Now the perspective shifts back to the Central Plains.

Outside Baihe City, a team from the north immediately attracted the attention of the soldiers on duty at the wall.

But there is no need to be too guarded at all.

Because the huge mammoth and the ice bear warriors riding the ice bear are so conspicuous.

"It's a team sent to the bitter cold! The scout team is back! ”

The news of the return of the expedition from the bitter cold spread across the entire wall in an instant.

Then he got into the ears of Zhang Luo, who was on duty.

Outside the city, Hill, who was sitting on the back of Huck the Mammoth, looked at the city in front of him from afar, and always felt that this city had become more majestic than when she left.

And that's exactly what happened.

White River City has actually expanded twice to the north.

The area of an entire city has increased by about a quarter.

"Finally back......"

Wait, why did she say back?

Hill shook his head subtly.

Even she couldn't deny that in the months she had been in the bitter cold land, she had missed the life of the civilization of the Ten Thousand Worlds a little.

Although compared to the frozen soil where she had lived for more than twenty years, she had only lived in the Ten Thousand Worlds Civilization for one winter.

The news that they had safely returned to the Ten Thousand Realms Civilization was quickly delivered to Luo Ji.

After a long journey, they obviously need a few days of rest in White River City.

By the time they returned to Spiegel, it was already two weeks later.

It's changed so much along the way.

One of the biggest changes is that there seem to be two more castles......

Oh my God, how long have they been gone? There are two more cities on the road?

And these two cities, one of them, is undoubtedly Qingshui City, which was just completed some time ago.

The other is the territory of the werewolf tribe.

After many awards and expansions by Luo Ji.

The werewolf tribe's current residence, although a little smaller, seems to meet the standards of a city.

At the same time, it was officially named 'Wolf Tooth City' by Luo Ji.

It was the envy of several other orc tribes for a while.

Then, when they arrived at Spiegel, they were in a daze again.

The buildings and streets in the city were very different from the ones they remembered.

As a result, they were a little lost for a while.

And the new goblins, cat people, tiger races, and a whole bunch of novelties that they can't even name, are constantly refreshing their worldview.

How did it feel like they had left for a while, and when they came back, the whole world had changed?

At this time, the entire civilization of the Ten Thousand Worlds was busy preparing and checking the winter supplies.

In a short period of time, Luo Ji obviously didn't have time to summon them.

However, Luo Ji is not in a hurry at all about this matter.

Because the exploration team doesn't care if they find resources or not.

The location of that resource point was not even within his reach.

In other words, the reason why he sent a survey team to the bitter cold land was just to step on the expansion of the territory in the future.

Under this premise, is there any difference between listening to the debriefing a few days later or a few days earlier?

In this way, Luo Ji is not in a hurry, and they are even less anxious about Hill.

For the Ciel, who had just escaped from the sea of suffering.

Even if you don't do anything every day, just huddle up in the bed and sleep, it's all happy.

God knows how long it's been since they've had a good night's sleep?

Not to mention the variety of delicious and abundant food in Spiegel.

Let's let them enjoy it first.

And by the time Luo Ji actually summoned them, it was already close to the end of the month.

Took the map that had been presented.

It had been drawn by members of the exploration team during the months that had been deep into the bitter cold.

At the moment when Luo Ji took over the map.

His system map was updated accordingly.

The bitter cold place, which was originally shrouded in mist, suddenly cleared a large chunk.

In the words of their gaming circles.

That's opening your horizons.

For Luo Ji, with this map alone, this trip to the bitter cold land is not in vain.

However, the Hills apparently brought more news for him.

Of course, this news is not necessarily good.

For example, from Hill's report, Luo Ji learned that a group of monsters that seemed to be long-haired pigs had appeared in the bitter cold land.

Based on Hill's description of the monsters' physical features.

Nine times out of ten, the orcs didn't run away.

After all, in his Ten Thousand Worlds civilization now, in addition to the human race and goblins, there are only a wide variety of orcs.

The presence of orcs in the bitter cold is not good news.

Because this means that if he wants to expand his territory to the bitter cold land in the future, he will have to face many obstacles from the orcs.

However, the news has only just been spoken.

Hill soon had another piece of bad news for him.

That is, the orcs have taken the original territory of their northern tribe......

And the main purpose of their trip.

That is, the resource points that Luo Ji needs them to confirm are all near that area.

"So, you're coming back empty-handed this time?"

The joyless and sad tone makes it impossible to understand his joy and anger.

But it was Hill and the others who felt a pressure invisibly.

"Actually, it's not like coming back empty-handed."

"Oh?"

Hearing this, Luo Ji raised his eyebrows slightly.

Immediately, his gaze shifted for a while, and it was Jiang Yan, the captain of the exploration team, who spoke.

After all, they had lived with Hill and the others for several months, or they were living and dying together in a harsh and bitter cold place.

The members of the exploration team also established some revolutionary friendships with them.

After feeling the change in the atmosphere, Jiang Yan immediately stood up.

Then the ore found was presented to Luo Ji's eyes.

"Back to Your Majesty, although there is no way to confirm the originally scheduled resource points, along the way, our exploration team has found some other ores and resource points."

There are more types of ores in the world.

And he didn't specialize in this, so he glanced at it casually, but he didn't see anything.

After directly signaling the guards beside him, he sent the ore to the Ore Research Institute for study.

Luo Ji's voice softened slightly.

"It's hard for you......"

As he spoke, he directly gave Hill and Harold, as well as the members of the expedition, a handsome reward.

Despite all the bad news, the intelligence was also valuable.

He has never been stingy in this kind of thing.

As for the construction of the city, Luo Ji didn't say it, and Hill didn't mention it either.

Because strictly speaking, their mission was a failure.

Since it is a failure, there is no reason to get the reward that is good.

(End of chapter)