Chapter 464 Vine Island and Outpost
Transfer station.
A super small floating island with an area of one square kilometer.
It is named Vine Island not because it is made entirely of vines, but because it has sufficient water and has a vine ecological network comparable to that of a medium-sized sky island.
The lush dark green vines are stacked and interlaced, replacing the original green fields and taking root. The giant vines and small plants form a special jungle-like biosphere on the sky island.
The vines are intertwined and drooping downward to weave a group of dark green nests that can reproduce a large number of organisms.
This small island group did not originally exist in the airspace of both sides. It is a small floating island specially created by the system to prevent the airspace in the two airspaces.
These scattered floating islands can form a temporary platform supply network, so that the air fleet can get supplies without landing.
The fleet shown to the island alliance was not his entire expedition fleet. In addition to his exploratory attack fleet, there was also a "bridge-building engineering team" carrying a large amount of building materials.
The engineering team had a mission, which was to select an island along the way as a bridge platform to provide guidance and temporary berthing for subsequent troops.
For example, this vine island was a very special "supply island" with a large amount of food and water. The engineering team carrying a large amount of building materials built a comprehensive small supply station on this island. The temporary small airport could accommodate about three airships.
The other airships just needed to find an empty place to stop. The airport was for maintenance and re-equipment. The biggest damage to this fleet was that the hard locking devices of some ships were directly damaged because they were released too quickly - the joints needed to be repaired.
For example, the giant ships used by the Ring Island Alliance cannot dock at these small temporary airports.
Those giant ships need to be inspected at special specialized airports... Their heavy ships even make them more demanding on space.
As the cruise fleet gradually descended to a rare piece of space on this vine island under the command of the advance team of the engineering team.
"Come back alive!"
The narrow environment is really not a place to stay.
Li Yan ran out of the cabin, took a long breath of the fresh air produced by the plants, and showed an expression of finally being relieved.
He didn't know how those soldiers got used to living in the cabin for three days, and they slept on a large bunk bed, ten people in a pod, and spent three days sleeping on the board.
Thanks to the occasional cold wind in the sky, the air in the cabin is actually quite good, with the unique coolness and freshness of the high altitude.
As the officer who received him said, every bit of weight and space in this airship has its own use.
This is the trade-off made by the airship to improve its combat effectiveness - even the airships of the Ring Island Alliance are divided into several large areas to drive low-level soldiers in like pigs to let them rest inside, and captains can be assigned to relatively comfortable rooms.
Their carrying capacity is not transformed from the void, and building compartments requires wasting carrying weight. It is better to let these consumables sleep directly.
The rooms provided to senior officers can be a little more luxurious because of the sufficient space.
"Well, we will stop here for two days, and then set off..."
The officer who was responsible for docking him touched the military cap on his head.
Gray soldiers walked down from the airship, and each of them had the same expression of "finally freed" as Li Yan.
The airship's environment was completely different from the word "comfortable".
"If you need it, we will use the existing materials to help you build a temporary pod, 10 meters long, with enough space for living."
Li Yan listened to the officer's slightly apologetic words, and his eyes swept over the giant vines around him. He wanted to see where Ji Lin was.
The vines on this small island grew very well, so well that he, the tree lord, could feel the breath of life emanating from the 10-meter-thick vines without exerting any force.
In the vine forest farther away, large patches of light white petals grew, and some of the petals that had withered revealed slightly green fruits. The deeper in the forest was also a scene of prosperity.
This kind of island is undoubtedly a paradise for plant lords.
"Oh, the commander-in-chief, over there..."
The officer seemed to see Li Yan's purpose.
He pointed to the overhead platform built with wooden materials not far away. Unlike the giant vine platform they were standing on, the overhead platform made entirely of wood brown had the breath of creation.
There were also special temporary sentry towers and wooden houses for living.
A temporary small integrated berth.
Their outpost.
At this time, Ji Lin was thinking about another problem.
With abundant water and abundant food, if they wanted to control this island, they had to face the original residents of this special island... some giant arthropods that were at least half a head tall.
It was not an easy task to control the jump platform island between the two airspaces. The system still tried its best to put creatures that were not so easy to deal with for this small jump platform island.
The corpse of a giant crab was placed in front of him.
It is a bit smaller than the leader's mud crab, but it moves faster and is more fierce.
This is the bad news.
The good news is that these giant arthropods can still be used as food for the outpost. The meat they produce is non-toxic and harmless, and even tastes quite good.
The 12.7 bolt-action rifles equipped by the leader's infantry can still effectively fight these armored monsters.
Ji Lin's eyes were on the giant vines not far away.
And these giant vines will produce quite good wood, but the liquid they secrete when they are mined makes them more difficult to mine than ordinary wood.
There is food, sufficient water, and enough building materials.
This means that even if this outpost does not rely on the leader's supplies, it can slowly produce various basic materials to maintain... Not bad.
Mineral islands that produce metals and ores, strange islands covered with various mushrooms, lake islands that look like flying bowls, elemental islands with a large number of neutral elemental life, etc.
No wonder the engineering team chose this island to build their outpost.
However, facing these large arthropods...
I need to deploy a lot of troops to defend here... Wait, didn't I just pull Li Yan over here...
Ji Lin touched his chin and smiled.
It seems that he doesn't need to send a special defense force, but I don't know if Li Yan will let the tree take root and the giant vines take root.
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