Huajing City is known as the most beautiful scenery of the polar mountains. Even those who are the most hostile to the polar mountains have to admit that if you don’t go to Huajing City, it is equivalent to not visiting the polar mountains.

The reason why Huajing City has such a reputation is entirely due to the special geographical environment of Huajing City and the unremitting efforts of the city lords of Huajing City in history.

Huajing City is built in a valley, and the surrounding mountains are all extinct volcanoes. However, the underground lava of these extinct volcanoes has not stopped moving, but has continuously created geothermal heat for so many years. These geothermal heats gather in Huajing City's valley, making spring feel as if it is fixed in a valley.

The founder of Huajing City initially considered the special environment here, so he transplanted a large number of rare flower plants from the south, and the city lords of all generations were constantly increasing the number of various flower plants. What was amazing is that no matter where the flowers came from and how different the growth environment was, after transplanting here, they could survive without exception.

All along, these flowers and plants have accumulated continuously, making their number reach an astonishing number. The number of species covers almost all plant varieties in the world, and even some plants that have been extinct from the outside can be found here. For this reason, even the botanical scholars in the school city will come to this legendary city in the heart of the polar mountains without hesitation for research.

At the beginning, Huajing City was not particularly large in area. It only occupied a small area in the middle of the valley and built a city wall. Most of the surrounding land was mainly planted with grain. At the beginning, it was also one of the few places suitable for planting grain among the polar mountains. The founders at that time even broke through the siege from more than a dozen tribes through extremely fierce war methods and obtained this valley.

Therefore, in order to prevent the valley from being taken away again, the initial generations of city lords were mainly military for the development of their territory, and most of the city buildings were in the style of military castles. However, as Huajing City married several surrounding big cities and tribes, a solid alliance was established, making these big cities and tribes called Huajing City’s defense circle, and the armed forces of Huajing City themselves became insignificant.

More importantly, huge military expenditures accounted for more than 70% of Huajing City's finances, seriously interfering with the development of Huajing City. Moreover, the officers and soldiers at that time were also extremely domineering, causing very bad influences and public grievances in Huajing City.

So, when the military threat outside disappeared, the lord of Huajing City began to deal with internal problems. After several targeted arrests, the military forces in Huajing City were completely disbanded, and then the established military units were directly disbanded, leaving only an armed force of the City Guards. Later, the walls of Huajing City were demolished on the grounds of hindering the expansion of the city, which also made Huajing City the first city in the polar mountains without city wall defense.

Perhaps it is precisely because of Huajing City's practice of reducing armed forces and dismantling the city walls that the surrounding city and tribes feel that Huajing City is no longer a threat, which makes the surrounding areas avoid Huajing City even if there are various disputes. Huajing City also uses this special political environment to shape itself into a completely harmless image. This harmless image makes the tribes of the surrounding city-states in the surrounding area choose Huajing City as the place for negotiation without exception. Over time, this place has become an absolutely neutral area in the practical sense.

Although Huajing City looks like it has no military power and only needs a hundred-man team to easily capture it, in fact, no matter how much people look down on Huajing City, they will not underestimate Huajing City's strength, because Huajing City has dismantled its armed forces and other armed forces, it has also gained the support of another force, which is the power of a natural shaman.

Shamans are not extraordinary things native to the polar mountains. People in the polar mountains initially advocated natural forces such as ice, snow, storms, lava, etc., and only developed primitive worship of these primitive forces and did not form a systematic belief. Later, the natural belief of shamans was introduced from the south to the polar mountains, and each tribe began to build the pan-shamanic faith with the natural power they advocated.

The reason why it is said to be a pan-shamanistic belief is that each tribe does not recognize the natural way of the shaman core. They also admire the development and mastery of various natural forces by shamans, and integrate their own primitive priesthood rituals to form the primitive priest system of the current Northland tribe.

Although shamanism did not become the main belief in the polar mountains, it was not rejected and suppressed like the missionaries of the True God Church, which allowed shamanism to form a certain scale among the mountains and eventually combined into the current natural shamanism.

As far as the overall power is concerned, the natural shamans will probably rank out of the top ten among the polar mountains, but in terms of deterrence, the natural shamans will definitely rank in the top three, because the natural shamans will be the organization with the most extraordinary power among the polar mountains, and it has a very good relationship with the priests of various city-states and tribes. If necessary, these relationships can be used to influence some decisions of the decision-making level of the polar city-states.

When the Shaman Association was first established, there was no fixed headquarters. When it was necessary to discuss and decide what to do, the city-state or tribe where the Great Shaman was located was usually used as the meeting location. Until later, because the meeting location was not selected, the Shaman would accidentally get involved in a big dispute that affected seven city-states and more than a dozen tribes, and the members lost nearly half.

In this big dispute, members of the Natural Shaman Society were seriously injured, but the number of people in the tribe was also astonishing. When the polar mountains saw the strength of the Natural Shaman Society, they were also full of vigilance against the Natural Shaman Society. If the Natural Shaman would not make a clear statement at this time, then what awaited it would be the same situation as the True God Church.

Therefore, the Great Shaman at that time decided to change the tradition of not having a headquarters. Finally, after discussion, he chose to establish a headquarters of a natural shaman society in Huajing City, which is an absolutely neutral area, while also showing his neutral attitude to the city-states and tribes of the polar mountains.

In this way, the Natural Shaman Association was summarized into the strength map of Huajing City, and its influence was also increased exponentially in all aspects due to the addition of the Natural Shaman Association.

Flower Spirit Day is the most important festival in Huajing City and the most important festival in the natural shaman club. This festival is not fixed. It usually starts on the day the first black storm in the snow field ends, and will not end until the next black storm appears.

During this festival, the shamans will go to the streets and use their own power to promote the growth and release of flowers and plants inside and outside the city. The entire city will be filled with the refreshing fragrance of flowers. People from all cities and tribes from the mountains will live here until the end of the festival. This period is naturally the day with the largest population of Huajing City. What’s interesting is that a fertility wave will erupt in the entire polar mountains in ten months, so the various cities and tribes in the polar mountains are more willing to call the Flower Spirit Festival the Conception Festival.

Because it involves population reproduction, the Flower Spirit Day is naturally no longer just a local festival in Huajing City. All the city-states in the polar mountains also regard the Flower Spirit Day as their important festival. Even if they cannot go to Huajing City to celebrate the festival in person, they will try to buy some fresh flowers sent from Huajing City to decorate their homes.

However, this year's Flower Spirit Day became a little wrong. First of all, the first black storm in the snow field lasted several times more than in previous years. There was still no sign of a stop over the past ten days. A large number of people from other city-state tribes who went to Huajing City to celebrate the festival in advance were stranded in Huajing City. So many people have been concentrated in one city for a long time, which inevitably affects all aspects of the city, such as prices, hygiene, etc.

During this period, not only the locals in Huajing City are extremely dissatisfied with their lives, but other people who come to celebrate the festival in other places are also complaining. This resentment continues to accumulate and explode. Coupled with some intentional or unintentional instigation, there have been many disputes between locals and foreigners. Within ten days, the city guards of Huajing City handled no less than 100 battles between locals and foreigners, and the number of people arrested was as high as 1,700, which is somewhat beyond the number of people that the city guards with only 1,500 people can handle.

Secondly, there was a battle between Bishan City and the Haider tribe, which were only a few mountains away from Huajing City. The battle showed no sign of suffocation. Instead, it expanded rapidly and won over allies. Both sides had already assembled nearly 30,000 troops at the border between the two places, and a war would start at any time.

You should know that in the mountains of the polar regions, due to various conditions, the fights between the vast majority of city-states and tribes only involve a few hundred people. Even large-scale battles are only a few thousand people. Only a very small number of wars that really affect the situation in the mountains of the polar regions are counted in ten thousand people, but a number of people like 30,000 people is still rare. More importantly, the time when they chose to start the war was a bit beyond everyone's expectations.

Although there is no explicit regulation, all the city-states and tribes in the polar mountains have adopted a default approach, treating the festival time of the Flower Spirit Festival as the peace time of the entire polar mountains. All struggles of all sizes have stopped during this period. Not to mention the war starts, even the ongoing war or battle will stop. After the festival is over, both sides will safely do what they should do after the festival.

This non-standard default peace period has lasted for hundreds of years and has long become a habit for everyone in the polar mountains. However, now Bishan City and the Haider tribe have broken this habit and acted on during the Flower Spirit Day, which shocked everyone who heard the news, and also wondered if it was true.

After the news spread, different city-states and tribes sent people to verify, and the feedback all said that this matter was true without exception. As for the reasons given by both sides of the war, it was very sufficient, that is, the first black storm this year has not ended, so the Flower Spirit Day has not begun, and they started the war at this time without destroying tradition.

The city-states and tribes could not refute the arguments given by both sides of the war, because what they were saying was the fact that the Flower Spirit Day did not begin, and judging from the current situation of the black storm in the snow field, it is probably possible to last for ten days.

For Huajing City, this sudden outbreak of war is really the prelude to a disaster. Because the war is very large, the civilians in the territories of both sides have to leave the battlefield and avoid the fire of war. If it is at other times, just live in a relatively level place nearby for a period of time and wait for the truce before going back.

But the black storm on the snow field has not stopped yet and is still intensifying. The polar mountains are also covered by the black storm. Although there are mountain barriers, the intensity of the wind and snow cannot be compared with the endless snow field, but it is definitely not a range that ordinary people can bear. Therefore, the usual method of avoiding war is not used at all. Only death is waiting in a place without blocking the wind and snow. Therefore, those refugees who avoid war on both sides of the war can only find a suitable place to take refuge.

Huajing City is the city closest to the location of both sides of the war, and its rich living environment is basically the preferred refugee place for refugees on both sides. However, Huajing City has been overwhelmed by the surging wave of refugees. The city's overall tolerance was originally because of its stranded here, and the outsiders who were preparing to celebrate the festival were reached. Now so many refugees have come here, and the continued success of Huajing City has basically reached the brink of collapse.

To this end, Huajing City had to convene all the officials and Vera Thotmull, who is a natural shaman, to hold a meeting at the city lord's residence to discuss how to resolve the current crisis in the city.

However, when these managers were discussing countermeasures, the city guards responsible for maintaining order had already made arrangements first. They mobilized a large number of carts to fill the soil with cloth bags, surrounded the entire outer area of ​​Huajing City, and combined it into a simple city wall to block the refugees from getting closer. After hundreds of years, Huajing City, which had no city wall, also appeared again in Huajing City, even if the city wall was not standardized.

At the same time, in order to be able to defend the city wall, the city guards temporarily recruited a large number of soldiers from the city, including locals and foreigners, forming a militia team to assist them in defending the simple city wall built by the carriages to prevent refugees from climbing over.

The action of the City Guards made the already very nervous situation in the city become more and more tense. Various rumors began to spread in the city, and everyone began to hoard food and buy weapons. Because the main defense target of the City Guards became refugees outside the city, they had no time to estimate the security issues in the city, and for a while, crimes such as robbery and murder continued to occur in this city covered with flowers, and the entire situation began to collapse towards the abyss of chaos.
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