Chapter 269 The Abolished Lighthouse and Port

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Annan carefully stuffed the cub, which was shrunk into a ball of white marshmallows, into his arms.

Because the three-color scepter cannot be given to others and must be held in his hand, Annan only has one hand to use.

This child is really too small... Even with Annan's size, he can grab the cub's back with one hand from behind. If it is the palm of an adult, it may be possible to let it sit directly in the palm.

But for the sake of safety and convenience, Annan could not use this hand to drag the dog directly. So in the end, Annan stuffed it into his clothes - this time, Annan did not wear the clothes given by Sir Silver, but put on a white cardigan thin trench coat on the outside and a sweater on the inside. with shirt.

He tucked the cub between his sweater and shirt, allowing its claws and head to stick out of the sweater collar. Because the puppy's hair color is similar to Annan's, Annan looks a bit like a thylacine with a cub.

……how to say.

If it is really a fox dog, then it is good to use it for heating. But even if Annan, as a cold winter clan, would not be attacked by the frost beast, the coldness of the frost beast's fur still existed.

Now, Annan can clearly feel a chill in his heart - it's like putting someone else's cold hands into his clothes in winter.

This feeling is surprisingly not annoying.

They didn't encounter any setbacks after that.

Looping all the way up, from Huanshan Road into Viscount Dolgoruki's Mansion.

It's more of a lighthouse than a Viscount Mansion.

This is obviously an additional building based on the lighthouse and remodeled. Even it still has an architectural function as a lighthouse, but the lights have gone out - of course, it is also possible that it saves fuel during the day.

Because of this, Annan didn't notice this strange lighthouse when he was down the mountain.

Although it looks weird here, at least there are servants inside, at least it's not an obvious trap.

Annan stood at the door and looked west subconsciously.

It's not even twelve o'clock now, so it's still very early to see the sunset.

But even with two layers of barrier, the sparkling sea can still be seen clearly at this height.

The slightly undulating black sea was full of dead silence, without any birds or ships.

——This sea had the name of the whale bone sea hundreds of years ago.

Before the Great Barrier collapsed, this sea area was originally used by elves for whaling. At that time, Wrangel Province existed as a port in addition to the role of the mine.

But now, with the unification of the enchantment broken.

After Winter uses the power of the old grandmother to form a new enchantment... this sea area is separated from the enchantment.

The curse in the form of "grey fog" is actually not the "fog" in the form of droplets. According to Annan's understanding, it is more similar to aerosol particles that can dissolve on biological surfaces.

It will not float too high, nor will it forcefully penetrate the earth and sea. It can continue to float in the air for a long time and will not disperse easily... But on this basis, it can still be blown by strong winds, and it will also follow It subsides very slowly to the land and sea surface over time, continuously polluting the land and sea surface.

In the land polluted by the curse, all the original plants will quickly wither, and finally only a fern that stores the curse and poison will grow, that is, the "poison fern"; while the aquatic animals in the shallow sea area will die quickly, Sponges quickly decay into tentacles resembling poison ferns.

According to the research of Noah's transformation wizards, the cause of death of large aquatic animals is complete organ failure. This is somewhat similar to herbivores living outside the Great Enchantment... Their corpses occasionally have this symptom.

As for exactly how it was triggered, and what the sequence of organ failure is... Because of the lack of conditions for continuous observation in the gray fog, it is still unknown.

But it can also be simply inferred - its destructiveness to ordinary people and animals whose souls have not yet materialized,

Not that high.

The higher the animal, the slower the decay in the gray fog... According to the observation reports of the villages and towns exposed outside the Great Barrier, more than 80% of the deaths of those residents were caused by eating food that decayed too quickly, and Dysentery or food poisoning; the remaining 20% ​​are complications caused by the wounds that do not heal and rapidly decompose when exposed to the gray fog.

The Great Barrier of Winter is embodied in the form of an extremely cold hurricane - an extremely cold storm that surrounds the entire winter, enough to freeze the gray fog and blow it into the sky. But in Noah, the Great Barrier is just a thin silver film... There are very few people who have been living outside the Great Barrier.

It's not the same as the situation in Natta County.

Generally speaking, these people are death row inmates who use waste—they were expelled outside the Great Barrier, and lived close to the small town that was born in the Great Barrier. By selling their own life information, or picking up the corpses of herbivorous animals that are close to monsters, they can exchange for a small amount of clean food and water... The meaning of their existence is mainly to observe the way the gray fog affects the human body.

People who only rely on simple gas masks and cloaks to survive in the gray fog for more than a year will develop obvious rickets, multiple pustules on the skin surface, and their faces will become extremely thin and ghost-like, and the skin at the joints will be unprovoked. lacerations...they usually die at this stage of infection from the wound that doesn't heal.

Organ failure will not occur in humans for at least two years.

The strange thing is... Although whales are also aquatic animals, they are different from fish and have strong resistance to gray fog - which makes it impossible to be killed by gray fog even if it is occasionally exposed to the sea.

Annan speculates that this may be because whales are actually mammals... but humans in this era have not yet discovered this.

The Great Barrier of the United Kingdom is constructed with statues sunk in the sea. To this day, there are still fishermen who cross the Great Barrier and go out to sea to hunt whales - as long as they don't leave too far, they can come back even if they are injured.

Even if it is an injury outside the gray fog, as long as you return to the Great Barrier, you can use magic or ritual to treat it - ordinary herbs are useless, because the wound has been infected by the curse, and these powerful curses must be removed first. .

...It stands to reason that there should also be whalers here in Winter.

Although the Great Barrier of Winter is abnormally violent, the wind near the sea surface is not strong enough to roll the ship into the sky because it is worried about smashing the creatures close to the sea surface. You only need to use the "chain chain" to prevent you from being blown into disorientation.

Therefore, mortals can go abroad by boat.

The Frozen Water Port was originally used for the trade between Winter and Noah.

For the Principality of Winter, which is seriously lacking in food and fuel, especially in the northern cities where the freight subway in the south is disconnected, resulting in insufficient food, whaling will bring huge benefits - it can save many winters from Freeze and starve.

After seeing the lighthouse, Annan originally thought that when he reached the top of the mountain, he would see a scene of whalers working offshore.

But it's so quiet outside.

Not to mention whaling ships... even the port has become desolate.

- This is not normal.

Although coal is also produced here, the subway in the northern cities is almost disconnected from the south. Importing and exporting resources from here can be laborious.

So why did Wrangel Province, with its whaling tradition, carry out the complete abolition of the whaling industry?

For environmental protection? Or ecological protection?

... But let's go, winter has lasted for decades, and the people of Winter can't live any longer. Not to mention, this viscount is not the kind of person who brings kindness.

Annan narrowed his eyes slightly and walked into the Viscount Mansion without a trace.

Intuition told him - here, it should be one of the fragments of the truth.