Meanwhile, Zhou Ye set off at once after accepting the mission.
The outpost was a small base they had built in the desert specifically to monitor that area occupied by desert forces.
The outpost was actually still some distance away from that area.
The sentries on duty had to set out from the outpost, travel to that area, and carry out their surveillance mission.
That way, even if something really did happen, the outpost would have enough time to react.
The outpost consisted of eight people, three camels, and two Giant Eagle Knights.
Two of them were Giant Eagle Knights who took shifts patrolling the nearby airspace without pause.
The remaining six were ordinary soldiers. They worked in pairs, taking turns to travel to the outskirts of that area and hide in the shadows, keeping an eye on the situation there until the next group arrived to relieve them.
Surveillance was a time-consuming job. Keeping the personnel numbers low not only made them a smaller target and more difficult to detect, but also kept their daily resource consumption very low, reducing the frequency with which supplies had to be transported.
This time, Zhou Ye had come to inspect the outpost, and had also brought the latest batch of supplies along with him.
Put simply, it was the supplies carried by three camels. Each time they came, they handed over both the camels and their supplies, then led away the three camels stationed at the outpost.
The most important supply in the desert—and the most troublesome to transport—was fresh water.
The three camels responsible for carrying the supplies had all drunk their fill beforehand. As a result, they would not need water for a long time afterward, indirectly saving the outpost's freshwater consumption.
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