Chapter 1265: Temporary Stronghold
"Boss, shall we go deeper inside?" Xiaoice asked as he looked at Li Zhi.
The exploration team of the Ice Soul Group, after leaving the Gray Sand Beast Group, did not rush away, but waited and watched from behind. The Grey Sand Beasts also seemed to know that the Ice Soul Group was not easy to mess with, so after killing and injuring two or three hundred thousand Grey Sand Beasts, they did not pursue them again.
In other words, now the location of the Ice Soul Group's exploration team has moved from the initial 'encirclement' to the outside of the encirclement.
"Don't be in a hurry!" Li Zhi shook his head, looking at the gray sand beast group that covered the sky and the sun, he was indeed very shocked, this 'beast tide' that Li Zhi felt in the 'doomsday world' was still a little different!
The beast tide is a wide variety of mutant beasts, and it is also very shocking to go out collectively, but it is not like this gray sand beast group, there is only a single species, or a race!
Humans look at the gray sand beast, except for the size of the head, basically the appearance is the same, a group of identical creatures are connected to the sky, and the dense feeling is definitely a different visual impact.
"Hmm!" Xiaoice nodded and stood beside Li Zhi obediently.
Shi Sha looked ahead and asked with some confusion: "Boss, since we have the ability to destroy this group of gray sand beasts, why don't we wipe them out?"
"Is it good?" Li Zhi grinned and asked rhetorically.
Advantage?
Shi Sha thought for a while and said, "Isn't the material on the gray sand beast a benefit?"
Li shook his head with a smile and said softly: "It's a benefit, but relatively speaking, this benefit is not enough!"
"Aren't you guys in a group?" Shi Sha asked softly, with some doubt in his eyes.
By "a gang", she refers to human beings, regardless of nationality or race.
"It's a gang, but in the apocalyptic world, are the survivors all of the same heart? Not necessarily, where there are people, there will inevitably be grievances, and where there are interests, there will inevitably be selfish struggles, so everything can only be relative, not absolute!" Li Zhi said softly.
Shi Sha nodded, not asking anything, because she had already understood. The reason why Li Zhi didn't order the exploration team to wipe out all the 'Gray Sand Beasts' group was also because he had selfish intentions inside!
"The 'Extraordinary' have entered!" Xiaoice reminded softly.
There were a large number of gray sand beasts falling in front of them, and the number of transcendents who entered the entrance of the folding space was definitely quite a lot, at least twenty or thirty.
"Let's go!"
Li Zhi turned around and walked towards the inside of the polar car, there was no need to watch it anymore, the results had already come out, the only regret was that he didn't know that the leader behind the scenes of this group of gray sand beasts, or the 'beast king', was hiding there, and he never came out from beginning to end.
With more than two million gray sand beasts, I'm afraid it's not necessarily easy to get such a large group, right?
I don't know if that 'beastmaster' will feel distressed!
However, the Gray Sand Beast can only be regarded as a 'cannon fodder-level' class, which is not of great use, and the only thing that can make Li Zhi a little interested is the 'sand bead' in the Gray Sand Beast's body.
About ten kilometers away from the place, Xiaoice reported that the exploration robot found a 'sand diamond' belt, although it is not a rich mineral, but the number of 'miscellaneous sand diamonds' below is about hundreds of thousands!
"Hundreds of thousands?" Li Zhi hesitated and asked, "How deep is it under the desert, is it good to mine?"
Xiaoice nodded and said: "At a depth of fifty to eighty meters under the desert, it is considered shallow, it should be easy to mine, and after our robot goes down, it can clean up this sand drill belt in a short time!"
"How many days will it take in the short term?"
Xiaoice blinked and said, "Three days, no more than seventy-two hours!"
Seventy-two hours?
The time is not too long, but it is not too short.
Li Zhi touched his chin and thought for a while before saying, "How far is this from the entrance of the folding space?"
"It's about thirty-eight kilometers!" Xiaoice replied.
In other words, the distance is not too far, and after the Gray Sand Beast Herd is cleaned up by that group of transcendents, there may be an exploration team coming over at any time in two days!
"Mark it first, and move on!"
Li Zhi didn't order it to stop, and he didn't have the location to set up camp yet.
After Xiaoice received the order, the traffic of the exploration team continued to move forward, because the desert traveled, the speed is not very fast, plus the team is relatively large, fifty kilometers per hour, which is probably the fastest speed.
In the process of marching, they were attacked by many scattered gray sand beast groups one after another, but they were all small races, and the largest did not exceed a thousand gray sand beasts!
It was probably the group summoned by the 'Beastmaster', but before they had time to rush over, they didn't know that the large army of gray sand beasts in front had been killed by humans.
I also encountered a medium-sized colony of 'yellow sand ants', which covered the desert with huge yellow sand ants, each of which was the size of a small arm, and the number was staggering.
was 'burned' at least half before retreating!
Shi Sha walked over with a roasted half-black yellow sand ant, handed it to Li Zhi, and said with a smile: "Try it, it tastes good, I tried it just now!"
"Can you eat it?" Li Zhi was stunned, took the roasted yellow sand ant, and broke the legs of the yellow sand ant, revealing the white and tender meat inside, wafting a fresh fragrance.
Try to put it in your mouth, with a hint of sweetness, the texture is quite good, similar to crab meat, and there is a little bit of chicken flavor in it!
"Not bad, it's really good!" Li Zhi nodded and praised while eating, and looked up curiously and asked Xiaoice: "Is there anything like the 'sand bead' in the body of the yellow sand ant?"
Xiaoice shook his head and said: "There is no ordinary yellow sand ant in the body, as for whether there is a 'crystal' in the body of the high-grade yellow sand ant in the group, I don't know for the time being!"
"Half of the Yellow Sand Ant Colony has been wiped out, and there is not even a single high-level Yellow Sand Ant?" Li Zhi was stunned for a moment and asked rhetorically.
Xiaoice learned Li Zhi's appearance, shrugged his small shoulders, shook his head and said: "No, the dead are all sapper ants, and the number of high-grade yellow sand ants is not much, and they seem to be more afraid of death, so they don't come out at all!"
Li Zhi looked at her and said, "Why don't we catch up with it now and kill the remaining group of yellow sand ants?"
"Boss, the people have run away!" Xiaoice had a somewhat helpless little expression on his face.
"Didn't you just run away for a long time, can't you catch up?" Li Zhi laughed twice, and said without much care.
"Can you catch up, do you want to chase it?" but that group of yellow sand ants has already burrowed into the desert, and it takes some effort to find them and destroy them all!" Xiaoice asked with a wink.
Li Zhi laughed twice, shook his head and said, "Forget it, even if they are lucky this time, we will talk about it next time we meet." After a slight pause, he continued: "Roasted yellow sand ants taste good, ask the employees of our company, if anyone wants to eat, you can bring some if you want to eat!"
"Okay!"
Most of the yellow sand ants were burned into black charcoal, and the amount that can be picked out and eaten is not too much, but fortunately, the number is huge, everyone just tastes fresh, and they don't want to treat the yellow sand ants as dry food!
After a little rectification, move on!
After about two hours of driving, Xiaoice reported that another 'miscellaneous sand drill belt' had been explored underground. "Boss, the storage capacity is very abundant this time, according to my calculations, there are at least 20 million miscellaneous sand diamonds in this sand diamond belt!"
20 million?
It's worth stopping and digging for a while!
"Where we are now, how far is it from the entrance of the folding space?" Li Zhi nodded and asked.
"It's about a hundred and eighty kilometers away!" Xiaoice said after calculating.
It had been almost five hours since leaving the Gray Sand Beasts, and the normal driving time was only three hours.
"Okay! It's not too early, let's set up camp first!" Li Zhi said.
Xiaoice blinked his eyes and asked, "Then should this sand drill belt be mined below?"
Some sand diamond belts have been found one after another, but the number is too small, and the maximum is only 100,000, but it is more than 200 meters deep in the desert.
"Is it easy to mine?"
"It's not difficult!" Xiaoice said excitedly: "The sand diamond belt is about one hundred and twenty meters below, and the deepest will not exceed three hundred meters!"
Li Zhi looked at her and suddenly asked curiously, "Do you like mining?"
Xiaoice was stunned, then tilted his little head and thought about it and said, "I don't know!" But I think that since I found the mine belt, if I don't dig it out, it will feel very wasteful, and I will have that uncomfortable feeling in my heart!"
"Hehe, okay, then dig it!" Li Zhi laughed twice, people like to 'work', so what else can he say as a boss!
"Okay, I'll arrange for someone to mine now!" Xiaoice said happily and disappeared in front of Li Zhi.
The smile on Li Zhi's face retracted, frowned and said to Shi Sha on the side: "Go, call Lao Zhao and the high-level personnel in the exploration department over, and everyone has a meeting!"
"Yes!"
Shi Sha turned and walked out!
"Whoa, whoa!"
Silly Erha ran in at this time, and after seeing Li Zhi, he roared aggrievedly, his voice was full of grievances, although he didn't understand the 'dog language', he couldn't translate its original words, and it was estimated that he had let Lao Huang bully him again, and hoped that Li Zhi, the 'master', would come forward to take revenge on it!
Li Zhi rolled his eyes, raised his leg and kicked it out, and said angrily: "You are embarrassed to come and sue me, find you a 'beauty', you can't handle it yourself, you are embarrassed to call, call wool, and then call Lao Tzu, you stew dog meat to eat!"
"Whew!"
The stupid second haha snorted, as if he was unwilling.
"Grass, you still dare to talk back!" Li Zhi glared, was so frightened that he shrank his neck, turned his head and ran away.
"Don't order a dog's face, you can't get Lao Huang, you don't have to come back!"
"Woo~!"
It can be regarded as a response to Li Zhi.
Soon, Zhao Sihai led several senior managers in the exploration team to come over, plus Shi Sha, a total of twelve people.
"Lao Zhao, what do you think of this location?" Li Zhi sat on a chair, looked at the projection map in front of him, and asked.
Zhao Sihai said: "It's not bad, if there is no situation, it will take about three hours to reach the entrance of the folding space from here, and the distance is one hundred and eighty-three kilometers, and the distance is not too far, and it is not considered to be in." After a slight pause, he looked at Li Zhi and continued: "Put the 'temporary camp' here, it's a bit far, I prefer to be about a hundred kilometers away from the entrance!"
The distance is short, the danger factor is relatively low, and entering the desert for 180 kilometers is already considered to be 'deep' into the interior of the folding space.
Li Zhi did not refute Zhao Sihai's words, but nodded and said with a smile: "I originally thought that it was a hundred kilometers, but now there is a little change, Xiaoice said that under our feet, there is a 'sand diamond belt', which is stored at least 20 million sand diamonds, and it is quite easy to mine!"
"Then put the temporary camp here!" Zhao Sihai listened to Li Zhi finish speaking, and changed his words without saying a word. There are more than 20 million miscellaneous sand diamonds, which is not a few. If you want to calculate it according to the mining time, it will take at least ten days and half a month to mine, so one hundred and eighty-three kilometers is one hundred and eighty-three kilometers, it's not impossible!
"Haha!"
Li Zhi raised his head and laughed twice!
"Okay, then press the temporary camp here, in a short period of time, use this place as a base, radiate a range of 300 degrees to explore, and the distance is tentatively set at a radius of 100 kilometers!" Li Zhi continued.
In other words, in addition to the direction you came from, you don't have to go back and explore, and every direction of the surrounding 100 kilometers of territory must be explored.
"Okay, I'll arrange for people to go out!" Zhao Sihai understood what Li Zhi meant.
Li Zhi paused and added: "Mainly robots, supplemented by employees, try to avoid unnecessary casualties, our company's personnel are expensive, and they shouldn't be lost here!"
"Yes!"
The boss's words warmed the hearts of the other high-level employees present. It is indeed the greatest blessing in my life to have such a boss!
In fact, the distance where we are now, for the huge folding space, is still close to the edge of the 'entrance'.
Li Zhi's idea is to build a 'supply point' between 180 and 200 kilometers, and in the future, whether it is close to it or back from it, it can be used by other exploration teams for repairs!
The benefits are obvious, the entrance is actually the best 'supply point', whether it is inside or outside the entrance, it is a huge benefit.
But in that area, it is a little difficult to control the overall situation, there are too many people staring at two points, and it is better to jump out than to compete with those large and small forces.
Although there are definitely the most people in the two points now, when the abilities of the evolutionaries on the other side of the earth will be improved in the future, the 'city points' inside will also be essential!
Around the entrance of the folding space, at least four 'supply points' should be built in four directions, of course, if possible, it is best to build eight. When the time comes, you will be able to perfectly enclose the 'entrance' within a range of 200 kilometers!
However, the risks and benefits are also equal, and in the future, if the races in the folded space come out, the first ones to be impacted are these 'supply points' of the Ice Soul Group's exploration department.
For the time being, it is still in Li Zhi's thoughts, and it has not been determined, so first ask someone to go out to explore, and then make specific arrangements when he comes back!