A new day arrived, and the frontline undead sentry responsible for keeping an eye on the goblins' every move brought back news once again.
"The goblin forces have begun advancing deeper into the desert!"
After confirming the news, Shi Lei's expression darkened slightly.
From the frontline to the Great Zhou border, the one-way journey alone took two months.
In other words, by the time he received this news, the goblins' operation had already been underway for at least two months.
"Did they discover something?"
"Probably not."
The undead sentry shook his head.
"They haven't discovered our existence. They're probably trying to obtain more oil."
Back then, although the goblins and Jackalmen had gone to war because the Jackalmen had made the first move, the goblins had been outsiders at the time. In a sense, the Jackalmen had still been defending their home turf.
The subsequent massacre had also made the goblins' objective perfectly clear: they wanted to seize the oil resources near the Jackalmen's territory.
For a technological faction like them, there was no need to explain how important oil was. Calling it a resource on the level of a lifeline would not be an exaggeration.
Even if they went and asked Zhou Xu, he would only give them four words in response: "The more, the better!"
After discovering that vast quantities of oil existed in the desert, the goblins had realized the desert's value and wanted to explore it further, bringing more resources under their control. There was nothing wrong with that operation in itself.
But without realizing it, they had created a threat to the people on the other side of this desert.
The news soon reached Zhou Xu's ears.
After learning the full situation, Zhou Xu did not react much.
Ever since they had confirmed the goblins'