A strange world

Chapter 333 Chapter 186. A real snowstorm

"Hiss... ha..."

The musketeers in the front row hugged their muskets and exhaled white mist.

"Hey...it wasn't so cold a few days ago..."

Two teams of musketeers descended one after another among the undulating wood thorns covered with snow like fertile farmland. Behind them, the city wall of Xingyue Bay loomed.

"It will keep you warm when you hit it." His companion crouched behind a snowdrift to protect against the cold wind.

The cotton-padded clothes with new hair were worn by the musketeers inside the plate armor, making them look thicker.

Amy is from the south, the south of the kingdom. But the cold in the north still made him unbearable: "Can we ask Lord Fire Elemental to light some fires?"

"The fire elements have more important things to do." Losi passed by.

"Soldier Captain!"

The two musketeers stood up quickly.

Luo Xi waved his hand: "Wait a minute, if the sun doesn't come out yet, we'll light a fire."

Their luck wasn't very good... or not bad at all. It was gloomy weather after the snowstorm, so a warm bonfire was lit in the thorn strip.

The backs of the two musketeers were warm, but their chests were still cold.

The soldier who couldn't turn around stared at the snow forest in front of him: "Amy, do you know that the plate armor in the northern winter is sweet?"

"Is there such a thing?" Amy touched the plate armor curiously, "Are you lying to me..."

"My ancestors were followers of Lady Frost. Do you think the gods would lie to her people?"

Amy was doubtful, but couldn't take off the plate armor to try, so she focused on his plate armor.

"don't want--"

It was too late for him to shout anymore. Amy leaned close to her plate armor and stuck out her tongue - sticking to it without any accident.

It happened that Fermi was patrolling here, and even if they were not his soldiers, they couldn't help but say: "We are on the battlefield, we have to make out and go back and make out!"

"Ah wow--" Amy mumbled something and pulled out her tongue.

"No...it's his tongue stuck to the plate armor."

Fermi saw this, grabbed a ball of snow, threw it on the Musketeer's tongue, and pulled the two to the campfire.

Amy endured the pain and forced her tongue out, glaring at Femi angrily.

"Just tell me if it's sweet."

Amy sighed: "It seems really..."

Femi left with their jokes, and the laughter that rang out around them relieved the depression and coldness.

Not long after, the atmosphere became silent again. They lay down behind the undulating spurs as if in a trench, warming themselves by the fire. At a certain moment, there was an unusual sound of wind among the "crackling" sounds of wet wood around...

A black tide emerged from the depths of the snow forest.

…

Xingyue Bay is undergoing final inspections.

Workers in the northern mines and southern gold mines have already withdrawn, leaving the city walls empty. Moon Harbor and the Textile Factory are the only places that are still busy. The former is seizing the last moment to catch the fish, while the latter is rushing to even the mill. Only Bronzebeard and her apprentice shut themselves in to study howitzer shells.

Smoke rises from the chimneys of the snow-covered eaves, and residents are smoking and curing piles of sea fish. Food is the least of their worries.

Underground in Xingyue Bay, ten large water elements gather water day and night in front of the reservoir. The water source is deep enough not to be contaminated by the Ratmen.

The earth elements are also busy: they carry fuel, ammunition, artillery and other supplies to the city wall. Elementals don't need to rest, eat, or complain. No matter how hard it is to find a life more suitable for work than them - maybe the rat people can do it, even the food is omitted, they eat themselves - but this is not in line with Xingyue Bay. concept.

"There's ice in the bay..."

In the morning, workers from the shipyard came to talk to Annan.

"Continue to observe." Annan said, after thinking about it, he called the bard and handed him the "bay trap" - the bay without any cover was actually a trap.

The sea water in the North usually doesn't freeze until December. This year it will happen a little earlier due to the snowstorm, but it will only be half a month later.

When the Skaven cannot attack the city wall for a long time, they will split into the frozen bay, and then step on the thin ice - the bay will become their burial place.

"I'm just a bard!" The bard just wants to be lazy in the tavern.

"You don't think the magic images were taken in vain, do you?"

"Damn it! I knew you had no good intentions in letting me play Andy!" The bard cursed and went to the bay.

This guy is so mysterious that he doesn't even want to reveal his name... Fast seemed to have mentioned his name once, and then said it was a fake name.

Annan and Breeze City remain in contact. The Skaven approached Breeze City earlier than Star Moon Bay, but compared to Annan's unscrupulous tactics, Olmedo only sent out the city's knights. According to her, the knights rushing into the rat tide were like being stuck in mud, getting slower and slower.

Look, what a jealous tone. The Rat Man is just mud, so what are you doing these days? Playing in mud?

"Where are you?"

So when Olmedo asked about Xingyue Bay, Annan's desire to win made him say indifferently: "My musketeers seemed to have rushed into a ball of cotton."

"...That knight charged several times and killed tens of thousands of ratmen."

"I just put some water and drowned hundreds of thousands of Skaven."

Olmedo didn't know what he thought of and made a sound of disgust.

Not long after, Fire Crow brought an unexpected guest.

When the magic scroll was opened, the tall illusory figure of Mrs. Winter wearing dark blue fur appeared.

Annan didn't know what Mrs. Winter wanted from him at this time. He couldn't wait to ask the question that had been buried for a long time: "What is going on in the royal capital."

The tall Mrs. Winter knew what Annan was asking "...the Montreal family, the Mage Tower, and the nobles did not betray humanity."

So is it true that, as Olmedo guessed, the king is planning some kind of conspiracy?

The nobles who are high above cannot see the mortal world, but Annan can see: "Where are the people who died because of the rat men in those fallen lands?"

"Dead men cannot speak."

Annan fell into a long silence.

Mrs. Winter did not continue the topic: "We are close to the secret treasure, and you have a share in it."

Annan wanted to yell at Mrs. Winter for taking your dirty money... but now he is so poor that he is about to sell himself.

Dang Dang Dang——

The rapid sound of bells echoing over Xingyue Bay made Annan escape.

"I won't say anything anymore."

The rat men are coming.

…

Distant bells echoed from behind, and the musketeers stared at the tide of rats emerging from the snowy forest. Did Lord Annan kill one hundred thousand or two hundred thousand ratmen these days? But there still seem to be so many of them...

The sound of flapping wings suddenly came from high in the sky. The Musketeers raised their heads and saw the blue dragon and thirteen white dragons flying from Xingyue Bay.

The voice of Annan Reeves, King of the North, Nemesis of the Skaven, and Lord of Star-Moon Bay, echoed above the heads of the Musketeers:

"Although the northern border is big, we have no way to retreat - behind us is Xingyue Bay!"