The reason for the team's return from this trip is obviously very simple.

It's the onset of winter.

In accordance with their status, in the absence of adequate resources.

It is obviously impossible to survive an entire winter in a bitterly cold place.

Therefore, it must be withdrawn before the onset of winter.

so as not to be buried in the cold winter.

But even so, the exploration team still killed a lot of people on this trip to the bitter cold land.

On the issue of pensions for the families of the deceased.

Luo Ji has already ordered someone to make arrangements.

And the next task of the exploration team is to sum up experience.

Then, after the beginning of spring next year, continue to go deep into the bitter cold to carry out exploration missions.

The area of the Bitter Cold Land is vast.

From the system map, Luo Ji could clearly feel that there was still a large area of fog around him.

These horizons have to be opened up slowly.

At the same time, the locations with resources have to be marked one after another.

This is all in preparation for his future territorial expansion.

At the same time, Luo Ji also went offline to check the ores brought back by the exploration team.

If he was not mistaken, the exploration team should have brought back 'tungsten ore', 'manganese ore' and 'titanium ore'.

Let Luo Ji clearly realize that the mineral resources in that frozen soil are unusually rich.

However, this meal has to be eaten bite by bite, and the road has to be walked step by step.

When he began to expand the scale of White River City this year, he was actually preparing for the expansion of his territory to the bitter cold land.

In accordance with his development plan.

The next step should be to occupy the northland mountains and forests that connect the Central Plains region with the bitter cold land.

Build a mountain town out there.

Then, using that mountain castle as a bridge, they continued to expand towards the bitter cold land.

This is one of the expansion plans of Luo Ji in the next few years.

There is no doubt that this is another big project.

The difficulty of building a city in the mountains and forests is much more difficult than that in the plains.

Even before that, he had to build a wide enough mountain road for the Northland mountain forest.

Otherwise, the transportation of building materials and materials for the construction of the city is a super big problem.

Time continued to flow, and as the days passed, the temperature of the Ten Thousand Worlds Civilization became colder.

The season is gradually moving into winter.

And Luo Ji has also changed himself into a warm cashmere sweater.

Recently, on the grassland side, Bai Ze's Xue Yu and Burigude's Gege frequently passed on the book through the Flying Eagle and sent a lot of news.

One of them, of course, is that the extermination of the horse thieves is going very well.

So far, they've taken out three horse thief dens.

Let the horse thieves on the periphery of the whole grassland be honest and settle a lot.

There were even a few bands of horse thieves who simply fled back to the depths of the grassland.

The other news was sent back by spies who went deep into the grassland.

Deep in the grasslands, the big tribes on the grasslands did not move for the time being.

According to the time, if the big tribes want to migrate to the periphery to spend the winter.

At the beginning of the month, or even last month, it was time to take action.

There has been no movement so far, which means that they plan to spend this winter honestly in the depths of the grassland.

It's the small tribes.

Probably because the large tribes have taken up the grassland resources.

This makes it difficult for them to survive in the depths of the grasslands.

One by one, they all started to run outside.

During this time, many small tribes have migrated outside.

Faced with this situation, Bai Ze and Burigud are asking for Luo Ji's instructions.

Do you want to get rid of those small tribes before the temperature drops further, or do you want to co-opt them?

In this regard, Luo Ji's answer was to keep a safe distance from those small tribes.

In other words, everyone does not interfere with the river water.

The threat of a few small tribes, Luo Ji still doesn't pay attention to it.

And at this point in time, if he chooses to incorporate those small tribes, it will undoubtedly increase the food consumption and burden of the grassland city.

But if it is said to be ended, it is easy to have extraneous branches.

provoked a backlash from those other small tribes.

To put it simply, it's a hassle!

Winter is approaching, and this cold season will not be too easy for the ancient people.

If you know each other, keep a good distance from them.

Wouldn't it be better for everyone to spend this winter in peace?

Of course, if they don't know each other, then take some time to get rid of them.

Naturally, the task of delivering the message was given to Glimpse.

Probably because I tasted the bitterness last year.

This winter, Glimpse clearly has no plans to go out into the wilderness.

Honestly stopped on the eagle frame and dozed off.

Occasionally, I help Luo Ji pass a letter.

In this era when long-distance communication is difficult, Flying Eagle should be the most efficient means of transmitting information.

Of course, not everyone can afford to raise an eagle.

So Luo Ji has long begun to ask people to domesticate carrier pigeons.

For this reason, I also checked the information offline for a long time.

However, at present, the domestication effect is not very good.

Recently, the pigeon training reports have been sent to the pigeon, and there are often cases where the pigeon is lost and the letter is not delivered to the designated place.

That's not going to work.

Luo Ji wanted to use them to convey military intelligence reports.

This kind of unreliable results obviously did not meet his requirements.

There is no other way, continue to train, what else can I do?

In comparison, the new discovery on the other side is going too well......

Tearing the dirty-colored thing in his hand, which seemed to be like a yellow leather rope, Luo Ji's face flashed with a hint of satisfaction.

This thing is rubber!

Of course, it is more accurate to say natural rubber.

It was found in the great forest to the south where the orcs had previously entrenched.

Resin is one of the important resources of their civilization in the world.

One of the most direct effects is that it can be used to make hard leather and then make leather armor.

So after discovering a forest, it is natural for the collection team to rush to collect and confirm the resource.

As a result, when they cut the skin of some of the trees, they found that they were coming out of a milky white gelatin.

This is also known as natural latex.

After a certain amount of processing of those natural latexes, there is a small piece of natural rubber in Luo Ji's hand.

The role of rubber is undoubtedly extensive.

In terms of military affairs alone, three-bow bed crossbows, catapults, and hand crossbows are all used in these ordnance equipment.

In other words, these ordnance and equipment of his Ten Thousand Realms Civilization can be further improved and strengthened.

As for the civilian side, there are even more places where it can be used.

However, priority is given to military-related departments.

This natural thing, after all, is relatively limited in production.

For the time being, it cannot be supplied in large quantities to civilian use.

And those trees that can produce natural latex, Luo Ji simply named them rubber trees.

Men have already begun to be sent to carry out artificial breeding.

In a few years, he should have access to a more adequate and stable supply of resources.

(End of chapter)