Empress: Your Majesty, please respect yourself, I don't want to be promoted

The white world, snow, is the only melody.

For the Cangwu Ice Field, which is located in the northwest of the Great Xia Empire and is also the northwestern arctic border of Central Continent, this is a world of snow.

The area of ​​the Cangwu Ice Field is extremely vast, but because most of the area is covered by heavy snow all year round, there are very few areas suitable for human habitation, except for some [Heaven-sent Soil] that has changed its position every once in a while since ancient times. There are only some areas that are not frozen into frozen ground for unknown reasons.

In the long history, those heaven-sent soils that periodically changed their positions gave birth to nomadic civilizations that were completely different from the farming civilization of the Central Plains Dynasty.

For example, the Turkic Khanate now has millions of people who control strings.

The Turkic kings of all dynasties, or the kings of the land bestowed by heaven, have all been eyeing the Central Plains Dynasty. As long as there is a slight chance, they will almost certainly send troops to the east to occupy the extremely rich land of the Central Plains Dynasty.

If the occupation fails, it will be changed to plunder, and the population, food, natural resources, and other resources of the Central Plains will be snatched back to the heaven-sent soil to accumulate resources for the next dispatch of troops.

The Central Plains Dynasty even had a record of being exterminated by a foreign race in the land of heaven.

It was a very dark time.

Thousands of miles of land and mountains have fallen, and the Xuanyan people have been reduced to two-legged sheep, struggling to death under the cruel laughter and heavy iron hooves of the foreign race, and almost being wiped out.

Therefore, in the face of a huge threat in the northwest, every dynasty in the Central Plains will deploy heavy troops in the military towns established in the ice-free zone to block the threat from the Central Plains.

The same is true for Daxia.

After the great ancestor of Great Xia established the country, he set up the ice-free land as a barren state, and at the same time forced to relocate millions of people there, and then ordered a Zhuguo general who had a great military exploits at that time to lead the army to guard the military and political power of the barren state. Other than that, it is not controlled by anyone.

Then, it became the ancestral system for the barren state to be guarded by the Shangzhu Kingdom, which had only eight members in the empire.

Nearly a thousand years have passed, and now, as the only sky-level city in the largest and most desolate barren state in the administrative region of Daxia, Motian City still does not have the most basic feature of a sky-level city—prosperity. On the contrary, the population here is not as good as that of a mysterious city. city.

Ice and snow hindered serious businessmen's fearless footsteps. After all, no one was willing to travel thousands of miles to such a place with little commercial value.

Moreover, the land in the barren state is extremely barren, not to mention spiritual food, even ordinary food is difficult to grow, and the annual food production is very low, so it can only be harvested by hunting or fishing, otherwise it will not be able to feed many people at all.

Although the imperial court transported food, it was a long journey, the consumption of manpower and material resources was huge, and the cost was extremely high, which was a great test to the national power; There is no guarantee that nothing will go wrong.

It is also threatened by foreign races here, so it is not very attractive to the people. Unless it is a last resort, no people would be willing to move to such a ghostly place to settle down.

At the same time, because it is located in the Northwest Arctic of Central Continent, it is only a sea away from the world of sword and magic in West Continent. There are some areas in the Cangwu Ice Field that are not suitable for human habitation, but there are dwarves, orcs, trolls, and even giant dragons. A paradise for many non-human races.

Therefore, the living environment here can be described as extremely harsh.

It is simply a world where the strong are respected.

At this time, in Motian City.

In the quiet street, there are only the whistling sound of the cold wind blowing by, and the sound of footsteps scattered around.

Even in the twelfth lunar month of winter, there are still a few pedestrians on the street, but there is no laughter and laughter from the human world on their faces, but only indifference and indifference in the face of an unknown fate.

Originally, their life was decent, but since the queen mother took power, the supplies transported to the barren state have become less and less.

With less supplies, and the army has to be given priority, the lives of the people will naturally become more and more difficult.

Without enough food, they can only take greater risks to hunt and fish more.

Fight with the sky, fight with the earth, fight with people, and fight with beasts.

If you win the fight, you will lie down for a few days, if you lose the fight, you will lie down for a lifetime.

In this city where hope is becoming less and less visible, the despair of the people has gradually become the mainstream. No one knows that one day they will encounter powerful monsters during hunting, or they will freeze to death on the ice field due to exhaustion of physical strength and lack of prey. Go up and become the belly meal of a certain Warcraft.

Maybe it's a giant ice bear, maybe a saber-toothed tiger, and if you're lucky, it can even turn into a pile of dragon dung. With such a fate, who knows which one it is?

The highest point in Motian City is the watchtower of the City Lord's Mansion. Here, you can see a complete white city.

Wearing light armor, Gu Simiao clasped her hands behind her back and looked into the distance. Under her silver-white hair, there was an inexplicable sense of determination in her cold and solemn eyes.

Once known as the number one beauty in Northern Hebei, although she has been in command of the army for two years, she is still as beautiful as she was two years ago, and even a little more heroic than two years ago, but her body , there is a chill that keeps people thousands of miles away all the time, making people instinctively dare not approach.

As the general of the Zhu Kingdom who commands the 700,000 Cangling Army, her strength is beyond doubt.

After all, she is not only the youngest Shangzhu Kingdom in history, but also the only genius who has broken through the Guiyi Realm before the age of twenty since the founding of the Great Xia Kingdom for thousands of years.

Coupled with the battle formation techniques and strategic strategies passed down from generation to generation by the Jiangmen family, this has created the [Wu Shuang Pillar Kingdom] that has already shaken the foggy ice field at a young age.

However, even though he was as strong as her, there was still an imperceptible sadness hidden in his eyes.

Da da da…

At this time, there was a sudden sound of footsteps behind him.

Then a woman in light armor appeared at the entrance of the corridor.

"Miss…"

The person who came was Lu Luo, Gu Simiao's personal maid who had been accompanying her since she could remember.

In the barren state, only Lu Luo would call her that.

Gu Simiao restrained her mind, then turned her head, looked at Luluo, and said lightly, "Luluo, have you settled everything?"

Luluo nodded.

"It's all done, miss."

"Well, that's good, thank you for your hard work."

Saying that, Gu Simiao lightly patted the white snow off her shoulders, then closed her eyes inexplicably, and took a deep breath at the same time.

When she opened her eyes again, there was no trace of distracting thoughts in her eyes, which were clear and firm.

"Then, it's time to do it."

After saying that, she turned around and walked firmly towards the exit.

Looking at Gu Simiao's back, Lu Luo's face was inexplicably tangled, and then she hesitated for a moment, then gritted her teeth sharply.

"Miss."

"Um?"

Gu Simiao stopped slightly.

"What's wrong?"

Lu Luo plucked up her courage, and asked in a deep voice: "Miss, are you really going to do this? Master and they are..."

"I know, Luluo."

Before she could finish her sentence, Gu Simiao interrupted her expressionlessly.

"I know what you're trying to say and what it means to do it, but"

The footsteps that stopped for a short time lifted again, this time, there was no pause.

"I have no choice."

As these words fell, a blue butterfly suddenly appeared around her body.

The next second, the butterfly suddenly burst into a blue light. At the same time, her figure gradually became blurred, and the surrounding air began to twist.

In just a moment, her figure disappeared completely with the disappearance of the butterfly, as if she had never appeared before.

There is only a hint of fragrance left in the air, telling what happened just now.

Unreal and real.