Chapter 1192: Whale Fall

When a giant thing dies.

Its flesh and blood will nourish the worms of the earth.

The bones will become silent fossils and become part of the earth.

A new micro-ecosystem may even be born from this.

The nutrients of giant organisms can be circulated and circulated to meet the needs of many microorganisms.

Before the arrival of the earth, there was a saying of whale falling.

The so-called "when a whale falls, everything comes to life" is the same principle.

Whale fall refers to the phenomenon of whales sinking to the bottom of the sea after dying.

When a whale dies in the ocean, its body eventually sinks to the bottom of the ocean.

Biologists call this process whale fall.

A single whale carcass can support a decomposer-based circulatory system for hundreds of years.

Whale fall is a long process.

Feeding on the whale's body is just the beginning of this gluttonous feast.

When large pieces of whale meat are devoured, deep-sea sharks, rat fish and other scavengers will disperse with satisfaction.

Subsequently, polychaetes and crustaceans will quietly gather over. They directly use whale bones and nearby nutrient-rich sediments to live, multiply and expand rapidly.

Slowly, the whale's body quietly releases sulfide during anaerobic decomposition in the deep sea. Bacteria that rely on sulfide convert it into organic matter, creating a biological community that relies on these chemoautotrophic microorganisms.

Eventually, the remains of the whale bones served as reefs and became a paradise for creatures to thrive. The entire process is tightly integrated and interlocking, lasting for decades or even hundreds of years.

Of course, it often takes a long time for a whale to grow.

During this period, the power it takes will eventually be returned to all living beings.

Today, the giant city of Lentax is performing a scene like a whale falling.

The giant city itself is the dying giant.

The countless surrounding lords are like microorganisms waiting for the arrival of carrion.

The Calamity Raven Church acted as a whale hunter, promoting the fall of the giant city.

At this time, fires were burning everywhere in the third circle.

Civilians tried to leave the city but had no way out.

They were carried in small groups to the bottom of the transmission channel, waiting to be taken to Jackdaw Valley in batches.

The streets were filled with people running away, crying and shouting.

A large number of ownerless horses, healthy mules and pack oxen neighed helplessly in the burning sheds.

But don't worry, because these livestock will soon be secretly taken away by the lord of the chicken thieves.

No matter how bad it is, it can be slaughtered on the spot and stored in the storage compartment, which is still a good meal.

When all the natives were trying to escape from the giant city, the only ones going upstream were the lords.

As the situation in the giant city worsened, more and more lords got the news.

They passed messages to each other in the [Legion] channel, and even the [Channels] in several nearby areas exploded.

So in the past few hours, the surrounding lords were like the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, showing off their magical powers, rushing to the giant city of Lentax. In addition, more than a thousand lords who were originally living in the city were carrying out activities in the [Channel] in their respective areas. The real-time "live broadcast" only intensified everyone's madness.

No matter how many experiences and challenges he experienced, the lord could never change his greedy nature.

This is also the essence of the fourth natural disaster.

The only difference is that most lords only have one life.

Of course, this is not absolute. After all, there is resurrection authority, just like Zong Shen resurrecting Jiang Yi.

There is no guarantee that other lords will have similar opportunities.

But all in all, the actions of the lords are risky.

But under the herd effect, most people will forget about the risks.

In fact, this also involves the issue of survivor bias.

Those lords who were killed were unable to speak.

Those who can speak in the [channel] are basically those with vested interests.

The third circle of Lentax is the largest urban area.

Even if the church mobilizes millions of people, it cannot quickly conquer every corner.

There are always a few neighborhoods that slip through the cracks.

As for the lord, resources are everywhere here, and scattered materials and dinars can be seen everywhere.

Even if you just rob a store, you can make a lot of money.

Because this kind of harvest happens to match the progress of most lords.

They don't have much ambition, they just want to pick up the slack. It would be better if they could bring back a population of 1,800 people.

Looting stores, people, livestock, and even clothing and equipment from corpses.

The lords are like locusts that have entered the country, capable of eating everything.

Of course, it would be difficult for them to shake the giant city's structure.

No lord would be ignorant and set his sights on the entire giant city.

Such an idea is as unrealistic as trying to become a king in one step as a toddler!

Thousands of lords turned into marauders, each leading their men to roam the third circle.

Making the situation here even more confusing.

At this time, in the third circle, there are not only a small number of scattered garrisons that have withdrawn from the outer towers, totaling about 70,000 to 80,000, but also various small and medium-sized forces that need to be developed in the third circle, including some chambers of commerce and small organizations. Rely on strongholds to carry out small-scale resistance.

They all have an inheritance in the city, and it is simply more uncomfortable than killing them to have them abandon their inheritance and wealth or even be taken captive to Jackdaw Valley and become slaves of their faith.

In such a chaotic situation, farmers and ranchers living outside the city are the least affected.

But this is only temporary.

There are no eggs left behind when the nest is overturned, and it will only be a matter of time before the war spreads outside the city.

There have long been smart farmers who packed up their belongings and the wealth they accumulated over the years and chose to run away.

The family members and guards added up to a large group.

The land cannot grow, but war is ruthless.

They cannot bear the consequences of clinging to their land.

With the wealth on hand, these farmers have the capital to re-establish themselves wherever they are.

But not everyone can figure it out.

Anyone who has been dealing with the land all year round knows that over time, they will develop a special sense of belonging to the land.

In times of crisis, many people are reluctant to give up their land.

Different choices and different encounters, but they all reveal the fall of the giant city.

Chaos broke out in the early afternoon and was now approaching dusk.

When Zong Shen and Penny rode Nightmare into the city, they happened to witness the most chaotic scene.

The main body of the towering third tower has been occupied by the church's troops.

But the cables and winches controlling the rune gates have been destroyed.

The remains of burning carriages were piled in the city gate passage, as well as the corpses of many garrison soldiers whose equipment had been stripped off.

From time to time, small groups of aborigines would leave the city hurriedly through the flaming ruins, carrying Xinrou on their backs.

But he didn't go far before he was caught by the lord who was guarding outside with a mask on.

The Nightmare travels very fast. The speed of 1,350 kilometers per hour is 375 meters per second.

Such speed is just an afterimage in most people's eyes.

Not to mention that [Nightmare Shuttle] also comes with a sixth-level stealth effect, coupled with the advantage of being able to ignore some terrains, allowing it to move unhindered in the messy city.

Passing through the almost blocked city tower, we officially entered the third circle.

Looking back, I saw that some of the black towers surrounding the city had collapsed.

God knows how many battles, large and small, broke out in the city during this period.

The streets in the city are generally intact, at least the stone floors are not easily damaged.

The air was filled with the smell of blood and burnt stench, and corpses everywhere still exuded the stench of fresh internal organs.

The burning house releases billowing heat, distorting the air above.

From time to time, a group of lords can be seen passing by.

In order to plunder the giant city, they almost all brought their own elites.

Basically, they are teams of more than a hundred people, mainly second- to fourth-level soldiers.

Zong Shen didn't even need to activate Insight to know which group was the lords and which group was the aborigines.

The team led by the lord has a characteristic, that is, the soldiers are mixed.

The troops in the team can be said to be of all kinds, and can be called the "Meeting of All Nations".

Many lords also brought with them tamed warcraft pets or alien races living in the wild.

For example, one lord actually brought a squadron of goblins under his command, which opened Zong Shen's eyes.

Although he has been at the forefront of development, the base of the lord is there after all.

The behavior and circumstances of the lord at every moment are difficult to fathom.

They can always come up with something new for you.

There are also some brave, lucky guys who like to find new ways.

In addition to goblins, there are centaurs, murlocs, and even a guy riding on the shoulders of a furbolg warrior.

Just as Zong Shen believes, for the lords, everything in the Endless Continent has no fixed distinction between good and evil, only the distinction between usable and unusable.

Nightmare Hamis moved so fast that Zong Shen and Penny felt like they were flying on an airplane.

At this time, Penny looked at the not too blurry distant view, witnessing the third circle falling into chaos, and tears could not stop flowing from the corners of her eyes.

Zong Shen remained silent. He just sympathized with the civilians living in the third circle.

They are the biggest victims. Many of them are living a normal life in the city, but they have suffered unreasonable disasters and have become resources competed for by all parties.

In a sense, there is not much difference between the competition for people and the competition for livestock.

The entire third circle covers the largest area and accommodates the largest population.

The vast majority are the middle and lower-class population in the giant city.

Most of them were rounded up by the Calamity Raven Church and sent back to Jackdaw Valley one after another.

About a third of the civilian population escaped from the city, but it is unclear how many escaped.

But some of them can definitely escape, after all, the total number is here.

Even if the church's arrest is like a net bag, there are always loopholes.

Under such a general background, there are scattered lord forces with a total number of three to four thousand.

The number of people they can rob is not too impressive, most people only have more than a hundred people, but there are a few lucky ones who can rob thousands of people.

The total population plundered was less than a million.

The total population in the third circle is at least 20 million.

However, those aborigines who escaped from the city may soon be intercepted by the surrounding lords arriving one after another.

This is how a whale falls and everything comes into being.

The total population of the third circle seems huge, but Zong Shen is not in a hurry about it.

The church that robbed the most people was the Calamity Raven Church. He could just take it from the church when the time came.

In short, it can be regarded as a concentration of the population.

As for wealth, 80% of the wealth and precious materials in the city are actually concentrated in the first circle.

15% is concentrated in the second circle.

Less than 5% of the wealth is dispersed in the hands of tens of millions of civilians in the third circle.

This is the biggest consequence of class solidification.

When the second and first circles were not breached, Zong Shen did not worry at all that his interests would be damaged.

Riding the Nightmare, they quickly passed through neighborhoods filled with smoke.

It was not discovered during this period.

Sixth-level stealth is not a bad ability. Unless there are corresponding high-level scouts or detection spells, most warriors will not be able to see through it.

Hamis followed Zong Shen's instructions and was not in a hurry to enter the city.

Instead, he came to the home of the Calamity Raven Church’s construction node.

In the peripheral area there, Zong Shen saw the skeleton of the ancestral frost dragon that was receiving light particles from the void from a distance.

Xiao Heizi did not enter the city, but followed his instructions and wandered outside the city to intercept several extremely wealthy caravans and farmers.

These are smart people who decisively left the city in the early stages of the chaos.

There is space to store props, and many supplies can be packed away.

At present, many lords are intercepting these fleeing aborigines, Zong Shen asked Xiao Heizi to go out with [Pascal Contract's Big Bag (Gold)], and rob the richer ones among them. wrong.

Don't let the rich water flow to other people's fields, and let them escape. In the end, they will not escape the fate of being kidnapped by other lords.

Rather than taking advantage of outsiders, it would be better to take advantage of yourself.

By capturing these teams, you can not only obtain a group of business talents, but also seize a large amount of food, materials and dinars, which can be directly used to supplement the development consumption of the territory.

And he himself continued to sit in the city.

At this moment, the super-large dragon skeleton in the distance was suspended in the sky about a hundred meters above the ground.

It is covered with light, and those lights make up its body.

And even now, there are still light particles popping out all around.

You must know that more than two hours have passed since the dragon skeleton arrived and the sacrificial ceremony was launched.

Such a long lead-in period also confirms the intensity of this divine projection.

Zong Shen and Penny rode Nightmare to the top of a half-collapsed tower.

He narrowed his eyes slightly, and a countdown with golden characters appeared in his field of vision.

[13 minutes and 35 seconds]

This is the countdown to the arrival of the projection of God, which means that in thirteen minutes, the projection of the Raven God of Frost Calamity will be attached to the ancestral dragon skeleton with explosive strength.

Taking out the [Communication Crystal], Zong Shen first contacted Count Rice and England who were staying in the second circle.

The battle there was fierce. The church used large-scale magic energy siege equipment, and the durability of the magic energy shield was quickly depleted.

After the communication was connected, Earl Rice briefly reported the situation to him.

The offensive in the direction guarded by the security forces is not too fierce, but the shield generation device has been overclocked.

It can only last for another hour or so at most before it is completely shattered!

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