Chapter 447: Ruins Survey

The unknown sky island is dry and rainless. On the dark brown island with a lot of rocks as the main body, there are a lot of yellowish green grasses as high as one finger. On such a lifeless sky island, there are only a few green plants and vines.

The inverted ecosystem that should have been in the lower half of the island is now only a few vines as wide as the tip of a finger entangled together.

As for the hostile creatures that appear on ordinary sky islands, the scale of creatures here cannot support those creatures with greater energy consumption... Only some cloud-dwelling creatures passing by here will use this unknown and food-scarce sky island as their foothold.

In fact, this is also the case. After exploring this sky island of about one square kilometer, the soldiers only dug out a few nests of cloud-dwelling creatures, and the only harvest was a hundred bird eggs.

The guarding soldiers exhaled a breath of cold air, forming a white smoke rising in the air.

It was winter, and the temperature in the high altitude was lower than the ground, which was less affected by wind flow.

They saluted the arriving officers.

Ji Lin's eyes were on the soldiers who had cleared the passage on the ground. The soldiers had cleared the fallen wood piled at the closed entrance of the ruins, revealing black stones with dark patterns.

Unlike the half-damaged and disabled ruins that Ji Lin had seen before, he could clearly feel that there was an extremely active energy flow in the ruins.

A ruin that was still in operation.

It meant that there were a large number of undamaged technical equipment in the ruins. These remaining technologies might not be able to be reverse-engineered, but they might be used by them like ordinary building facilities.

Not understanding the principles of firearms does not affect a person's ability to pull the trigger.

Not having the ability to develop weapons does not prevent some lords from directly obtaining ready-made weapons from the ruins and engaging in battle.

In his previous life, Ji Lin barely survived his most difficult period by excavating weapons from the ruins.

It was just to obtain resources. When occupying resource points, there would be hostile creatures that would hinder him.

And excavating and exploring the ruins would also encounter hostile units that threatened the lord's troops. They might be dangerous creatures occupying the ruins, or they might be structural units that were still operating in the ruins.

The excavation of each relic requires a lot of effort. The first problem is to eliminate the possible dangers... and then the internal facilities can be recycled.

The simple way is to rely on the two thousand casualties per month to flatten the relic guards with the number of people. In this way, it is best to deploy the outpost core to the scene.

In the past, many lords were eager to realize the relics of the territory, but they could not spare the troops. They would take this method to cooperate with other low-level lords... After completing the excavation of the ruins, they would provide a small amount of relic output to the low-level lord.

The general way is to form an exploration team to constantly try and error. The advantage is that the resource consumption of the lord is low, but the cost is slow progress.

The efficient way is to deploy constructs/mechanical units to start drilling directly downwards, and recycle every part of the ruins to the greatest extent without damaging resources.

The steam lance equipped by Ji Lin's steam machine soldiers can be an excellent steam drilling machine with a slight improvement... He didn't bring it, but he still has a few small single-soldier steam drilling machines.

The steam drill can easily break the metal that looks very solid, making the army's resource recycling efficiency even higher.

But now that Fang Ai is here, he can get some technical and military support from the elves through the outpost core.

And... a red dragon that may be able to throw the entire ruins out in enough time.

If he doesn't mind the trouble, he can let the territory trade resources to Fang Ai, and then use the temporary portal opened by Fang Ai's outpost core to provide supplies for himself.

Compared with the resource network composed of hundreds of lords in other large alliances, the supply network composed of outpost cores... I only have three outpost cores available.

My own, Fang Ai's, and Li Yan's.

A total of three outpost cores.

Each outpost core must be used to the fullest.

Small alliances have higher combat efficiency and do not have to worry about organizational problems caused by excessive members, but the resources that can be mobilized are still too few... Ji Lin can't trust others.

Maybe the driving engine of this relic on the sky island has not been completely disabled, and there are still energy and central control systems to power this mobile sky island.

This is the key to the relic being able to move from its own airspace to the periphery in a short time.

Ji Lin shook his head and threw the idea out of his mind.

He should first consider how to take down the relic in front of him.

And... what exactly can this relic do.

"Fang Ai, is your outpost core deployed? I want to borrow two people to explore the way... As for the red dragon..."

The soldiers under his command died and needed a long transportation process to be sent back to the war zone... and Fang Ai's lost units with the outpost core can be directly recalled through the outpost core.

Ji Lin regretted not bringing the professional hunter spider to open the way. With these little things, exploring the ruins can save a lot of time.

He focused his eyes on the red dragon lying on the side, curiously staring at the entrance to the black stone. This guy's head is bigger than the ruins. If it comes, it will definitely cause irreversible damage to the ruins...

A considerable part of the rune transmission circuit is in the wall. Damaging the wall may break the "wires" inside the wall.

If the ruins that are still in operation are damaged, it will be a big loss.

So far, he has no technical accumulation. If he wants to restore the damaged area of ​​the ruins, he can only rely on the power of the system... Even with the help of the system, he can't create so many floating stones in the void.

"Well, no problem!"

The lord of dragons and elves nodded vigorously, realizing that he should start working.

Her outpost core has been deployed. It was originally intended to provide some food and water supplies to Ji Lin's troops-there is no supply on this sky island, so Fang Ai can only replenish some food for the fleet whose food reserves have run out.

This is also the main function of the outpost core, which can directly provide territory supplies to the army.

But after being destroyed, it will face a situation where it cannot exchange materials with the territory for a month...

And during the month when the outpost core is charging, the lord can't even rely on the outpost core to revive his own troops.

While the benefits are huge, the risks are equally huge.

Now the resources of the territory are used to assist Ji Lin in developing this ruin.

With the outpost core providing human resources and conventional resources, it is the best time to excavate the ruins... Ji Lin will not risk losing the core in the future to let Fang Ai and Li Yan take the outpost core to excavate the ruins.

As for sending out an exploration team alone... after calculating the distance... it is already not very acceptable...

Fang Ai patted Ji Lin on the chest and said loudly.

She is not here to eat for free!

Ji Lin said okay, then it depends on your performance today.

Fang Ai said no problem, you can rest assured about the elves' craftsmanship, and they will definitely take out all the technical assets in the ruins for you.

Li Yan, who was eating seafood produced in the territory in the distance, sneezed.

"My battle mages have personal shields, and they can retreat unscathed unless the situation is very dangerous..."