"We will land together and personally command the colonization efforts on the ground." After their first base was completed, Nan Jiang decided to personally head to the surface of Antong Star.

  His goal is also very simple: to obtain firsthand knowledge of the local geography, which will be very useful in future operations.

  So he took a transport plane to the base upstream on the Changjiang River, which has been named the Shangchang Base. Including the people transported by this plane, there are approximately 300 immigrants and 50 soldiers in total.

  In addition, this base now has five transport vehicles for future expansion operations.

  And two Dela-type combat robots, each weighing five tons and standing 3.5 meters tall, with tracked drive systems. They are equipped with a 12.7mm heavy machine gun on each side and a laser emitter in the central position. The entire body is made of composite materials, providing extremely strong defense.

  "Alright, it's dark now. Let's see what the night looks like here." Nanjiang held a drone controller, using the drone to view the entire landscape from the sky. Soon, it crossed the Changjiang River and reached the opposite bank.

  The source of the Changjiang River is the Luntou Mountain Range, located about 5 kilometers east. The river is approximately 500 kilometers long. When drones fly over the Changjiang River, you can see some fish species jumping out of the water.

  This behavior needs to be observed, but for now, it doesn't seem very important.

  The opposite bank of the river is very calm, and no unknown creatures have appeared.

  "Colonel, what is our first construction target? The immigrants from the Kai Family have already announced plans to build a city." Colonel Xing Ning, the chief of staff of Nanjiang, was gathering information sent from the Kai Family.

  Xing Ning Bifang is the highest-ranking Nanyang commander of the entire fleet. The Nanyang people are currently not very numerous and have become a minority in the First Community. In this fleet, which is primarily composed of the Zhonghu people, he is considered a relatively rare figure.

  "Let's build the village first. Tianyin and the others think their construction speed is fast enough to finish the work before the food runs out. But we should play it safe and ensure we have enough food supply first. That way, even if they fail, there will still be a chance," Nanjiang gave the order.

  Of course, this order was carefully considered, not just to ensure that actions could continue even if other areas failed. To some extent, it was for his own sake.

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  By the second day after their arrival, Nanjiang commanded the construction robots to clear out a large area. The population of the base was increased to 600 people, and seeds for crops were also transported over.

  The next steps are quite simple. We just need to protect the newly cleared farmland by surrounding it with barbed wire to prevent local wild animals from coming in and damaging the crops.

  The newly cleared farmland cannot yield any crops; this is the accumulated experience of the entire 4,000-year history of the Zhonghe Star civilization.

  First, it is necessary to make the arable land fertile, rich in nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, preferably by applying organic fertilizers.

  Organic fertilizers are relatively easy to obtain; you just need to grind the plants into powder, or you can directly burn the plants to get ash.

  If it were ancient times, obtaining organic fertilizer would be very difficult. In ancient times, there were no specialized machines to shred or process plants, so people usually had to rely on human and animal waste. Moreover, this would lead to very serious consequences, namely the rampant spread of parasites.

  In ancient times, parasitic diseases were a major cause of death, with very high infection rates. Even though there were some methods to kill the parasites, they only addressed the symptoms, not the root cause.

  Ultimately, it was only after the scientific revolution and the improvement of productivity that the practice of using human and animal excrement as fertilizer was finally abandoned. Even if it was necessary to use human and animal excrement, it had to be buried in a pile of soil to ferment, generating immense heat to kill the eggs of parasites before it could be used.

  After obtaining organic fertilizers to enrich the soil, they still need chemical fertilizers to maintain high agricultural yields. However, they have already brought a considerable amount of chemical fertilizers, which should last for several hundred days.

  "Let's go see what's happening in the southern region, and make sure to bring your weapons," Nan Jiang suddenly shouted to the five soldiers.

  Just a few minutes ago, a group of immigrants exploring the southern region suddenly discovered many wooden tents, and in the middle of these tents, there were campfires surrounded by animal bones. Then, suddenly, a large number of four-legged creatures rushed over.

  The immigrants quickly fled, and there was no fighting between the two sides.

  Nanjing thought that this might be a local apex predator launching an attack on them. This type of predator has certain crafting abilities and possesses a very strong sense of territory.

  He decided to personally catch a few target predators to take a look, and if they had biological research value, he would let scientists handle them.

  So the six of them, all holding F44 automatic rifles, arrived at the site where the unknown creature had been discovered.

  There are a total of six creatures with black bodies, long-haired legs, and approximately one and a half meters tall with blue eyes, gnawing on some kind of meat by the campfire.

  Nanjiang aimed his rifle at the rear of an unidentified creature and shot it down on the spot, then you could hear its howling.

  The other unidentified creatures, after a few seconds of realizing that their companion had been taken down, immediately screamed and fled, but another unidentified creature was hit in the hindquarters by Nan Jiang.

  "If it were traditional gunpowder firearms, we should have been able to scare them all away in one go." Nanjiang put down his rifle and walked into the camp.

  Currently, the individual weapons used by soldiers are primarily electromagnetically driven. These types of weapons are extremely powerful but make very little noise. If they need to fight against beasts, their effectiveness is not as good as traditional gunpowder guns.

  Nanjiang caught the two unidentified creatures that were shouting loudly, put them in a net, and then took them back to the base.

  The base has a space specifically for biologists. These biologists appeared very excited after seeing the two unidentified organisms that had been transported.

  Because they knew that this creature would establish camps and use fire, it indicated that this creature had a certain level of intelligence and was of research value.

  "This creature should be the hairy man mentioned by the immigrants of the Kaying," a biologist said affirmatively after looking at the photos on his phone.

  "Hairy people? Has the Kaying also discovered this kind of creature?" Nanjiang asked after hearing this.

  "Yes, the immigrants on the Kaijia have also discovered it."

  "This creature is obviously very common," Nan Jiang pondered for a moment.