An Hour later, everyone returned to the open ground inside the outpost and reported their findings to Chen Chuan. Everything was normal; they had discovered essentially nothing.
Chen Chuan had a theory, but he couldn't be certain. 'Still, we need to make the necessary preparations. It's already late, so I won't worry about it too much. We just need to get through the first night. We can deal with everything else tomorrow when we have plenty of daylight.'
To avoid the danger of being picked off one by one, they didn't have the team stay in the soldiers' barracks this time. Instead, they gathered everyone directly in the fortress's briefing hall.
As dusk fell, he had his men release the ten combat creatures they had brought along. These were combat-insects manufactured in Dashun. While they were inferior in many ways to the concurrent models from Compound Eye Company, they were more than adequate to serve as sentries.
