Lord of Industrialization

This winter, the Kingdom of Tarago is falling into a civil war. The Principality of Yelgarod was captured by the Piast Kingdom and an important port city was captured. The new generation of female warlords of the Ghazi Empire led a revengeful army to surround Wanjing City. The Smaga Empire organized the largest team in the world to build the railway from Ferdinand City to the Bend of the Sea. The construction team of the Principality of Wesson built a telegraph tower on the south coast of the Inland Sea with the help of Hayreddin.

And Frederick felt like he was in prison.

When the new year arrives, in the far north, the sun has not appeared in the sky for many days.

The dark night sky is like a canvas, and the aurora is the paint that nature has casually applied, creating a gorgeous painting.

The pointer on the thermometer has exceeded the range of minus 30 degrees, and is estimated to be around minus 40 degrees.

Even the dominant snow wolf in the snow forest dug a deep snow hole in the snow, and a whole family huddled inside for a short hibernation.

Frederick found a single wolf, dragged it out by its tail, knocked it unconscious and dragged it all the way back to the camp.

He didn't spend much time outdoors, but his only exposed eyes were already covered with ice scum, and his eyebrows turned white.

"It's good to eat wolf meat in winter. It will keep your body warm after eating it."

Hurley dismantled the wolf in the kitchen and prepared to stew it.

Frederick just sat on a chair nearby, with the stove in front of him, holding a water glass in his hand, and slowly drank hot pine needle water.

When Hurley served the wolf stew, Frederick was still sitting there, holding an empty cup, his eyes a little dull.

Heli sat on his lap, put her arm around his shoulders and asked, "Are you still feeling uncomfortable?"

Frederick nodded slightly.

Being locked up in a small dark room is a very effective punishment. A person cannot bear it after being locked up for a few days.

The winter here is like a big dark room, or even a big prison, and the harsh natural environment is the prison wall.

People's activities are restricted in the house, like being locked in a prison cell.

Even if there are strong people who can move around, it is just a short break.

Even though he was accompanied by many beauties, Frederick still couldn't stand such an environment and began to have mental problems.

When we start mining here in the future, I'm afraid we'll all have to go back to the south collectively when winter comes, otherwise some people will really go crazy.

Hurley asked him: "How about we be here..."

Frederick shook his head and said, "It's easy to catch a cold here. I'll go back and sleep for a while. Call me when you're eating."

Now they keep track of time with one of Frederick's pocket watches.

He brought two of them, but when he took one out, the spring became brittle due to the cold, and the last one was left in the relatively warm kitchen.

There was a bit of excitement in the longhouse where people lived, and everyone was trying their best to find something to do to pass the time.

Frederick carved several pairs of mahjong out of wood, and now is the time to do it.

But playing mahjong every day will make me tired. I don’t know how long this momentum can be maintained. Let’s take it one day at a time.

Frederick took off his leather jacket and down jacket and hung them outside the box bed, then entered the box bed quietly.

Catherine, who was captured here, is now sleeping in this box bed. She is also not in good spirits, and she cannot go out for fun like Frederick. She can only spend a long time like others by taking certain mushrooms to increase her sleep time. winter.

She was sleeping in a daze, and when she smelled Frederick's scent, she immediately hugged him tightly, like a drowning person grabbing a lifebuoy.

As early January comes to an end, a bright light finally appears on the southeastern skyline, and the temperature suddenly rises to more than 20 degrees below zero.

Aurora warriors use general cleaning to welcome the arrival of the new sunshine.

Everyone took out all the bedding from the box bed, hung it on a shelf to freeze for a while, and then kept patting it after the other areas were cleaned.

Very few people use quilts here, they basically use animal skins, and the bugs in the fur are photographed after they freeze to death.

The longhouse, kitchen, sauna and other places also underwent a general cleaning. The accumulated plant ash was spread on the ground and under the box beds. It is said that when insects crawl through, they will block the pores in the abdomen.

Frederick was busy with everyone. Although doing this would lower the temperature of the room a lot, it was much better than being bitten by bugs and getting sick. After all, lighting the fireplace in the room would warm it up again. If you catch a cold, go to the sauna and stay longer. That’s it.

After working for a long time, everyone finally finished. A large pot of stew was cooked in the kitchen, with a lot of whale meat and oil, and mixed with noodles.

After eating and drinking, it’s time for the second project.

The girls broke open the ice on the nearby lake, took off all their clothes and threw them on the ice piece by piece, then jumped into the water and took a few laps of winter swimming.

Catherine was a little confused: "Why do they want to swim in such a cold weather?"

Frederick thought for a while and said: "At first, it might be to freeze the fleas on your clothes and body, but over time it became a tradition."

Catherine shuddered. She had a psychological shadow about fleas.

"What are you going to do?" She found Frederick taking off his clothes.

Frederick smiled evilly and said, "Of course you should do as the Romans do."

Catherine's body is in good condition. During this period, she just ate, slept, and played the Frederick dungeon. She gained a little more weight than before, so there was no problem with winter swimming.

"Don't tease her." Jin Li came over and pulled Catherine away, "You have to prepare before going into the water."

The preparation she was talking about was to drink a herbal wine that would make the whole body feel hot after drinking it.

This requires consuming energy from the body. During this period of time, everyone was eating, sleeping, and brushing up on Frederick. He gained a lot of weight, which was enough to consume.

Frederick also jumped into the lake. At first, he felt that the water was a little warm. He swam under the water for a while. After getting ashore, he went to the sauna room with his clothes.

In the bathroom next to the sauna room, there was a large bucket of pine needle ash. Everyone first wet their body and hair, smeared it with ash, and finally rinsed it.

Frederick said to Jin Li: "Come, I'll help you."

Jin Li pushed him away and said with her head down: "My lord, please be patient for the next month."

Frederick was stunned and nodded and said: "Okay."

Since she didn't want to, he didn't force it.

The following days were different from before. Everyone stopped staying in the winter and started to walk out of the wooden house.

They wore only leather pants and linen vests in the snow and began to practice martial arts.

It was at this time that Frederick felt for the first time the strength of these girls as the military force of the Church of Nature.

Heli, who was usually busy in the kitchen, held two short knives in her hands, selected a pine tree, stepped on the trunk with her snow-white feet, and ran up around the trunk with a force.

In a few breaths, she had run to the top of the tree, then jumped to another pine tree next to it, and ran down around the trunk as well.

Frederick was hiding under the tree, because the girl chopped off the branches along the trunk with two knives while climbing the tree, and in a few breaths, the two pine trees became bare trunks.

A group of two-meter-tall ice men emerged from the snow, and the one who cast the spell was Brie, who was not tall.

These ice men first dragged the branches back as firewood, and then punched and kicked around the bare trunk. After a burst of wood chips flew, the pine tree fell down.

Another girl came over and slapped the trunk with one hand, and countless ice blades pierced out of the wood, and the pine tree over 20 meters high suddenly became arm-sized firewood.

These were just their warm-up activities. After a few days, the real sparring began.