Online Game: Island War

After all, the flood has just passed, and within a month or two, the drought situation will not be obvious, but it is just beginning to appear.

However, Lei Jiu, who had been prompted by the system, was already sure that a substantial reduction in grain production this autumn was a foregone conclusion.

In the three harvest seasons of next spring, autumn and the spring of the following year, there is a high possibility of no harvest.

After all, the longer the drought lasts, the more severe the impact will be.

Later, not to mention irrigation of farmland, even drinking water for the islanders was difficult to guarantee.

If the floods mainly threaten the agriculture of the island, and the impact on the survival of the islanders comes from food, then the long-term drought will affect another more important life-support condition, drinking water!

With no rain falling for 22 months, simply closing the reservoir is not enough.

In the past two years, there has not been much water replenishment. Even if the reservoir no longer leaks water, it will be evaporated.

In the mountainous area in the west of Huanghuang Island, only in winter every year, the peak will be covered with some snow.

In other places, due to reasons such as climate and temperature, either there will be no snow at all, or the snow will melt soon.

Even the snow remaining on the top of the mountain will melt quickly in the next spring.

Therefore, although most of the rivers on Huanghuang Island do come from the western mountains, the proportion of snowmelt water is not high.

Most of it comes from streams formed by mountain springs and lakes accumulated by mountain rainfall.

Coming out of the mountainous area, tributaries continued to flow in, forming the waterways of several major rivers.

Without snowmelt, without precipitation, those mountain springs would not last long.

It is estimated that by the end of this year, most of the rivers on the island will completely dry up.

After all, it is an island-wide drought, with no rain falling and no flow is inevitable.

In order to store water in advance to ensure the daily life of the islanders next year, Lei Jiu asked Qi Wenchuan to organize construction and build some super-large water cellars underground with cement and some anti-seepage materials. After completion, water will be diverted from various reservoirs.

Reservoirs and wells in various places have dried up one after another,

The daily water consumption of the islanders depends on these water cellars. At that time, it is estimated that the daily water consumption will be restricted and a rationing system will be implemented.

At the same time, Lei Jiu also ordered that those water cellars should be sterilized and sterilized. After all, it is not running water. If it is not maintained carefully, it will definitely stink after a long time, and it will be detrimental to the health of the islanders after use. Influence.

While saving money, Lei Jiu naturally had to consider open source.

The first thing that comes to mind is naturally the artificial rainfall commonly used in modern times.

In his mind, Huanghuang Island is surrounded by the sea after all. Even if the system is perfect, at least the amount of moisture in the air above the coastal areas should be guaranteed.

There is such an extraordinary power as magic in the game world. Although the water magic is composed of water elements, it cannot be condensed into drinking water, but it is used as a condensation nucleus to cooperate with the cooling effect of the ice magic to carry out artificial rainfall. It is still possible.

In order to verify the idea, Lei Jiu asked the mage team to cooperate with the experiment, but the result was not ideal.

The drought created by the system is obviously much more difficult than the actual drought. Even if Huanghuang Island is a land floating on the sea, the moisture in the atmosphere above it is stripped away by some airflow exchange movements that Lei Jiu can't grasp, forming a water-free zone covering the entire area.

Even though the sea evaporates a large amount of water vapor into the clouds and into the atmosphere every day, the sky above Huanghuang Island is dry.

This has also led to the fact that this year's temperature is hotter than in previous years, which has led to faster evaporation of water resources on the island, a cycle that makes people feel hopeless...

Of course, Lei Jiu is not completely helpless. If it is really impossible, he can only let Crowley take the giant dragon troop and drive Xiangliu to the abundant water and atmospheric area far away from Huanghuang Island, directly control some clouds, and artificially pull the rain clouds. Go to the sky above Huanghuang Island, and then implement artificial rainfall.

Although this is time-consuming and labor-intensive, at least part of the source can be opened.

Even if this doesn't solve the overall drought problem, it should keep the people and livestock on the island from dying of thirst.

It would be great if there was a cloud-type dragon on Huanghuang Island.

Although Xiang Liu and the others are water-type beasts, there is still a difference between clouds and water. For them, it is not easy to control the movement of clouds, so it is time-consuming and labor-intensive.

If it is a cloud-type or water-type dragon that can manipulate clouds, it will not be so difficult. For them, no matter whether it is white cloud, dark cloud, or rain cloud, they are obedient and cute, and they can go wherever they are asked.

Unfortunately, Huanghuang Island does not have cloud or water dragons.

Of the three candidates for the Azure Dragon Sacred Beast, one of them took the route of the cloud-type dragon, but it is still a jiao, and it is not easy to be promoted to a dragon within two years.

Jiao, making water is not a problem, but making clouds is much worse, and its effect is similar to that of Xiangliu.

The other two, one took the fire dragon route and the other took the mirage dragon route.

Although even fire dragons have a good command of water, they don't have much experience in controlling clouds.

When the Wanshiruyi card showed this advanced path, Lei Jiu wondered if he had made a mistake. It's not that he doubts the existence of fire dragons and flame dragons. After all, whether it's a dragon, a phoenix or a unicorn, the attributes of these three races are actually not single.

Not all phoenixes are fire-type, not all dragons are water-type, and unicorns are not all earth-type.

but...

The green dragon of the fire department? It always feels like something is not right.

Although Qinglong corresponds to Qingmu Shengfa and controls the power of thunder and lightning that reincarnates life and death. In theory, even if it is a fire dragon, there will be no conflict in the evolution process, but it always feels a bit unacceptable.

Well, let's put this aside for now. Anyway, since the system thinks that fire dragons are also promising, Lei Jiu will not insist, but in this situation, they can't be counted on.

Naturally, Lei Jiu was not the only one who was in dire straits.

After all, this natural disaster swept the whole world.

One island owner player counts as one, and now they are all tossed by various extreme weather and natural disasters.

Rainstorms, hurricanes, hail, blizzards, droughts, etc. are numerous, and the specific disasters encountered are closely related to external conditions such as the latitude of the island.

Compared with Lei Jiu, the losses of other players were even more severe. More importantly, most of the players' islands actually didn't have much food.

Before spring plowing, when the population refresh mechanism was about to disappear, almost every island owner let go of their scruples to refresh the population.

The population of some islands, even with a bumper harvest this year, will have a tight food supply.

The result is now...

Want to cry but have no tears!

Some islands reached level 6 and players with adventurer cities also thought of buying food from adventurers at this time, but when they learned the details, they all yelled at Lei Jiu.

Not to mention taking away more than half of the total amount, and raising the purchase price so high at once, is it leaving a way for others to survive?

Not to mention ordinary players, even Qinglian, who was bloody and majestic, was almost turning gray at this moment.

No one expected that the system would create a global natural disaster after the population refresh mechanism had just been stopped...