Chapter 1531: The Deceptiveness of Blue Blood 3

Carefully sizing up the new human sitting across from her and confirming she really could build ships, Zhang San changed the subject. "You hauled that tin shack back from Mountain 67 yesterday just to use it for shipbuilding?"

Xia Qing answered carefully, "I didn't haul it back myself. After leaving Mountain 67, I took the shack apart and had the giant wolf carry it back for me. Third Brother, don't be fooled by how ordinary that tin looks…"

Zhang San's veins popped again. "I'm not blind!"

"The footage was so blurry, and you could still tell it was new anti-corrosion, anti-detection material — that's amazing!" Xia Qing immediately changed her tune, praised her idol, then went on. "This material is excellent building material. Old Four and I dug eight of them out of a tree hollow on Huiyi Mountain 28, and I traded the ore in the crates through Yang Jin for more of this building material. Besides that, I also traded thirty square meters with Yang Jin, forty square meters with Seeing Xin Yu, and got a batch back from Lan Jiu's Holy Reputation Auction House. When we have to take to ships to survive, you can pick any room on board — I won't say there's plenty, but one bedroom and one lab are definitely no problem."

Saying he wasn't moved would be a lie. Zhang San paused, then asked, "How many people can your ship carry? Who else do you want on board? What about your sheep, wolves, monkeys, chickens, ducks, fish — are you bringing them?"

Xia Qing answered, "The bigger and sturdier the survival ship the better. Our Ninth Center will build a big ship when the time comes; the one I'm building is my own small ship. When the storms are big, we'll be on the big ship; when they're small, on the small one. Besides you, Sheep Boss, Wolf Lao Er, and Does Daigua, my small ship has to take the chickens, ducks, and mealworms. Little Yellow Cow comes too — cows can swim, and we'll use it as transport. Beyond the necessary survival supplies, we need to bring as many soil boxes for grain and vegetable seeds as possible."

Zhang San was surprised. "Not the wolf pack, Yang Jin, Seeing Xin Yu, and the others from the territory alliance?"

Her idol had spent too long in the lab after all — too little survival experience, not enough understanding of human nature during a year of natural disasters.

Xia Qing explained, "Third Brother, by then the Blue Dragon Squad and Number Eight Territory's ships will be bigger than ours, and the other allies will choose to build their own ships and follow around our Ninth Center's big ship, because nobody wants others to know how much they actually have. Besides us, there'll be countless ships big and small built by other survivors out on the sea."

"Don't worry about the wolf pack — Broken Waist has new-material crates too, and Old Four's survival skills are way better than ours. When the time comes, not only won't they need our help, we'll probably have to rely on them to find the waters with the highest underwater land, the richest food, and the safest conditions."

Seeing her idol still wanted to hear more, Xia Qing kept going. "Once we reach waters suitable for survival, I'll take Zhao Ze and the others to dive down and survey the terrain, then drive piles into the underwater rock and build upward, piling up a stretch of land. Once the land is built, we'll move ashore — I'll keep growing grain and raising chickens and ducks, and you'll keep doing your research."

Zhang San asked, "What if you get separated from the wolf pack?"

Xia Qing gave a definitive answer. "If we get separated, we'll head for the equatorial belt. My dad said there's a calm-belt sea area near the equator — that's the best place for piling up rock to build an island."

Piling rock to build an island was easier said than done, but Zhang San believed that once Xia Qing picked the right spot, she really would do it. Even knowing the engineering involved was enormous, she would work at it without a day's rest. Even if she were the only one left, even if it took ten or twenty years, thirty or fifty, she would use rebar to bind boulder after boulder together and pile up a stretch of land on top.

In reality, Xia Qing would never be left with only herself. Because the people of the territory alliance and the Ninth Center — including himself — would all follow this powerful and resolute alliance leader…

After a long silence, Zhang San asked, "When your family moved from the Wanhe Gathering Area to Hui Three, did you consider the terrain too?"

Xia Qing nodded. "The land here is rising land — the risk of being hit by floods and seawater is relatively low, so the continent being swallowed by water isn't very likely."

Even if the possibility was small, this new human had made thorough preparations. Zhang San relaxed, lazily leaning back in his chair. Xia Qing's goal was crystal clear: no matter how great the disaster, she chose to survive by her own ability. Even if the world turned upside down and she lost the land, she wouldn't snatch someone else's boat ticket — she'd build her own ship, find a sea area suitable for survival, and pile up earth to make land and keep farming.

This goal was firm and clear. A farming lord who had never once thought of actively plundering others' resources could never be sweet-talked onto the Blue Blood Alliance's pirate ship.

So once Red One and his people arrived, what Zhang San should worry about wasn't them sweet-talking Xia Qing away, but that those people would very likely jump off the Blue Blood Alliance's pirate ship and snatch the boat ticket on Xia Qing's ship from him.

Imagining that scene, Zhang San laughed shamelessly.

Xia Qing got chills down her scalp from her idol's laugh. She held out the sugarcane in her hand. "Third Brother, want some?"

Zhang San didn't take what Xia Qing was holding. Instead, he pulled the fruit plate in front of himself, then pulled two sections of sugarcane and a dragon fruit from the fridge and told her to gnaw on them herself.

The diced way of eating didn't suit a new human with a big appetite. Zhang San speared a piece of dragon fruit and asked, "Your dad studied architecture — what about your mom?"

Brain-domain evolvers' brains worked fast, and they switched topics fast too. Xia Qing wasn't curious why her idol suddenly asked about her mother. She kept peeling the dragon fruit and answered, "My mom's a kindergarten principal."

Zhang San……

No wonder!!!

Although new humans couldn't be sweet-talked, Zhang San still decided to explain the Blue Blood Alliance to her properly. "The proposals of radical scholars like Professor Guo Qingbin — whether it's the 'Human Purification Plan' or the 'Elite Evolution Route' — rest on one very important premise: that humanity can identify with one hundred percent accuracy who is an 'evolver' and who should be abandoned."

Holding her idol's fruit knife and slicing the dragon fruit into pieces, Xia Qing shook her head. "That's impossible."

"Right, impossible." Zhang San went on. "Gene expression is full of variables, potential erupts in desperate circumstances. The advanced evolvers wearing gold identity tags now aren't necessarily humanity's fire seed. The act of screening for fire seed is destroying and burning humanity's gene pool and the possibility of future evolution."

"What Guo Qingbin advocates as 'rational compassion' — he personally witnessed the darkness and brutality humanity showed after social order collapsed, so he lost faith in human nature, discarded his own rationality, and displayed another form of madness. If radical policies were really pushed through, just like you said, what would end up being chosen wouldn't be fire seed, but a group of refined egoists defined as 'the strong.' A civilization built by such people, even if it could continue, would no longer be a civilization of 'humanity.'"

Putting down the fruit knife and resting both hands on her knees as she listened attentively, Xia Qing nodded. "You're absolutely right."

Zhang San paused, then stressed again. "Developing agriculture and improving everyone's physical fitness looks slower, but what we're repairing is the very structure of civilization. This path may be harder, but only survivors who walk out this way deserve the name 'humanity,' and only they have the right to inherit human civilization and represent humanity in creating the future."

"Right!" Xia Qing asked, "Third Brother, do you know who the core members of the Blue Blood Alliance are, and who the alliance leader is?"