Taking advantage of the relatively quiet time in the evening, Eva responded to Bai Min's "call" to his office.

Bai Min also sat in the seat behind the desk where he sat almost all the time except sleeping and walking. Eva sat on a stool a few meters away, slightly dimmed.

The light above Bai Min's head was sprinkled on his short hair, forehead, eyebrow bones, cheekbones, nose, philtrum, and sides up to his shoulders. His skin is delicate and **, coupled with the usual tightness, it seems to others that he is just over thirty years old, although this person's flesh skin is tight, but the smile will be shown to the person he thinks is worth showing at any time.

Bai Min spoke to Eva in a nasal voice: "Sister-in-law, you help me think about it, give me an idea, and see how to make Huo Yue loosen his mouth." ”

"I haven't dealt with these old hats, so I don't know how to deal with this Huoyue. That's what you called me for? As soon as Eva heard that it was with those aborigines again, she frowned, and her tone was a little reluctant to talk about it again.

Bai Min grinned: "Sister-in-law, are you still thinking about the child?" ”

“”

"People can't be resurrected after death, so it's better for you to let go of this burden!" Bai Min's face became solemn: "Also, I also hope that you can take a long-term view of things." ”

"This child was born on the way we came, and it was also our most difficult moment, you don't know, the birth and growth of the child did not know how much happiness it brought to the two of us. It was because of her that we, Herrehrie, and I finally got through that terrible time. As she spoke, her eyes began to moisten, and she wiped it: "I'm still dreaming of Jia Na a lot. I forgot, you said lightly. ”

Bai Min hurriedly nodded and said, "Which is!" The child is a piece of meat that has fallen from you, and it is impossible to completely forget about it. However, I don't mean to let you forget about it completely, but to put this matter aside for now, and want to think about some other things, and think about some longer-term things, for me, but also for you and Lao He. ”

"What are the long-term things to consider? We came from such a far place, we were not swallowed up by the endless space, and now we can have such an environment, and the problem of breathing, exercising and eating has not been solved? Are those you are talking about necessary? I think you're thinking too much, right? ”

"Huh!" Bai Min grinned again: "No, no, no, no!" You're not right, it's not that I'm thinking too much, it's that I'm thinking about it, and I'm thinking about it now, and that's the main thing. ”

“”

Bai Min blinked and thought about his words, got up, walked around the edge of the table, and leaned on the edge of the table. It's a little closer to Eva. It seems that Bai Min not only wants to bring him and Eva closer in space, but also wants to bring their thoughts closer, in order to be able to convince this lady who seems stubborn and a little "short-sighted" to him.

"Sister-in-law, let me ask you, do you think we will always be like this? Have you been staying in the base like this? ”

"What do you mean?"

"Think about it, think about it, think about it, will we always stay like this and the base on that island?"

Eva blinked: "What's wrong with staying?" What's wrong with not staying? Are we going to change places, change bases? What have you heard? ”

"Oops! My sister-in-law! Let's put it this way! I won't ask you so much, just point to it. After a pause: "I'm sure that in the near future, we will get out of these bases and occupy the entire planet, of course, the places covered with ice and snow can only be used for research, not for settlement." But all other land and sea, which will definitely not let go of occupying, this is the minimum.

Think about it first and see if that's what I'm talking about. Look! Now, although we are only walking around the base, it is just to get more accustomed to the environment here, and to do some scientific research that newcomers must conduct, once the conditions are ripe, will we still stay in such a small space? How does this allow us to develop? To put it more simply, how can our future generations seek space on this planet? I don't think we can just keep 60 or so people here, right? What about hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of people in the future? ”

Eva nodded and admitted that Bai Min's analysis was correct.

Bai Min continued: "Haven't we been preparing now? Oh! It should be said that Dr. Ivan is doing it. Don't you see this? ”

Eva frowned and shook her head.

"Ivan let these natives learn our language, live in our base, and, you know, this guy Chad? You should know that this is no secret, and everyone has known it for a long time - his boy is actually on good terms with a native woman. Do you think that the purpose of letting the natives learn our language is to make them more civilized? Let them know more about us? Are you close to us? Isn't this preparing for us to get out of the base and take charge of the world with them in the future? It's not weird. And as Ivan, I don't see it, I think there is still some encouragement in it! In my opinion, this is to further consolidate our relationship with the natives, and in my opinion, this is also to the extent I said before, and it is also preparing for us to get out of the base and master and manage the world. Oh and, you know what? This Huoman is also pursuing our beauty here, Abeka! Hehehe! I don't know if these two pairs will be able to bear fruit, according to me, huh! Bai Min had a ** smile on his face, but with his back to the light, Eva couldn't see it: "If you can produce a freak, they are considered successful." ”

Eva kept listening: "Yes! We're going to get out of the base. ”

"What happens when you leave the base? Of course Dr. Ivan did it, right? ”

"Hmmm! Which is! ”

"Most of the people here trust him, there's no doubt about it. Which of them is below? Who will be the second echelon of his management? ”

"Isn't that you? Aren't you already by now. Eva replied.

Bai Min smiled and made a "no" gesture: "That's not necessarily. ”

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"Now with me, I think it's just Ivan's expedient measure, because the construction of the base on the island is inseparable from those scientists, and what if there is no need to build it? Out of the base? I'm not a scientist, will he still use me? All of his subordinates are top talents, isn't any one of them better than me? Also, in such a big place, it is definitely not possible for him to manage it alone, and when the time comes, it must be who is closest to him and he knows best, so he will use it. Wen He is indispensable, right? A lot is indispensable, right? Zhaoli and Lu Yuan, who also have a very good relationship with Ivan with Duofan, are also indispensable, right? ”

"Our old man"

Bai Min shook his hand and said: "Lao He is too honest, he only knows how to immerse himself in scientific research, he will definitely not enter the second echelon." Hehe! After some analysis just now, I feel that I am afraid that as soon as they leave the base, they will have to be dismissed from the post of deputy commander. ”

"Will Ivan be like that?"

"Hey!" Bai Min sighed: "It's not that he will be like that, but the natural barrier between me and him and his team is decided." ”

"A natural barrier?"

"Yes! I have no knowledge, and I have no scientific literacy, you think! Will he still use me when that day comes? He wasn't afraid that I would make a mistake, and I might use it to bury myself! It was a time of great development, and it was also the time when science was most needed, and science was also the most important.

I'm still better at being self-aware! He smiled at Eva, "How is it?" Am I giving you the analysis, right? ”

"Why, why don't you come up with an idea with me, and say that the more you get angry, the more you tell you about the diamond mine?"

Bai Min rubbed his hands: "Yes!" There must be a relationship. After a pause: "Let me put it bluntly with you!" I've thought it through, and it's better to plan early now than not being able to enter the management in the future and being marginalized by Ivan. ”

"Hmm!"

"Otherwise, it's too passive, you say, right? So, I want to pull you and Lao He, let's go out and do it ourselves. Bai Min stared at Eva closely, looking at the reaction on her face, and sure enough, she was a little surprised, and said, "Can it work?" ”

Bai Min said: "Why not? You and Lao He are both scientists, and when the time comes, I will listen to you in everything, and you will do whatever you say. ”

Eva chuckled and made a gesture of distrust.

Bai Min was very solemn: "You are scientists, I don't listen to you, when the time comes, the focus of my work is to organize people." ”

"Even if you divide the labor between us according to what you just said, you must know that it is going to be developed, you and I still have Lao He, we don't have the ability and experience!"

Ay! Good thing, it seems that the woman Eva was moved by what I said, Bai Min thought: "Hey! What is the ability to talk about? What is the experience? I think it's just that you don't have faith. Have we built a base before? Which one of the islands is this, no, but now, not only have we built it, but aren't we running it like it? In my opinion, as long as we are willing to do it, there is no failure. ”

"I see, are you talking a little too much!" Eva seemed to be smiling.

Bai Min smiled confidently: "Let me give you an analogy!" Isn't this planet very primitive, I think it's certain if you don't answer, isn't this primitive just like a blank piece of paper and still use me to make it clear? ”

Eva woke up like a dream: "Yes! A blank piece of paper can draw the picture in your heart, and only a blank piece of paper, you can erase it if you don't start building well, and then you can start all over again. ”

"Hey! My sister-in-law, that's right! Now you figured it out! ”

"But the more this has to do with the fire"

Bai Min didn't wait for Eva to finish speaking before he continued: "It's a big deal, one, he is an aborigine, we have to rely on him no matter what, at least we must rely on it at the beginning, right?" ”

Eva nodded.

"Second, if you want to develop, how can you get less mineral resources and less money?" Bai Min waved his hand to stop Eva's question: "You mean money, right?" What kind of tangible money are you talking about, and it will be issued in the future, otherwise how can we measure the size of our development, and how can we continue to develop? I'm talking about intangible money, in a broad sense, the kind that can be turned into tangible money in the future. Mineral resources, for example, right! Aren't diamond mines and gold mines more resources? And gold can also be used as a hard currency, you know that, right? When we were on Earth, we used it for more than a thousand years.

What do you think? Support or not support my opinion, you dare to run tens of thousands of light years away, is this still difficult today? ”

"Hmm!" Eva sighed, "I'll think about it!" ”

Bai Min said solemnly: "What I said to you can't be passed out!" ”

Eva rolled her eyelids, "Is it possible!?" ”

"Even Lao He, you can't tell him."

Eva's questioning eyes.

Bai Min explained: "Lao He pays too much attention to scientific research, and sometimes he is a little simple, I am afraid that he will inadvertently say that it is very unfavorable to us, besides, aren't we still in the making, if the things in the brew can't be done in the future, aren't you afraid that Lao He will laugh at you?" ”

"You're glad you didn't do scientific research."

"What do you mean?"

"If you can do science, you must be much better than us." Eva said halfway and changed her words.

"You mean it's so bad! Hahahaha! Bai Min smiled and made Eva's meaning clear.

Eva was leaving, and Bai Min instructed, "Think again!" Also, come to me when you're free, I have a lot to ask you! ”

Eva paused and responded, "Can you lend them a gun?" Wouldn't that be able to help Huo Yue take back his home quickly? ”

Bai Min shook his head and said, "Impossible, Ivan will never agree." The last time we were here to defend ourselves against the harassment of the plains tribes, I used a burst of gunfire, and Ivan asked me everything, not only me, but others. ”

Eva wondered, "What did he ask?" ”

Bai Min crooked his mouth disdainfully: "It's not that I asked if the other party died, whether there were many injuries or something." If it weren't for the fact that so many people proved that we had fought back in sole self-defence, I don't think Ivan would have let me go. So, I'd better forget about the guns. ”

Eva smiled: "A man does something, and he still shrinks back like this, besides, don't you want to get away from him anyway?" Why don't you let go of the surname and do it? ”

Bai Min smiled bitterly: "Now is not the time to go out and fall out with Ivan!" One is that I haven't prepared too much and too well, and the other is that I'm alone, and I don't have the support of personnel."

Eva said in a somewhat sarcastic tone: "Don't you still have the support of the natives and Huoyue?" ”

"I mean the support of us, our earthlings. No, aren't you the one I won over? Do you know another thing? I'm afraid you don't know, even since the first time this base was built here, Ivan has been controlling the use of guns, not to mention me, even those security guards, and they must be approved by him to use guns. ”

Eva's eyes widened: "If there is a special situation, I must also consult him in an emergency?" ”

Bai Min nodded: "That's not it!" What he meant was that none of the creatures here could hurt us and kill us, so we were, and must be, completely defensive.

Actually, he didn't watch it too tightly before, but since the incident that disturbed the base, he has seen it a little tightly. Now, we have to report to him on the daily usage of those important facilities and equipment, do you think I can still use firearms? So I thought if you could use some other methods to help Huo Yue? ”

"I'll talk about it."

Every time Eva mentioned Huo Yue to them, her face and tone couldn't stand some changes, Bai Min didn't let go of these, he smiled sinily and comforted Eva: "Sister-in-law, you might as well look farther, deeper, you think!" Once we have our own territory and our own business, at that time, you, as one of our leaders, will not be able to do what you say, and who else will be able to stop you from avenging your revenge against those natives. ”

Eva nodded, shook her head again, and left without a word.

It seems that she is still in the midst of self-contradiction, Bai Min smiled at the thought of this.

After breakfast the next day, Bai Min wandered around for a while and returned to the office, and saw that Eva was already sitting there. Bai Min immediately understood that Eva had finally figured it out this time, but this could not be said.

"Sister-in-law, is there anything wrong with me this morning?"

"You guy is real, fake and fake. Don't you know what I'm here for? ”

"Hee-hee! Am I not sure? You're a busy man. ”

Eva ignored his nonsense, she frowned and said, "I figured it out after thinking about it all night." ”

"Hey! That's right, you will be a person who will do great things in the future, how can you delay doing great things for things that have already passed? Right? ”

"Well, I don't think we can lend them firearms, but we might as well teach them how to make a weapon, it's a very good weapon, and it can also kill and injure their enemies at a long distance."

"Hmmm! What weapons? ”

"Bow and arrow."

"Bows and arrows? What kind of weapon is a bow and arrow? ”

"This weapon is troublesome to explain, you can check the information yourself. What's the point? The key is that the materials of this weapon are easy to obtain, and it is also very convenient to carry, unlike the natives of Huoyue today, who have to bring long and thick wooden sticks or bulky stones to fight their enemies, and those wooden sticks and stones have to get close to fight the enemy, and the stones, small ones, do not hurt the enemy, and if they are big, they carry few and throw them not far. ”

"Don't talk about that, just talk about bows and arrows!" Bai Min was eager.

"I checked some information about weapons in the ancient period of our earth, and the bow and arrow only need these few materials, you see! One is the material used to make the bow, which has only one requirement, that is, its toughness should be strong, not only that it can resist the deformation formed by the pulling force of the bowstring, but when not in use, the state of the bow can be restored to its original shape; There is also a material is the bowstring, in fact, the bowstring is like the rope we often use, except that it is used to connect the two ends of the bow, and it can make the bow and arrow from the tension of the bow into the power of the arrow only shooting in a certain direction; The third is the arrow, which is very simple, as long as the arrow can be shot by the bow and strings. It's as simple as that.

"You haven't said what they're made of?"

"Whew! They can all be made from plants, and plants are not found here? ”

"Here's it?"

"I mean the forests of this planet! Isn't the house you live in? ”

"Hmmm! What else? ”

"What else? It's gone! As long as you find a plant with these functions, can you take it back and make it? ”

"Can you be specific? Like the size of the plant or something. ”

"The length of the material required for the bow is about one meter three or four to one meter five or more, the thickness is about the same as my wrist, it doesn't matter if it's thick, it's a big deal to process it again." I won't talk about the bowstring, it's just a rope, and it depends on the experiment to determine how thick it needs to be, I think it's only about three or five millimeters thick. Arrows! Generally, you only need a relatively straight, thin wooden pole. Either way, we had to let them collect the raw materials and let us make the test products, so that we could determine which materials were more suitable to use.

Also, you have to tell Huo Yue that you can't do it until he agrees, right? ”

"I'll go right away, you don't have anything else to do, right? No, it's better to stay here now. ”

"No, I still have something to do, if he wants to agree, you just let him prepare the materials. It's still early, and it's useless for you to be in a hurry. ”

"Why did I ask him to prepare the materials, and when he was ready, you will pick them out, and help make them?"

Eva laughed and said, "You said lightly, in my opinion, the material of the arrow and the bowstring is okay, and the material of this bow is not easy to find." Without dozens or hundreds of materials to prepare and sift, you don't even want to find good materials for making bows.

That's all I can say, and the rest is up to you. (To be continued.) )