"According to the last information we received, the ocean there was frozen and they were trapped on the ice."

Chekov lamented, "They can't even continue on foot to Antarctica." It is said that the last people to flee had seen the ice sculptures. ”

Li Jianghao nodded, wrote down a line on the paper, and then asked:

"You're returning from the equator, and probably the last people from the southern land to come here, and can tell me if anyone in the south survives, or if something horrific has happened. You know, I have to sift through that information and not let my citizens know the news that will shake their will to live. ”

Chekov laughed, not so much as to mock Li Jianghao's pretentious posture as an archon, but to appreciate such considerations. Said:

"If only most people's superiors could be as responsible as you. I've seen so much chaos that even the southern part of the empire mainland kept a dreadnought fleet and a force of nearly a thousand men before we passed through. But the Governor leaked alarming news, that they had stalled in civil strife, and that while we continued our difficult journey north, they were still fighting for a useless steam core without coal resources. Yes, at least all the people I saw on the road died. ”

Speaking of this, Chekov's face finally became more sad: "I don't even know where my family is, whether they have died in this apocalypse. All I know is that the survivors of their city ended up moving to as far away as East Siberia, and when the blizzard stops, I'm going to hit the road to find them. ”

Li Jianghao wrote down the full name of the brother country on the paper, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and then drew a parenthetical note: destruction.

"Didn't you see the French along the way?"

"No, their train plans were already in place long before your Portal was built. Laying railroad tracks and digging roads is much faster than squeezing the value of your colonies out of your nation's resources and building many power tower camps. I think they've been running underground for a long time, never stopping. If their train stops, either spring has returned, or the real end has arrived. ”

The French Third Republic, destroyed.

Li Jianghao made a mark and continued to ask:

"You know what happened in South America, but what about North America?"

Chekov was stunned for a moment, a little embarrassed, and said: "This is not clear, your cooperation with the United States of America should be the closest." They have been of great help to all countries capable of conducting polar expeditions, and even Tesla City was built by you. ”

Li Jianghao rubbed his temples and said helplessly: "Tesla City was destroyed due to tyranny, except for a lifeless American camp, I haven't seen any Americans, as if they haven't seen a trace since the French train went underground and the first energy tower emitted steam." ”

"Don't you see a single Slav besides me?" Chekov laughed, pointed to Allen beside him and said:

"He's American, Alan Doyle. I used to study at your Imperial Academy, and when I formed the team, I joined as a student at the Royal Naval Academy, but now it's been several years, and I don't know if what he remembers will be useful to you. ”

"Please." Li Jianghao began to observe the young man who had come in with Chekov, smiling kindly.

Alan was a little nervous, and subconsciously got up and saluted and shouted: "Alan Doyle, an 85-year graduate of the Royal Naval Academy, report for duty!" ”

Li Jianghao had the position of consul and ribbon granted by the queen herself, and he also nodded slightly to accept this courtesy.

"I'm a native of Detroit, and at the age of seventeen I moved to the Empire with my father to study at the Royal Naval College. When I left the United States in '81, the prices of goods were rising everywhere. My father said that this was a depreciation of the funds, and he had to get out of it quickly. When I was in school, a friend from my hometown wrote to me that he was vigorously recruiting workers to complete the construction work in various places, and that most of the farms on the outskirts of the city had been stopped and that he needed to find enough manpower, but I didn't know exactly what he was doing. ”

Li Jianghao silently wrote down the name of the United States of America and said: "I understand, they must also be exploring other ways to survive." ”

However, there is still a conjecture in his heart, Li Jianghao did not say it.

That is, the United States is probably using this kind of construction mobilization to drag a large part of the population to build at home, and by the way, to tighten the control of capital prices to avoid chaos. In this way, professional people can be singled out to find real ways to survive. These populations were left as victims in the countryside to meet the cold plague.

Maybe on the vast side of this permafrost they haven't explored, there is an American energy tower.

Looking at Chekov's description, the catastrophe was global and inevitable for the entire northern hemisphere.

With the world's most powerful countries in the face of this catastrophe all in disarray, what kind of terrible scene should those colonies and those indigenous countries with backward scientific and technological levels be?

In this era of collapse, no individual is powerless to resist.

"You didn't have enough food to carry, how did you survive the long journey?"

Li Jianghao closed the pen and paper and finally asked.

Chekov's eyes lit up, and Alan was about to say something on the side, but Chekov stopped him.

The slightly older man straightened his body and said, "Before setting out from the equator, I ordered a team of other equatorial observatories to be plundered, and anyway, those scientists are crazy and will not leave. If this is a sin now, it is enough to punish me alone, and the others are just carrying out my commands, and they are not guilty. ”

Li Jianghao didn't expect to get this answer, which was different from the worst prediction in his heart.

Then he smiled lightly and said, "As long as you don't forcibly plunder the supplies of the survivors, you don't use the backup food source method, and you must always be humane, the city will welcome you." ”

Chekov was stunned and asked, "What is the backup food source method?" Is there any food source I don't know, my soldiers have even gnawed on frozen tree bark. ”

Li Jianghao smiled awkwardly, waved his hand and said, "It's okay, it's okay." You can go and rest, there's no backup food source method, none at all. ”

I have my head pumped, I ask questions, ask questions, and tell this thing for what.

As if he had really triggered this evil code, the food in his stomach that was being digested felt uncomfortable, and he would not be able to eat tomorrow morning.