Volume 11 The Storm in the Western Regions Chapter 20 The Weeping Prairie

"The grasslands of the prairie are all dead?" Chai Lingwu stood not far behind Li Kuan, and when he heard the news that Chen Xu brought back from the grassland, he couldn't help but be a little distracted, they were in this desert against the harsh natural environment, and they waited for more than a month, and the news they got was the death of the grassland? What does this have to do with his cousin, who is a prince? At the beginning, he didn't say anything and directly asked everyone to withdraw from the grassland, and prepared to go back directly all the way, did he expect such a result a long time ago? If this was the case, he must have expected the mysterious death of the grassland pasture.

"What else is there besides?" Li Kuan was not the slightest surprised, this is a natural situation, in this environment without much pollution, if these things he put out can't achieve such an effect, it will not be in vain. This is not the Celestial Empire of later generations, it has long been accustomed to all kinds of chemical pollution, and the people of the Celestial Empire have grown up eating all kinds of poisons, and they have long been invulnerable.

"I obeyed your orders, and after inquiring and observing along the way, I found that there seemed to be a plague outbreak on the grassland, and there were livestock and people dying every day in those big tribes for no reason, and the dead people and livestock on the entire grassland were now pulled outside the royal tribe every day, and then burned. The wars on the steppes have stopped. Although they are still wary of each other, they are more focused on the people and livestock in their own tribe who have died for no reason. Did the prince already know about this situation, so he told him to only eat his own food and drink the water he brought along the way? Chen Xu's face was full of admiration, and everything he saw on the grassland was impacting his inherent values. Although I can't believe it, everything points to these things that are happening now on the steppe. All of them were expected by His Royal Highness the King of Chu.

"Are you already dead? It's really a fragile physique! Li Kuan couldn't help but sneer, thinking of those who ate melamine in later generations. Poisonous steamed buns, clenbuterol. There are also gutter oil, poisonous monosodium glutamate, and the people of the Celestial Empire, who have been growing up smoothly, I have to say that I admire.

"The dead grass on the grassland is the same as the place where we buried those metal balls, and the grass around each metal ball is the first to wither and die! His Royal Highness the King of Chu, what is that? Chen Xu had a doubt lingering in his heart on the grassland, and they walked all the way, saying that they would take revenge and hate. But just like that, he buried metal balls on the grassland and left directly, which was the biggest mystery in the hearts of all soldiers. Now these metal balls can actually make the pasture wither, and any cattle and sheep on the grassland die, it seems that it is not a simple thing.

"There's a devil in those metal balls, a devil that's more vicious than gunpowder, you don't need to know what it is, just know that those things can make the whole grassland not grow for decades, even centuries!" After Li Kuan knew that what he had arranged had worked, he gave a rare explanation.

In fact, Li Kuan and they were buried in the grassland. It's not an iron ball. It's a lead ball, a thin layer of lead, wrapped in something that will tremble the whole world a thousand years later - uranium-235. That is, the raw material of the atomic bomb nuclear power plant, a radioactive metal. What this thing releases is invisible and untouchable nuclear radiation. What are the consequences of making an atomic bomb out of this metal. I believe that everyone of that era is very clear that nuclear power plants use this metal to generate electricity, and the energy released in it is almost the most likely new energy source in the world to replace oil after a thousand years of depletion of resources. Although Li Kuan buried only the coarsest raw ore on the grassland, two layers of things were wrapped on top of this layer of ore. The most surface is lead, which prevents radiation release. Between this layer of lead and uranium. is a liquid, a strong acid. These acids slowly corrode the lead layer and uranium. When the lead layer is corroded, the radioactive material inside is released instantaneously. A zone of nuclear radiation is formed, and everything in this area is affected.

Having said all this, it is simply that Li Kuan planted a slow-released atomic bomb on the grassland. Although the radiation velocity is not released instantaneously like an atomic bomb, the uranium ore he uses is several times that of a most ordinary atomic bomb. Moreover, it is scattered but can ensure that almost the entire grassland can be covered. As a result, the grassland is all a hard-hit area of nuclear pollution. Whether it is the grass that grows on it, the aliens who live on it, and the cattle and sheep they graze, they are all threatened by nuclear radiation.

"So that's the end of the grassland? What if those alien races on the grassland were desperate to launch an attack on the Tang Dynasty? Chai Lingwu couldn't help but ask, he was afraid that these alien races on the grassland would jump over the wall in a hurry. If they all gathered together to attack Datang, then Datang might not be able to hold it. Even four of the sixteen guards have been stationed at the border pass. But the border between Datang and Xue Yantuo is too long, how can they hold every place?

"Don't worry, this kind of thing is slow to work, and when they find that it can't be dragged on like this, I'm afraid not many people will be able to get on the war horse, and the war horse will be hurt by this kind of thing just like people!" Li Kuan smiled faintly. For the first time in a while, he showed a smile. How did he spend this time, endless self-blame and guilt tormented in his heart, and none of the soldiers he led out of the grassland understood what he had done, thinking that he was cowardly, so he would withdraw directly. Although he understands these soldiers who are eager to avenge their comrades-in-arms, he also feels very lost, these people are never his most trusted people, they are still their father and emperor in their hearts, they will obey orders when they make their own decisions, but they will not trust themselves wholeheartedly.

Everything that happened on the prairie now proved what he had done, and these things showed that he was really avenging the dead brothers, and he disdained words to explain, and now these ironclad facts were in front of him, which was the most convincing evidence. So the grievances in his heart disappeared in an instant, and a very inexplicable pleasure made him feel very comfortable.

On the grassland, at this time it is already full of sorrow. People die every day, not only people, but also livestock, all of them die like this for no reason, no one knows what happened to them, since the beginning of this war on the grassland, these strange things have begun to appear, first of all, the grassland has not yet reached the dry season, and the rain is still very abundant, the grassland on the grassland began to wither, and all the aquatic plants in this short period of time seemed to experience a late autumn, dried up. A piece of golden yellow looks like a farmland during the autumn harvest of the Tang Dynasty.

However, in the grassland, such a golden color means that there is no grass, so the cattle and sheep will not have enough forage to feed, and they will not be able to grow fat as soon as possible, so when the cold winter comes, they will not have enough food to survive the cold winter. This is simply a catastrophe. Therefore, the herders on the grassland had to harvest all the forage from the dead pastures and wait until there was no grass to feed their cattle and sheep. But the withering of this pasture was only the beginning, and the countless people who went to these withered pastures to harvest hay began to become thinner and thinner after returning, and gradually began to die mysteriously, as if something had sucked the flesh of their bodies, and when they died, they were all thin into skeletons, with deep sunken eye sockets, and high cheekbones, holding up their whole faces like the skin of a demon. More and more people died like this, which made the grassland completely panic.

Even the armies of the seven tribes that were fighting each other stopped fighting, and they all received the news that there had been this strange and bizarre death in their tribes, and all the dead people seemed to have been sucked out of their bodies by something, only a skin. This made them feel a chill on their backs like a thorn in their backs, and in an instant, the hairs on their bodies stood up. Isn't this the wrath of Immortality? They know a lot of things, for example, what is now prevalent on the grassland, the seven gods will become the only lord of the grassland after they are gathered, these words are all made up by themselves, under the name of the immortal heaven, is it ...... now After ascertaining the tragic condition of the deceased, everyone was afraid, and this was a punishment from heaven.

So the war on the steppe stopped, and all the rulers returned to their tribes, and all began the grand ritual of worshipping the heavens, and all of them worshiped at the feet of the so-called immortals, praying with sincerity, praying that the immortals would forgive their sins, and that their tribes would hear this disaster. But the immortal heaven did not seem to hear their prayers, and no matter how devout they prayed, the number of people dying in the tribe continued to increase every morning, and patches of silk were erected on the grassland.

The withering of the pastures and the death of the people, cattle and sheep have completely panicked these careerists who are still dreaming of dominating the grassland, and the whole grassland has fallen into an inexplicable panic.

"What the hell is going on? Why is this the situation? Did the immortal heaven who blessed the steppe children completely abandon his people? Yi Nan said with a sad face in his tent.

"This ......" as Yi Nan's cronies, Dadu, also has no way at this time, this strange situation makes this powerful warrior of the Yongguan grassland at a loss, and he doesn't know what is going on.

"Does all this have anything to do with Datang?" Felleqili, who has always been the number one strategist under Yi Nan, makes an unexpected proposal. (To be continued......)