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135 Chapter [-], This world that only kills but doesn't bury

The bell of the New Year in [-] A.D. rang leisurely, making this war-torn world tremble into the new year.

At the same time, almost all human beings in the northern hemisphere are shaking their teeth, shivering, and freezing their hearts in the super cold current that has not happened in a century.

——The Icelandic volcanic eruption, which lasted for more than half a year, still has a plume of smoke soaring into the sky, and there is no sign of calming down.Millions of tons of volcanic ash entered the atmosphere, forming a huge smoke cloud, centered on the North Atlantic Ocean, gradually spreading from North America and Western Europe to the whole world.

These volcanic ash first caused various meteorological spectacle in the sky.Beginning in the spring and summer of [-], Europeans can often see long-lasting dark red dusk and dawn.In the northeastern United States, there has been a continuous "dry fog" that cannot be dispelled by wind and rain.In Norway, where the aurora is flickering, confused Nordic people found that although the sky above their heads was clear and cloudless, the lower part of the sky was inexplicably hazy, which can be observed with the naked eye according to old experience the stars, which are now visible only after a very laborious search.

What's more terrible is that the volcanic ash entering the atmosphere has to a considerable extent isolated the light and heat projected from the sun to the surface of the earth, bringing a big cooling to the entire earth, and also freezing people all over the world this winter. Thoroughly cool—the super low temperature of minus [-] degrees Celsius to minus [-] degrees Celsius appeared in most parts of Europe, and lasted for more than [-] days, so that the Rhine and Danube were frozen tightly.A light snow even miraculously fell on the desert of Morocco in North Africa.And New York in the United States is also shivering in the severe cold. The sea around Manhattan Island has been frozen into an ice skating rink, and people can go to New Jersey on dog sleds.There was a heavy snowstorm in Washington, and a full three meters of snow almost buried the White House.

The abnormally low temperature in the summer before this led to a general and substantial reduction in agricultural production in Europe and North America, and the food supply was extremely tight.

The situation in North America is better. After all, although crop production has plummeted, the amount of coal and oil extracted has not been seriously affected by climate change, and various infrastructures have remained intact.Although food rations have been lowered repeatedly, and the supply of high-calorie foods such as butter, eggs, meat, and sugar has become less and less, the heating and power supply of the city can still be guaranteed. Not too cold.

As for the situation in continental Europe, it is a bit horrible.After two consecutive world wars, roads, railways, reservoirs, mines, and power plants were all bombed to pieces. Not to mention the collapse of industries, several of the most prosperous cities and ancient capitals were also hit by nuclear explosions.Agricultural production is also in a mess. Large tracts of arable land are abandoned. Farmers lack fertilizers, seeds, livestock, agricultural machinery and fuel oil. Even irrigation water is generally in trouble due to the massive destruction of water conservancy facilities.Coupled with natural disasters, the agricultural output of European countries in [-] was much more tragic than that of North America. Not to mention, coal, fuel oil and electricity were also extremely scarce on the European continent-strictly speaking, the whole of Europe was not It's not that there are no resources such as coal and oil, but because the transportation is damaged, even if there are large quantities of materials in hand, they cannot be transported in.Even if it is shipped in, it is too late to repair the power plant and restore power.

As a result, European civilized people who used to be proud and overlooked the world, now fell into real hunger and cold. With less medicine, the death rate rapidly surpassed the medieval average.

Romania, Poland, and Bulgaria in Eastern Europe are all big agricultural countries, and they used to export a large amount of grain to developed countries in Western Europe every year in peacetime.As a result, with the arrival of the "year without summer", the grain export volume suddenly fell to zero.Even if they have the advantage of being close to the water and can get a large amount of aid from the Soviet Union nearby, they can provide their respective nationals with a food ration of [-] calories per person per day.Moreover, due to the chaotic transportation and the imperfect distribution system, it is far from meeting this standard. In other words, most people are already hungry every day.

Norway, Sweden, and Denmark in Northern Europe rely on the herring from the North Atlantic fishing grounds, the aid materials provided by the Soviet Union, and the advantages of a vast land and sparse population and a small population. Food ration share of calories.This amount is only equivalent to more than half of the pre-war average level, and it is also mixed with a lot of "food substitutes" such as potato flour dregs and crude fish meal, which caused many people to suffer from dyspepsia and dysentery... But the people are good or bad The minimum food supply was still obtained, at least the commotion was avoided.

During this frightening "year without summer," Germany's food rations were also cut repeatedly, down to just [-] calories per person per day.And the staple food was downgraded from bread to potatoes, while butter, cheese and ham disappeared from store shelves without a trace.In order to solve the food crisis, the government and nutrition experts call on the people to eat by repeatedly chewing food carefully to fully absorb nutrients, but it is still just deceiving themselves and others.The hungry and panicked people boarded the train to Russia, and went to Siberia for a job that could eat them well.

The food rationing levels of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Austria in this "year without summer" are even more tragic than those of Germany, with only 950 calories per person per day, barely maintaining the level of starvation.Moreover, the food that can be supplied to the citizens is almost all potatoes except potatoes, not to mention meat and oil. Even vegetables have been wiped out on a large scale due to abnormal weather. Those citizens who turned their gardens into vegetable gardens cried for it.Many Austrians and Czechs suffered from night blindness and rickets, and others fell over while walking in the street and never got up again.

However, due to the dense population of the Netherlands and Belgium, the pressure on food supply is too great, and they have been severely damaged by the war. The per capita daily food ration is only an extremely pitiful 60.00 calories-if you only eat such a small amount of food every day, it is no longer possible to maintain the human body. The basic survival needs, not to mention the cold winter tens of degrees below zero.The average Dutch and Belgian simply cannot survive the year without additional food supplies from the black market.However, things on the local black market are really astonishingly expensive. The price of salted fish is 5000 times higher than the official price, the price of potatoes is 3000 times higher than the official price, and the price of bread is [-] times higher than the official price.However, due to the suspension of ports, shipping, and trade, the local unemployment rate exceeds [-]%, and most of the unemployed are penniless and cannot afford such expensive black market food... As a result, only in one city, Rotterdam, [-] people died of freezing and starvation during the "Year without Summer", and more than [-] people were hanged for stealing and looting food, and almost all the remaining living people suffered from edema.

In addition to food, in the major cities of these countries, the supply of other daily necessities is also very scarce-because there is no soap, housewives can only use lye as a detergent.The few cars that survived the world wars basically sat idle because they ran out of gasoline.In the frightening winter of minus [-] degrees Celsius, the coal supply stopped due to the interruption of the railway, and the central heating system in the city did not recover until five years later, so many old people froze to death in their own homes at night. On the bed, some unlucky ones froze into popsicles while picking up dead branches.In the park where the trees had been cut down for firewood, there were prominent signs everywhere: "No Suicide".Because there are people everywhere who have no way to survive.

As for France, Spain, Switzerland, Portugal and Italy, since the war ended in these countries the latest, there was no time to carry out post-war reconstruction, nor did they have time to establish a national strategic material reserve, so they were involved in the "year without summer" The low-temperature famine caused the rationing system to fail to be established. The banknotes issued by the government were equivalent to waste paper from the very beginning, and the economic operation was basically out of control.The little food and fuel aided by the Soviet Union must be given priority to the army, and the civilians can only let the people fend for themselves. Even the leading cadres of the local government often starve to death and freeze to death.
What's even more frightening is that when hunger overwhelms everything, all the humility and shame in human society are left behind by the hungry people who only live for their stomachs.They fixed their hungry eyes on their own kind and began to kill each other!All kinds of appalling news of cannibalism began to flood the newspapers, such as the discovery of an abandoned corpse whose thighs had been cut off in a certain street, rumors of nuns cooking abandoned babies from a certain monastery, citizens who bought expensive food on the black market Objects resembling children's fingers were found in sausages... When these horrific and cruel murders that violated human ethics gradually became normal in life, more and more people began to have mental breakdowns, and various mass suicides emerged in endlessly. Too many cannibal scenes to go mad.

All in all, in this gloomy "year without summer", according to incomplete statistics, at least 200 million people died of freezing and starvation throughout Germany.There are also 1000 million Germans who were forced to bid farewell to their homeland with tears in their eyes in order to get stuttering, and immigrated to Siberia to open up frontier wasteland for the Russians.The industry in France was completely shut down, and the production of agriculture and animal husbandry was reduced by three quarters. About 480 million French people died this year from nuclear explosions, radiation sickness, starvation, severe cold and malnutrition.Two million people died of starvation in Spain and 200 million in Italy.Switzerland, which was not self-sufficient in food, suffered a bunch of nuclear bombs, and the whole country fell into anarchy. According to local reporters, "swarms of beggars" blocked the roads in the Alps, begging passers-by for a piece of bread, or Use whatever shotguns, farm implements, clubs and knives you can find to rob houses.

Fortunately, at this time, the population of Egypt has not yet exploded, and the number of nuclear bombs suffered in the war is relatively small. The fertile and fertile Nile River Basin can still become the bread basket of the entire Mediterranean world like in ancient Rome, exporting to countries around the Mediterranean A considerable amount of surplus grain - relying on the grain looted from Egypt and Syria, as well as a small amount of relief food provided by the Soviets, the southern European countries finally managed to survive this year, although there are hungry people and starving people everywhere. Some people starve to death in the wilderness, and no one bury their corpses, but at least the government is still maintaining the minimum order.

However, on the island of Great Britain, which suffered a lot of atomic bombs at a high density, was abandoned by the United States and the Soviet Union at the same time, and has fallen into a dark age since the previous year, even such a tragic life is purely extravagant. The British who survived the explosion experienced endless chaos and attacks, and survived another dismal winter.After finally looking forward to the warmth of spring and the flowers blooming, they picked up the hoe and sowed the seeds in the ground, but what followed was the climate change, and the crops were almost fruitless.By this time, every household's food reserves have been exhausted, and they can't stand it any longer.

Thus, in this miserable "year without summer," the British found themselves without food, without fuel, without shelter and clothing, without even the rudimentary security, and with the last of their treasured reserves depleted, who knows. How to live until the next year... Facing the terrible fate of starving to death and freezing to death, residents in southern England are looking for boats and tying rafts in an attempt to cross the strait and find a way out on the European continent.

However, on the other side of the strait, the people of France and the Low Countries are also on the verge of starving to death and freezing to death, so there is no way to help the British islanders on the other side of the strait.What's more, Paris and Amsterdam were also bombed with nuclear bombs, and millions of dead were killed. The account of this blood feud has been recorded on the heads of the US and British allies. Seeing that these British people have the cheek to come to their own territory to grab things Eat, how can the French and the Dutch have a good face?Naturally, they grabbed their weapons and shouted to kill them. Hundreds of thousands of starving British people who came across the sea were lynched every day.

But despite this, the British, driven by hunger, continued to cross the sea in batches, and tried their best to arm themselves, forming various gangs of sea robbers, waiting for opportunities to land on the coast of the European continent from time to time, from the remaining Looting food and fuel in the settlements, the only goal is to keep yourself alive... Everything is like the Vikings who were forced by hunger and cold in the past, driving pirate ships to attack the European continent.

In the northern part of the British Isle, because it is too far away from the European continent, the British there have no way to escape. They can only starve to death in despair by thousands, or struggle to survive, constantly The ground broke through the lower limit and made various jaw-dropping actions—the birds and beasts in the wilderness of the Scottish Highlands were almost killed this year, and even the rats in the sewer became a delicacy on people’s dinner plates... Finally , all kinds of horror rumors of cannibalism began to spread everywhere, and various evidences did show that there were many cannibals in Scotland at that time:
In November [-], the first anniversary of the outbreak of World War III, the Scottish government in Edinburgh was destroyed in riots and fires, and radio transmissions to the outside world were stopped forever... No one can really say clearly, What happened in Edinburgh that day.It wasn't until after the war that the Soviet Union tentatively sent a marine corps into this abandoned city, and then searched the whole city, but found no living people, but found that several churches and palaces were erected Some large pots, the corners are full of scattered boiled human bones...

Compared with the United Kingdom, the situation in Ireland is slightly better. Although the food is also basically out of reach, at least there is a government formed by the Irish Republican Army, which is trying to maintain the minimum social order. In addition, it also organizes people to go fishing and collect edible bark and grass roots, as well as rushing to cultivate those more cold-resistant crops, and managed to win a small amount of relief aid from the Soviet Union for food, fuel and other living materials

But even so, the scene of the "Year without Summer" on the island of Ireland is already like a purgatory on earth.According to an on-the-spot interview report by a Soviet reporter: "...there were already a lot of beggars (in Ireland), and now the number has increased sharply. In every town, groups of women, children and old people gathered around the station. They crowded the road, like an army, everyone's eyes were full of despair, and the paleness of the dead was on their cheeks... In the wilderness, young children carried baskets, regardless of danger, climbed up dead trees to pick leaves to satisfy their hunger, and The leaves of the trees have been almost wiped away; everywhere the hungry people whose bellies swelled like balloons starved to death in the wilderness, no one gathered them up and buried them, but their thighs were cut off..."

In short, when the New Year’s bell rang in [-], all Europeans still silently thanked God and fate for allowing them to survive this arduous "year without summer"... but did not know what to do next , they will usher in an even colder and more miserable "Year of the Ice River"...

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PS: Regarding the new book, an editor suggested that I write "Social and Economic Problems in the World of Martial Arts", complaining about the unscientific traffic speed, unscientific level of information circulation, strange prices, communication barriers in forgotten dialects, and imperial court Weak sense of presence, etc., are you interested in this?

For example, when Ye Gucheng from the South China Sea and Ximen Chuixue from Saibei competed with each other, according to common sense, the two sides should talk to each other, and it is normal if they don't understand each other.

As for the price of each candied haws in Sword Net Three, the highest price is [-] taels of gold—well, let’s think that in the online game world, Tang’s gold is cheaper than iron!