"This place is pretty distinctive."
Tao Yu raised an eyebrow. Since Extreme Ice City's Pioneer Zone hadn't been built by taking over an existing site like Xingyao or Dilong, but had instead started from scratch on a patch of land, its layout could be designed directly to suit the pioneers' needs.
A row of alloy capsule rooms formed a wall around the entire base, with autonomous defense modules installed in quite a few places.
The interior was also laid out very neatly, with the training grounds, landing pads, mission center, and trading district all clearly separated.
"But there aren't many pioneers here."
Tao Yu glanced around and remarked casually.
Although Extreme Ice City had its own divination master and could manufacture all kinds of tools,
they hadn't brought that master into play here. They were still using the traditional interference tools Tao Yu had sensed before.
They'd simply added multiple layers of misdirection that Tao Yu could detect the flaws in.
Considering the surroundings, if his guess was right, the entire base itself had already been set up as a trap for him!
"This place's main source of income is farming. We've been promoting it for the past three years, and most pioneers have now been assigned autumn harvest missions in the various agricultural regions of Great Song."
Wien didn't seem surprised. He answered casually.
The natives couldn't absorb Wish Power, so the crops had to be gathered and processed in bulk. In the end, the actual harvesting still had to be done by the pioneers.
That was, in fact, the most important role played by the lower-level pioneers.
The need for lower-level pioneers to harvest crops—and the need to protect them—had driven the gradual upward spiral that resulted in the current situation, where even peerless powerhouses mostly relied on