84 Days of Change

  Unbeknownst to him, a shockwave of fear ran through his veins. From Judge Yu Yuan's mouth, he had obtained much intelligence about the Time-Space Turbulence Zone. Given Lin Xu's temperament, he didn't dare take others' words lightly. With an attitude of "hearing is false, seeing is true", he made a special trip to the edge of the boundary to take a look for himself.

  As expected, Lin Xu found that things were not quite the same as what Yu Yuan said, but the actual situation was even worse than what Judge Yu described. It seemed that he had not described it thoroughly enough.

  When Lin Xu moved his divine body to the edge of this piece of realm, he happened to see a scene where an island-like piece of realm was trapped in a space-time vortex not far from this piece of realm.

  The total area is roughly equivalent to about one-fifth of the land under our feet, and it was torn apart by the violent spatial "chaos" flow. For a time, only huge boulders like mountains were scattered in all directions in the endless void, and the volume of any residual fragment was enough to rival the Chicxulub asteroid impact crater that hit the Yucatan Peninsula. If it weren't for the four elemental shields on the periphery of the structurally intact land, which blocked external matter and energy invasions at all times, I'm afraid that a "wave" of meteor showers would have come crashing down, and the land that once nurtured countless lives would immediately become a barren lunar surface with ring-shaped mountains.

  At this scene, Lin Xu couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. He also noticed that in the endless void, a foreign piece of land about one-third the size of his own world was accelerating towards him under the influence of chaotic space currents.

  There is no doubt that a new round of plate collision and fusion event is about to occur, only the specific time of this impact cannot be determined due to the influence of the irregular disturbance of space. Just as Lin Xiang was calculating the relative speed and distance of the two plates, he thought that this "wave" of heaven and earth would not come immediately. However, the cruel fact once again proved how poor his imagination was. As soon as Lin Xiang turned around, preparing to return to the solid ground.

  In the space where the eyes of the gods cannot see, driven by the 'chaotic' flow, that foreign piece of land accelerated more than a hundred times and slammed into the northern edge of the piece like a heavy artillery shell.

  "Bang! Boom!"

  This sound was so loud that it was beyond human hearing, and the shock was so intense that the physical senses could not accurately determine where it came from. The horror of this scene was comparable to a nightmare that can only be seen in a dream.

  When a large and small plate boundary collided, the volume was far less than the original plate boundary, and the foreigner quickly merged into the northern part of the old plate boundary. The dramatic change, like turning over the sky and earth, directly led to the coastline near the North Sea expanding thousands of miles outward. As the only physical evidence that the North Sea once existed, a lake with a considerable water area was left at the starting point of this collision, and it is estimated that it will still be called the North Sea!

  Due to the need for a new and old film interface to be re-connected, the balance of the four elements was broken and needs to be reorganized. The temperature of the entire film industry has rapidly declined.

  Don't think that a fluctuation of a few degrees in temperature is just a minor issue, the fact is exactly the opposite, this is a big trouble that no one can escape.

  When the annual temperature changes by more than three degrees, geographical climate zones will shift. For example, in the history of the Earth, China's Shang Dynasty was in a warm period, and large animals that feared coldness such as elephants and rhinoceroses were all over Henan Province, and subtropical plants like bamboo and citrus could grow well in the Yellow River basin. After the Western Zhou Dynasty was established, the climate environment began to rapidly cool down, at which time the annual average temperature had only dropped by a few degrees, yet extreme conditions of frozen river surfaces appeared in the Yangtze River basin.

  Similar climate changes at this level mean for farming nations the alternating appearance of drought and flood, crops planted in fields may face absolute failure, while for nomadic nations it means a severe test of life and death.

  Every time it comes to this, the nomadic people living on the grasslands are on the edge of desperation. They either choose to whip their horses south to drink from the Yellow River or stay on the snow-covered grasslands and wait for death. In the long history of China, almost every high tide of foreign invasion of the Central Plains can find a corresponding relationship in the macro-climatic change curve.

  Truth is truth because it applies everywhere under all conditions; if restricted to observable circumstances, it doesn't deserve the name of truth.

  After witnessing the great collision of heaven and earth, Lin Xu returned to Huo Mountain with a complicated mood. In just a few days, the climate mutation caused by the fusion of the fragments had already shown signs of exposure.

  At the end of September in the lunar calendar, Huoshan should have been a scene of early autumn colors, but suddenly a heavy snowfall came. The snow on the ground was as deep as a foot, and many plants that could not withstand the cold were frozen to death. If it was so cold in the Huaibei region, which is known for its warm climate, then the situation north of the Huai River can be imagined.

  Gazing out at the dark and gloomy sky in the north, Lin Xu's mood was just as bleak. The only good news he could think of was that those Viking robbers wouldn't be coming by boat again. The North Sea route, which was barely navigable for half a year, had completely frozen into a massive ice block. The Vikings would have to take a much longer route from the South Sea, and it seemed unlikely that they would ever see these red-haired, green-eyed professional pirates again.

  On the vast and majestic grassland, nothing but a blanket of white snow can be seen in the howling wind and snow, covering the desolate land.

  The heavy snow that lasted for over ten days seems to be tired, and it gradually turned into scattered light snow this morning. The overcast sky still hasn't cleared up.

  On the ground, a strong northwest wind whizzed by, wrapping up grain-like snow "flowers" that hit people's faces with a painful feeling, as if using rough sand to exfoliate. This kind of bad weather, which is formed by strong winds rolling up snow on the ground and then falling down again without needing to snow, is called "white hair wind" by herdsmen. On the grassland, this is a real disaster that makes people tremble with fear at the mere mention of it. Although herdsmen can hide in their cowhide tents to avoid the cold and snowy attacks, their grazing fields have already been buried under snow as high as a person's height.

  In just a few days, the sheep and cattle that the nomadic people rely on for their livelihood will die off, and at that time, the grassland tribes will face a huge survival crisis.

  A large curtain made of three layers of high-quality sheepskin was suddenly lifted, and a sturdy figure appeared at the entrance. The visitor "thudded" to the ground on his knees and said loudly:

  "Great Khan, please make a decision quickly! This year's disaster is so severe, all the cattle and sheep have frozen to death, we can't survive like this."

  At the sound, a robust middle-aged man with golden earrings sitting upright in the big account seemed unmoved. He stroked his beard slowly and said calmly:

  "What's it like down south?"

  Before the two continents merged, this vast grassland belonged to another continent. To its south lay a boundless desert, and beyond that was an endless blue ocean.

  The herders on the steppes all knew that the villages settled in the relatively warm and humid coastal areas were mainly engaged in farming. Now, under the pressure of survival, this Khan had to consider sending troops to plunder the grain stores of his neighbors, just to fill the bellies of his own people.

  The robust man who had fallen to his knees did not get up and continued to say:

  "Great Khan, the desert is gone, and the sea can't be seen either. However, many fields of crops have appeared over there. Ah! And there's also a wall that stretches as far as the eye can see."

  Upon hearing this, the middle-aged man known as the Great Khan said with a displeased expression:

  "I didn't ask you this, do people in the south have food?"

  "There must be food there, I saw many fields."

  Days of continuous blizzards have brought the tribe to the eve of a famine outbreak. Now, as the leader of the tribe, the middle-aged man needs to decide not whether to rob or not, but whether this action can seize enough food.

  Since the scout who went ahead to reconnoiter had confirmed that there was food they urgently needed at the target location, the middle-aged man no longer hesitated. He said in a low voice:

  "Immediately inform all the leaders of the 36 tribes of Gaoche and the 59 tribes of Tiele, that Suiyedai Khan has given an order: any man who can ride a horse and draw a bow, follow me, we are going to plunder grain."

  Once encountering a difficult and troublesome problem, the thinking mode and handling means of nomadic nationalities are very simple and rough, they start fighting immediately, and only talk when they really can't beat each other.

  Violence can't solve problems, but it can destroy them. In short, the biggest fist is the greatest truth under heaven, and the strong eat everything. If you lack something, just go rob it. If others have good things, just go take them. If you really can't get anything, think of another way later.

  This time, the blizzard and severe cold triggered by the fusion of the film world formed an unprecedented white disaster on the vast grassland of thousands of miles, but this event was only a spark that triggered the entire disaster. The real root cause of the disaster is still the deeply rooted cultural tradition of the nomadic nation's strong being respected.

  The arrow is on the string and cannot be retracted. The grassland nation in the northwest is about to stir up a storm of blood, but the Great Qin Empire in the central plains is still ignorant of this. Even the earthquake that occurred not long ago did not alert the court of the Great Qin.

  In this piece of land, the Great Qin Empire also built a magnificent long wall from the east of Duck Green Water to the west of Yangguan Pass, originally used to defend against the southern invasion of the northern Rongdi tribe cavalry.

  Those Xiongnu tribes were far from the powerful Qin army, and the two armies had no chance of winning in a head-on confrontation. Their method was to disperse into small groups of cavalrymen, infiltrating the agricultural areas in the south to plunder wealth. Compared to the mobility of the nomadic people's all-cavalry forces, it was impossible for the Qin army to train all its soldiers as uniform cavalry, no matter how luxurious they were. The cost of raising a single warhorse was enough to recruit, train and equip four elite infantrymen. This enormous military expenditure would be enough to bankrupt any agricultural country, making it not only difficult but almost impossible to stop the Xiongnu cavalry's raids from outside the borders.

  The Great Qin Empire spent a lot of manpower and resources to build this large-scale defensive project. Excluding the external factor that the First Emperor Zhao Zheng believed in the prophecies of the alchemists, the main reason was to solve this problem once and for all.

  Needless to say, this Great Wall also fulfilled the expectations of its designers, effectively preventing small groups of nomadic cavalry from infiltrating into the area south of the wall.

  For thousands of years, the nomadic tribes north of the Great Wall could only gaze at it in admiration, while the Qin army stationed along the wall gradually became accustomed to the small-scale disturbances that often occurred during the winter and spring seasons.

  Within this land of China, no one had ever imagined that one day tens of thousands of iron cavalry would come to the foot of the Great Wall and knock on its gates, what a magnificent scene it would be.

  When Tie Le Khan Si Jiedu was entangled in the southward raid of Tie Le and Gao Che, he hoped to solve the survival problem of the tribe. However, these Tie Le people were not the fastest-handed grassland nation. The larger the organization made judgments, the slower it took action. Si Jiedu still had to send out scouts to confirm the accuracy of the news before taking action, while the small tribes that could make decisions with a single leader's brainwave had already set off early in the morning. As can be expected, the medium and small tribes fought separately, unable to break through the Great Wall defense line that had been built for thousands of years, and all the vanguard troops were defeated under the Qin Great Wall, bleeding and broken-headed.