The doctors arrived less than half a minute after they returned. A dozen or so people surrounded the explorers, using their medical skills to assess their injuries. Those with only superficial wounds or muscle damage were treated and restored directly using the healing abilities they possessed. For fractures, they were first set up before further treatment.
As the strongest member, the captain's injuries weren't too serious. After receiving some simple treatment, he went to report the team's progress to the administrators.
He saw the highest-ranking administrator of the settlement, Mike Smith, with four guards following him.
"I heard that you discovered an abandoned settlement and brought back new plants?"
"That's about it. The crop we found, according to the descriptions in the excavated documents, is believed by the scholars in the team to be a food called sweet potato."
The book says this stuff has a large yield and tastes pretty good; it should be able to increase our current grain production.
"Yes, that is indeed good news. The new food can diversify the diet of our residents, which will greatly help to boost morale and improve residents' happiness."
Moreover, with increased food production, we have greater population carrying capacity, can have more newborns, and can trade surplus food with other settlements.
Mike Smith nodded; he was already thinking about what would happen after large-scale sweet potato cultivation.
Putting aside everything else, from the day he became the top manager, he could be said to be walking on thin ice, taking every step with trepidation, and repeatedly confirming whether there were any problems with each decree he issued.
How many home guards need to be trained? Will too many of them affect the food supply?
Which direction should the exploration team go? How many people should be sent? What if they don't come back?
What is an appropriate number of scholars and artisans? How many people are needed for farmland? Is there enough fertilizer?
There's no way around it; he's truly the weightlifting champion of the community now. From sixty-year-old seniors to newborns, countless lives are on his shoulders.
He was extremely tired, but for the sake of everyone in the community, he gritted his teeth and persevered.
Fortunately, the vast majority of the news brought back by the exploration teams over the years has been good news.
"Our community has only been active for about forty years, so there's no rush to relocate."
However, having this backup plan means we won't be short of places to go when we need to relocate...
He noticed the expedition leader's expression; it seemed he wanted to say something more.
"Any further news?"
"Yes, there's also bad news. That abandoned settlement, to be precise, wasn't abandoned by human hands; it was conquered by the Dark Devouring Beasts."
When we arrived, we found that some Dark Erosion Beasts had already built their nests there.
The largest lair is located in the central management hub of the settlement. The exact size of the monsters is uncertain, but there are two races: giant lizards and giant snakes.
If nothing unexpected happens, the Dark Erosion Beasts that were added from the northern passage three months ago should have hatched from here.
The lair of a Dark Erosion Beast, quite large in size, is located not too far away.
This is certainly bad news for a human settlement.
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