Chapter 136 Open up the situation

Author: flying de lazy cat

Chapter 136 Open up the situation

Following the system prompt, Black Moon Camp was officially upgraded from a camp to a village, which undoubtedly announced that their tribe was gradually entering a new stage.

Of the four camps under his command, only one has been upgraded to a village, while the other three are still at the camp level.

Regarding this situation, Zhou Xu is not in a hurry to complete the comprehensive upgrade.

After all, even the modern society before he traveled back in time still had remote and backward mountainous areas. How could he solve the problems that had not been completely solved even after it had developed to that point?

Even if he is willing to do it, considering the entire workload and the work efficiency of the construction team, if he wants to upgrade all the other three camps into villages, I am afraid he will have to work until winter.

Among them, Zhou Xu didn’t want to upgrade the grassland camp yet.

There’s nothing to say about the reason. Each of the ‘neighbors’ is harder to deal with than the other. They live on the grassland and can only keep a low profile and immerse themselves in development.

Where there are resources, they dare not show up, for fear that if they show up, they will be discovered by their "neighbors" and suffer disaster.

It was such a camp that was at risk of destruction at any time, so Zhou Xu didn't plan to invest too much in it for the time being.

At most, the best thing to do is to occupy a pit first, and when you are strong enough, you can use the grassland camp as a starting point to directly launch the development plan on the grassland.

From this point of view, leaving aside the grassland camp and the barren mountain camp, apart from the fact that the camp is too far away from the base camp and other tribe members appear at the border from time to time to disturb their peace, there is no need to worry about the safety of the camp itself.

The biggest problem with construction is that the camp is on a mountainside. Construction in that environment is more difficult than construction on the plains, is time-consuming, labor-intensive, and dangerous.

Using the elimination method, after much back-and-forth thinking, the most suitable place to upgrade right now is the Salt Lake Camp.

As an important resource output point today, it is necessary to improve the livability of the camp and provide tribe members with a better rest environment.

With this idea in mind, the construction team had just finished handling the situation in Black Moon Village and immediately started new work.

At this moment, a whole team is carrying building materials and tools to wooden carts, and they can officially set off before noon.

For this reason, Zhou Xu also specially arranged a pair of straw sandals for each person in the construction team.

Before this, tribe members mainly went barefoot, or at most they wore animal skins, but now the weather is getting hotter and hotter. With temperatures above 35 degrees, it's hot to the feet even when walking on the ground.

In this way, Zhou Xu also took some time and arranged a new job for the equipment department, which was to knit straw shoes.

With the official departure of the construction team, the upgrade task of the Salt Lake Camp also began.

During this period, with the successful manufacture of the first two batches of crescent halberds and bows and arrows, fifteen professional soldiers were successfully armed.

This also makes the demand for weapons within their tribe no longer as urgent as it was at the beginning, giving the relevant production departments more ample time.

Under this premise, Zhou Xu, who would come to pay attention to the training situation from time to time, recently felt that the soldiers' training seemed to have reached a bottleneck.

Each and every one of them has practiced well, and their posture and skills are more than a little bit stronger than at the beginning.

But the problem now is that their improvement has become smaller and smaller, and even recently it feels like there has been no change.

There are limits to the capabilities of ordinary soldiers, but this is definitely not their limit yet.

With this idea in mind, Zhou Xu knew that if they continued practicing like this, the effect would be insignificant. It was time for them to accumulate practical experience!

Based on this premise, Zhou Xu has not thought about the Barren Mountain Camp. In fact, the first thing he thought of was the Barren Mountain Camp.

After all, Shi Lei had sent a message before. Over at the barren mountain camp, they expanded their border territory in order to obtain bamboo resources.

This also resulted in tribe members on the other side of the mountain appearing near their border area from time to time.

Zhou Xu had known about this news for a long time, but he had no intention of asking Shi Lei to do anything.

Because the barren mountain camp is too far away from their base camp, support is inconvenient. If something happens, Shi Lei can only fight alone.

If you are not careful, there is a risk of the camp being built into it.

At this stage, they are holding on to the camp, collecting resources, and engaging in development. Life is very easy in the barren mountain camp, and there is absolutely no need to take such risks.

Moreover, according to the mountain and forest environment of the barren mountain camp, the crescent halberd cannot be wielded at all, and the advantages that bows and arrows can play are relatively limited. In the past, they could be said to be limited in every way.

In contrast, in grassland camps, the grassland environment is destined to maximize their weapon advantages.

In terms of positioning, the grassland camp is mainly for defense. It is a camp with strategic value, which directly affects his subsequent development plan on the grassland.

But if we ignore this point, unlike the Salt Lake Camp, the grassland camp has a variety of irreplaceable special resource outputs.

At the same time, it is not like the barren mountain camp, which can be completely internally operated and self-sufficient.

Although the rivers around the camp can provide food to the members in the camp to a certain extent, the main food supply still has to be delivered to them by Black Moon Village.

This also makes the members at the grassland camp relatively free from a work perspective compared to several other camps.

There, they had nothing else to do except occupy the camp and carefully guard against the 'neighbors' on the grassland.

Although there are not many people there, it is surprisingly a good place to recruit and train soldiers!

Of course, regardless of this point, Zhou Xu also has a very important reason, that is, the grassland is too threatening to them!

Although there were frequent frictions in the barren mountain camp, they were able to deal with them with ease. As long as they defended the camp, Zhou Xu believed that the tribes on the opposite side could not threaten them at all. They were just a little annoying at most, so he was not worried at all.

The reason why we don’t open up is because of distance and transportation efficiency issues.

It would not be good if the exploration was too deep and he was beyond his reach and out of his control.

But the grassland camp was different. The tribe members headed by Ye Jinghong lived in fear every day in the grassland camp, fearing that their 'neighbors' would discover them.

It has not been discovered yet. On the one hand, it is because Zhou Xu consciously avoided the resource areas on the grassland in the early days. As long as there are no resources here, those 'neighbors' will not come.

On the other hand, it's just pure luck.

But this luck will not last forever. In midsummer, the weather is getting hotter and hotter. This kind of weather will make animals consciously stay close to water sources to cool down and escape the heat.

Recently, many animals that come to drink water have become their meals near Black Moon Village. Even their fur and bones, as well as their fat and gelatin, have been used by them.

This made Zhou Xu feel a sense of crisis, and it must be the same at the grassland camp.

Their grassland camp can avoid all resources and only occupy a piece of land to wait for the opportunity, but it cannot avoid the water source, because they also have to rely on the water source to survive.

And once an animal comes to drink water, the corresponding predator will inevitably appear.

In this world, you can only be a thief for a thousand days, so how can you guard against a thief for a thousand days?

Although the Vine Armor is far from ready yet, I'm afraid it's too late to wait for the Vine Armor. With the help of bows and arrows and crescent halberd, Zhou Xu also plans to do something to open up the situation.

As long as they can obtain livestock from the grasslands that improve transportation and movement efficiency, then the distance problem between their base camp and the barren mountain camp will no longer be a problem.

This situation can be revitalized directly!

The update is here, there will be an additional update today, it is expected to be after 9:30
Chapter completed!