Chapter 275 can be used as both food and fodder

  The tenth day when the wave broke out.

  Many players have noticed that there have been some strange NPCs on the battlefield in the past two days.

They wear orange chemical protective suits and black gas masks on their heads, and they don't communicate with others. Usually, two people carry a stretcher and remove the alien corpses from the battlefield in groups of three or five. Busy until the sun goes down.

  The efficiency of these NPCs is very high. The two of them can transport four to five hundred corpses out a day. It seems that they are experts who often do this job.

   Some careful players even saw that they actually had a KV-1 exoskeleton?

  Although it is a "fruit outfit" without welded steel plates or mounted weapons, it costs 800 silver coins to put it in an NPC store, which is equivalent to four LD-47 rifles.

   The players leaning against the concrete **** bunkers looked curiously at the backs of these NPCs and whispered.

   "What the **** did the dog plan do?"

   "New professional corpse exorcist?"

   "Comfortable, finally someone cleaned up these ghost things."

   "+1, it stinks!"

   "Obviously the pain can be blocked, but the smell can't be blocked!"

   It is not easy to clean up the corpses of alien species.

  Based on the brains of the players, they must have used all the methods that can be used.

  At first everyone discussed the plan to use fire, but the actual situation is not as optimistic as imagined. Often the surface layer is burnt into coke, the fire is extinguished, and the buried body is still raw.

   This game always fails to be real in strange places. One Molotov cocktail is enough to kill two or three gnawers, but three Molotov cocktails are not enough to burn them to ashes.

  The water content of the fruiting bodies of slime molds is much higher than that of humans, and the water vapor itself will take away a lot of heat.

  Plus fats, grease analogs and the like are not so easy to ignite, and often need to continue to add a lot of fuel to maintain the fire.

   If it is difficult to understand, you can try a piece of meat from the refrigerator, it will take some time to cook it, let alone burn it to ashes.

  Currently, the main way to deal with these corpses on the front line is to drag them outside the city for burial, but the transfer speed of the corpses is far behind the speed of accumulation.

  The main offensive of the wave usually lasts from 6 o'clock in the evening to 6 o'clock in the morning of the next day, continuously attacking the players' positions.

  Counting the crawlers that the hunter team searched and killed in the ruins, each player can kill more than 30 per day on average.

   Obviously, the number of these heterogeneous species is far more than the 100,000 originally estimated.

  After all, the number of players killed in a day is about 20,000 to 30,000, and the wave has passed ten days, but there is no sign of weakening.

   Fortunately, due to factors such as the width of the battlefield, the huge number of waves cannot be fully deployed. If you encounter so many different species on the plain, I am afraid that if you double the number of players, you will inevitably fall into a difficult battle.

  According to the statistics posted by the players responsible for transporting ammunition to the front line, in the past three days, the daily consumption of ammunition has been around 100,000 rounds.

  A full-power 7mm bullet weighs close to 25g, and 100,000 rounds equals 2.5 tons of ammunition.

  In order to get enough materials for the ammunition production line, Chu Guang could only mobilize the newcomers to dig the ancestral graves of Renlian, and at the same time command the military factory to open two new ammunition production lines to produce steel-cored steel-cased ammunition.

  Compared with copper-cased ammunition, although steel-cased ammunition has many problems such as poor ductility, non-reloading, and possible rust, in Chu Guang’s view, all the shortcomings can be overshadowed by one advantage-that is, it is cheap.

  Anyway, the ammunition was quickly sent to the front line and consumed, so it was unnecessary to consider the issue of preservation. The ammunition produced on the assembly line did not need to be reloaded, and the recovered ammunition was directly sent to the steel factory for melting.

  Starting from the eighth day, the battle situation on the front line has entered a stage of attrition.

  Batch after batch of ammunition was transported to the front line, and batch after batch of corpses were dragged from the front line, most of them belonged to aliens, and a small amount belonged to players.

  At first, those corpses were moved by newcomers, dragged to the suburbs to dig a pit and buried, but recently a group of professional NPCs took over the work, and those corpses disappeared, and no new pit was dug.

  Many players who love to dig out details are full of confusion and curiosity.

  What about the corpses of different species?

  Where did they all go?

   But this curiosity didn't last long.

  Some careful life professional players soon discovered that in the southernmost part of the new industrial zone, there was another NPC factory after the Bucky Aluminum Factory, named Didiwei Food Processing Factory.

  The main products of this factory are nutrient cream and organic fertilizer, and it also supplies sulfur and phosphorous ash to fertilizer factories.

  Those trucks coming down from the front lines.

   seems to be heading there...

  …

   "Wasteland OL" official website.

   Found that the WC in the New World really had mosquitoes, I couldn’t wait to open a post on the forum,

   "Big news! The whereabouts of the Gnaw's body have been found!"

  Stop talking about it: "Where did you go?"

  Makabazi: "Hurry up! Don't be so secretive!"

  Battlefield atmosphere group: "Exactly!"

   Seeing the public outrage aroused, Mosquito, who wanted to ferment the topic for a while before revealing the answer, didn't dare to continue to play tricks, and hurriedly typed.

   "Didiwei Food Processing Factory! It's at the southernmost edge of the industrial zone. I saw it with my own eyes, those trucks dragging corpses drove straight in!"

  Old Bai: "Pfft... this name."

  Quit smoking: "What the hell?! I bought one yesterday! (horrified

  Ye Shi: "Awesome! You even bought it?!"

   Quitting smoking: "Uh, it's mainly because it's cheap. A catty of nutrition cream is only 1 silver coin, so you can eat two meals. (Embarrassing

  Fang Chang: "Not at all. (laughing and crying

  Ye Shi: "I feel sorry for the quitting brother...this is too economical. (cover face

  Sisi: "Hey... have the foodies finally let go of the eaters?"

  Tail: "Shocked! Is this a loss of morality, or a distortion of human nature!"

   Quit Smoking: "Hey! Is it weird to save money to buy equipment? I just want to spend the silver coins in more useful places. Don't you plan to spend money when you play games?"

Fengfeng: "Depending on the situation, if you can get satisfaction from virtual food in the game, it means that food is part of the game experience provided by the operator. Wouldn't it be putting the cart before the horse if you sacrificed part of the game experience in order to become stronger? (Slanting eyes )”

  Tail: "Oh! Tail thinks so too! (ω

Irena: "It makes sense, the eater is the fruiting body of the slime mold, right? Although it looks a bit like a mammal, it should be regarded as a mushroom in biology, right? It's okay to eat it, right? But what I don't understand is , why can’t you eat it directly, you can eat it as a nutritional paste. (Funny)”

  Elf King Fugui: "Lao Na, what do you want to do. (Funny

  Irena: "Nothing, just curiosity. (funny

  Curiosity is curiosity. Lao Na, who is far away in Honghe Town, has no chance to taste even if she is curious about the taste.

  However, there are quite a few young players who are keen to die, and out of curiosity, they took out a silver coin to buy a catty, and tried it for him.

   It's not expensive anyway.

  One silver coin can't be bought to suffer losses, and can't be bought to be fooled.

   Some small players who are willing to share, even posted testimonials on the official website.

  Based on an objective evaluation, the taste of the nutrient paste made from mutated slime mold is actually not particularly novel. And because of the low salt and sugar content, it tastes almost tasteless.

  If it’s just like this, it won’t be hard to swallow, but what really tortures people is the sand-like taste, which is really hard to describe.

  After eating, I always feel a mouthful of phlegm stuck in my throat.

   Coupled with the green color, it fully suppresses the appetite.

  Many players have finally realized why some NPCs would rather starve to death than eat this stuff.

   This thing is really not for people to eat!

  After posting the testimonials, the topic on the forum quickly became how to make the nutritional cream less difficult to swallow.

  Scrambled eggs with tomatoes: "If you can get a wall breaking machine to make the particles finer, the taste will probably be better."

  Yaoya: "You can add a little more chocolate and sugar! (

  Fujito: "Wait...it's going to be expensive, right?"

  Fang Chang: "+1, the cart before the horse."

  Originally, the characteristic of nutritional cream is that it is extremely cheap.

  People who can afford chocolate, no matter how they think about it, it is impossible to buy such things as nutrition cream.

  The topic quickly changed from "how to make nutrition cream less unpalatable" to "how to make nutrition cream less unpalatable at the lowest cost".

   At this time, a player majoring in chemical engineering suddenly appeared.

   "How about some saccharine?"

   "Sodium o-benzoylsulfonimide? Cheap is cheap enough, but it's not very good for the body."

   "There is a safe dosage, it doesn't matter if it is less than 5mg per kilogram of body weight... so what should I choose?"

   "Big Brother 666!"

   "Is this bringing capitalists?"

   "Let's line up first, the street lights are not enough. (Funny

  …

   While the players were still discussing, Didiwei Food Processing Factory, located in the southernmost part of the industrial zone, was working overtime.

  The area of ​​the factory building is not small, about the size of a football field. One of the two warehouses has collapsed, and the remaining one is in good condition and can be used just right.

   Judging from the broken bricks on the ground, this place should have just been cleaned up, and many places have not had time to clean, but this does not affect production.

After inspecting the industrial area and Changjiu Farm in the northern suburbs three days ago, Dittwig immediately recruited a group of small and medium-sized grain merchants in Boulder City, raised a huge fund of 300,000 chips, and purchased a complete set of production equipment for nutritional cream. Together with the old one in his small workshop, the hired mercenaries sent it to the northern suburbs.

  The land rent in the northern suburbs industrial zone is very cheap, rent-free for the first two years, and the only costs are water and electricity fees, management fees, and 20% corporate income tax.

  Compared to Boulder City, this cost is already very low.

  Especially the labor cost here is cheap.

  The basic daily salary of an ordinary worker is 10 silver coins, including the meal expenses, etc., the actual cost of a month is only about 400 silver coins, and the monthly cost of employing 20 workers is only 8,000 silver coins.

  What is the concept of 8000 silver coins?

  To be honest, Dittwig doesn't have an accurate concept either.

  The exchange rate conversion standard provided by the bank is that one chip can be exchanged for 2 silver coins, but this is definitely not the market exchange rate, otherwise the wages of the workers here are ridiculously high, and the basic daily salary can reach 5 chips.

   What's more, the banks here only provide the service of exchanging chips, dinars, and CR into silver coins, and cannot directly exchange silver coins into chips or other currencies in reverse.

  If you must use chips, you need to apply for the company as a unit, write clearly which equipment to buy, and exchange it after approval.

  The control of foreign exchange here is very strict.

  But it is not as strict as other small survivor settlements in Qingquan City, such as prohibiting residents from privately holding chips, or privately trading with outside businessmen.

  Ditwig didn't really care about these things.

  Although there is no way to exchange silver coins into chips, you can use silver coins to buy things, and then transport them to Boulder City to sell them.

  The things produced can also be taken away at will, as long as the tax is paid, they can be exported.

  In addition, Shelter 404 also provided him with a ready-made factory building and a low-interest loan of 600,000 silver coins to pay for a series of expenses such as labor, water and electricity.

  It is equivalent to not spending a penny to set up a factory here!

   It is enough to provide equipment and technology!

   It doesn’t matter if you lose money. The factories have a limited liability system, and debts will not be traced back to individuals. At most, equipment and other assets will be auctioned.

   With such a generous condition, Dittwig was so moved that he was about to cry!

   "...At present, the average daily processing capacity of our factory has reached 100 tons, and the daily production capacity is 10 tons of nutritional paste and 4 tons of organic fertilizer!"

   “I promise you, this number will at least double again before the end of the month! Maybe even triple!”

   Walk in the spacious factory building.

  Ditwig, with a red face, is enthusiastically introducing the production line he got from Boulder City to the manager next to him.

  I saw workers in protective suits throwing the carcasses of eaters, crawlers, and even butchers into containers made of steel.

   Their appearance and what they are doing are completely unreminiscent of food production, but rather like destroying corpses.

  The corpses in the container were full, and the workers standing on the operating table operated a device like a tower crane to lift the container and move it directly above the cylindrical metal tank as thick as an oil tank.

  As the container tilted, corpses of different species fell into the huge metal tank like dumplings.

  The circular hatch was sealed, the pressure indicator began to rise, and with the roaring buzzing sound, the whole device started to work.

   And the same thick metal tank, there are a total of eight seats here!

After being canned, these corpses will undergo 24 hours of high temperature, drying, inactivation, extrusion and other processes, and then transported through pipelines to the workshop on the side of the factory building, and then go through a series of complicated procedures to separate the active ingredients. .

  After this series of pretreatments, the thick substance produced is like lumps of green slime, and basically no connection with the mutant slime mold can be seen.

   Ignore the smell, even a little cute.

   "... 100 tons is still a little less. There are at least 20,000 aliens killed on the front line every day. I hope you can handle more than 400 tons before the end of the month."

   Looking at the equipment in the factory with interest, Chu Guang asked casually.

   "By the way, what about the market? Is the nutrient cream produced easy to sell."

   This is Chu Guang's second concern.

   Dittwig smiled and said confidently.

   "Don't worry about this. Although these devices are not the most advanced, our cost is cheap enough! In terms of price, we have an absolute advantage to beat our competitors!"

  Besides the cheap production cost, setting up a factory here has a huge advantage over setting up a factory in Boulder City, that is, convenient transportation.

  Although the resources in Qingquan City are abundant, the road conditions are really hard to describe. One kilometer here is harder than ten kilometers outside the city.

  In front of the two-three-meter-long tunnel and the four- to five-meter-high cliff, let alone wheeled vehicles, even crawler vehicles have to be discouraged.

   Therefore, when the caravans in Boulder City do business with surrounding areas, they usually choose two-headed cows or other livestock as their means of transportation.

  Some cross-regional caravans will also choose to settle outside the city, and then hire local ox carts to communicate with the survivors' strongholds in the city.

  However, in the northern suburbs, this problem is much easier to solve.

  This place itself is a suburb, and there is a wilderness outside the city. The products produced in the factory can be directly loaded onto a truck and towed away.

"...At present, my partner has secured an order worth two hundred thousand chips from the farmers in the South. They need a large amount of nutrient cream to feed their slaves and livestock, and our price and supply are such that they cannot refuse of!

  “The other party even expressed their willingness to come to pick up the goods. This will be a long-term sale!”

  Chu Guang glanced at him unexpectedly.

   "Can nutrition cream be fed to livestock?"

  Ditwig had a confident smile on his face.

"Of course! Nutrient cream can be eaten by humans, and of course it can be eaten by livestock, and it is a very high-quality feed! Some farmers will mix them with green wheat and feed them to two-headed cows. will be much stronger than those that eat straw and pasture!"

good.

   Chu Guang nodded, with a satisfied smile on his face.

   I didn’t expect the nutrient cream to be so widely used.

  One day, even if the food processing factory is not doing well, it can’t pay the loan, and finally goes bankrupt and liquidated, he doesn’t have to worry about losing money.

   Dittwig had the same expression on his face.

  Although he invested a huge sum of 300,000 chips at one time, he didn't feel distressed at all, because the money would be earned back soon.

  The electricity price in the industrial area of ​​Shelter No. 404 is the same as that of Boulder City. Combining all the costs together, the cost of each ton of nutrient paste is only 200~208 silver coins.

  According to the official exchange rate of 1 chip for 2 silver coins, it is equivalent to recharging 100 chips to get a ton of nutritional cream.

   In Boulder City, even Weijia Commercial Firm costs more than 200 chips to produce a ton of nutritional cream!

  Usually, the retail price of nutrition cream is between 1 and 2 chips per kilogram, while the wholesale price starts at one ton, ranging from 300 to 400 chips per ton.

what does that mean?

   This means that his cost is only half of that of Weijia Firm!

  The profit is more than three times that of theirs!

  The huge room for bargaining allows him to set the ex-factory price directly below the cost line of the other party as he likes!

   As for branding?

   What kind of brand effect do you need for a nutritional cream that feeds livestock?

  The only requirement of the buyer is to not die and to be full. Even if a "large quantity" sign is posted on it, it will not make the nutritional cream any better.

  No matter how Dittwe thinks, this is a sure-fire deal.

   And this is only the profit of the nutrient cream, the waste left over from the production line can be made into organic fertilizer, or sold to the chemical factory next door.

  Looking at the non-stop running equipment in front of him, and listening to the rumbling sound, Dittwee felt his heart beating.

  If it wasn't for the manager standing by, he couldn't help but cheer for the brood that was desperately giving birth.

   "Let the waves come stronger!"

  …

  In fact, it doesn’t matter even if Dittwei shouted it out. Chu Guang is not so narrow-minded, and would blame him for a few words.

   Got rich.

   Excitement is normal.

  However, no matter how much he earns, it is impossible for him to earn more than Chu Guang.

  More than 70% of the production cost of Didiwei Food Processing Factory, whether it is water and electricity or raw material purchase fees, is paid directly to the shelter.

   Not to mention that every ton of goods produced has to pay a 20% tax to the shelter before it is sold.

  The wages paid to the workers, although not directly paid to the shelter, will eventually flow back to Chu Guang.

  In this circular economic chain, it not only solves employment and feeds the labor force, but also boosts the consumption capacity of residents and generates more demand.

   It is impossible to calculate exactly how much Chu Guang won.

   In short, it's winning!

  …

  After inspecting the operation of the food processing factory, Chu Guang didn't stay in the industrial area for too long, but went straight to the front line.

  The battle on the front line has become more and more intense recently.

  In the past week, Chu Guang's work focus was basically on the logistics side.

   Now that the problems of the plague and the fiscal deficit have been resolved, he can finally focus all his energy on solving the problem of the tide without any worries.

  Temporary command post.

  Chu Guang convened the frontline officers and staff officers and held a combat meeting.

   Guard Captain Wrench first reported the battle situation during this period.

   Then Vanus, who served as a staff officer, summarized the intelligence and expressed his point of view.

  "...The stalemate has lasted for ten days, and the wave's offensive shows no signs of weakening, while the loss of ammunition and personnel on the front line is constantly increasing."

   "There are indications that our enemy has deployed hatching chambers and even broods on the front line, and the location is around 65th Street."

   As he spoke, Vanus drew a red circle on the map with a pen, enclosing the area near the clock tower on 65th Street.

  Although there is no direct evidence to prove that the brood is there, according to the pictures taken by the drone, the creepers that infiltrated the player's side positions basically spread out from here.

  Chu Guang frowned slightly.

   "That is to say, the alien species we have encountered recently is not the wave from the city center? But they hatched nearby?"

  Vanus shook his head.

   "It's hard to say, but their delay in launching a full-scale offensive is quite suspicious. It's hard not to think of some bad things."

   Wrench suddenly said.

   "I don't know if it's right to say that, but these alien species always give me a feeling... as if they are preparing for something."

  After a few days of probing, these aliens have become familiar with the players' defense strategies, but they are still sending the nibblers continuously.

  If it wasn't for lack of IQ...

  Vanus frowned.

   "Are they stalling for time?"

  Wrench nodded.

"I also believe so."

  Chu Guang stared at the map and thought for a long time, then said.

   "The frontline position has been stabilized, and our ammunition depot on the edge of the Fifth Ring Road has stockpiled enough ammunition and equipment. Now is the best window for counterattack."

   As he spoke, Chu Guang looked around at the surrounding officers and staff officers.

   "Whatever they are preparing."

   "Let's get this mess out of the way once and for all, before they're ready!"

  —

   (Thanks to the leaders of "Little Yaxi", "The Girl Riding a White Horse", and "Silence in the Wind and Rain" for the reward!! Sorry, I am a little late today T.T)

  (end of this chapter)