Chapter 352 Five Years Later

On the other side, Lu Yuan was placing the strange egg. Hearing the report from the old cat, the rats were actually too jealous and created a legendary robot. He was also a little speechless.

"I'm jealous of artists, they're pretty cool."

"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.

I had no choice but to dig a small hole with Conch myself, place the egg near the Tree of Life, let out a gentle sigh, and then filled the small hole with some leaves from the Tree of Life.

Despite the fact that it looked easily broken, the eggshell was actually as thick as steel, and even Lu Yuan's eyesight couldn't tell what was inside.

The cockatrice was so happy when it saw such a big egg, it shouted "clack" and "cluck".

The chicken head kept begging Lu Yuan, and the chicken feet were scratching on the ground.

"It said... it wanted to hatch the egg, and it liked the egg." The conch couldn't help but cover its mouth and smiled.

Lu Yuan scolded: "You are really seriously ill. It has nothing to do with you! Can you afford to pay for the damage?"

The cockatrice almost cried, it really liked this egg.

The buttocks trembled slightly, and a cockatrice egg was laid out on the spot.

The cockatrice even picked up the egg with a little chicken dung in it and gave it to Lu Yuan to ask for this opportunity.

Lao Lu's scalp was numb from it. Are these guys all sperm?

"Okay, give it a try."

"But there are three rules of thumb: Don't move its position, don't poop here, and you must tell me immediately when it hatches."

Miss Conch used her animal affinity ability to translate in a low voice.

The four-meter-tall cockatrice, after getting permission, carefully lay down near the egg. The snake's tail wrapped around the egg and kept spitting its tongue, looking satisfied.

It was smart enough that it didn't press on it directly, but just used the warmth of its own butt to warm it.

And the egg actually glowed slightly... It seemed to be a happy emotion?

"Forget it...just be happy."

Facing this stupid guy, Lu Yuan still doted on him.

The female bear was licking her paw on the side, seeming to recall the time when she was a mother... She hadn't been pregnant for many years, and she wanted to raise a child.

The female bear clung to this egg and began to take a nap. The cold feeling was quite refreshing.

Even the old wolf emerged from the sinkhole, wagging its head and tail at its owner, circling the egg a few times, and sniffing it a few times.

"Ouch?" It pursed its lips, as if asking, what is this?

"Don't eat it." Lu Yuan is a nostalgic person, and he does not refuse the addition of animal friends.

This hatched guy has some animal bonds, which is pretty good.

Next, if things are basically in order, he won't be able to guard this place all the time.

Just let the tree of life spread a vine to touch the egg, and you can sense the situation at any time.

Then... I plunged into busy work.

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The busy work continues, and the workers are full of energy due to the bumper harvest of minerals outside.

They don’t even need a day off!

Lu Yuan once persuaded the workers to go back to the city to rest for a while, and the development of civilization was not in such a hurry.

As a result, these guys couldn't stop at all. The feeling of mining was like taking drugs and they couldn't stop at all!

And the internal development of human civilization is also extremely rapid!

The technology line from the Source Fire Civilization officially debuted two years later. In addition to humanoid puppets, there are also more important weapons and equipment, such as the Source Fire Cannon, a high-speed weapon that can reach a speed of 30 times. The speed of sound is really exaggerated!

There are also glyph bullets that can effectively kill level five or even level six masters... Of course, the cost is quite high.

For civilian life, a high-tech product called "Black Yao Computer" makes its grand debut.

It is developed from a piece of obsidian spar and a small amount of semiconductors, plus obsidian conductive silicon.

Its purpose is mainly as the core of the puppet machine. Humans can control the puppet with their thoughts, mainly relying on the Black Yao computer.

In addition, new generations of semiconductor products have also appeared one after another, such as computers, movie theaters, etc. As for various entertainment products, they are naturally from the earth. Back in the safe zone of Lize Civilization, Lu Yuan asked people on Earth to transmit many movies and games, and now they are finally put to use.

It's a pity that the computers that are being invented nowadays are very awkward. Basically, you can't play "Bai Shinhwa Bajie", you can only play some simple ones.

In this way, time passed day by day, until the fourth year, the mineral veins in the crater were basically dug out.

No matter how rich the mineral veins are, they can't hold back more than a thousand Zerg troops, frantically digging day and night!

Lu Yuan seriously suspected that the Zerg army had embezzled a lot of ore while mining.

The size of the "Leviathan" and the "Mammoth" expanded to ten meters and weighed hundreds of tons. There were patches of fiery red scales that could radiate high temperatures on the plastron on their chests.

But he didn't care too much. The Zerg army could only grow quickly by eating extraordinary items. Even if they corrupted half of it, it would still be bearable for humans.

Until the fifth year, all the nearby mineral resources, large and small, with a radius of 300 kilometers were mined cleanly, and there were no longer many materials to be found...

This means that humans can once again set off to other areas.

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"Now is the 99th year of the Ninth Era in Pangu Continent... I am 123 years old, and the second generation is almost 60 years old." Lu Yuan sat in the 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 even surpassed it because of the abundance of resources.

The technology tree from the Source Fire Civilization is slowly infiltrating the people, and the number of "human puppets" exceeds 100,000, all of which are productive forces.

As for the controlled nuclear fusion technology... it has not been restored yet.

There is no rush, after all, humans nowadays are not too short of energy.

Those fission energies can still be used for more than a hundred years!

"So we must consider the issue of departure. The distance from our mother civilization is really not getting closer at all." Lu Yuan couldn't help shaking his head.

After going back and forth for more than ten years, it has been spinning in the same place... When will it be possible to return?

Well, in fact, he thought less and less about the situation of the mother civilization, and only recalled his childhood occasionally when it was late at night.

In the recent development meeting, Lu Yuan asked all departments: "Friends, are you ready for the latest departure work?"

"Power network, energy system, shelter system, weapons and equipment, food reserves, all ready!"

"Sky City... ready to set off at any time!!"

It can be seen that everyone is very interested

Only a few department heads are constantly complaining, such as the human resources department and some R&D departments, who have been saying that there are too few people.

"There are really not enough people, let's get more people!"

Now the human technology tree is really complicated. The physical technology, green technology, spiritual technology, and newly added source fire technology of the Rize civilization, even if all these hundreds of thousands of people are doctors, it is not enough!

Even if there is "large puppet" technology, which can liberate physical labor, it is still too far away.

"Isn't the overtime phenomenon serious?"

"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 faint joy.

Insufficient manpower means less competitive pressure.

Under normal circumstances, people will gradually become lazy and comfortable.

But now everyone is still quite dreamy, looking for a direction they like, doing a job they like, and doing something within their ability.

If you have enough ability and have made some achievements, the government is willing to allocate resources to invest in you and let you start a business.

Even young people can easily stand out.

He is actually very satisfied with this social situation.

"The population problem 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 more people. Otherwise, the quality will decline, which is not good."

"That's right. According to the current development speed, we can achieve the goal of universal level 3 in another 20 years. If the population expands, this time will have to be postponed."

"What I mean is that if everyone is 12 o'clock gods, and the population is greatly expanded... then the productivity can be increased by an order of magnitude."

Everyone discussed it.

"In this case, we can also plan the next mountain moving project." A leader of the engineering department took the opportunity to make a suggestion.

The current Sky City is a 4-kilometer square with 3 floors, upper, middle and lower, plus a green mountain to provide output, which just maintains the balance of resources.

If it is to be expanded, in order to maintain the structure, it must be enlarged in proportion. The 8-kilometer square is 4 times the original area, so 4 green mountains must be moved.

Well, this is definitely a super project, which will take decades...

In short, make a plan in advance and let the idle engineering teams take action. First, lay a foundation and a framework. If you encounter a suitable mountain, find a way to move it. If you don’t find a suitable one, you can put it aside first.

Lu Yuan put these things aside and read other reports submitted by various departments.

"The modified hibernation chamber has been manufactured, which can reduce the human body's metabolism to 500th."

"It’s finally completed..."

This parameter is much worse than the version of the source fire civilization, but... it’s cheap!

One million hibernation chambers only need 1,000 Lingyun materials, which is lower than expected.

This thing is considered the ultimate life-saving trump card of mankind. Lu Yuan couldn’t help but read the parameters in detail, "The longest hibernation time is expected to be 100 years."

"It can detect the physical condition of the hibernator at any time and has the ability to automatically wake 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, it almost caused a great famine. People were really scared and strongly called for a more sound food reserve system.

This report plans to store 100 years of food in the tiankeng.

When seeing this number, Lu Yuan couldn't help but petrified. Are you really afraid of starving?

In general, 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 fee 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 decay rate is very slow...

Lu Yuan felt more and more that the tiankeng was of extraordinary value.

So he signed his name in these reports.

The last report was the fiscal revenue of the past few years.

Now that most of the minerals have been excavated, more small fish and shrimps are buried deep underground, and there is no need to search for them in a big way.

Therefore, the logistics department specially counted all the materials in the treasury.

"198.12 tons of gilded sand, inferior grade extraordinary wonders, fire attributes, earth attributes, commonly used in weapons, equivalent to 2391.1 spiritual rhyme."

"Source fire stone, 2022121 pieces, equivalent to 3219.2 spiritual rhyme, mostly inferior grade and ordinary grade."

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 gratifying.

"Black silicon conductor..."

"1821 pieces of earth core crystals, equivalent to 1182.9 Lingyun, with a total mass of about 1.22 tons. Among them, 1228 pieces are inferior, 417 pieces are ordinary, the remaining 173 pieces are rare, and 3 pieces are excellent."

Looking at this list, the materials that have been used and allocated to the research institute and craftsmen are about 7200 Lingyun.

And the reserve resources in the treasury actually exceed 11,000 Lingyun.

That is, this wave of mining has mined 18,300 Lingyun!

The original fiscal deficit was wiped out in an instant and turned into a fiscal surplus.

It is really an unprecedented war of wealth!

The only pity is that these materials are too simple, all of which are fire attributes, yang attributes, and a small amount of earth attributes. It is difficult to forge cultivation items, and can only be used to make weapons...

But making a weapon of 1000 Lingyun 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 out.

"It would be great if it was of life attribute." Lu Yuan muttered in his heart.

According to the research of Shumiba civilization, life attribute wonders are often 10%-30% higher than other attributes of extraordinary items.

"According to our subsequent evaluation, the Zerg warriors may have secretly eaten a considerable amount of ore during the excavation process... However, those king insects firmly denied that they had eaten, so we have no choice but to ask you how much they ate."

"We will rent them to do things in the future, so we can have a budget."

The director who made these reports felt a little aggrieved.

"How much did they eat?"

"It seems to be more than what we have in stock..."