Dedicate One’s Mind

Chapter 1283: The first light of the cold wave, the expansion of the island

In the east of the sky and the earth, the golden crow rises, and the light spreads across the sky and the earth, and a new day begins in the world.

The cold wave is heading south, the wind and snow are blowing, the clouds are heavy, and the weather is gloomy all day long. The sunshine this day is not warm compared to previous years. Not to mention the melting of the ice and snow, the flying snowflakes in the sky never stop. .

However, it has been cloudy for many days. In comparison, this weak sunshine seems so bright. It is the first ray of sunshine after the cold wave hits in winter, which is of great significance.

Everyone looked up, as if they had seen a new life, and had a little more hope for the future. The young children were playing outside, and they were so innocent that they couldn't wait to enjoy the sunshine and forget all the suffering they had suffered before.

Outside Prince Jiang Qi's tent, the guards took this as a sign of good luck and were also talking about it. Faced with the chaos outside, they did not stop it.

Noisy sounds from the outside world entered the tent, and Prince Jiang Qi slowly woke up, only to feel dizzy. Sleep is a time for spiritual cultivation, but who would have expected that an unknown Lord of the West Sea would suddenly appear. , opening your mouth is to make a new covenant with yourself.

Seeing his momentum, it didn't seem fake. In order to protect the interests of the Daji Dynasty, and at the same time to win over the Lord of the West Sea, Prince Jiang Qi spent the whole night thinking about how to have a conversation, and the loss of his mental energy was unbearable. , it would be strange not to be tired.

But this night's hard work is also meaningful. At least Prince Jiang Qi successfully established an alliance with Wu Yi. Prince Jiang Qi promised the right to preach, and Wu Yi promised to help Prince Jiang Qi promote his reputation and help him ascend to the throne.

In view of the fact that Prince Jiang Qi had no food and there were countless victims, Wu Yi even gave Prince Jiang Qi several shallow sea islands. These islands were rich in products, with swarms of fish and shrimp, and could feed hundreds of thousands of people, although they were of no use to the overall situation. What a big change, but it can effectively alleviate Prince Jiang Qi's current difficulties.

Prince Jiang Qi understood that if the victims were sent to these islands, they would probably turn to the Lord of the West Sea and become his followers in the future.

But if you don't send them, you will die. If you send them, you can still live, and it will be a great achievement for you. Therefore, after weighing it, you did not refuse, and agreed to send the advance troops to land first before making a decision.

All in all, the alliance between Wu Yi and Prince Jiang Qi is not just an alliance based on words. It is also an alliance with vital interests. An alliance based on words can never be as good as an alliance of interests.

Wu Yi naturally looked down upon the dozens or millions of victims who had migrated to the island. His real purpose was to incorporate all the people of the Daji Dynasty into his reincarnation system.

Of course, this is almost impossible to achieve. The City God system that has been operating for tens of thousands of years cannot be defeated so easily. However, this cold wave has given Wu Yi the greatest opportunity to take a big step forward.

Wu Yi can threaten Prince Jiang Qi with the life and death of the island disaster victims. If he succeeds, it will be a great success. If he fails, it will be a big mistake. But similarly, if Wu Yi wants to preach within the mainland, he also needs the support of Prince Jiang Qi. A mutually beneficial alliance is thus constructed.

A month later, after preliminary exploration preparations and mid-term wrangling, the first batch of victims went through untold hardships and arrived on the desert island. They survived by eating wild fruits, fishing and hunting. On the desert island, There was nothing. People drilled wood to make fire and built wood for nests. They lived like savages, but at least they survived.

And being far away from the mainland, the force of the cold outside the Great Wall has weakened a lot by the time it reaches the deserted island. Compared with my hometown, the climate is mild and humid, making it a paradise on earth. Of course, there is also the blessing of Wu Yi behind this.

This cold wave was originally a calamity for the Daji Dynasty. It had little to do with the West Sea. If it was blocked, it would be blocked, and there was no need to worry about any backlash from heaven and earth. However, as the relationship between Xihai and the Daji Dynasty becomes increasingly closer, I am afraid that it will not be able to survive alone when disaster strikes in the future.

In the twelfth lunar month of winter, everything is withered. That is to say, there can be wild fruits on such overseas desert islands. On the mainland, not to mention the wild fruits, even the bark of the trees has been eaten by the victims. As a last resort, they began to eat Guanyin soil.

In fact, if the situation had not allowed Prince Jiang Qi to hesitate any longer, he might have pressed on and negotiated a better condition with Wu Yi. However, with internal and external worries on his shoulders, he had to succumb to reality.

As far as Wu Yi is concerned, it means that he can accept the souls of the deceased victims in an open and honest manner. During this period of time, it can be said that Wu Yi has been working hard for this matter.

Wu Yi personally trained and trained many spiritualists. Their responsibilities are the same as those of the bull-headed and horse-faced people in folk mythology. They are responsible for transforming the souls of the dead. Their status is not high and they belong to the lowest level, but they are the deepest layer of the tentacles and are responsible for the reincarnation system. Indispensable part.

No one knows the exact number of people who were killed by the cold wave. In fact, compared to the number of people who were frozen to death, the food shortage caused by the cold wave and even the subsequent looting and killing were the biggest casualties. reason.

If the victims died locally, no matter what the reason, the local city god would collect the souls, and Wu Yi could not get involved; if they died in other places, they would be lonely ghosts and would not be allowed to reincarnate.

If Wu Yi had not come forward to collect these dead souls, it can be expected that after the cold wave ends, many supernatural events will occur, even if they are related to these lonely ghosts, they may not be able to be completely suppressed for hundreds of years.

Wu Yi's move was a meritorious service to the Daji Dynasty. When Wu Yi led the souls of the dead into reincarnation, he was surrounded by a golden light of merit. In the past, he tried hard to obtain the golden light of merit, but now he does whatever he wants, and the merit will come naturally. Not to mention, it’s quite ironic.

And in fact, Wu Yi doesn't particularly value this meritorious golden light. The key is to improve the reincarnation system.

Another few months have passed, and this time the cold wave started early and ended late. It lasted for nearly half a year and ran through winter and spring. Even with the arrival of summer in previous years, the ice and snow have not melted away.

What does this mean? Friends who have never experienced farm work may not understand that a cold wave that lasts for such a long time means that normal sowing and spring plowing cannot continue this year. In other words, this year is destined to be a famine year. The food crisis is visible to the naked eye.

Correspondingly, Prince Jiang Qi must rely more on Wu Yi. He has repeatedly begged Wu Yi for guidance on some overseas desert islands, otherwise the people of the Daji Dynasty will starve to death.

Wu Yi naturally asked him to increase his chips step by step. Nowadays, the temples of the sea are all over the Daji Dynasty, and the Daji Dynasty has also set off a wave of overseas expansion.

We have to expand. If we don’t expand, there is only a dead end. Many people had no choice whether to fight the waves or eat Guanyin soil until they died. Now they are naturally willing to live.