The End of the Earth

Chapter 120 Prospects

Over the past two months, the overall development of the rocket base has been good, with water resources, food, and construction progressing steadily, and the total population of the base has reached more than 1,300 people.

Perhaps it is precisely because a large number of humans have gathered in the base that the successive attacks by the army of evil life forms in the past two months, although only conventional types of evil life forms, have caused the base to suffer losses to a level that cannot be ignored.

With Nubiga in the front, there was no need to worry about attacks from conventional evil life forms, but the base was attacked from all sides, which forced the Tianxing patrol to fight back. Several large-scale attacks almost exhausted the ammunition depot in the base.

Xiang San also realized his own shortcomings from these attacks, and he could only carry out small-scale deployment operations.

But he was clearly not an expert in commanding a team of hundreds of people and making strategic deployments.

After all, Xiang San is only good at mercenary work. Not only himself, he found that no one in the rocket base was capable of this.

In terms of commanding operations and deterring with force, Xiang San only has the latter. Just like the attacks of the evil life forms in the past, if he could see in advance that the evil life forms only wanted to consume the human camp's sustained combat capability, he would not have focused on using intensive firepower to eliminate the evil life forms.

The demon soldiers in the Tianxing patrol team should be asked to use cold weapons to eliminate these evil life forms, which are not too difficult to eliminate.

Looking around the base, there is no one who can replace him at the moment. Shan Qiao is okay at commanding the Tianxing, and being the base's chief steward is very suitable for his abilities, but commanding operations is not his forte.

Managers of other departments also do not have the ability to command operations. Although Boris was once a soldier, he has never commanded a decent combat operation.

He thought of Ye Minghao, what a pity it was to waste such a talented person.

Today's rocket bases are in short supply of ammunition, and the best way to deal with conventional evil life forms is to use the kinetic weapons of the old era.

The rocket base did not have the materials and related technology to manufacture its own ammunition. Xiang San was forced to change his strategy and vigorously forge cold weapons to expand the team's use.

Fortunately, there are relevant talents and molds in the tool casting base, as well as plenty of building materials. Although the tools made are not durable, they can still be used.

His demon soldiers can fully compensate for the shortcomings of poor weapons by relying on brute force.

He knew that this was not a long-term solution. The vagrants in the area had basically been wiped out by the evil life forms, and only the large gathering places or city-states still existed. At the suggestion of Shan Qiao and others, Xiang San ordered the formation of the base's own caravan to go to various human forces in exchange for the necessary ammunition and materials.

The only materials they can exchange in large quantities are worms, algae and salt.

The base relies on the head tax to barely support the entire base. Although most outsiders can basically support themselves, the current trend is that more people want to change their lives and join Xiang San's team in the core area. Even the guard team representing the Federation Building has been expanded.

The ratio of non-demon soldiers in the Tianxing Patrol alone has reached 2 to 1, far exceeding the total number of the previous Tianxing Patrol and subsequent expansions.

As for the fleshworms and green salt algae alone, they are still only supplied to people in the core area. Although the scale is gradually expanding, the output has not yet reached the level of supplying more than a thousand people a day. Xiang San may not supply supplies to everyone, but he must have such capabilities. He calls this being prepared for any eventuality. This is his experience.

Fortunately, outsiders can basically solve their own survival needs. The rocket base provides safe living, which has solved everyone's basic needs. As for supplies, most people can still solve them themselves.

In addition, the access control of the rocket base is not very strict. As long as people and objects pass the inspection, they can enter and exit freely.

Over time, a small domestic demand cycle has been formed in the area where outsiders live. As long as the entry and exit to the base is not blocked, everything will develop naturally.

There were both bad news and good news during this period. Some residents contacted their families in other forces, which accelerated the connection between the rocket base and other forces.

Some people who have nothing to do after eating have started to make all kinds of novel inventions. For example, the corpse oil of evil life forms combined with a plant called fragrant grass can be used to make straw ropes that burn for a long time, which can also be used as fuel.

There are more and more similar novel discoveries, some are useless and some are extremely valuable inventions. In addition to these, several children discovered an evil life form that was successfully transformed into a human child.

The reason why it was discovered was because the evil life form disguised as a child refused to eat the candies distributed by these children, and even got angry about it, revealing its true form.

Afterwards, when those kids wanted Xiang San and their playmates to urge him to eat those expired candies that smelled of earth, Xiang San realized that naughty kids really couldn't stand even evil life forms.

However, after this incident, the entire base has increased patrols and the frequency of random inspections.

It is not easy to conduct comprehensive testing on all residents of the base, because outsiders basically enter and leave the rocket base every day. Is it possible to conduct testing every day?

The high cost is meaningless. Xiang San no longer cares whether there are other evil life forms in disguise or not. Trying to integrate into human society... I'm afraid he's crazy.

His attitude was: Dare to reveal yourself, and you'll die. If you want to pretend to be human, go ahead and do it. As long as you can handle it, then when the time comes, work for Xiang, risk your life, charge forward, and don't scream or reveal your true form.

In fact, this crisis is not unique to the rocket base.

When the evil life tide attacked the human camp or the cities of the elven kingdom, many disguised evil life forms also sneaked in, disguising themselves and learning the knowledge of various forces on Earth.

Compared with the early days, the current evil life disguises are smarter and more difficult to detect.

Old-style detection equipment is no longer able to identify malicious life forms in disguise. They now transform into humans by completely plundering the target's blood and other biological fluids as well as various pheromones and mimicking the other's organs and appearance.

However, their weaknesses were very obvious at the beginning. These evil life forms in disguise were very withdrawn and taciturn in the early stages, and they were still quite conspicuous among the crowd.

There are also disguised bodies that have poor control over the human body and occasionally have illogical self-talk or distorted body expressions.

This type of evil disguised body has been discovered in human countries in various regions of Asia, North America, and Europe.

Compared with Xiang San's strategy of waiting and sitting, other forces are more inclined to take the initiative, because Xiang San has little capital and it doesn't matter to him. He doesn't believe that those lurking disguised entities are willing to expose their existence in the early stages of the development of the rocket base. They must be lurking for a larger strategic goal.

Therefore, Xiang San was very at ease with small targets like rocket bases. He believed that once the huge state machinery was operating at full speed, they would soon be able to find these disguised bodies. Then he could pick up the ready-made ones himself, which would be very safe.