"Hmm!" Coco raised her little head, looking very proud.
Lou Feier's curiosity was immediately piqued: "What on earth did you get just now?"
Xu Xin looked towards the front of the corridor and said, "Go ahead and talk as you go."
When Xu Xinjin Yue entered the bracelet, Li Wenxi had already been chatting with the monster for a while.
In their hands, the two of them were holding the two objects that Xu Xin had put into the bracelet from the counter.
A stack of transparent film and a metal rod that can release lasers.
The monster was obviously very surprised by the two things in its hands, which made its already ugly face even uglier and more ferocious.
"It's a transparent film, meant to be worn on the body to protect against the erosion of alien invaders by the concentrated scarlet crystal light... It's like a raincoat."
"And that metal rod, which can release short lasers with temperatures exceeding 100 million degrees, is the tool used to cut the scarlet crystal."
Several people walked deeper into the corridor, and Xu Xin explained to Lou Feier in a low voice.
"...Ah?" Lou Feier's eyes widened. "...What a coincidence? Why is there something like this here?"
"This is just a coincidence. According to the monster, this world tree shouldn't normally have so many alien invaders gathering here. The reason so many alien invaders gathered here this time is most likely because of these two things." Xu Xin said.
"Yeah." Li Wenxi took over and said, "These alien invaders are probably holding a selection here."
"Selection?" Lou Fei'er was a little confused. "Selection... what?"
"Select a worker to process scarlet crystal." Jin Yue whispered.
"This..." Lou Feier didn't know what to say.
Did they just happen to walk into a selection by mistake?
"The monster said that this selection might be because the alien invaders' giant ships are dispatching again after a thousand years."
Xu Xin peered into the corridor, observing as he spoke, "The launch of the giant ships requires a large amount of concentrated scarlet crystal as fuel. The simultaneous launch of four giant ships this time may have consumed a large portion of the 'source of life' that was about to be distributed to other alien invaders on Earth. Therefore, we need to increase the number of workers cutting scarlet crystals."
The monster said that cutting the scarlet crystal was a very confidential and difficult task, and this work must be completely controlled by the leader. Only in this way could it truly achieve complete control.
Even the slightest bit of smuggling or leaking out is not allowed.
Therefore, in order to minimize the possibility of leakage, all the workers for this work are carefully selected by the leader, and their number is also kept to a minimum.
The fewer workers there are, the less likely something will go wrong.
With few workers, productivity is low.
Therefore, the "production capacity" of scarlet crystal as the source of life is actually just enough every time it is distributed to all alien invaders.
It is not even enough, so every time there are disobedient alien invaders who cannot obtain the "source of life".
But this time, after a thousand years, the giant ship started up again, consuming a large amount of concentrated scarlet crystals that had been cut and prepared to be distributed to the alien invaders as a source of life.
At this time, if we do not increase the number of staff, I am afraid that most of the alien invaders will get nothing when the "source of life" is distributed next time.
That is absolutely not possible.
The situation is already like this. If the "Source of Life" cannot be released again, it will be a mess!
Therefore, the monster believed that since so many alien invaders gathered in this world tree and this tool for cutting scarlet crystal appeared, it was obviously to select new workers to cut scarlet crystal.
As for why these two things were displayed like exhibits, it was probably just to allow these alien invaders to touch them.
Anyway, no one in the World Tree has weapons, and mechanical jellyfish are flying everywhere to monitor all locations, so it is impossible for these two things to be stolen.
But the other party did not expect that Xu Xin and his companions used a small piece of scarlet crystal to disrupt the situation, and then stole the two items with the help of the Concealer's Cloak.
"So that's actually the case..." Lou Fei'er was still a little puzzled. "So, the scarlet crystals were really cut by the alien invaders themselves? I thought they were so technologically advanced that everything was automated, but it turns out they still need 'workers' to cut them by hand?"
She curled her lips.
"I asked about that, too," Li Wenxi said with a smile. "According to the monster, this is because the scarlet crystal's light is too strong. The machinery can't be exposed to it for long, otherwise it will overheat and be damaged. Also, rather than letting machines that could be hacked do the mining, it's safer for them to do it themselves, and the cost and difficulty are much lower."
Just now, Xu Xin took a whole layer of transparent film from the platform. When he entered the bracelet just now, he roughly estimated that there were at least thirty or forty sheets of this film on that layer.
The monster also told them why there were so many, it was because the film was disposable.
Every time a cut is made, a piece of this film is consumed and lost.
This is how they withstand the intense light of the concentrated scarlet crystal.
They do not have materials that can completely withstand the radiation of concentrated scarlet crystal without being damaged. If they are cut by machines, the outer shell of the machine will need to be replaced from time to time, which is very troublesome and the machine is prone to malfunction.
Alien invaders come as workers to mine. They only need to put on this transparent film and hold this laser cutter to mine the scarlet crystal.
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