Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 855

While the floating city was being renovated, the energy tower in the city of Marcel was finally completed.

The energy field and constant temperature barrier deployed by the huge energy tower covered the slums in the city, providing them with a relatively warm environment.

Although it did not melt the snow, it did lower the ambient temperature of the slums from dozens of degrees below zero to a few degrees below zero. Although it was still cold, it was at least to a level that people could bear and survive without paying too much of a price.

The heating field was the first to take effect. The slum residents who had been shivering in the cold wind were surprised to find that the biting cold was quickly subsiding.

The heat energy released by the energy tower was transported to every corner of the city through underground pipelines, and those dilapidated shacks became warm for the first time.

These changes have undoubtedly greatly improved the living conditions of the locals in the extreme cold doomsday. The French, who were once hostile to Perfect, now look at the energy tower with a little more awe and gratitude.

However, Perfecto was in no mood to stay and continue serving these French people as a soup master.

After confirming that the energy tower was operating stably, she quickly appointed a new governor and garrison commander.

The new governor was a civil servant transferred from the empire, and the commander of the garrison was a veteran from the North selected by her personally.

The handover ceremony was so simple that it was almost perfunctory. Perfect did not even attend. She only sent an adjutant to deliver the commission with her coat of arms.

The floating city's engines roared again, and a huge shadow once again covered the city of Marcel.

This time, the residents in the city no longer hid in fear, but walked out of their homes and looked up at the steel city that gave them hope of survival slowly rising into the sky.

Some even took off their hats and waved, even though they knew the people in the floating city couldn't see them at all.

Perfecto's next journey did not take him through the Old World.

Standing on the observation platform of the floating city, she gazed at the fog-shrouded continent in the distance.

It was the place where the power of the Old Gods was most deeply rooted, and it was also the core area ruled by the Old Gods in the mythological era. It is said that countless mysterious relics are still preserved there.

Now that the gods have returned, this land has become the most dangerous frontier.

With the war of gods already triggered, it would be somewhat unwise to rush to the old world, even with the support of the floating city.

Her plan was to sail west first, reach the westernmost coastline of France, then turn south and cross the wide Sea of ​​Romulus.

The calm waters known as the "Imperial Bath" are an excellent sailing route, and then you can directly enter the territory of the Desert Kingdom.
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When the Old World was still in the era of cold weapons, or in other words, during the long period from the end of the mythological era to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the Inland Sea of ​​Romulus was always the lifeline of transportation for many surrounding Old World countries.

This vast, mirror-like body of water is like a sapphire inlaid between continents. It is connected to the turbulent outer ocean through a narrow strait, but miraculously maintains the tranquility of a lake.

Merchant ships can sail safely here without worrying about the raging waves on the real ocean that can tear ships into pieces, making it a natural golden waterway connecting the East and the West.

However, precisely because of its inestimable value, countries have fought bloody battles over this area of ​​water for thousands of years. In the era of the rise of the Romulus Empire, the war to unify the old world started here. Huge fleets clashed on the calm sea, the rams of warships tore the sides of enemy ships, and burning arrows fell like rain, reflecting the entire sea like purgatory.

Later, the empire collapsed, and many countries emerged. The flames of war for maritime supremacy still burned in these waters. Countless shipwrecks, carrying their treasures and souls, slept forever on the seabed.

It was precisely because of the absolute control over this golden water that the Romulus Empire was able to incorporate the vast territory of the Old World into its territory, and even arrogantly named this water that originally belonged to the entire continent the "inland sea."

Merchant ships, warships, and envoy fleets came and went in a constant stream. The empire's wealth and power flowed here, and prosperity lasted for centuries.

But now, all this has become a thing of the past.

The arrival of the extreme cold doomsday has completely frozen this warm water that once never froze.

Looking down from the sky above the floating city, the once sparkling sea surface is now only an endless expanse of paleness, so flat that it is almost eerie, like a mirror forgotten by the gods.

Occasionally, you can see a few ship wreckages frozen in the ice, their masts slanting towards the sky, like some kind of silent tombstones, telling the story of the former prosperity and current silence of this place.

The cold wind whistled past, rolling up tiny ice crystals that sparkled with a cold light in the sunlight.

This once golden waterway is now filled with eternal silence and coldness.

"Only by looking at this frozen ocean can we more intuitively feel the destruction and influence that the gods have brought to this world." Perfect couldn't help but sigh, but there was no one else around her at the moment, so no one except the cold wind could hear what she was saying.

But even if it was Perfect, she was still powerless in the face of this natural disaster that affected the entire world.

Because the Romulus Inland Sea in front of them was nothing. Under the influence of the doomsday winter, even the ocean between the New World and the Old World had been completely frozen, and the ice was so thick that some people were discussing whether to try to cross the frozen ocean to open a transportation line from the northern border to the empire's homeland.

It sounds exaggerated, but in today's world, this kind of thing is already feasible.

After all, even the oceans near the equator have been completely frozen, and the thickness of the ice layer is beyond imagination, so there is no problem in carrying large transport vehicles.

In fact, the last time Perfect and Sandrion tested the underwater mining unit near the coast of the empire, the ice layer they broke through was more than ten meters thick. Not to mention moving vehicles, even if Perfect smashed the floating city down, it might not be able to break through the ice layer.

However, these are still unrealistic in a sense. After all, if the problem of cold cannot be solved, all human beings will freeze to death in just fifty years, without having to wait until the earth's core cools down in three hundred years.

Even with the energy towers and underground shelters developed by Perfect, they cannot withstand a cooling method that reduces the temperature by one degree a year.

"Oh, I hope I can find the information I need in the ruins of the Desert Kingdom." Perfect sighed, recalling that before the end of the winter, she had sent people to the ancient desert to look for the ancient prophecy, but in the end she did not get the information she wanted, which made her feel regretful.

Now that he had the opportunity to investigate the matter personally, Perfecto naturally wanted to know the things that he had not been able to find out back then.

(End of this chapter)