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Chapter 683 Refugees

Without Dorn Pavilion, it continued to absorb energy consumption free of the air every once in a while. The temperature in the Westeros, which was used to its existence, suddenly lost its balance.

A large amount of excess energy began to gather, and they had no place to release it, so they could only accumulate continuously. The imbalanced energy caused changes in the entire world, including the monsoon, tides and air pressure. It was like a lever. As long as one end was moved, the other side would definitely change.

Whether this change is good or bad, it will take a long time to find a balance again.

Energy that has nowhere to vent gathers over Westeros, squeezing the cold air and cold currents below. Therefore, a cold winter, which is definitely a severe test for mainland creatures, has arrived.

The long night fell on this once warm land, as if the endless night was covered with snow between the forests and streams, as if it was wrapped in a thick layer of carapace in the world.

The forest is no longer full of vitality as before, but replaced by a tranquility and emptiness. The cold temperature makes all movements daunting, even if it is the master of the world today, humans are the same.

Large areas of plants withered and fell off, ending their lives ahead of schedule because of the arrival of winter. As the long winter continues, such situations may increase and no longer be limited to plants.

The crisis hidden under this beautiful snowy scenery is the most deadly trap.

Food, food is the biggest difficulty in winter, both for animals and for humans.

Because plants cannot withstand the demise of bad weather, many herbivorous animals will die due to hunger. Similarly, this resistance in the food chain will flow through several layers and eventually be reflected in humans.

Moreover, the winter in Westeros is not just like this. The long night is approaching... This means that this long winter will last for five or six years, sometimes even seven or eight years. Because of the disappearance of Dorn Pavilion, the final winter this time will probably not be short, and it will be terrible...

In this way, storing food will lose its effect. Even if humans have prepared it and stored it as much as possible, they will not be able to survive this long time. Because there is no food that can be kept for so long, even in winter.

What's more, these medieval poor people who lived a hard life and were even struggling on the line of food and clothing for death, how could they have so much food to store. In summer, they often had a meal but no meal, and the landing in winter meant death.

This is true. Every time the landing of winter takes away two-thirds of Westeros' lives, sometimes even more. Otherwise, why is Westeros' civilized level not low, but the population has always been very sparse, because few civilians can survive a winter...at most two.

If it weren't for Westeros that had grown a plant that only opened in winter and was available for human use, I'm afraid no one would survive.

And... in this winter landing, humans not only have to face the problem of food, but also their oldest enemy, the invasion of White Walkers. This time, they are not as pounding outside the Great Wall as usual, but they have already broken through the Great Wall, and the shadow of death is about to fall on everyone's heads.

So... any even the slightest change will affect the entire world, and even turn the development process of the entire world into an unknown road that will lead to.

This is just because winter will last for a whole few years.

If the winter in reality was so long, then I am afraid that the development of the present world would not be much better than the world of ice and fire. Even if a hundred Newtons were born, the food in the long night would still not be stored for so long, and there would be no apples on the apple tree to hit his head.

Of course, these dangers are all for civilians. For those nobles and families, even the day before the end of the world, they have the ability to eat enough before dying, just to compete with who can eat better.

By the way... the plant that blooms in winter is called Winter. Unexpectedly, it tastes unexpectedly delicious. If it weren't for the fact that there were some hallucinating toxins on it.

At this time, Niya was one of the vast army of scavengers.

She was wearing thin and worn linen clothes, rushing in the howling cold wind. The surging cold wind passed through the cracked holes in the clothes, blowing it tightly against this thin and dry body, and it could not resist or defend against the cold at all... Even this could no longer be called a clothes, because it was simply cut and could be put on the body and not fall off.

Niya's face was yellow and an unhealthy color emerged. Her hair seemed to have been untreated for many days, accompanied by a skeleton-like bony head, like an evil ghost crawling out of hell.

Perhaps it is true, because after escaping from the city of despair and blood, Niya has felt that he was in hell and still cannot escape during this period.

This team was a crowd who took a boat down the river from Baigang. Not long after discovering that Baigang had been defending, Bran and the remaining Mandela family knights had transferred the crowd from Baigang out of the city as fast as possible. Because this is the reason why their people need protection, on the one hand, in order not to allow the power of the ghoul to continue to increase, the knights died in the end, which is another aspect.

However, since he was in a hurry, he naturally had no preparations. Although Baigang is a rich commercial city, the civilians living in this city can only save a few more food rations than the civilians in other places.

The White Walkers siege the city as early as the first day, and the Niya and his wife were naturally ready early. However, when they boarded the ship, in order to save space, the poor families could not be brought on the ship, so they were driven to the ship by the guards empty-handed.

Moreover, in order to transfer the crowd, the ship sent them to a short distance downstream of Baigang and stopped in a hurry, then increased the speed and returned again. If Niya hadn't hid the food, the two of them would have been unable to survive the first few days.

But even so... the food will still be eaten for a day.

In fact, three days after the team set out, the food they had accumulated had already been eaten up. In order not to starve to death, Niya had to come out and follow the others to find something to eat.

Their goal was everything to eat. At this time, the winter in southern Westeros, far away from the northern border, had just landed. After the first heavy snow, only a thin snow blanket was covered on the ground. The plant called Winter Life did not start to grow at all, but the other food did not completely disappear because of Winter.

Animals such as rabbits and foxes, as well as rare foods such as wild fruits and edible plants, can be seen in the wild.

And they are also the largest source of food for this exile group.

Three days ago, when he just came out of Baigang, these residents living in Baigang met with the owner of Baigang Weiman Mandalay, because after Weiman heard the White Walk attack on Baigang, he rushed to the downstream immediately. Although he wanted to rush back to the battlefield in person, his confidant dragged him back.

And they are right in doing this.

Because on the fourth day of the crowd transfer, it was not enough to transfer all the residents of White Harbor, and only about two-thirds of the number was transferred, the White Harbor blasted the magic walls of Bran, the messenger of the Green Prophet with a terrible weapon.

Then... Baigang fell.

The remaining one-third of the residents who had not escaped from this land of death, about nearly 10,000, became victims of the attack of the White Walkers, and became a member of the White Walkers army, and a new supplement to their members.

But before that, the city defense soldiers who bravely resisted and survived, safely evacuated with Bran, the messenger of the Green Prophet.

Oh, by the way, Bran had his own name at this time, no longer the youngest child of the Stark family that had almost disappeared, but the messenger of the Green Prophet. Even his four servants were named differently by the bards.

In the face of gossip, news always spreads quickly, with stories about Bran and gossip. The circulating is even faster than the White Walker falling south to Baigang.

However, even if the message was delivered slowly, in the face of war, all the news spread throughout the junction of the northern border and the southern border within one day.

Similarly, his team led by Sir Wiman Mandalay was at this time because of this reason.

The civilians in Baigang escaped along the downstream along the boat with Weiman. People in the surrounding cities were not surprised. After all, Baigang had the most ships. It was strange that they could not escape.

However, the death of Willis Mandalay is big news, because Weiman's eldest son has died in a bloody wedding, which means he is facing a situation where no successor is left. Of course, the huge Mandalay family cannot have an excellent male descendant, but only some side-lines are left.

If it is a group of homeless refugees because of a group of war, then it is definitely a valuable asset for major noble families to rush to take in, but the situation is obviously a bit different at this time.

First, Wimanmandela is still alive, his family is still intact, and even all the major noble families from White Harbor were not damaged, they escaped before the White Devils attacked, and what could be done.

So who do these refugees listen to? Do they listen to the local nobles and city lords, or still follow the Mandalay family? What's more, he also carries a large number of soldiers. Although they have suffered heavy casualties, the remaining number is still challenging the fragile nerves of the nobles.

Secondly... Even if some nobles do not care about past grudges and the little nobles who are dependent on the Mandalay family dare to take in, they do not have enough food to support these refugees.

Since the first heavy snow fell in the south of Westeros, all experienced people know that the long winter is about to begin from now on. Although it is not clear why this winter seems to be more than half a year earlier than before, the heavy snow is inevitable.

The heavy snow covering the entire continent has always been the characteristic of Westeros. On the eve of winter, it will float away the heavy snow that lasted for nearly a week until it wraps up the continent and isolates all the breath of life. This time is no exception. After the first heavy snow, there will soon be only one color left between the world, that is, white.

In this case, food will become the most important thing, and all cities must prepare in advance for food, so even the wealthy nobles and cities cannot produce food out of thin air to support this huge number of refugees.

So Weiman's plan was gone. At first, he planned to go to Kalin Bay, which was relatively close and was also a city he often settled in. Unfortunately, Kalin Bay was not big, and it was much smaller than Baigang, and he did not have the ability to feed these refugees with food.

If they go there, these people will soon finish their food and die, and even drag the people from Kalin Bay to death.

Therefore, Earl of Weman must find a big city, at least like the previous White Harbor, so that these people can be integrated without much pressure. The city needs to be close to the forest and the wilderness, because there must be many people who still can't eat, and they need to come out to find food by themselves.

For example, King's Landing, Twin City, Seagull Town, etc. As for whether these cities accept it, it is not within the scope of Weiman's consideration. Once he takes people to the city, he still doesn't know what will happen.

Moreover, even these cities need to solve some population before going there, no matter what method, whether it is to starve to death or to share some.

In fact, the thousands of people heading to Kalin Bay were already separated in advance a day ago under the escort of several knights and soldiers loyal to the Mandalay family, while the remaining people were going to go to the vicinity of Twin City and pass by Gray Water.

Because no matter where their final destination is, they always have to walk over, and they have to arrive before heavy snow, or even pass the White Walkers behind them, no one knows where they will attack next time.

So the situation of these civilian teams that fled from Baigang is really not good. Of course... the team that went to Kalin Bay may be in a worse situation. Although it is okay to accept these people in Kalin Bay, Kalin Bay is right behind Baigang. If the White Walkers continue to move south, they will be the first to be affected.

In this case, Niya followed the migrant team to look for something to eat.

Over the past three days, many people have died one after another. Along the way, they have no food source. Only the Mandalay family and other noble families contacted their caravans to send food along the way. However, the amount of these foods is not large, and they are given priority to the nobles and soldiers. When they are waiting to be distributed to the heads of the civilians below, they are not even able to eat enough.
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