As autumn deepened, Yang Yu gradually put on warm clothes, but Lotkar didn't feel cold.
Orcs have extremely strong resistance to cold. When humans are wrapped in thick clothes, orcs can still dance happily in the snow and ice in thin clothes.
The Wansheng Kingdom also often makes use of this characteristic of orcs to make a big fuss.
According to the records found in the Library of All Things, every winter, the Wansheng Kingdom would launch a winter offensive against the Rose Empire.
Winter is the time when the Wansheng Kingdom is able to take the initiative among the few.
Unfortunately, even if they could take back some land through the winter offensive, it would be taken back by the Rose Empire in spring and summer. The Rose Empire would also take advantage of the time difference when the crops matured in autumn and launch a strong offensive to further occupy the land of Wansheng Kingdom and gain an advantage.
In this protracted war, Wansheng Kingdom did not have much time to hold its head high.
This situation worsened after the king fell and the young princess took power.
The offensive launched by Wansheng Kingdom in winter gradually became ineffective due to the meticulous defense of the enemy country of Luoze.
If the elves could all support Wansheng Kingdom in its fight against the Rose Empire, this year's winter offensive might be able to turn the tide. Even if it cannot turn from defense to offense, it can at least ease the low morale.
The Prime Minister of Wansheng Kingdom personally came out to persuade the Elf Queen, probably to prepare for the winter offensive.
Although he returned empty-handed, it cannot be considered a failure.
The Prime Minister of Wansheng, who was also an elf, should have understood the situation in the Fallen Feather City, but he still resolutely and unsympathetically withdrew the troops that were originally guarding it, and had no intention of rescuing the elves.
He planned to let time convince the Elf Queen.
The Elf Queen gathered all the elves together to prevent tragedy, but this brought a series of problems, especially food.
The reason why many villages are far apart and have always remained small is to a certain extent due to how much resources they can obtain from nature.
The reason why a place can become a big city is that they can perfectly solve the food problem.
In Yang Yu's original world, thanks to the advancement of transportation, cities with a population of tens of millions were born.
Without convenient transportation to provide enough food, large cities with tens of millions of people may collapse at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Unfortunately, the elves obviously do not have any strong transportation capabilities, nor are they willing to reclaim the forests. The largest city can only accommodate 40,000 to 50,000 people.
In primitive society, if the population exceeds the carrying capacity of an area, it will be severely beaten by nature.
This move by the prime minister of Wansheng Kingdom can be said to be a good one.
As the blows of nature become more severe, more and more hungry elves will gradually question the queen's decision, and then leave the City of Fallen Feathers and return to their own villages. The City of Fallen Feathers may also lose its original prosperity.
If a tragedy like last year happens again
The complaints of the elven people were enough to overwhelm the queen, forcing her to make the decision to join the war.
Didn’t the Elf Queen consider this
Maybe yes, maybe not.
This was the first time the Elf Queen had encountered such a thing. She lacked experience, but she also knew that it was possible that she chose to take a gamble to see if she would give up first and choose to join the war, or if the war would end first.
It is quite difficult to fully understand other people's thoughts.
What's more, the other party has lived for so long, it is hard to tell whether he is naive or extremely scheming.
Judging from the information provided by Bai Jin, the food crisis in Fallen Feather City has begun to break out ahead of schedule. It's because a large part of the elves' diet is meat.
Animals are not fools. If they know where a place is dangerous, they will naturally not go there again.
Realizing that the elves could only hold out for one or two more winters at most, Yang Yu wrapped himself in a blanket and decided to wait and see for a while.
The elves were forced to join the war, which was not a bad thing for Wansheng Kingdom and the elves. It was just unclear why the Elf Queen had that attitude towards the war.
After a few more days, Yang Yu and his team resumed their usual leveling pace.
Running on the outskirts of the Elf Forest, Lotkar suddenly felt a strange smell in the air. He bent down, put his nose close to the ground, and sniffed gently.
"What's wrong?"
"Yang-woo, I smell other humans. More than one."
"Slave hunters? The news that Wansheng Kingdom has withdrawn its guard troops has spread faster than expected."
"Now how to do?"
Yang Yu was silent for a moment, then replied, "Just leave it alone. I really want to say that.
After all, Wansheng Kingdom is withdrawing its troops, and such situations will only become more and more common in the future.
We can't stay here forever and solve this problem for them. They can only rely on themselves.
The Elf Queen will gather the elves together and manage them to prevent such things from happening again.
Bai Jin and Iyas are still in the Fallen Feather City, and Hake probably hasn't settled down yet.
If those slave hunters set their target on the hunting team and successfully captured the members of the hunting team, we who are wandering in the Elf Forest may be regarded as suspicious people by the elves again and be troubled even if we are unwilling.
If, by any chance, a curfew is issued within the elves, Iyas and Bai Jin will be forced to stay in the Fallen Feather City and unable to escape, which will cause a lot of trouble.
At least before winter comes, we must ensure that Iyas and Bai Jin can officially return to the team.
In a month or two, Iyas will be able to learn something more."
Looking through Iyas's skill list, the two previously unfinished skills, [Intermediate Treatment] and [Feather of Heaven] have been lit up and appeared in the skill list.
Iyas's [Arrow of Light] skill has also evolved, with an additional passive skill [Holy Light Perception] added below. The CD of [Arrow of Light] has been greatly reduced, and it can be regarded as a normal attack equivalent to Bai Jin's [Ice Arrow], allowing attacks to be launched without arrows.
It also helped Yang Yu save the cost of arrows.
Although Yang Yu bought all the high-quality arrows he could find on the street after he became rich, he still had several thousand arrows in the warehouse.
Speaking of the system, this weight-free system is really good. It would be even better if the grid design could be removed. The 20X50 grids are almost filled up by Yang Yu.
There is a food shortage in Wansheng Country right now. In order to prepare for an emergency, Yang Yu put all the monsters he had defeated into the system, filling up one grid after another.
"Lotkar, follow the smell. Tell the elves in the hunting team when you meet them. Try to get them to spread the news."
"receive."
After saying that, Lotkar rushed in in the direction of the smell.
But before they had gone far, suddenly, several arrows fell from the sky. Yang Yu quickly took out his shield and used [Intercept]. The illusory shield instantly unfolded and blocked the arrows.
(End of this chapter)