Bright!

Wang Man, who was about to start eating, immediately stopped holding his pen to order the food after hearing the news.

"Xu Le...actually came back too?"

It seemed that Wang Man felt that it was inappropriate to use the title "Brother Xu Le" in front of Li Qingcheng, so Wang Man changed it to Xu Le.

"Yes, I met him when I was on duty at the airship pad."

Wang Man's eyes showed a trace of reminiscence, but she didn't show much and just nodded.

"Really? I thought he wouldn't come back."

Hearing what Wang Man said, Li Qingcheng's expression was a little strange:

"Wang Man? Wasn't your relationship with Xu Le not very good in the past? It sounds like you know him well from your tone."

"You also said it was before, but things are different now. I have changed, and so has he." Wang Man's tone was a little dissociated.

"Did you meet Xu Le when you went to the lighthouse last time?"

"We met, but only a few times." Wang Man didn't 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 now. Her eyes rolled around and she said with a smile:

"Qingcheng, if your best friend doesn't like your boyfriend, what will you do?"

Li Qingcheng thought Wang Man was talking about the people who were chasing her in the work unit recently, so she smiled and replied:

"Of course best friends are more important. Since you don't like those people, I will definitely not pay attention to them."

The relationship between the two is still very good. Wang Man also laughed when he heard Li Qingcheng say this.

She thought to herself, what if that person was Xu Le?

But soon, her conversation changed:

"Ah hahaha! Then... what if your best friend likes your boyfriend?"

Li Qingcheng opened her mouth and suddenly felt that something was wrong with this question.

My bestie likes her boyfriend? this……

"Wang Man, you know how 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 topic.

Wang Man used to be very poor, fat, and had spots all over his face. He was completely unqualified to compare 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 figure became even more eye-catching.

Wang Man also saw Li Qingcheng's intention to change the topic, and she didn't want to continue the topic.

"Isn't this just for dinner? Let's just think about how to deal with it slowly. Waiter, please bring some orange juice."

"Hey, why don't you drink?" Li Qingcheng was a little surprised when he heard that Wang Man didn't order a drink.

After Wang Man became a member of the art troupe, drinking seemed to have become a common thing.

However, Wang Man raised his eyebrows, remembering the incident at the lighthouse.

"Alcohol would make me do inappropriate and wrong things, and make me lose my way on the road of life, so I stopped."

"Stop doing?"

"Yeah, 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? "

Wang Man's brows instantly knitted when he heard Li Qingcheng mentioning Xu Le's cousin.

"I advise you not to do that. After so many things, Xu Le probably doesn't have a good impression of his cousin.

If you want to interact with him again, use your actions and sincerity to impress him.

Instead of doing these insignificant and boring things, which will disturb his life and work and arouse his 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 happened the last time she went to the lighthouse?

"Okay, okay, what I said is serious, hurry up and eat, I'm starved to death."

Wang Man also noticed that something was wrong with his tone just now, so he quickly ate food to cover it up.

"Oh, by the way, do you have his contact information?" Wang asked casually.

"I stopped him at that time... and that's probably what happened later. He didn't leave any contact information."

Li Qingcheng briefly told Wang Man the scene where he met Xu Le on the airship platform.

Wang Man almost laughed out loud when she heard that Xu Le had a bad attitude towards Li Qingcheng, because Xu Le had treated her like this before.

It seemed that he treated Li Qingcheng and himself no differently.

"Wang Man, Xu Le has changed so much. I feel like I don't understand him anymore."

"Then what do you think we should do now?"

"I just don't know, that's why I came here to find you."

After Wang Man pondered for a while, he put forward a very constructive proposal.

"I suggest you find a partner to get married as soon as possible, have a child, and have no contact with Xu Le from now on."

"Wang Man, I'm serious."

"I'm serious too. It's been three years since you broke up, and you're still here as a mother-in-law. You don't have any opinions at all. Do you want to play with each other? Is it interesting?

Now that they have broken up, just live their own lives. "

Li Qingcheng looked at Wang Man. A friend had said that Wang Man had changed a lot since he came back from the lighthouse.

She didn't feel it 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 have the ability to live independently, I want to make up for it..."

"Li Qingcheng, you are an adult now, who can't afford to support yourself?

Although you are now a law enforcer, you also said that he is a bachelor studying abroad at Beacon University.

What can you make up to him? Keep him as a pretty boy?

Do you think Xu Le will give in to money? If he was this kind of person, he would have been with a rich woman long ago.

Don't be so arrogant, okay? "

Li Qingcheng lowered her head. She didn't know whether her behavior was considered arrogant.

"I didn't mean that."

Wang Man looked at her with an inexplicable anger, and she didn't know what the anger was about.

Maybe it was the past injustice against Xu Le.

"Li Qingcheng, please let him go. Don't contact him after we break up. Every time Brother Xu Le gets hurt, it's all because of you, and your family will only bully Brother Xu Le."

Not like me...

I only feel sorry for my brother! ~

Of course, the last two sentences were said by Wang Man in his heart and not directly spoken.

Li Qingcheng could hardly lift her head, but she suddenly felt something was wrong.

"Brother Xu Le? When did you two become so close to each other?"

"He is older than me. Isn't it normal to call him Brother Xu Le?" Wang Man said guiltily.

"Then I'm older than you, 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 Qiangwei Studio, went out to buy many daily necessities, and finally rushed back.

He found a place to sit down and eat, but he was not that bourgeois.

Just bread + water.

awful!

Now he has a place to stay, but he only has 900 yuan, so he needs to think carefully about spending money.

"Hey, I don't want to work hard anymore. It would be nice if a rich woman took care of me."

He took a bite of bread and poured the cat food to Ding Ke. Although Ding Ke disliked it, he still started eating it.

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. After coming into contact with a larger and more reasonable platform, directly abandon Rose Studio and transfer.

The second is to find ways to develop Qiangwei Studio and make it a place that truly belongs to us.

The advantage of the first method is that it does not require much effort on your part.

The second type has more benefits. If the laboratory can really produce a hit product, Zion itself will provide strong support to the studio.

By then, he will have a circle, resources, channels, and even official support.

It's cool, but hard.

"After all, resources are the most important thing. If you are rich enough, it will be much easier to expand your circle and open up channels."

Meow!~

After Xu Le finished eating, he came to Levi's studio again.

This time Levi's didn't close the door, nor was he working. Instead, he was reading some information describing the area outside the city.

"Levis? Not working?"

"Well, let's take a 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 now it's much more serious, so Zion has provided 150% additional task funds for the current development tasks."

Every city has a pioneer mission, Xu Le knows this.

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 the black tide in Zion 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 the impact of these two Red Moon catastrophes on Zion.

When Xu Le was at the lighthouse, he heard that all cities suffered from the last violent black tide.

If that's the case, Zion today should have the same problem as the lighthouse.

That is, the safe expansion area needs to be expanded.

Moreover, Zion's security expansion zone requirements are definitely greater than those of the lighthouse.

Because this place is not like a lighthouse, the lighthouse will also send a large number of warriors and warlocks to assist in the battle.

But Zion is different from several other cities. Because the weapons and equipment are very advanced, the way of warfare here has undergone special changes.

In Zion, Kuroshio's main combat missions are actually performed by ordinary soldiers.

If this situation were applied to several other cities, it might be very nonsense.

Because ordinary people don't have the strong will of warriors, nor the weird and unpredictable abilities of warlocks.

Their anima energy fluctuates greatly. In the battles of Kuroshio, it often happens that the anima energy exceeds the standard level 1 and attracts weird things.

And Zion’s solution is also outrageous, that is, don’t solve it, just attract whatever you want.

Just come and I'll kill you.

All fear stems from insufficient firepower.

Weapons have always benefited the most from technological breakthroughs, and as the capital of science and technology, Zion's weapons have always been the most powerful among all cities.

When the firepower is powerful enough to cover the entire battlefield area, it doesn't matter even if the anima of ordinary people attracts some weirdos.

Just kill them all together and that's it.

In the Black Tide War in Zion, although warlocks and warriors will also play a strong role, their main means of killing are weapons.

In order to achieve this state, Zion's requirements for the surrounding environment of the battlefield are even more different from other cities.

Zion needs a development area that is several times larger than other cities, needs plain areas, and needs a broad vision.

In the battlefield area they built man-made deep ravines.

There are traps, barbs, and weird ground features inside. If you want to attack Zion, you have to avoid the man-made deep valleys, which gives Zion better fire coverage.

If it were before, Zion's current regional environment would be completely sufficient.

But these two consecutive high-intensity black waves seemed to break Zion's defense.

In order to prevent the next Kuroshio war from becoming tense, the Zion authorities are planning to transform the original circle of farming areas into a battlefield and continue to expand the plain area outwards.

In order to achieve this goal, the Zion authorities issued a large number of regional development tasks.

Encourage civilian warriors and sorcerers to expand overseas.

In particular, some independent studios will send personnel to participate in such tasks in order to seek development, search for moon stones, and replenish funds.

And the government will also provide certain military support. This is a very special development model.

Of course, the main reason is because there are not as many warriors in Zion as there are in Lighthouse.

Therefore, although this task model has always existed, researchers here are not very enthusiastic about participating.

The main inflow of warriors into Zion comes from Lighthouse and Tianrui Lifeng.

Especially the mercenaries of Tianrui Lifeng are very popular professions in Zion.

Levi's is also too poor and has no choice, so he considers participating in this kind of task to supplement the studio's poor research funds.

…

Xu Le thought for a while and realized that he was actually capable of participating in the development mission.

After all, he used to be a night watchman and had two very dangerous pioneer experiences. It was not impossible to make money in this way.

But let’s wait and see what happens and figure out what our abilities are.

Looking at Levi's, Xu Le couldn't help but ask:

"Has the black tide in Zion also become serious?"

"It's very serious, but I heard it's not as serious as the lighthouse. You came back from the lighthouse, right?"

"Yes, the lighthouse is indeed very serious."

Although Levi had also heard about it, Xu Le knew that there was a high probability that there was a reason for such words to spread across a city.

The situation in the Lighthouse Kuroshio is more serious than that in Zion and is probably real.

"Is it because of the tree?" Xu Le whispered.

"Xu Le, what did you just say? I didn't hear clearly."

"It's nothing. Oh, by the way, you, a scientific researcher, went to participate in the pioneer mission? That's a job of licking blood on the edge of a knife, isn't it?"

Xu Le was serious. He could never imagine what it would be like for researchers like Levis to participate in the pioneer mission.

But Levi's didn't take it seriously.

"You underestimate me too much. I'm still a level 2 warlock no matter what, and in Zion, private studios can't attract investment. It's normal to do some similar tasks."

"Didn't you say that Zion University will provide certain support and sponsorship?"

"We are a D-level studio, and we only provide 300 yuan in sponsorship every month. This amount of money is almost not enough to buy wine for my grandmother. How can we do research.

The most important thing Zion University supports is legal licensing matters.

Although there are many scientific research studios in Zion, there are very few legal licenses, which is very important. "

This was all information that Xu Le didn't know, so Xu Le quickly wrote it down.

"Can't you study it privately?"

Hearing Xu Le say this, Levi's expression was a little serious.

"Of course not, Xu Le, you'd better not have such thoughts."

"Why? I have no intention of doing so, I'm just curious."

“The reason is very simple. Whether it is weapons research or Red Moon Technology, the research itself is a very dangerous situation.

If there are no reasonable and legal regulations, strict stipulations of research requirements, and the issuance of licenses, it is very likely that there will be some extreme taboo research. "

"for example?"

Xu Le was like a student at this time, he just asked if he didn't understand, and he didn't pretend.

However, Levi's has no need to hide anything about these matters.

"You also know that although it is said to be the Red Moon Technology Wave, our research will more or less utilize Gu Yinduo.

Once a major research accident happens to something like Guyinduo, it will be a major blow to the entire region, and even the entire Zion.

The previous management was also very loose, but since that big accident, the entire Zion research department has become much more standardized.

The Five Rings Technology Law not only encourages Hongyue Technology research, but also regulates studio licenses, requirements, content, etc.

The main funding for schools is to grant licenses, which is so important.

It is almost impossible to obtain a private registration license based on our ability and background. If we want to do research, we have to rely on others. "

Hearing Levi's explanation, Xu Le nodded.

He could understand this situation. It was like an Internet cafe license from a certain era in the previous life. It was even more expensive than the entire Internet cafe. It was really outrageous.

"So that's what happened. What big event are you talking about?"

"Project 345 Floating City, many people should know about this, right?"

I don't know? Xu Le was a little depressed.

"Well, 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 Rune Warlock LV2-Puppet Controller, what's wrong?"

Xu Le's eyes narrowed instantly when he heard Levi's name.

The name Runemancer is not often mentioned because most people refer to them as puppet warlocks.

"Are you actually a puppet master?"

"The puppet master is now LV3. I can't make a real puppet yet, I can only make a puppet."

As he spoke, Levi waved to one side of the room.

"Let me introduce you, these two are my dolls, No. 1 - Sha, No. 8 - Shengzan."

After Levi waved, a doll that looked more like a woman and a doll that looked more like a man slowly walked out.

The female doll wears a maid outfit with white stockings underneath. The key is that she has hair and hair accessories.

But the male doll only wears pants and has a bald head.

The doll called Sha has a very beautiful appearance, probably like a large Barbie doll, much more realistic than an inflatable doll.

Seeing this, Xu Le's eyes became slightly strange.

Levi seems to be not young anymore, if he doesn't have a girlfriend...

Xu Le glanced around, and after seeing a lot of toilet paper in the trash can, he showed an expression as expected.

He looked at Doll No. 1 Sha a few more times, then looked at Levis, and couldn't help but praise her.

"The puppet warlock is so convenient!"