Chapter 352 Five Years Later
On the other side, Lu Yuan was placing this strange egg. He was speechless after listening to the report from Old Cat that the rat people had created a legendary robot out of excessive jealousy.
"The jealous artist is pretty awesome."
"Oh, why don't I have any inspiration..."
Lu Yuan also tried to be jealous for a while, but found that he really had no inspiration.
He and Conch could only dig a small hole themselves, place the egg near the Tree of Life, let out a sigh of relief, and got some leaves from the Tree of Life to fill the hole.
Although it looks easily broken, the eggshell is actually as thick as steel. Even Lu Yuan's eyesight can't tell what's inside.
When the chicken snake saw such a big egg, it was so happy that it kept shouting "Cluck, cluck, cluck".
The chicken head kept begging Lu Yuan, and its claws were digging on the ground.
"It said... it wants to hatch eggs, and it likes this egg." The conch couldn't help but laugh with her hands covering her mouth.
Lu Yuan cursed, "You are seriously ill. This has nothing to do with you! Can you afford to pay for it if it breaks down?"
The chicken snake was almost crying, it really liked this egg.
Its butt trembled slightly, and a chicken snake egg was laid on the spot.
The chicken snake even picked up the egg with a little chicken manure on it and gave it to Lu Yuan to ask for this opportunity.
Old Lu's scalp was tingling because of this. Are these guys all spirits?
"Okay, you try it."
"But there are three rules. You can't move it, don't poop here, and you have to tell me immediately if it hatches."
Miss Sazae used her animal affinity ability to translate it in a low voice.
After getting permission, the four-meter-tall chicken snake carefully lay near the eggs. The snake's tail wrapped around the eggs, and it kept sucking its tongue in and out, looking very comfortable.
It was smart enough not to press on it directly, but to warm it with the warmth from its butt.
And that egg actually glowed slightly...as if it was expressing a happy emotion?
"Forget it... Just be happy."
Facing this stupid guy, Lu Yuan still dotes on him.
The mother bear was licking her paw, as if recalling the time when she was a mother... She hadn't been pregnant for many years and wanted to raise a baby.
The mother bear lay down on the egg and began to take a nap. The cool feeling was quite refreshing.
Even the old wolf came out of the tiankeng, wagged its tail at its owner, circled around the eggs a few times, and sniffed them a few times.
"Ouch?" It pouted, as if asking, what is this? "Don't eat it." Lu Yuan is a nostalgic person, and he didn't refuse the animal friends to join in.
This hatched guy has some animal bonds, which is pretty good.
Next, things were basically settled, and he couldn't keep guarding here all the time.
The Tree of Life just extends a vine to touch the egg so that it can sense the situation at any time.
Then... I plunged into busy work.
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The busy work continues, and the bumper harvest of minerals outside has made the workers work hard.
They don't even need a holiday! Lu Yuan once persuaded the workers to go back to the city to rest for a while after a while, and the development of civilization was not so urgent.
As a result, these guys can't sit still at all. Mining feels like taking drugs, and they can't stop at all! And the development of human civilization is also very rapid! The technology line from the Source Fire civilization officially debuted two years later. In addition to humanoid puppets, there are more important weapons and equipment, such as the Source Fire Cannon, a hypersonic weapon. The speed of the shell can reach 30 times the speed of sound, which is really exaggerated!
There are also carved bullets that can effectively kill level 5 or even level 6 experts... Of course, the cost is also quite high.
For people's life, a high-tech product called "Heiyao Computer" has made its grand debut.
It is developed from a piece of obsidian crystal, a small amount of semiconductor, and obsidian silicon.
Its main purpose is to be the core of puppet machinery. Humans can control puppets with their thoughts, mainly relying on the Black Diamond Computer.
In addition, a new generation of semiconductor products has also appeared one after another, such as computers, cinemas, etc. As for various entertainment products, they are naturally from Earth. Back in the safe zone of the Rize civilization, Lu Yuan asked the Earthlings to send a lot of movies and games, and now they are finally put to use.
It's a pity that the computers used nowadays are very poor. They can hardly play games like "White Myth: Bajie" and can only play some simple games.
In this way, time passed day by day, until the fourth year, when the mineral veins in the crater were basically mined out.
No matter how rich the mineral vein is, it cannot withstand the crazy digging day and night by an army of more than a thousand Zerg!
Lu Yuan seriously suspected that the Zerg army had embezzled a lot of ore while mining.
Like the "Leviathan" and "Mammoth", their bodies expanded to ten meters in length and weighed hundreds of tons. On the plastron of their chests, there appeared pieces of fiery red scales that could emit high temperatures.
But he didn't care much about it. The Zerg army could only grow quickly by eating extraordinary items. Even if they embezzled half of them, it would be bearable for humans.
Until the fifth year, all the nearby mineral resources, big and small, within a radius of 300 kilometers had been dug up completely, and there was no longer much material to be found...
This means that humans can set off again and travel to other areas.
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"Now is the 99th year of the Ninth Era in Pangu Continent... I, Old Lu, am 123 years old, and the second generation is almost sixty years old." Lu Yuan sat in his office, lamenting the rapid passage of time.
The entire Green City has developed rapidly in recent years. The domestication and cultivation of extraordinary animals and plants have basically recovered to the level before the disaster, and are even better due to the abundance of resources.
The technology tree from the Source Fire Civilization is slowly infiltrating into the civilian population. The number of "humanoid puppets" exceeds 100,000, and all of them are productive forces.
As for controlled nuclear fusion technology...it has not been restored yet.
There is no need to rush. After all, humans nowadays are not too short of energy.
That fission energy can still be used for more than a hundred years!
"So we have to consider the issue of departure. We are really not getting any closer to our mother civilization." Lu Yuan couldn't help but shake his head.
Ten years had passed since he went back and forth, and he was still going round in circles... When would he be able to return? Well, in fact, he thought less and less about the state of his mother civilization, and only occasionally recalled his childhood in the dead of night.
In a recent development meeting, Lu Yuan asked all departments: "Friends, are you ready for the latest start-up work?"
"Power grid, energy system, shelter system, weapons and equipment, food reserves, all ready!"
"The Castle in the Sky... is ready to set off at any time!!"
It can be seen that everyone is in high spirits. Only the heads of a few departments are constantly complaining, such as the Human Resources Department and some R&D departments, who keep saying that there are too few people.
"There are really not enough people, let's get more people!"
The human technology tree is now quite complicated. With the physical technology, green technology, spiritual technology, and the newly added source fire technology of the Rize civilization, even if all of these hundreds of thousands of people are doctors, it is not enough!
Even if there is "large puppet" technology that can liberate physical labor, it is still far from enough.
“Is overtime not a serious problem?”
"We strictly implement the labor law, but some people voluntarily work overtime, so there is nothing we can do..."
After listening to the director's complaint, Lu Yuan not only did not complain, but instead felt a slight sense of joy.
Insufficient manpower means low competitive pressure.
Under normal circumstances, people tend to become lazy and comfortable.
But now everyone still has dreams, looking for a direction they like, doing work they like, and doing things within their capabilities.
If you have sufficient ability and have achieved some results, the government is willing to allocate resources to invest in you and allow you to start your own business.
Even young people can easily stand out.
He is actually very satisfied with this social situation.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
"The population issue is indeed critical, and we have to proceed slowly according to the plan."
"We must expand the city and obtain more extraordinary animals and plants to feed a larger population. Otherwise, the quality will decline, which is not acceptable."
"Yes, at the current rate of development, we will be able to achieve the goal of universal level 3 in another 20 years. If the population expands, this time will be delayed again."
"What I mean is, if everyone is 12 o'clock god, and the population is greatly expanded... then the productivity can be increased by an order of magnitude."
Everyone started talking about it.
"In that case, we can plan our next mountain moving project." A leader from the engineering department took the opportunity to make a suggestion.
The current Sky City is a 4-kilometer square with three floors: upper, middle and lower, plus a green mountain to provide output, just enough to maintain resource balance.
If it is to be expanded, in order to maintain the structure, it has to be enlarged proportionally. An 8-kilometer square is four times the original area, so four green mountains have to be moved.
Well, this is definitely a huge project that will take decades...
In short, it is better to make plans in advance and let the idle engineering teams take action. First, build a foundation and a framework. When you find a suitable mountain, find a way to move it. If you can't find a suitable one, you can just put it aside.
Lu Yuan put these things aside and started reading other reports submitted by various departments.
"The modified hibernation chamber has been manufactured. It can reduce the human body's metabolism to one-fifth of a percent."
“It’s finally finished…”
This parameter is much worse than the version of Yuanhuo Civilization, but... it's cheap!
One million hibernation chambers only require 1,000 spiritual energy materials, which is lower than expected.
This thing is the ultimate life-saving trump card for mankind. Lu Yuan couldn't help but read the parameters in detail. "The longest hibernation time is estimated to be 100 years."
"It can detect the hibernator's physical condition at any time and has the ability to automatically wake him up."
A hundred years in the tiankeng is equivalent to ten thousand years in the outside world, which is really enough.
He looked at the next report: "Grain Reserve Project".
Well, because of a cold disaster that caused a poor harvest and almost caused a great famine, people were really scared and the public strongly called for the establishment of a more sound food reserve system.
This report intends to store 100 years of food in the tiankeng.
When seeing this number, Lu Yuan couldn't help but be petrified. Are you really afraid of starving? Under normal circumstances, the cost of storing food for 100 years is very high. Even if a large cold storage is built, the food will still rot and deteriorate. The annual maintenance cost alone is an astronomical figure! However, with the tiankeng, the problem is not that big. As long as a batch is transported in every year, the rate of decay is very slow...
Lu Yuan felt more and more that this sinkhole was of extraordinary value.
So he signed his name to these reports.
The last report is about the fiscal revenue in recent years.
Nowadays, most of the minerals have been mined, and more small fish and shrimps are buried deep underground. There is no need to search for them in a big way.
Therefore, the logistics department specially counted all the supplies in the treasury.
"198.12 tons of gilded sand, a low-quality extraordinary item with fire and earth attributes, commonly used in weapons, equivalent to 2391.1 spiritual charms."
"Source Fire Stone, 2022121 pieces, equivalent to 3219.2 Spiritual Rhythm, mostly inferior and ordinary grades."
Source Fire Stone is the main material for making large puppets. More than two million pieces mean that more than two million puppets can be made in the future, which is really a joy to the heart.
"Black Silica Conductor..."
"1,821 Earth Core Crystals, equivalent to 1,182.9 Spiritual Rhythms, with a total mass of approximately 1.22 tons. 1,228 of them are low-quality, 417 are ordinary, the remaining 173 are rare, and 3 are excellent."
Looking at this list, the materials that have been used and allocated to the research institute and craftsmen are approximately 7,200 spiritual energy.
The reserve resources in the national treasury actually exceeded 11,000 spiritual energies.
In this wave of mining, 18,300 Lingyun were mined!
The original fiscal deficit was immediately wiped out and turned into a fiscal surplus.
It is truly an unprecedented battle for wealth!
The only pity is that these materials are too simple, all of them are fire attributes, yang attributes, and a small amount of earth attributes. It is difficult to forge cultivation items, and they can only be used to make weapons...
But making a weapon with 1,000 spiritual charms is already a luxury, and the quantity is not small.
After all, human beings’ foundation is not deep enough, and they are really reluctant to turn them into shells and bomb them away.
"It would be great if it had life attributes." Lu Yuan muttered to himself.
According to the research of Shumiba civilization, rare objects with life attributes often have a 10%-30% premium over extraordinary objects with other attributes.
"According to our subsequent assessment, the Zerg warriors may have secretly eaten a considerable amount of ore during the excavation process... However, those Overlords firmly denied that they had stolen any ore. We have no choice but to ask you how much they had eaten."
"We can rent them in the future to do things, so we can have a budget."
The director who wrote these reports feels a little aggrieved.
"How much did you eat?"
"It seems to be more than what we have in stock..."
(End of this chapter)