Civilization Paradise

Chapter 182 The Search (First Update)
A few days later.

Deep in the Buko Mountains.

Soldiers wielding machetes relentlessly hacked away at the obstructing thorns and withered branches.

Snowfall led five hundred soldiers in a search for the ruins in the dense forest.

The sky gradually darkened.

At this moment, Jingchuan walked to Luoxue's side and said.

"It's snowing. It's about time. Let's stop and rest."

"it is good."

Luo Xue nodded slightly in agreement.

Upon hearing Luo Xue's words, Jing Chuan immediately shouted to the crowd.

"Everyone, stay put and rest!"

"Yes!"

Everyone stopped to rest.

under night.

One by one, bonfires were lit.

Long Ming, Luo Xue, and the others huddled around the fire to keep warm.

The temperature is okay during the day, but it gets very damp and cold in the forest at night.

Long Ming stretched and pulled a pack of compressed biscuits from his backpack.

Seeing this, Luo Xue picked up a can of beef and handed it to Long Ming.

"Eat this."

"Thank you."

Long Ming took it and then opened the can.

"This deep mountain forest is no place for humans to stay, and we've searched for a long time without finding anything."

Jing Chuan stretched and sighed in complaint.

Upon hearing this, Long Ming looked thoughtfully at Luo Xue and asked.

"Snowfall, this endless searching isn't going to solve anything. Can't we use a satellite to take some pictures or something?"

"What do you think? If we had satellites, would we need to go through all this trouble?"

Luo Xue looked up and glanced at Long Ming.

"Huh? What about the satellite for Yamashiroyama?"

"They've all lost contact. If I'm not mistaken, it must have been destroyed during the docking with this civilization, or perhaps they didn't move over at all."

"Hiss, just how terrifying a power would it take to accomplish that?"

"I don't know, but the satellite is gone, so in a sense, we're now blind."

"Is there no backup satellite?"

"No, you can probably guess what the situation is like at Yamashiro Mountain right now. It's difficult to even keep it running, so how could we possibly use resources on that? Besides, even if we had a backup satellite, it wouldn't be able to launch so quickly. First of all, the environment here is different from before. The altitude of the atmosphere, the magnetic field, and so on are all different! The probability of failure if we launch rashly is extremely high."

"That makes sense. Have you considered other ways to explore this?"

Long Ming asked thoughtfully.

"Of course there was. Not long after we entered this world, Yamashiro sent out fighter jets and armed helicopters to conduct reconnaissance. However, most of the fighter jets and armed helicopters that went out to conduct reconnaissance lost contact and the intelligence they sent back was very limited."

"Falling Snow explained calmly."

"Sigh, I feel like things aren't going very well right now."

As Long Ming spoke, he raised his bracelet, opened the task bar, and glanced at the tasks displayed.

Mission: The Flame of Civilization

Requirements: Break free from shackles, shatter the darkness, and ignite the flame of civilization.

Mission Reward: Survival

Mission Failure: Annihilation

"There's nothing we can do now but take it one step at a time."

Luo Xue said calmly.

"Ah."

Long Ming stared at the burning fire, lost in thought.

Three days later.

Long Ming and Jing Chuan appeared deep in a dense jungle, searching for traces of the ruins.

"Damn it, we're so unlucky. We've been searching for days and haven't found a single thing."

Jing Chuan cursed angrily.
"That's normal. You can't rush things like this."

Long Ming replied calmly.

"Sigh! If only we had advanced reconnaissance drones, we wouldn't be in such a passive position."

Jing Chuan sighed. Hearing Jing Chuan's words, Long Ming asked with great curiosity.

"Jingchuan, there's something I'm quite curious about."

"whats the matter?"

"I see that the other legions have pretty good equipment, some even have armed helicopters and such. Why is our equipment so ordinary?"

"Tch, what's so strange about that? Although we're all from the same mountain city, we belong to different superiors. To put it bluntly, we're no different from private armies, so of course our equipment is very different!"

"Oh, so the Third Legion is relatively weak?"

"No, the Third Army Corps has a total of five battle groups. We are the newly formed Fifth Battle Group, so our equipment is relatively poor. But the first few battle groups are well-equipped and equipped with various large-scale weapons for land, sea and air."

Jing Chuan glanced around and explained to Long Ming in a low voice.

"Oh I got it!"

Upon hearing this, Long Ming immediately understood.

The Snowfall Corps is the weakest combat group in the Third Legion, and its role is somewhat similar to that of logistics.

"Forget it, continuing the search won't yield any results. Let's go back and meet up with Luo Xue and the others; maybe they've found something there."

Jingchuan lost interest in continuing the search.

"Ok."

Long Ming nodded and then walked back.

When they returned to the top of a mountain peak on the side, they saw everyone gathered around Luo Xue reporting on the search.

No traces of any ruins were found in the eastern area.

There's none in the southwest either.

After listening to everyone's reports, Luo Xue frowned slightly.

Jing Chuan and the others also showed expressions of utter disappointment; they had searched for so long but still found nothing.

At this moment, Fu Fuqing reminded Luo Xue with a gloomy expression.

"Falling Snow, we can't continue searching like this."

“Yes, we’ve searched the entire route, but we haven’t found any ruins at all, and we’re running low on supplies.”

Zhihan also chimed in with words of advice.

After hearing their conversation, Luo Xue pondered for a few seconds before asking a question.

"After deducting the returned supplies, how long can we last with the remaining supplies?"

"1-2 days."

Zhihan gave a clear answer.

Upon hearing this, Luo Xue made a decision and addressed it to everyone.

"Hold on for two more days. If we still haven't found anything, we'll evacuate!"

"it is good!"

Fu Fuqing and the others did not object.

After all, they had searched so far, and it was somewhat disheartening to return empty-handed.

Upon hearing this, Jing Chuan stretched out his arm and nudged Long Ming, saying...

"Long Ming, you're lucky. Where do you think we should search?"

"Ahem, how would I know? Luck isn't something you can have every day."

Long Ming's lips twitched slightly.

"So where do you plan to search?"

Jing Chuan then inquired.

Upon hearing Jing Chuan's words, Long Ming gazed at the undulating mountains in the distance, his expression shifting before he pointed to the highest peak in the distance.

"I'm going to go and take a look at the highest peak up ahead."

"Oh."

Jing Chuan nodded.

"I'm not talking to you anymore, I'm going to search."

Long Ming then turned and left, heading towards the distant mountain peaks.

At this moment, Jing Chuan caught up and said to Long Ming with a smile.

"Long Ming, let's search together! It'll be less boring if we have company on the way!"

Sure, but don't blame me if you can't find it.

Long Ming nodded.

Three hours later, Long Ming and Jing Chuan climbed to the top of a small hill and looked out at the towering peaks ahead.

Jing Chuan couldn't help but give Long Ming a piece of his mind.

"Holy crap, it's still so far! You really know how to pick a mountain, you chose the hardest one to climb."

(End of this chapter)