When the communication ended, it was less than nine o'clock in the morning in Zhongzhou, and it had been less than an hour since Li Huacheng's announcement was sent out. Youzhou City had gradually regained its vitality and bustle. Under the seemingly ordinary appearance, there was huge panic and suspicion.
, an inexplicable sense of security, and more doubts are brewing in people's hearts, which will soon turn into a storm sweeping the entire network.
Li Huacheng had already heard some sounds.
In his announcement, there were not many words similar to disaster and doomsday. But reading the whole article, although the announcement gave hope, his overall attitude was still pessimistic.
Some people have begun to vent their emotions on the Internet, and some people are also discussing this matter with people around them. Anxiety, worry, and confusion are the main themes.
With the perception of a peak spiritual lord, Li Huacheng's spiritual power is enough to cover most of Youzhou, and various sounds have been echoing in his ears.
Some people chose to resign as soon as they saw the announcement. They gave up their jobs and scolded their bosses at the same time.
Some took out all their family savings and began to hoard supplies.
Some are repeatedly confirming whether this matter is true and how serious it is, and they are constantly listening to other people's opinions and being influenced by it.
There are people who still have a stable mentality, but they are in the minority after all, and these people continue to read Li Huacheng's notice and tell people around them to believe in Zhongzhou.
Following the announcement of this announcement, various opinions on the Internet have become more and more violent.
What Li Huacheng heard was only the voice of Youzhou. In Zhongzhou, geographical superiority may be meaningless, but what has to be admitted is that this is the foot of the emperor after all, and the people here feel more secure in their hearts.
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This is a very instinctive idea, an idea that even if it is abandoned, it will be elsewhere, and their Youzhou is unlikely to be abandoned. And with this idea, the atmosphere in Youzhou has now become panicky and anxious.
You can imagine how serious the emotions are in other places.
We must act as soon as possible
Li Huacheng thought silently and opened his personal terminal. He didn't understand all the functions of this thing that Xuanyuan Wushang called a system, but he still understood some basic functions.
A virtual electronic interface took shape in front of him.
Li Huacheng didn't need any specific operations. As soon as he thought about it, his brainwaves had directly completed the instructions and connected to Xuanyuan Wushang.
Within a few seconds, Xuanyuan Wushang connected the communication, and the sound of gurgling came directly into Li Huacheng's ears.
He didn't even need to look at the picture to picture a fat man holding a Coke and gulping it down.
The picture was too beautiful to look at or even think about.
The corners of Li Huacheng's mouth twitched slightly.
Fatty obviously has a true love for Coke. He has sent nanorobots to get the relevant formula. It is said that he will give it to a mechanical civilization below him to develop more flavors. This clearly shows that he plans to take the happy water to the stars.
, even the gold he is in urgent need of is probably not as attractive as Coke.
The sound of gurgling and gurgling continued for about three minutes. Li Huacheng finally heard the fat man let out a long breath. The next second, countless electronic lights in front of Li Huacheng began to condense, quickly outlining Xuanyuan Wushang's face.
projection.
"What's wrong?"
Xuanyuan Wushang asked.
"I just completed negotiations with Star Kingdom, and Artes took the initiative to find me."
Li Huacheng shook his head, shook the messy thoughts out of his mind, and said seriously, "The transaction has taken effect. We will get a large amount of basic materials and gold right away. You may need to send someone to deal with this. In addition, as a
As part of the deal, the Artes family's shelter also needs to undergo technical upgrades."
Xuanyuan Wushang nodded.
"besides."
Li Huacheng continued, "If possible, I hope you can send someone to ensure the safety of Artes. At least until we complete the transaction, it is best that nothing happens to him."
"what are you worried about?"
Xuanyuan Wushang was a little curious.
"Of course I'm worried about supplies and the security of Central Continent."
Li Huacheng sighed, "Ates is the leader of the most powerful wealthy family over there, and after a series of events, they have almost no opponents. The resources they control can allow them to do whatever they want there.
But in the final analysis, Ates is essentially the leader of a plutocrat. What he thinks most about is himself and his family. Oh, aren’t all wealthy patriarchs like this? Including Wang Tianzong, they are not exempt from this. This is their
Responsibility and pattern that you are born with.
And such people, after knowing clearly that something is hopeless, will no longer struggle as long as they can ensure that their family has a way out. Such people can betray everything and perform better than anyone else.
positive."
Li Huacheng looked at Xuanyuan Wushang, "We need people like this now. In such a situation, I even like people like this very much, but we can't expect all Star Kingdom to be like this.
If someone different from Ates comes, it will be too troublesome for us now.
Therefore, protect him well. As long as he is here, we can grab the maximum resources there. If we protect Artes well, Artes can protect our transactions and completely hollow out the area."
Li Huacheng quickly said, "I have already calculated that the reserves of Central Continent, plus Artes's, and Europe's. All the reserves added up, even if we do nothing, this batch of supplies can keep us in a normal state."
After ten years of under-eating, and with the resource city cluster planned by Tianlan, we will no longer have to worry about basic supplies in the future."
Li Huacheng's eyes were shining brightly. For Zhongzhou now, Artes was a real treasure, the kind that could not be lost.
"Fine."
Xuanyuan Wushang clicked his tongue, "I will send a mechanical army over."
Naturally, he was not talking about nanorobots, but a real mechanical army, similar to Wang Shengxiao's, but with lower combat effectiveness than Wang Shengxiao, but it also required a lot of energy. In such an environment, he was really a bit
Too much to eat.
"There is one more important thing."
Li Huacheng rubbed his forehead, "Tianlan said that if we want to cancel the technology tree, the first thing we should do is destroy all weapons, especially the weapons outside. You don't understand how stressed I was when I was communicating with Artes just now."
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During the entire transaction process, Li Huacheng seemed calm and confident, and his aura kept oppressing Artes.
But he was always vigilant in his heart. To be precise, Li Huacheng was also afraid.
I was afraid that Artes would jump over the wall in despair.
Oil, technical upgrades to the shelter, and even ways to access spiritual authority, these are all bargaining chips he uses to appease Ates's emotions.
Time is too tight for Zhongzhou, because Xuanyuan Wushang has not had time to destroy the world's weapon systems.
what does that mean?
The strength of Li Tianlan and Qin Weibai might make Artes feel uncertain, but in fact, Li Huacheng knew very well that at least so far, the remaining four of the five powerful men still have the ability to overturn the table together.
In Artes's mind, Li Tianlan could turn mushrooms into fireworks and appear anywhere in the world anytime and anywhere, so he suppressed the idea of jumping over the wall and dying together in his mind.
But Li Huacheng didn't dare to bet on whether this crazy idea would be repeated, and even if Artes would not repeat it, there are still three strong men in the abyss of despair. Who knows what they would do?
Judging from Li Tianlan's current state, if the three powerful men really intend to die together, Li Huacheng is very sure that Li Tianlan will not be able to stop them at all.
Not counting Middle-earth, not counting Ates.
Once the other three strong men use all the mushrooms,
Li Tianlan can intercept part of it to prevent the mushrooms from blooming, or turn the mushrooms into fireworks.
Qin Weibai can control part of it and even control the mushroom to turn around and attack.
Xuanyuan Wushang and Wang Shengxiao can also stop some of them from entering Central Continent.
But in the final analysis, everyone is only responsible for a part of it. This thing can't hurt them, but it is difficult to intercept them all.
The most important reason is consumption.
The thinking speed consumed by Li Tianlan, the mental power consumed by Qin Weibai, and the energy consumed by Xuanyuan Wushang and Wang Shengxiao all have their limits.
In their current state, once this happens, their own safety is not a problem, but it is impossible for Zhongzhou to avoid losses.
Because of his technological authority, Xuanyuan Wushang can send nanorobots to completely destroy all weapons without anyone noticing, or he can launch all weapons, but the key is that he hasn't started doing this yet. Once the mushrooms go up to the sky, who will
Can't stop it.
"After you finish this, I can make an announcement and let everyone
The entrances are concentrated towards the six super main cities and the acropolis."
Li Huacheng said softly.
If all the weapons were not destroyed, Li Huacheng would really not dare to do this. More than a billion people would move together and converge on dozens of locations. If there was an accident, he would not even have time to cry.
Li Huacheng has issued a notice to protect everyone in Zhongzhou, so if conditions permit, he will make every effort to protect everyone and prevent all accidents.
"It will take at most one day for this matter to come to fruition."
Xuanyuan Wushang nodded, "At that time, other forces will no longer have the strength to jump over the wall. This will also make it easier for you to extort more supplies."
In the current environment, no amount of supplies is too much.
The process from abandoning the surface environment to returning to the surface will take at least several decades. During this process, more and more people will come out of the underground, but there will always be people who stay underground and want to give up.
All major underground cities must be empowered by all citizens. Decades have passed very quickly. Under such circumstances, the importance of materials is definitely the first priority.
There is one fact that no one can deny.
That is the problem of accelerated consumption of materials after the universal authority. Everyone is exposed to authority, even if it is only a first-level authority, it will also bring about physical changes, and the most direct point of physical change is appetite.
Increase.
The specific increase is currently impossible to estimate. When the time for everyone to have access to authority becomes longer and longer, the speed of material consumption will become increasingly alarming, doubling or even doubling the consumption several times.
The material reserves in Central Continent are sufficient now, but they are only enough under normal conditions. Even if you don't consider these, having enough materials and having abundant material reserves are completely different things. It's like barely living, eating every meal, and every meal.
Eating well is also a different concept.
No matter which of these three concepts is achieved, it can be said that the materials are sufficient, but in fact is it the same? The gap is huge.
After reaching a deal with Artes, the supplies in Central Continent can probably reach the second level now, and they can eat every meal.
But this is not enough.
What Li Tianlan wants is for the citizens of the dynasty to eat well.
A lot of food, vegetables, meat, seafood, fungi, everything, must be available, must be available.
With Xuanyuan Wushang's technology, there is no need to worry about the preservation of food, and Zhongzhou has an unprecedentedly powerful protective force. When others are faced with a disaster and have no ability to resist, they keep pushing supplies to themselves. This thing
Things are too simple.
With Xuanyuan Wushang's reminder, Li Huacheng has already considered who he should find to blackmail after all the weapons are destroyed, and when everyone else is confused. Bah, what is blackmail? It's a matter between big forces.
, can that be called extortion? It should be called asking for support, yes, asking who should support Central Continent’s supplies first.
Taking advantage of people's danger and taking advantage of others' danger, the fellow Taoist will die but the poor Taoist will die.
So much supplies, wouldn't they be wasted when people can't be saved?
This is called helping each other.
Middle Continent can leave some seeds of hope to other forces, while other forces need to help Middle Continent maintain a good life.
What else can this be if it's not a win-win situation?
If you think about it carefully, it may still have countless merits.
He is full of benevolence, righteousness and morality, and at the level of Li Huacheng, this kind of ability must be fully developed.
He began to find that his way of thinking was constantly changing.
Outside of Middle-earth, he gradually began to not care about anyone. He only wanted to protect what he wanted to protect.
Li Huacheng looked at Xuanyuan Wushang in front of him.
He himself knew that the end was coming, that he could not change it, and had no choice, so he could not care about anything except Central Continent, but after all, he still had not truly experienced despair and seen the doomsday on a larger scale.
But Xuanyuan Wushang had seen it before, even more than once.
So in their eyes, do a large number of lives have any other meaning besides luck?
"what's on your mind?"
Xuanyuan Wushang suddenly tilted his head, looked at Li Huacheng and asked.
"Huh? Nothing."
Li Huacheng smiled.
At this moment, he just thought of Xuanyuan Wushang's past indifference, and that understatement, carelessness, and even playful smile. If he was innocent, shouldn't he die?
How much despair do you have to experience before you can completely eliminate the helplessness behind the indifference?
He can't feel it
That kind of mentality gave me an inexplicable understanding of Xuanyuan Wushang's indifference at that time.
"I have already distributed your physical examination report to people in various major groups. They will discuss the results soon."
Li Huacheng looked at the time. "In ten minutes, there will be an online meeting to determine the rough framework of the dynasty. From this framework, we will slowly improve it to the basic framework, and then fill in the details bit by bit. Do you have anything to add in this regard?"
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"No."
Xuanyuan Wushang shook his head indifferently.
"Actually, I personally think that you should have a position. No matter what position, you can do well. Even if you want the position of a sage, I can give it to you."
Li Huacheng said seriously.
He never denies his own abilities, but he will never deny the abilities of others. Xuanyuan Wushang sits in the position of a sage. It's hard to say how much better he is than him, but at least his thinking is absolutely consistent with Li Tianlan's.
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"I have a place."
Xuanyuan Wushang smiled, "I have a clinic, so I am a doctor."
Xuanyuan Wushang was speechless and speechless.
"I'm in pretty good shape right now."
Xuanyuan Wushang said casually, if he wanted to, with his three powers at the peak of the eighth level, why would he need to be from the Xi Dynasty if he wanted to have a powerful position? In the time and space corridor, he is the ninth prince, and in terms of strength, he is the most powerful.
As long as he said a word, he could have everything at his fingertips, such as a top prince, a powerful position, but Xuanyuan Wushang was not interested and would rather be an idler.
In the time and space corridor, only the most important core figures can enter the pinnacle palace. Although Xuanyuan Wushang is strong enough, he has never been there before. He only attended a meeting after taking the initiative to be Li Tianlan's guide.
In fact, if he didn't still desire the peak level of ninth-level authority, he would not even be willing to protect civilization.
Because of this, many big figures in the Space-Time Corridor are somewhat dissatisfied with the Ninth Prince. He is powerful, but he is a weakling. In other words, he is really too lazy.
"The meeting is about to start. You might as well stay and give me some reference advice."
Li Huacheng's voice was sincere. This sentence really didn't mean to test at all. The dynasty replaced Zhongzhou, and the new system replaced the old system. Now everyone can be said to be in a state of distress. On the surface, this is a result based on the physical examination report.
The position can be arranged without considering the various games played by major groups, but in fact this is not the case at all.
The system of the dynasty is very different from that of Central Continent. Each position is unfamiliar yet familiar. The paradoxical result is that a different team must be built for each position.
A dynasty that aims at the stars and the sea, even if there are compromises due to the current situation, how far can the overall structure be compromised?
In this regard, Li Huacheng really hopes that Xuanyuan Wushang can give some valuable opinions.
Especially the rough framework determined this time is actually very small, but every position is extremely important. With Xuanyuan Wushang here, Li Huacheng will have confidence in his heart.
Because of Li Tianlan
That's so damn inconsiderate.
Li Huacheng was convinced that the shopkeeper could do this. The emperor intimidated everything. This sentence could be said to be extremely thorough by him now.
Nominally, Li Tianlan is the supreme ruler of the Xi Dynasty, but in fact, the sage has the decision-making power on all matters.
It's everything.
When asked what the biggest feeling is from being the speaker to becoming a sage, Li Huacheng has only one answer, and that is no feeling at all.
He holds the decision-making power on all matters, which means that what he did before will be what he will do in the future, but there is an extra Huang Xi above him.
But his emperor didn't care about anything.
He is the nominal master of the dynasty, but his dominance is not nominal.
The emperor intimidates everything.
He controls everyone's life and death, and can replace anyone he is dissatisfied with at any time. This absolute intimidation of strength means that even if he does nothing, he is still an irresistible emperor.
Therefore, because of Li Tianlan's existence, Li Huacheng was both under pressure and at the same time in a state of no pressure. This was the first time in his life that he had encountered this weird feeling, and it was inevitable that he felt a little unsure.
If Xuanyuan Wushang also attends this meeting
"Oh, no need."
Xuanyuan Wushang's projection collapsed into a piece of electronic symbols again, and his last voice was left in the office: "Go take a shower, bye."