There were only about 400 soldiers coming from the research base to assist Scarre, almost forming a battalion.
But it only took four hundred people... and it took less than a day to clear out the blood crystal beasts that were almost enough to destroy the entire Skare.
Until the next morning, only a few solitary blood crystal beasts were wandering around the outer city of Skare.
Rescue work in the outer city also began in the morning and lasted until noon. Several tents marked with the words "earthquake relief" had been set up in the open space outside the castle.
In addition to directing the team to carry out rescue work, Lu Cheng also had to communicate with Scarre's personnel.
The envoy sent by Skarre was a bird.
"Everyone, please note that the red light on the ground indicates that there are survivors who are still showing signs of life. However, this is limited to the citizens of this country. Considering the existence of survivors from other countries, it is also necessary to use traditional methods to search."
After communicating with the search team, Lu Cheng put down the radio and looked at the bird that had been standing on the table in front of him for a long time.
Its appearance is very beautiful... Lu Cheng can only describe it this way. The hair from the head to the neck is fiery red, and then colorful colors begin to appear when it extends to the abdomen.
The tail feathers look like a male peacock when its wings are not spread. When Lu Cheng thinks of this bird, he can only think of one word... that is phoenix.
"Visitor from another world, do you finally have time to listen to me?"
The bird had been standing on Lu Cheng's table for almost the entire morning.
Lu Cheng was so busy this morning that he didn't even get a good night's sleep last night.
At night, he commanded the army and cleared out the blood crystal beasts. During the day, he was even busier, arranging rescue work, allocating resources, etc. It was not until now that Lu Cheng had time to sit down and drink a sip of hot tea.
"Tell me... do you have any tasks to give me?"
Lu Cheng put down the cup in his hand and looked at the colorful bird in front of him.
When its gaze followed Lu Cheng's movements, Lu Cheng always felt that there was a big exclamation mark on the bird's head.
“I have a group of kids who seem to want to leave town,” it said.
"Your children? The people of Skarre?"
Lu Cheng knew that this bird was the spirit from the crystal core of Scarre's earth veins. In this world where even groundhogs can talk, Lu Cheng could accept that the crystal could turn into a bird and could talk.
"Yes, those children are the residents of the inner city whom you rescued last night. They were going to escape from the city from the back through a secret passage inside the castle."
There was no trace of emotion in its voice, and Lu Cheng didn't understand whether it was advising Lu Cheng to stop those people or asking Lu Cheng to let those people leave.
"What does it have to do with us if your naughty kid wants to run away?" Lu Cheng took a sip of green tea. He felt calm inside, except that he wanted to laugh a little bit.
Everyone could foresee that someone would choose to escape. One reason was that the throne inherited by Elena was not orthodox in the eyes of other nobles in Scarre, and could already be classified as a "regicide."
So after this kingslayer seized the throne, he also brought a powerful foreign army, even though this army helped them solve the threat of the blood crystal beast.
But in the eyes of many nobles and even commoners, they might become slaves.
In this situation, as long as there is a noble who takes the lead in escaping, most people will basically agree...
"The people of Skarre are the source of my strength. They may leave this time to seek refuge with other countries." It stared at Lucheng and said, "Aren't you worried?"
"Worried? Why should you worry? According to the agreement, we will try our best to rescue the people of your country, but we can't do anything about those who don't want us to rescue them. Also, we have a principle that we will not interfere in your country's internal affairs." Lu Cheng said.
"I have signed an alliance with you. I will give you half of the power I draw."
There was still no emotion in its voice. It just raised its wings and pointed at the crystal on the back of Lu Cheng's hand.
"alliance?"
Lu Cheng glanced at the back of his left hand. After a busy day, Lu Cheng discovered that there was an inverted triangle mark under his crystal.
This is the mark representing Scarre. Apart from this, Lu Cheng can feel the crystal energy on the back of his hand recovering.
The amount recovered is very small, maybe only about 0.1 mg of energy per minute, but it is indeed recovering gradually.
"Can I continue to draw power from your earth core?"
Lu Cheng waited quietly for three minutes, and the energy inside was restored to about 0.5 mg, which was very little... but it was better than nothing.
"Yes, as long as my children are in a state of joy, happiness, surprise, etc., they will generate this kind of magic. As long as they are under the protection of my domain, I can absorb it."
It once again told Lu Cheng something very important.
“Is this the resident happiness index?”
Listening to the description, Lu Cheng quickly thought of the resident happiness index. In some games, this data is even linked to productivity.
"I can already guess that magic is a kind of biological energy, but how can happiness produce magic? Is that thing dopamine?"
Lu Cheng thought this world was quite strange, but Lu Cheng heard from the groundhog that... they restored their magic power by entering a meditative state, communicating with the sky, the earth, and the stars to absorb magic power.
Lu Cheng had tried it before when he was in the car, and he actually absorbed it, but the amount was very small, so small that he might only absorb one microgram per second.
Simply put, the magic power stored in the Holy Crystal is a highly concentrated energy, which is slightly different from the magic power used by spellcasters.
"So how many people are there in Skarre now?" Lu Cheng put down the cup and looked at the bird and asked.
"There are currently 34,000 children alive, scattered all over the world. Only 4,000, 472 are still alive near this city... and those naughty children you mentioned are leaving the city with nearly half of them." it said.
"Only one-tenth of the population survived? What a terrible disaster."
Lu Cheng had heard from General Hubert that during the heyday of Scarre, the population was about 300,000, which seemed to be a very small number from a modern perspective, but in this world it was already a pretty good kingdom.
"Do you want to stop those naughty kids?" the bird asked Lu Cheng again.
"That's not necessary. If they want to leave, they can leave... We can't just grab their arms and say, 'Let me feed you.'"
Lucheng is not short of manpower, and Lucheng is now equivalent to lying down and absorbing energy. Although the amount is very small... Lucheng has countless ways to increase it.
"But I still have to go talk to Elena." When Lu Cheng thought of this, he happened to see Elena returning from the outer city area.