The Righteous Player(s) Chapter 269: Abandoned lighthouse and port
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Annan carefully stuffed the cub that shrank into a ball of white marshmallow into his arms.
Because the three-color scepter cannot be handed over to others and must always be held in the hand, Annan can only use it with one hand.
This child is really too small... Even with Annan's size, he can grab the cub's back from behind with one hand. If it is the palm of an adult, you may be able to let it sit directly in the palm.
But for safety and convenience reasons, Annan cannot use this hand directly to drag the dog. So in the end, Annan stuffed it into his own clothes - Annan did not wear the dress given by Sir Silver on this trip, but put on a white thin cardigan windbreaker on the outside and a sweater on the inside. with shirt.
He stuffed the cub between his sweater and shirt, so that its paws and head could poke out from the collar of his sweater. Because the puppy's hair color is similar to Annan's, Annan looks a bit like a marsupial with a cub.
...how to put it.
If it is really a fox dog, then it would be good to keep it warm. But even though Annan, as a member of the winter clan, would not be attacked by frost beasts, the cold feeling from the fur of the frost beasts was still there.
Now, Annan very clearly felt a chill in his heart - as if someone else's cold hands in winter were covered in his clothes.
This feeling is surprisingly not annoying.
They encountered no further setbacks after that.
Circle all the way up and enter the Dolgoruki Viscount Mansion from the mountain ring road.
It is more like a lighthouse than a viscount's palace.
This is obviously an additional building based on the lighthouse. It even still has the architectural function of being a lighthouse, but the lights have been extinguished - of course, it may also be because it is during the day to save fuel.
Because of this, Annan didn't notice this strange lighthouse when he was at the foot of the mountain.
Although this place looks weird, at least there are servants inside, and at least it's not an obvious trap.
Annan stood at the door and subconsciously looked to the west.
It's not yet twelve o'clock now, and it's still very early to watch the sunset.
But even though there are two layers of barriers, the sparkling sea surface can still be seen clearly at this height.
The slightly undulating black sea was filled with dead silence, without any birds or ships.
——This sea was named the Whale Bone Sea hundreds of years ago.
Before the Great Barrier collapsed, this sea area was originally used by the elves to hunt whales. At that time, in addition to its role as a mine, Wrangel also existed as a port.
Now, with the unity barrier broken.
After Lin Dong used the power of the old grandmother to form a new barrier... this sea area was separated from the barrier.
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 an aerosol particle that can dissolve on the surface of living things.
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. It will also sink very slowly to the land and sea over time, continuously polluting the land and sea.
In a land polluted by a curse, all the original plants will die quickly, and in the end only a fern that stores the curse and poison will grow, which is the "poison fern"; while aquatic animals in shallow sea areas will Death quickly, the sponge animal will quickly decay into a poisonous fern-like tentacle monster.
According to the research conducted by Noah's transformation wizards, the cause of death of large aquatic animals is total organ failure. This is somewhat similar to the herbivores living outside the Great Barrier... Their corpses will occasionally show this symptom.
As for how it is triggered and the sequence of organ failure...it is still unknown because of the lack of conditions for continuous observation in the gray fog.
But it can also be simply inferred that its lethality to ordinary people and animals whose souls have not yet materialized is not that high.
The higher the animal, the slower it decays in the gray mist... According to observation reports from 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. Food causes dysentery or food poisoning; the remaining 20% are complications caused by wounds that fail to improve and quickly decay when exposed to gray fog.
The great barrier of winter is embodied in the form of an extremely cold hurricane - the extremely cold storm that surrounds the entire winter is enough to freeze the gray mist and blow it upward into the sky. But in Noah, the Great Barrier is just a thin silver film... There are still a very small number of people who have been living outside the Great Barrier.
The situation is different from that in Nata County.
Generally speaking, these people are the condemned prisoners of waste utilization - they are expelled outside the Great Barrier and live in small towns that are close to the Great Barrier. By selling information about one's life or picking up the carcasses of those almost-monster herbivores, one can exchange for a small amount of clean food and water... The significance of their existence is mainly to observe the way gray fog affects the human body.
Relying only on simple gas masks and cloaks, people who have survived 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, as well as joints. The skin will crack for no reason... They usually die at this stage due to infection caused by the wound being unable to 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 in that they are highly resistant to gray fog - this means that even if they are occasionally exposed to the sea, they will not be affected by gray fog. kill.
Annan speculated that this may be because whales are actually mammals... but humans of this era have not yet discovered this.
The Great Barrier of the United Kingdom is built with statues sunk in the sea. To this day, there are still fishermen from the United Kingdom 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. ~IndoMTL.com~ Even if you are injured outside the gray mist, you can use divine magic or rituals to treat it as long as you return to the Great Barrier - ordinary herbs are useless because the wound has been infected by the curse. Get rid of these powerful curses first.
... Logically speaking, there should be whalers here in Winter.
Although the Great Barrier of Winter is extremely violent, the wind force near the sea surface is not strong enough to roll ships into the sky because of the fear of destroying the creatures near the sea surface. All you need to do is use the "iron chain" to prevent you from being blown away and losing your way.
That’s why only mortals can sail abroad by boat.
The Frozen Water Port was originally used for trading with Noah in winter.
For the Principality of Winter, which is seriously short of food and fuel, especially the cities in the north that are cut off from the freight subway to the south, resulting in food shortages, whaling will bring huge benefits - it can make many Winter Avoid freezing and starving to death in winter.
After seeing the lighthouse, Annan originally thought that when he reached the top of the mountain, he would see a scene of whalers operating offshore.
But it's so quiet outside.
Not to mention the whaling ship... even the port has become extremely desolate.
——This is not normal.
Although coal is also produced here, the subway in Zhucheng in the north is almost disconnected from the south. Importing and exporting resources from here will appear to be very laborious.
So, why did Wrangel Province, which has a tradition of whaling, implement the complete abolition of the whaling industry?
For environmental protection? Or ecological protection?
...But goodbye, winter has lasted for decades, and people in winter can hardly live anymore. Not to mention, the Viscount's face doesn't look like a kind person.
Annan narrowed his eyes slightly and walked into the Viscount's Mansion without leaving a trace.
Instinct told him that here should be one of the fragments of the truth.