After returning from the Thorn Wasteland, Jiang Feng had been nesting in the small secret realm he called the Thorn Garden, tinkering with his colony.

It is almost foreseeable that many apprentices will visit his colony by the beginning of the school year at the latest.

Although these people will not stay in the colony for long due to the limitation of points, temporary accommodation must still be prepared, after all, those people must not be allowed to camp in the wilderness.

His intention was to allow the apprentices to put what they learned in the classroom to good use, rather than letting them take risks for the sake of risk.

Colonists' quarters are a must, and basic ingredients can be provided by the crop cultivation unit that the drone is tending to, as for cooking...... It can be handed over to an automated kitchen.

In addition to solving the problem of eating, drinking, and lazing the apprentices, Jiang Feng also had one more thing to do, and that was to train an armed force that would not lose even if it was an opponent of a wizard, in order to deal with possible dangers.

After all, he had already opened the passage between this secret realm and the wizard continent, which was equivalent to opening a hole in the dimensional wall. If it is discovered by other wizards, it will undoubtedly be a disaster if it is not well prepared.

It is precisely for this reason that he asked Makalu to send people to the town of Rock to buy more than a hundred slaves with the strength of high-level knights and above. It's been almost a week now, and the captain of the wizard tower guard named Buck should have arrived in the Eastern Desert with his retinue and magic stones.

Since he personally trained the soldiers, he naturally wouldn't let those people use backward cold weapons. He is ready to train these soldiers according to the standards of the first-level vassal civilization army of the Galactic Federation, and as for the choice of equipment, it is mainly based on exoskeletons with energy weapons such as rifles and laser daggers.

With the current resource production of the Thorn Garden Colony, it is barely enough to support the consumption of producing these equipment. Considering the energy supply efficiency of geothermal wells, if there is no additional geothermal wells, it will only take two to three months to complete the arming of 100 marines with 3D printers as production tools.

And this window period can be used to train these soldiers. With the physical fitness and combat quality of these high-level knights, combined with the commonly used VR deep infiltration equipment, it should not be a problem to quickly complete the training in three months.

If all of these soldiers complete their training, they should ideally be able to deal with the invasion of wizards below the three-star level. With the addition of portals, these soldiers can be quickly deployed in their territories, whether it's the Thorn Wastes, Crocodile Island, or the colonies beneath his feet.

As for the higher-level wizards, Jiang Feng hadn't encountered them yet, so he couldn't give an objective evaluation.

However, I believe that after he enters the Emerald Tower, he should be able to feel the power of wizards above three stars.

"Smart brain, connect the nano drone swarm hive, and open the production queue list."

【Connecting......】

Looking at the list presented in front of him, Jiang Feng thought for a moment, then entered a few characters, and then selected the icon that popped up.

"The next building is set to be a VR training room."

The so-called VR training room is naturally a place where skills are trained through VR equipment.

It's just that the deep infiltration equipment used for soldier training is different from the entertainment VR infiltration device placed in Jiang Feng's shelter, considering the coordination of human nerves and muscles, as well as the memory of the muscles themselves, the deep infiltration equipment specially used to train soldiers is not only connected to the user's brain, but will be connected to every muscle cell in the user's body.

However, although it is so troublesome, in fact, the technology used in this is not very clever, at least the materials applied are at the molecular level, so there is no need to consume valuable stardust resources, and ordinary 3D printers are enough to manufacture.

Each VR training room is equipped with ten deep infiltration devices, which can meet the training needs of ten soldiers at a time. The construction of two VR training rooms, and then staggering the training time in shifts, can fully ensure a minimum training time of at least four hours per person per day.

"The molybdenum ore used in the manufacture of deep submersible equipment can be solved through the Mine Snail No. 1. If the demand is not particularly high, there is no need to open a mine. ”

"However, if you build two VR training rooms, the power consumption of the colony will also increase, so you still have to find a new source of energy as soon as possible, or add a thermal energy harvesting unit for geothermal wells." Looking at the queue of buildings, Jiang Feng thought for a moment, and then inserted an instruction at the end of the VR training room to add a heat energy harvesting unit to the existing geothermal well.

After doing these things, Jiang Feng suddenly patted his head and suddenly remembered a more serious problem.

"Oh, I almost forgot! Deeply embedded devices require continuous consumption of the culture medium, considering the rate of consumption of a hundred people...... It was also necessary to introduce equipment for the production of culture medium to the colony. ”

Thinking of this, Jiang Feng's expression couldn't help but stiffen a little.

It is not enough to produce the production equipment of the culture medium, and the raw materials required for the production of the culture medium must also be solved.

Previously, his role was only that of a ship commander, but he never designed the production of military equipment. Unexpectedly, after he really came into contact with this aspect of things, these seemingly simple things would be unexpectedly troublesome to manage.

"For the time being, we will supply culture medium to the lowest quality. The capacity of a crop cultivation unit should be freed up to meet the raw material requirements for the preparation of E-grade culture broths. It seems that there will be a need for another crop cultivation unit to produce food......"

Jiang Feng continued to stuff construction projects into the construction queue with some headaches, looking at the resource capacity that had been booked for half a year, and felt distressed for a while.

The Thorn Garden Colony, which originally had a surplus of production capacity in all aspects, suddenly became nervous because of the training plan of this hundred marines.

This is only the initial investment, and the equipment will be officially installed in the army in the later stage, and he will also need to add several ammunition production lines to the colony, as well as a production line of replaceable parts for exoskeletons.

But trouble is trouble, and if you ask him if he regrets it, the answer is still no.

Although the forced bombing of troops in the early stage will put a lot of pressure on all sides, and even make the colony that is still in its infancy stunted. But if he can't keep this secret realm, no matter how well he manages his territory, he will only be someone else's wedding dress.

The tide of magic has ended, the Jialan Vortex is about to open, and sooner or later, the wizards of the Wizard Continent will reach out to the vicinity of his sphere of influence.

Whether it is to fight for the status of a researcher in the Emerald Tower and blend into the forces of the Wizarding Continent, or to fully exploit the resources in the Garden of Thorns, they are all preparing for the arrival of that day.

“…… Do you want to add a building nano drone hive? ”

But after thinking about it, Jiang Feng finally gave up this idea.

Although the offer was tempting, the Shuttle was what he was all about.

The power of the Wizard Continent can penetrate into the Aditya Continent, and even touch the Garden of Thorns, but there is nothing to do with the Shuttle.

Jiang Feng has that confidence, even if he is the strongest person in the Wizard Continent, the tentacles of spiritual power will definitely not be able to penetrate the outer skin of the Flying Shuttle.

Restoring the Shuttle as soon as possible is the greatest guarantee for him. If it's not a necessary consumption, it's better to save something like stardust.

Disconnected from the nano drone hive, Jiang Feng went to the kitchen to make a cup of coffee and returned to the bench in Colonial Square to sit down.

Looking at the white mist rising from the mouth of the cup, he thought in his heart.

"There shouldn't be any problems on the colony's side, is the next step for the Pharmacy Researcher exam on the Emerald Tower's side?"

"Speaking of which, the knowledge I have about potions comes from books compiled by aboriginal wizards, and simulated derivation through pharmacological analysis of the brain."

"I hope that the exam questions at that time will not exceed the data reserve of the brain database."

Thinking of this, Jiang Feng couldn't help but be a little amused.

I didn't expect that I, who had been away from campus for I don't know how many years, would one day have to worry about exams.

Looking back on it, it feels really nostalgic......