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Having figured this out, Zhou Qing walked out of his house, with the 400 mechanical guards still behind him.
The best kind of helper is naturally one that is trained from a young age.
He planned to wander around here, see if he could gather a group of people, and then take them away to find a new planet.
Zhou Qing walked down the street with his mechanical guards, and the scenery of Xiachao was as bleak as ever. However, under the intimidation of his 400 mechanical guards, no one dared to approach him.
After searching around and collecting only about 80 babies and orphans, Zhou Qing felt that this efficiency was too slow and he needed to be more efficient.
Capturing the imperial officials from this planet, as before, would undoubtedly be a difficult task.
After all, doing things that way would be far too high-profile.
Since those high-ranking officials can't be arrested, are there other people in the local area besides them?
As a researcher, he still has a very sharp mind.
Therefore, after only a brief moment of thought, Zhou Qing shifted his attention to the gang leaders who had come to beat him earlier.
"Go and arrest those gang leaders for me, and then bring these orphans with you. Now we're going back."
If there's a way to get others to work, why do it yourself?
Having made up his mind, Zhou Qing stopped in his tracks and turned to give orders to his robotic guards.
Zhou Qing's mechanical guards immediately sprang into action, dispersing like precise hunting dogs to every corner of the hideout. In less than three hours, more than a dozen gang leaders, bound hand and foot, were dumped in the underground warehouse in front of Zhou Qing.
These creatures, who usually wield great power and influence in their nests, are now terrified.
They witnessed firsthand how those powerful humanoid monsters easily broke through layers of defenses and dragged them over like chickens.
"M-Sir..." a gang leader with a scar on his face stammered, "We are willing to offer everything..."
"Shut up." Zhou Qing interrupted him coldly, lightly tapping his temple with his finger. A wave of spiritual energy swept across, and all the gang leaders clutched their heads in pain.
"Now, listen carefully." Zhou Qing's voice, amplified by psionic energy, echoed directly in their minds. "I need you to do one thing."
He snapped his fingers, and the warehouse walls suddenly became transparent. Outside were the orphans and children he had collected over this period of time.
"Collect healthy orphans for me, but not too young or too old, between 8 and 16 years old, and send them to me."
Faced with such a request, none of these gang leaders dared to refuse; they quickly nodded in agreement.
"Yes, yes, we understand. The adults have the final say. We understand and we will do as they say."
"Hmm," Zhou Qing nodded in satisfaction, seeing that these people were quite sensible.
Meanwhile, the mechanical soldiers who were already standing next to these gang leaders lowered their enormous cannons, which were larger than all of their heads combined.
"Now you can go back and do it. I will assign four soldiers to each of you to protect your safety. After all, you are now working for me, so I have to protect your safety."
"Of course, don't thank me yet. I have a request: when you get back, send me all the supplies from your warehouse."
"Don't worry, I won't just take it from you this time."
Send your supplies over, and I will provide you with food, some automatic weapons you need, even laser guns, and even the explosive guns you desire.
If they were somewhat dissatisfied with Zhou Qing's initial orders, they had no complaints after hearing the subsequent orders.
This is a great time to acquire weapons; it would be truly foolish to be dissatisfied now.
"Understood, understood. Just watch, sir. We will definitely bring back everything you need."
Chapter 18 Green Food on the Tip of the Tongue
The gang's efficiency is quite good.
Or rather, it shouldn't be that their efficiency was quite good, but rather that there were simply too many people at the bottom of the Nest City.
According to the rules of the Human Empire, these guys at the bottom of the hive are not even citizens of the Human Empire.
They were in a situation where neither their parents cared for them.
This has resulted in a situation where all sorts of orphans and children are everywhere in this area.
Although Zhou Qing initially stipulated that good health was a prerequisite.
With a large enough population base, even though finding healthy people is so difficult, these gangs still managed to find quite a few, sending 8 people to Zhou Qing in just 10 days.
With so many people, his current place of residence is definitely not enough.
Zhou Qing needs to find himself a new place to settle down.
It is certainly inappropriate to continue living inside the bottom nest of the hive city.
This is, after all, human territory; it would be quite troublesome if we were discovered.
It's not good to squander one's spiritual power recklessly.
It wasn't that Zhou Qing was reluctant to part with his spiritual energy, but rather that the spiritual energy in this world was too strange, and he couldn't find the virtual realm here.
The energy that the warp could provide him was too chaotic, and every time he restored his psionic energy, it took a long time to remove the waste.
This was eliminated with the assistance of federal equipment.
I really can't understand why the warp in this world is so chaotic.
The power within it is less a mixture of psionic energy and chaotic corruption, and more a mixture of chaotic corruption and a trace of psionic energy.
Although he was not afraid of the corruption of chaos, psionic energy was like something he had to put into his stomach.
Imagine if there was a lump of poop stuck to your food, could you really eat it?
Zhou Qing is currently in such a state. For him, extracting spiritual energy from the subspace to restore his spiritual energy consumption is like picking food out of a pile of shit.
Every time Zhou Qing did this, he felt utterly hopeless.
He needed to constantly convince himself that these psychic energies were purified, delicious, and not shit.
But even if you clean the excrement to the utmost, as he said before, does that change the fact that it was fished out of excrement?
In order not to constantly deplete his spiritual power, Zhou Qing made a decision: he would move away from this nest city.
"Little Gray, please help me pull up a holographic image of this planet and find a suitable place to live temporarily."
This needs to be habitable, but also sufficiently secluded. I don't want to waste energy on concealment, so find me a sufficiently hidden place that won't attract the attention of the human empire.
The Creator's request has been received; the search is currently underway. Search complete.
The holographic 3D planet image in front of Zhou Qing immediately began to zoom in and then pointed to a plain.
The plain looked lush and green, full of all kinds of fungi.
Food shouldn't be a problem, Zhou Qing nodded with satisfaction upon seeing this scene.
However, he seemed to have nodded too soon, as some green-skinned boys appeared in front of his image immediately after he finished nodding.
If it were someone from the human empire, they might immediately start cursing, but Zhou Qing was different; instead, he nodded with even greater delight.
He captured several of these peculiar creatures during this period to study them, and eventually discovered that they were edible, composed of fungi and animal tissues.
These creatures have well-developed muscles and brains that are purely animal tissue, while their blood and internal organs are purely fungal tissue. Such an organization is truly peculiar.
Because these two things shouldn't be living beings, but Zhou Qing's research revealed that they actually blend together quite harmoniously.
Just like Zhou Qing couldn't understand why there was a Star Sea Empire composed of stone creatures in the Star Sea.
In short, this creature is completely beyond the biological research system of the Human Federation, but that's not the point. It's not here to study how the green skin is formed; it's here to study whether the green skin is edible.
Some greenskins, or orcs, have fungal tissues that are indigestible for ordinary people in these human empires.
According to his research, a temperature of over 2500 degrees Celsius is required to dry out these fungal tissues.
If those fungal tissues are not dried up, these things will actually grow new green skin in a short period of time!
This is clearly a very dangerous food.
Although the human population of the Federation is physically capable of consuming and digesting them, it has no impact on the Federation's people.
Who made sure that all his subordinates were from the original human empire?
Therefore, he must have to make some considerations.
Those fungal tissues are inedible for his current group of people.
However, as mentioned before, the green skin is composed of fungal tissue and animal tissue. The fungal tissue is inedible, but the animal tissue is edible.
Most of the orcs who wield knives experience muscle growth at a faster rate than other organ growth during their development.
Therefore, their muscles are more toned, and their tendons are quite thick.
If the blood in these muscles were removed, they would become one of the most prized meats in the entire galaxy.
To verify his idea, Zhou Qing personally cooked a dish of orc biceps brace.
After the blood is removed using a civilian centrifuge, the biceps are cut into steaks perpendicular to the muscle fibers and then marinated in high-quality brandy for a day, which will give the steaks a rich aroma of wine and fruit.
Its color will also be quite beautiful, becoming very pink. After marinating, these foods can be put into the oven and baked at 1800 degrees Celsius for 40 minutes.
The best time to bake this is 40 minutes. After baking, the steak will be very tender, and the muscle tissue will be completely destroyed by the high temperature.
Of course, considering that these people were recruited by the human empire, this is for their safety.
Therefore, when cooking, these meat patties are usually sterilized at a high temperature of around 2400 to 3000 degrees Celsius.
This way, there would be absolutely no problems, and a delicious orc steak would be ready. This was the best news Zhou Qing could have.
Now that he's all alone, he definitely can't go out and produce a lot of food to feed his men. Greenskins are different; they grow and reproduce extremely quickly, and they also have a lot of meat.
More importantly, he is now researching how to eat these fungi as well, so that he can achieve a balanced diet of meat and vegetables.
With a little more research, it can completely meet all the needs of ordinary people, and most importantly, its production capacity is enormous.
In Zhou Qing's eyes, were those beastmen on the plains really beastmen?
That was his own warehouse.
Those are their own granaries, those are their own fields!
More importantly, areas with greens are generally not constantly monitored by human empires, which means they are safe.
Is this killing two birds with one stone?
It satisfies not only the need for food, but also solves one's hidden needs!