"Dad, are you practicing again?" Li Ran returned home and found that his mother had disappeared again.
"She is practicing outside, and we asked her to practice at home, but she refused because she was afraid of delaying your practice!" said Li Ran's father Li Huwen.
"Oh, there's no need. I don't need a practice room now. You two can use it. Besides, there's not many people at home, so you can practice in the bedroom!" Li Ran said with a smile.
The training room mainly serves as a spirit gathering array, but Li Ran's parents don't need this thing. Li Ran can provide an unlimited supply of all kinds of elixirs that have no side effects and will not accumulate impurities.
Li Ran has already upgraded his shopping mall system to level four. He may not have enough third and fourth level pills, but he can buy first and second level pills a thousand or ten thousand times, so he has no shortage of cultivation resources.
"She always thinks that it's not because she can't calm down in the practice room, but it's clearly because of her bad mentality. She always blames it on objective reasons. With her impatient personality, how can she sit still for a whole day..." Li Huwen complained crazily. Of course, this is based on the fact that Li Ran's mother, Li Xiangling, is not at home.
…
Li Ran closed the door and left Zhehang University.
It is already nine o'clock in the evening. If it were in the past, my parents would definitely not allow me to go out so late. But since I was able to practice cultivation, they don't care much about Li Ran. They think that Li Ran has grown up and has his own ideas.
So, Li Ran came to the villa where Blade Queen Sarah was at night. Of course, he only thought of Sarah, and everything else was incidental.
"Master, I sense that Thrall has most likely arrived on Blue Star. Although I don't know how he's using it, he's lurking and accumulating energy!"
As soon as I entered the door, Blade Queen Sarah hurried over with a sexy figure.
When Li Ran heard this, her pupils shrank suddenly, and she couldn't help but get nervous and asked, "Are you sure, Sarah?"
The Thrall that Sarah mentioned is naturally Thrall, the master of the Thrall Zerg. The Thrall Zerg is named after him, just like Sarah's Zerg and Sarah Zerg.
"Yes, he and I have a special connection, but now because of my master, I can sense him, but he can't sense me!" Sarah walked over and hugged Li Ran. In the past few months, she has basically behaved like an ordinary person, of course, there are still some shortcomings in her emotions.
But besides her desire for strength and the growth of the Zerg, she also had other desires...
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“Roar…”
The mysterious roar of beasts still accompanies the daily lives and routines of all humans in the Federation, but the people of the Federation are still not used to it, because the roar of beasts is getting stronger and stronger, although it is not obvious, but it is true.
Practitioners do not need to sleep. If they do not want their minds to be affected, they can practice in a training room equipped with a mid-level or above soundproof formation. If it is too expensive, they can leave Blue Star and go to the forbidden area.
But ordinary people have no way out. The forbidden area is not accessible to ordinary people, and the Federation does not allow it. The training room must be equipped with at least a mid-level soundproof array to be useful. However, such training rooms are extremely expensive. Except for famous universities, general key universities can hardly provide them to any student 24 hours a day.
The only 24-hour training room available at Zhehang University is in the school villa dormitory area. As for the mid-level soundproofing array, it was only recently installed. The previous low-level soundproofing array could not withstand the roar of the beast.
The roar of beasts mainly affects ordinary people, and has little effect on practitioners, especially those above the third level. No matter how many opinions and dissatisfactions ordinary people have, or even demonstrations, it is useless and cannot shake the rule of the Federation.
As for the strike, it's also a joke. With the current federal technology, more than 99.999% of production and work are mechanical automation and robots. Ordinary people are basically no different from those who are supported by the federal government for free. For the federal top leaders, ordinary people are more important for the sake of fertility than for moral constraints.
The population base is large, and there are many newborns, among whom many have the qualifications to practice cultivation. Even if 10,000 people are raised in vain, it is a huge profit if a qualified newborn is born. In this society where high technology and supernatural powers are combined, even if the population increases by dozens of times, reaching trillions, it can just be done by producing more automated equipment and robots.
The Blue Star does not have enough territory, and there are taboos. The smallest place in the forbidden land is larger than the Blue Star. Although there are only a few taboos conquered by humans, there is no problem in accommodating the lives of ordinary people. Underground, in the sky, on the seabed, even in magma, the combination of federal technology and various cultivation systems can easily do it.
Speaking of which, if humans had not been blocked by the membrane of outer space and the same taboos, they would have colonized the outer solar system long ago.
For the Federation, apart from practitioners, the most important thing is population. The Federation wishes that everyone could have dozens or hundreds of children, but ordinary people don't think so. The higher their education level, the less they want to have children. Even if the country fully supports them, they still don't have children, which makes the Federation very worried.
At one point, the federal fertility rate was negative until strict legal measures were enacted in this regard.
If what constrains Li Ran is time and energy, then what constrains the federal land is the quality of practitioners and the base number of the population.
For hundreds of years, the human population has only been in the billions, but this has caused great concern to the relevant federal departments.
Before Li Ran woke up, scientists predicted that the population would be close to 10 billion by 2050. Now the Federation has been unified for nearly a few hundred years, there has been no World War I and World War II, and technology has surpassed the level before Li Ran woke up a hundred years ago.
As long as the population doesn't get killed by beasts, evil cults, or vehicles, basically everyone can live to 150 years old. And with the power of technology, even if you are half-dead, with limbs missing, you can be restored to a complete state. If technology doesn't work, there are still extraordinary people...
As for things like ferocious beasts and cult attacks on cities, they seemed to happen frequently around Li Ran, but the probability of such happening in all city-states around the world in a hundred years was less than one in a thousand, especially in the past hundred years.
It's easy to imagine how helpless and desperate the federal authorities were regarding population issues, even considering forced breeding and cloning.
Unbeknownst to the others, the Federation welcomed men with three or four wives, a fact that benefited Li Ran. This was primarily due to the long years of warfare, which had severely distorted the gender ratio, even exceeding the ratio before Li Ran's awakening, when men outnumbered women. Furthermore, if men weren't allowed to have multiple wives, the ratio would be even lower.
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It was already one in the morning at the Zhehang University garrison, but the lights were still on. Teams of three guards were standing on the high city walls patrolling.
It stands to reason that in today's high-tech society, humans should not be needed to conduct night patrols, but in many cases, humans are much more reliable than technology, because there are many strange beasts that can hide from technological detection.
"Lao Wang, what do you see over there?" A guard looked curiously at the night sky that looked like a line of sky in the distance.
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