It's already early winter, but at noon, the temperature is still above 30 degrees. The temperature difference between day and night is extremely large, which is a climate characteristic of the new era. Don't look at the 30 degrees now, but at night, the temperature will drop to about minus 5 degrees. Over time, when winter really comes, the temperature difference will shrink a bit, but the temperature will be much colder than it is now.

The average temperature during the day is very close to freezing, and in the middle of the night, the temperature can drop to minus twenty or thirty degrees. Without adequate heating and food, life is hard to survive a cold winter.

Like the Middle-earth continent, most cities appear in the form of underground bases, which is conducive to insulating from the cold. And in the Western Continent, there are obviously not so many underground bases. But every big city must have a perfect heating system, which can ensure that people can stay safely in their homes in winter and not be staggered. Naturally, this kind of benefit is not available in all cities, except for New Rome, and only a few other important cities are equipped with such a system.

Elsewhere, only the most primitive heating methods can be used without a heating system. Wood and fuel are essential for winter, and many families start stockpiling fuel, food and water in the fall. Then when winter comes, they hide in their homes. Like animals living a hibernating life, what people do every day is to eat and sleep.

Of course, there are also many people who are unable to stock up on enough supplies. For example, the outer islands, which are in harsh conditions, have always been the place with the highest number of casualties each winter.

Humans must prepare early for winter, and the same is true for animals.

Right now, a red wolf was chasing the spotted sheep, and the two animals were moving quickly through the bushes and onto the road. In the end, it was the red wolf who was superior and bit the striped sheep to death.

Both of these animals are new species on the Western Continent, and in the Great Purge of Alien Beasts in the Dark Ages, many of the powerful Mutant Beasts on the continent have died. However, some weak beasts have gradually evolved into a mode of adapting to the continental environment after being tempered by time. However, perhaps the purge of the Papal Hall left a deep impression on the animals, so the evolution of these later species seems to be very slow, and the direction of evolution is mainly to adapt to the environment, and reduce the evolution of aggression.

This may also be a kind of self-protection from being too aggressive in its evolution, which would lead to a second cleaning of the Papal Chamber.

New species such as the red wolf and the spotted wolf are new species after the Great Purge, the red wolf is a close relative of the jungle wolf, but they are more robust. An adult red wolf is the size of a lion, and they are agile and ruthless. Red wolves have a more or less fire elemental affinity, which makes their fur always red and can spew three hundred degrees of flames.

It's just that the ability of the Flame Breath is also a very huge burden on them, and each breath consumes a huge amount of their energy. In general, red wolves are better at using their agility and sharp teeth and claws to inflict damage on their prey.

They are the more powerful beasts on the Western Continent and have few natural predators. It's just that the reproduction ability of the red wolf is seriously degraded, and the entire continent combined has not reached three thousand. This species can only maintain its own existence.

The spotted sheep is a favorite animal of red wolves and even humans. They are a natural food, the coat of the brindled sheep keeps them warm, and their muscles are rich in protein and are quite high in calories and nutrients. What's more, these grazing animals have a high reproductive capacity, which is the opposite extreme of the red wolf.

Bite the prey to death, and the red wolf is about to drag it back to its lair. Together with this brindled sheep, he can store enough food for his family to survive the winter. A gust of wind blew from the north side of the road, and the wind carried some complicated smells. The red wolf is so intelligent that it can easily distinguish the smell of gasoline and gunpowder in the wind.

There was also a vibration sensation from the thick pads of flesh under the limbs, indicating that something was approaching in front of the road. The red wolf stood up very alertly, and when he looked at the carcass of his prey, Zuihou could only reluctantly leave it alone. The red wolf sped off the road like a stream of fire, and it plunged into the bushes. Using the bushes as a cover, it calmly hid its body, and then looked out with a pair of wolf eyes.

On the horizon at the northern end of the highway, a large truck jumped off the horizon. Its engine roared loudly, and the wheels of the truck rolled across the road, soon passing near the bushes where the red wolf was hiding. In the red wolf's pupils, the compartment of the truck was full of two rows of soldiers. Following truck after truck as it drove down the highway at the northern end, they formed a torrent of steel rolling by.

The red wolf, who had also roamed the outskirts of human cities, knew that large pieces of iron could carry humans around the land quickly. But the red wolf had never seen so many cars, and the number was so large that it was almost impossible to see the edges. The red wolf crouched there and did not dare to move, and the traffic passing in front of it had been going on for half an hour, and it had not stopped.

If the intelligence of the red wolf is higher, then it can be estimated much more, and this car dragon stretches for several kilometers. The soldiers on this cart add up to tens of thousands!

The truck finally passed, but another monster appeared in the eyes of the red wolf.

Red wolves had never seen such pieces of iron, they were shorter than the trucks in front of them, and they didn't walk on wheels. There was an encircling iron pipe tied above those iron blocks, and looking at the iron pipe, the red wolf felt extremely uneasy. With the wisdom of the red wolf, he could not understand what an artillery tank was, but instinctively sensed the danger in this human weapon of war.

After the trucks, there was a phalanx of tanks. Behind the artillery tanks, there are missile armored vehicles, and then three heavy tractors. Every car that passed by, it shook the ground and groaned. On these three tractors, the red wolf saw one giant after another!

The giant lay quietly on the trailer at the back of the tractor, its metallic body, shimmering in the midday light with a luster that frightened the red wolf. The red wolf lay on the ground so that it could alleviate its fears a little.

What it saw was the Knights of the Round Table in the Pope's Hall, which represented the top technological crystallization of the Western Continent, which made the primitive animal like the Red Wolf instinctively fear.

Finally waiting for the convoy to leave, the red wolf found that he did not have the strength to stand up. It crouched there for a few more moments before gasping out of the bushes. It returned to the place where it had bitten its prey, and the body of the brindled sheep had turned into a puddle of mud under the tires of the car dragon that had just passed. The red wolf whimpered sadly, then took a few bites of the blood that could still be eaten before leaving the road.

It came to a hillside not far from the road, and in the distance, the convoy was like a black dragon, winding across the land towards the south.

It was only in the evening that the black dragon stopped his steps.

The convoy stopped in a plain area and set up a makeshift camp on a vast plateau. The soldiers in the car quickly got out of the car and carried out their tasks, and soon, one sentry post after another appeared around the camp, and a team of five soldiers began to patrol the area in case of accidents.

Vehicles are neatly parked together and zones are divided by vehicle type. Just near the three heavy tractors, three marching tents were erected. Each of the three tents is decorated with different motifs, representing the commanders of the 2nd, 9th, and 11th legions of the Knights of the Holy Seal.

Jafidi stepped out of his tent, glanced at the nearby barracks, and headed for the tent of the 2nd Legion, Leo. He was stationed in the port of Fasero, when he received an order from the Papal Chamber to return to Rome. He and the 2nd and 9th Knights formed an army group and set out for the Canon Fortress to suppress the pirate rebels who had seized the fortress.

Oh, by the way, those guys now call themselves "Poseidon". Jafidi really didn't know where they got the courage to openly confront the Papal Chamber.

It is true that the Qanon Fortress is of high strategic value, and the three oil well platforms under its control, as well as the mines and factories in the surrounding three towns of Tucson, with a total area of 5 to 600 square kilometers, also make Qanon economically valuable.

But all of this adds up to no basis for confronting the Papal Chamber. Even if there were a few high-ranking pirates among them, Yafidi didn't think they would be able to survive the counterattack of the Knights' army.

The reason why they were able to succeed in the previous two battles of Roaring Bay and Canon Fortress was that Jafidi thought it was a careless mistake by the Papal Palace. Like now, they gathered three legion commanders, 25,000 soldiers, hundreds of chariots, mechas. Under such a terrifying combat force, even if the enemy army retreated in the Canon Fortress, Yafidi believed that even if it was leveled, it would be enough to raze the entire fortress.

It was the result of countless deductions, and Jafidi was convinced of it.

As for the high-level combat power, now the group army also has the strength not to lose to the opponent. It was Leo and Frank, the two legion leaders, and when Jafidi returned to the Pope's Chamber, he found that these two colleagues had both been promoted, and now they were both ninth-order powerhouses!

It's just that......

Jafidi looked at Leo's tent, a complicated look flashing in his eyes.

Leo and Frank's advancement seems unusual, and the energy level they are now exhibiting is already above that of Yafidi. But the breath is very rough, and the two of them have a hard time mastering Liliang. If you want to describe it, it's like a child carrying a cannon and looking a little powerless.

What worries Jafidi even more is the mental condition of the two Legion Captains, who have been in a bad state since the meeting of the Pope's Hall.

Pretty bad!