The location of the ruins has been roughly estimated to be consistent with the straight-line distance from the center of the lava lake to Phoenix, which may have been deliberate by Solaris.
Li Xiang took Bai Xiaojiao to join the Second Regiment Headquarters and the Sixth Battalion, then transferred to Hongjin to join the exploration expedition team, and set off with various hauling tools.
Due to tactical and strategic considerations, Hongjin has not built a railway and the road surface is also very poor. If you bring the camel beast, it will become slower. It is better to just let the sharp blade trailer push the cart.
Leaving Hongjin, we move generally west-northwest, bypassing some mountains and two small rift valleys, passing through the ecological transition zone, and then arrive at the western savanna area.
Due to climate change, there is a large amount of withered tall grass here, which affects movement and is prone to fires.
Li Xiang rode the big bear for a while, then wrinkled his face and asked the members of the exploration expedition team next to him: "How long have you been exploring here?"
"Back to Your Highness, exactly one year has passed since this month. There are a total of six teams in charge of the savanna direction, nearly fifty people."
The exploration expedition team has two tasks. One is to search for minerals in the administrative area and surrounding areas to roughly assess reserves, and the other is to conduct map surveying including overseas. The surveying and mapping work in the northern area was also completed by them in cooperation with the military.
They often suffered personnel losses, and later expanded slightly, from the total size of 200 to 300. Half of the current members are reservists who have been retired from the city defense army for three years, and the team has also increased from the original group of five. Eight people, consistent with the military team structure.
"Thanks for your hard work."
"It should."
Li Xiang waved his arms towards the extremely open grassland: "How do you know the way?"
"We mainly rely on the compass and the sun to determine the direction of movement, and use time to estimate the distance of movement. Within a certain error range, we can find the road by distinguishing the tree shape."
Li Xiang looked at a few sparse trees in the distance that looked quite awkward. At first glance, it was difficult to tell the difference. Fortunately, she had studied painting for many years, so the resemblance did not faze her.
"Is it accurate to estimate distance using time?"
"It's not very accurate and relies heavily on experience. The distance error of our team's movement in half a day often exceeds two kilometers. There is also an error in the movement angle. When arriving in a new area for the first time, it requires repeated corrections and adaptation."
Exploration and exploration are two very time-consuming tasks, and the results are very hit and miss, but it’s impossible not to have them.
"How is the situation with animals and demons?"
"It's probably due to lack of water. There are some animals but the distribution density is very low. They are mainly plant-eating animals. When we conducted surveys, we found that many of them have fallen dead. It may be caused by the withering of the tall grass. The rest are basically eating leaves. Warcraft It is relatively rare. We have only encountered it once. It is not strong and the danger is assessed as level two. The demons probably don’t like this kind of open place. No groups of demons have been found. Individuals will still use this place to spread out. "
Danger rating is a standard specially formulated for various dangerous creatures.
Level 1 is the lowest level, which already carries fatal risks, such as highly venomous snakes and conventional large carnivores.
The second level has a certain threat, and the intention to actively attack humans is increased, but the killing ability is still limited. These are mainly monsters that can use second-level spells with the same power, and there are also those that can use third-level spells with low intention to attack.
Level 3 is the highest level currently available. Once found in a national activity area, city defense troops or troops will be sent to exterminate or drive them away. If it is more troublesome, a security company will be asked to deal with it slowly.
I learned about the situation along the way and spent three days on the savanna to reach the ruins, based on a daily march distance of one hundred kilometers.
Li Xiang thought he would be happy to see things from his hometown, but when he arrived at the scene, his mood did not change.
Asking Bai Xiaojiao to stop a few hundred meters in front of the ruins, Li Xiang raised his right fist and said, "Sixth Camp will camp and rest for a day. Be careful to clear the hay so as not to cause a fire. The same goes for the exploration team."
After arranging for the six camps to be set up, Li Xiang rode a bear into the ruins alone. The exploration team was worried, but half of them followed.
Li didn't care about them. She came in to draw, but after a while they would be bored and leave.
I rode Bai Xiaojiao to a lookout point on the edge of the ruins that still seemed to be quite complete. I dropped off the bear, fed it some water and dried meat with the skin bag it carried on its back, touched its little ears and whispered a few words, and drew pictures on its back. The guy who painted it climbed up to the lookout by himself.
In a military camp, the observation tower should be called a sentry tower, but this sentry tower is too simple. It is just a piece of aluminum alloy spliced together. Welding is not even used, and the connection points are all bolts.
It’s different from what I saw on the road when I took the Eight King Kongs and Elena’s family on their way south. Many of them there are more permanent fortifications. A large amount of concrete will be used, and the steel structure will also be welded. But here It is a typical field specification, with sentry towers and walls temporarily deployed, as well as a defense line composed of vehicles.
The tower part of the sentry tower is about 1.5 meters wide inside and should be used by two people for duty.
There were ammunition boxes and scattered ammunition left behind, but no weapons were seen.
Since there is ammunition retained, it means that the weapons should not have been taken away by the locals, otherwise there is a high probability that they will try to loot the ammunition from the entire camp.
After all, there is a time difference of several decades. Even if one person works back and forth, and then passes it on to others to continue tossing, they will have already made a profit.
Li Xiang stood on the edge of the platform and looked down. There were too many weeds and he couldn't find anything that looked like metal. Let's finish the painting.
The Night Tribe and the Blade are both suitable for night battles, so the march is mainly at night. It was still morning when we arrived at the ruins. Li wanted to spend the entire day drawing, using two pictures to depict the main camp area and the main camp area respectively. A larger panorama with less detail.
When I came down from the tower, I didn't forget to look around below. Indeed, no weapons fell from above.
Ammunition exists, there are shell casings that have not been cleaned, and there are no weapons. It is most likely an emergency evacuation!
Very good, there should be a lot of useful things left behind.
There was no rush to do anything the next day. After a day's rest, the Sixth Battalion was asked to clean up the tall grass as much as possible while keeping the location of the ruins' vehicles and items unchanged.
It is the bounden duty of soldiers to obey orders. His Highness's words are equivalent to direct orders from the king. The battalion commander does not ask why, he just obeys.
Li wanted to take a short rest and rode around on Bai Xiaojiao for two days outside the camp ruins, and found a lot of things.
I found two places where tents should have been. Some instruments had been severely damaged and scattered in the grass. The madman said that small instruments were made to be transported around. These two places should be temporary research sites, but the grass has It has been changed dozens of times, and the site seems to have been trampled by wild animals. It is no longer possible to know whether they were observing the ecology or drilling soil samples.
I also saw a murder scene. There were three jeeps in total, two of which had on-board machine guns. Although no blood was visible, human bone fragments were found near the scene. All three vehicles had physical damage, and one of them had an anti-roll wheel. The rack has been completely deformed.
Li wanted to find two ordinary soldiers from the Sixth Battalion who had not been enhanced and tried it. The frame was indeed damaged when they were wrapped with cloth as hand guards.
It's just that the degree of deformation is not enough. Considering the corrosion effect caused by wind and rain, the strength of the current frame is far less than that of the original. The killer who attacked the convoy back then should be larger and 20 to 30% stronger. Maybe he is the ancestor of the sharp blade. Maybe something else.
Unfortunately, time has covered up a large amount of evidence, and it is difficult to reconstruct what happened that year. We can only judge from the fact that the vehicle-mounted weapons were not recovered, and it should be an incident close to the time of the emergency evacuation.
