Chapter 248: Appeals and Lies

"Hey, Hackett, where were we just talking about?"

The bar owner turned around and looked at the wolf-eared noble who was drinking beer on the side. His emotions were a little detached, as if he didn't care about this bar at all.

"We talked about how our team was smashed to pieces by the maggots during the expedition. When we desperately escaped back, we met another team of adventurers, and then watched them being swallowed by the big guy rushing out of the clouds."

He covered his head with a hood, shook the wine in the glass, and sighed.

"I found an island for emergency landing. If it weren't for the big brother next to me who found and rescued me on the road, I would have died in that big barrel."

Hacket was sincere, as if everything he said had really happened.

It only takes one voice, a spread of rumors, to make everyone raise the risk rating of that place in their hearts.

It reduces the risk of discovery of their camp on the island.

Yes, the rumor that there are extremely dangerous creatures on Sky Island No. 3 was spread in At Sky Island City by Ji Lin at his expense. It is a half-true and half-false rumor.

The elf leader can think of borrowing the large amount of manpower that already exists in this world to replenish his military strength that has just been severely injured, and let them die for him. The other human leader immediately reacted after suffering great losses in the attack on wild monsters, and he should try to cooperate with the forces that already exist here.

It only takes a negligible amount of money compared to the confrontation to get a safe environment for yourself, so why not do it?

The area around Sky Island No. 3 is extremely dangerous. The patrolling floating stingrays can cause devastating blows to ships without protection. There are also other creatures that can spit acid, such as flying fish like ramming cones. If you are lucky, you can also see groups of jellyfish emitting purple starlight in their bodies under the refraction of sunlight.

The rumors spread by Ji Lin only deepened the stereotype of the city itself - if there were no newspapers here, and there was only a notice office serving the Governor's Office, he would even be willing to pay the newspaper to help him publish it.

Their fleet has not yet built a stable, all-round patrol around the entire sky island. According to Chang Heng's preliminary report, they must maintain a garrison of at least 4,000 people to achieve this.

To carry out preliminary development of the island, such as controlling a medium-sized or large-scale mineral vein, the plan requires the deployment of up to 2,000 permanent land forces and four battalions of troops - Ji Lin currently has only 600 people including the newly trained musketeers, and there are 100 people stationed on the small sky island, and only 500 troops can be deployed on the super-large sky island.

Therefore, an environment for safe development is extremely important.

Ji Lin needs to examine how he wants to coexist with the creatures in the Sky Island world: whether to completely eliminate and wipe out all dangerous factors, or to coexist with some of them that can coexist with humans.

He hopes that no one will interfere with the slow and steady construction of the island during this period of time.

"Boss, another glass of wine, the wine here is good... Speaking of which, that woman just now..."

The man sitting next to Hackett didn't care, patted Hackett's somewhat sluggish shoulders, and asked him to relax a little.

Spreading rumors, this is one of their tasks... .

A team of adventurers who suffered heavy losses while trying to explore, desperately fled back to a safer area, and were rescued by others on the way. The person who rescued him was played by an officer, who kept a close eye on Hackett's movements to prevent him from escaping.

Although such plots are rare, they are by no means non-existent.

"Hey, you have a really good eye. I'm not exaggerating, the quality of the wine in this bar is the best... After this city, you won't find such delicious wine anywhere else."

The bar owner laughed twice and served another glass to the man who drank a glass of strong wine in two gulps - guys who drink big gulps are always more popular among mercenaries/adventurers than others.

"Those are people from the Geological Society. It's better to leave a good impression on them than a bad impression. No matter how ignorant others are, they are backed by a university. People like us can't compare to them. Maybe if we leave a good impression, we will ask them for help in the future."

The man raised his glass, saluted the bar owner, and took a sip.

One sip and a half of the glass.

"Ha, thank you, a toast to you."

Eliminate or cooperate, he must understand the other party's purpose.

Who told her so unlucky to meet the territory duo who were performing tasks here as soon as she came in, and expressed a strong desire to go to Sky Island No. 3.

There is no way.

It would be best if they could prevent the other party from going to Sky Island No. 3. His leader did not want any distinguished person to go to the island, and then be untraceable, and then troubles would follow.

That would be terrible.

At the same time, they also needed to hide themselves and find other leaders stationed in this fragmented world. After the battle of the elf leader, Ji Lin had confirmed that other leaders had arrived.

Information, or information.

The second task they received was to collect information.

Not only information about people, but also information about agricultural buildings in the sky island.

Unlike other leaders who pursued instant combat power or economic cooperation, Ji Lin wanted to see what kind of wisdom these people who arrived in this sky island world before them had accumulated in these years.

Agriculture, animal husbandry, hunting, building framework.

These are all valuable technical experiences that he can learn.

After they have obtained the necessary information, Ji Lin can use money to make up the rest, and then obtain an agricultural/animal husbandry production blueprint approved by the system at the system store.

Then use the blueprint to expand the various industries and realize that the Sky Island Farming Force can be self-sufficient.

Plant rare crops and increase income other than mining floating stone veins.

It is a pity that such good land on the Sky Island is abandoned.