Volume 1 Prehistoric Wars Chapter 83 Ice Age
The temperature in the north is indeed a little cold, but fortunately, for the Xuanhuang people, there is no shortage of animal fur, cowhide, sheepskin, and even mink skin.
Of course, bear skins and tiger skins may be better, but in order to unite these races that are not weak in combat, they have to resist this temptation.
Food is still sufficient, although the cold inhibits the growth rate of plants, and the aquatic grass is not as abundant as in the south, but the endless grassland can still support a large number of herbivores.
Since the pattern of the North and the South became clear, the war between the two sides has temporarily eased, and fifty years of strife have exhausted all races to deal with, and the fragility of life is unimaginable.
If the war slows down, it does not mean that it is over, and the hatred between the two sides is still there, and this matter is not over.
There are fewer large-scale fires, there are constant skirmishes, and there are too many intersections between the Argonian sentinels and decapitators, and when the two sides meet, it will only be life and death.
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Lao Fang's gaze returned to the bottom of the sea.
At this time, in the deep sea, a large-scale population battle has begun.
On tens of thousands of miles of submarine plains, hundreds of millions of individuals are fighting for their opponents.
Large areas of the sea were dyed blood-red, and corpses continued to emerge from the bottom of the sea, densely lined up on the surface of the sea, like floating islands.
Seabirds are flying from afar, picking and choosing from the carcasses to pick and choose the tender sea fish, and this feast is very exciting.
Of course, after these seabirds have eaten and drunk enough, they seem to have nothing to do, and under the restlessness of the sea breeze, their unruly hearts begin to float again, so they have nothing to do, provoking other species of seabirds, and thus causing war.
The war in the sky is also fierce, they flap their wings, peck at each other's vital points with their sharp beaks, and tear each other's feathers with their sharp claws.
A badly injured seabird fell from the sky and smashed into the sea like a dumpling, and this delicious fish would not have been missed, but at the moment various aquariums could not be separated.
The war is extremely cruel, and the large number of individuals in this kind of battle is not an advantage at all, but because it is too dazzling, the enemy units rush over and bite frantically.
The small ones are also not safe, although they are inconspicuous, but the huge whale can suck countless small fish and shrimp into the mouth with a casual suck.
The great battle under the sea lasted for decades, and many races were no longer able to be found after the war, and it seems that these species have completely disappeared.
There are also many races that are on the verge of extinction, and after the war, they can only carefully hide in Tibet, trying to ensure that they are not killed by other species.
However, there was no winner in the whole war, and the old side didn't even know why they fought, but they still had to thank them for dedicating a big scene of addiction to the old side.
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After watching the underwater battle, Lao Fang felt a little bored, so he returned to the game, and to his surprise, his game continued.
Just when Lao Fang was still worried that these people's IQ would not be lower, everything in front of him completely stunned Lao Fang.
Are these still earthlings?
Some people have fluff all over their bodies and have a tail, well, this is an atavistic phenomenon, and the old party will admit it.
But there are also people who have a bunch of wings and live like a bat, is this a vampire?
There are also those who have no lower limbs and directly drag a snake tail, is this Nima Naga?
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It seems that without the constraints of the old side, these earth humans have hooked up with other creatures, and they have also mutated.
This mutation made it difficult for Lao Fang to accept, he felt that these people in front of him were no longer pure people, but these guys were indeed not stupid anymore, on the contrary, they were very smart, not only completely absorbed the knowledge that Lao Fang had previously imparted, but also developed some aspects forward.
For example, these guys have learned to build houses, they have repaired walls to defend against other races, they have invented crossbows to defend castles, and they have built some kind of system that is not very advanced.
All in all, the old side can use them to achieve hegemony.
However, the old man sighed and silently deleted the file.
In the following time, Lao Fang was addicted to the game again, and the observation system was adjusted by him to a thousand times the speed of time flow.
This time, the old side lowered the difficulty, and was able to control 5,000 people at the beginning.
Sure enough, Lao Fang, who had five thousand people, was invincible, and it only took a hundred years for him to rule the entire Xuanhuang Star.
It's completely stress-free on this difficulty, and it's like playing a strategy game.
The old party who cleared the customs felt a little sense of accomplishment, but it was not so strong, after all, it was not the highest difficulty.
He imagined himself getting a long rise and quitting the game.
When his gaze returned to Xuanhuang Xing, the scene in front of him made his eyes light up.
"Very good, Ruixue Zhaofeng year!" The old man looked at the goose-feathered snow, and admired it on the vast plain.
"Suddenly, like a night of spring breeze, thousands of trees and pear blossoms bloom!"
"If you want to cross the Yellow River and ice Sichuan, you will climb the snow-filled mountains in Taihang!"
"The scenery of the northern country, thousands of miles of ice, thousands of miles of snow. Looking inside and outside the Great Wall, only reckless; Up and down the river, suddenly lost and surging. Mountain dance silver snake, the original Chi wax elephant, want to be higher than the heavenly public test. ”
The old man, who had drunk two taels of ink, was immediately full of poetry, and as for why he chanted so much, the reader knew it......
However, when the old man admired it to the fullest, he immediately felt that something was wrong with the scene in front of him, why is this world covered in silver, even a few meters under, extremely hard ice?
Lao Fang hurriedly placed his vision outside the atmosphere of Xuanhuang Star, and took a look at the whole picture of Xuanhuang Star, which didn't matter, and directly startled Lao Fang.
I saw that the entire Xuanhuang Star had turned into a frozen ball at this moment, except for a small part around the equator, the rest of the place was covered with a thick layer of ice and snow.
Even the surface of the ocean froze, and the huge waves seemed to be frozen in an instant, and then turned into small mountains on the surface of the sea.
Mountains, rivers, forests, grasslands, these terrains that were originally covered by vegetation have all become glaciers at this moment.
The old man looked confused, as if he had been punched in the face.
It was poetic just now, but at the moment I only felt a chill in my thinking, what kind of ordinary winter snow is this, it is obviously the ice age in the movie.
It seems that during the period when Lao Fang was playing the game, Xuanhuang Star ushered in a large-scale ice period.
Although I knew that in 100,000 years, Xuanhuang Star must have changed a lot, but I really didn't expect this situation to happen.
Lao Fang felt a little annoyed, feeling that he had missed something important, but what could he do, time could not go back.
His eyes searched the glacier and snow, and soon, he saw the Xuanhuang people.
Lao Fang immediately checked the number and distribution area of the Xuanhuang people.
Soon the data came out, in these 100,000 years, the number of Xuanhuang people has decreased from about 200 million to less than 30,000 now, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as not one in 10,000.
They are divided into thousands of small tribes scattered all over the world, and each tribe has a hard time.
used to be dominant, but now he is so down-and-out that the old party can't adapt for a while.
But after looking at the data of the Argonians, the old side immediately balanced a little.
The Argons were even more miserable, there was no trace of the Argons on land, and the only team of 3,000 people evolved into underwater creatures, hiding in the deep sea.
Tyrannosaurus rex, brute dragon, mega-ringed reptile, these once formidable reptiles have become rare animals, except for the occasional trace of them in the equatorial area, there is no trace of them anywhere else.
It's just that the kind of dragon that once roamed the sky has survived tenaciously at the moment, and in the ice and snow, you can still see them spreading their wings across the sky.
Compared to reptiles, mammals seem to be in a much better condition, and although their numbers have plummeted to 1/10,000, they have survived tenaciously.
Compared to 100,000 years ago, their hair is thicker, and their fur is thicker, and at a glance they know that the heat retention effect is good.
Lao Fang sighed, originally thought that the life of the Xuanhuang people would get better and better, but he didn't expect a natural disaster to change everything back to before.
The dazzling white glaciers under the gray sky stretch as far as the eye can see, and the earth is the same color no matter which direction you look at.
Cold and monotonous.
Lao Fang could no longer appreciate the beauty of the silver, he only felt ruthless.
The wind, blowing endlessly, occasionally mixed with snow particles.
A team of more than 20 people was carrying the wind and snow on their backs, heading southwest.
The leader was a bearded old man, who, despite the wrinkles on his face, was still very energetic, and even in the snow and ice, his waist was straight, and he was not afraid of the howling wind.
He was wrapped in a bearskin coat, two hands protruding from the bear's forelimbs, and the other four hands were tucked into the coat.
Despite the poor processing, at least the whole body is encased.
There seems to be something worn inside the coat, but it is by no means linen, and in this era, there is hardly a plant like hemp except near the equator.
Carrying the old man is a one-eyed wolf, this wolf is four meters long, and it looks not only powerful, but also slightly fierce, probably because of the one-eyed, or it may be that it itself has this temperament.
Compared with 100,000 years ago, the hair on the body of the wolf at this time is generally thicker, which is a fine-tuning of the species' own genes.
The middle-aged man sat steadily on the wolf, his sharp eyes roaming around, always watching the movements around him.
Behind him were his six sons, who had inherited his burliness and strength, and the only thing he lacked now was his beard.
The six young men had longbows hanging diagonally, stone daggers straddling their waists, and heavy stone tools resting on the side of the wolf, looking like they were not weak in combat.
The father and son walked in front, and more than a dozen young wolves pounced vigorously in the trajectory they stepped on.
If nothing else, in another five months, this batch of young wolves will also be adults.
At that time, the family will add a lot of combat power.
The young wolf was followed by two large, two small and four mammoths, who seemed to be a family.
The two adult elephants were full of goods, large and small packages, more than 50 of them.
Although the packages weighed thousands of pounds, the mammoth still walked with ease, as if the goods were not worth mentioning.
The mammoth family was followed by more than a dozen old women, women and children, some of them riding wolves, some riding unicorns, and some of them were held in the arms of adults.
Obviously, the number of wolves in this team was insufficient, so the number was filled with unicorns.
The unicorn is actually good in all aspects, but it is only when it comes to playing against carnivorous fauna that it is a little delayed.
But this is no longer the previous era of hegemony, in this environment, plants are dying in large numbers, herbivores are unable to get enough food, and they are constantly starving and freezing to death, and correspondingly, carnivores have become more difficult to hunt.
A lot of populations have become endangered animals, and there are still some large populations there.
The massive carnivorous fauna is gone, so the value of unicorns has increased considerably.
This time, the unicorn was willing to follow the Xuanhuang people.
It is easy to understand that the current land is frozen for several meters everywhere, and with the instinct of a unicorn, it is impossible to find food at all, and only by following the Xuanhuang people can there be a trace of life.
The party stopped in a valley, it was nearly dusk, and the light was getting dark, and it seemed that they were ready to rest there.
Everyone began to get busy, the six young people had their own division of labor, three young people held stone tools, rode the wolf into the distance, watching them disappear into the glacier and snow, the old man didn't understand, are they going to hunt?
But the old party has observed the terrain, and there are no other living creatures except for their team of Xuanhuang people.
Lao Fang didn't think that these three people could gain anything, so he focused on the other three young people.
The three young men quickly climbed onto the mammoth's back, untied the bags and threw them down, and the three young women ran over and helped them drag them aside with a smile.
One of the women was a little discerning, dragged out a sheepskin package, untied the leather rope, and took out a piece of animal skin, which was carefully laid out in the clearing.
The old man had sharp eyes, and at a glance he could tell that this was a piece of golden lion skin, which had been around for a certain period of time, but it was still very intact, and it seemed that a lot of effort had been put into peeling the skin.
As the top existence of prehistoric mammals, the skin of the golden lion is more than 40 square meters, spread on the ground, and occupies a lot of space.
After the hides were laid, the men unloaded the small bags on the mammoth's body and carefully placed them on the hides.
Lao Fang took a closer look and immediately understood why they were so careful, the small bag was full of things that were not easy to see in this era - roots, stems, leaves, flowers and fruits of plants, etc., all of which were good things they had collected.
Beans and dried fruits are collected the most, accounting for about 50% of them, and a lot of the hypertrophied roots of some kind of vine are also collected.
The old man estimated that these dry foods were estimated to be more than 3,000 catties.
Lao Fang felt incredible, according to the thickness of this glacier, the ice period has been at least more than 20,000 years, and the world is white, how did these Xuanhuang people collect so many dry food seeds.
Lao Fang shook his head, he really couldn't figure it out, he continued to observe.
After the six young men and women had placed their belongings, they began to remove more hides from the large bags, and then, under the astonished gaze of the old man, they skillfully set up a tent.
They put a few thick bearskins on the ground, supported them with wood, and made a canopy of cowhides, and made an airtight tent.
The beauty of this tent Lao Fang doesn't want to evaluate, but its wind blocking performance is good, sitting in it, regardless of the wind and snow, you can also feel a little safe.
On the other side, five children are playing a game, occasionally grabbing snow from the ground and throwing it at each other's bodies.
A middle-aged woman is teasing two children in her hands who have not yet been weaned.
Lao Fang roughly judged that this middle-aged woman should be the wife of a bearded old man, holding a little grandson in her hand.
From time to time, she looked at her eldest grandchildren, fearing that they would slip up, and it seemed that her main task was to take care of them.
The bearded old man and the one-eyed wolf sat on a piece of animal skin, and one wolf and one wolf looked silently at the mountains in the distance.
The sky darkened, and the bearded old man looked towards the mouth of the valley, his eyes were slightly anxious, probably hoping to see the three familiar figures.
Just when the old man was about to help the old man take a look, the three horsemen came in the wind and snow.
The old man breathed a sigh of relief, and his heart finally fell to the same place.
The three young men had a good harvest, and the first young man got back a sturdy bundle of branches, which were still dry, and it seemed that he could make a big bonfire tonight.
The second young man opened the animal skin bag, and there were actually eggs the size of watermelons inside, it seemed that he had taken out the nest of a certain animal, but looking at this egg, it didn't look like it was born recently, and it was probably something tens of thousands of years ago.
I don't know if this thing can be eaten.
The third young man poured out more than a dozen frozen fish from the animal skin bag, and he didn't need to look at it, the old man also knew that this fish was also a creature tens of thousands of years ago.
However, Lao Fang felt that he couldn't keep up with the thinking of these Xuanhuang people, and he wanted to know how these three young people did it.
As a result, his perspective was raised to a height of several thousand meters, and the situation within a radius of tens of miles was immediately visible.
Lao Fang followed the footprints of these three people all the way, and soon, a piece of high ground with terrain slightly higher than the ground appeared in front of Lao Fang's eyes.
Lao Fang finally understood.
In Lao Fang's sight, he immediately saw that this place was originally a small forest, but at this moment, it was tightly wrapped in layers of ice and snow and turned into a highland.
The three young men carved a hole in the weakest part of the ice, and ventured into it, thus obtaining branches and some kind of reptilian eggs.
The old man lowered his gaze and entered the forest beneath the ice and snow through the hole.
From the old side's line of sight, the forest at this moment is like a huge ice crystal palace, and countless carbonized giant trees support a piece of sky with branches.
The space is large and complex, and if you are not careful, you will get lost in this forest.
Judging from the traces on the ground, the three youths did not go deeper, they only moved around the edge for a while, gathered what they needed, and then hurried away.
At this point, they are wise and not tempted by the unknown distance.
However, Lao Fang has no worries about this, he is a thinking body, and at present, in addition to knowing that Dao Ancestor can restrict his movements, there is really no terrain that can trap him.
So the old man observed with confidence.
This forest has existed for a long time, and the number of diameters of more than ten meters abounds, and the dense branches directly block the ice and snow, and only a little snow falls into the ground.
Even so, there are no traces of animal and plant growth in the forest, and as for whether some special microorganisms are still alive, Lao Fang really has no interest in researching.
However, the old man noticed one thing, during this ice period, the trees in this forest were slowly carbonizing, but now, the ice was chiseled by the three youths, and the sealed space had entered the fresh air, and it must not be long before these trees would turn to ashes.