Two months later, outside the millstone city......

The heavy snow turned the entire Millstone City and the ground thousands of miles outside the Millstone City into a land of ice and snow.

In the heavy snowfall, the refugee settlements outside the city seem to have died down and are not as noisy as they used to be.

Because of the heavy snowfall, the supply of materials in Millstone City, especially in the various refugee camps and settlements, began to be strained, and under the strict rationing system, the refugees who came here had less and less food every day, just barely able to make ends meet, and those tents were full of shivering people.

Men of great strength, in order to survive, were drafted to either join the training camp in Millstone City, and after training, take up arms, join the city defense team, and those who were able to work went to work, to transport supplies, to build fortifications, to undertake logistical tasks, and the women in the camps and settlements also gathered and began to do what they could - sew winter clothes, quilts, or go to the city after training and take over the work that was originally done by men in some of the city's factories.

Few people know that the vast majority of the rifles and bullets produced in the arsenals of Millstone City are made by women.

As for the half-grown children, orphans, they were sent to the rear in batches.

When winter came, the families of the Northern Continent opened recruitment points in Millstone City to recruit children under the age of fourteen, both male and female, when winter came.

Only a harsh living environment can make a family endure the pain of life and death, and can a mother or father hand over her children to an unknown fate.

The big families knew this, and at this time, they could take away the children outside Millstone City at the very little or no cost.

In war, the population is not valuable at the front, but in the rear, the population is a valuable human resource, and these children also have their value, and with a little training, they can become soldiers, workers, and even family dead.

This is to divert the refugee settlements in Millstone City, reduce the material pressure of Millstone City, and objectively preserve the strength of the human race on this planet, those big families have a tacit understanding with each other, and the White Deer family, in this way, in exchange for the support of those big families in terms of materials, tacitly knows each other.

In the cold wind, such exchanges take place all the time, and the heart-rending cries of families can be heard in refugee settlements, and it is also in this cold wind that the corpse collection teams inside and outside the city can drag away some stiff corpses in those alleys, or in some corners of the settlement, or even in the door of the tent every morning.

The corpses had fallen asleep outside after drinking at night, and just one day was enough to make their bodies stiff like firewood and never wake up again.

A month ago, a ban on alcohol had already been promulgated in Millstone City, and alcohol had been listed as a controlled substance, but no matter how much it was controlled, it could not prohibit some people's love for alcohol.

There are people who are willing to pay a lot of money to buy it, and then get drunk, hot, and lie in the wind and snow, and die without pain or consciousness.

This seems to have become a way for some people to escape from reality and get out of it.

A month ago, with the arrival of the first snow, the Zerg army was already approaching Millstone City.

Outside several lines of defense and fortresses more than a hundred kilometers south of Millstone City, rumbling cannons could already be heard since a month ago, the number and frequency of warplanes taking off and landing in Millstone City and the rear airfields were increasing, and on the railways leading to the front line and fortresses, trains were transporting truckloads of supplies almost every day.

The supplies consumed on the front line are very huge, and as the snow on the ground has become thicker and thicker in the past few days, I heard that the attack of the Zerg on the ground has slowed down, but the attack on the ground has become more intense.

Just two days ago, three man-eating insects had appeared outside the city, killing two people before being shot dead by the patrols who arrived on the way.

The loss caused by the three man-eating insects is not large, but it is enough to bring panic in the millstone city, everyone knows that the zerg is coming, the situation encountered in the millstone city now, and the situation encountered by all those fallen cities is the same, the man-eating insects are just the sentinels and advance teams of the Zerg army, after the man-eating insects, as the front defense line is breached, more and more man-eating insects will appear outside the city, and then there will be sword beetles, flying fire insects, arrowworms and other terrifying Zerg will appear one after another......

No one thinks that a small Millstone City and the White Deer Family can withstand the attack of the Zerg army, the only question is how much time the Millstone City can resist and how much price the Zerg will pay here.

And as the battle outside the millstone city intensified, more and more mercenaries and adventurers also gathered in the millstone city from the rear.

Zerg means worm crystals, insect crystals are very valuable, and chaos, for many people, also means a chance to get rich, in the troubled times, there will never be a shortage of these people who lick blood with knives, many mercenaries and adventurers who come here want to do just before the Zerg completely annihilate the grinding stone city, do a vote, and then evacuate, and then go to find the next opportunity......

Most of these mercenaries and adventurers took the train, and the various materials sent by the White Deer family to the millstone city arrived, in the case of heavy snow and road closure, the railway station located in the north of the millstone city has become more lively these days, and the vehicles and materials and personnel coming and going to the train station every day can be described as an endless stream.

When Chao Yi stepped out of the train car, it was afternoon, there was still snow in the sky, the canopy of the train platform, there was already a thick layer of snow, there were staff members who were removing the snow, he was wearing a thick windbreaker, the windbreaker was bulging underneath, carrying weapons, Chao Yi's head was wearing the kind of adventurer's favorite dogskin hat that could cover his face, and he scanned the backward and chaotic place in front of him with a sharp gaze.

If it weren't for Wang Wuyun, Chao Yi would not have set foot on this backward planet that is still in the stage of biosphere civilization, everything here is no different from primitive society to him, even the coveted insect crystals on this planet, he is not rare, the Chao family in Guanlan Star Big Horn City, there is a money-making industry, as long as it is something that can be bought with a little Xingyuan, for him, it is not a precious thing.

After coming to the mud Gu Lu Xing, he realized that he had fallen for Wang Wuyun's plan, and he was forced to come here to have a life-and-death duel with Wang Wuyun without any preparation, but the situation at that time made him have to come.

After Wang Wuyun came here, the news sent out on the mission information forum suddenly forced him into a corner, and all the people who came to this planet to carry out the mission could see it, causing heated discussions, and the news even spread to Guanlan Star, the head of the Chao family is running for the member of the Guanlan Star Council, and this news has affected the reputation of the Chao family and the election of the head of the family.

The elders of the Chao family and his father personally contacted him to inquire about this matter, and the tone of the elders of the Chao family was extremely stern, and the money for the reward for Wang Wuyun was not from him, but directly transferred from the Chao family's family fund.

Can't let Wang Wuyun leave here alive, this is the death order given by the Chao family to Chao Yi.

The Chao family has used a lot of resources on the Guanlan Star to eliminate the impact of this matter.

By now, it is no longer a personal grudge between him and Wang Wuyun, and that nobody has become a shadow and a defaced place on the aura of the Chao family, which must be removed and repaired as soon as possible.

The pressure Chao Yi was under was known only to him.

There was a sound of footsteps behind him, Chao Yi turned his face to the side, squinted his eyes and glanced at the old man who was wrapped in a thick cloak and looked a little obscene, "Are you sure, that person is really here?"

The old man didn't speak, but looked around with a pair of sneaky eyes like a mouse, then reached out and took out two pieces of tortoise shell from his sleeve, closed them in his hand, and said something in his mouth, and then shook the tortoise shell, and the tortoise shell made a rattling sound, and after a few seconds, the old man opened the tortoise shell, and in the tortoise shell were several thumb-sized ancient coins.

The old man used his long nails to flick the ancient money in the tortoise shell, and nodded affirmatively, "It's in or near this city, and I haven't left the ...... yet."

"Can you be more accurate?"

"This tortoiseshell god of mine, it is already the limit to be able to lock a person here on this huge planet, unless it is an immortal, who can know all the all, as long as he knows that he is here, it should not be difficult for Young Master Chao to find it!" Speaking of this, the old man licked his lips, a pair of small eyes rolled around, revealing a greedy look, and a smile on his face, "Young Master Chao, then my money ......"

"As long as I find Wang Wuyun here, the 500,000 star yuan promised to you will not be lost a cent...... Chao Yi said coldly.

"Of course, of course, the Chao family will not ......be dishonest for this money," the old man smiled.

"Go to work and find that man......" Chao Yi said to the four grim-faced men standing behind the old man.

The four of them nodded, didn't say a word, and left directly......

Those four people came from a small sect called the Blood Shadow Sect in the Dayu Empire, and the Chao family knew through their relationship that they were in the mud Gu Lu Xing, and directly found their sect, and asked them to cooperate with Chao Yi to deal with Wang Wuyun here......

Could it be that the Chao family is still worried that they will not be able to complete such a task?

Thinking that the Chao family still had to find someone to "help" him, Chao Yi's heart was like eating a fly, but this kind of thing was not allowed to be refused.

Wang Wuyun, I want to see where you can hide......

The dogskin hat hid the sinister smile on Chao Yi's face, Chao Yi tugged at his collar, and then strode out of the station......