The next day.
On the vast sea of Lu Su Star, Fang Er and the King of Lu Su arrived at the island mentioned yesterday.
The island was about 30,000 square kilometers in area, barren and covered with solidified volcanic lava rocks. Not a single living creature could be seen.
A mountain peak, about a thousand meters high, stood in the center of the island. Hot air currents were visibly rising from the crater at the summit.
This was a live volcano!
Fang Er couldn't help but frown. Extracting the purple stones from a live volcano was undoubtedly a difficult task.
Wang Xuance, standing beside him, quickly came up with an idea.
"Duke, how about..."
"Throwing a couple of big firecrackers to artificially trigger the volcano?"
"Maybe it'll erupt then?"
The King of Lu Su didn't know what "big firecrackers" were and looked at Fang Er curiously.
"Brother Fang, what does he mean?"
Fang Er glared at Wang Xuance, signaling him to stop talking nonsense.
Then, he smiled awkwardly at the King of Lu Su, "Nothing, he's joking!"
Using the same method as with Mount Fuji to detonate the volcano was a good idea, but the resulting pollution could not be ignored.
He did not intend to use this method unless absolutely necessary.
After careful consideration, he left Wang Xuance and others there and returned to the main world himself.
Professional matters required professional people to handle them.
At the Southeast Military Region Headquarters, Li Yannán was first surprised to see Fang Er suddenly appear. He quickly recovered, opened his arms, and rushed forward with a laugh.
"Hahahaha, you're finally back, kid!"
"I've been worried sick about you these past few days!"
"A while ago, our fleet was detected going into space again. Did something happen?"
"How was it? Did you fight aliens again? Did you win? Any spoils of war?"
Fang Er was speechless, smiled, and shook his head, then walked to the sofa and sat down.
"With so many questions, you're not planning to let me eat, are you?"
"That's easy, wait!"
Li Yannán threw these four words and rushed out of the office.
When he returned, he was holding two buckets of instant noodles.
"Come, come, eat and talk!"
Fang Er: ???
What the hell...
But seeing that the noodles were already being prepared, he took a bucket, and while eating, he recounted what had happened.
Li Yannán didn't react much to the discovery of the Beggar people on Mars.
However, when Fang Er mentioned the Lu Su planet, the guy immediately became agitated.
He suddenly stood up and asked excitedly.
"You mean you found a planet several times larger than Earth that humans can inhabit?"
Fang Er nodded, "It seems so for now!"
"But that's not the point..."
Before he could finish, Li Yannán interrupted him.
"What do you mean not the point! A new planet, do you know what that means!"
"Resources! Land! Population!"
"These are all things we need!"
Fang Er rolled his eyes at him, "Are we lacking these?"
Li Yannán: ...
In Great Tang, Hua Xia had already sent professional personnel to develop Africa.
Li Shimin didn't fancy it, but for Hua Xia, no inch of land was useless!
With nearly 30 million square kilometers of land, three times the size of Hua Xia, and only a few million indigenous people there, they could develop it as they pleased!
Anything they brought out would be treasured by the natives, who would worship the soldiers like gods.
Therefore, what he just mentioned, resources and land, were indeed not things Hua Xia was currently lacking...
He was momentarily speechless, scratching his head and sitting back on the sofa.
But then his eyes suddenly widened.
"No!"
"Resources!"
"That planet must have things that Earth doesn't have, and these can greatly boost technological development!"
"Quickly tell me, what is it like there."
"Do you have pictures? Do you have videos?"
Fang Er shrugged, "Want to know? Go and see for yourself!"
Li Yannán was stunned for a moment, then became even more excited.
"I get it! You came here suddenly because you need my help with something!"
Fang Er hadn't appeared for a long time, and as soon as he returned, he talked about the Lu Su Star. It must not be for no reason!
Thinking of this, he burst out laughing.
"Hahahaha, I knew it, you wouldn't come here without a reason. Tell me, what do you want me to do!"
Fang Er explained in detail the purpose of his return.
He didn't want to interact much with the higher-ups, so some things had to be handled through Li Yannán as a bridge.
Therefore, there was no need to hide many things from him.
"I need expertise in geological movement, especially related to volcanoes."
"Additionally, I need a strong geological survey team and a mining team!"
"At the same time, you need to find ways to provide all the corresponding equipment and special vehicles."
Li Yannán's face was almost creased with smiles.
These requests were nothing to him.
As soon as Fang Er finished speaking, he patted his chest and promised.
"Don't worry, it'll take three days at most!"
After saying that, he got up and walked to his desk, picking up the red phone.
"Hello Chief, this is Li Yannán!"
".............."
After the phone call ended, Li Yannán walked back and sat beside Fang Er with a smile.
"Brother, the higher-ups said that all of this is fine!"
"You know what our title 'Infrastructure Demon' means!"
"As long as it's related to this, nothing is a problem!"
"However, they asked me to ask if you could bring more people over."
"You know, after all, it's a new planet."
Fang Er did not refuse, nor did he have any reason to refuse.
A planet was truly nothing to him now.
After all, Atali Star was still there.
When he returned to Lu Su Star again, the Infrastructure Demon had also rushed out of Earth, taking on its first interstellar engineering project.