In addition to the Twelve Cities and those areas that are so dangerous that they are not even named for human existence, the known areas include the Ancient Plains Forest in the south, the Daqian Mine and the city-state in the west, the Wild Wasteland in the northwest, the polar glaciers in the northeast, and the dwellings of the gods in the east and the beyond.

But these places, except for the residence of the Divine Descent and the Lost Territory, are basically the resource acquisition places of the Twelve Cities.

For example, all kinds of medicinal materials in the Wasteland Forest, wood and stone, as well as some rare materials for making mysterious weapons, among which the ancient beasts can also provide a large number of soul cards for the major clans of the Twelve Cities, and the soul card materials obtained from the demons are too poor due to the infection of evil qi.

In order to maintain their own characteristics, they refused to join the Twelve Liancheng, but they had to rely on the five western cities under the double pressure of the Qianjun army and the blood demon to obtain some survival materials, but they bought and sold, and their goods were often their own, and the population replenishment of the Twelve Liancheng mainly came from this.

The Wild Wasteland in the northwest was carved out as a pasture for the Twelve Cities, where a large number of wild beasts were stocked, and through hunting, meat was transported to the entire alliance.

The relationship between the last polar glacier and the Twelve Cities is the same as the relationship between the Daqian Mine and the Great Qian, transporting all kinds of rare minerals to the Twelve Cities.

Of course, while transfusing blood for the Twelve Cities, the principals of these regions also need the material support of the Twelve Cities and become vassals of the Twelve Cities in order to survive well in these treacherous environments. Since they are controlled by the gate of life, they can only honestly work for the lords of the Twelve Cities.

A heavily armed team escorted more than twenty transport trucks of goods from Fanghua City in the far north, and followed the path cleared by exploration towards the extreme north. This is a team that carries supplies to the polar glaciers, and they depart every three months, and when they return to the city, they are also responsible for bringing back the raw ore there. Due to the long distance, it often takes more than half a month to go back and forth.

As for why they are not directly transported by cloud ships, first, because the cost of cloud ships is too great to open, and the gains outweigh the losses, and second, not to mention the cloud ships, which are the most advanced empty ships in Daqian, due to technical reasons, the speed of travel may not be as fast as the speed of the overland march, and they themselves can only exist as war fortresses at the present stage, and they still have the strength to use them for surprise attacks and marches.

Of course, if you take the land route, you will inevitably face the threat of blood demons, but fortunately, the technology of even fire guns is very popular in the twelve cities, and more than 300 members of the armed team, all of whom are armed with fire guns, plus other artillery tools to assist, can completely face a full hunting team. In the local area where blood demons are already scarce, they can basically be unimpeded.

As usual, this team did not encounter any accidents and came to the area where the Twelve Cities were set up on the polar glaciers, passed through the major mining areas, and directly entered the farthest sea rock fort.

Haeyan Fort is one of the eight ice forts set up in the Polar Glacier by the Twelve Cities, managing about five mining areas, where the team will drop some of the supplies and return with the original ore here, and do the same as passing other forts along the way, and finally return from Baekje Fort, which is closest to the mainland, to complete the logistics mission.

While exchanging supplies, the team is also responsible for delivering letters, after all, not all people who work in the Ice Castle are natives of the Polar Regions, and there are many families in the Twelve Cities who have been tasked with coming to the Ice Castle to sit in the Castle. Other news of the situation from the Twelve Cities also spread through this channel to various vassal forces similar to the Ice Castle.

Therefore, after the team finished exchanging supplies and set off again, Hou Xiong, the castle owner of Haiyan Fort, pinched a stack of letterheads in his hand in a daze, and the two deputy castle masters, the five mine area guards, and the four garrison worshippers who were sitting under him were also a little uncertain, and together they looked at Ran Xu, the deputy castle lord who had always been Hou Xiong's confidant, and stepped forward to ask questions.

"Castle Master, I wonder what news has come from the Holy Alliance that makes you so embarrassed?"

Hou Xiong also wanted someone to help him with his staff, so he said, "Do you remember the person who was sent last time?" It's the one surnamed Fu. ”

Ran Xu bowed: "How many years have we not had such a big man here, of course my subordinates remember, isn't it the Lord of the Holy Alliance who wants to recall him?"

High-grade strong people are very rare, don't look at the Gao Yang clan's ability to convene fifty or sixty people for a meeting, that is their family's great business, put it in Jinglan City, Fanghua City and other places, it can definitely be called a big man, and it is a proper privileged class. If you go to the polar glacier, it is even more amazing top-level people, just look at their Haiyan Fort, in charge of five large mining areas, and the strongest is not their middle-grade people. The high grade is already like this, but what about the super product above it?

If the existence of this level is not guilty of the heinous sins, it is impossible to send them to the glacier, and even if they commit the heinous sins, there are many reasons to forgive.

Any clan in the Eastern Wilderness is short of people, especially talents, and if they are willing to save face, they may not be able to keep it. That's why Ran Xu has this guess, but this Fu Heng is guilty of colluding with demons, a felony against humanity, and he was assigned, which means that he has already gone through a public trial, and I am afraid it will be difficult to exculpate. But fortunately, they are also professional, and it is not difficult for Li Daitao to get out of a fake death.

Ran Xu was thinking about relieving his master's worries, when he saw Kaohsiung shaking his head and said, "No, there are seven letterheads here, you can take them and take a look." ”

As he spoke, he handed the paper in his hand to Ran Xu, and Ran Xu was speechless after reading it, these seven letters were from the five major clans of Jinglan City, and there were even two from the two families of Fang Hua City.

The purpose of the Gao Yang clan in Jinglancheng was to want Hou Xiong to give convenience and help one or two, while the letters of the other four families were full of words such as "The crime is extremely evil, and it can be punished for hard work, heavy work, tiring work, and dangerous things", and they almost didn't understand that they were going to kill this thing.

The two families in Fang Huacheng are easy to understand, they just want to get in touch and see if the other party has any intention of taking refuge, but what is the situation in Jinglan City, why don't the five major clans solve their differences internally, and they have to embarrass themselves for those who work below.

Ran Xu also had some clumsy plans, and with Hou Xiong's consent, he passed it on again, and the people in the house looked at each other after circulating it, and they didn't know what to do. Only the other deputy castle master, Zhongshan, pondered for a long time and said, "Why don't you send it to Jinghu Island to search for star sand." ”

Hou Xiong frowned and said: "Jinglan City's Gaoyang clan is backed by Qingfu City, and it is indeed the strongest of the five major clans, but it is not appropriate to blindly cater to them and lose the trust of the other four clans." ”

Although Weihu Island is close to the sea, it is backed by the hot spring mountain, not adjacent to the treacherous coast, and the water is quite gentle, which is a rare good place for Haiyan Fort, so Hou Xiong said this, and the others also nodded, in order to cater to the Gaoyang clan and evil other clans, it may not be right.

This is the sorrow of small forces, on the one hand, they want to please the strong, and on the other hand, they are afraid of offending others.

Zhongshan said unhurriedly: "Last time, I received news that the fish heads on the other side of the Shenli Sea were migrating on a large scale, and I think something had changed. ”

Hou Xiong was stunned for a moment, and then frowned: "Have you inquired clearly, is it Poseidon Day, or the Black Tide?"

"It is said that they are even moving the statues of the gods of the ancestral land, obviously they don't plan to go back, I think eighty percent is the Black Tide", Zhongshan smacked his mouth.

Hou Xiong immediately turned his head to Ran Xu and said, "Let's be here, it's been a long time since we came to the Black Tide." ”

Ran Xu's face was not very good, but when his benefactor asked, he immediately replied: "Roughly calculated, it's almost ten years." ”

"Is there ever a record of Kuroshio that has accumulated for more than ten years?"

"Yes," one of the oldest worshippers replied: "The Kuroshio Tide is on average once every two to three years, as short as three to five days, and as long as more than a month, and the record of the city-states of all ethnic groups shows that the Kuroshio was delayed for twenty years, and all life was lost everywhere it passed, and it lasted for more than a year. ”

The people sitting in the hall were shocked, the glacier here has a bitter cold climate, although there is a sea of vitality to nourish, but there is also a bad qi invasion, plus everyone's cultivation is not high, people's life expectancy is not much better than the twelve cities, everyone is used to untimely death.

Therefore, at least a hundred years have passed since the black tide involving the city-states of all ethnic groups, and almost no one has seen it or can empathize with it, but what happened ten years ago, everyone here has experienced it.

Ten years ago, the Kuroshio lasted for a full month, and the eight fortresses of the glacier suffered heavy losses, although no one was missing in the Kuroshio because of the good preparation, but the destroyed food, especially meat, still starved many mine slaves to death in the fort, and it was not until the rescue of the Twelve Cities arrived, which was relieved.

Most of the people here did not sit in today's seats ten years ago, and they were middle-level managers, and their memories of that disaster are still fresh. Ten years ago, the black tide lasted for a month, and the Haiyan Fort was still starving, but this time the black tide lasted for at least half a year, which is not fatal.

Fu Heng's matter immediately no one cared, Hou Xiong turned to say: "If you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what happens, this kind of thing is difficult to say, since there are signs of migration of those fish heads on the seashore, it is not wrong for us to make more preparations, everyone expresses their opinions." ”

Zhongshan first said: "Learn the lesson of the last time, food and other supplies must be preserved, as well as the most important burning stones, Yuanguang crystals and other fire-causing things......

"By the way, the ore, a large amount of ore from the last inventory has also been contaminated a lot, and you need to be prepared......"

"In the last group exercise, the early warning method was good, and you can still use ......"

"The main thing is to open the joints of the Holy League and ask for the support of the Holy League......"

......

Everyone has experienced the Black Tide, and after a general discussion, they came up with a bunch of countermeasures, and an hour later, Hou Xiong said to Ran Xu: "You make a summary of what everyone said just now, give everyone a copy, and everyone will do it separately." ”

Everyone was about to leave, Hou Xiong seemed to think of something, and said to the mine guard who managed the mining area of Weihu Island: "I'll bring that surnamed Fu to you later, well, that's it." ”