The temperature dropped by thirty degrees overnight, and the sky that was clear yesterday was completely covered by gray clouds today.
The howling cold wind was like thousands of knives, poking and poking everyone who dared to show their heads, until they were poking into the bones.
Then there was a heavy snowstorm, which lasted for three days and three nights. The snow on the ground was more than two meters thick.
Of course, the snow in the village is cleared away in time, including the snow on the roofs, which is also cleared every few hours.
Thanks to the fact that they are all level 5 houses, they are extremely sturdy and have excellent cold protection. There are enough firewood stored in summer and autumn. Every small family in each house is warm and cozy. .
But this is not enough, because of the possible appearance of ice ghosts and ghosts, all soldiers and heroes in the village have been on high alert since the beginning of winter.
Zhang Yang is no exception. Twenty-four hours a day, he has to lead a patrol for ten hours. If there is any trouble, he will appear immediately.
Fortunately, so far, no traces of the evil ghost invasion have been found.
But the clouds above our heads are getting thicker and heavier. Even if the snowstorm stops, there is no sign of clearing up.
If what was expected was true, this was not an ordinary cloud at all, but a gathering of Yin Qi.
When this yin energy gathers too much, it will rain ice. This ice rain is the ghost crystal.
Enough ghost crystals will attract a large number of ghosts, and among the ghosts there may be ghost assassins and ghost ladies, forming a vicious cycle until a village is completely destroyed.
"Village Chief, should we also dig a hole in the ground and hide the old, weak, women and children of the villagers who have no fighting capacity?"
During the patrol, Wang Shen once again suggested that because of his elite status, he was better than Wu Yuan in handling village affairs, so in theory he had become the deputy village chief of the village.
"No, this matter cannot be discussed. You can't avoid it for a while. Wang Shen, you have to remember that although solving a problem is 10,000 times more painful than avoiding it, it determines everything from small things to big things. When it comes to everyone’s life, or even the destiny of a group or a civilization, you don’t even have the most correct attitude, you don’t even have the determination to take risks and bear hardships, so how can you talk about being strong or rising?”
Zhang Yang said it very seriously. To a certain extent, he trained Wang Shen as his successor 1.5.
Because he knew very well that in his short twenty-year operation, he could not ensure that everything was arranged properly. He had to cultivate an elite population and a leadership, that is, an aristocratic class.
Don't blame him for taking a retrograde path. It's really the environment that determines everything.
He has even decided that he will only be responsible for the first ten years of the village's development. Ten years later, it will enter the Successor 1.5 era, under his supervision, and 15 years later, it will enter the Successor 2.0 era.
Therefore, there are things that promote one's own ideas, opinions, and a kind of spiritual heritage that he thinks is correct. He must imprint it on everyone's soul. This tradition must be established from the time they are young.
So when winter came, Zhang Yang went against all opinions and not only did not order the digging of holes for the villagers, old, weak, women and children to hide in, but also ordered all activities in the winter to be normal.
The dead must be killed, and fear must be feared.
But if we don’t learn to face this fear and face death sooner, what will happen in the future
Winter comes every year, and dangers emerge in endlessly every year.
The weak can only be eliminated, and the strong will be left behind.
"Report! Lord Lord, traces of ghosts were found in the North District, and someone was injured."
At this time, a soldier rushed towards him, and Zhang Yang rushed towards him.
He had previously divided the entire village's city wall defense patrol area into five areas for better scheduling and management.
They are North District, East District, South District, West District and Central District.
Except for the central area, each area is divided into three sections, namely the first section of the northern area, the second section of the northern area, and the third section of the northern area.
Among them, Wu Yuan is in charge of the North District, Ren En is in charge of the West District, Wang Mumu is in charge of the East District, Wang Shen is in charge of the South District, Liu Dali is in charge of the Central District, and Zhang Yang conducts his own mobile inspections.
After a while, Zhang Yang rushed to the North District. The person in charge here was Xiao Yang, a storm swordsman whose strength was comparable to a one-star hero. He was from the same period as Wang Shen. Together with the other two storm swordsmen, he was good at it. Song Dachui, who was nicknamed Song Dachui, was called the Three Friends of the Jian Sect.
Here at this moment, Wu Yuan had already arrived, and the scene was in order. However, the injured person was not in good condition, and his whole body seemed to be frozen.
"Who else saw that evil ghost?"
Zhang Yang asked quickly while squatting down. The soul force field instantly intervened in the injured soldier's body. After a while, the soldier's pale blue face finally turned rosy.
And there was a dark blue mist in Zhang Yang's hand.
"No one saw it. Affected by the snow, the ghost just disappeared for a fleeting moment, and then disappeared without a trace. There was no trace left at the scene. This seems to be different from what Wu Yu said."
Wu Yuan frowned.
"No, Wu Yu was describing a fierce ghost, and what just appeared was an ice ghost assassin."
Zhang Yang said calmly, while having people help the surviving soldier away, he casually picked up the seemingly unchanged long knife.
"How can you see it?" Wu Yuan asked.
"The soldier just now was at the captain level, and his profession was a sword and shield soldier. His combat qualities and sense of murderous aura were very keen, so when the Ice Ghost Assassin attacked, he was still able to draw his sword quickly and slash out with one strike, even though he didn't kill it. , but this is still one of the reasons why he was able to escape."
"And another reason is that this Zhuxie long knife was specially enchanted and cultivated by me with magic power. You can't see it, but I can sense it. The Zhuxie attribute inside is already shaky. Let's do it again, Zhuxie attribute It’s about to fall apart.”
"If the attacker is really an ice ghost, there is no reason why he could be so powerful."
After hearing Zhang Yang's analysis, Wu Yuan, Xiao Yang and others all looked at each other. Winter has just begun. Why is there a ghost assassin who will not appear until two months later
After all, the Ghost Assassin and the Ghost Lady were upgraded from the Ghosts, rather than directly running away from the Abyss Ghost Clan.
"There is another possibility that someone released this ghost assassin."
"My lord, do you mean the orc lord?"
"Yes, the orc lord suffered heavy losses in the previous battle, but the ghost soldiers in his hands were not damaged at all. As far as I know, the orc lord has at least one ghost lady under his command. Remember what I said? Are you greedily peeping? Besides the ghost lady, who else dares to peek at us so boldly? In addition, the orc lord has at least two ghost priests, four ghost assassins, and no less than 50 village imps."
"Although the orc lord can continue to build a village, first of all, it will definitely not build next to us. Secondly, winter is coming soon, and it is not strong enough to suppress the ghost lady and ghost assassins. So what if it is replaced by What will you do?"
"Of course, release the ghost lady and ghost assassin and let them roam in this area. When winter comes, our village will bear the brunt. Such a good thing that kills three birds with one stone, the orc lord will definitely do this .”
After Zhang Yang finished speaking, he looked up at the increasingly dark clouds in the sky.
"That ghost lady must be hiding near our village, and is frantically absorbing the Yin Qi. After all, the heavy snow came too suddenly. I have asked Wu Yu in detail about the weather changes in this area in the past five years, but she is absolutely There is no situation where the temperature immediately drops by more than 30 degrees when winter comes, and it snows heavily for three days and nights in a row.”
"So I think this must be related to the ghost lady. With the blessing of yin energy, it naturally has enough power to control the weather."
"Lord, in this case, should we take a step ahead and find the ghost lady and eliminate it, instead of letting it continue to swallow the Yin energy and become stronger?"
Xiao Yang asked at this time.
Zhang Yang nodded,
"Yes, this is the only way. If the Ghost Lady breaks through to the Ghost Queen, our entire village will become its snack, so we must find it. However, searching in the ordinary sense has no effect on the Ghost Lady. We have to Find another way.”
"Wu Yuan, tell me to go down and pile up a hundred piles of firewood for me on the training ground. I want to fight with this ghost lady!"
The idea of fighting was not something that Zhang Yang suddenly thought of, but he had had this idea for a long time. He even expected that the orc lord would release ghost ladies, ghost assassins, ghost priests, etc.
This was not a clever plan on his part, because no one else would have believed that the orc lord who had suffered heavy losses could escape in such despair.
If you really ignore this point, you can only say that you deserve to die.
Of course, you can guess. Zhang Yang himself has no idea of the specific effects of the fighting technique. However, his biggest advantage now is that he is fully prepared and has a tight defense. A total of more than two hundred captain-level soldiers have all changed into evil-killing swords. Even if the ghost assassin comes, there will be no benefit.
So as long as he keeps testing, analyzing, and cracking, he may not be able to find a way to restrain the ghost lady.
Soon, the training ground was filled with firewood. The reserve of firewood was very, very sufficient. At least 560,000 units were reserved in Zhang Yang's village building order. They were all looted and not touched at all.
Everything is for this moment.
As the saying goes, if there is no mana, then create mana.
All roads lead to Fireball, there is definitely one that is right for you.
Asking everyone else to retreat, Zhang Yang stood in the training ground with his hands behind his back, looking up at the sky, as if he was going to fight the endless clouds in the sky.
But the next second, he turned his palm, and a ghost crystal cut into the size of a grain of rice appeared.
"Well, I don't have enough experience and everything is unknown. Just in case, it's better to do some experiments first."