The caravan led by Sang Lao soon gave up other businesses, and turned to do business with Ling Chen's base, without him, the benefits were too rich, and the ancient feudal dynasty was the same, the backward productive forces, could not carry too much population, and the cost of increasing the land gradually exceeded the dynasty's own strength and knowledge, and the current desert world is also like this, in each settlement, there are a lot of excess population.

They can only be driven out, the barren food supply in the settlements, the supply of clean water, is not enough for so many people to live, the only difference is that at least after experiencing civilization, the upper rulers will consciously control the population to a certain number, and then a little more, and many families will not have more children.

This is a way to maintain a subsistence balance and prevent the population from growing beyond the load on the environment, but even so, because the desert is gradually expanding and the water source is decreasing, the population is becoming more and more if it does not grow.

Therefore, the caravans led by Sang Lao could always find enough men under the banner of mercenary people, and the settlements also welcomed this at a certain distance, because not only did it reduce the burden, but it also allowed them to collect taxes in exchange for supplies.

Most of the people in the Sang Lao belt are ordinary laborers, but there are a few extraordinary people among them.

"This underground ruin, it seems that this is the place that the Lord has asked us to explore, everyone should be vigilant, the punishment for this mission is to deduct six thousand bronze points, and the reward is also unprecedentedly rich, twice the punishment" A young man with a soft face. I'm talking to some people.

"Judging from the mission rewards, the difficulty of this mission is at least B or above, but the problem is that at most, some soldiers with modern heavy machine guns are still a bit threatening," a man in a white shirt asked, a little confused.

"Isn't there much like this, the Juggernaut never gives a reward that exceeds the difficulty of the task, since the reward is so rare, there must be information we don't know about it," the feminine man replied.

"It's still the old way, find out enough information first. This time there is no limit of ten days. Or half a month's mission time, just asking us to find out the mystery of this underground ruin, it seems that this task is very difficult, and there is no need for the master to make it difficult for us" The feminine man continued.

"It's all better disguised. Don't let others see that you are too far from the natives. "The feminine man is clearly the leader of the team. Several others came down one after another.

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"These are the hired men you brought in? Is it voluntary? "Ling Qi naturally didn't want to hire a group of slaves. That would be too much trouble, and in the face of interests, it was normal for these caravans to catch slaves.

"Of course, it's all voluntary, like the previous batches of people, in the current year, it's not easy to find a place where you can have enough to eat, have a little surplus, and be able to feed your family" The person in charge of the caravan played the package ticket, he was not lying, with the reputation accumulated by the caravan for many years, after spreading the news here, many people were interested, not to mention that there was food sent out first as a travel fee, and they were also willing to come and have a look.

"Press the fingerprints, collect the DNA, establish a personal file, and then you can assign work, and there will be arrangements in the dormitory" Ling Qi skillfully arranged these people, now the population of the base is about to exceed 1,000 people, and the entire base can carry up to 100,000 people for food and clothing, which is still very early from the upper limit.

But now these people have started to have a real arrangement, and they are starting to be grouped into different classrooms for training, learning about mining, manufacturing, greening, etc.

When the number of people reaches a certain scale, they will also form caravans and go to various parts of the world to do business and obtain information, because there are deserts everywhere and there is no transportation, so there is no point in ruling the world, the transportation costs are too high, the cost of governance cannot be reduced at all, and the taxes paid are not enough for consumption on the road.

Ling Chen's purpose in building the base was not to conquer the world, but to serve as a material production base, sending caravans to the world, and then collecting intelligence to find out why the world had degenerated into a desert, and then seeking a way to restore it.

Ling Qi could see the difference between some of them at a glance, among the nearly a hundred people who came to ask for employment, there were a few people with indifferent expressions in their eyes, although their words were the same as others, wanting to get a job, but Ling Qi could easily see that the other party was more confident than others.

Confidence is not a mysterious thing, employees talk to the boss, it is easy to tell whether an employee has confidence, whether he is afraid of being fired. This is not something that can be solved by a good or bad temper, and those who have confidence have to rely on, and they have a kind of reliance on what they say, and most people can hear it.

Ling Qi didn't think much about it, he immediately regarded these people as spies sent by other organizations to inquire about his details, people with such a background would certainly care about this job, but they didn't have the same pressure to survive as everyone else.

He identified four such people, and when he did the file registration, he put a special label on them.

The feminine man, like everyone else, entered this somewhat mysterious underground ruin, separated from his accomplices and placed in a classroom to study.

"It's rare to have such a peaceful mission day, but according to the virtue of the master, there is a huge danger hidden in the peace, which is the norm, and where is this danger hidden?" He thought carefully, and the person who had assigned the work just now, he also looked at it carefully.

This person calls himself Ling Qi, from the name, he may be a servant, but he is very capable, different from those natives, whether he speaks or does things, he is very efficient, efficient people are often terrible, no matter where they are, they can always come out, they are the substitutes for the top group of people in society, the top people, in addition to efficiency and talent, there are also inspiration.

But this person is also an ordinary person, he secretly detected it, there is no strengthened power on the other party, and there is nothing special, it is an ordinary NPC character in the technology world, but the experience from multiple worlds makes him very clear that such a person, if he catches his attention, is a problematic person.

He decided to be cautious, anyway, there is no time limit for this mission, first establish a good relationship with the other party, and then find out the information.

There are not many times when he can contact the other party, he only knows that every time the course is over, when those teaching machines are assessed, the other party will come forward, and then find out some excellent seedlings for additional training.

The course he studied was mainly foreign business, including the route, the climate, terroir, environment, gathering of surrounding intelligence, and many other things, which were not simple.

Fortunately, after learning, he also gained a kind of knowledge of survival in the wild terrain, so he still endured the boredom and studied with those machine teachers. (To be continued......)