To develop a territory's infrastructure, all that was needed was a steady supply of resources and enough time for construction.
It had taken little Hope Village just over two months to grow to its current town-sized scale.
And that was with a population of only a thousand or so.
Now that the population had surged to ten thousand, its development speed would inevitably accelerate further.
The only things lacking were more resources—and time!
"Now that we've found the location, gather the manpower. We'll set out tonight and open up this ruin."
Su Mo issued the order, and Pei Shao immediately turned to leave. Both of them looked somewhat impatient.
Of course, there was good reason for that.
In the more than ten days since their return, this was the first time they had found a ruin's location.
Su Mo had thought that the information about underground ruin locations he had obtained from the ruins was already detailed enough.
It included not only various landmarks but even the distances from those landmarks down to the meter.
He had thought that finding and excavating some of them before the next disaster arrived would not be a problem.
But in reality...
There was a Level Three Yan Country ruin containing a large number of construction machines.
According to the information they had collected, there was a small mountain beside the ruin, with a crooked tree at its summit.
If they followed the direction of that crooked tree for eight hundred meters and excavated underground, they would reach the ruin's entrance at a depth of roughly twenty meters.
Even if they failed to find the crooked tree, it would not be a major problem. There was also a small stream on the other side of the ruin.
By following the stream's strongest current south