares about it.
After all, over the past few decades, they have received the most blessings, and most people are generally strong, so their family conditions are naturally much better.
In this natural disaster, their daily lives have been greatly affected, but they are not so poor.
Many of their families are still settled in Yulong Fudi, and they will regularly send some food, clothing and bedding back.
Those families who are having a hard time are not really desperate. If someone in the family is sincere and prays to the gods, maybe a blessing will come one day.
Whether it is martial arts or skills, they can increase the chance of survival.
Another thing is to comfort yourself to be patient and wait until spring, everything will be fine.
But the reality is not so wonderful.
After the New Year's Eve, the 539th year of Dawu arrived.
In January, there was wind and snow in the north of Dawu.
In February, the wind and snow gradually decreased, but the severe cold remained.
In March, the wind and snow basically stopped, but the severe cold still lingered in the north, and the temperature was comparable to the deep winter of the year before.
The big sun that came out every day was cold, as if it was just a big light ball without temperature.
Even so, cities closer to the blessed land restarted their migration operations.
This was a helpless move.
One winter was enough, and now another spring had passed, and most people had no surplus food at home.
Instead of transporting food, it would be better to send people directly to Nanye, and the empty cities could be left to the people in more remote areas as a transit point for migration.
Fortunately, half a year later, Gu Ke had already produced a large number of combat-grade snow slides.
It would definitely not be enough for the entire population to migrate, but it would be okay to do it in batches.
So in the northern land, on the thick snow, there were long strings of snow slides everywhere, bringing a little vitality to the cold spring.
In the following April, the snow began to melt gradually, but the speed was very slow, and the snow slides could still be used.
In May, the temperature in the north finally returned to above zero, and it was muddy everywhere.
Without Gu Ke's intervention, craftsmen from all over the country installed temporary shock-absorbing and wear-resistant parts on the snow slides so that they could continue to work in the muddy and watery land.
Although temporary parts break down faster, it is much faster than letting the victims walk on the ground, and they can also pull more things.
The price is that the failure rate and damage speed of these combat snow slides have increased rapidly.
In June, the temperature in the north finally rose to above ten degrees.
Most of the snow slides have been damaged more than once, and batches of them were refitted with wheels when they were repaired, and they still played a role in the operation of relocating disaster victims.
Until this time, the largest migration operation in 539 officially kicked off.
After all, in May, the temperature at night was only two or three degrees. If it was windy and rainy, people with weak constitutions would fall ill in large numbers.
Only when the temperature returned to above ten degrees was it barely suitable for the victims to travel long distances in the wild for a long time.
Gu Ke also completely stopped the cultivation of exotic moss in March and switched to grain cultivation.
From September last year to March this year, the grain in Xianshan and the north of Dawu was almost only exported and not imported in half a year.
If you can't grow it in the land, you can only think of other places.
Without the threat of monsters, the two Southeast countries dispersed a large number of ships to the coast through the blessed land and began to fish for seafood crazily.
Natural harbors like Blue Bay City have invested thousands of large and small ships to go out to sea.
Many large ships are also stuffed with one or two martial masters, who can go hundreds of miles away from the coast to conduct deep-sea fishing.
The martial masters go to the sea to detect fish schools and then pull the nets. If they are lucky, they can fill several ships with one wave.
This continuous exhaustion of fishing has also caused a sharp drop in the number of coastal seafood, and it is becoming more and more difficult to harvest, but at least they have survived this difficult winter.
Although the number of deaths is still calculated in hundreds of millions, it is already the best result. If fewer people work hard in this process, or the degree of effort is worse, then the number of deaths will start from billions, and it is not impossible to even tens of billions.