Chapter 582 Population exceeds 10,000
During this period, on the battlefield in the southern border, due to Li Ce's tactical arrangements, although they had constant minor frictions with the rat people in the border area, they lived a relatively stable life within the Great Zhou.
Zhou Xu quite likes this kind of life, which is stable and busy, and internal development is also steadily improving.
After a hot summer and the beginning of autumn, the population of their Great Zhou officially exceeded ten thousand!
Of course, in Zhou Xu's eyes at this stage, this increased population cannot be considered as labor force at all. They are all newborns in their Great Zhou.
And these newborns are mainly lizard people.
There's no way around it. The population base of the Lizardmen is there, and they lay several eggs in a litter, so they are indeed more fertile than them.
"My lord, the files of the newborns are basically all here. So far, this is the only one found to have three-star potential."
Inside the temple, Wang Dong, holding a thick stack of reports, was reporting to Zhou Xu.
Compared with the adult population, it is undoubtedly easier to check the panel since the newborns are concentrated in one place.
Therefore, the first task of the Population Census Bureau after its establishment was to confirm the attribute panel of newborns.
Except for Wang Dong, the other five members are novices. Their work efficiency was not high in the early stages. It is good enough that they can complete this task now.
Among nearly two thousand newborns, there was only one with three stars. Zhou Xu was not sure whether his luck was good or bad.
After all, according to his standards, two stars are within the scope of ordinary people. Once a certain attribute reaches three stars, it will inevitably perform significantly differently from ordinary people.
There are not many people in the world who are so obviously different from ordinary people.
At the beginning, Zhou Xu was in charge of the panel for each population. Even for ordinary two-star populations, he had to confirm the talents one by one and assign the most suitable jobs for them.
There was no way. There was a population shortage at the time. In Zhou Xu's opinion, everyone had to give their best.
But everyone knows that this idea is only applicable when the scale is small, so they can still arrange it. But once the scale expands to a certain extent, this idea will no longer be realistic.
Fortunately, we now have a Population Census Bureau headed by Wang Dong.
While conducting the investigation and registration, they also roughly classified the other party's talents and abilities and assigned them appropriate fields. After that, they only had to make general arrangements for them.
Wang Dong and his team's work has obviously just begun...
According to their current work efficiency, it would be good if they can finish it before the end of the year. This is when Wang Dong takes on most of the workload. Otherwise, the five population enumerators alone would probably not be able to complete the survey until next year.
However, Zhou Xu estimated in his mind that after the five of them had finished looking at the entire population of their Great Zhou, their spiritual attributes should be upgraded to three stars.
By then, the abilities of the five of them will increase as their star levels increase, and their efficiency will naturally be improved in the future.
Meanwhile, at the border of the mountains...
Considering the vital importance of the border area, the members of the Construction Engineering Department located in the mountainous area have given priority to rushing to the border and setting up a garrison camp for the border garrison headed by Shi Lei.
And according to Zhou Xu's instructions, all the mountains and forests near the border area were cleared away to prevent the energy channel from being opened but blocked by the mountains and forests and unable to be discovered in time.
Their next job, to put it simply, is to patrol and garrison here every day, paying attention to the energy channels that may open at any time.
Counting the time, it has been almost a year since they discovered this area. During this year, this side of the border can be summarized in four words: "nothing happened."
As of now, their side of the border should be safe. Given Shi Lei's nature of seeking stability in everything, this is undoubtedly a good thing.
Just as he was thinking this, a whistle with a special rhythm came from a distance.
Hearing the whistle, Shi Lei, who was in the camp at the time, suddenly became gloomy.
This whistle sound was specially set by them. Blowing it only means one thing, that is, an energy channel has been opened!
Damn, I just said that this side is safe, but in the blink of an eye it is no longer safe! At this moment, although Shi Lei was in a bad mood, he did not stop for a moment and rushed to the location where the whistle came from at the fastest speed.
When he arrived, the patrol team that was closer to this side had already arrived first and had already deployed their troops around the opened energy channel.
During this period, the mountain soldiers who came with Shi Lei naturally immediately joined the ranks of alert.
During this process, Shi Lei stood at the back, looking at the energy channel with a cautious yet curious look.
For him, who has been working in mountainous areas for many years, this was the first time he saw the opened energy channel with his own eyes, and he felt magical.
Before Shi Lei could take a closer look, the opened energy channel began to rotate, and as it continued to rotate, it became smaller and smaller, and finally closed completely and disappeared.
Judging from the results, although an energy channel was opened, no unexpected situation occurred.
“Who was the first to discover this energy channel?”
"Captain, I discovered it."
A mountain soldier quickly stepped forward.
"When you discovered this energy channel, was it already formed or was it still in the process of forming?"
“It’s already formed.”
Shi Lei nodded after getting this answer.
[In other words, we don’t know exactly when it was formed.]
[According to the patrol frequency of the patrol team, the interval between them is about ten minutes. The previous patrol team did not find the energy channel, and when the next patrol team came over, the energy channel had already been formed. At the moment the whistle sounded, the energy channel had been formed for a maximum of ten minutes.]
[We rushed here, and the mountain road took about 17 or 18 minutes, so it lasted about 30 minutes? ]
While doing some simple reasoning and analysis in his mind, Shi Lei immediately rushed back to the garrison camp, wrote a report, and ordered the messenger to deliver it to their king as quickly as possible.
It was more than a month later when Zhou Xu received the news.
After almost a year of peace, the energy channel at the border of the mountains was finally opened.
Under this premise, the time interval for opening the energy channel becomes crucial.
In order to confirm this problem, Zhou Xu called Bo Levin again and successfully got the answer: one month!
Considering the distance between the two world fragments, the first appearance of the energy channel basically means that the two world fragments have reached a distance where they will attract each other.
The time interval for this distance to form an energy channel is basically one month.
As the distance continues to shorten, the time interval will become shorter and shorter.
(End of this chapter)
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