Chapter 675
Chapter 675 - 655: Laying Out
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Everyone has their own way of living. While Lu Ping’an was busy breeding War Beasts, others were also accelerating their hunting pace.
This is a prosperous world, a new world with a complete ecosystem, and those who are prepared can naturally harvest a lot here.
Each team’s configuration is different, some focus on taming beasts, some on gathering, and some on collecting intelligence.
In the same world, the management ideas and the direction of efforts are completely different for every person and team.
"...Our plan needs to be revised."
Wang Xier, who was the nominal deputy conductor of the exploration team, felt a little uncomfortable.
She was here on a mission, a heavy and tedious one...For her, it was both responsibility and opportunity, glory and crisis.
She was already prepared to die here, but she never expected that the "hidden core mission" would fail as soon as she set out.
"...The Third Home Project failed from the very beginning..."
As many people predicted, the Desert Kingdom’s Saphire people invested so much, not because they were blindly following the trend.
They were preparing their own way out... After their own world was destroyed, they inevitably became frightened and doubtful about the new world.
Naturally, multiple bets and multi-world migration became their top choice.
Especially after being "divided" by humans, they felt even more insecure... Becoming a vassal or being fused was not considered good by many high-level members of the Desert Kingdom.
This primitive world, without an intelligent race, naturally became one of the top choices for the Desert Saphire people when it appeared in the eyes of the Ancient City people.
Compared to ordinary Earth explorers, their biggest advantage is having unregistered private ships, so to a certain extent, re-immigration is possible.
They did not plan to abandon Earth; after all, the prosperous, peaceful (?), technologically advanced, and convenient new world also had great appeal to them.
However, this did not affect their plan to establish a colony here, migrate tens or even hundreds of thousands of people, and leave a branch for their civilization and race.
From the perspective of the Ancient City, some things can be done but not mentioned... It’s completely acceptable for you to remove tens of thousands of people, and our city can reduce some pressure, just leave the technology and resources, and as long as the core team is still there, some troubles are nothing.
Moreover, even if you really succeed in developing a colony, it will take at least a decade or more... By that time, your technology will have been completely absorbed, and it’s up to you.
Both parties were actually pretending to be confused as long as they didn’t cross the line, and everyone could work together to make a fortune.
Wang Xier’s mission was to lead the pioneering team here, explore and collect intelligence in the early stage, and prepare for possible immigration later.
"Whether it’s the Grey Edge Tribe or those Divine Beasts, they are all enemies that threaten civilians, and if the two tribes start fighting on this land... the plan will be completely impossible to implement."
The original "refugee camp" might become a battlefield, and naturally, all plans would be ruined.
She had to adjust the plan again...
"Do we need to compete with other explorers?"
While others were going crazy for Divine Beasts, these Saphire people fell into confusion.
After all, Divine Beasts represented power, possible powerful weapons, and the opportunity to break Decree-level, Rule-level, and even Deity...However, the Saphire people didn’t need power, or at least, didn’t crave it as much.
They had the accumulated wealth of their kingdom for countless years, the top combat power of five Deities, and the hidden Rule-level combat power among millions of elite populations was far beyond the reach of inferior cities.
Unlike humans who crave high-end combat power, their current population ratio actually had an overflow of high-end combat power, far exceeding the level of self-preservation... Although new high-end combat power is good, it is not necessary and not worth taking the huge risk of hunting gods for them.
To give an inappropriate example, losing a Rule-level during a fight with a Divine Beast would most likely result in a loss... However, it’s different for human explorers. Barefoot human explorers are truly daring and willing to bet big, no matter how much they lose, because acquiring a Rule-level is enough to cover their costs.
Now, the current situation on the green planet has disrupted all of their plans.
Their original primary task has become meaningless, and the madness of the others seems insignificant as well. They feel like outcasts in their own team, unsure of what to do.
Wang Xier is very troubled; she fought for this opportunity to lead her team, and if she doesn’t produce results, it may directly affect her future... Her brothers and sisters won’t give her a second chance to rise again.
She has to show results, but attempting to hunt the gods could also result in significant losses.
From the standpoint of her tribe, the best course of action right now is to do nothing and wait for reinforcements. However, that would also mean she has wasted this opportunity and achieved nothing.
That is her dilemma; it seems like both doing something and doing nothing are wrong choices. The change in the overall situation has placed her in a difficult position.
"...Let’s start with a task that can’t go wrong, like setting up an outpost..."
But when she starts working on that task, she runs into more problems.
"Does this camp belong to the people of Earth or to us... Setting up a separate base could be politically troublesome, but if it becomes a shared camp, it’s a clear loss for us."
That’s the awkward position they’re in now, nominally and practically being Earth’s vassals, but still considering the future of their own tribe in their hearts.
Actually, she might be overthinking it.
There were already many teams like hers and Lu Ping’an’s, freely digging in this area.
Other teams were more straightforward. When they saw that the value of this world was higher than expected, they devised more long-term plans.
In this battle- and beast-focused world, a logistics base/shelter/safe house is a must. Centered around the official large-scale camp, they established various small-scale bases around their respective regions.
This was actually what the officials hoped to see.
Blooming the center and expanding in all directions was a tried and true development strategy... With the current power of the officials, they didn’t have the right to be picky about the private or public status of those bases.
The explorer mechanism, with its limited ship tickets, greatly restricted their official power... These local governments and their forces had to follow this policy to send people. Many ordinary researchers and logistics personnel took up the quota, so their actual combat power was quite weak.
"I hope the expeditionary forces return soon..."
Here, this camp was set up by the Four City Alliance, but it wasn’t the most anticipated force of this world.
Now, the local governments still follow the explorer mechanism, but before the mechanism was implemented, the military of the Eastern Country had continuously been making arrangements in various worlds.
They were the start of everything, and served as the foundation and prerequisite for Earth people’s safe exploration, while also shouldering unpredictable risks in the early stages.
Most of the worlds open to explorers are home to military garrisons, with many closed worlds also struggling with Earth’s defenders.
The majority of these forces are directly under the central government, but the local garrisons can also be utilized... The local garrison of the Four Cities naturally came to this planet through such channels.
It is said that most of the Divine Beasts were discovered by them.
Now, they too chose to go on an expedition in order to "hunt"... But not long after they left, their original camp was burned to the ground.
Locally, the highly anticipated troops are now in trouble.
It’s not just due to the environment of this place, but also the overly powerful giant beasts... They found a camp belonging to Earth, but of a different nationality.
— End of Chapter 675 —