For Perfikot, recruiting Dr. Jones was actually a dispensable matter.
James had excellent capabilities, and the Empire Exploration Company he contacted was also very responsible for this task. The exploration team they assembled, though specialized in finding mineral resources, had robust survival skills and related exploration techniques, with extensive experience in exploring the New Continent, and had successfully discovered multiple mineral deposits.
With such a professional team, for Perfikot, having one more or less history professor did not make much difference.
Yet, Perfikot still chose to recruit Dr. Jones.
The reason was that Perfikot regarded Dr. Jones as the 'thousand gold buys horse bones' kind of opportunity.
Simply put, the essence of her plan was still to preserve as much of the population as possible when the apocalypse arrived, allowing more people to survive.
