Chapter 283 Investing in the Future or Investing in the Present

Li Jun did not dare to delay and quickly hid the branch in his chest pocket.

The paulownia tree dream exists for a long time, so this branch can also exist for a long time in that dream.

In addition, Lu Yuan also took a small insurance. He asked Wutongshu to secretly listen to his sister.

Lu Qingqing is the first priority, and the tree branch is the second priority...

In this way, even if something unexpected happens, it won’t be a big problem.

Another researcher asked, "Mr. Lu, do you think it is better to invest now or in the future?"

Lu Yuan laughed: "Of course it's an investment in the future. The dream energy of 10 million people is still very huge. The sycamore tree can only use one tenth of it at most."

"Once it grows up, it will be able to fully utilize the dream energy."

"You guys aren't that urgent, are you?"

"Look at this big tree here. I invested in it. Although it can't be compared with the poppy tree, it is still a great help."

Of course, this is Lu Yuan's modesty... The Tree of Life can produce 40 pomegranate fruits and 20 soul infant fruits every year.

Every year!

This value is no less than that of "Green Paradise".

The investment that Lu Yuan was most proud of was the huge sum of money he spent on investing in the Tree of Life.

He patted the majestic tree and said, "It's not that big in the outside world. It's just a little bigger in my dream... In the future, I will continue to invest in it."

"No, no, no, Instructor Lu, we are really running out of time!" Li Jun sighed in a low voice, "The [Demon] outside is growing. If we don't defeat it quickly, we will be trapped to death in the safe zone."

“Without the present, there is no future.”

"We only have a few years left. By investing in ourselves, we can at least get more carving staff and more production capacity."

Lu Yuan was silent for a while.

This question is quite difficult to answer.

If the 18th human civilization encountered the dark cloud in the sky [Demon·Frost Mist], it might not be able to win.

The soldiers around him also pricked up their ears, wanting to hear his answer.

Lu Yuan sighed softly: "Conch, please help observe the potential of the Wutong tree. After you get the relevant data, I will help you with some advice."

"Yeah!" A secretary with the ability to "do what one wants" can do almost everything.

Lu Yuan originally wanted to take them to visit the more powerful Green Paradise, but after careful consideration, he realized that it was not possible.

Their spiritual bodies are too fragile and they would be easily hurt if they were transferred again.

It would be nice to visit "Meida Paradise".

This may be the first formal meeting between the 18 human civilizations and the first branch of human civilization. Although there are no diplomats, there are 12 soldiers among the 20 people in the group, and the remaining 8 are researchers. It can definitely be regarded as a meeting in a formal occasion.

Lu Yuan also called Sha Mo and Lu Tiantian, two super thinkers, online and asked them to receive the friends from the mother civilization.

Naturally, these two guys were also extremely excited.

That was the mother civilization, the mother civilization they had been thinking about! Returning to the mother civilization was their first goal! Lu Yuan introduced them to each other.

"We are just a makeshift team, a group of people working together to survive in Pangu Continent. These two can be considered the backbone."

"If you have any questions, you can ask them directly...especially those related to idealistic technology."

"No, no, we haven't left the safe zone yet...haha."

"Alas, in fact, we... have all been destroyed... If it weren't for Commander Lu, we would have turned into a pile of bones long ago. It's really hard to survive in Pangu Continent."

Everyone started to greet each other.

The first branch of humanity, Yunhai City, has advantages in population, industrial capacity, and a complete physical technology tree.

The advantage of humanity's 18th civilization lies in its idealistic technology and great potential - of course, it is only potential and has not yet been fully converted into strength.

"This is my sister, my biological sister."

"Hello." Lu Qingqing smiled at them.

"It turns out to be my aunt! You are also the elder of the entire civilization." Lu Tiantian said with surprise.

Lu Qingqing's head was full of question marks and she thought she had heard it wrong.

She didn't dare to ask any questions and could only swallow her doubts.

Under Lu Yuan's transformation, the cultures of both sides are basically similar, both based on humility.

If it were India's culture, they might just start praising each other commercially.

Lu Yuan didn't want to watch them continue to argue, so he asked directly: "What is the industrial capacity of Yunhai City? How much do you know about the specific information of that strange phenomenon [monster]?"

When Sha Mo and Lu Tiantian heard that Yunhai City was going to conquer a "monster", they could not help but sit up straight.

"Yes, this is our most urgent matter." Li Jun burst out a series of data: "Time is not on our side..."

"That [Demon] has been near the safe zone of Zero City."

"Our current industrial capacity is... steel, plastics, rubber, and these resources are not much..."

"We put almost all of our materials into weapons production."

"The uranium enrichment program has been underway for half a year, and it is expected that a small-yield nuclear bomb will be produced in another year."

"But the raw materials are all made in nuclear power plants, and there are only a few nuclear bombs."

Sha Mo and Lu Tiantian were stunned when they heard the series of data. What kind of industrial Cthulhu is this? They build nuclear bombs as they say, and they still think it's not enough!

Although in terms of supernatural powers, the 18 human civilizations are still slightly stronger - but you have to know that these idealistic technologies are all picked up by them through various adventures and garbage collection, and they are not developed independently by them.

In terms of military level, industrial capacity and large-scale warfare, Yunhai City is stronger in these hard powers.

The mother civilization does have its own unique advantages.

Li Jun added: "In addition, the distance between cities is quite far, even by plane it takes 18-20 hours."

"And the aircraft's carrying capacity is only a few hundred tons, so we can only rely on the floating fortresses built by the other two cities."

"The unity of all mankind is the key to victory in this war."

When he heard that all of humanity was uniting to fight against the anomaly, Lu Yuan felt that... this plan was a little unreliable.

This is actually a "gentleman's agreement" to guard against gentlemen but not villains.

He frowned and said, "What if a few cities suddenly regret their decision after the war begins? Wouldn't that mean everything will be ruined?"

Li Jun said: "The plan discussed now is that Xini City and Dongjin City will cancel the safe zone as soon as possible and move the floating fortress over."

"We will not cancel the security zone until their fortress comes near our city and transport all the weapons and equipment to the fortress."

Although these two fortresses are not as big as the real city in the sky, they also have a tonnage of millions of tons and can carry huge amounts of manpower and material resources.

"We are the main force in producing weapons."

"Then when the Sky Fortress passes by a certain city, the city will cancel the safe zone and move the materials produced in recent years... Even if the materials are less, it doesn't matter."

He gritted his teeth and said, "It doesn't matter if they don't open the safe zone! Our Yunhai City, Newyue City, Lingbo City, and the two cities that produced fortresses, these five cities are the most critical."

Lu Yuan understood. If the war was won, these five cities would obviously become the five permanent members of the UN. Cities that did not open safe zones would be liquidated.

If they lose, the [Monster] has eaten so many people, and the remaining cities will only survive until the end of the Ninth Era.

In this dilemma, cooperation is indeed the best option.

"In Yunhai City, the plan to cancel the safe zone as soon as possible is an acceptable risk..." Lu Yuan nodded.

He was extremely confused. How could Xini City and Dongjin City dare to take the lead? Are these two cities really that powerful? !

If that "dark cloud" moves over, won't these two cities be massacred?

Our daily life has started to gamble with the country's destiny again.

On the other side, Sha Mo and Lu Tiantian were overwhelmed with emotion after hearing what they heard.

The first thing they thought about was: What if we encounter this kind of enemy? Can we... build this kind of "floating fortress"? This is equivalent to a smaller version of the Sky City, but it is more maneuverable and suitable for long-distance transportation.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

But then they thought, they already have the "Sky Fortress", the flying Zerg warrior, so it seems that there is no need for that.

After all, the industrial capacity of human civilization 18 is really not that good.

Others can build a floating fortress in just a few years, but they have a hard time producing cement here. It’s better not to make trouble for themselves.

Li Jun said: "Another point is that we don't know how large the detection range of the [Monster] is. If it can detect humans tens of thousands of kilometers away, it means that the city that first withdraws the safe zone will be attacked."

"This is what we are most worried about. Instructor Lu, do you have any information?"

"This... is hard to say."

Lu Yuan tapped the table lightly, thinking about the visions he had fought in the past.

[Monster·Spirit Eye] can sense life forms tens of thousands of kilometers away. This range is extremely exaggerated.

As soon as you cancel the safe zone, people will immediately sense it and drag you into a different space.

But as for the other visions…

It seems that the sensing range is not so exaggerated.

[Monsters] are also divided into many categories, each with different abilities.

The perception ability of animals is definitely higher than that of plants.

"Wait a moment, I need to do some testing."

"Please do as you please."

Lu Yuan conducted a brief investigation for a while and found that the perception ability of the Tree of Life was quite average, about twenty kilometers.

Stand high and see far, which means that now you can see 20 kilometers if you are at an altitude of 100 meters.

"This is the first time I've noticed that you're so lame in the field of perception."

Well, 20 kilometers is not a small distance actually.

The poppy tree has a slightly greater perception ability, but that only means its vines are a little more spread out.

Beyond the range of the vines, it will soon be impossible to sense.

As for Painted Skin...

He came to the virtual space where "Painted Skin" existed.

This green-faced, fang-like, demon-like being is being imprisoned in the form of a soul in a vast, deserted prairie with blue sky and white clouds.

"Ao!" It ran wildly, chasing the small animals on the grassland - such a huge vision actually turned into an animal in the zoo.

On the grassland live the most common "virtual rabbits" and "virtual mice".

These "virtual mice" carried a very small amount of life energy, which stimulated the biological activity of "Painted Skin" very well, preventing it from committing suicide in despair.

Lu Yuan kept adjusting the distance between himself and [Painted Skin], and finally, within a range of thirty kilometers, [Painted Skin] sensed him!

The ferocious monster let out a terrifying roar and rushed towards Lu Yuan quickly. When the two enemies met, they were extremely jealous and uttered a strange syllable.

"Yi!"

This is a spiritual word that can trigger lightning!

However, no matter how strong Ling Yan's ability is, in the dream world, it is still restrained by the poppy tree and transformed into the purest idealistic energy.

The ability of "real dreams" is indeed terrifying.

After obtaining useful information, Lu Yuan did not bother with it and withdrew from the prison in time.

He thought to himself, "An extremely weak [Demon·Painted Skin] has a perception ability of only thirty kilometers, which is really not high."

The decline in strength will indeed lead to a problem of decreased perception, but it will not result in a gap of orders of magnitude.

In other words, even during the heyday of Painted Skin, a hundred kilometers was the limit of its perception.

Its rules determine that it is difficult to have perception capabilities that exceed those of monsters.

Lu Yuan returned to his seat and summarized the current data.

"According to this inference, the perception range of the [Monster] is the highest. This has a lot to do with its 'Multiple Alien Spaces' rule."

"For most visions, the perception of a few dozen kilometers is the limit if you rely solely on vision, smell, and hearing. If you want to improve further, you must rely on certain extraordinary rules."

"Based on its current performance, [Demon·Frost Mist] does not possess spatial rules."

"It will fly in the sky, at an altitude of about 3,000 to 10,000 meters, and it will stay in one place for a long time without moving."

"I think a perception capability of one to two thousand kilometers is a conservative estimate."

"Of course, we should be lenient in predicting the enemy's future. We still need to observe for a long time before we can get a more accurate conclusion."

These inferences made everyone very excited.

This means that the plan to conquer [Demon·Frost Mist] does have a very high chance of success!

Especially when they heard that Lu Yuan had defeated another strange phenomenon [Demon·Painted Skin] again, everyone felt a little numb. Could it be that a disaster-level phenomenon was really so easy to defeat?

Why does it feel like killing a chicken?

Lu Yuan said modestly, shook his head and said, "Well, every anomaly is different... We are also very lucky here. We encountered one that we can just defeat."

"If that dark cloud over there comes to us, it might massacre us in a minute."

Every generation has its own Long March. Yunhai City is mainly developing physical technology, so he can't help much.

His technology tree, which relies on the Poppy Tree, Painted Skins, and Zerg, really cannot be shared with humans.

We also talked about "Lingyan Technology", a technology line extended from "The Demon·Painted Skin", and the atmosphere gradually became heated.

(End of this chapter)