To be fair, these British traversers have not been completely confined to the research station in the past two years, and have done some things to some extent.

The first was to establish trade links with the Celtic villages and towns in the upper reaches of the Avon River, exchanging newly harvested potatoes and surplus metal products from the research station for coal from a small open-pit coal mine in the mountains, and then using the coal for cooking and heating to save fuel hoarded in the research station.

The second is to communicate with several nearby "civilizations" left over from the Roman Empire, obtain their initial recognition, and reach a loose "joint defense agreement", the main content of which is to jointly defend against the invasion of the "barbarian people" Anglo-Saxons.

Thirdly, there were a few battles with the Anglo and Saxon warriors who occasionally attacked from the east, and the Irish pirates who landed sporadically from the west coast, and taught these brutal and bloodthirsty barbarians a hard lesson with deadly bullets, and basically secured the safety of this small territory.

Fourth...... Although it was not their intention, the arrival of the "Carmellot" scientific research station still brought more lethal modern germs and viruses to Britain in the Dark Ages, resulting in a terrible plague - although according to the analysis of these travelers, it should have been just an ordinary influenza, but in this dark age of ignorance, lack of medical treatment, and even basic hygiene, it still led to the tragic death of tens of thousands of people. Even the number of farmers attached to Camelot has been reduced by almost a quarter.

- I don't know if it's Weishenme, these miserly British traversers. It does not appear to be providing their own inventory of anti-inflammatory drugs to the natives of the plane.

And then what? And then there was no more!

There is no great steel refining to climb the science and technology tree, there is no recruitment to expel the barbarians, and there is no expansion of territory to dominate the world. There is no education to spread civilization, no ships are built to go to sea to do business; There was no brick kiln, not an ironworks, not a glass or ceramics workshop; The Brits didn't even plan their Celtic farmer's villages, but gave them tools to build their own houses.

In fact, in addition to sowing new crops, metal farming tools are used. Aside from being well fed, the Celtic farmers under the rule of "Camelot Castle" were not much different from the Celts in other parts of Britain - they still lived in thatched huts and plank houses that were dark and damp, and were infested with germs and lice. eating a paste made of all kinds of messy things, poured into a pot and boiled with a little coarse salt; He was covered with tattered linen clothes and dirty animal skins brought from home, as well as sacks and plastic sheets "rewarded" by the traversers......

Even such a life was a great happiness for the peasants of medieval Europe.

For Bath, the only city in its own jurisdiction. These British traversers who were lazy to the extreme. There seems to be no intention of recruiting the population and making it the capital of the New Kingdom on a large scale - although the ruins of the ancient Roman city were in fact quite well situated, surrounded by rivers for easy transportation and irrigation, and surrounded by fertile wilderness - but simply left the ruins to Father Paul, who ordered him to restore the thermal baths of the ancient Roman era for his own people to bathe in their leisure time. As a result, two years later, the city of Bath naturally became the territory of Father Paul...... Although relying on absolute superiority of force. Father Paul would never dare to have any bad intentions in front of you. But if this continues, there is a good chance that Bath City will be out of the lord's jurisdiction. Eventually, it became a free city or ecclesiastical domain......

From this point of view, the construction achievements of these Brits in Camelot after the crossing are really a failure.

Indeed, after more than two years, these Brits in Camelot still live very well, with electric lights at night, heating in winter, spices for eating, games and movies when they are bored, and toilet paper to wipe their butts in the toilet - don't look at it inconspicuous, in this day and age, you just go all over the world, and you can't find a piece of toilet paper to wipe your butt from somewhere else - in addition to the shortage of ammunition, even the sanitary napkins and tampons used by the female members, There is also a lot of stock in this research station......

In Wang Qiu's opinion, even Queen Cleopatra, who has received great assistance in the construction, may not be as comfortable as these British traversers at the "Carmellot" scientific research station. At least, although she can use tampons in the royal palace in Alexandria and watch new anime with her laptop, she still has to endure the scorching sun of more than 40 degrees Celsius, and the cold wind without air conditioning can blow......

And their biggest problem is that they are seriously lacking in enterprising spirit, always getting by, and not having a long-term goal at all.

In fact, as a crossing base, the "Camelot" scientific research station is not only rich in material reserves, but even the location where it lands is also unique - first, the hot spring capital of Bath City, where the "Camelot" scientific research station came, has long been burned into a blank field by the Anglo-Saxons, and then abandoned by the remaining Celts, so there is no strong shili nearby, so that the traversers will not have to fight with others as soon as they land.

Second, the land near Bath City, though uninhabited at this time, is not really a completely unexplored wilderness, but a thriving and prosperous place, with natural resources sufficient to sustain a large number of people. Even the farms cultivated near the "Camelot" research station were not really wastelands before, but cooked land that had been cultivated by Roman colonists for centuries. It was only during the previous Anglo-Saxon invasion and tug-of-war with the Celts and Roman remnants that the entire city of Bath was slaughtered and burned. And as the Celtic citizens fled, the surrounding fields were naturally abandoned......

Therefore, when the "Camelot" scientific research station arrived, these lands were equivalent to being left fallow for many years, and their fertility had already been completely restored. Irrigation ditches left by the Romans are also included. With a little repair and dredging, it can be used directly.

Thirdly, there is really no powerful shili in the vicinity of Bath City, but it is not far from the remaining civilized towns on the island of Great Britain. It is also located on the main road connecting Wales and Cornwall, the two major Celtic settlements, making it easy to attract people.

In fact, for some of the Celtic farmers who had been recruited by the "Castle of Carmellot" to open up the land, they did not think they were leaving their homeland, but returning to their homeland - some of whom had fled from Bath in the first place - and therefore had no problem with psychological acceptance.

However, under the superposition of so many favorable conditions, what did these people toss and do on the island of Great Britain in the Dark Ages?

Well. Wang Qiu preliminarily summarized in his notebook that the achievements of the "Camelot" scientific research station in the past two years or so are roughly as follows:

A luxurious and solid "castle", three or four hundred hectares of fields. A few small and dilapidated villages, a church with only a priest and a few young boys, a riverside market that takes advantage of the Avon waterway...... There is also a new one that has just sprouted from the ruins of ancient Rome, relying on churches, bazaars and inland waterways. In the future, it is likely to develop into a "self-governing city......

Isn't this a typical medieval aristocratic domain? From the point of view of the form of social organization. It's not even a little bit of progress, right?

Even from the Jishu perspective, such a development business model was unsustainable - due to the degradation of civilization and the loss of smelting jishu, one of the things that Europeans lacked most in the early Middle Ages was metal. Because the limited amount of steel had to be used first for the swords and armor of the knights, many Western European farmers had to use wooden plows to plough the land, which greatly reduced labor efficiency.

However, despite the fact that there are coal and iron mines not far from Bath City, in the electronic library of the research station. There are also popular science books that record various primitive smelting methods, but the people living in Carmellot never seem to have the idea of making steel. It was only from the surplus metal products in the research station that some rudimentary agricultural tools were made for the Celtic farmers under his control, or used for trade and exchange with other shili.

In this way, when the travelers leave or die, this small miniature kingdom will once again revert back to the Stone Age......

In short, if a traveler travels alone to the dark ages of the Middle Ages and can make such a family business from scratch, then it is indeed worth a thumbs up; But the current situation is that dozens of traversers have crossed over with an extremely rich Antarctic scientific research station, and they have only managed to make such a small number of Mingtang after tossing for two or three years...... It's a disappointment.

In this way, after learning about the lackluster performance of these British in recent years, Wang Qiudu was about to slap the table and scold his mother - guarding such a well-stocked crossing base, in such a turbulent historical era, but only occupying a piece of territory the size of a palm, he was satisfied to become a village chief-level prince...... Can you not waste such a haode basic condition, and give me a little pursuit?

So, after a preliminary understanding of the situation, Wang Qiu labeled these British guys as "losers" and "wretched" in his heart

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However, it was not until Wang Qiu met with the newly elected "King Arthur" alone in a small conference room and had a long conversation with this peer who had not graduated from college that he was stunned to learn that the reason why the "Camelot" scientific research station had been inactive after crossing into the dark ages was also because of the unavoidable hardship -- some people had indeed put forward some grand plans, but they could not unify their thoughts internally.

It turned out that after collectively traveling to the beginning of the Dark Ages of the Middle Ages, when the Roman Empire had just collapsed in Britain, and after cultivating a few fields, collecting a group of serfs, and initially solving the existential crisis - in fact, the so-called "existential crisis" did not exist from the beginning, even if they had been huddled in the scientific research station and closed their doors, the fuel and food stored in the scientific research station were enough for this small group of modern people to hold out until the appearance of the wormhole - these settled British people had great confusion about their own identity.

In the simplest way, it's a question, who are we?

Well, among the members who crossed over with the "Carmellot" research station. With the exception of a few foreign immigrants and Scots, they are all descendants of the Anglo-Saxons and speak English. Believing in God, he once arrogantly dominated Europe, colonized the world with fleets, guns and industrial civilization, and "educated all nations", leaving behind countless English-speaking countries large and small......

Ahem, it seems to be a bit of a stretch. To get back to the point, in short, in addition to the legal concept of "citizen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". Their identity labels for "their own people" are mainly as follows:

1. Christians, 2. Anglo-Saxons, 3. Civilized people. 4. Speak English.

However, around 500 A.D., there was no group in Great Britain that met all four attributes.

-- The Celts, who inherited the Roman civilization, spoke Celtic and Latin. Their language and culture will eventually die out in the time of the Kingdom of England. And the Anglo-Saxons who spoke Old English. But they were still in a primitive clan society, and so brutal, savage, and ignorant - they embraced the Druidic religion of human sacrifice, worshiped violence, regarded war and plunder as a form of glory, and regarded labor and farming as signs of incompetence; With the exception of a few nobles, the vast majority of the Anglo-Saxons still did not know what marriage was, and copulated and procreational like a horse and a donkey, and the children of the tribe often did not know who their father was...... Such an ancestor is really stressful.

And. The Christian Church of Britain, founded during the Roman Empire, will be in the midst of a barbarian invasion. It was almost completely destroyed by the barbaric Anglo-Saxons, with only a few monasteries left in the Welsh mountains, leaving the island of Great Britain from the glory of God. It wasn't until two hundred years later that the Anglo-Saxons, who had become civilized, gradually converted to Christianity and once again made the island belong to God.

In short, on the island of Great Britain at this moment, the Celts were civilized and Christian, and the Anglo-Saxons were savages and pagans.

The war between the Celts and the Anglo-Saxons was a brutal tug-of-war between faith, civilization and national survival.

So, on the one hand, the Celts, who were civilized and Christians, and on the other hand, the English-speaking and pagan Anglo-Saxon savages - the literal translation of English is "Anglo" - the modern British travelers at the "Carmellot" research station, who should regard as their own compatriots?

For them, this is a very difficult problem.

Because they could not accept being in the company of a group of infidels and barbarians intellectually, after Merlin's repeated persuasion, the traversers of the "Camelot" scientific expedition station voted and finally chose the more civilized Celts in the camp.

Specifically, through the matchmaking of the Christian Church in Britain, they presented beautiful porcelain and glassware to their "civilized" neighbors, as well as more practical modern knives and ingots (ballast stones used to camp on the wind-howling Antarctic ice sheet, but apparently not necessary on the milder island of Great Britain), and won the favor of the rulers of several nearby Celtic and Roman settlements. At the same time, in a battle against the Anglo-Saxon invaders, automatic rifles and grenade launchers were used to show force and deter some of the greedy and inadequate. With a combination of carrots and sticks, the Travelers forged a loose military alliance with them, allowing Camelot to take root in this dark age of violence...... But that's about it.

For they have never forgotten that the ignorant and barbaric Anglo-Saxon pagans on the other side are the true ancestors of their blood, the first English speakers, although the gap between ancient English and modern English is indeed a bit large, but it is still the same language.

What's more, the "Camelot" research station has a very rich inventory of other stockpiles, but the stock of ammunition is very limited -- although in order to respond to Argentina's provocation in the Antarctic region, the London Ministry of Defense has stationed this small army unit at the "Camelot" research station in the British Antarctic territory, but no one really thinks that a ground war will break out in Antarctica, but generally regards it as a political show. Therefore, all the ammunition carried by these British soldiers, that is, a base number that they carried with them, was used up after a few battles.

In this way, for the sake of their own security, these British finally established a general line of conservatism that can get by and passively avoid war.

-- He has lost the lofty ideal of transforming society, has given up the ambition of conquering Shijie, and has lost the sense of mission to spread civilization and faith...... After losing all initiative, the entire goal of these modern Britons in the dark ages of the Middle Ages is to sit and wait for death, to live one day at a time, and at the same time look forward to the early emergence of the wormhole connecting the modern shijie, so that everyone can be freed.

In general, they did not see themselves as pioneering colonists, but as Robinson a desert island waiting to be rescued. (To be continued......)