Chapter 160 Chief, the money is not enough!

  The Fifth Ring Road in the northern suburbs of Qingquan City.

  An office building on the twentieth floor located on the edge of the ring road elevated, the crooked corridors are covered with dark green slime mold and corroded moss.

  The orange-yellow tracer warheads weaved a net in the corridor, the scorching air almost scorched the air, and in the center of the fire was a three-meter-tall humanoid beast.

  Its skin has been completely keratinized, its gnarled muscles are pitch black, its arms are covering its head, and it actually pushed forward two steps abruptly against the electromagnetically accelerated mass bomb.

   But only two steps—

"Roar-!"

   Let out an unwilling roar, the three-meter-high tyrant finally fell heavily under the concentrated fire of the Gauss rifle.

  Five power armors, in this kind of terrain, there is no reason to lose.

  Lu Yang gestured neatly, and the team members in power armor stepped forward, and continued to advance along the corridor covered with slime mold, until they came to a thick alloy door.

  One of the team members walked to the door, pulled out a thumb-thick thread from the armour, and connected it to the touch screen on the right side of the door.

  "The key has been obtained...Successfully entered safe mode."

   "Open the gate."

   "Received, opening."

  The door trembled for a while, and slowly opened to both sides.

  The stale air hits my face.

  Looking at the ashes on the ground, Lu Yang felt joy in his heart.

  Leaving two small team members guarding the door, he walked in with the other two, looked around, and the excited expression on his face became more and more obvious.

   "Comparisons match..."

   "We found it!"

  CO2 trap!

  One of the indispensable basic public facilities for high-density urban agglomeration.

  In an era of prosperity where population and industries are highly concentrated, carbon emissions are quite a scary figure. It is obviously not enough to rely on traditional green plants to absorb excess carbon dioxide. Even if the entire city is filled with green plants, it is impossible to absorb so much greenhouse gas. Oxygen deficiency will become another major development problem after the heat island effect.

   After the People's Federation entered the middle of the prosperous era, the widely adopted solution is to apply the carbon self-sustainment technology that has been practiced in space activities.

   That is, a carbon dioxide treatment device is installed on a specific floor of a high-rise building to convert carbon dioxide into other carbon-containing compounds through multiple complex chemical processes, so that the air level in the area can reach a livable level, and at the same time, some industrial raw materials can be produced.

  It is said that with just half a floor of space, the carbon dioxide processed each year is comparable to an entire virgin forest, or seaweed in a sea area.

   A group of people searched carefully in the facility, and soon found a standby thermonuclear fusion generator that had been shut down.

Since entering the wasteland era, the carbon emissions in the territory of the People's Federation have dropped sharply, even falling to the level before the industrial revolution, those carbon collectors will naturally stop working, and the thermonuclear fusion reactors that supply power for them will naturally also stop. down.

   Because of this, the carbon dioxide trap is one of the few facilities that can stably recycle thermonuclear fusion fuel rods after the war.

  Lu Yang took his marines and carefully removed the fuel rods that stored liquid helium III.

   "Done!"

   "How much energy is left?"

   "93%"

   "Enough for us for a long time!"

  Helium 3 is a stable isotope with a negligible half-life. Although thermonuclear fusion cannot be activated as often as cold fusion, the advantage is that there is almost no need to worry about "fuel" loss when the reactor is shut down.

  This is completely incomparable to cold fusion batteries.

   Carefully kept the fuel rods in the metal cylinder, the marine soldier who had completed the operation took a look at the large and small boxes and storage tanks around him.

   "Sir, what do you do with the things here?"

   Lu Yang glanced around.

   "Stay here."

   "Our allies should be able to use it."

  …

  At the same time, the Pioneer, more than 20 kilometers away, was in the office of the logistics department.

   Li De, who was sitting on the office chair, looked at the spreadsheet displayed on the flexible screen, with surprise written all over his face.

  This is the production report of last week.

  One of the most eye-catching data is that they recycled 1,872 tons of garbage last week, reaching 255% of the expected efficiency!

  Those blue coats are not so ruthless. The average daily recycling volume has reached an astonishing 267.4 tons, and the average daily collection is 1.3 tons per capita, which is even more amazing than before the war! If these jobs were handed over to the natives, one-third of the efficiency would have to laugh out loud.

   And what they spent extra was only 9360CR.

   Li De couldn't believe his eyes. If his secretary hadn't handed him the report himself, he would have wondered if something was wrong.

   Are they all robots? !

   No, it is easier to use than a machine!

  To this day, a week has passed since the battle with the Legion, and the Pioneer is still filled with a sad atmosphere. Many people are wallowing in the grief of losing their comrades, their morale is low, and their work efficiency is low.

   But these blue coats are different.

  They obviously suffered more casualties, but they were still not overwhelmed by difficulties. Instead, they turned their grief and indignation into motivation, and lived every day positively and optimistically.

   What a powerful belief and faith this is!

  In short, thanks to the hard work of those blue coats, they almost emptied the entire underground parking lot, plus two abandoned factories that stored industrial waste containing cobalt and nickel.

  From the total weight of 1872 tons of garbage, they successfully recovered 941.4 tons of metal and successfully processed it into the required parts.

   There are even more.

   Just when Li De couldn't help feeling emotional, the secretary Wang Jie standing in front of the desk suddenly spoke.

   "By the way, there is one more thing."

  The tablet unfolded in his hand was gathered into a pen like a scroll, and he threw it in the drawer. Li De looked up at the secretary in a good mood, and said kindly.

"what's up?"

  Wang Jie looked a little embarrassed, but he still spoke.

   "It's about the demands of the frontline engineers... They demanded that the attendance subsidy be increased from 10CR per hour to 15CR per hour."

   "...?"

   Li De looked confused.

  What the hell? ?

   Didn’t these lazy dogs still complain a few months ago that there was too much money in their pockets to spend, and they disliked his stack of waste papers and tricked them to go out to work.

  Why do you think the subsidy is less now?

  Wang Jie's expression remained awkward, and he spoke quickly.

"Maybe... the survivors we met before were too poor, and the benefits on the Pioneer were too good. The money in their pockets really has no place to use. I don't know how to evaluate it, but recently our employees There is a bit of extravagance when it comes to spending money ... I think we should limit it a little bit."

   Li De blushed and knocked on the table with his hands thickly.

   "The question is what did they spend their money on?! Did they use it to wipe their ass? How much can it cost to buy a few buns?!"

Wang Jie: "Of course it's not just buns, but also dumplings with various fillings, glutinous rice balls, soy milk, fried dough sticks and... ahem. I think we need to upgrade our mobile kitchen. Those blue coats are slightly processed with our raw materials. Selling it to us will make a lot of money from our hands."

  Li De: "..."

  Wang Jie swallowed and continued.

"In addition to food, they also sell clothes, scarves, and some small items recently, especially a kind of silk fabric, which is very popular with female passengers. They call it devil silk, and it seems to be a specialty of the central region. Surprisingly Yes, the tenacity of this thread is extremely high, almost as strong as the fire-resistant fibers we use in body armor... The power of nature, to be honest, is so amazing that even I was surprised. Our technicians studied it for a long time, I have figured out its ingredients, but I still haven't figured out its industrial synthesis method."

   Li De rubbed his eyebrows.

"Only this?"

  He didn't care about the silk of the devil moth, nor did he care about what clothes and small items the female crew members bought.

  He just wanted to know how much CR they wasted in the hands of those blue coats.

  These banknotes are not restaurant receipts.

   Instead, it must be cashed on the spot!

   "Well, there are some special ingredients, such as black truffles...they are very cheap there, 1 gram only sells 1CR."

   Li De suddenly raised his head.

   "1 gram only sells 1CR?! Is there any more???"

  Wang Jie looked at the section chief in surprise, and nodded in a daze.

   "There should be, that mushroom seller sets up a stall in the operation camp around six o'clock every night... Section Chief?"

   Immediately realized his gaffe, Li De quickly came back to his senses, coughed lightly, and continued with a serious expression.

   "I'm just a little surprised, I didn't expect them to know how to enjoy it... By the way, is the magnetic confinement plasma CNC processing machine repaired?"

  Wang Jie nodded and said.

   "It's been repaired. Our warehouse staff just delivered it to them, and it will probably be sent to their outpost on the surface in a while."

  Thinking of that machine tool, Li De felt a little pity in his heart.

  At that time, I was in a high mood, and the decision was too hasty. If only the machine tool could help them recover 100,000 CR.

   It shouldn't be free!

   But those blue coats did them a big favor. They didn't ask those blue coats to support their war, but they did so anyway, and when the battle was most anxious, they rushed up with their guns without hesitation.

  Honestly, it's hard to say what the final casualties would have been without them. Maybe they had to drop a second tactical nuke, maybe far more than three died that day...

  Li De thought for a while, if he made another decision, maybe he would still choose that way.

   Sighing slightly, he said.

   "Well, just deliver it, and we should leave after a few days."

   It will not be a problem after all to procrastinate like this.

  The longer it drags on, the more difficult the road ahead will be. If it wasn't for a sudden anchor, they wouldn't have had to fight the legion.

  Wang Jie: "The salary increase..."

Li De said without saying a word: "Tell those slackers...I mean those engineers, the salary increase proposal will be raised at the regular meeting at the end of the month. This is a procedure. In addition, I will find a way to move the kitchen and let the technicians see it Let's see if we can add a few food processing procedures."

  Of course, Li De intends to charge a fee if it succeeds.

  What is that word called?

   Yes, additional value-added services!

  As soon as he heard that the issue of salary increase was moved to the end of the month, Wang Jie immediately understood what the section chief meant, and couldn't help showing a helpless expression.

   "Okay, I'll pass it on to them."

   Wait until the end of the month.

  The banknotes in those people's pockets have no place to spend.

   Naturally, there will be no clamor for a raise.

  …

  The repaired machine tool is still on the way, and it may take some time for the express to arrive.

   Afraid that the players would damage the thing, Chu Guang specially arranged for two light trucks to transport it. An empty truck with a snow shovel attached to its bumper drove ahead, followed by the one with the lathe.

  If you encounter a roadblock or a dark ditch, the previous truck will find it in time, and the latter truck can avoid it.

  In order to ensure nothing goes wrong, Chu Guang also asked the prudent old Luca to sit in the car with him.

  The road conditions on the wasteland are really bad. The section outside the city is a little better. Many roads into the city cannot even be walked by four-legged animals, let alone wheeled vehicles.

  Chu Guang plans to build a road after a while to connect the outpost and the operation camp.

  In the future, where the players of Vault 404 put the flag, they will build the road.

  How did you say that sentence?

  If you want to get rich, build roads first.

   Implementing this project in the wasteland will not be easy, but it will be worth it.

   While waiting for the machine tool to be delivered, Chu Guang was not idle, but sat in the resident hall of the refuge, turned on the computer and glanced at the official website forum.

After a whole night of fermenting, the little players who couldn't go to work finally vented their grievances, and the atmosphere of communication in the forum finally returned to normal, and the topic changed from "We rushed Aguang together" to "What has been updated in Alpha 0.8".

  Everything is as if nothing happened.

  In general, players who have experienced the changes in the new version online are still very interested in this unique stronghold gameplay and regional reputation system.

  Especially when they learned that "donate supplies to gain regional prestige" and "operation camps can grow into survivor strongholds when their prosperity reaches 100", they obviously worked harder.

In other MMORPGs, NPC towns are just a bunch of non-moving textures, but in "Wasteland OL", the survivors' strongholds are built by the players themselves, and they will follow the players. Game behavior, grow together with the players.

   This wave is simply the perfect combination of RPG and SLG, one game experience the joy of two games.

   It's a **** profit, okay?

  The players are enjoying themselves, and Chu Guang didn't spend much effort.

  For him, it was nothing more than compiling a few simple formulas based on the report of the previous month, and asked Xiaoqi to help make a data card similar to the "property panel".

   Regardless of whether there is an update of Alpha 0.8 or not, he will do the monthly report, but now it is disclosed to the players in the form of a "progress bar".

   As for the usefulness.

  The main purpose is to share with the players the joy of growing a small sapling into a towering tree.

  After all, just telling the players that thanks to your efforts, how awesome our refuge is now, the players are probably at a loss. But if all these efforts are quantified into a visible progress bar, who can say that the layout is useless at all?

  Look at Boss Xia’s weapon shop, there is a brick you contributed. Doesn’t it give you more motivation when you want to move bricks?

   And no matter how miserable the players who couldn’t be revived due to bugs are, those players who are still online and have already made an appointment have blown up anyway.

  Chu Guang, who was completely relieved, copied a few good bad ideas and kept them in his small notebook, then stretched and leaned on the computer chair.

   "The courier will take an hour to arrive, what should I do?"

correct.

   It seems that the blind box can be opened again.

  Chu Guang's eyes lit up, he sat up from the computer chair, stared at him, opened the administrator system, and switched to the [Administrator Allowance] subpage.

  These days, the game behavior of the players is relatively simple. They mainly do resource collection tasks in the action camp.

   But even so, after this week, Chu Guang still accumulated 33 reward points.

  The old rules, 3 intermediate blind boxes, 3 primary blind boxes.

  But just as Chu Guang was about to draw the prize, his heart suddenly moved slightly.

etc.

  Since it’s all gambling, why not play a big game and try to open 33 primary blind boxes at a time?

   In case if the intermediate blind box or even the advanced blind box rewards are issued from the elementary blind box, wouldn’t it be a blood profit?

  Anyway, it's useless for him to ask for so many dog ​​skin plasters and treatment needles.

  Thinking of this, Chu Guang no longer hesitated, and immediately put all the reward points in the account on the leftmost icon.

   "System, bring me 33 primary blind boxes!"

"open!"

  (end of this chapter)