Chapter 1459: Chapter 1459

1459: Chapter 1455: Ancient Town Archipelago 1459: Chapter 1455: Ancient Town Archipelago Time always slips away unnoticed, but it’s usually only those who live relatively easy lives who have the leisure to lament how quickly it passes by.

For Lu Ping’an, this was a difficult vacation, or rather, an accumulation.

“The Great Counteroffensive has been going on for half a year now, heh, the battle reports are of victory after victory, the frontlines are retreating step by step, they should soon run out of deceits… If he still manages to deceive, then it’s time for me to make a move.”

This half year probably marked the greatest changes this Plane has seen, with countless Newborns emerging every day and myriads of Extraordinary visitors from Exotic Realms arriving.

The Director of the military department has been replaced twice over, Lulu is still hunkered down in the National Defense University, but the first batch of fast-tracked Trainees have already become frontline officers… To be precise, they were already quality combat power or grassroots backbones, but the frontline needed them, so they underwent a quick short-term training.

New Ancient Town has already gained some fame, to be exact, it’s Flower City as the Core, surrounded by four newly built artificial islands forming the Ancient Town Archipelago, and even far away in the Capital of New Kingdom, most have heard of its reputation and specialties.

This place has already become a new industrial, commercial, and educational Holy Land, with new businesses settling down, competing, dying off here every single day… Beneath the great waves sanding away, the other side of this extremely expensive land price is indeed generating equivalent business and social value.

Every day, countless cargoes come and go, and this place remains the largest Trading Land, industrial producer, and arms factory in this world.

This is the fruit of Lu Ping’an’s labor…

During this half-year, he actually intervened very little in the development of his surroundings, spending most of his time and energy on technological breakthroughs.

If not for his cheating-like methods, Earth’s technological industries would definitely not root and sprout so quickly in this world.

Vehicles, speedboats, large engineering equipment, ferries, Airships—what Lu Ming focused on first were all these “big and simple” items… Their birth also transformed this world in all aspects.

And among the Ancient Town, the population of Easterners, after several ferry transits, has grown from the initial few dozen to now fifty to sixty thousand…

This has meaninglessly become the largest human settlement in this world, thus attracting significant attention from the big shots of Lin Nu’s Church.

After all, we are all “human beings,” at least, most high-level professionals still consider themselves human despite reaching this point.

With so many local Easterners and the surrounding artificially expanded islands, it implies a massive population needing settlement, and in the end, it is also the “welfare” provided by Lu Ping’an.

“Professionals in this area account for nearly sixty percent of all residents…”

Even as new people continue to pour in, and professionals leave every day, this area still maintains a very high ratio of Extraordinaries.

After all, the legend of “becoming professional without risking life” has become a secret known by everyone in this world.

In fact, not only do people from Mercury 42 come here willingly, exchanging “life” for the chance to become Professionals, but even some Informed-persons from Earth will try every means to get a “ticket” over here.

If it weren’t for Lu Ping’an explicitly stating that this ability is awakened only from the fragments of this world and can only achieve (perfect) effects in this world, the Eastern Country’s Official Informed-persons might have long forced him to return at any cost.

And now, this restricted “strategic ability” has become the perfect negotiating tool for Lu Ping’an with certain parties.

Lu Ping’an is still here, but there are a lot more people from the Eastern Country’s Official coming, and the “admission review” of this world has suddenly become much looser, with a significant increase in the frequency of materials, resources, technologies, and common people coming and going.

“…I seem to have become a tourist attraction.”

Although it’s subtle, reality is just this magical, and the common people who manage to get this information and tickets to come here are often “not common”…

In a sense, they also become a force for Lu Ping’an, especially after experiencing the rapid advancement in the Courtyard.

Though they have shortened their lifespan by several years, in this world, this hardly seems like a cost.

After all, even staying in what seems to be peaceful towns has many inexplicable causes of Death.

The “Peace Road” Lu Ping’an has made a name for himself in both worlds, and it’s a fairly positive one at that.

Of course, most people consider him “super logistics”…

This man has not been seen on the frontline for a long time.

To be precise, whenever he does appear on the edge of the battlefield, some inexplicable Strongman emerges and wipes out the enemies.

But this does not mean that Lu Ping’an has weakened, in reality, this half-year has been his period of rapid growth since becoming a Rule-level life, and also his first long-term accumulation period since becoming a professional.

He has been addressing the shortcomings of his other Professions, bringing each sub-profession up to Rule-level, while catching up on the “courses” he lacked the most.

At least one-third of the continuously constructed artificial islands are privately owned by the Rebirth Commerce; in parts of them, it’s said there’s the legendary Holy Land Secret Realm.

It is claimed to house countless mystical Life forms, and various exotic Magic Plants, consuming which purportedly takes one straight to level ninety-nine…

“The C11 Experimental Zone has been scrapped, go ahead and destroy all the Life forms in it.”

Donned in a white coat, Lu Ming stepped out of his laboratory and activated the “Extinction Program” once more.

A few hours later, the large ecosystem filled with oversized flies and Mutated Venus Flytraps once again reduced to barren land.

And as he surveyed the newly cleared plot, Lu Ping’an pondered what to Plant this time…

“Right, Elder Liu mentioned a kind of Stone-man that lies between Life forms and non-life forms; Magic Plants can even parasitize it.

Maybe I should give it a try…”

Lu Ping’an is catching up, catching up on the most important lesson as a high-tier Life professional: playing with Life…

studying courses on Life.

With the support of the Courtyard and the Taboo Library, and with a “tutor” like Big Cat by his side, his progress has been quite rapid.

In Big Cat’s own words…

“Your year’s progress is equivalent to my ten years…

An ordinary Rule-level professional couldn’t catch up with you in their lifetime.”

Research has always been about burning through money and resources…

Perhaps no one in this world can rival him in these two areas.

Apart from the reserved lands of the Courtyard, he directly uses artificial islands for various ecological parks, employing a combination of abilities like “Life Programming,” “Life Wishing,” and “Investment” to cultivate Life forms directionally, accelerating their growth, Evolution, and demise.

Just how extraordinary a Life system can be is not really about combat power most of the time… With a certain degree of academic accumulation, no one lacks combat power, and Combat-oriented Gardeners have always been a niche path anyway.

And now that Lu Ming has gradually caught up on these courses, it’s not only a scarce component of his Power but also a prerequisite for him to advance further.

And he has another resource that probably other Rule-level Lifeforms could only envy…

“Guidance from four Quasi-Gods of the Life system… Before, I would not even dare to dream of such a thing.”