After Lu Cheng caught the strange crow, he asked the research base on Earth for a birdcage and put it in it.
Tiehuan and his men were checking the condition of the vehicles and reloading the ammunition for the heavy machine guns.
During this period, Lu Cheng found a separate room to organize some of the information currently known, and discuss subsequent personnel matters with the research base on Earth.
This room should have been the bedroom of the owner of the foundry in the past, and the space is not very large.
After confirming that the magic power he possessed was enough to teleport an object weighing nearly two hundred tons, Lu Cheng directly took out his laptop computer from the research base.
The laptop screen was emitting a faint glow. Lu Cheng slowly clicked the mouse, and one face after another passed before his eyes.
The research base on Earth has compiled a list of people needed to explore this world for Lu Cheng.
One human carries the equivalent of ten tons of supplies.
This is a very expensive price to pay. If one really wants to carry out a development plan in this world, the amount of manpower that needs to be mobilized will be multiplied by ten tons. That is... a very terrifying number.
Therefore, Lucheng must ensure that the 'ten tons' cost of each candidate is worth it.
But having said that, the research base listed a large number of candidates for Lu Cheng, so many that even if Lu Cheng took a quick look, it would take him most of the day to look through them all.
The current candidates can be divided into two categories, combat personnel and scientific researchers... There are relatively few reserve options for scientific researchers, and Lu Cheng can finish looking at them in one or two hours.
There are a little too many combat personnel.
“It’s a tough decision.”
Lu Cheng rubbed his forehead. Lu Cheng was sure that every candidate selected by the research base was... a talent.
Just by looking at their resumes and past experience introductions, Lu Cheng had only one line of thought in his mind: "I want them all!"
But the problem is that the magic power that Lucheng currently possesses is simply not enough to support Lucheng in making the choice to have it all.
This seemed to be a very painful thing to Lu Cheng.
As for the cause of the pain...
Lu Cheng admits that he has a bit of a collecting habit. Collecting various items is the most common one, but Lu Cheng also has another hobby, which is collecting interpersonal relationships.
With Lu Cheng's achievements on Earth, he no longer had any interest in money, so he liked to establish friendly relationships with others where "as long as you make a request, the other party will help you", and the pleasure of knowing that no matter where you go, there are people you know who can help you.
There are many such interpersonal relationships. The simplest one is the relationship between superiors and subordinates, and there are also friends, relatives, and so on.
Well... to put it bluntly, it is similar to playing Three Kingdoms battle flag games. Lu Cheng's goal will definitely be to 'collect all the generals of the Three Kingdoms' rather than 'compete for world domination'.
Therefore, it is a very painful thing for Lu Cheng to look at a large number of "military generals" with super high attribute values on the laptop screen, but he cannot "recruit" them because of magic power.
"Can we only wait until we get the supply of leyline crystals from Skarre?"
Lu Cheng currently doesn't know how much magic power Skarre's earth vein crystal core can provide him.
Moreover, Lucheng does not think that the crystal of Scarre's earth veins can support the needs of developing in other worlds, including resource development, research, etc...
Therefore, Lucheng needs more earth vein crystals. As far as Lucheng knows, this core tool is in the hands of kings of various countries. It is the lifeline that is related to the life and death of a country.
"Are we going to play the national collection game?" Lu Cheng tapped the table lightly with his fingertips.
Lu Cheng has enough confidence to convince the "geo-vein crystal holders" in this world to share their geo-vein crystals.
There are many ways to do this, but the best one is to go through diplomatic channels and establish friendly relations between the two sides.
Lu Cheng didn't believe that the kings would remain indifferent after seeing the railways, factories, various urban infrastructure and other major projects built by the rabbits.
"We must go for diplomatic victory this time. War is the worst option."
Lu Cheng clearly knows that as a qualified rabbit, his favorite word is "win-win".
But at this stage, Lucheng still needs to help Scarre solve the disaster of the blood crystal beast and gain a foothold in this world before considering future matters.
But when Lu Cheng thought about it carefully, he still found it difficult to suppress his excitement.
This is just like there is nothing on the moon, but countless humans still yearn to explore it.
Curiosity about the new world, collecting all kinds of magical products and witnessing magnificent scenery, this is the original motivation of Lucheng.
Another thing is to get to know more people and make them part of your interpersonal collection.
In the past, Lucheng’s collection only had lawyers, professors, and entrepreneurs... but now it may have to add kings from various countries, knights, magicians, and even dragons.
While Lu Cheng was thinking about this, there was a knock on the door of the room.
This made Lu Cheng close the notebook on the table and go straight to the door... When Lu Cheng opened the door, he found that it was Nuoyi standing outside.
Noi was holding an iron cup in his hand, which was filled with steaming coffee.
"For me?" Lu Cheng half-knelt down and took the cup from Nuoyi.
"It was made for you by the healer sister in the team."
Nuoyi took out her notebook and turned to a page. There was a sentence she had written long ago.
"Illustrated? Come to think of it, I didn't sleep all night last night."
Lu Cheng put the cup of coffee on the wooden table in the room, and then returned to Nuoyi.
Lu Cheng, who hadn't slept all night, didn't feel sleepy at all. It might be because of the influence of the holy crystal on the back of his hand.
"Noyi, have you thought about what you plan to do after everything calms down?"
Lu Cheng continued to half-squat in front of the girl and asked.
Nuoyi didn't understand what Lu Cheng meant. He flipped through the notebook in his hand and pointed at a question mark.
This is a method of using punctuation marks learned by Neu.
"After you've overcome the blood crystal beast disaster, have you decided what to do?" Lu Cheng asked.
Lu Cheng's question seemed to touch upon her greatest fear. Nuoyi immediately turned over her notebook and quickly wrote a paragraph on it with a pen.
'You're leaving?'
This line of words is a little crooked because it was written quickly.
"Leave? Of course not." Lu Cheng said.
'Then you're going to hand me over to someone else?'
Nuoyi quickly wrote another line in the notebook, as if Lu Cheng would throw her away if she wrote too slowly.
"No, what I mean is...where are your other relatives?" Lu Cheng weighed the issue for a while before asking this somewhat heart-wrenching question.
Hearing this question, Noi's writing pen gradually slowed down. She paused for a while and wrote a line in the notebook.
'I don't know. I was born in that church. The priest told us that it was the God of Souls who conceived us and gave us life.'
An orphan
Just as Lu Cheng expected, everyone Nuoyi knew in this world might have passed away, so she chose that place to commit suicide. Fortunately, she met Lu Cheng.
Seeing Lu Cheng thinking, Nuoyi once again quickly wrote a paragraph on his notebook.
"I am very good at healing magic, and I can do some cleaning work, and this..." Noi was very afraid that Lu Cheng would abandon her, and tried to prove to Lu Cheng that she was not a useless burden.
As she spoke, she flipped through the notebook in her hand. On the page that Noi flipped through, there was a bunch of crooked words. These were not the words from their world, but Chinese.
Nuoyi was secretly practicing writing Chinese, and the line of Chinese that Nuoyi practiced was...'insulated box'.
These might be the words she saw on the thermal box when she was eating century egg and lean meat porridge.
These three words took up a lot of pages in her notebook, and she was practicing them very seriously.
Lu Cheng looked at Nuoyi's eyes, which looked like a homeless kitten, and a helpless smile appeared on his face.
"Listen, Noi. In our world... if we let a child like you go out to work, it would be a dereliction of duty for us adults. Also, there is absolutely no need to use your healing magic in the future."
She listened to Lu Cheng's words quietly, and looked like she was about to cry.
"But I won't abandon you." Lu Cheng's next words made Nuoyi hold back the tears in her eyes.
Lu Cheng looked at the girl in front of him. At her age on Earth, she should be in junior high school, but unfortunately this world is far more cruel than Earth.
"After everything calms down, I will arrange a teacher for you..." Lu Cheng reached out and wiped away the tears from the corners of Nuoyi's eyes.
"Will I still be able to follow you then?" Noi wrote this in his notebook again.
"Of course not." Lu Cheng's next answer made Nuoyi's tears, which she had been holding back, almost flow out.
"I'm not your father. You don't have to always think about following me and obeying my orders... I'm helping you as a friend. You must have the ability to survive independently and not rely on anyone to survive." Lu Cheng stared at Nuoyi and said.
"But I still want to follow you." Nuoyi seemed to understand what Lu Cheng said, but he still stubbornly wrote this line in his notebook.
"Then follow me, as long as it's your own decision." Lu Cheng said with a smile on his face.
When Nuoyi heard this, she started crying again. She couldn't control herself and opened her arms to hug Lu Cheng. Lu Cheng was stunned for a moment and then reached out and patted her on the back gently.
Lu Cheng is not that kind of pushy guy, and he has no interest in helping those who only know how to ask for money but have no ambition to make progress.
But Lu Cheng likes to cultivate such talented people who are willing to work hard. Watching them become successful is also a great pleasure for Lu Cheng. Simply put, Lu Cheng enjoys this training process very much.
"Captain, the vehicle has been prepared and is ready to go..."
At this moment, the picture suddenly came to the corridor. After seeing the scene at the end of the corridor, she fell silent.
"Do you want to hear my explanation?" Lu Cheng said.