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 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 were an adult's hand, he might be able to let it sit directly in the palm.
But for safety and convenience reasons, Annan could not use this hand to drag the dog directly. So in the end, Annan stuffed the dog in his clothes - Annan did not wear the one given by Sir Silver during this trip.
Instead of wearing clothes, he put on a thin white windbreaker with a cardigan on the outside, and a sweater and a shirt on the inside.
He stuffed the puppy 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 was similar to Annan's, it made Annan look like he had a cub.
The marsupial dragon.
……how to say.
If it is really a fox dog, then it would be good to use it to keep warm. But even if Annan, as a member of the winter clan, would not be attacked by frost beasts, the cold feeling of the frost beast's fur is still there.
Now, Annan could very clearly feel a chill in his heart - as if he were covering someone else's cold winter hands in his clothes.
This feeling is surprisingly not annoying.
They encountered no further setbacks after that.
Circling all the way up, you enter the Dolgoruki Viscount Mansion from the mountain ring road.
It is better said to be 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, at this height, the sparkling sea can still be seen clearly.
The slightly undulating black sea was filled with deathly 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 the responsibilities of the mines, Wrangel Province also existed as a port.
But now, with the unity barrier shattered.
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 "gray fog" is not actually a "fog" in the form of droplets. According to Annan's understanding, it is more similar to aerosol particles that can dissolve on the surface of living things.
It will not float too high, nor will it forcibly 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 will also follow the wind.
It sinks to the land and sea very slowly over time, continuously polluting the land and sea.
In the land polluted by the curse, all the original plants will die quickly, and in the end only a kind of fern that stores the curse and poison will grow, which is the "poison fern"; while aquatic animals in shallow sea areas will die quickly,
Sponges will quickly decompose into tentacle monsters similar to poisonous ferns.
According to the research conducted by Noah's transformation wizards, the cause of death of large aquatic animals is comprehensive organ failure. This is somewhat similar to the herbivorous animals living outside the Great Barrier... Their corpses will occasionally show this symptom.
As for how it is triggered and what is 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, and
Dysentery or food poisoning occur; the remaining 20% are complications caused by wounds that fail to improve and rapidly decay when exposed to fog.
The Great Barrier in 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 only one layer
A very 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 Natasha County.
Generally speaking, these people are death row criminals who are reused - they are expelled outside the Great Barrier and live in small towns close to the Great Barrier. By selling information about their own lives, or picking up those who are close to them.
The corpses of monster herbivores can be exchanged 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.
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 will appear on the skin surface, the face will become extremely thin, like an evil spirit, and the skin on the joints will appear for no apparent reason.
Cracks appear... They usually die at this stage due to infection caused by the wound being unable to heal.
Humans will not experience organ failure 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 fog - this means that even if they are occasionally exposed to the sea, they will not be killed by fog.
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. 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.
Even injuries sustained outside the gray mist can be treated with magic or rituals as long as you return to the Great Barrier - ordinary medicinal herbs are useless because the wounds have been infected by curses, and these powerful curses must be removed first.
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... Logically speaking, there should be whalers here in winter.
Although the Great Barrier of Winter is extremely violent, the wind near the sea is not strong enough to blow the ship into the sky because of the fear of destroying the creatures near the sea. You only need to use the "iron chain" to prevent it from being blown away and lost.
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Therefore, only mortals can sail abroad by boat.
The Frozen Water Port was originally used for trading with Noah in the winter.
For the Principality of Winter, which is seriously short of food and fuel, especially in the northern cities where the freight subway is cut off from the south, resulting in a shortage of food, whaling will bring huge benefits - it can save many winters.
Freeze and starve to death.
After seeing the lighthouse, Annan originally thought that when he reached the top of the mountain, he would see a whale ship operating offshore.
But it's so quiet outside.
Not to mention the whalers...even the port has become extremely desolate.
——This is very abnormal.
Although coal is also produced here, the subway in the northern cities is almost disconnected from the south. It will be very difficult to import and export resources from here.
So, why did Wrangel Province, which has a tradition of whaling, completely abolish the whaling industry?
For environmental protection? Or ecological protection?
...But farewell, winter has lasted for decades, and people in winter can hardly survive anymore. Not to mention, this Viscount's face does not seem like a kind person.
Annan narrowed his eyes slightly and walked into the Viscount's Mansion without leaving a trace.
His intuition told him that here should be one of the fragments of the truth.