Chapter 105: Ask and Go Double (2) (1/2)
Chapter 105: Ask and Go Double (2)
Chi-Woo wasn’t alone in the house and was accouests Allen Leonard squinted one eye at Zelit Ru Amuh bowed politely, and Ru Hiana’selse
“It’s been a while,” Allen Leonard said with a s on a pillar as soon as Zelit came in
“I am ashamed of how I had acted,” Zelit replied
“Haha It’s fine since you came back Please sit”
Like Allen told him to, Zelt sat on the floor and blinked hard at Ru Hiana, as she crouched over the yard and observed soround
“What is…that?” Zelit saw a fist-sized, translucent sli across the floor
“Ah, he’s a new friend Iaway fro it, and Chi-Woo called out to it, “Hey! Bag!”
“Bag?” Zelit asked The bun’s na the way
“I call it that because it’s able to hold a lot of goods Thanks to it, I was able to bring all the food supplies here at once” While the two conversed, the bun slid between them
“Let me introduce you This is my companion,” Chi-Woo told Zelit The bun swished around, and although it didn’t have eyes, Zelit felt like the bun was aze Zelit didn’t knohat this creature was, but since Chi-Woo introduced it as his friend, Zelit coughed and bowed; then he said, “Nice tobut simply looked up at hireat volu us the food supplies Likewise, I think ill be indebted to you in the future too, so I areeted the bun seriously After staring at Zelit intently for a moment, the bun said, “Ppyu”
Then the bun forhtly toward Zelit Zelit stared at the small hand blankly and extended his own hand, carefully reaching his index finger out to touch the bun’s translucent hand The bun shook his hand like they were shaking hands, and Ru Hiana squealed, “What!? Why did it ignore me but respond to Zelit!?”
“You tried to touch it as soon as you saw it, saying it was adorable and all that,” Ru Amuh told her the reason
“Still…”
“Would you like it if a stranger tried to squeeze you whilea fuss? Furthermore, it’s someone our teacher introduced to us as a friend,” Ru Amuh further explained And while Ru Hiana expressed her distress, the bun pulled back As if he was pleased to be greeted with such courtesy, the slime jumped on top of Zelit’s head and stayed there
“Hey! What the hell!” Chi-Woo yelled as the slith of Zelit’s head
Yet Zelit calmly responded, “No, it’s fine Besides that, I want to hearhis eyes away frohed and collected his thoughts He wasn’t sure where to begin since they had such a huge ive up out of fear before anything began After all, he had learned fro was, if he kept trying, he would eventually see a path out—just like he had been able to escape the cave when he couldn’t think of leaving in the beginning
‘We must have faith’ The future only opened for those who did Chi-Woo believed this was so he needed and could do
“I realized when I cao on like this It seeo to the next level,” Chi-Woo finally spoke The time had ‘come’ to them, and whether they were prepared or not, they had toin this state, even the future they were heading to would be ruined As soon as Chi-Woo finished speaking, all attention shot toward hiht of what Chi-Woo was going to say next
“Are you…” In surprise, Zelit gasped, “Are you saying that we should expand our forces and build a faction?”
“It’s still too early to say,” Chi-Woo replied Even while ais he could and couldn’t do just like how a newly born infant couldn’t simply declare to be the president the next day
“But I think we need to create the conditions and environment for us to develop into a faction”
“Conditions and environment…” Zelit quietly murmured
Chi-Woo took one step backwards He wasn’t saying that they should expand their forces now, but that they should prepare the stage before that However, even that was difficult in their current situation Zelit didn’t think Chi-Woo was oblivious to Liber’s and the recruits’ current situation, yet Chi-Woo was saying they needed to reach a higher stage and make the impossible possible
“It’s impossible” Zelit shook his head “In our current situation, there’s no hope for us to create a faction whatever we do I’m sorry if that’s what you expected, but this is our reality”
There were things only a God could do; but this—what they were trying to do noas so that even a God couldn’t do That was how i Liber was
“I kno the current situation is,” Chi-Woo nodded and said while looking at Zelit “Let : what do we lack now that prevents us fro our forces?”
Zelit licked his lips Many thoughts rushed to hishow Chi-Woo had told hiive his opinions and leave the decision to hihts after some period of silence
“First, we need to increase our population drareed Currently, the recruits ait number: 6-70 people atthey used to be back when they were in the forest—not even enough to fill up a village If they took the natives into consideration, they had a little more than 200 people, but it would be unreasonable to expect much help from them
“It’s difficult for me to say for sure since I don’t know the other factions’ situations, but I think it would be difficult for us to make deals with our current numbers”
“Population, population…” Chi-Woo tapped the mat with his index floor “Would we only need to increase the population?”
“No If our population increases, we have to prepare an environment to support the increase” For example, they would need a more stable system of food and water supply, and further the population is by far the most important,” Zelit said The power of population was truly forraphy, Paul Morland said Since people acted as labor in industries, consumers who buy products, and resources that exerciseforce for growth in national power As history showed, the rise and fall of a nation were highly correlated with their population, and all large e population count
Chi-Woo asked, “How should we increase our population?”
“Hmm…” Zelit felt a little aard “The simplest and most traditional method is to form a family”
“?”
“Well, for people who like each other to get married and have kids and—”
Ru Amuh wondered if he heard correctly, and Allen Leonard, who had been listening seriously so far, laughed Ru Hiana’s ears also slightly reddened