A Maybach on a rainy night? Talk to my Levadin!

"Yes, sir!" The three agents immediately stood at attention.

"Very good, at ease."

Zhao Zizhan turned around and went back to the Rhodes Island main ship; he was truly exhausted.

Radian looked in the direction Zhao Zizhan had disappeared and couldn't help but smile.

"What's wrong? Why are you so happy?" Ace walked over slowly. The new head of logistics had arrived on site, and he was there to coordinate management.

"I'm laughing. Xiao Zizhan has changed a lot these past two days. He was just pretending to be a child in front of us before..."

Most of the elite operators have crawled out of piles of corpses, so their ability to judge people is unparalleled. They have seen all kinds of people. Everyone saw the anxiety and the naivety that Zhao Zizhan showed when he arrived on the island.

But no one spoke up to expose it.

"He's a good kid. He just needs some time. Forcing a child to open up to strangers is really asking the impossible. Let time tell. Isn't it good to change things now?"

Ace replied casually that he wasn't one to preach; faith and action were things one had to do for oneself. The lesson of the Tower of Babel was still fresh in his mind, and language could only do so much.

"That's why I'm happy. Little Zizhan is starting to integrate into life on Rhodes Island."

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Back in his dormitory, Zhao Zizhan fell asleep immediately and slept for 12 hours before finally getting up.

The first thing I did after getting up was to find Master Warfarin to practice blood magic. I had used up most of my Originium while learning, so I needed to replenish it this time. I was pulled aside and given a lecture while casting the spell.

"Now that you have a stable blood source, you'll definitely want to try human blood. My advice is, it's best not to," Warfarin said as she mixed another Originium with blood and fused it into Zhao Zizhan's body.

"Human blood is more efficient than animal blood, but it's also more addictive. Once you get used to this feeling, your gaze towards humans will change, and you'll start to feel superior..."

"Never forget the bottom line of being a human being!"

As Zhao Zizhan left the infirmary, this sentence kept replaying in his mind.

I was indeed too radical. Haste makes waste. Drinking too much human blood can easily make me abnormal. I should just stick to feeding livestock blood. That would be a more stable approach.

But now that Kassel has taken notice, I really need to find a powerful backer...

Zhao Zizhan turned his gaze to the drone beside him.

He picked it up casually and walked towards the engineering department.

Half an hour later, Zhao Zizhan walked out of the engineering department carrying a stack of books. He had been studying these books for the past few days, and once he understood them, he would know how to build the drone.

He wants to use this drone technology as a stepping stone to the next stage of his career!

P.S. I'm planning to adjust my sleep schedule and try to update during the day, as I feel more people will read my posts during the day.

Chapter 51: Winning Over

During this period, Zhao Zizhan led a very regular life.

After deciding on a strategy of primarily using animal blood for blood-sucking, Zhao Zizhan began to purchase large quantities of blood from all kinds of animals, including pigs, ducks, cattle, sheep, and chickens.

Blood Demon's spells are far more convenient than other requirements. Although it still requires expanding one's knowledge through learning, as long as one can continuously accumulate resources, one's health and mana bars will keep increasing. This method of creating happiness through dedication is simply too convenient for someone like Zhao Zizhan who has money in his pocket.

The town after the natural disaster is not only a disaster area but also a huge mining area. A considerable amount of Originium can be mined here, which, after purification, becomes an excellent energy source. Other ores can also be purified to extract Red Gold. Strictly speaking, Rhodes Island, with its small mining units, is not lacking in Red Gold at all.

Rhodes Island's core problem is that it has money in its pocket, but it doesn't know how to spend it.

Crimson gold is considered rare even on Terra, mainly because most civilians lack the technology and equipment for refining ore and cannot process it. However, on Earth, it is extremely rare, as gold can only be produced by supernova explosions, and the total amount is limited. Yet, this stuff is extremely valuable in every aspect.

Rhodes Island's pure gold is highly sought after on Earth; with such high purity, no matter how much you produce, people will buy it all.

On the contrary, essential supplies like meat and fresh vegetables are more valuable than gold to Rhodes Island.

The price difference in gold and other commodities between the two worlds made Zhao Zizhan incredibly wealthy, and a large portion of that money was invested in acquiring livestock blood.

The trade in animal blood was completely ignored, because apart from a small portion that could be processed and consumed, the vast majority of it was wasted. It was either secretly dumped or disposed of according to government regulations, resulting in pure losses. In 04, when the Chinese people had only recently started eating meat and had not yet achieved the goal of having enough to eat, blood, an ingredient used to enhance flavor and requiring complex processing, was even less of a concern.

Zhao Zizhan's daily blood throughput is around 40,000 liters. The slaughterhouse receives cash flow every morning at nine o'clock. The amount is not large, and since it is his own young master's business, no one cares about it at all.

Warfarin was having a great time following Zhao Zizhan. She drank herself into a rosy complexion every day, and these days she always had a smile on her face, which made many of the other agents feel uneasy.

The reason why Blood Demons are hated is because they get hungry if they don't drink blood, and when they are hungry, they feel anxious. The Sarkaz have long been discriminated against and it is difficult for them to find decent jobs outside of Kazdel. Kazdel has been attacked more than 3000 times, and the last civil war has just ended.

This is precisely why even the Sarkaz themselves dislike the Blood Demon branch.

Because in Terra, which lacks industrialization, the largest and most abundant livestock is human. For Blood Demons, 5000 people are definitely much easier to find than 5000 beasts.

With a sufficient blood supply, Zhao Zizhan began to study frantically using the Dragon Blood Golden Eyes. The feeling of forcibly opening up the Ren and Du meridians and then instantly understanding everything was even more exhilarating than using a catheter.

Even so, understanding drones is still quite difficult.

Don't underestimate a small drone; the knowledge it contains is the culmination of the hard work of countless geniuses.

Terra's drones are mostly small to medium-sized multi-rotor drones, which involve hovering power calculations and six-degree-of-freedom motion equation calculations in aerodynamics courses.

The aircraft's fuselage and structure involve finite element analysis, carbon fiber composite material design, aluminum alloy aging treatment, and the flight control system requires the use of Kalman filtering algorithms.

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To write a flight control system, you need to do aircraft structure design and scanning, embedding development, and once image processing is involved, you also need to add OpenCV feature extraction. For autonomous navigation, there is also SLAM algorithm and improved versions of the algorithm.

To understand curved surface modeling, circuit design, and flight control development, given Zhao Zizhan's current hardware and software skills, it would be extremely difficult for him to figure this out on his own.

Without a high-performance computer, it would be extremely difficult to do this.

After I bring out the drone, I will definitely face questions from scholars from all walks of life, as well as exchanges between different colleges. If I open my mouth and have no idea what I'm talking about, everyone will know that what I bring out is from the wrong source.

At the very least, you need to understand how this thing can be made from scratch before you talk to your family back home; that would be much safer.

We need to think of a way to beg for alms!

It's clear that one person alone isn't enough; you need to bring in someone else to help.

Zhao Zizhan already had a target in mind for the best candidates.

At the Children's Palace, Zhao Zizhan found Chu Zihang, who was playing the role of a carefree kendo player at the kendo dojo.

This guy is really addicted to bullying newbies here. Zhao Zizhan watched as the other guy wielded a bamboo sword and brutally bullied the club members, while the people next to him kept cheering with smiles on their faces. The scene was so surreal that it resembled the team voice chat in Valorant.

Zhao Zizhan had also been observing the other person during this period. Others would say that this person was very talented in basketball and kendo, but Zhao Zizhan would say that this person was a pure open-minded person.

"Senior Brother Chu, please stop fighting for a moment. I have something to ask you."

After the sparring session ended and Chu Zihang left the battlefield under the admiring gaze of his opponent, Zhao Zizhan pulled him aside.

"What is it?" The simple sparring didn't even make Chu Zihang break out in a sweat.

"I have a research project that I'm currently short-staffed for. I wonder if Senior Brother Chu would be interested?"

What kind of research project?

"I have the overall design for a small to medium-sized civilian quadcopter drone, but there are many aspects that I can't handle on my own. Senior, please help me!"

My senior brother is so intelligent that he understands things faster than I do. Moreover, his father is a very wealthy man, so there's no need to worry about his investments. He's practically a chosen one. Why wait to recruit someone like him?

This is what Chu Zihang can't stand the most. Hearing the words "Senior brother is here to help me" really makes him feel itchy all over. Even if there is lightning in front of him, he would still go up and wade through it.

"In addition, I have made some unexpected discoveries that I would like to share with you." In order to ensure that Xiao Chu could be recruited, Zhao Zizhan specially increased the dosage of the medicine.

"An unexpected discovery?"

Chu Zihang was a little confused, but Zhao Zizhan simply handed him a photo.

Chu Zihang took the photo, his whole body suddenly trembled, and he stared at the photo intently. His pupils changed drastically, and a faint golden light appeared on them!

The photo shows the corpse of Deadpool!

Chapter 52: Deceiving Senior Brother Chu

Chu Zihang looked at the photo in his hand.

The photo shows the carcass of a strange animal. Its body looks like a human, but it is covered with dense scales that gleam with a metallic sheen. Its head is smashed to pieces, but you can still make out its ferocious mouth and eerie appearance.

It looks like a human in both its joints and appearance, but it is not human.

Legends of aliens, sea monsters, and UFOs are very common in this era, but most of them are hoaxes created by humans or misunderstandings caused by equipment with insufficient pixel resolution. But this one is different.

Chu Zihang could clearly sense that the moment he saw this thing, a power suddenly awakened within him, an impulse that he could hardly suppress.

This thing is real, and it's connected to my power!

He has great talent, and Chu Zihang himself knows that.

But as he grew older, Chu Zihang began to feel more and more clearly the differences between himself and others.

There seemed to be a power within his body, a power unlike that of ordinary people. The existence of this power made Chu Zihang begin to doubt the world he lived in.

He once suspected the existence of some kind of hidden world, but he could never find any clues, just like looking at flowers through a fog.

But looking at the monster in front of him, Chu Zihang was certain that he was right.

My own blood, my own body, are telling me that he is right.

For the first time, someone presented another world so directly before them.

"What is that...?" For the first time, Chu Zihang, who had been calm all along, hesitated.

"I know you're in a hurry, but don't rush. This isn't the place to talk. Let's go to my warehouse later and discuss this in detail."

Zhao Zizhan glanced around, patted Chu Zihang on the shoulder, turned and left, forcing a straight face so as not to give himself away. He left the Children's Palace while Chu Zihang looked on with a very anxious expression.

They rushed back to the warehouse and began using Rhodes Island's drones to clean it up.

He plans to upgrade his warehouse, which serves as a distribution center for his goods trading between the two worlds and will later become his research and development site. Therefore, the security level must be strengthened.

Simple anti-theft measures like roller shutters are not enough to stop people with all sorts of ideas; we must upgrade and reinforce the warehouse.

Fortunately, he didn't have to do it himself.

Zhao Zizhan now holds a high position in the logistics department. Possessing god-like logistics skills, he was immediately recruited by Raidian upon joining the department.

The main construction materials on Rhodes Island are still civil engineering and cement, but unlike on Earth, they are not reinforced with steel bars. Instead, they use a new material called carbon.

This lightweight, structurally stable, and highly processable material has a wide range of applications in engineering and architecture. After processing, high-purity carbon bricks can be produced as advanced building materials, providing extremely high strength reinforcement to civil engineering structures.

It can withstand the onslaught from the Terra Supermen.

Rhodes Island's carbon resources are currently in short supply due to its long-term reliance on land and lack of stable carbon sources. However, the recent disaster in the town and the clearing of the local ruins will allow for the recovery of a large amount of carbon. Mining, recycling carbon, refining crystals, training team members, conducting medical clinical trials, and disaster relief are not all losses for Rhodes Island. If handled properly, Rhodes Island can also gain considerable benefits from it.

Of course, without stable logistics, this kind of behavior is a complete loss, a huge loss.

"Hello, Mom," Zhao Zizhan dialed Ms. Cui's number.

"Hmm? Why is Xiao Zizhan calling me? What trouble have you run into?"

"No, I'm just planning to collaborate with Senior Brother Chu on a project, and we need to renovate this warehouse. I was wondering if there will be any problems?"

"What problem could there be? That warehouse is our own, you can modify it however you like." Ms. Cui Nianzhen didn't care about the warehouse at all. She could use it if she wanted, and she didn't care if she wanted to modify it. Ms. Cui Nianzhen was a little surprised that her son and that Chu Zihang got along quite well. However, out of concern, she still asked, "What are you going to discuss with that little Chu?"

"Researching a small airplane"

"Oh, a remote-controlled airplane? Sure, no problem." Cui Nianzhen had seen various robot courses and competitions for teenagers at the Children's Palace. Whenever there was one, the surrounding children would gather in circles. This kind of thing is especially attractive to little boys, and now it seems that her own son is no exception.

Wanting to do scientific research is a good thing, and her son isn't doing it alone; he's bringing along friends, so Ms. Cui Nianzhen has nothing to worry about.

It's perfectly normal for boys to like mechanics. Just let him play around with it. Building a remote-controlled airplane is a great goal for him too.

Cui Nianzhen thought Zhao Zizhan wanted to build a remote-controlled airplane toy, and didn't consider any other possibilities.

"Okay, thank you, Mom!"

Having received Ms. Cui Nianzhen's approval and knowing that the warehouse belonged to his family, Zhao Zizhan began to confidently and boldly renovate his warehouse. The first step was to renovate and clean the original structure, starting with the two large doors.

These two roller shutters are really unsafe; they're just a thin layer of metal. They won't do; they need to be replaced!

Changing it directly would be too conspicuous. I'll quietly change it for him in the middle of the night. There are no surveillance cameras these days. As long as I'm fast enough, it won't be a big problem.

As expected, Chu Zihang was a quick thinker. After learning the information he wanted, he went straight to Zhao Zizhan's secret warehouse.

The first thing he said upon meeting was, "Can you tell me what that is now?"

"Look at you, always in such a hurry."

Zhao Zizhan first let Chu Zihang enter the warehouse, then nervously pulled down the roller shutter before slowly speaking to him: "Actually, I don't know what this thing is either."

Chu Zihang is becoming quite popular.

"However, I encountered one of these things just recently."

Chu Zihang's eyes suddenly narrowed.