Little Lord's Dark Castle

The weather turned cold quickly, as if overnight, the autumn wind withered, and hoarfrost appeared on the ground.

The cold wind howled and the temperature plummeted. Although Chu Xin's talent for gentle wind and light rain could keep the wind and rain out of the territory, the damp and cold air that came with the cold wind was hard to stop.

After the cold wave hit, the temperature fell like a cliff, and the biting coolness in the air seemed to penetrate into the body, making people shiver involuntarily.

Even Chu Xin had to wrap herself in a fleece.

His spiritual strength can indeed isolate the cold air from the outside world, but doing so is too tiring, and at the same time, he will gradually lose his awareness of the surrounding crises.

It has been more than half a month since Chu Xin came back from exploring the Crazy Lich's laboratory. These days, the temperature keeps dropping.

The entire Dark Land seems to be gradually entering a severe winter, which will be a disaster for many races with insufficient food reserves.

"Report to the owner, the outdoor temperature has reached minus eight degrees today, which is three degrees lower than yesterday."

Listening to Yinhe's report, Chu Xin couldn't help showing a little worry on his face. The current temperature poses little threat to the territory, but he is worried that the temperature will continue to drop.

"How many houses have been built, and the residents have been settled properly?"

"A total of 370 houses have been built, 630 high-end houses have been built, and a total of [-] people have been settled in the territory." Yinhehui reported that it has the ability to mobilize resources, and Chu Xin opened up some ordinary houses. The permission to build the building was given to it.

With the supply of lumbermills, green goblin forests, and multiple forest farm resource points, a large number of ordinary houses have been built in the territory these days. One of the most basic functions of these houses attached to the black castle is temperature control.

Therefore, as long as the citizens stay in the house, they will not feel too much cold.

"Will the growth of fish and livestock be greatly affected?" Chu Xin continued to ask. After entering the cold winter, this is the main source of food for the territory other than grain reserves. He is still very worried.

"Master, please rest assured that the impact is not great."

"Yeah." Chu Xin nodded, signaling Yinhe to go get busy, then she stood by the window and looked out of the window, startled slightly.

The small garden below the castle is also withered, leaving only bare branches, so lonely.

Not only in this garden, but in the entire territory, the fields in the agricultural area are also bare.

All the crops in the field were harvested just before the cold wave, and various grains such as wheat, corn, and potatoes were piled up in several warehouses and cellars.

However, it is more difficult to continue planting. The land in the field is very hard, and it is extremely difficult to cultivate. More importantly, there are no crops with strong cold resistance in the territory.

Whether it is wheat or cabbage, these crops have not been selected for varieties, and their resistance to this severe winter is very weak.

After planting a crop and finding that it was frozen to death, Chu Xin completely gave up her plan to sow in winter.

During this period of time, it is difficult for farmers to withstand the severe cold outside, and there is not enough cotton and fur in the territory to equip them with corresponding clothes.

...

At this temperature, it is difficult for them to work outside for a long time wearing single clothes.

For the current limited population of the territory, Chu Xin still valued it very much. He didn't want the population to drop by half in one winter.

But Habi couldn't be idle, he was also responsible for the selection and breeding of various plant seeds, and the cultivation of black soil grass could not be stopped.

For this reason, Chu Xin specially built a greenhouse for Habi, and Ferren inscribed a set of large-scale constant-temperature magic patterns, and provided Habi with an experimental site.

All the furs accumulated from hunting in the territory were made into clothes for Uli and his staff.

This winter, the tasks they undertake have not diminished at all. The ten piglets that have gradually grown up in the pasture, the black-haired pigs that have produced a litter of piglets, and the herds of cattle and sheep all need their careful care.

Although the pastures and animal pens can provide enough food for them to attack, but when it comes to breeding and caring for the cubs, they still need Uli and the others to guide and take care of them.

After the explosive growth of fire feather chickens some time ago, the speed has gradually slowed down now. Although the temperature has not affected their growth, it still has a potential impact on their egg laying and hatching.

With the arrival of the cold winter, the number of eggs they lay has been greatly reduced. Originally, a chicken averaged one or two eggs a day, but now it takes several days to lay one egg. As for the hatching, it has stopped directly.

Chu Xin asked Wuli to study the artificial hatching of fire feather chickens. The production of territorial gunpowder requires a large number of fire magic cores. These one-star fire feather chickens are the best targets, and their breeding is very important.

The number of fire feather chickens is currently maintained at about [-], occupying a total of ten animal pens, and each animal pen is filled with a large number of hens and a small number of roosters.

Although eggs can be laid without a rooster, they are unfertilized eggs that cannot hatch into chicks.But again, if the number of roosters is large, it is easy to fight.

As for the water blue rabbits, the size is about [-], and they are still being slaughtered non-stop, otherwise their number will be even more exaggerated.

Rabbits in pastures have no natural enemies at all, and their reproductive speed has been maintained at a rather exaggerated speed for a long time.

This also resulted in the largest amount of rabbit meat being stored in the territorial warehouse. Fortunately, the warehouse itself has the function of storing and keeping fresh. Otherwise, Chu Xin would have to put them all in his personal warehouse, which would take up a lot of space.

As for salting, the territory does not have this condition now. Although kitchens and grocery stores have these things, the quantity is limited, and it is impossible to supply such a large-scale salting of rabbit meat.

When the work in the field was put down, there were very few opportunities for the leaders to go out, and they spent most of their time in the assigned dwellings.

Occasionally, Ron would light a fire and organize several bonfire parties. While organizing people to learn the culture of the territory, he also built a matchmaking platform.

At the party, those who see each other can directly register with the population management office under Ron, and then they will be legal couples.

In fact, most of these people had their own families, but most of them were destroyed in the war, and their families were destroyed. Those memories have gradually become blurred in the struggling survival line. Now they have no resistance in their hearts to forming a new family.

...

Moreover, the territory has also introduced corresponding supporting policies. If a certain resident has a newborn in his home, he can receive a certain amount of points every month, and the territory will also bear all the consumption and expenses of the newborn's education and growth.

At the same time, pregnant women will have a leave of about one month and do not have to work.

This is actually somewhat similar to the current population policy. Chu Xin wants to use this method to promote the increase in the population of the territory and at the same time cultivate a group of loyalists.

Compared with these adults who have experienced too much, children who grew up in the territory will have the highest recognition of the territory in the future, and this is his hometown.

Attracted by Ron's agitation and policies, there are currently 150 couples registered together in the territory, and this number is still growing.

Usually busy with work, they may not have the mind and time to think about these issues. Now that they are free this winter, I believe many people will have thoughts in their hearts.

After all, they don't have any entertainment activities, they stay in the nest all day long, if they don't have a companion, they talk and do exercise for two, it's not a panic.

Chu Xin guessed that after the end of this winter, the population of the territory would usher in a small increase.

The Black Rock dwarves couldn't stand the severe cold. Except for a small number of women and children who stayed in the territory, most of them crowded into the abandoned mines, preferring to mine rather than sleep in at home.

The moat outside the city has been basically completed, but the cold winter has ushered in before the water source can be brought in.

On the west side of the Winter Territory, the water flow of the original Huifang tribe's creek was much smaller. Even if the ditches were opened, it was difficult to draw water in, so the project was put on hold for the time being.

Also affected by the cold wave are those mutated plants, but their vitality is very tenacious, and they will not be frozen to death.

Galaxy is pouring elemental spring water into several key mutant plants every day, and sprinkles a large amount of water-based magic core powder in the soil from time to time, which has enough energy to nourish the growth speed of the mutant plants. big impact.

However, those low-star mutant plants such as armored walnut trees and exploding pomegranate trees do not enjoy such treatment. Under the attack of the cold wave, they only have bare branches.

Terrain environments such as clay swamps and green goblin forests are less affected because they have their own specific environmental rules.

The second Green Goblin Forest in the current territory was also successfully synthesized after Chu Xin used more than 20 dungeons to sweep the scrolls. The resources of the two forests can deliver a large number of strange beasts and fresh wild animals to the territory every day. Wild vegetables.

Generally speaking, Chuxin's territory was not particularly affected by the cold wave. Production and life may be affected to a certain extent, but it will not cause serious losses.

For more than half a month, the territory was very busy, preparing for the cold wave, but as the lord, Chu Xin was not busy.

His daily schedule is very regular, he wakes up early to exercise his abilities, and then he has a two-hour

Then, catch fish before lunch, explore on the map in the afternoon, and finally, in the evening, either live a copy or gather to play cards.

...

After this period of training, Chu Xin's spellcasting ability has made a complete breakthrough. He has mastered the ability to move spellcasting proficiently. Even in the process of moving at high speed, he can still ensure the complete release of the Thunder Light Jiao Prison at the designated position.

In terms of mental ability, he has developed a new application called breath simulation, which can gradually achieve the degree of integration with the environment by changing the breath of mental fluctuations.

This is not just an ordinary environment. Even in the world of undead, Chu Xin can simulate the breath of death on his body surface in this way.

If he set foot in the world of the undead now, ordinary skeletons would not be able to distinguish Chu Xin's breath of life, and would think it was their kind.

With this ability, Chu Xin can swagger to inspect Friday's territory in the Wind Continent.

In terms of exploration, after a period of hard work, Chu Xin completed almost the entire exploration of the Dark Land.

In the dark land, there are all over the watchtowers he left behind. As long as the golden villain can set foot, basically all the key forces and special regions have put down the watchtowers.

Although it is far from reaching the level where the full field of view of the map is open, at least the little golden man can find a relatively close point when he goes to any place to investigate.

After this period of investigation, Chu Xin finally had a certain grasp of the overall situation of the Dark Land.

The entire land of darkness is roughly similar to the country he grew up in in his previous life, with an area of ​​more than 1000 million square kilometers.

To be honest, this area is not that big, much smaller than Chu Xin expected.

The place where his current territory is located is a corner in the northeast corner of the entire continent. A huge mountain range separates this corner from the outside world.

This mountain range is very dangerous. The little golden man has entered and explored it more than ten times, but he has never been able to cross the entire mountain range safely, and all of them died on the way.

Because of this, the tentacles of the great powers in the outside world did not extend to the small corners of the mountains.

This also caused a phenomenon. Outside the mountains, there were disputes among the heroes, and a large number of forces were mixed together, and the flames were raging. However, inside the mountains, there were very few forces, and the resources were relatively poor.

At present, there are five largest forces in the Dark Land Continent. They are the Dulong Empire ruled by the pig-headed orcs, the Holy See and the Jagged Empire of the humans, the Machine Empire of the Dwarves, and the Golden Tribe of the Goblins.

Every faction occupies a fairly wide area, and there are large and small lords scattered like a dots under it, relying on them to survive.

According to the investigation of the golden villain, these lords are a mixed bag, from all races, and they are protected by dependent forces by paying protection fees.

In fact, the forces behind some territories are not necessarily weaker than these five major forces, but they have not invested too much strength here.

If he plans to explore the world beyond the mountains in the future, he will encounter great resistance, and none of those forces are easy to deal with.

What is strange about Chu Xin is that the powerful races such as the abyss, zerg, and undead that he has grudges against him deliberately did not see any territory on this continent.

...

Perhaps it has something to do with the extreme aggressiveness of these races, which caused them to be excluded from this circle and not allowed to participate in the exploration, trade and war in the dark land.

The outer areas have little to do with Chu Xin for the time being, and he is far from exploring the strength of those areas.

Therefore, he focused more on this small corner inside the mountain range. It seemed like a good choice to be able to settle down in a corner and build his own kingdom.

Although this corner is called a corner, it is actually not too small. It is about the size of four or five city-level administrative districts. Chu Xin's current territory probably occupies less than one percent of the area.

After exploring the forces in this area, Chu Xin has basically ascertained.

Except for the goblin tribe that has grown to four stars near the edge of the dark land, to the north, there is a large feathered kingdom that has grown to a six-star territory.

Yuren is a humanoid creature with wings on its back. From the appearance alone, it looks like an angel, but it is not an angel.

Their kingdom occupies nearly [-]% of the area in this corner, and the forces in the north have basically been wiped out by them.

To the west, the main force is the former orc tribe, which has been occupied by the undead, and has even become a channel for their invasion.

Except for the orc tribe, the rest of the forces were ordinary small tribes, and Chu Xin didn't pay much attention to them.

The south side is more complicated, where there are three five-star territories, occupying about 30% of the area, and the relationship seems to be quite tense.

In this area, it is these forces that are more difficult to deal with. Besides, there are many strange beasts, large and small, and alien tribes with a low level of civilization.

Little Lord's Dark Castle