Several more days passed.
Most of the staircase has already been excavated; all that remains is some fine work like leveling and repair.
This staircase needs to bear the heavy responsibility of future transportation, so safety must be guaranteed.
As for the cable car and freight elevator, those can only be developed after the cliffside camp is established.
After everyone had finished eating, Qin Che tidied everything up and ordered the entire army to advance.
One by one, the soldiers climbed the stairs and looked up at the end.
Backpackers have a more convenient option: they can take off directly to the top of the cliff to wait and scout out the route in advance.
The Super Gene Group is the fastest ladder climber; they have exceptional physical abilities, and each of them seems to possess an indomitable spirit.
They are actually very strong.
As for the regular troops behind them, they did not have such physique and became quite tired after climbing for a while.
There are also some people who are wearing thick clothes, already carrying a heavy burden.
After working on the project for several days straight and digging so many steps, it's normal to be physically exhausted.
"Let the people behind take their time, you go and help them out."
Qin Che glanced back and saw the endless lines of troops still climbing upwards at a snail's pace.
Moreover, some troops at the foot of the cliff had not yet caught up.
The line was so long that just climbing the stairs was difficult.
Qin Che frowned. If even the elite troops were behaving this way, it would be even more difficult to get the laborers to carry the supplies.
It seems that Li Zhanhuo's proposal for a cableway and freight elevator is much more mature.
Qin Che led the vanguard to the top of the cliff, and it took a whole day for the rest of the troops to catch up.
Backpackers had already set up camp at the top of the cliff and were waiting. After the whole group arrived, everyone rested on the mountaintop for another night.
"The rest of the way is relatively simple. Just follow the direction of the patterns and you will reach the Hunter's Outpost. It is a building at the southernmost point of the Empire. Perhaps we can also use it as our transit point and build a freight yard."
Li Zhanhuo nodded: "According to your map, this hunter outpost is the most suitable."
Qin Che had drawn his own map.
The location of the hunter's outpost is extremely suitable for use as a freight station.
After the supplies were transported up, they were loaded onto trucks and driven directly to Bow City.
The only transportation challenge is the sheer cliff, but with cable cars and freight elevators, that's not a problem.
We should build a hundred or eighty freight elevators that hang outwards, covering the entire cliff face, to facilitate the transportation and flow of goods.
"But remember this: this path is extremely dangerous. Anyone who falls behind will fall into the projection world and never be able to get out!"
"Make sure you stay close to the troops!"
Qin Che ordered the entire army to follow him closely and advance at a slow pace.
They had to draw two lines on the ice layer on the cliff face, following the direction of the patterns.
This is the road.
Therefore, the troops had no choice but to advance and excavate at the same time.
Because Qin Che had instructed them, the soldiers dared not damage the ancient patterns, but instead carved out a sunken, flat road next to it.
Although it's rather rough, having a path means you won't lose your way.
The patterns serve as a guide, shining brightly beside it.
Li Zhanhuo was a little worried. First there were stairs, then roads. With tens of thousands of people working on this, he was afraid that supplies still wouldn't be able to get through.
Qin Che asked him, "Why do you say that?"
“The environment at the foot of the cliff is harsh, making it very difficult to build a transfer station.”
“That’s already the best location. The more outlying areas are prone to blizzards and can’t form a large-scale transportation network,” Qin Che said.
"However, whether it's building a cableway or a freight elevator, the transit station requires a lot of hard labor to carry and move things. There is no life here, and supplies are almost nonexistent. For us, the consumption is quite high. The food we have each day is enough for a whole day."
Qin Che said, "Food has never been a problem. What I'm afraid of is that no one will be willing to come to this freezing place to do hard labor."
Li Zhanhuo nodded silently.
This is also a problem.
However, some criminals and exiles could be captured and sent to the ice plains as punishment.
Or perhaps they were used to force slaves to work here.
People might die frequently.
It's not hard to imagine that if the transit station at the foot of the cliff were built, it would become a prison for the blood and sweat of countless people.
Of course, neither Qin Che nor Li Zhanhuo are saints.
The two of them were only thinking about how to do the heaviest work at the lowest cost.
...
Time flies,
A highway was built from the stairwell to the hunter's outpost, and then to the bow city.
When tens of thousands of people saw Bow City two months later, everyone was very excited.
"We're here! We're here!!"
"Is that Bow City ahead? How magnificent!"
"I've never seen this architectural style before."
"Nonsense, those are ancient ruins, of course you've never seen them before."
Li Zhanhuo wiped the sweat from his forehead, his emotions equally stirred.
The Lingbi people emerged from the desert, occupied the Garden of the Gods, spread throughout the Northern Plains, and now have even expanded their territory into the Ice Plains Ruins.
This is all thanks to the man in front of me.
Lord of Leopard Court, Regent Prince.
It's easy to imagine that if Bow City could be fully developed and reused, these seemingly brand-new cities would become the new home of the Lingbi people.
"What a huge city, actually hidden under a layer of ice."
Ignoring the warriors' excited expressions, Qin Che stood on the high slope and released his spiritual pressure toward Bow City.
Wave after wave of spiritual pressure spread out, covering the entire Bow City.
The Master's spiritual pressure can only be sensed by psychics.
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