Hao Ren followed the voice and saw a tall man in a grayish-white uniform standing a few meters away. Most of the people here wore the same clothes, and there was nothing special about this man's face. Hao Ren had no impression of him. But the man took the initiative to come over, looked up and down at the image projected by the MDT, and repeated again. "Nolan?"
"You are …" Nolan looked at the strange man, puzzled. "Do I know you?"
"I'm Ulyanov," the strange man said after a moment. "I don't think I've met you in this form."
"Ulyanov?!" Hao Ren's eyes widened as he looked at the tall and healthy man in surprise. He did not expect to reunite with the man in this situation. It was reasonable but unexpected. "I didn't expect to see you here … I can't even recognize you when I see the face version!"
Ulyanov's expression stiffened. He touched his face, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. "I was not born with a mask. Ah, meeting you reminds me of those 'dreams'. It's really confusing memories … Oh, should I call you Your Excellency or Governor of the Planet now? "
Ulyanov's expression was a little weird. He looked at Hao Ren with an awkward smile. "I just came out of the Social Adaptation Department and heard the teachings of the Root of Origin. You seem to be the master of this planet."
To be honest, he was like the other Zormians who had just woken up and could not quite understand the situation in front of him. But unlike the other Zormians, he had met Hao Ren before and had spent a long time with him. This made him particularly overwhelmed now. Hao Ren did not feel anything about it. He waved his hand. "Whatever. I'm just an adventurer. This planet is just a temporary place for me. I have given this planet to Zorm as its new home. You can do whatever you want here. I don't care. "
Ulyanov shrugged. "It's easy for you to say."
"Just listen to him." Nolan looked at the situation and said, "This guy is really like that, and he's rich enough to match the entire planet. How can you be polite to him?"
Ulyanov looked at Nolan in surprise. He felt that his' commander in the dream 'seemed to have changed a lot after not seeing him for a long time.
"What a coincidence." Hao Ren patted Ulyanov on the arm and motioned for the others to stop standing there. "Let's find a place to talk."
The group came to Ulyanov's temporary residence. It was a hut near the town's central square. There were more than a dozen of such huts around the central square, all built with simple wooden planks, for those who had just recovered from the blood pool and could not immediately return to their social roles. Ulyanov would live here until he "graduated" from the Social Adaptation Department. After that, he would be assigned to other parts of the town, either to work in production or to study some simple mechanical devices that could be used now and could be built with materials nearby.
"Now there is a shortage of manpower everywhere. Every day, strong adults come out of the blood pool, but there is still not enough manpower. We have to build stable and safe settlements everywhere, stock up enough food and strengthen the town before the temperature drops. Now these houses are too fragile," Ulyanov said about his life here. Strictly speaking, it was the life he just heard from the Social Adaptation Department. He looked out through the window of the hut, from where he could see the blood pool in the central square and the silver-white alloy antenna tower towering in the middle of the town. "I may have to go to the construction site by the river. This town is next to a river. Our people are trying to make use of it. With the materials at hand, maybe I can build a hydraulic mill before the planet's winter comes, so that the green tree seeds collected from the forest can be peeled off and preserved. We plan to use the tree seeds as our staple food. "
Hao Ren looked at Ulyanov, who looked a little tired. "How are you doing?"
Ulyanov rubbed his forehead. "I have some memory problems. You know, I just woke up from a long, long nightmare. They said that my brain is redividing the real and dream parts. The most difficult hours are over, but it is said that there will be some mild symptoms in the next two days. I can still remember fighting as a soldier and as a musician in the dream. But I also remember a long time ago, lying in a soul extractor and uploading my consciousness into the ark … I can't believe it was ten thousand years ago. "
"Your planet …" Hao Ren hesitated when it came to this topic.
"I know," Ulyanov smiled. "Everyone of us knows that the Root of Origin, oh, you should call it Zorm, has instilled everything that happened into our minds. When we wake up, we must first understand the situation in front of us. To be honest, that scene is unbearable, but it has happened, and now we can only look forward. "
As he said, he laughed. "In fact, we are very lucky — at least we survived and got a new home. The original Ark plan did not foresee such a situation. We should thank the Goddess for surviving in that situation. "
Y 'zaks asked casually, "You still believe in the Goddess of Creation?"
"Of course, why not?" Ulyanov said matter-of-factly. "Oh, although the dream messed up many people's thoughts, the first memory came back when we woke up. Of course, we remember who we prayed to before we entered the ark."
"Prayed?" Hao Ren seemed to have heard a very important word. "You said you prayed before you entered the ark?"
"That's right." Ulyanov did not understand why Hao Ren was so concerned about this. "The Goddess of Creation is our core belief. No matter what stage of social development, the church is an important part of us. We should pray."
Lily's ears suddenly perked up. She scratched Hao Ren's arm. "Mr. Landlord, didn't Muru say …"
"I know," Hao Ren waved his hand. "Muru only knows part of the truth. After all, he is not omniscient and omnipotent. I'll ask him when we get back. By the way, is your life here okay? "
Hao Ren's last sentence was directed at Ulyanov. The latter smiled and nodded. "As you can see, the basics are fine. The AIs responsible for maintaining the antenna towers on this planet helped build some houses and most of the necessities of life. These things — "
Ulyanov pointed to his clothes, which were made by the AI factory. It was a low-cost and fast synthetic fabric garment. "Clothes, medicine, some tools, and food are all provided by them. The people in the town walk to a distribution point a kilometer away every morning. There is a large platform where a robot covered with mechanical tentacles will drop the ration of supplies. But we have a population of 1.6 billion to return to the real world, and the AI factory alone can't feed them. So now we are also looking for ways to rebuild our production system. "
Ulyanov pointed to the hut where they were. "The strong men are responsible for building the houses, and the women are studying the flora and fauna. Zorm is replicating the species we are familiar with into this world. But to adapt to the planet's environment, many species have changed, and we have to learn about them again. I also heard that we have to limit the speed of population release from the blood pool because the supplies are not keeping up. Although the lifeblood will make the trees and crops mature quickly, it is still impossible to sustain the survival of 1.6 billion people in a short period of time. We can only leave more than half of the population in the virtual world, so that nature can grow healthily in the real world. "
Hao Ren listened carefully to Ulyanov's description of the current situation. He felt that this was valuable knowledge. A civilization starting on a strange planet, a group of people with nothing rebuilding society with the limited support of the alien factory, the way the Zormians and their autonomous robots got along with the ruins of the Tannagost civilization. These were all areas that were difficult to reach.
Hao Ren felt that it was necessary for him to accumulate as much experience as he could. After all, as a character who would blow up wherever he went, he really did not know when he would encounter a more sinister mission.
At this moment, a small noise from the central square suddenly interrupted the conversation between Hao Ren and Ulyanov.
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