Chapter 1546
Chapter 1546 - 1542: The Covenant
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"This is quite a large order..."
Lu Ping’an was quite surprised, he had prepared for the possibility that his exploration would be obstructed by the Church, but he hadn’t expected to receive an official comprehensive commission.
The hydrological and geographical data of a region are their most precious treasures and strategic materials.
And this involves a technology archive of species and local produce, which is wealth that money can’t buy.
"The data collected by the local Church is indeed valuable, on the precondition that there is someone who can develop it further. To the Martial Gods, anything unrelated to war is of no significance..."
Lu Ping’an’s surprise was understandable, even for a martial fight-based Church, but Domineering Three Faces is, after all, a Proper God Church and one of the "top hundred enterprises" at the official level of the Eastern Country, it shouldn’t be so useless.
Such a super entity, investing in a medium-sized city can directly cause it to soar... Once its assets, personnel, and scale reach a certain level, it’s inevitable to evolve from a single business into a conglomerate.
Once it accumulates several cities with millions of population, even if it is a martial fight force, it will inevitably become a comprehensive, cross-world enterprise composed of numerous small and medium-sized companies, organizations, and strongmen.
"Our logistics department has spread out in full force, but it’s still not enough, far from enough..."
It seems that Lu Ping’an has underestimated the vastness and value of this world.
But after some thought, he nodded.
In the world model he is now constructing, it is not a "single world," but rather one within the entire multi-layered planes... Perhaps its overall scale exceeds the entire octopus’ Multi-universe.
The higher you go, the "energy levels" become higher, and there might even be what is known as a "High Magic World."
If in a region only Gold-tier life forms can survive, how much more species resources, wealth, and special produce there are, Lu Ping’an dare not imagine.
Lu Ping’an did not refuse; he indeed needed the data from the predecessors.
"Probably Domineering Three Faces really can’t swallow this world..."
Perhaps the logistics department of the Domineering Three-faced Church, as well as professionals in all areas, are busy in some resource area they have explored.
In such a huge world, if Domineering Three Faces can’t handle it, it’s not a matter of "not letting successors eat," but rather he is trying every means to hire more professionals to obtain more resources and benefits.
Lu Ping’an stroked his chin, knowing where his judgment had gone wrong.
On one hand, he had underestimated the value of the top life systems... Life systems are already the most difficult to train among professionals, and even when they climb to high levels, they tend to be experts in only certain aspects.
Such precious talents are difficult to employ and invite over, and even if you get a few, each with their expertise, they can’t actually solve the problem.
To really solve the problem, you may need to employ veteran quasi-Gods of life.
Beings of such rank are actually no longer from a single system; they themselves can be considered a small life system Church, with talents in various aspects under their command. Even in Lin Nu’s Church, which is full of top life system gatherers, such existences are only Xiu Yi, Elder Liu, and they actually have no difficulty in Ascension, essentially being independent "small Churches".
And after the Martial God Church evaluated Lu Ping’an’s data and the excessively detailed resume, especially after the Eastern Country’s official informed them of the highly confidential intelligence of the "Trading Land", they were surprised to find that the seventh-tier Lu Ping’an was actually a "small quasi-God", and even surpassed those two quasi-Gods in terms of business and industrial development.
Especially since Lu Ping’an is young... This means he still has many things he wants to do, has the drive to forge ahead, and might even take the initiative to engage in direct combat, to seek more resources and territories, to obtain more research results.
"Maybe employing him would be even more valuable than employing a life quasi-God Church..."
This achievement alone, disregarding those rare abilities of Lu Ping’an’s Trading Land, is merely his contribution to an entire world as a logistics production of Life system, which has surpassed many Quasi-God forces.
In Mercury 42, the "Lamp Flower" and "Lamp Flower Network" introduced by Lu Ping’an truly changed the entire world, and its most notable contribution was the research and development of specialized paths, like the Long Spear path of the Long Hand Clan, greatly enhancing the status of this race.
However, his actions in the political sphere, despite strengthening the national power of the whole kingdom and vaguely promoting the integration of multiple races, giving the Eastern Country on Earth an advantage in development there... was actually a deduction in points.
The high level of the Domineering Three-Faced Church were somewhat concerned that he might start something like "Mentor Theory" here as well; as a minority outsider, really invoking a racial Awakening might not be a good thing.
After assessing everything, they would prefer for Lu Ping’an to remain a quality logistics provider, an independent research base, a non-combatant unrelated to politics... The Domineering Three-faced Church really lacks everything, except for various combat professions and personnel.
"Alright, let’s sign the contract."
A delayed contract, a product of the highest position Contracter, skimmed by Lu Ping’an, who, after making sure there were no traps, signed it directly.
The other party offered sincere terms, providing an entire City as a logistics base, and basically no restrictions...
"What does it mean by asking me not to write or spread ideas in here..."
"Oh, that’s a standard clause to prevent the proliferation of certain ideas, it is based on experience our professional administrative department has learned from past losses, almost everyone coming here has to sign it."
𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎
"...Uh, are you sure it’s not just targeting me? Actually, I really don’t plan on stirring things up."
The words sounded considerate, but in reality, it was targeted at Lu Ping’an; of course, what Gan Qianyun said was not a lie, even if the previous agreement didn’t contain this clause, the legal department would make every effort to add it later.
Lu Ping’an did not take this to heart; in fact, he also did some self-reflection.
Igniting a fire is not difficult, especially when it comes to "relatively advanced" ideas, spreading them through authority and power can easily gain widespread acceptance.
But once the fire is lit, it’s unpredictable how it will burn, whether it might even burn one’s own house, nobody can really be sure.
Although he also felt that the native life forms of his world were quite peculiar, and the ideas from his hometown would mostly not resonate, he also had no interest in doing such things.
After all, the development to such a stage in Mercury 42 was due to their own disenchantment, desiring new theories and methods to change their desperate lives; even without Mentor Theory, some other ideas would take the dominant position, leading to an Awakening of the entire ethnic group.
"Only those who crave Redemption have the value to be redeemed."
In this regard, Lu Ping’an and Guan Xinxian hold divergent views; the God of Redemption believes that every life should be saved, but Lu Ping’an is not so charitable.
"Teacher, hello. I am Su Yuanyuan, your new student..."
And after signing the contract, it doesn’t mean that Lu Ping’an is "free" from that point on.
On the contrary, cooperation between the two sides is fully strengthened, and Lu Ping’an begins to settle into his "workstation," also receiving his first batch of gifts.
Including but not limited to precious local information, various materials and samples, as well as a group of "assistants."
"Hello... uh, you’re older than me, let’s not use formal language."
And looking at the "young" Decree-level before him, who could very well be twice his own age yet has become his nominal Disciple, Lu Ping’an could only look up to the sky.
— End of Chapter 1546 —