Chapter 471 End this cold winter as soon as possible! (5800 words long chapter!)

Something happened in District 1?

Xu Xin was slightly stunned.

"What happened?" he asked with some confusion.

"Xu Xin, do you still remember what happened in District 187 before the cold winter came?" Ji Chaoyang did not answer directly, but asked him instead.

What happened in Area 187?

What happened?

ah……!

He raised his brows slightly and blurted out: "The number of people has decreased inexplicably, but the tree house has not been dug up?"

"Yes." Ji Chaoyang's voice sounded a little heavy at this time, "Such a thing also happened over there in District 1."

Has this happened in District 1 as well?

"...How do you know? Where did you get the information?" Xu Xin asked with some confusion, "From the World Channel, in the past few days, in addition to the snow layers getting thicker and thicker, it seems that the outer area

Nothing happened, right? If only the number of people in District 1 decreased..."

That doesn't seem like anything noteworthy.

After all, the situation in Area 1 is basically the same as that in Area 188. The cold winter is almost over, and the positions of the strong ones have also been exposed due to the teleportation formation.

In this case, it is not a big problem for some survivors to cut down their own treehouses and go there because they want to follow the strong ones, right?

Of course, if there is no problem in District 1, Xu Xin doesn't believe it. After all, for Shi Wanyun, a lone wolf in District 1, to put down his face and directly swipe the screen on the World Trading Platform, something must have happened there that they don't know about.

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"If the number of people in District 1 is reduced, it may be that they defected spontaneously. Is that what you want to say?" Ji Chaoyang guessed Xu Xin's thoughts and said.

"……really."

"Things are not that simple. Before we went to the underground world, I had asked a few people on my side to pay close attention to the World Channel. When I came back, they would tell me all the big and small things. Through the fragmentary stories of several of them,

, I guessed something."

He began to explain what he had discovered.

Yesterday, after the two teleportation arrays in Area 1 were connected, it didn't take long for Area 1 to experience a very obvious attrition.

There were more than 2,000 people in total, and within a few hours, the number was reduced by nearly 200.

However, this incident did not attract widespread attention around the world.

Because they all had a past experience of misunderstanding District 188, they subconsciously believed that the attrition in District 1 was due to the survivors in District 1 cutting down tree houses on a large scale to join the bosses in District 1.

Even the strong men in District 1 think so.

Because they have been saying since a long time ago that they welcome everyone to join, whether they are people from this region or from outside the region.

At that time, more than ten districts had already unlocked the teleportation formation, with purple-black beams of light reaching into the sky. This situation had also occurred more or less in these districts and neighboring districts.

Therefore, not many people paid much attention to this matter at the time, and even the powerful people in District 1 increased their publicity, saying that as long as they could come, they would be given very good treatment.

Naturally, the treatment they give is not as good as that of explorers, but explorers are too far away from other areas, and the water far away cannot solve the fire nearby. Many people who can no longer bear to survive alone naturally choose area 1 based on the principle of proximity.

Of course, since there are not too many blue-level axes in District 1, it is naturally impossible to obtain the cores of these people's tree houses. However, they still gave some resources more or less.

But what happened next was a little strange.

"So far, less than ten people have come around the two teleportation formations in Area 1, and these people have basically been active in the World Channel. The location of their original tree house is also within the teleportation area.

Those who are closer to the formation, the furthest one is only fifty kilometers away."

"...Are everyone else really dead?" Xu Xin asked.

"Judging from the information I got, it is indeed the case." Ji Chaoyang's voice was low, "At this point in time, it has been more than 24 hours since the survivors in their area 1 disappeared in large numbers!"

Xu Xin pondered for a moment and then said: "...In other words, even if these people did not die at the time and cut down their tree houses to join the strong, then the time limit has passed now?"

After the 24-hour time limit, you will "leave this beautiful world forever."

Therefore, no matter what situation you look at, these people are indeed completely cold.

"That's right." Ji Chaoyang said, "I also got news here that areas such as District 2 connected to District 1 have also experienced a large number of attrition. At that time, people in District 2 thought that some people might have defected to District 1.

People, but now, they are also..."

Xu Xin frowned slightly.

"Could it be that we encountered some situation on the way?" He guessed, "Just like... the situation we encountered back then? Those furry weirdos, those predators, seemed to want to teleport the survivors to another place.

A place to go.”

The scene of being surrounded by wolves is still vivid in my mind.

They were controlled by the furry monsters, forcing the survivors into an encirclement. Under the encirclement was a somewhat inexplicable large teleportation array.

Under the circumstances at that time, it was basically impossible for an ordinary survivor to escape.

If Xu Xin hadn't discovered the abnormality at the beginning, I'm afraid not many people would have arrived.

Most people will be taken away directly!

"Perhaps part of the reason is this, so I didn't pay too much attention to it before." Ji Chaoyang said.

"But, I just received news that people in District 1 and neighboring districts of District 1 found many dying or withered tree houses. The owner of the tree house has died, but the tree house has not

Being cut down. Is it similar to what happened in Area 187 at that time?"

"Moreover, this kind of thing is not only happening in Area 1, but also in areas where the teleportation array is activated. Because in the ice and snow, it is easy for people around to notice abnormalities in a withered tree house. This is also the case.

That’s why I suspect that this matter is actually not simple.”

It seems a bit strange indeed.

You know, there is not much activity now, and there are not many mutated creatures in the ice and snow that will actively attack the survivors.

You must know that the people who have survived until now are already familiar with the rules of this world. The possibility of them committing suicide acts is very small, let alone so many people seeking death together.

Therefore, it is really strange that people suddenly start dying on a large scale when there is no activity.

"Are you saying that this situation occurs in all areas where the teleportation array is activated, but not in areas where the teleportation array is not activated?" Xu Xin asked.

"That's right." Ji Chaoyang returned, "Even us are the same."

So do we?!

Xu Xin immediately clicked on the regional channel to check the number of people in District 188.

"...There are indeed a dozen people missing." Xu Xin's face looked slightly ugly.

"Xu Xin, I feel that this matter is probably related to us delaying the cold winter for too long." Ji Chaoyang speculated.

"What should I say?" Xu Xin's heart moved.

Could it be that……

"For areas where the teleportation array is not activated, their punishment is to be buried by the heavy snow that becomes more and more violent day by day, lose the ability to obtain resources, and eventually freeze to death in the tree house." Ji Chaoyang explained.

"From the news I got, the snow in other areas last night was heavier than before, and the accumulation thickness was higher. Moreover, their tree house seemed to have been affected. According to reports, half of the tree house was buried.

The reporter said that the warmth retention capacity of the treehouse fireplace has dropped a lot today, and the temperature in their current treehouse is only about ten degrees."

Unexpectedly, the snow will also affect the temperature inside the tree house.

"...And for those of us who have already ended the Blizzard, there is another punishment." Xu Xin said, "That's what you just said. Is that what you mean?"

"That's right." Ji Chaoyang immediately admitted, "Our areas that are no longer affected by blizzards are not as safe as we think. We have experienced this before."

really.

Furry monsters, wolves, weird teleportation arrays...

And Coco is always wary of the strange behavior around her.

It really shows that they are not peaceful now.

"That mysterious voice said that this cold winter must end as soon as possible, otherwise terrible things will happen." Xu Xin recalled the words of the mysterious voice, and the corners of her eyes trembled slightly, "It seems that this sentence is for everyone to hear.

."

Both of them were slightly silent for two seconds.

Ji Chaoyang spoke: "So, there are two top priorities now."

"The first point is to establish contact with District 1 immediately, and then contact that Shi Wanyun. She must know something, so she frantically wanted to ask us for help yesterday."

But at that time, they were trapped in the underground world.

Xu Xin swiped her watch again and looked at the World Trading Platform. There had been no information about Shi Wanyun on it for a long time.

... Could it be that something happened to her?

Even the top experts in District 1 can't withstand this danger?

Xu Xin's heart lifted slightly.
To be continued...