Chapter 160 Section Chief, the money is not enough!

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

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

  The orange-yellow tracer warheads weave a net in the corridor, the scorching airflow almost scorches the air, and the center of the fire is a three-meter-high humanoid beast.

  Its skin has been completely keratinized, the muscles of Qiujie are pitch black, and its arms are protecting its head, and it is actually pushing forward two steps against the mass of electromagnetic acceleration.

   But only two steps——

"Roar--!"

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

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

  Lu Yang made a clean gesture, and the team members in power armor stepped forward and continued to advance along the corridor full of slime molds until they came to the edge of a heavy alloy door.

   One of the team members walked to the door, took out a thumb-sized thread from the forearm armor, and connected it to the touch screen on the right side of the door.

   "Key has been obtained... Successfully entered safe mode."

   "Open the door."

   "Received, opening."

   The door panel trembled and slowly opened to both sides.

   A stale air blows in.

   Looking at the ash on the ground, Lu Yang felt a burst of joy in his heart.

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

   "The comparison results are consistent..."

   "We found it!"

  CO2 traps!

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

   In a prosperous era with a high concentration of population and industries, carbon emissions are a rather terrifying number. If relying on traditional green plants to absorb excess carbon dioxide is obviously not enough, even if the entire city is filled with green plants, it is impossible to absorb so many greenhouse gases. Oxygen deficiency will become another major development problem after the heat island effect.

After the   People's Union entered the middle of the boom era, the widely adopted solution was to apply the carbon self-sustaining 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 be livable, and at the same time, some industrial raw materials can be produced.

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

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

After entering the wasteland era, the carbon emissions in the People's Federation dropped sharply, even to the level before the industrial revolution, those carbon traps naturally stopped working, and the thermonuclear fusion reactors that powered them naturally also stopped. down.

   It is for this reason that carbon dioxide traps are one of the few facilities that can be stably recycled into thermonuclear fusion fuel rods after the war.

  Lu Yang took his own marines and carefully removed the fuel rod storing the liquid helium-3.

   "Get it done!"

   "How much energy is left?"

  “93%”

   "Enough for us for a long time!"

  Helium III is a stable isotope with negligible half-life. Although thermonuclear fusion cannot be activated at any time like cold fusion, the advantage is that there is almost no need to worry about the loss of "fuel" 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 Corps soldiers who completed the operation glanced at the large and small boxes and storage tanks around.

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

  Lu Yang glanced around.

   "Just 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 Section.

  Li De, who was sitting in the office chair, looked at the spreadsheet displayed on the flexible screen, and his face was full of surprise.

  This is the last week's production report.

   One of the most eye-catching data is that they recycled 1872 tons of garbage last week, reaching 255% of the expected efficiency!

  Those blue jackets are not ordinary. The average daily recycling volume reaches an astonishing 267.4 tons, and the per capita collection per day is 1.3 tons, which is even more amazing than before the war! If these tasks were handed over to the natives, one-third of them would have to laugh out loud.

   And what they spend extra is just 9360CR.

  Li De could hardly believe his eyes. If this report hadn't been handed to him by his secretary, he would even wonder if something was wrong.

   Are they all robots? !

  No, it's easier to use than a machine!

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

   But these blue coats are different.

  They obviously suffered more casualties, but they were still not defeated by difficulties. Instead, they turned their grief and anger into motivation and lived their daily lives positively and optimistically.

   What a powerful belief and belief this is!

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

   From this 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 but sigh in his heart, Wang Jie, the secretary standing in front of the desk, suddenly said.

   "By the way, one more thing."

   put the tablet in his hand into a pen like a scroll, and threw it in the drawer. Li De looked up at the secretary in a good mood, and said with a pleasant smile.

"what's up?"

   Wang Jie's expression was a little embarrassed, but he still spoke.

   "It's about the demands of the frontline engineers...they are asking to increase the attendance allowance from 10CR per hour to 15CR per hour."

  “…?”

  Li De was stunned.

   What the hell? ?

   These lazy dogs were still complaining a few months ago that there was too much money in their pockets to spend, and they disliked his stack of waste paper to trick them into going out to work.

  Why do you think the subsidy is too low now?

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

"Maybe... the survivor settlements we've encountered before are so poor, and the benefits on the Trailblazer are so good, they really don't have any money in their pockets. I don't know what to say, but recently our Employees do get a bit sloppy when it comes to spending...I think we should limit it a bit."

  Li De blushed and tapped the table with his hands thickly.

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

Wang Jie: "Of course 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. As soon as you sell it to us, you get a lot of money from us.”

  Li De: "..."

   Wang Jie swallowed and continued.

"And then besides food, they've recently been selling clothes, scarves, and small items, especially a silk fabric that's very popular with female crew members, they call it devil silk, which seems to be a specialty of the Midlands. Surprisingly Yes, the toughness of this kind of thread is very high, almost the same as the fireproof fiber we use in body armor... The power of nature, to be honest, is amazing, even I was surprised. Our technicians studied it for a long time , I figured out its composition, but I still didn't understand its industrial synthesis method."

  Li De pressed his eyebrows.

"are these all?"

   He didn't care about the silk of the devil moth, or what clothes and small items the female crew members bought.

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

   These banknotes are not restaurant signatures.

   is to be cashed on the spot!

   "Uh, there are also some special ingredients, such as black truffles... They are very cheap there, 1 gram only sells 1CR."

  Li De raised his head sharply.

   "1 gram only sells 1CR?! Any more???"

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

   "There should be, the mushroom seller sets up a stall at the action camp every night around six o'clock... Section chief?"

   Immediately aware of his gaffe, Li De quickly regained 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, has the magnetically confined plasma CNC machining machine been repaired?"

   Wang Jie nodded and said.

   "It's fixed, our warehouse staff just delivered it to them, and it will be delivered 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 overwhelmed and decided to do it too hastily. Otherwise, the machine tool could help them recover 100,000 CR.

   It shouldn't be free!

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

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

  Li De thought about it, if he made another decision, maybe he would still choose that.

   sighed softly, he said.

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

   It's not a problem to drag on like this.

The longer the    dragged on, the harder the road ahead would be. If it hadn't suddenly broken down, 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 proposal for salary increase 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 let the technicians move the kitchen. See if we can add a few more food processing processes.”

   Of course, Li De intends to charge if he can succeed.

   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 but have a helpless expression on his face.

   "Okay, I'll tell them."

   Wait until the end of the month.

   The money in those people's pockets has nowhere to spend.

   Naturally, there will be no clamor for a raise.

  …

  The repaired machine tool is still on its way to be delivered. It is estimated that it will take some time for the express delivery.

  For fear that the players would break the thing, Chu Guang specially arranged for two light trucks to transport it. An empty truck with a snow shovel on its bumper drove in front, and the one with the lathe behind it.

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

  In order to make sure 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 part outside the city is a little better. There are many roads into the city that even four-legged animals can’t pass, let alone wheeled vehicles.

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

   In the future, the players in the 404 Refuge will build the road wherever they put their flags.

   What did that sentence say?

  If you want to get rich, build roads first.

   Implementing this project on wasteland is not easy, but it is definitely worth it.

While    was waiting for the machine to be delivered, Chu Guang did not sit idle, but sat in the residence hall of the shelter, turned on the computer and glanced at the two-eye official website forum.

After a whole night of fermentation, the little players who were unable to work, finally vented their resentment, and the atmosphere of communication in the forum finally returned to normal, and the topic changed from "We rushed Aguang together" to "What exactly is updated in Alpha0.8".

  Everything seemed like nothing happened.

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

  Especially when they learned that "by donating materials, you can gain regional prestige", and "when the prosperity of the operation camp reaches 100, you can grow into a survivor base", they worked significantly harder.

In other MMORPGs, NPC towns are just a bunch of stickers that don't move, but in "Wasteland Online", the survivors' strongholds are built by the players themselves, and they will follow the players. game behavior and grow with players.

   This wave is simply the perfect combination of RPG and SLG. One game experiences the joy of two games.

   It's just a **** profit!

  The players were so happy, Chu Guang didn't spend much effort here.

   For him, it was just a few simple formulas based on the previous monthly report, and Xiao Qi helped him create a data card similar to the "Attribute Panel".

   No matter whether there is an update to the Alpha0.8 version, he will make a monthly report, but now it is open to players in the form of a "progress bar".

   As for the usefulness.

   is mainly to share with players the joy of growing small saplings into towering trees.

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

  Look at Boss Xia's weapon shop, there is a brick you donated, don't you feel more motivated when you want to move bricks?

   And no matter how miserable the players who cannot be resurrected due to bugs are, those players who are still online and who have made reservations have already blown up anyway.

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

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

correct.

   seems to be able to open the blind box again.

  Chu Guang's eyes lit up, he sat up from the computer chair, and opened the manager system with a pair of eyes, and switched to the [Administrator Allowance] sub-page.

   These days, the game behavior of players is relatively simple. They mainly do resource collection tasks in the action camp. The completion of daily tasks is very general, and there are a lot of unqualified ones left every day.

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

  Old rules, 3 intermediate blind boxes, 3 beginner blind boxes.

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

and many more.

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

   If the reward of the intermediate blind box or even the advanced blind box is opened from the beginner blind box, wouldn't it be a **** profit?

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

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

   "System, bring you 33 elementary blind boxes!"

"open!"

   (end of this chapter)