Cage Mountain, Command Post.
"Captain, another piece of the same information..." The Joker walked to Hill Fox with a note.
Even after several years had passed, the first few circus partners still habitually called him the head of the group.
"Where did it come from?" Hill took the note and glanced at it, "Can it be traced back to the source?"
"The location of the messenger was released to the south of Yongdong. There are three cities there. Apart from that, there are no other hints on the seal."
Hill frowned and pondered for a moment, then stood up suddenly, "Help me inform Lord Iron Axe and Your Excellency Edith that we may be in trouble."
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fifteen minutes later.
Edith put down the information and tapped the table lightly, "... That is to say, this incident happened all over Everwinter at the same time
Hill nodded, "Although it is impossible to confirm which cities are implementing this order, from the perspective of the distribution of intelligence, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is an overall trend."
In the past few days, the intelligence department has successively received several secret letters with the same content.
The letter shows that the nobles are using forced means to relocate local residents.
And their movement direction is north.
The similarity is so consistent, but it is almost impossible for the information from different regions to be misrepresented or forged. In other words, the nobles of Eternal Winter are launching a unified operation.
Although the word migration is only briefly mentioned in the letter, it is by no means a trivial matter. There is a limit to the carrying capacity of a city, and it can be paralyzed by too little or too much population. There are more things that need to be considered on the way of migration, such as food for people to eat, temporary shelter, belongings to carry, etc... I definitely have a deep understanding of this in Neverwinter. It can even be said that the cities ruled by the old nobles simply do not have the ability to complete a large-scale migration. If there is no strong strength and materials to support, the so-called migration is just a road to death.
It's true that most nobles don't care about the life and death of commoners, but that's only when commoners are "individuals". The lord's taxation and rule are inseparable from the common people. If there is no one under the rule, no matter how powerful the power is, it will be meaningless. Once these civilians find themselves unable to benefit from relocation, they are bound to lose all hearts. What's more, gathering a large number of people together can easily lead to riots, so even the domineering and arrogant nobles will not easily do such astonishing things.
But now it's not just a nobleman doing this, but the entire North is doing it, clearly under the instigation of other forces.
Only the devil can do this in the Kingdom of Eternal Winter.
"But why did the devil do this?" Edith said to herself in doubt, "If you just want to weaken the war potential of Greycastle, you can kill all the civilians... If there are spider demons, the nobles are powerless even if they don't want to. Just stop it."
"Perhaps the devil thinks... they are still useful." Dawn Morning Light tried to speculate.
"If they are useful, they shouldn't be forcibly relocated," Hill shook his head, "Eternal Winter is the least big city in the Four Kingdoms. Even a royal capital can only accommodate 20,000 to 30,000 people without prior preparation, not to mention them. The route of movement does not end in the capital."
"The northernmost big city is..." Edith looked at the map.
"Xueyingbao, backed by the source of the Desperate Mountains, is only half the size of the capital." Fei Lin immediately added relevant information, "Because of its unique terrain and lower resident population, it is also the first place where the red mist appeared."
"If the devil is going to move everyone here, it's no different than killing them outright," Hill said.
"And the enemy will never do anything superfluous," Edith nodded in agreement, "I think there must be a change that we haven't noticed yet, which caused the devil to take this seemingly inexplicable action."
"What would be the accident?" Iron Axe asked.
"I don't know..." Edith said slowly, "but it shouldn't be good news. Inform the front line first and let them be more vigilant."
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"This red cloud... Could it be the location of the Devil's Obelisk?" Tilly murmured.
No, Lightning replied solemnly, at this distance, we shouldn't be able to see the red fog...
"Can't see? Why?"
Because the red fog is all downward flowing Goo! It was Maisie who answered her, and I've seen mist pouring down the edge of a desperate mountain, like a waterfall!
That's right, I don't know if it's because the red fog is heavier than the air, which makes them more likely to gather at low altitudes, but one thing is certain, when the red fog invaded the Kingdom of Everwinter from the spine of the mainland, the top of the mountain was not red. . Lightning added.
"You mean, they trickled down the ravine at the time?" Tilly raised her brows.
That's why she said that they couldn't see the red mist at this distance. Now they are hundreds of kilometers away from the highest mountain range in this continent. If the red mist does not rise, it will definitely be hindered by the mountain peaks.
Not only that, Lightning affirmed. A month ago, I patrolled north along the Desperate Mountains and approached the edge of the red fog area, but at that time there was no red cloud on the spine of the continent. It... doesn't seem like it rose from the Great Rift.
Tilly couldn't help feeling a chill rise behind her back, and she gradually noticed that the red color on the mountain was not a thin layer, but a whole from top to bottom. A huge cloud column pouring down from the clouds.
She stared at the vision in front of her, and after being silent for a while, she said, "There is a way that may allow us to see more clearly."
Lightning looked up and looked at the dark clouds overhead, and I thought so too.
The higher you fly, the farther you see.
As long as they can put the mainland spine into their eyes, it is possible to see the true face of that red cloud.
"If that's the case, then give it a try." Tilly increased the throttle to the maximum again, pulled the nose of the aircraft to climb up the clouds, and the lightning followed closely beside the cockpit, so that the coherence of magic could cover Tilly as much as possible.
With the cooperation of the two, the altimeter needle on the Phoenix was deflected a little to the end.
When it rose to an altitude of 7,500 meters, the earth had already shown an obvious arc, and the dark clouds became intermittent, instead of being a whole piece, and the edge of the earth also appeared light blue.
There was a dense amount of fine sweat on Lightning's forehead. Obviously, the high altitude also caused a lot of burden on her coherence barrier. Through the glass window, Tilly found that the fuselage was covered with white frost. If it wasn't for the other party She has been using magic power to ease her discomfort, and I'm afraid she won't be able to focus on flying the plane like she is now.
"It's almost there," Tilly could clearly feel that the thrust of the engine was rapidly weakening, "Let's find a gap from here."
"Leave it to me!" Maisie stuck her head out and changed into eagle-eye mode.
In about half an hour, she found an excellent viewing point. From the gap between the overlapping clouds, she could just see a small outline of the spine of the continent in the distance.
However, when the scene above the red fog was reflected in the bottom of the telescope, the three of them could hardly believe their eyes.
They saw a piece of floating land.