Chapter 1550
Chapter 1550 - 1546: Major Project
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It is hard to say whether Phoenix City encountered Lu Ping’an, or Lu Ping’an encountered Phoenix City... The moment their compatibility delicately matched, both sides would naturally influence and change each other.
Being a Newborn Rule Level, if considered native "small nuclear bomb", Lu Ping’an would be just a slightly more advanced hired thug.
However, as a "Biological Controller" with an outrageous level of Taboo Knowledge, a special existence that understands the essence of Eternal Moving Spirit life, and a Divine Creature possessing the Eye of Truth, Lu Ping’an’s upper limit is something even he cannot estimate.
"This, perhaps, is also why the Official Eastern Country allows you to act freely, because even you can’t determine what you can accomplish..."
In fact, both the Official Eastern Country and the Martial God Church have lower expectations for Lu Ping’an.
In this world, what’s most lacking is always logistics and supplies, be it human resources or various products from the production line, there’s an eternal shortage.
Lacking reinforcements and supplies on the battlefield is a major taboo as well as the norm, yet as long as Lu Ping’an stays in this world, he could function like a Totem Pillar, continuously generating more effective combat power in his courtyard.
But these days, both he and the rest are very clear about the biggest problem of this world... the map is infinite, yet human resources are finite, and some of the strong native ethnic groups have set their sights on them, outsiders, necessitating more troops for defense.
The special local environment also makes the Martial God Church’s people very unsuitable, with their strength greatly reduced or even halved as the norm, and the most troublesome part is the almost infinite enemies, while your manpower and resources are exhaustively consumed; continuing when costs exceed revenue is foolish.
The Martial God does not want to leave in disgrace, and they have made many adaptive changes, with some local "Lower-class Subhumans" joining the human ranks and playing some roles to some extent.
But probably even the most optimistic strategist finds that these "New Humans" are actually not of much use; they lack further motivation... they’re more like man-made response machines, move one step with a push, reacting exactly how you teach them to.
They have no concept of life and death, or rather, they see "dissipation" as a natural part of the natural cycle.
A society composed of individuals without desires is not an ideal state but can easily become a loose assembly of individuals...
"Don’t you find the local residents completely useless? Perhaps you think the success of ’Creator’ is a huge harvest, or you think taming high-level life forms is a mass of profits, but with the expansion of your battle lines, farms, and mining areas, human resources will definitely fall short, and it’s too damaging to be unable to replenish locally. Even if you transfer from home, they have a hard time adapting to the local environment, especially as the High level world demands too much..."
Lu Ping’an reported to his "employer", and what he talked about were all common local issues.
They invited Lu Ping’an over, naturally not to be an analyst... the problem is often not hard to find, what’s rare is how to solve it under limited conditions.
"I can create true Hybrids, possessing the normal lifecycle of life, old age, sickness, death, with the ability to understand real emotions if they are Intelligent creatures. But at the same time, they are also local residents..."
Lu Ping’an is solving a problem, a verification problem that "life and energy can be seamlessly converted; they are two sides of the same coin".
Halfway creatures and lifeforms are the answers Lu Ping’an prepares to offer.
This life must possess wisdom and humanity... at least, the potential to awaken self-awareness of humanity.
Such life should belong to the same category as the other Element-aggregate creatures of the locality; they can also be produced en masse through the Plane... Yet at the same time, they should retain the Earth lifeforms’ potential for genetic combination and optimization through reproduction.
"...This world lacks ’friendly natives with potential’. Well then, I shall create it..."
Lu’s solution is very Eastern Country, and also very much like the Evil Gods.
"Is this really achievable? We previously had Life system Quasi-Gods who made similar requests, just to create some Hybrid War Beasts, and they said it was impossible..."
"I have the ’Appraisal’, which is verified by a Quasi-God, that recognizes the feasibility of my plan."
When the project approval document was handed over, the Informed-person, seeing the signature of the "Balance Disaster Beast" as the approver, felt even more subtle... This was indeed a senior and powerful Quasi-God, but something seemed quite off.
Lu Ping’an personally visited the Domineering Three Faces headquarters locally, as there were too many things that needed to be discussed face-to-face.
For Lu at this time, creating a creature was completely without difficulty, but to create a "species", a species subject to requirements capable of evolving on its own, Lu Ping’an did not plan to do it alone... nor could he.
"Funding support is one aspect, more importantly, is the support of human resources; I need a large number of researchers on my side..."
Lu Ping’an presented a major project, and once the feasibility verified by experts was signed off, naturally it was time to ask investors for funding.
To the actions of Lu Ping’an, the high-ranking officials of the Domineering Three Faces were first surprised and pleased, thinking that their remuneration was really effective, that the hired expert was genuinely working hard... but their expressions became more subtle upon seeing the specific plan and budget.
You’re not here to scam money and resources, are you? When you were reporting the plan, did you make a decimal point error?
"This is necessary! Life is priceless... but to have it, one must certainly pay a substantial price."
Even the financially robust Martial Combat Church felt their scalp go numb looking at the budget plan presented by Lu Ping’an, wondering if he was really planning to donate and make a getaway?
"How long might it take?"
"Hard to say... if lucky, a few months, if not, several years or even forever."
Lu Ping’an uttered the last words you’d want to hear when asking for a budget... but this honesty was also necessary.
To create a new species is certainly not a one-time deal; constant trials and interaction, even sending them into battle for training and elimination are necessary. Who knows when the final product will emerge.
A vast investment, a potentially sinking fund with vague production timelines, and unclear project details, even the most optimistic investor would be bewildered by such a project.
𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂
"How strong will they be... We can’t invest a huge price to produce mere toys."
"If it’s according to my design, there’s no upper limit. The higher in hierarchy, the more evident the advantage of being a native resident..."
At least for Lu at the moment, he really is diligently hard-pressed for project approval and budget.
But if it’s using someone else’s wealth and accumulation, consuming astronomical numbers of others’ resources, to verify Lu Ping’an own ’World’s Reason’...
"Why refuse such a good client?"
— End of Chapter 1550 —