Wang Man, who was originally preparing to start eating, immediately stopped holding the pen to order food after hearing the news.
"Xu Le... is back too?"
Wang Man seemed to feel that it was inappropriate to address Li Qingcheng as "Brother Xu Le", so he changed the name to Xu Le.
"Yes, I met him when I was on duty at the airship pad."
Wang Man's eyes revealed a hint of reminiscence, but she didn't show it too much and just nodded.
"Really? I thought he wouldn't come back."
Hearing Wang Man say this, Li Qingcheng's expression was a little strange:
"Wang Man? Didn't your relationship with Xu Le not go well in the past? From your tone, it seems like you know him well."
"You also said it was like that in the past. It's different now. I've changed, and he's changed too." Wang Man's tone was a little vague.
"Did you run into Xu Le the last time you went to the lighthouse?"
"Yes, but only a few times." Wang Man did not lie.
"Then why didn't you tell me when you came back?"
As a law enforcer, Li Qingcheng felt that Wang Man was hiding something from her.
But Wang Man is no longer a child. She rolled her eyes and said with a smile:
"Qingcheng, what would you do if your best friend didn't like your boyfriend?"
Li Qingcheng thought Wang Man was talking about the guys in the company who were chasing after her recently, so she smiled and replied:
"Of course, best friends are more important. Since you don't like those people, I will definitely ignore them."
The relationship between the two is still very good. Hearing Li Qingcheng say this, Wang Man also laughed.
She thought, what if that person was Xu Le
But soon, she changed the subject:
"Ahahaha! So... what if your best friend likes your boyfriend?"
Li Qingcheng opened his mouth and suddenly felt that there was something wrong with this question.
My bestie likes my boyfriend? This...
"Wang Man, you just like to joke around. I'm asking you what to do."
Li Qingcheng was a little uneasy about Wang Man’s answer just now, and she subconsciously wanted to change the subject.
In the past, Wang Man was very ugly, fat, with spots all over his face, and was totally unqualified to be compared with her.
But Wang Man is different now.
The ugly duckling may really turn into a white swan, especially after Wang Man lost weight, her hot body is even more eye-catching.
Wang Man also realized that Li Qingcheng wanted to change the subject, and she didn't want to continue the topic.
"We just had dinner, so we can slowly think of a solution. Waiter, some orange juice, please."
"You, why don't you drink anymore?" Li Qingcheng was a little surprised to hear that Wang Man didn't order any drinks.
After becoming a member of the art troupe, drinking seems to have become a common thing for Wang Man.
However, Wang Man raised his eyebrows and remembered what happened at the lighthouse.
"Alcohol would make me do out-of-line and wrong things, and it would make me lose my way in life, so I quit."
"Quit it?"
"Yeah, I quit."
"Okay, then help me think about it. After Xu Le came back, it seems that he hasn't contacted Xu Lei, Xu Ting and the others.
Do we need to inform his cousin about his return?"
When Wang Man heard Li Qingcheng mention Xu Le's cousin, her brows instantly furrowed.
"I advise you not to do that. After everything that has happened, I'm afraid Xu Le won't have a good impression of his cousin.
If you want to have any contact with him again, impress him with your actions and sincerity.
Instead of doing these meaningless and boring things, which would disturb his life and work and cause him disgust. "
"Wang Man... you."
Li Qingcheng didn't expect that Wang Man would suddenly have such a big reaction when he just casually mentioned Xu Le's cousin.
What had happened the last time she went to the lighthouse
"Okay, okay, I've said too much. Let's eat quickly. I'm starving."
Wang Man also realized that there was something wrong with her tone just now, so she quickly ate her food to cover it up.
"Oh, by the way, do you have his contact information?" Wang asked casually.
"I stopped him at the time... and that was probably what happened afterwards. He didn't leave any contact information."
Li Qingcheng briefly told Wang Man about the scene where he met Xu Le at the airship platform.
When Wang Man heard Xu Le's bad attitude towards Li Qingcheng, she almost laughed out loud, because Xu Le had treated her the same way before.
It seemed that he didn't treat Li Qingcheng and himself any differently.
"Wang Man, Xu Le has changed so much. I feel like I don't know him anymore."
"So what do you think we should do now?"
"I just didn't know, that's why I came to you."
After pondering for a while, Wang Man put forward a very constructive suggestion.
"I suggest you find someone to marry and have a child, then never have anything to do with Xu Le again."
"Wang Man, I'm serious."
"I'm serious too. It's been three years since you broke up, and you're still being so fussy and have no opinion of your own. Do you want to keep the relationship going? Is that fun
Since we have broken up, we should just live our own lives well. "
Li Qingcheng looked at Wang Man. A friend had said before that Wang Man had changed a lot after returning from the lighthouse.
She didn't feel anything at first, but now she realized that Wang Man's personality seemed to have really changed.
"I just feel a little sorry for him. Now that I am able to live independently, I want to make it up to him..."
"Li Qingcheng, we are all adults, who can't support himself
Although you are a law enforcer now, you also said that he is a bachelor's degree student studying abroad at Beacon University.
What can you do to compensate him? Keep him as a gigolo
Do you think Xu Le would bow down for money? If he was that kind of person, he would have been able to get along with a rich woman a long time ago.
Can you please stop being so arrogant?"
Li Qingcheng lowered her head. She didn't know whether her behavior could be considered arrogant.
"That's not what I meant."
The way Wang Man looked at her, she felt an inexplicable anger, and she didn't know what was going on.
Perhaps it was because of the injustice that Xu Le had suffered in the past.
"Li Qingcheng, please let him go. Don't contact him after you break up. Every time Brother Xu Le gets hurt, it's because of you. Your family only bullies Brother Xu Le."
Unlike me...
I only feel sorry for my brother! ~
Of course, the last two sentences were said by Wang Man in his heart and not spoken directly.
Li Qingcheng could hardly lift her head, but she suddenly felt something was wrong.
"Brother Xu Le? When did you two start addressing each other in such an intimate way?"
"He is older than me, so isn't it normal to call Xu Le Brother?" Wang Man said guiltily.
"Then I'm older than you, so why don't you call me Sister Qingcheng?"
The two women looked at each other.
…
The next night, Xu Le tidied up his room in the Rose Studio, went out to buy a lot of daily necessities, and finally rushed back.
He just found a place to sit down and eat, but he was not that petty bourgeois.
Just bread and water.
miserable!
Now he has a place to stay, but he only has 900 yuan on him, so he has to think carefully before spending money.
"Oh, I don't want to work hard anymore. It would be nice if I could be supported by a rich woman."
He took a bite of bread and poured the cat food to Ding Ke. Although Ding Ke was disgusted, he still started eating.
Xu Le began to think seriously about the current problem.
After settling in Zion, there are now two paths to take.
The first is to use this place as a springboard, and after coming into contact with a larger and more reasonable platform, directly abandon the Rose Studio and move on.
The second is to find a way to develop the Rose Studio and make it a place that truly belongs to us.
The advantage of the first method is that it does not require you to spend too much energy on yourself.
The second one has more benefits. If the laboratory can really come up with a knockout product, Zion itself will provide strong support to the studio.
By then, he will have the circle, resources, channels, and even official support.
It’s fun, but it’s hard.
"After all, resources are the most important thing. If you have enough money, it will be much easier to expand your circle and open up channels."
Meow!~
After Xu Le finished his meal, he came to Levis' studio again.
This time Levis did not close the door, and he was not working. Instead, he was looking at some information describing the area outside the city.
"Levi? Not working?"
"Well, let's look at some of the pioneer mission lists outside the city."
"A list of pioneer missions outside the city? Are there so many pioneer missions now?"
"It wasn't that serious before, but it's much more serious now, so Zion has added 150% extra mission money to the current pioneering missions."
Xu Le knew that every city had pioneer missions.
Any city needs population growth, and population growth requires the development of more safe areas as Kuroshio buffer zones.
The original owner also had some memories of Zion’s black tide experience when he was a child. The weapons and defense facilities here are very powerful.
Therefore, the lives of ordinary people in Zion are much safer than those in the lighthouse.
I just don’t know what impact these two red moon disasters will have on Zion.
Xu Le heard at the lighthouse before that all cities were affected by the last violent black tide.
If that were the case, Zion today would have the same problem as the Lighthouse.
That is, the safe expansion area needs to be expanded.
Moreover, Zion’s safety expansion area requirements must be even larger than the lighthouse.
Because this place is not like a lighthouse, the lighthouse will also send a large number of warriors and sorcerers to assist in the battle.
But Zion is different from several other cities. Because of its advanced weapons and equipment, the way of warfare here has undergone special changes.
In Zion, the main combat missions of the Black Tide are actually completed by ordinary soldiers.
If this situation happened in other cities, it would be ridiculous.
This is because ordinary people do not have the strong will of a warrior, nor the mysterious abilities of a sorcerer.
Their mental energy fluctuates greatly, and in the battle of Black Tide, their mental energy often exceeds the limit by 1 level, attracting monsters.
And Zion’s solution is also outrageous, which is not to solve it and let you attract it.
Just come and I'll kill you.
All fear comes from insufficient firepower.
Weapons have always been the biggest beneficiary of technological breakthroughs, and Zion, as the capital of technology, has the most powerful weapons of all cities.
When the firepower is strong enough to cover the entire battlefield area, it doesn't matter even if ordinary people's mental energy attracts some monsters.
Just kill them all and that's it.
In Zion's Black Tide War, although warlocks and warriors will also play a strong role, their main means of killing is still weapons.
In order to achieve this state, Zion's requirements for the environment surrounding the battlefield are different from those of other cities.
Zion needs several times more developed areas than other cities, it needs plains and a broad vision.
They built an artificial ravine in the battlefield area.
There are traps, barbs, and ground weirdness inside. If you want to attack Zion, you have to avoid the man-made ravines, which gives Zion better firepower coverage.
If it were in the past, Zion’s current regional environment would be completely sufficient.
But these two consecutive high-intensity black tides seemed to break Zion's defense.
In order to avoid the next intense battle of the Kuroshio, the Zion authorities plan to transform the original circle of cultivated areas into a battlefield and continue to expand the plain area outward.
In order to achieve this goal, the Zion authorities issued a large number of regional development missions.
Encourage civilian warriors and sorcerers to explore the outside world.
In particular, some independent studios will send personnel to participate in such tasks in order to seek development, search for moonstones, and replenish funds.
And the government will also provide certain military support, which is a very special development model.
Of course, the main reason is that there are not as many warriors in Zion as in Lighthouse.
Therefore, although this task model has always existed, the enthusiasm of researchers here to participate is not high.
The main influx of warriors in Zion comes from Dengta and Tianrui Lifeng.
Especially the mercenaries of Tianrui Lifeng, which is a very popular profession in Zion.
Levis is really poor, so he is considering participating in this kind of mission to supplement the studio's meager research funds.
…
Xu Le thought for a while and decided that he was actually capable of participating in pioneering missions.
After all, he used to be a night watchman and had two very dangerous experiences as a pioneer. It was not impossible for him to make money in this way.
But let's wait and see how things develop and figure out our own abilities first.
Looking at Levis, Xu Le couldn't help but ask:
"Has the black tide in Zion become serious?"
"It's serious, but I heard it's not as serious as the lighthouse. You came back from the lighthouse, right?"
"Yeah, the lighthouse is really serious."
Although Levis had also heard about it, Xu Le knew that if such news could spread beyond a city, there was a high probability that there was a reason for it.
It is very likely true that the black tide situation in Lighthouse is more serious than that in Zion.
"Is it because of the tree?" Xu Le whispered.
"Xu Le, what did you say just now? I didn't hear it clearly."
"Nothing. Oh, by the way, you, a scientific researcher, are going to participate in the pioneer mission? That's a dangerous job, right?"
Xu Le was serious. He could never imagine what it would be like for researchers like Levis to participate in the pioneer mission.
But Levis didn't care.
"You underestimate me. I am only a Level 2 Warlock after all. Besides, in Zion, private studios cannot attract investment, so it is normal to do some similar tasks."
"Didn't Zion University provide some support and sponsorship?"
“We are a D-level studio, and we only get 300 yuan in sponsorship every month. This amount of money is barely enough to buy wine for my grandmother, so how can we do research
The most important thing about Zion University’s support is the legal license issue.
Although there are many scientific research studios in Zion, there are very few legal licenses, which is very important. "
These were all information that Xu Le didn't know, so Xu Le quickly wrote them down.
"Can't we study it in private?"
Hearing Xu Le say this, Levis' expression became a little serious.
"Of course not. Xu Le, you'd better not have such thoughts."
"Why? I don't mean that. I'm just curious."
"The reason is very simple. Whether it is weapons research or Red Moon Technology, the research itself is extremely dangerous.
If there are no reasonable and legal regulations, no strict regulations on research requirements, and no licenses, it is very likely that some extreme taboo research will occur. "
"Like what?"
At this time, Xu Le was like a student seeking knowledge. He would ask questions when he didn't understand and didn't pretend.
However, there is no need for Levis to hide anything about these things.
“You also know that although it is called the Red Moon Technology Wave, our research will more or less make use of Ancient Sound.
If a major research accident occurs with something like Gu Yinduo, it will be a major blow to the entire region, or even the entire Zion.
The management was also very loose before, but since that major accident, the entire Zion research department has become much more standardized.
The Five Rings Technology Decree not only encourages Red Moon Technology research, but also regulates the studio's licenses, requirements, content, etc.
Funding for schools is primarily for licensing purposes, and this is extremely important.
As for a private registration license, it is almost impossible for us to do research under the guidance of others. "
After hearing Levis' explanation, Xu Le nodded.
He could understand this situation. It was just like an Internet cafe license in a certain era in his previous life. It was even more expensive than the entire Internet cafe. It was really outrageous.
"So that's how it is. What is the big event you're talking about?"
"345 floating city plan, many people should know about this, right?"
I'm the only one who doesn't know? Xu Le was a little depressed.
"Um, I haven't been back for a long time recently, I forgot. Oh, by the way, what kind of warlock are you?"
"Me? I'm a Rune Warlock LV2-Puppet Master, what's wrong?"
When Xu Le heard Levis mention his profession, his eyes narrowed instantly.
The name Rune Warlock is not often mentioned, because most people call them Puppet Warlocks.
"You are actually a puppeteer?"
"My puppeteer is at level 3. I can't make a real puppet yet. I can only make a doll."
As he spoke, Levis waved to one side of the room.
"Let me introduce these two to you. They are my dolls. No. 1 - Sha, and No. 8 - Shengzan."
After Levis waved, a doll that looked more like a female and a doll that looked more like a male slowly walked out.
The female doll is wearing a maid outfit with white stockings underneath, and most importantly, it has hair and hair accessories.
But the male doll just wears pants and has a bald head.
The doll called Sha is very beautiful in appearance, probably like a large-sized Barbie doll, and much more realistic than an inflatable doll.
Seeing this, Xu Le's eyes became a little strange.
Levis looks quite old, if he doesn't have a girlfriend...
Xu Le glanced around and saw a lot of toilet paper in the trash can, and showed an expression of "as expected".
He looked at Doll No. 1, Sha, for a few more seconds, then looked at Levis, and couldn't help but give her a compliment.
"Puppeteer is so convenient!"