Chapter 208
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Chapter 208: The Leap
The tin ore resources, without a doubt, had to be secured.
After confirming the resource location, Luo Ji, with a grand wave of his hand, immediately dispatched a team of people to go with Zhang Ji.
They would directly occupy that resource location, establish a sub-city, and then begin extensive mining of tin ore.
As for the small amount of tin ore that had been refined earlier, Luo Ji was not in a hurry to have the Forging Department’s craftsmen immediately attempt smelting.
Instead, he had them cool it down and form it into tin ingots for storage first.
Although the first smelting attempt would most likely fail due to lack of experience, what if it succeeded?
This might sound a bit strange, but yes, Luo Ji was worried about what to do if they succeeded!
Once bronze was successfully smelted, he would most likely officially step into the Bronze Age under the system’s witness.
At that point, using the neutral zone’s time as the standard, he could only remain in the unranked tier for a maximum of one month.
Once the time limit was reached, he would be forcibly promoted.
Luo Ji decisively stated that he wasn’t ready yet.
He would first mine enough tin ore to fill a few warehouses, and then refine all of it into tin ingots.
At that point, once bronze was produced, he would truly have to race against time.
A new day dawned.
Zhang Ji directly departed with his men and Luo Ji’s written order.
Meanwhile, the Mirror Tribe also had a new major move, upgrading its city walls!
More precisely, he intended to construct stone city walls built from bricks and stones!
Luo Ji had actually had this idea for a long time.
During the novice period, the ancient city walls were indeed good, but even so, Luo Ji’s city gates had been rammed down twice by players of the same tier using siege engines.
In such circumstances, once he advanced to the Bronze Tier, wouldn’t his ancient city walls be utterly destroyed in minutes by those players targeting him, given their defensive capabilities?
Building proper city walls was undoubtedly a massive project, especially given the current scale of the Mirror Tribe.
After all, this was a significant leap from ‘tribe’ to ‘city.’
At that time, the Mirror Tribe would be known as Mirror City.
However, Luo Ji’s mind was made up, this step had to be taken.
Furthermore, currently in the unranked tier, other players basically no longer dared to invade him, making it an excellent time for a major project.
At the same time, having always instructed his subordinates to pay attention to ore resources, he had discovered limestone last month.
The cement that had recently been developed also came in handy.
And speaking of building city walls, Luo Ji naturally couldn’t help but think of the Great Wall design blueprint in his system warehouse.
This was undoubtedly the most formidable city wall in the entire Cold Weapon Era.
If it could be built…
As this thought arose, Luo Ji quickly shook his head, then washed his face with cold water to calm himself down.
The Great Wall was not something that could be built just because one wanted to.
Did he think that building 1,000 to 2,000 meters of city wall according to the blueprint would make it the Great Wall?
That was simply a joke.
To trigger the effect of the 5-star wonder, the Great Wall, had to reach a certain scale, it wasn’t something that appeared just by building a random section.
However, taking out the blueprint to study it was still an option.
Referencing these detailed structures and applying them to the future construction of city walls would certainly pose no problems.
Harboring the thought that the sooner construction began, the sooner it would end, the construction team began preparing building materials and commenced work almost on the same day they received the blueprint.
During the period before the new city walls were completed, Luo Ji naturally couldn’t just directly demolish the Mirror Tribe’s ancient city walls.
If the ancient city walls were torn down, what would happen if enemies attacked before the new city walls were built?
So, Luo Ji’s approach at this time was to build another circle of city walls on the outside of the ancient city walls.
He even took the opportunity to expand the Mirror Tribe’s land area by 2 circles.
This way, once the outer city walls were completed, they could simply demolish the ancient city walls inside.
Meanwhile, on the outskirts of the Wild Horse Tribe, a sentry on duty suddenly furrowed his brow.
Immediately, he quickly laid down, pressing his ear to the ground and listening for a moment.
His expression suddenly changed, and he immediately shouted loudly at the herders who had just returned from grazing.
“The horse bandits are coming!”
“Quickly drive the cattle, sheep, and horses back to the tribe!”
“Quick, move faster!”
The sentry’s shouts clearly made the herders’ expressions change, and one by one, they sped up their movements.
However, how could such a large herd of cattle, sheep, and horses be driven quickly just by saying so?
The horse bandits arrived quickly.
They specifically chose this time when the herders were returning from grazing to launch their attack, because they knew this was when they were most likely to succeed!
Looking at the cattle, sheep, and horses outside the Wild Horse Tribe, the horse bandits galloping in on horseback let out excited whoops, one after another.
Who would have thought that at this moment, an angry roar came from afar.
“Scarfaced, you’re looking for death!!”
His voice arrived before he did!
In the distance, Luo Yong, holding a double-edged battle axe in one hand, was galloping wildly with the cavalry unit stationed at the Wild Horse Tribe!
The situation at the Wild Horse Tribe was rather unique.
Because the herders often needed to drive large numbers of cattle, sheep, and horses out to graze, whenever horse bandits attacked, the entrance would often be completely blocked in order to drive the animals back in time.
This prevented the soldiers stationed there from sallying out promptly, allowing the horse bandits to repeatedly succeed.
Later, to avoid this situation, after speaking with Sun Li, Luo Yong simply led his cavalry and shield-axemen to set up a temporary military camp outside the tribe using tents.
Looking at Luo Yong, who was charging over on horseback, the middle-aged man leading the horse bandits, with a ghastly scar on his left cheek, had a hint of disdain flash in his eyes.
With that extremely cumbersome weapon, Luo Yong simply couldn’t catch him, so he wasn’t afraid at all.
“Brothers, move faster!”
“Tonight, we’re eating roasted whole lamb!”
Amidst his loud shouts, the Scarfaced man, while galloping his horse, quickly stabbed with the bone spear in his hand, instantly killing a goat on the spot.
With a swift lift, he grabbed it onto his horse, then spurred his horse and left!
As he left, he didn’t forget to leave behind a string of wild laughter.
Hearing this, Luo Yong’s face behind him was so gloomy it could almost drip water.
“If you have guts, don’t run!!”
Hearing this, the scarfaced man let out a scoff and completely ignored him, galloping wildly the whole way.
As one chased and the other fled, the distance between them continuously widened.
After all, no matter how heavy the goat the scarfaced man had on his horse was, could it be heavier than that double-edged battle axe made of who knew how much brass?
Obviously not.
Moreover, Luo Yong himself was not light, so he probably couldn’t pursue much further before his horse would start foaming at the mouth.
