Ye Qiong, who was standing on the defense line of the cave, was staring at the two small holes under the cave.
At this moment, several eyeless monsters came out of the small snow cave on the left side.
Looking at the eyeless monsters, which were about the same size as scavengers but green in color, like frogs, Ye Qiong was wondering how many eyeless monsters there were.
What does the ecosystem below look like?
Ye Qiong's hand now holds a map, the one he carries with him.
It not only marks the area around the central tribe, but also the areas within the Dinglong Mountains, including the Na Ning tribe, the Scarlet Flame Leopard tribe, and the location of the inland sea.
As Ye Qiong's current exploration area gradually increases, there are gradually more areas and landmarks on the map.
The Furen Tribe, the Heifu Tribe, the Yanghe Tribe, the Juma Tribe, etc. These tribes are no longer here, but there are still some tribal sites, and Ye Qiong has marked them all.
Based on the location of the cave here, Ye Qiong estimated that it was generally opposite to the area where the Red Flame Leopard tribe was located.
In other words, if the Ye Qiong tribe now has the ability to directly dig through this cave, the area beyond the cave is also a symmetrical area within the Dinglong Mountains, where the Red Flame Leopard tribe is located.
It is still an estimate now. After all, it cannot be implemented in a short time. Ye Qiong does not want to waste manpower and material resources to open a channel now.
Judging from the peak posture in the cave here, it must be more than ten kilometers away.
Until now, Ye Qiong has not figured out who opened the passage at the waterfall base.
What is certain is that it was not something done by the ancestors of the Na Ning tribe. The writings in the Waterfall Cave have already recorded it very clearly.
Before the Na Ning tribe went to the waterfall, the waterfall cave and the passage already existed.
The Naning tribe also discovered the black sand in the waterfall cave, and thus developed a high tribal strength in a short period of time.
They also had the strength to stand up to the century-old Madman King's team, but things didn't go as planned and ended in a large-scale plague.
How the black sand was formed, or where it was transported back from, and who opened the passage are still waiting for Ye Qiong to explore.
Several eyeless monsters that had just emerged from the snow cave were obviously feeling a little uncomfortable, like headless flies. After leaving the snow cave, they began to scurry around.
The soldiers on the stone defense line reacted immediately and fired a dozen arrows downwards.
As several piercing screams sounded, a few more corpses appeared on the snow.
Several stone gates were opened in the area under the city wall of the defense line. After one of them was opened, several soldiers in black armor came to where the body of the eyeless monster was. After touching the neck with their weapons a few times, they grabbed it. He dragged it out on his hind legs.
After continuing to stay on the defensive wall for a while, Ye Qiong walked down from the top.
I am relatively reassured by the current scale and defensive power of this border defense line.
After nearly a year of development, the current cave defense wall has been expanded to more than eight meters high. Only high-level monsters can jump up.
That is to say, the height is more than three meters, and the ordinary eyeless monsters that appear now are about the same height as the scavengers. The second-level eyeless monsters are barely taller, but they are three meters away from the high-level monsters. In terms of body shape, it’s still far from enough.
If they want to pass through the cave defense line, they must reach a certain number, and then start stacking Arhats from below. Only after reaching a height of five or six meters can the top eyeless monster be able to climb up.
However, the soldiers on the city wall are not vegetarians. The amount of arrows stored on the stone defense wall is very scary.
Ye Qiong now has a second plan, and has not yet discussed it with Ye Tianlong and the higher-ups in the tribe.
That is to establish a second line of defense!
Ye Qiong plans to build a defensive wall that can directly wrap the coal mine base, that is, put the coal mine base and the caves on the Dinglong Mountains on one side.
Then, an arc-shaped defense line was established between the coal mine base and the central tribe, which was also an expanded version of the current cave defense line.
At that time, the entire coal mine base and cave defense line will be wrapped up.
The significance of this line of defense is rather special.
The purpose of its establishment is also to defend against attacks by forces above the lord level or from unknown areas.
Judging from the current distribution of monsters and madmen in a certain area on the Dinglong Mountains, the stone walls of the central tribe already have sufficient defense.
But when monsters above the lord level attack, or a team led by a century-old madman king, or an unknown force, like the eyeless monster in the cave, there must be a building tall and powerful enough to resist it. .
If this force comes from the cave, then the warriors' backup forces are the central tribe, the canyon base, and the mountain base.
If this force comes from the outside world, then after several bases are lost, the tribesmen in the central tribe can move to the coal mine base as quickly as possible in times of crisis.
The underground city in the coal mine base must be expanded unswervingly.
Development at the base of the canyon cannot be stopped either.
These two geographical locations will play a very important supporting role in the future development of the central tribe and are also strategic rear areas.
No matter which direction the crisis comes from, these two places are Ye Qiong tribe’s trump cards.
As for the timber base in the south and the alpine base in the north, relatively speaking, their value as strategic rear areas is smaller. The timber base is closer to the front, and the alpine base is at the bottom.
The timber base in the south cannot be vigorously developed because of the forest ape. Otherwise, the strategic value is actually higher than that of the canyon base.
But in order not to destroy the friendship with the forest apes, we can only develop stably first. Otherwise, there will be no problem in establishing a large sub-base in the south, but the area of the forest will decrease rapidly.
Since they chose to establish a base for development and stopped relocating last year, the Ye Qiong tribe's development speed is actually not slow anymore. It is at a level that is out of touch with the Dinglong Mountains and even the entire Snow Star surface.
However, the current development speed is still far from what Ye Qiong expected. Before the population base exceeds 10,000, it will be useless no matter how anxious this thing is.
After asking Ronling about the specific situation of the cave defense line these days, Ye Qiong took Ronling with him and went to the coal mine base to have a look.
Now in the coal mine base, with the mining of coal, the space that has been hollowed out under the surface is getting larger and larger.
At the same time, stones and clay soil began to be continuously transported inside, consolidating the walls within the space while expanding it.
