Chapter 297 White Bear Knights!

  Dawn City North.

   Changjiu Farm Trading Station.

  Standing next to a "Electric Mule" truck full of goods, Sisi stroked his chin and pondered for a long time, when suddenly he tapped his right fist on the palm of his hand.

   "How about calling it the Panda Merchant Group? We have both bears and cats."

   Sitting on the ground, Rourou shook his head like a rattle.

   "NONO, pandas are too far behind."

   What Rang Sisi didn't expect was that not only Rourou, but also Tail raised his hand to raise objections.

   "Against adding one! The names of Tail and Sis don't appear at all!"

  Sisi: "Uh, I think you can just add your own name, I don't care."

  Tail seriously said: "How can it be done! We must think of a name that everyone can appear in!"

   "That..." Sesame Paste raised his hand and whispered, "Let me declare first, it's just a part-time job... It doesn't matter if you don't think about me."

  Although it is fun to play with everyone, she really prefers a more leisurely game than setting up a mercenary guild and becoming a star pirate to conquer the universe.

   For example, riding a motorcycle to deliver goods at various survivor strongholds is pretty good.

   Not only can you see the different scenery of this vast world, but you can also meet many people who can't be contacted in reality, and you can make money.

   It's just that the transportation in this game is too expensive, so she has to save a little.

   "Three votes to one vote? I lost," Sisi sighed, "Say we can't think while walking on the road?"

"Sense of ceremony, sense of ceremony, you woman, you have no interest at all. You don't want to choose a name before you go on the road. How can we declare ourselves if we encounter a predator?" Tail with arms folded said old-fashionedly, and suddenly his eyes lit up. , "How about the tail adventure group?"

  Rourou: "Wait, what about me? And I said a second ago that everyone is going to be on camera."

   "Hey, I forgot."

  Sisi coughed lightly.

   "It's really troublesome... Let's call it the Meat Knights. We take turns riding Meat Knights. We are all Meat Knights. From now on, Meat Knights will be the leader, which perfectly solves this problem."

  Big Pyrenees raised its paw again dumbfounded: "Wait a minute, although, although I don't mind acting as a mount, this is too weird!"

   "That's right, the tail also feels weird, as if the meat is meat [beep-beep-]."

  Muffling the dangerous speech with a serious face, before the meat could react, Tail thought for a moment, and suddenly his eyes lit up and said.

   "How about the Knights of the White Bear!"

  Maybe it's been entangled with this issue for too long, maybe it's because it sounds more handsome, this time even Rourou didn't object.

   In this way, the Knights of the White Bear was formally established.

  Sisi bought a "Maxim-II" machine gun with the remaining money.

Unlike Maxim, who showed his skills in the wave before, the directors of No. 81 Iron and Steel Plant borrowed the air-cooled structure of MG42, redesigned the replaceable barrel according to the combat environment needs on the wasteland, and increased the caliber to 10mm.

  The 10×100mm machine gun bullet has X-4 fiber added to the charge, and the single-shot penetration is not weaker than the 12.7×108mm large-caliber machine gun bullet of the Deshka heavy machine gun.

  It is more than enough to suppress the myriads that look like tentacle monsters along the way, as well as the huge monsters with thick blood and high attack.

  The workers sent by No. 81 Iron and Steel Factory not only helped them weld the roof of the car, but also helped them weld the steel plate for bulletproof.

  Every time he interacts with the factory manager of No. 81 factory, Sisi can't help feeling in his heart that the professional players in this game are really getting more and more punished.

   "There is also a bazooka! Don't forget this!" Tail sneezed and carried a wooden box onto the car, which contained three RPG fragmentation grenades and armor-piercing shells.

   An electric-driven armed transport vehicle is complete!

  The cat ears on the top of the head moved slightly, Sesame Paste looked worriedly at the stuffed goods in the car.

   "Speaking of electric trucks... Is the battery life okay?"

  There are no charging piles on the waste soil.

  According to real-world experience, the battery life of the tram does not seem to be very long.

  Sisi patted her on the shoulder.

   "emmm... After all, it is a battery for sci-fi games. Although I don't know what a solid-state hydrogen battery is, it is still very easy to run two rounds. Don't worry about using it."

  The actual distance from here to Honghe Town is less than 100 kilometers, and a spare battery or generator is enough to go further.

  Not only are there no charging piles on the wasteland, but there are also no gas stations. For small-scale transportation without tank trucks, oil trucks are not the best choice. After all, biomass fuel has to go through a series of processing and refining before it can be turned into gasoline, but wood that can generate electricity is everywhere.

  After the decline of civilization and the end of the severe cold, the first thing to occupy the city is the lush vegetation, and then the mutated slime mold.

   "Be careful on the road." Standing in front of the booth, Shuanghe waved his hand lightly, and sent blessings to these adventurers with a smile.

   This is already the caravan formed by the third wave of shelter residents she sent away today.

  Before the trading post, there were always many merchants from Honghe Town, including large caravans like the Horseshoe Trading Company.

  But recently, the number of residents in the shelter has also increased.

  They usually choose to purchase LD-47 rifles and 7mm full-power bullets with stable prices as trade goods, and Honghe Town, which is relatively "closer" to Dawn City and has a strong demand for weapons, is their first choice.

  Shuanghe skillfully operated the VM with his index finger, signed and uploaded the purchase list. These data will be checked by the management staff on the day and used as her performance for the day.

   At the same time, after verification, these data will be automatically synchronized to the central server of the shelter, and on the processor with obsessive computing power, the data submitted by the AI, which is close to complete artificial intelligence, and the inventory department and production unit will be checked.

  Even if a bullet is missing, it can be found out at which link it was lost and who is in charge of that link.

  The highly AI-based management model technically replaces a large number of middle-level managers who need management experience, making the entire management system flatter.

  And this system has relatively low professional requirements for grassroots staff. You only need to master the fool-like operation process of VM and be familiar with specific job responsibilities to ensure the stable operation of the entire system.

  At the same time, managers can also get the most authentic "first-hand data", and formulate specific macro strategies based on the most authentic situation.

  Currently, the literacy rate of the new alliance is less than 30%, and this is after half a year of implementation of literacy classes and evening school education.

  This is also the improvement method Chu Guang made by referring to the "Future Municipal" technology of People's Federation.

  For the pre-prosperity era, completing this system might have required hundreds of programmers working overtime for a year or more.

  But for Xiaoqi, who has almost "full artificial intelligence", it only needs a little time to communicate with managers.

  …

  The fourth day of Beta0.2 release.

  The number of players participating in the business system has reached 417, and the number of players joining the corps system is nearly 657. The rest are either players who have formed a fixed genre, or casual players of the Buddhist system and newcomers who have not yet met the conditions.

   A game cannot be loved by everyone, but it can make people who can love it even more.

  Chu Guang was very pleased to see that the abnormal prices had finally returned to normal.

Now the aborigines can also enjoy the delicacies of the different world, and the life professional players who were spoiled by the combat professional players have finally stepped out of the comfort zone, upgrading equipment, expanding production, and expanding the market. Develop new markets.

  The “graduation outfit” hanging in the NPC store—the light cavalry exoskeleton sold 40 sets in just three days, and 12 “electric mule” light trucks worth 50,000 were also sold.

   This number is still increasing.

  Chuguang has arranged personnel to expand the production of "Electric Mule", and has increased investment in Bach Aluminum Factory and Lister Factory by increasing loans.

   Future A3 aerospace aluminum alloys and solid-state hydrogen batteries will be cheaper.

  After solving the problems of the players, Chu Guang can finally free up his hands to deal with matters related to the future of the new alliance...

  The browsing room on the B4 floor.

  The staff wearing the VM brought boxes of neatly packaged books in from the outside, and according to Chu Guang's request, divided the books into science and social science as much as possible, and put them on the empty bookshelf.

   These books are from Vault 401.

  After the reactor in shelter No. 117 shut down, the books kept inside were either taken away by the torch, or burned as firewood by the escaped residents or nearby wastelanders.

   Fortunately, Chu Guang found many interesting books in the recently excavated shelter No. 401.

  Marauders are not interested in these things.

  Under the dealings of that old Popsicle named Sun Zewen, these good "fuels" survived.

   At least part of it was saved.

   also thanks to this.

   These fuels are finally "burning" in the right form and in the right place.

  Currently, the work of sorting out the books is in the charge of the staff of the Merchant Union.

   This is currently the sector with the highest literacy rate in the New Union.

   At the same time, old Charlie was in charge.

"Respect, dear manager, a total of 2,490 books were sent from shelter 401, including 217 books on social sciences, 332 books on science, 641 books on engineering applications, 110 books on popular science, biographies, etc. Fiction reading..."

   "Among them, there are 31 books related to agriculture, forestry and animal husbandry in subdivided fields, and food processing related..."

  Shuangxue was so nervous that she almost bit her tongue several times.

   This is the first time she walked into the heart of the new alliance—the B4 floor of No. 404 Vault.

   It was also the first time she saw a manager not wearing power armor.

   "Good job, you guys have done a good job."

  Looking at the little girl in front of him, Chu Guang nodded in approval.

   It is good to be able to classify these books into categories, and he will not criticize his subordinates for doing things beyond their abilities.

  However, they not only completed their tasks in just a few days, but also overfulfilled the books and further subdivided them into fields.

  To be honest, this was even a bit beyond Chu Guang's expectations.

  He originally planned to scan these books with the help of Xiao Qi, and use his spare time to read and classify them.

  It seems that old Charlie has been worrying a lot these days, saving him a lot of time.

  Afterwards, Chu Guang will select some books with relatively low threshold and low reading difficulty as teaching materials for primary education.

   This matter may have to trouble the old man.

  Old Charlie used to be the mayor and the principal on Beit Street, and he knew the actual situation of these aborigines better than any expert.

  Chu Guang intends to let him be the Minister of Education of the new alliance after the Merchant Union gets on the right track.

   Of course, the premise is that he is willing to continue working.

   After all, the old man's age is already considered advanced in the wasteland.

   “…that, that.”

   Seeing that the little girl in front of him still wanted to say something, Chu Guang spoke in a gentle tone.

   "Anything else?"

   "Mr. Charlie said... Let me remind you to take a break. You are the manager of the alliance, and your health is more precious than these books." Shuangxue said in a low voice.

  Chu Guang froze for a moment, then laughed.

   "Haha, thank him for his concern for me, and by the way, tell him a word for me, I am still young, and this kind of work is not enough."

joke.

  This new job is much easier than his previous job in sales, okay?

With Xiao Qi helping to sort out reports and monitor abnormal data, he can not only grasp the closest real data in every link of the new alliance from industry to economy like the players of P Club, but also use cultural products from parallel worlds in his spare time Find inspiration.

  Before, Chu Guang was exhausted from running business, not to mention that he had to bite the bullet and accompany clients to drink. Occasionally, someone tried to trick him into being young and handsome.

  Chu Guang will probably never touch alcohol in his life.

  Unless you meet Tie Hanhan, who likes food and drinks like Luo Hua, try to get some information out of his mouth appropriately.

   As for the usual?

   Drinking sparkling water or mushroom soup is enough.

  But Shuangxue didn't know what Chu Guang was feeling, she just felt that the manager who devoted himself to everyone was too gentle.

  Under his management, everyone lives in a warm brick house, without having to face painful choices for survival, let alone wandering in the wilderness.

   And he never seemed to do anything for himself.

   Not only are they still living in the caves of the former civilization, but even the abandoned sanatorium where the new alliance was announced has undergone simple repairs.

   I really hope he can treat himself a little better.

   There was a trace of reverence written in the yearning eyes, the little girl was embarrassed to disturb his work, she lowered her head to show her respect, and turned to help her colleagues sort out the books together.

   It took some time for all the more than 2,000 books to be placed on the bookshelf. Looking at the room that finally looked like a reading room, Chu Guang nodded with satisfaction.

  In his eyes, these treasures are more precious than black boxes.

  Black boxes solve today's problems, and they can solve future problems. Compared with the incomplete data collected by the scientific expedition team from the memory in the ruins, every book here can at least correspond to a specific field.

   "The basic requirements of science and engineering are too high, and culture and art are not available for the time being. Let's start with popular science books and confirm the textbooks by the way."

  “Education is a century-old project, the sooner it starts, the better.”

   "Then social science... 20 points of intelligence are too wasteful to bully the AI ​​of the stars, and I have to recharge myself occasionally."

   "In the future, the selection of grassroots managers will also require professional study and examination."

   "As for the player..."

   As for whether to open it to players, Chu Guang thought for a long time, and finally decided to adopt a more cautious strategy.

   First of all, "not revealing that this is the real world" is the bottom line of everything.

  The first-generation managers have hinted at him many times, and Chu Guang himself has somewhat realized the risks behind this in practice.

  It is a very dangerous thing to expose one's needs in a relationship, which is tantamount to stretching one's neck over to be manipulated.

Whether it is a cloud player or a player, there are many experts in various industries and fields. What they lack is only the experience of "building wasteland". Chu Guang can slowly let people in according to needs. Point a few BUFF to increase the difficulty for yourself.

  The players have done the best they can, just like the aborigines who helped him sort out the books.

   As for the research of high-end technology?

  Who could be more suitable for scientific research than the old Popsicle and the sons and grandchildren of the old Popsicle in the prosperous era.

  Recovering the legacy of the Prosperous Era does not require so many people, the residents of the refuge are enough. According to Yin Fang's description, the strategy adopted by the academy is similar.

  Most players enter the game with the mentality of entertainment, and they don’t come here to learn.

   Just like what Kuang Feng joked a long time ago, if this technology is used by the bosses at work, he might as well just sleep peacefully.

  Chu Guang will consider giving players access to some technologies as the game progresses as a reward for the players, but all of this is under the premise of "not exposing the essence of the world".

   This is actually not difficult to deal with.

   Previously, Chu Guang got inspiration from the different strategies adopted by the ZFs of various countries towards him. Those people seemed to regard this game as the first contact between extraterrestrial civilizations and earth civilizations.

   And more than neutral contact.

  With limited information, they couldn't explain how the helmet appeared at their doorstep, nor could they explain that the website and game server were as powerful as "a god".

  Is it strange that there are technologies that the earth does not understand in the game of advanced civilization?

   Of course not surprising.

  Chu Guang can even guide them to understand this game as an "enlightenment of good intentions" from extraterrestrial civilizations to earth civilizations.

  They will carefully speculate on their bottom line, reduce meaningless temptations, and keep tight-lipped about extraterrestrial civilizations, and regard the "players" who have obtained the enlightenment of advanced civilizations as treasures—even strategic resources.

They will even set aside a part of the budget to secretly increase the price of silver coins, and use macro means like themselves to gently or aggressively encourage players to apply for "labor visas", participate in games of advanced civilizations, and learn from their neighbors outside the solar system. With the knowledge and experience of dealing with the apocalypse, come back to build the country and benefit the society.

   It's like encouraging players to work for the Pioneer at any cost, and strictly restraining players not to do things against those who can't afford it.

  Actually, if Chu Guang was a little wicked enough, he could still use "this is your dream and your future" to fool them like a magic stick and follow their own rules in reality.

   But that's another path that wasn't envisioned.

  The art of management lies in guiding rather than directing. Excessive force is not a good thing.

   Looking at the rows of bookshelves in front of Chu Guang, it was like seeing a stack of poker, and the corner of his mouth could not help but curl into a smile.

   "...do you want to put some bait out first?"

   Or save the dividends until the next round of "closed beta"?

   Just as Chu Guang was thinking about which technology or basic scientific knowledge was more suitable for fishing, footsteps came from outside the trap door.

   With a flat tablet under his elbow, Yin Fang walked into the reading room.

  From the expression on his face, Chu Guang already had a premonition that probably something good would happen, so he said kindly.

   "I guess there's progress on the fuel rod thing."

   "You should deliberately guess wrong and give me a sense of accomplishment."

  Yin Fang made a joke and handed the tablet in Chu Guang's hand.

"We found fuel rods of the type that can be used in the shelter from the underground warehouse of a thruster assembly plant. The remaining energy is 67%, and it should last for a long time. Your corps is on the way back, and they will be responsible for delivering the goods to Vault 401, I'll install it later... By the way, you brought all the books in Vault 401 here?"

  He noticed that the bookshelves in the reading room were crammed with books.

  When he came here before, he didn't read any of them, and even once thought that the first-generation manager here was an ignorant idiot.

   "This is more convenient... Next time I will pretend to guess wrong, for example, how about asking if you have a sweetheart first?" Chu Guang joked with a smile.

   "Forget it, the relics of the former civilization are more interesting to me."

  Although it was a semi-threatening attitude that made him enter the refuge at the beginning, Yin Fang gradually felt that this guy in front of him was actually a very easy-going person during the subsequent relationship.

   To put it simply, there is no airs.

  Different from those technocrats in the academy, those people knew a little bit of technology at first, but later they all became uncles who pointed at people with the tip of their noses. People like him who really do things have little room for advancement.

   This guy in front of him is different.

  Although he doesn't know anything about basic knowledge, making people wonder whether he has received basic education in the shelter, but his respectful attitude towards knowledge still makes him very comfortable.

  Yin Fang glanced at the browsing room, especially noticing the coffee machine by the wall, and said enviously.

   "The environment here is also very good."

   "Are you moving here for work?"

"No need, I feel uncomfortable when there are people around... Can I move a coffee machine? Anyway, there are so many." When I came here last time, Yin Fang was thinking about the coffee machine in the corner, but I am embarrassed to speak.

  Chu Guang said with a smile.

   "The coffee tree has just been planted, so what's the use of taking one away... Forget it, take it if you want."

  Yin Fang hugged the one he liked the most with a look of joy.

   "Thank you so much!"

  The coffee machine in the Renlian era is a rare black technology in this era. In addition to automatic drying, roasting, deacidification, and grinding, it can also simulate various processing flavors according to needs.

  I heard that in Prosperity Era, the large supermarkets of Renlian will supply freshly picked coffee cherries to meet the more personalized needs of customers.

  Being able to own a high-tech coffee machine of his own is even more surprising to Yin Fang than digging out the fuel rods of a fusion reactor.

   This is a treatment that only researchers above B level can enjoy in the academy!

  Seeing Yin Fang's obsessed expression, Chu Guang couldn't help but feel a little weird.

  I heard that middle-aged people will pin their feelings on some weird things, such as teapots, fishing rods, and even charging plugs.

   But this guy is only in his early twenties, right?

   "Is the coffee that good?"

"You don't understand, tasting the beauty of the old days is one of the few pleasures..." The hand stroking the coffee machine stopped, and a rare look of melancholy appeared on Yin Fang's face, "I have spent my whole life in Chasing the remains of pre-civilizations, I dug them out from the ruins and organized them into categories. I even dreamed of that era in my dreams..."

   "However frustratingly, the farther I go on this road, the more sober I know that...going back is impossible."

  Chu Guang was silent for a while, didn't say anything, just patted the guy on the shoulder lightly.

   "Don't miss the past."

   "We're still here."

   "We are their continuation."

  …

  The jungle in the East District of Qingquan City.

  The cattle and horse team, which is fully equipped with exoskeletons, is escorting the fuel rods and advancing cautiously on the jungle-covered streets.

  They had just experienced a battle earlier.

   A group of Marauders stationed near the objective of the mission instead of surrendering, opened fire on them.

   But it didn't take much effort to get rid of those barbarians.

   After handing over the rescued captives and the remaining marauders to the NPC soldiers who switched defenses, they continued towards the direction of No. 401 shelter with the cargo box containing the fuel rods.

   I have to say that the exoskeleton is really easy to use.

   Fuel rods weighing more than a hundred kilograms, even if they are of the power system, will be exhausting if they carry them "over mountains and ridges" through the ruins.

   But hanging on the exoskeleton, except for a little increase in energy consumption, there is no feeling of weight bearing at all.

  Walking in the front C of the team, Quit Smoking glanced at his graduation outfit, hesitated for a long time, and couldn't help but speak out what he had been holding back all the way.

   "Guys, I—"

   "Okay, don't talk about it, this mission deducts 15% from your income, we have four points for the head office, right?" Lao Bai said helplessly after interrupting him.

  He had already noticed what he was thinking about quitting smoking.

   Sure enough, after hearing these words, he was relieved to quit smoking, and his expression gradually relaxed.

"Thanks."

   Light cavalry with ten thousand silver coins.

  There are currently only 40 sets in the whole server, and there are 60 sets hanging in the NPC store. Each account is limited to one set.

  Of course he couldn’t afford it with his little savings, after all, he only entered the game when the “Land Sailing” expansion pack happened.

  Although everyone used to give each other equipment when playing games, this piece of equipment is too expensive, and it costs two to three hundred thousand yuan in RMB.

  He couldn't afford it.

   "Thank you," Ye Shi rolled his eyes angrily, "We're still waiting for you to become the master T."

   "There's no need to take it too seriously." Fang Chang patted Quit Smoking on the shoulder, "We only had the advantage of advanced games, so we got a little bit of a head start. It's better to thank Aguang than to thank us."

  Guangfeng: "I agree, don't bring too much burden when playing games, it is meaningless to calculate how much your equipment is worth."

   Quit smoking and sniffed. Instead of saying those nasty polite words, he silently remembered everyone's care for him.

"There are two kilometers left to enter the safe area. After this mission, a new stronghold should be unlocked, as a novice village for rookies..." Lao Bai reached out and clicked on the VM to confirm the location, "Two options, Go straight ahead and take a shortcut, pass through the abandoned theater and go directly to the No. 3 Ecological Park Station, or go back along the way we came."

  Guang Feng touched the bridge of his nose.

  "Generally speaking, taking a shortcut is a standard FLAG behavior."

  Fang Chang: "Then be more stable."

  But at this moment, Ye Shi suddenly grabbed the sniper rifle in his hand.

   "No need to choose."

  The remaining four were immediately alert.

  Old Bai immediately looked at him and asked seriously.

"what have you found?"

   "The killing intent..." Ye Shi swallowed, carefully observing the surroundings, "It's very faint...but I can feel it."

  The street was quiet, and nothing unusual could be seen at all.

  However, Ye Shi's intuition seldom goes wrong.

  The existence of killing intent means that the other party has discovered them.

  Old Bai's expression froze, he gestured to spread out, and shouted in a low voice.

"Ready to fight!"

  —

   (Thanks to the Silver League of "Laplace 12351131"! You guys are amazing! I tried for a long time, but the numbers still can't be added to the title QAQ)

  (end of this chapter)