The Lord of the Worlds of Civilization

"So, you came back empty-handed this time?"

That tone of neither joy nor sorrow made it impossible to know his joy and anger.

But it made Hill and the others feel a pressure invisibly.

"Actually, it's not like returning empty-handed."

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Luo Ji frowned slightly.

Immediately, his gaze shifted, and it was Jiang Yan, the captain of the investigation team, who spoke at this time.

After all, they had lived with Hill and the others for several months, or lived and died together in the harsh and cold place.

The members of the investigation team also established some revolutionary friendship with them.

After feeling the change in the atmosphere, Jiang Yan immediately stood up.

Then he presented the ores he found to Luo Ji.

"Reporting to Your Majesty, although there is no way to confirm the originally scheduled resource points, our exploration team discovered some other ores and resource points along the way."

There are many kinds of ores in this world.

And he didn't specialize in this research, so he glanced at it casually, but didn't see anything.

After directly signaling to the guards beside him, he sent the ores to the Mineral Research Institute for research.

Luo Ji's voice softened a little.

"This trip has worked hard for you..."

While speaking, he directly gave Hill, Harold, and the members of the investigation team a generous reward.

Despite all the bad news on this trip, there is value in the intelligence.

He has never been stingy in this kind of thing.

As for the building of the city, Luo Ji didn't mention it, and Hill and the others didn't mention it either.

Because strictly speaking, their mission was a failure.

Since it is a failure, there is no reason to get the promised reward.

Chapter 621: Before Winter

The reason why the investigation team came back this time is obviously very simple.

That is approaching winter.

According to their status, without sufficient resources.

Obviously it is impossible to survive a whole winter in a bitterly cold place.

So we have to get back before winter.

so as not to be buried in the cold winter.

But even so, many people died when the investigation team went deep into the bitter cold place.

Questions about pensions for the families of the deceased.

Luo Ji had ordered people to make arrangements.

The next task of the investigation team is to sum up the experience.

Then, after the spring of the next year, continue to go deep into the bitter cold land to carry out exploration missions.

The area of ​​Bitterlands is vast.

From the system map, Luo Ji could clearly feel that there was still a large area of ​​fog shrouded in the surrounding area.

These visions have to be slowly opened up.

At the same time, locations with resources have to be marked one after another.

This is all in preparation for his future territorial expansion.

At the same time, Luo Ji went offline to check the ores brought back by the exploration teams.

If he is not mistaken, what the exploration team brought back should be 'tungsten ore', 'manganese ore' and 'titanium ore'.

Luo Ji clearly realized that the mineral resources in that frozen land were extremely rich.

However, this meal has to be eaten bite by bite, and the road has to be walked step by step.

He started to expand the size of White River City this year, in fact, he was already preparing for the expansion of the territory to the bitter cold land.

Follow his development plan.

The next step should be to first occupy the northern mountain forest that connects the Central Plains and the Bitter Cold.

Build a mountain city in it.

Then use that mountain city as a bridge to continue expanding towards the bitter cold land.

This is one of Luo Ji's expansion plans for the next few years.

There is no doubt that this is another big project.

The difficulty of building a city in a mountain forest area is much more difficult than that in a plain area.

Even before that, he had to build a wide enough mountain road for the northern mountain forest.

Otherwise, the transportation of building materials for building a city would be a huge problem.

Time continued to flow, and as the days passed, the temperature of the civilization of the Ten Thousand Realms became colder.

The season is gradually entering winter.

And Luo Ji had already put on a warm cashmere sweater for himself.

Recently, on the grassland, Xueyu from Bai Ze and Gege from Brigude frequently sent letters through Flying Eagle and sent a lot of news.

One of them, of course, is that the extermination of the horse bandits went very smoothly.

So far, they have taken away three horse thief dens.

It made the horse thieves on the periphery of the entire grassland calm down a lot.

Some groups of horse thieves simply fled back to the depths of the grassland.

The other news was sent back by spies who went deep into the grassland.

In the depths of the grassland, the big tribes on the grassland have not made any movement for the time being.

Calculated according to the time, if those big tribes want to migrate to the outer periphery for the winter.

As early as the beginning of the month, or even last month, it was time to start the action.

There is still no movement so far, which means that they plan to spend this winter honestly in the depths of the grassland.

On the contrary, those small tribes.

Probably because the grassland resources were taken up by the big tribes.

It makes it difficult for them to continue to survive in the depths of the grassland.

One by one they all started running outside.

During this period of time, many small tribes have migrated outside.

Faced with this situation, Bai Ze and Brigude were asking for Luo Ji's instructions.

Do you want to take away those small tribes before the temperature drops further, or incorporate them.

To this, Luo Ji's answer was to keep those small tribes at a safe distance from them.

In other words, it means that everyone does not offend the river.

Luo Ji didn't pay much attention to the threat of a few small tribes.

And at this point in time, if he chooses to incorporate those small tribes, it will undoubtedly increase the food consumption and burden of the grassland city.

But if it is said to be removed, it is easy to cause complications.

It caused a strong backlash from other small tribes.

To put it simply, this matter is very troublesome!

Winter is coming, and this cold season will not be too pleasant for the ancients.

If those small tribes are sensible, keep a good distance from them.

Wouldn't it be better for everyone to spend this winter safely?

Of course, if they don't understand, then take some time to get rid of it.

The task of sending the message was naturally given to Lve Ying.

Probably the reason why I suffered a lot last year.

This winter, Lve Ying obviously didn't plan to go wild.

Obediently stopped on the scaffold and dozed off.

Occasionally pass a letter to Luo Ji.

In this era when long-distance communication is difficult, flying eagles should be the most efficient means of transmitting information.

Of course, not everyone can afford to raise an eagle.

So Luo Ji had already started asking people to domesticate pigeons.

For this reason, I went offline to check the information for a long time.

But as far as the current situation is concerned, the domestication effect is not very good.

In the recent training reports on pigeons, pigeons were often lost and letters were not delivered to the designated place.

This will not work.

Luo Ji wanted to use them to deliver military intelligence reports.

This kind of unreliable performance obviously cannot meet his requirements.

There is no other way, just keep training, what else can I do?

In comparison, the new discovery on the other side went too smoothly...

A trace of satisfaction flashed across Luo Ji's face as he tore at the dirty-looking thing that looked like a yellow leather cord.

This thing is rubber!

Of course, it is more accurate to say that it is natural rubber.

It was found in the big southern forest where the orcs were previously entrenched.

Resin is one of the important resources of their Myriad Worlds civilization.

The most direct function is that it can be used to make hard leather, and then made into leather armor.

So after discovering a forest, the collection team will naturally rush to collect and confirm the resources.

As a result, after they cut open the skin of some trees, they found that a milky white glue flowed out of those trees.

That is the so-called natural latex.

After processing the natural latex to a certain extent, there was that small piece of natural rubber in Luo Ji's hands.

The role of rubber is undoubtedly extensive.

In terms of military affairs alone, three-bow bed crossbows, catapults, and hand crossbows can all be used for these ordnance equipment.

In other words, the ordnance and equipment of his Myriad Realms civilization can be further improved and strengthened.

As for civilian use, there are more places that can be used.

However, priority is given to military-related departments.

After all, this natural thing is relatively limited in production.

It is not yet available in large quantities for civilian use.

As for the trees that can produce natural latex, Luo Ji simply named them rubber trees.