Chapter 221 Sky Island

The iron pick fell, smashing the rock layer near the steel tip of the ore draft, and peeling off several stone chips with faint purple lines.

They slid down from the stone surface and fell to the ground with gravity, but floated like dust dozens of centimeters above the ground. Like a piece of foam thrown into the water, it sank and floated for a moment, and finally reached a stable balance and suspended above the invisible water surface.

Lifted up, fell heavily.

Another piece of floating stone ore was stripped from the vein.

The collection of shallow ore veins does not require too much effort, a person who can swing a pickaxe, a fairly sharp iron pickaxe.

Micro, small, and medium-sized floating stone veins do not need to be excessively excavated downwards, breaking the rock layer and mudstone to create a mine tunnel, and mining can be completed only on the surface.

For Ji Lin, he can protect a mine site from being attacked with very low personnel dispatch. Forty musketeers and musket sentry towers can resist the attacking local wild animals with very low damage.

His forty musketeers can complete the defense task, while others need to pay twice or even three times the number of crossbowmen, archers and musket shooters to maintain the regional defense task.

And the melee infantry has little effect in the face of deadly enemy attacks from the air.

Since the second month after he entered the floating island, after January 1st, the number of people in the fourth era has skyrocketed tenfold, from less than 10,000 to 100,000. Although compared with the extremely large base of lords, the number of 100,000 people seems so small, their goals all fall on the competition for rare resources.

The world with abundant ordinary resources and rare resources is their key target. In this regard, everyone's goals are surprisingly consistent.

How can a world that needs to be cultivated and invested in construction compare with a land that already flows with gold.

Several lord expeditions have arrived in this sky island world one after another, occupying their own small sky islands. The system never prompts them whether there are other people entering this world... At least it will not throw latecomers into the camp that has been built.

It's very simple. No mining protection team will be sent, and miners will be allowed to mine floating stones without any safety measures.

The dead miners will be directly recovered by recall, and then put back into the mining process.

This cycle will continue indefinitely.

As long as I don't send guards, there will be no additional personnel losses.

Two thousand recall quotas can maintain the consumption of such miners for a long time. When soldiers and miners die, their equipment will remain in place. The local hostile biological groups will not deliberately destroy the extremely strong iron lumps such as pickaxes. They don't really understand the concept of tools.

As for the psychological problems of miners, they are no longer a problem they need to worry about.

A group of miners died, recalled, and re-dispatched.

Although the work efficiency was affected, it also greatly reduced the labor cost of this floating stone mine.

The miners are given meals according to the number of floating stones collected daily, and this forced means is used to squeeze the miners' work efficiency.

"Pikemen, forward!"

Holding spears, the infantry without any armor pushed forward, using the drooping spear tips in their hands to resist the attacking monsters.

The same is true for soldiers. All vulnerable melee soldiers are consumables. Remove all their armor and only provide them with spears to stand at the forefront. Let the ranged infantry and siege equipment in the rear do their best to output.

Until the casualties approach the upper limit, the lord will wait for the recall permission to reset before sending the soldiers to death.

Within the upper limit of their allowed recall, each soldier exists as a consumable.

Relying on this battle mode of constantly piling up heads, the newly arrived lord struggled to take the second micro-mine on the island after 300 people were killed.

Just when he turned his attention to the only small mine on the island, he was delighted to find that the small mine was only stationed with more forest spiders than the micro mine.

Without any hesitation, he ordered his infantry to form a dense formation and press forward, which was a battle formation to counter the forest spiders. The dense infantry gun formation can block the target's space for maneuvering, and the soldiers standing shoulder to shoulder will not be attacked from behind.

Then the tentative attack on the small mining point directly caused him to lose all the melee infantry and one hundred ranged infantry, as well as four siege engines that were not transferred in time.

How to deal with that kind of monster? The spearmen's spears are completely unable to restrict the movement of the three-meter-high rock elemental life. Its body can be slightly deflected to break the solid wood and steel spears directly. The shooting of crossbowmen and archers cannot even penetrate its outermost rock armor.

Only siege engines, two cast iron cannons and six heavy crossbows can destroy its outer rock armor from a distance, breaking off large pieces of rock from it - and then watching that layer of armor regenerate at a speed visible to the naked eye.

And the spellcaster troops he cultivated with great difficulty, the fireball and lightning spells they used can barely cause weak damage to it. When dealing with enemy infantry, these spellcasters are very effective against dense formations. A few spells can easily break up dense and neat formations.

But no matter what spells these spellcasters use now, they can't stop it from approaching at a very fast speed.

Fight, but can't beat. Run, but can't run.

It was impossible to stop its pace. Every time it swept through the formation, it could take the lives of more than ten soldiers. The symbiotic plants on its body were tilting deadly needles at the approaching unarmored soldiers. There were also flashes of light repairing the broken rock layers on its body, re-forming one piece of protective plate after another.

The newly arrived lord uttered the word "retreat" with difficulty, which was beyond his handling limit.

Five hundred people were lost in one attack, and hundreds of equipment and siege weapons that should not be consumed in the plan were damaged.

How to deal with this kind of thing.

There is no strategy.

No strategy appeared. When it comes to their own interests, the pioneers are quite calm.

The biomes of different worlds are very different, and the hostile biomes that need to be fought are also different. The only ones who need to use your strategy are the lords in similar worlds, and the hostile biomes in those worlds are also so similar.

If you are unlucky, the person who reads your strategy is in the fragment of your target world.

Write down the strategy, and they may keep up with your development and become your strong enemy in the competition for resources.

The popularity of the battle mode of a certain world fragment may even lead to a large-scale diversion phenomenon, that is, a large number of lords who have read the strategy will be more inclined to choose these worlds that they have already known more about in the forum strategy to invest resources and expeditions - then the lords who originally chose these worlds for development will be very uncomfortable.

Resources, space, and land under the sun are always limited.

None of the lords who can reach this world and find a corresponding plan are stupid. In this case, they only have one option.

They choose to remain silent coldly.

On another distant sky island, the giant skeleton and skeleton soldiers are being crushed into powder by the elemental life with heavy fists. The spells of the undead system are helpless against these forest rock elements with elemental elves guarding them. The tree demons fight side by side with the elemental life and release their own life spells.

On another sky island, the elven sentinel who wanted to use his flexibility to bypass the forest element was blocked by the symbiotic vines and died under the heavy punch of the elemental life. The delicate armor could not withstand even a single blow under the heavy punch of the elemental life.

The back-row shooters who wanted to output steadily were chopped into pieces by the floating rays that fell from the sky.

In a land without gold flowing, risks and benefits always coexist.

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