Throne of Vientiane Civilization

After Zhou Xu's order was issued, Shi Lei and Li Ce, who received the order, quickly took action. The first step was naturally to explore the surrounding territory.

The exploration team headed by Shi Lei from Anling City set off soon.

Unlike simply rushing, the work of exploring new areas is often carried out steadily, and it is generally difficult to improve efficiency.

In comparison, Green Forest City's actions were faster.

It's not that they were more efficient in doing things, but after leaving Green Forest City and walking through the woodland outside the city, what appeared in front of them were towering mountains.

At the same time, the mountain walls facing Green Forest City were extremely steep and towering, making it almost impossible to climb normally. This also made Li Ce and the others basically give up the idea of ​​climbing directly over the mountain.

In the past, their way was blocked by the mountain. Apart from slowly circling along the foot of the mountain to see if they could find a way around, there might be no other way.

But it's different now, they have hot air balloons.

In addition to being used to transport people, it can also be used to explore new areas.

After taking off, the hot air balloon continued to increase its flight altitude, allowing them to easily cross the mountain and see the scene on the other side of the mountain.

"Surrounded by mountains, the terrain is low..."

In order to facilitate receiving reports from both sides, Zhou Xu, who is now in the Lord's Mansion of Black Rock City, is looking at the latest report sent by Li Ce.

"Judging from the description in this report, after climbing over the mountains outside Green Forest City, going south is a large basin."

While talking, Zhou Xu picked up the pencil and started making corrections on the paper in front of him. He was drawing a map at the moment.

[There is a large forest in this basin. Even if a hot air balloon is flying in the sky, you can't see what's in the forest. 】

[However, it is all forest, which also shows that there are no internal forces developing. At most, there are some primitive tribes hiding there, which is nothing to be afraid of. 】

After roughly marking the basin and forest, Zhou Xu turned his attention back to the report, and then his expression was startled.

"Good guy, the mountains on one side of the basin are actually connected to the mountains area. No, judging from this situation, the mountains on one side of the basin are part of the mountains area."

When flying over the mountains in a hot air balloon, Zhou Xu noticed that there were still many places within the mountains that they had not explored.

But that mountain area was actually connected to the newly discovered basin, and was even right next door to Green Forest City. Zhou Xu really didn't expect this.

In addition, while using the hot air balloon to learn about the situation there, they also used the hot air balloon's aerial view to discover a canyon between two towering mountains that they could cross.

Li Ce had already tried it and passed through the long canyon to successfully reach the woodland surrounded by mountains.

However, they did not go deeper rashly, but chose to withdraw first, wrote this report, and asked Zhou Xu if he wanted to continue exploring in depth.

After all, judging from the intelligence obtained from the air, the forest area is quite large, and no one is sure what kind of threats lurk in it.

And just when Zhou Xu was thinking this, Shi Lei's initial report from Anling City was also sent over.

Also with the help of a hot air balloon, he discovered more than Li Ce.

In terms of topography, it was a plain area similar to theirs.

Taking advantage of the hot air balloon's field of view, they discovered the existence of many cities.

In order to prevent the other party from discovering them, the hot air balloon always maintained a sufficient flying height, so the specific situation was not clear.

But what is certain is that there is a large and towering rock wall further away in the plain area. According to their preliminary observation, it is suspected that it is connected to the mountain wall on the other side of their desert beach.

At the end of the information, I also asked him for instructions on how to deal with it in the future.

After Li Ce's previous report as a foreshadowing, now looking at Shi Lei's report, Zhou Xu had calmed down a lot, but his mind was spinning faster and faster, and he had some new ideas.

[According to my previous thoughts, the fragments of this world were drawn to each other after random encounters, and then spliced ​​together. However, judging from the findings in the two reports, this does not seem to be the case. 】

[If Li Ce and Shi Lei's discovery was just an accident, the fit between the two world fragments would be too high. 】

[Compared to this speculation, I prefer to believe that when the original world was still complete, these two world fragments were adjacent. In other words, only two adjacent land parcels would pull each other and eventually join together. At the same time, this will not happen in other world fragments! 】

At this time, Zhou Xu was undoubtedly more inclined to this guess.

Zhou Xu, who had sorted out his thoughts, did not dwell on this issue for too long. The more important thing now was to make arrangements for the new situation on the border between Shi Lei and Li Ce.

Spreading out a new piece of paper, Zhou Xu took up a pen and wrote down the follow-up arrangements.

They had just ended a war in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and they needed time to digest the large number of new people. The right thing to do now was to focus all their energy on internal development.

With this idea in mind, Zhou Xu's arrangement for the strange city that Shi Lei and the others discovered in Anling City was to stay hidden first and wait and see what happens.

As for the basin forest discovered by Li Ce and others, the situation was different. Zhou Xu gave an order to send out a reconnaissance team for in-depth reconnaissance.

After all, as of now, there are at most some primitive tribes hiding there.

In Zhou Xu's eyes, primitive tribes are the supplementary point of population and labor force. Although there are not many people in a tribe, mosquito legs are still meat no matter how small they are.

The most important thing is that the temperament of the tribe members is often much simpler than the people here in the New World.

After the recruitment, they can easily be transformed into people who are very loyal to their great Zhou Dynasty, which is good. This is also the biggest reason why Zhou Xu is happy to recruit the primitive tribes.

In this way, for the same reason, the mountainous areas that have not been thoroughly explored before have recently been divided into several teams and continued to be explored.

After receiving the order, advancing and retreating, Shi Lei and Li Ce followed Zhou Xu's instructions and took different actions.

Out of caution, Li Ce first found a suitable location in the canyon and set up a frontline camp so that they could store survival supplies.

At the same time, if something unexpected happens during the mission, they can also have a place to retreat and rest.

But even Li Ce himself didn't expect that this accident would come so quickly.

The reconnaissance team they sent here, after passing through the long canyon, had not completely approached the forest. In the forest, a sharp arrow quickly shot through the air and was inserted into the land in front of them.

"Don't come any closer, outsider! If you continue to come closer, the arrows behind you will no longer land on the ground!"