It is already the season of early winter, but at this time of noon, the temperature is still as high as 30 degrees. The temperature difference between day and night is huge, which is a climatic feature of the new era. Don't look at the thirty degrees now, but at night, the temperature will drop to about minus five degrees. As time goes by, when winter really comes, the temperature difference will shrink, but the temperature will be much colder than it is now.
The average temperature during the day is very close to zero, and in the middle of the night, the temperature will even drop to minus twenty or thirty degrees. Without adequate heating and food, life is difficult to survive a cold winter.
Like the Central Continent, most cities are in the form of underground bases, which is good for isolating the cold. In the Western Continent, there are obviously not so many underground bases. But every big city must have a complete heating system, which can ensure that people can stay in their homes safely in winter without being overwhelmed. Naturally, not all cities have such benefits. Apart from New Rome, only a few other important cities are equipped with such a system.
As for other places, only the most primitive heating methods can be used without a heating system. Wood and fuel are necessary things for winter, and many people will start to store fuel, food and water in autumn. Then when the winter comes, they hide at home. Like animals living a hibernating life, all people do every day is eat and sleep.
Of course, there are also many people who cannot reserve enough supplies. For example, the harsh conditions of the outer islands have always been the place where the number of casualties is the highest every winter.
Human beings have to prepare early for winter, and so do animals.
Just like now, a red wolf is chasing a brindle sheep, and the two animals are moving quickly through the bushes and onto the road. In the end, the red wolf was superior, and it killed the striped sheep.
These two animals are new species on the Western Continent. During the purge of alien beasts in the dark ages, many powerful mutant beasts on the mainland died out. However, some weak beasts have gradually evolved to adapt to the continental environment after time. However, perhaps the great cleaning of the Pope's Hall left a deep impression on the animals, so the evolution of these later species appeared to be very slow in the process of evolution, and the direction of evolution was mostly to adapt to the environment, while reducing the number of animals. The evolution of aggressiveness.
This may also be due to a kind of self-protection, so as not to be too biased towards aggressive evolution, which will lead to the second cleaning of the Pope's Hall.
Red wolves and striped wolves are new species after the Great Cleansing. Red wolves are close relatives of coyotes, but their bodies are stronger. A full-grown red wolf is the size of a lion, and they are swift and brutal. Scarlet wolves more or less have the ability to be compatible with the fire element, which makes their fur always red, and they can spew flames of three hundred degrees.
It's just that the ability of flame breathing is also a huge burden for them, and each breath will consume their huge energy. Generally speaking, red wolves are better at using their agility, sharp teeth and claws to inflict damage on their prey.
They are relatively powerful beasts on the Western Continent, with few natural enemies. It's just that the reproductive ability of red wolves has been severely degraded, and the total number of the entire continent has not reached 3,000. This species can only maintain its own existence.
Striped sheep are animals that red wolves and even humans like. They are a natural food, their fur keeps them warm, and their muscles are rich in protein, high in calories and nutrients. More importantly, these herbivorous animals have a high reproductive capacity, which is the opposite extreme from red wolves.
Killing the prey, the red wolf is about to drag it back to its lair. With the addition of this brindle sheep, he has enough food for his family to survive the winter. A gust of wind was blowing from the north of the road, and it carried some complex scents in it. The red wolf is very intelligent, so it can easily distinguish the smell of gasoline and gunpowder in the wind.
The thick pads under the limbs also felt vibrations, which indicated that something was approaching in front of the road. The red wolf stood up very vigilantly, looked at the prey's body, and finally left it alone in pain. The red wolf ran off the road like a stream of fire, and it plunged into the bushes. Using the bushes as a cover, it calmly hid its body, and then looked out with a pair of wolf eyes.
On the horizon at the northern end of the road, first a large truck jumped out of the horizon. Its engine roared loudly, and the truck's wheels rolled over the road, and soon passed near the bushes where the red wolf was hiding. In Chilang's eyes, the truck's compartment was full of two rows of soldiers. As one truck after another came from the road at the northern end, they formed a torrent of steel and rolled past.
This red wolf has also wandered to the outskirts of human cities, and it knows that those big iron blocks can carry humans quickly across the land. But Chilang had never seen so many cars, the number was almost invisible. The red wolf crouched there, not daring to move, and the traffic passing in front of it had lasted for half an hour without stopping.
If the red wolf's intelligence is higher, then it can estimate much more, and the car queue stretches for several kilometers. There are tens of thousands of soldiers in this car!
The truck finally passed, but another monster appeared in Chilang's eyes again.
Chilang had never seen such iron blocks. They were shorter than the trucks in front of them, and they didn't rely on wheels to walk. An iron pipe was tied above those iron blocks, looking at that iron pipe, Chilang felt extremely uneasy. With the wisdom of the red wolf, he still can't understand what an artillery tank is, but he instinctively perceives the danger of this human weapon of war.
After the trucks came the tank phalanx. Behind the artillery tank, there are missile armored vehicles, and after that, there are three heavy tractors. Every car passing by shook the ground and groaned. On these three tractors, Chilang saw giants one by one!
The giant lay quietly on the trailer at the back of the tractor, with a metal body, shining in the midday light with a luster that frightened the red wolf. The red wolf lay down firmly on the ground, only in this way can it reduce the fear in its heart.
What it saw was the Knights of the Round Table in the Pope's Hall, which represented the top technological crystallization of the Western Continent, making primitive animals like red wolves instinctively terrified.
After finally waiting for the convoy to leave, Chilang found that he had no strength to stand up. It squatted there for a while before leaving the bush, panting. It returned to the place where it killed its prey, and the carcass of the brindle sheep had turned into a puddle of mud under the tires of the passing vehicle. The red wolf whimpered sadly, then took a few mouthfuls of blood that could still be swallowed, and then left the road.
It came to a hillside not far from the highway. Looking from a distance, the convoy was like a black dragon, winding across the land and heading south.
It wasn't until evening that the black dragon stopped.
The convoy stopped on a plain and occupied a vast highland to set up a temporary camp. The soldiers in the car quickly got out of the car and carried out their tasks. Soon, sentry posts appeared around the camp, and soldiers in groups of five began to patrol around in case of accidents.
Vehicles are neatly parked together, and the area is divided according to the model. Near the three heavy tractors, three marching tents were set up. The three tents are decorated with different patterns, representing the heads of the 2nd, 9th, and 11th legions of the Holy Seal Knights.
Yafidi walked out of his tent, glanced briefly at the nearby barracks, and then walked towards the tent of Leo of the 2nd Army Corps. He was originally stationed in the port of Phacelo, but he received an order from the Pope to return to Rome. And formed an army group with the 2nd and 9th Knights to go to the Canon Fortress to suppress the pirate rebellion that had captured the fortress.
Oh, by the way, those guys now call themselves the "Sea God Squad". Yafeidi really didn't know where they got the courage to openly confront the Pope Hall.
It is true that the Canon Fortress has a high strategic value, and the three oil well platforms under its control, as well as the mine factories in the three surrounding Tucson towns within a total area of 500 to 600 square kilometers, also make Canon have a certain economic value .
But the sum of these cannot be the basis for fighting against the Pope's Hall. Even if there were a few high-ranking pirates, Yafidi didn't think they would be able to survive the counterattack of the Knights Army.
The reason why they succeeded in the two previous battles of Roaring Bay and Canon Fortress, Yafidi believed that it was the carelessness of the Pope's Hall. Like now, they gathered three of their army commanders, 25,000 soldiers, hundreds of tanks, and mechs. With such a terrifying combat power, even if the enemy was huddled in the Canon Fortress, Yafidi believed that even if they piled up, it would be enough to level the entire fortress.
That was the result obtained after countless deduction, and Yafidi firmly believed in it.
As for the high-level combat power, the current group army also has the strength not to lose to the opponent. Those were the two army commanders, Leo and Frank. When Yafidi returned to the Pope's Hall, he found that these two colleagues had both advanced, and now they are both strong men of the ninth rank!
only…
Yafidi looked at Leo's tent, with complex expressions flashing in his eyes.
The advancement of Leo and Frank seems unusual, and the energy level they are showing now is already above Yafidi. But the breath is very rough, and the two of them have difficulty in grasping power. If you want to describe it, it's like a child carrying a cannon, looking a little powerless.
What worries Yafidi even more is the mental state of the two legion chiefs. They have been in a very bad state since they met in the Pope's Hall.
Pretty bad!