Chapter 245 New Camp

"This place is not suitable for camping. The terrain is too low."

Chang Heng stepped on the soft and moist ground. The soil here was as wet as if it had just rained. He turned around and looked at the soldiers who were cleaning the camp. They were grouped in groups of five with bayonets to check if there were any survivors.

From time to time, screams and gunshots were heard. It was the musketeers who were helping them return quickly.

Due to the ambush during the camp cleaning, the expedition team was injured and killed.

According to the number of remaining equipment on the ground, about 100 enemies were killed in this battle, most of whom were lizardmen with fine scales, long tails and snake pupils. They were ruthlessly left behind in the middle of the camp by the elves, fighting with the fully armed musketeers with the simplest iron tools.

Some elven guards who could not evacuate also hid in the ruins and waited for an opportunity to ambush.

The throwing objects of the lizardmen slaves and the magic arrows shot by the injured elven guards who could not evacuate were quite deadly.

The musketeers without any armor would be stabbed to the bone if they were hit.

But most of them would not survive to use their weapons, because the first wave of cleanup was not just musketeers with flesh and blood.

Instead, it was the shaking steam automatons that indifferently spewed high-temperature and high-pressure steam into every building. The steam penetrated all the gaps in the building and burned the target, and then the musketeers rushed into the room to end their pain amid their painful wails.

Fighting is fighting, and the soldiers have no hobby of torturing their opponents. Doing their best to eliminate the enemy as quickly as possible is the greatest respect for them.

Chang Heng looked at the equipment piled up in the middle by the soldiers, picked up a piece of green grass and chewed it to offset the lingering smell of gunpowder and blood in the camp.

In front of him lay a pair of blood-stained arm armor, which was left after his broken arm disappeared. Without the assistance of hunting spiders, the hunters could not exert their combat effectiveness in the forest. A rash pursuit would only increase the losses of his troops. If this batch of troops carried hunting spiders, he was confident that he could use the air-to-ground advantage of the airship to destroy all these elves in the deep forest.

It was a pity that he didn't kill them with one shot.

He was thinking about whether to suggest to the lord to make a drink made of grass juice, which would refresh the mouth and offset the pungent smell of gunpowder.

"Collect all the resources, and the airship will take off to conduct a reconnaissance of the area with a radius of 5 kilometers. We must find a campsite with higher terrain before nightfall, or at least settle down first."

The equipment from other lords is also a valuable asset for them. At the least, it can be used as a simple raw material resource to supplement the camp, and at most, it can be used to obtain useful technologies in the territory through reverse research and development.

The soldiers who collected the instructions returned to the airship and let it rise slowly, overlooking the vast sky island world like observation balloons rising from the ground.

The new vision map also appeared on Ji Lin's map panel through their observation, rivers, fields, green trees, mountains.

Mineral veins and local biomes.

It was like a new ecosystem full of vitality.

He now faces a difficult decision, that is, whether to gradually move the facilities of the Sky Island to the Type-5 Sky Island, where the outposts on the Type-5 Sky Island can best play their role.

If he moves, he can build a defense line on the Sky Island at a very fast speed to maintain his control.

At the same time, he can quickly replenish the lost troops for the expedition team and transport equipment and ammunition supplies to the territory.

A medium-sized floating stone vein produces 100 units of floating stone per day, and about 120 units per month, which is almost the total output of floating stones in the entire Sky Island. And such medium-sized floating stone veins can be observed in the entire Type-5 Sky Island.

Too big, too wide, too many dense forests.

To maintain control, too many resources need to be invested. With the current 10,000 people in the territory, they want to conquer this sky island that is endless and can be counted in hundreds of square kilometers.

No one can.

Not to mention that they can only send 100 troops, and another 100 are in training.

If they don't move, they can keep the materials for the construction of the island.

The price is to maintain a supply line for two days. It takes a day for the Seagull-class airship to reach the Type 5 island, and the return trip will be faster.

But a round trip also takes two days.

Ji Lin rubbed his eyebrows, and the tip of the pen crossed the paper, writing the plan on the paper.

Of course, there is also a best of both worlds plan - that is, to drive this Type 5 island directly to dock with the Type 5 island, so that they don't need to give up the accumulation, defense buildings, farmland, and composting field on the Type 5 island.

But the thrusters needed to move this entire island... He couldn't find them at all, and that level of energy was simply not something he could solve.

Even the future lords who build floating fortresses will not dare to push a few square kilometers of floating islands around so carelessly, as it consumes too much energy.

He decided not to move the core of the outpost for the time being, and wait until the first landing troops gain a foothold before making a final decision. Jumping to a floating island is already a very risky thing.

If he moves the core of the outpost again, one wrong step will lead to a complete loss.

Once the core of the outpost is destroyed, it will take a month to rebuild.

One month of development stagnation.

However, the good news from Chang Heng that they had annihilated more than 100 enemies in the offensive battle, with only one casualty, really lifted his spirits in his busy work.

It seems that the military construction of the territory has been very effective.

Ji Lin breathed a sigh of relief, looking at the pile of reports in front of him that needed to be handled. That was another good news: the middle and grassroots government officials had completed the initial training and internship.

But this did not mean that Ji Lin could immediately become a hands-off boss.

He still had to be bound to the position of the highest administrative chief for several weeks. When his subordinates were familiar with their business and could handle related issues by themselves, the bureaucratic system of the territory would be considered to be initially completed.

As long as he could get through it, he would be liberated after getting through this period of time.

At least that's what Chongshan told him.

The first week since Jeanna left, I missed her.

Ji Lin looked at the reports on the table that needed to be handled by him sadly and sighed.

He also wanted to go out and breathe fresh air and taste the creatures of the Sky Island world.