The next morning, Xia Xue was still woken up, it turned out that in this strange environment, most people were very nervous, they couldn't sleep at all, they were all waiting for Xia Xue's order, it is difficult to say whether they can return to their hometown in the future, but there must be a backbone in people's hearts, and Queen Changsun is now their backbone.

Although Xia Xue is very sleepy, she can only get up and speak to this kind of person, of course, it is indispensable to leave a name in history and curiosity about the unknown world, but at present, there must be some practical methods, that is, to build a dock and build a camp!

A team of about 500 people had to dock the huge warship to the shore and unload the supplies on board, it was still very fast, the key was that there must be a wharf, so the Tang soldiers and sailors went to move the stones!

If you want to say that it is a wharf, it is actually very simple, that is, you must clear out a piece of flat land, and then build a stone platform, which is used to set up a gangplank with the big ship standing on the side, so as to facilitate the loading of goods up and down, such a platform dock can be completed quickly, the key is to choose the right place, the water depth is enough for the expedition to dock!

By noon, the platform dock had been built, and a large number of tools and supplies had been transported from the ship, and the camp did not occupy a large area, so the use of stone walls could also make do, but Xia Xue still let them cut down a large number of trees, and when it was dark, the camp with walls on three sides had been preliminarily completed!

In the next few days, Xia Xue left some men to continue to improve the camp, and then sent some personnel to explore the vicinity, but faced with rolling hills, vast grasslands and primeval forests, the few days of exploration yielded nothing, and the camp became almost a fortress.

There are necessary trenches in front of the exit, and there are also two trenches on the outside of the exit, and then the observation post built of logs and the hot air balloon behind it are guarded to the outside world, so that the people inside are very relaxed, because there is no fuel, a lot of firewood is needed for heating and cooking at night, and Xia Xue has people cut down all the trees within 500 steps outside the camp.

On the one hand, this is to clear the view of the whole camp, on the other hand, it also stores a lot of timber for the camp, and the basic work of the team that goes out to explore is to clear a few roads and hunt outside the mission, get food for the whole camp, and of course the professional personnel are responsible for picking wild fruits.

After a few days of busyness, the dock and camp are basically able to make people feel at ease, such a defense is that the beasts and a large number of wild people can't break in at all, so Xia Xue arranged very few people left behind, and most of the personnel participated in the external search, which was actually very purposeful! That is to try to find a coal mine.

There are some technicians and craftsmen on the "Expedition" who are capable of prospecting, and these people are specifically looking for coal for everyone, but the coal mine has not been found several times, and they have found a saltpeter mine and lime mine!

Anyway, both of these things were useful to Xia Xue, so Xia Xue sent people to the camp and began to carry them in large quantities, and the scope of the search team's external search was also increasing, from one day back and forth at the beginning, to two or even three or four days back and forth, which expanded the efficiency of finding coal mines.

And in the camp, due to several rains in a row, the cleared place began to be lush again, Xia Xue saw that the land was so fertile, it was not as good as planting some vegetables and crops, anyway, there was a river in the open field in front of it, and in the past few days the area of the camp had begun to expand, and that water source was also included.

After more than a month of construction, the whole camp has now far exceeded the original scale, under the leadership of Xia Xue, Tang Bing and the sailors have rebuilt a large wharf, and with stones to initially establish some accommodation, instead of sleeping in tents every day, after having a water source, through reasonable distribution, also established a reservoir, in order to be able to water the vegetable field and wheat field in the camp, the camp opened up more than a dozen acres of land was originally used to grow vegetables, but Xia Xue suggested that some wheat was planted.

Now that the green wheat seedlings have grown, Xia Xue arranged some people to grow food, so that before the food reserves on the ship are eaten, there will be more food to deal with, so the team of more than 500 people was naturally assigned several groups, there are specialized agricultural food, there are those who collect fruits and wild vegetables, there are those who specialize in hunting and providing meat, and those who specialize in going out to sea to fish, which is the food solution department divided into the whole camp, and there is also a special construction department to build some accommodation for everyone, Improving all kinds of camp measures.

The first solution is bathing and sanitation facilities, now to grow food, so manure can not be wasted, to be centrally managed into the fermentation tank, because there is a large steam boiler on the ship can boil hot water, at first the solution of hot water can only be on the ship, and then Xia Xue let the ship dismantle a spare small boiler, put it in the camp room, through the pipeline can solve the problem of drinking, cooking and bathing for everyone.

The search team still has to go out to look for coal, the search area is getting larger and larger, and the target has reached a radius of 200 miles, but there is still no trace of coal, which makes Xia Xue very anxious, but some other minerals have been found, such as quartz ore, miscanthus mine, limestone mine, and copper mine! At present, the only thing that can be used is limestone, at least it is needed for the health of the camp, as for the canganese nitrate, it can only be stored in the camp, and the calcined lime uses up a lot of wood, which makes the people in the camp really hungry for coal.

This morning, Xia Xue wanted to discuss something with Cui Zhi and Ouyang Qian in the camp, but she couldn't find it after searching all over the camp. A big sailor told her that Cui Zhi and Ouyang Qian were bored this morning, and a few sailors went out to sea to fish in a small boat.

When Xia Xue heard this, she felt a sense of foreboding in her heart, and hurriedly boarded the deck of the "Explorer" moored at the pier and looked into the sea with a telescope.

This look startled her, only to see Cui Zhi and Ouyang Qian in the small boat they were riding in didn't know what was going on, but they were rowing far, far away from the coast, and they had already reached the deep water area of the ocean. What made her even more shocking was that Cui Zhi and Ouyang Qian's boat was surrounded by a group of whales, and she didn't know how they provoked these behemoths in the sea.

Xia Xue broke out in a cold sweat, and due to the change of tides, the water level at the pier was not enough to float the huge "Expedition" to rescue them.

"What can I do?" Xia Xue was anxious.

Time is pressing, if it is delayed any longer, it is estimated that Cui Zhi and Ouyang Qian will be buried in the belly of the fish.

Xia Xue finally decided to drive a dinghy to rescue them, she immediately went to the camp and called 9 sailors, with javelins that specialize in tying big fish, driving the two dinghys like two sharp swords, straight into the whales besieging Cui Zhi and Ouyang Qian.

The white waves are getting closer and closer, and I can see more and more clearly, this is the white waves stirred up by whales.

The fog, which had been blurry because it was too far away, could now be seen much more closely, and it was flying in all directions.

Xia Xue's boat sailed into a large fog, and she couldn't see anything else except herself.

Suddenly, a storm of voices came to my face.

"Lie down!" Xia Xue screamed and hurriedly leaned over and climbed on the boat. I saw countless flying fish roaring towards them like crazy, like countless out-of-control silver-blue 'little planes'.

Like a huge silver-white tsunami, it roared past Xia Xue, like a continuous blizzard, or like a continuous silver-blue train, roaring and galloping, and roaring on the sea in groups after groups.

There was a slow sailor who was hit by the crazy dense school of flying fish and tumbled into the seawater, thanks to Xia Xue's quick eyes and grabbed one of his legs, so he was not swept away by the waves.

The sailor who had fallen into the water screamed and fluttered, and at last climbed into the skiff, his face pale with fright, and his mouth and nose kept spewing bitter seawater, and his face, head, and body were covered with fish scales left by the impact of flying fish.

The terrifying school of flying fish finally passed like a tsunami, and many small flying fish fell on the dinghy. About a foot long, its wings are the same length as its tail, and its shape resembles that of a carp, with a white head and a red beak, and a cyan texture on its back. The pectoral fins are particularly well developed, resembling the wings of birds. The long pectoral fins extend all the way to the tail, and the whole body resembles a "long shuttle" for weaving cloth.

Xia Xue estimated that it was the whale group that alarmed the flying fish group, which caused them to go so crazy and collectively soar.

Xia Xue knew that the flying fish was not flying, it felt as if it was flapping its winged fins, but it was actually just gliding. The flying fish accelerates underwater, and as it swims to the surface, its fins cling to its streamlined body. As soon as it breaks through the water, the big fin is spread out, and the tail that is still in the water is quickly slapped to gain extra thrust. When the force is sufficient, the tail is completely out of the water, and it takes off and glides a few feet above the water at a speed of 16 kilometers per hour. The flying fish can glide continuously, and each time it falls back into the water, its tail pushes its body up again. The stronger flying fish can glide up to 600 feet at a time, and the continuous gliding distance can be as far as 1,300 feet for up to 43 seconds, which is truly impressive.

Xia Xue turned her head to look at the school of flying fish that had gone away, because the color of the back of the flying fish was close to the sea water, and on the blue sea, the flying fish appeared and disappeared from time to time. I saw that on the deep blue sea, a flock of "small planes" suddenly jumped out, they swept over the sea and sky like a flock of birds, high for a while, low for a while, breaking the waves and marching, soaring and racing, the scene was very spectacular. After a while, they disappeared en masse, and then suddenly a flock of birds leaped up from the sea, which is truly a spectacle!

The white waves are getting closer and closer, and I can see more and more clearly, this is the white waves stirred up by whales.

Xia Xue's boat sailed into a large fog, and she couldn't see anything else except herself.

Xia Xue could already hear Ouyang Qian's screams.

"Hurry up, brethren, it's too late." Xia Xue urged anxiously. Xia Xue likes to call her subordinates brothers, which is more intimate than calling them "soldiers".