How Am I Still Alive?

When choosing a landing site, Lu made a lot of judgments based on all aspects of intelligence.

First and foremost, always focus on the positioning of your own team.

Unlike most explorer teams, which have a team style of "just come up and do it", the Lupingan team's biggest advantage has always been in the "logistics" and "production levels."

Naturally, his starting point is to maximize profits.

"Is this the purification base of the 'Spiritual Holy Water'? It's really spectacular."

In the southwest corner of the city made of floating bamboo, Lu Pingan saw the "treasure" he wanted first, the manufacturing base for mass production of the legendary treasure "Spiritual Water".

Its structure shocked Lu Pingan and others from the very beginning.

It reminds Lu Pingping of the great project in his hometown, the super dam covering a mountain range.

It was a huge and transparent "conch", with corrugated pipelines spiraling inside it. A large amount of sea water was drawn into it, and there were busy workers working inside and outside the pipelines.

Outside, long-handed men, fishmen, and fish-like orc mechanics were operating, adding pile after pile of materials to the pipeline. There were also many long-hand men, fish-men divers working on the inner circle of the pipeline.

The conch spiral shape may only accommodate the pipelines rolled into a circle as much as possible. Once this huge pipeline maze is unfolded, it may be dozens of kilometers long. Even if it is rolled together now, it still firmly occupies a corner of the city.

This scene reminded Lu Ping'an of the abandoned steel factories in the ancient city. Perhaps when he was a child, those furnaces and pipelines were as huge as covering the sky.

For people who rely on it for a living, maybe that's all they have in life.

"The raw material of spiritual holy water is actually worthless. It is local seawater. Some people say that is because the entire world's sea is a soup that has gathered countless special materials. Only through condensation and purification can this magical soup be produced."

In front of Lu Ping'an, the middle-aged man Su Menglin in front of him was talking eloquently. He is the office director of the local water plant and is also responsible for receiving "foreign guests".

Although the young man in front of him has only been here for less than a week, and his actual position in the church is that of a trainee priest, it is a joke, but just by being personally brought into the meeting by His Excellency Quasi-God, it proves his extraordinary strength.

With the arrival of the Ship of God, a new round of information exchange has been completed. What kind of ruthless character is the smiling young man in front of him? The locals have gradually become aware that at least his restaurant is quite delicious. Although I don’t know how he traveled so far to bring out hometown dishes.

Well, there are exceptions to some of the "special challenge dishes". The taste is reminiscent of foreign lands and the universe, and is a bit unsuitable for human taste limits. Maybe some space chefs were hired to develop the dishes.

"This purification technology is not original to us, it belongs to those ugly and vulgar gray dwarves. At first, because the technology was incomplete, our output was extremely embarrassing, until a water element controller discovered that he could use supernatural powers to make up for the shortcomings. Our performance exceeds that of the original product, the only drawback is..."

Director Su pointed to the staff above and the divers in the pipeline. Some of them were holding instruments, and some seemed to be directly operating the water flow.

This scene made Lu Ping'an a little surprised. "Water control" is not a simple professional ability that can be possessed.

".It's pretty easy to get, as long as it's within Mercury 42, after all, we have it up there."

Lao Su pointed to the top of his head, and Lu Pingan understood immediately.

After the gods directly intervene in the lives of local mortals, the existence of the gods is a resource and a force, and can even serve as a stable and reliable "source of power."

"God of the sea?"

"Yes, you only need a small sacrifice to unlock low-level water control abilities."

As long as the sacrifices are sufficient, even "temporary divine grace for combat" can be purchased. This undoubtedly shows that the gods have been completely embedded in this world and have become part of the basic rules.

Moreover, the connection with the gods will become very easy. As long as you are a human, just a wooden statue of the god can be used as an "altar" for the ceremony, and you can exchange "sacrifice" for "temporary divine favor".

Yes, temporary divine grace is just like the small rune marks on Lu Ping'an's forehead, right arm, and left arm. They are the "three-piece suit" for survival here.

Not only will it disappear once you leave, but although it is cheap to open, the maintenance cost is high.

As far as Lu Pingan knows, other races can also pray to the three gods in exchange for divine favor, but their "sacrifice" is much more expensive.

This actually implies that this world is essentially different from other worlds. This is a world of war. The competition is about comprehensive national strength. The competition is about overall warfare. Relying solely on personal strength is limited.

If "extraordinary abilities" such as water control can be easily obtained from gods, then low-end combat power can also easily form a cluster advantage. Perhaps the war situation is a little different from what I expected.

"Boss Lu, what do you think? Are you willing to make additional investment? We can definitely make money here."

When the finished product is a top product like "spiritual holy water", and the raw material is almost infinite sea water, anyone knows that this world is indeed worth beating people's brains into dog brains.

On the other hand, it is obvious that this "purification technology" is not simple. Not only is the construction cost of this super-large purification machine high, but looking at its huge size and number of workers, you will know that its maintenance costs must also be staggering. .

As for this kind of thing, obviously the larger the specification and the greater the quantity, the better the effect. The scale effect can significantly reduce costs and increase efficiency.

"We are building Unit 3. If you are willing to invest, the upper limit is 15%. But if you are willing to wait until Unit 4 starts construction. In about half a year, we can let you invest up to 50%!"

The water plant in this corner of the city is "public" in a sense. The premise of its existence is that the city provides shelter and military support for it. The high construction and operating costs also make it unrealistic to build it alone.

"Even if you have a full set of technologies and want to build alone here, with all due respect, you will offend everyone."

As time goes by, this weird "collective subscription investment system" has been formed. You spend money to buy shares here, let the professional water plant operate it for you, and you just get the share regularly.

Of course, there must be a lot of tricks, such as investors opening their own wallets when the operator is not present. However, because investors monitor each other, it can ensure that most of the income will not be "lost" on a daily basis.

"Let me take another look. I'm new here and haven't decided which industry I want to join yet."

After thinking about it, Lu Pingan chose to decline.

It's not that he can't come up with the money. This investment is basically a guaranteed profit. It can even be regarded as a dividend paid by the city to the internal strength of Lin Nu Church.

But Lu Ping'an knew that if he took this "share", he might also be tied to this city.

"I also want to see around, maybe other cities are good too"

Lu Pingan, who was smiling, expressed his true thoughts. This city might be a little too small for him.

These words were so candid that Director Su even lost his temper.

He hesitated to speak, but his expression made it clear: "Then what are you doing here?"

Lu Ping'an just shook his head.

"Just because I'm not interested in 'purifiers' doesn't mean I'm not interested in other businesses. I'm here to negotiate a big deal with you."