Chapter 328 Early Autumn
In the cool early autumn, the sun seeped into the small windows on the side of the command ship, and the building that had been burning all night came to an end. Some of the soldiers on duty outside the window had already set up thick iron pots in the slightly cold morning breeze. They exhaled white air and took out the food from the warehouse and weighed it and added it to the pot.
The camp was covered with burnt carbon ash. These gray-white powders rose to the sky with the heat flow and then fell to the ground by gravity, staining the dark brown soil with a light gray frost.
Not far away, the buildings that were half-burned and extinguished only had a section of gray-white after burning, mixed with incompletely burned coke, and some wood that had never started to burn retained its original color.
The autumn wind, wrapped in a hint of coolness, rolled up gray-white dust, swept across the ground, and sank into the fire.
The soldiers who had been busy dealing with corpses and debris all night were sleeping on one side of the camp, enjoying a comfortable and rare sleep in the wooden houses built quickly by the system - even the lowest-level houses provided a resting environment far better than the cramped living environment of the airship.
The wooden house blueprints given away by the system for free in the first era were widely used even in the seventh era because of their rapid deployment and wide functionality.
The simplest, cheapest, and most cost-effective.
Wooden houses.
With just a tiny bit of wood, a large usable space can be created.
"Sorry, I slept a little too long... What time is it now?"
Ji Lin sat up from his knee pillow and habitually looked for a clock in the room to indicate the time.
This habit of getting up to find a mobile phone has not changed no matter what era.
He was stunned for a while before calling out his legendary equipment, holding up the pocket watch in the sun to look at the direction of the pointer. The brass stopwatch reflected a dazzling color similar to gold in the sunlight.
With brass and steel as the base, the slender pointer rotates under the clear glass on the time scale with fine lines.
The gears turn with a clear sound, the second hand and the minute hand cross, and the hour hand just crosses the 210-degree angle.
Seven o'clock in the morning.
He slept for eight hours.
Eight hours, no late nights, a comfortable and complete sleep.
As a war zone commander, staying up late is the norm. He has long been accustomed to this practice that can toss and scrap his body. If he really can't stand it, he can ask the system to use the resurrection permission once to revive with full blood. Those lords who are not used to fighting for a long time will be screened out in a series of hard and long battles.
With the addition of blood purification, he clearly felt that his endurance was significantly enhanced.
But this addition is not enough.
He stretched out his hand, and the blue and white mist flowed like a confluence to form a cloud that seemed to be substantial, and the source material flowed to form an unstable sphere.
The current humans in the territory are much stronger than the blank humans, but it is not enough.
Strength, intelligence, agility.
An untrained subject does not have a particularly obvious advantage when fighting ordinary humans.
Skills, technology, and everything they have created.
These are the parts that each civilization has accumulated that are superior to others, just like a snowball that moves slowly and steadily, and at some point turns into a storm and crushes.
Ji Lin sighed, he was still moving too slowly.
After distracting himself to the extreme, he struggled to focus his eyes on his side.
The cold autumn sun shone on the girl's slightly trembling eyelashes, and the soft light covered the silver threads hanging from the corners of her eyes and shoulders with a sacred golden veil, and the light fell on the priest's uniform and reflected a light white luster.
Alicia opened her eyes, slightly shifted away from the face that Ji Lin was looking at, and blinked.
"Meditating."
So it doesn't matter, you can continue to sleep if you want.
Ji Lin nodded, he was embarrassed to continue enjoying the other's knee pillow.
The beauty of the knee pillow is that there is a hazy veil, and this hazy veil is the most comfortable part of this behavior.
Entangled, enjoyable, soft.
But he fell asleep and didn't even feel any difference in the feeling, which was basically equivalent to closing and opening his eyes.
Alicia tilted her head and asked softly.
"Did you sleep comfortably last night?"
Ji Lin took a deep breath and moved his eyes out the window, looking at the small camps with smoke rising from the kitchen. He could see the gray-clothed soldiers of the leader waving their hands to discuss what kind of food to make, and their eyes were moving back and forth between the several food bags placed beside them.
"Of course."
He felt that there was no need to add so much food for breakfast, and it was better to keep it simple.
An egg, a bowl of porridge, plus a little light meat and cabbage.
Alicia's mouth curled up slightly, and she said nothing.
"It's great."
Her eyes fell on the light white gray rising outside the window, as if a gray snow had just fallen, and there was a hint of surprise in her eyes.
"Other worlds are like this."
No matter what, the high-ranking priest he brought out of the Holy City always had some subtle deviations in his understanding of the world.
He really wanted to tell him that he had been a lord for his entire life in his previous life and had never seen many so-called other worlds during his expedition missions - it was just battlefields one after another, and the respite between wars was not enough for them to leave the battlefield to see the products created by those world civilizations.
He wanted to get up, but Alicia was still sitting beside him, looking out the window, wondering what she was thinking.
"The equipment inventory of Changheng should have come out. I'm going to check the equipment and weapons preparations."
Ji Lin arranged the plan he had prepared long ago. Alicia, who was beside him, retracted her gaze from the window and listened quietly to his preparations and plans.
Ji Lin did not notice her changes, but explained his preparations as always.
"I'm going to make a combat and training plan for the next half month. I have reduced the defense pressure of local residents by half. If they can complete the containment mission, they can prepare to launch a general attack by annihilating an advance team..."
"If everything goes well, this mission can be completed within two months, and then there will be a long period of development..."
It was as if an invisible tree diagram was unfolding in front of him, with the trunk and branches of the plan extending and intersecting, and he could accurately tell the next step and every step in the future plan.
He was the only one, and he had to be responsible for everything he should do.
There was also a personal task assigned by the system, which he did not handle.
Alicia gently adjusted her position to get closer to Ji Lin, closed her eyes slightly to enjoy the sunshine in the autumn morning, so when did she have such a good impression of him?
The bare outpost core in the distance stood on the ground like a flagpole without a flag.
Two gray-clothed soldiers took out two potatoes the size of their palms, peeled them in their hands, cut them into small pieces and threw them into the pot. I don’t know where I found a piece of dried meat, cut it into slices with a dagger in my hand, let it boil freely in the pot to soften, and sprinkled a little salt from the territory.
The wounded soldiers who got up early were also attracted by the smell of food in the air. They wanted to get closer but didn’t dare to stand at the corner of the wall and watched the gray-clothed soldiers making breakfast. The light water vapor condensed into a conspicuous white mist from the slightly cold air.
The gray-clothed soldiers waved to them to come over and exchanged what kind of meals were more suitable for the locals.