Chapter 769 New Arrangements
After Zhou Xu issued the order, Shi Lei and Li Ce, who received the order, quickly took action. The first step was naturally to explore the surrounding areas of the territory.
In Anling City, led by Shi Lei, the exploration team set off quickly.
Unlike simply rushing on a journey, the work of exploring a new area often takes a steady, carpet-style approach, and it is generally difficult to improve efficiency.
In comparison, Green Forest City's actions are faster.
It’s not that they are more efficient, but after leaving Green Forest City and passing through the woods outside the city, what appear before them are towering mountains.
At the same time, the mountain walls facing Green Forest City were extremely steep and tall, making it basically impossible to climb them normally. This also made Li Ce and his team basically give up the idea of climbing the mountain directly.
In the past, if they were blocked by the mountain, there might be no other way except to slowly walk around the foot of the mountain to see if they could find a way to go around it.
But now it's different, they have hot air balloons.
In addition to being used to transport people, it can also be used to explore new areas.
After the hot air balloon took off, it continued to increase its flying altitude, allowing them to easily cross the mountain and see the scenery on the other side of the mountain.
"Surrounded by mountains and low-lying land..."
In order to facilitate the receipt of reports from both sides, Zhou Xu, who is now in the Black Stone City Lord's Mansion, is looking at the latest report sent by Li Ce.
"From the description in this report, there is a large basin to the south beyond the mountains outside Green Forest City."
As he spoke, Zhou Xu picked up a pencil and started scribbling on the paper in front of him. He was drawing a map.
[There is a large forest in this basin. Even if the hot air balloon flies in the sky, it is difficult to see what is in the forest.]
[But it's all forests, which also shows that there is no force developing inside. At most, there are some primitive tribes hiding there, so there is nothing to be afraid of. ]
After roughly marking the basin and the forest, Zhou Xu turned his attention back to the report, and then his expression was stunned.
"Wow, the mountains on one side of the basin are actually connected to the mountainous area. No, according to this situation, the mountains on one side of the basin are part of the mountainous area."
When Zhou Xu was flying over the mountains in a hot air balloon, he noticed that there were still many places within these mountains that they had not explored.
But the mountainous area was actually connected to the newly discovered basin, and was even right next to Green Forest City. Zhou Xu really didn't expect this.
In addition, while using the hot air balloon to understand the situation over there, they also used the hot air balloon's aerial vision to discover a canyon between two towering mountains that they could cross.
Li Ce had already tried it and was able to successfully reach the woodland surrounded by mountains by crossing the long canyon.
However, they did not rush in, but chose to withdraw first, wrote this report, and asked Zhou Xu whether he wanted to continue exploring further.
After all, judging from the intelligence obtained from the air, the forest area is quite large, and no one is sure what kind of threats are lurking in it.
Just as Zhou Xu was thinking this, Shi Lei's initial report from Anling City was delivered.
Although they also used the hot air balloon, he discovered more than Li Ce.
In terms of terrain, that area is a plain similar to theirs.
With the help of the hot air balloon's field of vision, they discovered the existence of many cities.
In order to avoid being discovered by the other party, the hot air balloon maintained a sufficient flying altitude, so the specific situation was not clear.
But what is certain is that further away in that plain area, there are large towering rock walls. According to their preliminary observations, they are suspected to be connected to the mountain walls on the other side of the wasteland.
At the end of the information, I also asked him what to do next.
After having Li Ce's report as a prelude, Zhou Xu has calmed down a lot when looking at Shi Lei's report, but his mind is working faster and faster, and he has some new ideas.
[According to my previous thoughts, the fragments of this world randomly encountered each other, attracted each other, and then pieced together, but from the findings in the two reports, it seems that this is not the case.]
[If Li Ce and Shi Lei's discovery was just an accident, then the fit between the two world fragments is a little too high.]
[Compared to this speculation, I prefer to believe that when the original world was still complete, these two world fragments were adjacent, or in other words, only two adjacent plots of land would attract each other and eventually be spliced together. This would not happen with other world fragments! ]
At this moment, Zhou Xu was undoubtedly more inclined to this guess.
Zhou Xu sorted out his thoughts and did not dwell on this issue for too long. The more important thing at the moment was to make arrangements for the new situation on both sides of the border between Shi Lei and Li Ce.
Spreading out a new piece of paper, Zhou Xu picked up his pen and began to write down the follow-up arrangements.
Their Great Zhou had just ended a war, and it would take time to digest the large number of new population. The right thing to do now was to focus all their energy on internal development.
With this idea in mind, Zhou Xu's plan for Anling City, the strange city that Shi Lei and his team had discovered, was to stay hidden and wait and see what happened.
As for the basin forest discovered by Li Ce and his team, the situation was different. Zhou Xu gave an order to send out a reconnaissance team to conduct in-depth reconnaissance.
After all, as far as we can see now, there are at most some primitive tribes hiding there.
In Zhou Xu's eyes, primitive tribes are a point of supplementing population and labor. Even though there are not many people in a tribe, a mosquito leg is still meat.
The most important thing is the temperament of the tribal members, which are often much more simple than the people in the New World.
After being incorporated, they can be easily converted into people who are extremely loyal to their Great Zhou. This is a very good thing, and this is also the biggest reason why Zhou Xu is willing to incorporate the primitive tribes.
As such, for the same reason, the mountainous areas that were not thoroughly explored before should be split into several teams and continue to be explored.
After receiving the order, Shi Lei and Li Ce followed Zhou Xu's instructions and took different actions, one advancing and one retreating.
Out of caution, Li Ce first found a suitable location in the canyon and built a front-line camp so that they could store survival supplies.
At the same time, if any accidents occur during the mission, they will also have a place to retreat and rest.
However, even Li Ce himself did not expect that this accident would come so quickly.
The reconnaissance team they sent out, after passing through the long canyon, had not yet approached the forest completely when a sharp arrow shot out from the woods and pierced the ground in front of them.
"Don't come any closer, outsider! If you come any closer, the arrows behind you won't fall to the ground anymore!"
(End of this chapter)
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