Chapter 1 Establishing a Camp

Arriving in a new world, we first need to chop trees to make a workbench... oh no, we need to establish a camp first.

The first batch of immigrants were carefully selected. Apart from some family members, half of them were technicians needed to build an outpost. Under unified command, these people began to unload various equipment from the ship and assemble them into essential energy, lighting, and communication facilities. The vast beach quickly became noisy, filled with a busy working scene: they had to build a camp before sunset and get the key equipment running in order to prepare for a larger-scale project the next day. Those who landed today were just the vanguard.

Hao Ren originally thought about returning directly to pull the second trip, but in the end, he decided to stay and see if there was anything he could help with. After all, his ship was just for show when it came to immigration; it would be more practical to stay here and help.

"We are setting up the mana reactor to solve the problem of lighting and heating at night," Hilda pointed to the noisy beach. "In addition, we need to build a batch of barracks. It will be enough for tonight. Tomorrow, we can start guiding the ecological domes to land."

It was true that this planet had a suitable environment and vast, undeveloped land, but it was unrealistic to support one billion people at once on such a primitive planet and let them start living normally. Therefore, the Irem elves needed a transitional phase. There were still eleven space floating islands transported from their old home running in the planet's orbit. The next day, they would all land in the planet's vast ocean to alleviate the land's residential pressure.

Although it was a bit embarrassing to still live in old domes after migrating with so much effort, at least at this stage, these domes were still essential. After all, Dou Dou Planet now only had primitive jungles and wild mountains, and there were not many areas that could be directly used for survival.

Of course, eleven domes (ten of which were ecological domes with limited living space) could only solve the isolation and living requirements of a portion of the people. The rest could only develop on the harsh continent. They had to build a series of simple settlements as soon as possible to survive in this wild and primitive place—fortunately, these pioneers were prepared for the primitive environment of their new home, and they would not back down in the face of these difficulties.

The impact of the landed space floating islands on this planet had been precisely calculated. It would slightly increase the planet's mass and change the ocean climate to a certain extent, but the overall impact was not significant.

The next plan was this: a group of elves would live in the dome city, and another group would reclaim and build new cities on the new continent. The two groups would rotate according to a fixed pattern to ensure that the elves in the dome could adapt to the outside environment as soon as possible, and to ensure that the pioneers who were reclaiming wasteland outside could return to recuperate at any time. This planet was full of microorganisms and mineral environments unfamiliar to the Irem elves, and these were all pathogenic factors—the primitive planet and the foreign colonists needed a long and arduous period of adaptation to coexist.

A team of Irem magic technicians was building fortifications on a high ground on the beach that would not be eroded by seawater. Casters in white robes floated in the air, allowing primitive energy to surge and agitate in their bodies. The earth covered with gravel was rapidly changing its shape under the shaping of their magic. The gravel was dissolved and reorganized into a solid foundation, and the soil was reshaped and compacted to prevent collapse. Then, large sections of curved alloy skeleton were transported to the newly leveled foundation with the help of levitation. Other workers fixed a spire several meters high with a gray-white metallic luster on this base. Pipes flowing with strange liquid were then connected to this equipment, causing the latter to emit a low hum of activation. The technician in front of the spire, responsible for operating it, stared at the display device on the equipment, and after a moment, let out a cheer: "There's a signal! There's a signal!"

It turned out this was a communication device.

"Magic is really amazing," Hao Ren sighed beside him. "It's like a top-notch Lan Xiang technical school."

Hilda was curious: "What is Lan Xiang?"

Hao Ren chuckled dryly and didn't explain, continuing to assign tasks to the autonomous machines passing by.

He released all the autonomous machines on standby in the Giant Tortoise Rock-Terrace's hangar to help the elves. These little monsters covered in tentacles were born to do this kind of work. With a little learning, they knew how to handle the magic devices made by the elves. Now, groups of mechanical cuttlefish were flying around on the beach, using their flexible tentacles to help move heavy objects or precisely assemble things. These guys were incredibly strong, gentle, and extremely intelligent. Although the Irem elves were startled by these tentacle monsters at first, the two sides had finally integrated, and they seemed to be cooperating quite well.

Hilda looked up at the sky. There was still some time before sunset, but the sky was already slightly dim. She could see some shimmering shadows flickering in the high sky. Those were the glows left by the immigration fleet's material transport ships entering and exiting the atmosphere's edge. Another open space some distance from this beach had now been opened up as a temporary landing field. Busy take-off and landing operations were underway there, and new personnel and materials were constantly being sent from orbit to the ground. Some of these people directly built camps around the landing field, while others rushed to the beach to supplement the manpower. The camp was already taking shape. Simple folding board houses and tents were the elves' residences for their first night on this planet.

Among the first people to land were also hundreds of professional soldiers. They had to take on the security work in this place full of unfamiliar threats. Now, they were setting up a series of gray-white metal stakes at the junction of the beach and the forest. These metal stakes could generate force field walls after being activated to prevent wild animals in the forest from attacking the camp at night due to being disturbed. Huge mana reactors had been established everywhere on the beach, and energy pipes extended somewhat chaotically from the reactors to supply power to the temporary equipment everywhere on the beach. It was all a scene of chaos: night was approaching, and work had to be accelerated.

Izhaks wandered around the camp and found that his brute force couldn't help much, so he volunteered to find the person in charge of the engineering team: "Is there anything I can help with? I'm good at leveling plots and reclaiming wasteland..."

As soon as Hao Ren heard this, he quickly dragged this overly enthusiastic great demon to the side: "Don't come here to join in the fun if you just want to smash a pit whenever something happens. This is someone's new home, don't make a mess of pits everywhere..."

Izhaks still defended himself: "I don't just know meteor spells. I mean, if they don't have a place to live, I can set off a few volcanic eruptions to flatten this forest behind me. The lava cools down, and that's a great plain..."

Hao Ren immediately decided to prohibit Izhaks from participating in any construction work in the future: the demons' understanding of "living environment" was too weird.

At this time, Vivian and Lily strolled back from the forest. The two were carrying two packages almost bigger than themselves. Lily started shouting from a distance: "There's food! There's food! There are many wild fruits in the forest!"

Vivian opened the package, and inside was a large pile of strangely shaped and brightly colored fruits. No one knew where these two super-powered women had collected so many fruits from. Lily grabbed a purplish-red fruit and gnawed on it, and stuffed one into Hao Ren's hand: "Landlord, try it, it's delicious!"

"Take it easy, it might be poisonous."

Lily pointed to Vivian: "It's okay, the bats have tried it, it's not poisonous."

Vivian glared at Lily angrily: "Using my bats to test for poison, I really admire you for thinking of that! What if they really die from the poison, can you compensate?"

"Sure, isn't it just the amount of two Mao Xue Wang meals?" (duck blood curd)

Vivian: "..."

The wild fruits picked by the two super women quickly attracted the attention of a large group of elves. Some people were now finally realizing this: from now on, they could finally eat food other than synthetic food.

The wind, clouds, water, and soil of nature, the most ordinary sea breeze and forest sounds, and even a few wild fruits picked from the forest, these things that seemed ordinary to Hao Ren surprised and even cheered the elves. All of this was unfamiliar to them, and every little thing was enough to excite them.

At this time, the data terminal suddenly floated to Hao Ren: "By the way, you should discuss with that queen what new name to give this planet."

Hao Ren was stunned: "Give it a name? Isn't it called Dou Dou Planet here?"

The data terminal slammed into Hao Ren's forehead with a "pa": "That's a nickname! Do you really want the Irem elves to call themselves Dou Dou Planet people when they go out in the future? If you think there's no problem, this unit will really file them like that..."

Hao Ren: "... Damn it, don't! I'll go find her to change the name right away!"