New Arrangements

New Arrangements

After Zhou Xu's order was issued, Shi Lei and Li Ce, who received it, quickly set to work. Naturally, their first step was to explore the territory surrounding their lands.

The exploration team on Anling City's side, led by Shi Lei, soon set out.

Unlike simply hurrying along, exploring a new area usually involved a steady, carpet-like advance. It was generally very difficult to improve the efficiency.

By comparison, Green Forest City's movements were somewhat faster.

It was not that they were more efficient at handling matters. Rather, after leaving Green Forest City and crossing the forest outside the city, what appeared before them was one towering mountain after another.

Furthermore, the mountain walls facing Green Forest City were all incredibly steep and lofty, making a normal ascent basically impossible. This also caused Li Ce and the others to abandon any thought of simply crossing the mountains.

In the past, if mountains blocked their path, then aside from slowly circling around the foot of the mountains and seeing whether they could find a route around them, they might truly have had no other options.

But things were different now. They had hot-air balloons.

Besides transporting people, they could also be used to explore new regions.

After the hot-air balloon took off, it continued climbing higher, allowing them to cross over the mountains with ease and see the scenery on the other side.

"Surrounded by mountains, with low-lying terrain..."

To make it easier to receive reports from both sides, Zhou Xu, who was currently in the Black Stone City Lord's Residence, was reading the latest report Li Ce had sent.

"Judging from the description in this report, after crossing the mountains outside Green Forest City and continuing south, there is a huge basin."

As he spoke, Zhou Xu picked