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

First and foremost, always position yourself as a team.

Different from the "come up and do it" style of most explorer teams, the biggest advantage of Lu Ping'an's team is always at the "logistics" and "production level".

Naturally, in the starting point, he came for the maximization of profits

"Is this the purification base of 'Spiritual Holy Water', it's really spectacular?"

In the southwest corner of the city composed of floating bamboo, Lu Ping'an saw the "treasure" he wanted first, the manufacturing base for the mass production of the legendary treasure "Spirit Water".

And its structure gave Lu Ping'an and others a great shock from the beginning.

It reminded Lu Ping'an of the great project of his hometown, the super dam that covered a mountain range.

It was a huge, transparent "conch", with corrugated pipelines swirling one after another, large amounts of seawater being drawn into it, and busy staff working inside and outside the pipeline.

Outside, long-handed people, fish-people, and fish-like orc technicians are operating, and then piles and piles of materials are being added to the pipeline, and there are many long-handed people and fish-man divers working in the inner circle of the pipeline.

The spiral shape of the conch may only accommodate the pipeline rolled into a circle to the greatest extent, and this huge pipeline maze may be dozens of kilometers away once it is unfolded, and even if it is rolled together now, it will also occupy a corner of the city.

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

For those who depend on it for their livelihood, perhaps that's all there is to it.

"The raw material of the spiritual holy water is actually worthless, it is the local seawater, some people say that it is because the sea area of the whole world is a soup that gathers countless characteristic materials, so that this magical decoction can be taken out through condensation and purification."

In front of Lu Ping'an, the middle-aged man in front of him, Su Menglin, talked eloquently, he was the director of the office of the local water plant, and he also served as the job of receiving "foreign guests".

The young man in front of him has only been here for less than a week, and his actual position in the church is even more of a joke of the probationary pastor, but just the fact that His Excellency the Quasi-God personally pulled him into the church proves that his strength is extraordinary.

With the arrival of the Divine Ark, a new round of information exchange has been completed, what kind of ruthless character is the smiling young man in front of him, and the locals are gradually aware that at least his restaurant is very delicious, although I don't know how he came out with hometown dishes thousands of miles away.

Well, some of the "Special Challenge Dishes" are exceptions, the taste is reminiscent of exotic and cosmopolitan, and it is a bit unsuitable for the limits of human tastes, so it may really be that some cosmic chef was hired for cooking research and development.

This purification technique is not original to us, it is the ugly and vulgar gray dwarf, and initially due to the incomplete technology, our production was extremely humiliating, until a water elemental controller discovered that we could make up for it with an ability, and our effectiveness surpassed that of the original product, the only downside is."

Director Su pointed to the staff above, as well as 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 professional ability that can be simply possessed.

"It's good to get, as long as Mercury is within 42, after all, we have it above"

Lao Su pointed to the top of his head, and Lu Ping'an immediately understood.

After the gods directly interfered in the lives of the local mortals, the existence of the gods was a resource and a power, and could even serve as a stable and reliable "source of power".

"The god of the sea?"

"Yes, it only takes a small sacrifice to unlock the low-level water control ability"

As long as the sacrifices are sufficient, even the "temporary divine grace of the battle direction" can be bought, which undoubtedly shows that the gods have been thoroughly embedded in this world and become part of the rules of the grassroots level.

And the connection with the gods will become quite easy, as long as you are a human, just a wooden statue of the god can be used as a ritual "altar", to exchange "sacrifices" for "temporary divine grace".

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

Not only does it disappear after leaving, but although it is cheap to open, the maintenance cost is on the high side.

As far as Lu Ping'an knows, other races can also pray to the three gods in exchange for divine favors, but their "sacrifices" are much more expensive.

This also implies that this world is fundamentally different from other worlds. This is a world of war, where the competition is for comprehensive national strength and overall warfare, and relying on individual strength alone is limited.

If the "extraordinary ability" such as water control can be easily obtained from the gods, then the low-end combat power can easily form a cluster advantage, and perhaps the situation of the war is a little different from what you expected.

"Boss Lu, what do you think? Whether or not we are willing to make additional investments, we are sure to make a profit. ”

When the finished product is the best "spiritual holy water", but the raw material is almost infinite seawater, anyone knows that this world does have the value of turning human brains into dog brains.

On the other hand, it is obvious that this "purification technology" is not simple, this super-large purification machine is not only expensive to build, but also knows that its maintenance cost must be amazing if you look at its huge volume and number of laborers.

And this kind of thing, obviously, the larger the size, the more the quantity, the better the effect, and the scale effect can significantly reduce costs and increase efficiency.

"We're building Unit 3, and if you're willing to invest, it's capped at 15 percent. But if you're willing to wait until the fourth machine is built. In about half a year, we can let you be sole proprietorship up to 50%! ”

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

"Even if you have a full set of technologies and want to build here on your own, IMHO, you will anger everyone"

With the passage of time, this strange "collective subscription investment system" has been formed, you spend money to buy shares here, let the professional water plant operate for you, and you regularly eat points to achieve the line.

Of course, there must be a lot of cats in it, such as investors who will open their wallets when they are not in the operator. However, because investors monitor each other, they can ensure that most of the gains will not be "lost" on a daily basis.

"I'll take a look at it again, I'm new to the city, and I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to do."

After thinking about it for a while, Lu Ping'an still chose to decline politely.

It's not that he can't come up with this money, this investment is basically equal to a steady profit, and it can even be regarded as a dividend distributed by the city to the internal strength of the Lin Nu Church.

It's just that Lu Ping'an knows that if he takes this "share", he may also be tied up in the city.

"I still want to see everywhere, maybe other cities are good"

Smiling Lu Ping'an, he said his true thoughts, this city may be a little too small for him.

These words were too frank, which made Director Su a little unbearable.

He wanted to stop, but his expression made the meaning very clear, "Then what are you doing here?"

Lu Ping'an just shook his head.

"I'm not interested in 'purifiers', it doesn't mean I'm not interested in other businesses, I'm here to talk to you about a big business."

(End of chapter)