Chapter 365 Cheapness is one of the advantages of our weapons

   "...the enterprise expedition team appeared in the northern suburbs?"

   Jushi Military Building, Chairman's Office.

   Ebbers, who was sitting behind the desk, had surprise written on his face after listening to his subordinate's report.

Unlike people like Malvern and Dulong, he certainly didn't need to get information about the northern suburbs through the "Daily Survivor". As early as late yesterday, he learned about it from eyeliners disguised as mercenaries and caravan guards. , a group of caravans suspected to be from Ideal City appeared in the northern suburbs.

  After a night of investigation, he can finally be sure that those people are professional soldiers of the enterprise.

   "...Why do people from the enterprise appear here." A trace of fear floated in Ibbers' eyes.

  Different from the nobles in the inner city, his attitude towards enterprises is more of a respectful distance.

  Based on past experience, rashly getting involved with those behemoths won't do any good.

  Especially last year when the Enterprise and the Legion had a fight in the northern suburbs. God knows why these people came.

  Standing beside him, the old secretary seemed to be thinking of going with him, and spoke slowly.

   "Could it be related to last year's Pioneer?"

"I think so too."

  Rubbing the center of his brows with his index finger, Ibbers thought for a long time before suddenly speaking.

   "Anyway, we need to figure out what they're here for."

   The old secretary asked.

   "Do you need to report this to the city lord?"

   Ebbers said succinctly.

   "Just a routine report."

   Reporting or not reporting, in fact, there is no difference.

  He has his own intelligence network, and of course the wise and stalwart city lord also has one.

  However, as the most loyal servant of that lord, he should report the news as soon as he gets the news.

  It doesn't matter whether the city owner knows it or not.

  This is his duty...

  …

  As the news of the company's "visiting group" spread, the entire Qingquan City became lively.

  Especially the business owners, factory owners, and nobles in the inner city of Boulder City cast fiery and even jealous eyes on the northern suburbs.

  How on earth do those **** rednecks get corporate friendships?

  Of course, what they care more about than jealousy is the business opportunity contained in this news.

   That's a visiting group from Ideal City!

  Bring one or two items here, and they can sell for unimaginably sky-high prices.

  The commoners in Boulder City have no spending power, but the nobles in the inner city are all rich.

  Their industries are all over the entire Boulder City, and there is no shortage of money to spend, only a place to spend money.

  Whether it is the bionic prosthetic body that enhances the body's ability, or the serum that delays aging, it is enough to drive the entire inner city crazy...

  Just when Qingquan City was bustling, Xizhou City, a hundred kilometers away, was no different.

   But the difference is that the two sides are completely different lively...

  Beside the crudely built platform, boxes and bundles of materials piled up on the material pile formed a hill.

  Looking at the materials that look like a hill, whether it is the foremen of the aid team or the survivors of Dawn City, their faces are full of surprised expressions.

   "170 tons of grain, 81 tons of croissants, 1,000 pieces of cotton overalls, 1,000 pairs of rubber-soled boots, 11 boxes of medical gauze and alcohol..."

  Holding the cargo list handed over by the train conductor, Rudy, who read in a low voice, was full of surprise on his face, and couldn't believe his eyes.

  The materials on the list are exactly what they need most.

   Especially work clothes and waterproof shoes.

   It rained for several days before, and the northern construction site was low-lying, almost soaked in puddles.

  There is no water pump. In order to drain the water, the workers can only go to the ground with iron buckets.

  Ordinary straw sandals, wooden shoes, and shoes made of bark are not waterproof at all, and the number of waterproof shoes made of plastic is limited, and many people's feet are soaked.

   There are also medical gauze and alcohol, which are even more necessary for construction sites where bumps often occur.

  Without medical supplies for disinfection and dressing, even a small injury may become inflamed and suppurated, turning into a serious problem.

   Not to mention food, that thing is very precious at any time in the wasteland.

  I can endure the shortage of other things, but I can't work when I'm hungry.

   There are 30,000 people in Dawn City, and 251 tons of food, combined with the prey and fish caught by the residents of the shelter, is enough for two weeks of expenses!

   After a while, he swallowed and said.

   "...Is this the pre-war reserve?"

  Before he became the captain of the aid team, he was the ten-man commander under Vanus, and he followed the legion in the north and south for several years. In my impression, such a rich material reserve is hard to see even in some wealthy survivor settlements.

  The new alliance may be able to get these supplies, but it is absolutely impossible to get them together in such a short time.

  Looking at Rudy with a dumbfounded face, the train conductor said with a smile.

"What are you picking up? These things were all bought from Boulder City! By the way, let me tell the people in the warehouse that there will be a batch of supplies delivered in three days. Let them expand the warehouse to avoid getting lost Times are hectic."

   Rudy, who came back to his senses, immediately nodded and said seriously.

   "I'll go and explain to them!"

   With the materials into the warehouse.

  The news about this shipment also spread among the survivors.

lunch time.

  Several foremen of the construction aid team squatted together with the workers, eating with bowls and chatting away gossip they heard from other people.

   "... I heard! It's imported from Boulder City!"

   "Not only living supplies, but also generators and power distribution devices... probably for the power grid!"

   "This will cost a lot of chips, right?"

   "That's for sure... at least it will cost more than a hundred thousand."

   "Hundreds of thousands? Hundreds of thousands are almost the same!"

  Hearing that these supplies actually cost so much money, many people showed emotional expressions on their faces, so that they lost their minds for a moment.

  Especially those survivors who grew up in Qingquan City.

  The refugees have no concept of the purchasing power of the chips, but they know how many good things those chips can be exchanged for.

   Not to mention hundreds of thousands of chips, three-digit chips are an astronomical sum for them, and five-digit chips are simply not wealth that ordinary people can have.

  In their cognition, only the former mayor of Beit Street and the old Brown of Brown Farm can hold so many chips.

  But those penny-pinching iron **** will not spend their chips on other people.

  They can't wait to hold every chip firmly in their hands, not to mention spending it on others, and they are even reluctant to spend more on themselves.

  For them, the greatest ambition in this life is to save enough chips to move into the giant wall, squeeze their sharpened heads into the upper class there, and spend their old age in luxury and affluence.

  It’s really not good. It’s also a good choice to buy a few buildings on the edge of the outer city as an apartment.

  Willing to take out their chips and spend them on ordinary people like them without hesitation. After thinking about it, there is only that benevolent manager...

  …

   On the other side, in the eastern district of Xizhou City, on an abandoned street.

  A group of survivors are methodically moving their luggage out of the collapsed subway station and stacking it in an open space not far from the subway station.

  In an open space a little further away, there are more than 30 container houses and dozens of barracks moved out of the underground tunnel.

  The construction aid team is responsible for not only Liming City, but also Camp No. 101 in the East District of Xizhou City.

  Because the Bonechewing Tribe has perished, Xizhou City has restored its former tranquility, and the residents of Camp 101 will also return to the surface and return the buffer zone at the gate of the shelter to the "pioneers".

  Chu Guang promised to help the residents of Camp No. 101 rebuild their homes.

   A week ago, the workers of the alliance arrived here.

  A total of 200 people participated in the construction.

   Among them, 20 are foremen from Dawn City, and 180 are survivors of Dawn City.

   In addition to this, there are patrols from the 2nd Corps, responsible for the security around the camp.

   After all, mutated hyenas, rats, cockroaches, flies the size of washbasins, and blood-sucking worms with needles longer than arms—those alien species that can’t be killed will not go with the predators.

  Especially after summer, the number of alien species active in the ruins has more than doubled compared to two months ago.

   Fortunately, a group of enthusiastic little players turned them into ingredients, so that the group of heterogeneous species would not flood to an unbearable level...

   Out of consideration for its own future, Camp No. 101, after referring to Chu Guang’s suggestion, finally decided to set up the new camp at the former site of Xizhou University not far from No. 101 Refuge.

  The terrain there is relatively flat.

  Although the building is severely damaged, this is an advantage, at least it won't be too troublesome to dismantle.

  In the wasteland, demolishing buildings is far more troublesome than building them.

  Some houses obviously looked crumbling, as if they would collapse with a push, but in fact, they were fine after being hit by two 100kg aerial bombs.

  Especially in "Wasteland OL", the buildings that are blown down will not turn into ashes and disappear like in other RTS games, and there is a high probability that they will form a wall on the ground.

  Large pieces of construction waste cannot be moved at all, and must be broken into small pieces to be transported.

  And this is the reason why Dawn City and Dawn City are built in the suburbs with low building density.

  According to the drawings in the plan, the first phase of Camp No. 101 covers an area of ​​30 mu, spreading around the former library of Xizhou University as the center.

  After the completion of the third phase of the project, the entire camp will basically cover the core area of ​​the former Xizhou University, covering an astonishing 500 acres.

  Although Horn, the mayor of the camp, said dumbfoundedly that they could not use so much space, Chu Guang still generously drew this big pie.

   Can't use it?

  Of course he knew that this small village with only two or three hundred people would not need so much land.

   But he and Horn had different considerations.

  In Chu Guang's view, it is the future "National University" of the Alliance, a holy place for academic exchanges and technical research.

  A mere 500 mu.

  He is too young!

  However, the meal has to be eaten bite by bite.

   As far as the current situation is concerned, three to five hundred students is almost the limit for the number of students that Camp 101 can accommodate.

  The 30 mu planned for the first phase is completely enough, and it is enough to build two five-story teaching buildings.

  After nearly a week of construction, this brand new camp has begun to take shape.

  Although there is no shadow of the teaching building yet, square barracks are already standing in the open space.

  The space here is much more spacious than the underground. They don't have to put all the houses together, and a large area can be reserved at the door of each barracks as a private space.

  The children were laughing and playing in the camp, chasing and running.

  The construction site not far away is in full swing, and a concrete building of unknown purpose has been built halfway.

  In order to prevent alien species from intruding into the camp, a circle of barbed wire was pulled up around the camp wall, and steel bars were embedded in the soil.

  Standing at the gate of the brand new camp, Pai's eyes widened in surprise, and his small mouth seemed to be able to stuff an egg into it.

   It hasn't been two weeks since she left home, and everyone has moved from the ground to the surface!

   This is too fast!

   "Pai?"

  Looking at the little girl standing at the gate of the camp, Tris showed a gentle smile on his face, "Are you back?"

  Hearing the voice of the "janitor", Pai immediately recovered from his surprise, with a complacent expression on his face, and said with his chest out.

   "Yeah! The task was successfully completed!"

  Although there was an airy expression on his face, those big eyes couldn't help looking around curiously.

   "So this is our new home?"

  Tris nodded and said with a smile.

"Well, originally we planned to move from the underground to the surface in two months, but the progress was smoother than expected. Thanks to those kind people, we only took one week to do so much thing."

  Of course, so thank them for defeating the bloodthirsty marauders.

   No one likes living underground, suffering from damp and darkness and unpalatable food.

  For him, nothing makes him happier than watching children run in the sun.

   Speaking of this, Triss said with a smile when he saw the thirty young people behind Pai.

   "You are the students of the new alliance?"

  Xia Yan, who was walking in front of the team, nodded and said cleanly.

   "Yes, the administrator asked us to report to that old... teacher named Aiwen. Can you tell us where he is?"

  Although she said so, at the moment she doesn't look like a student at all, she is completely dressed like a wasteland mercenary.

  A wear-resistant leather jacket was worn on the outside of the shirt, with bulging magazines stuffed in the pocket, and an LD-47 assault rifle hung on the back.

   Tris didn't care.

  He, who often deals with wastelanders, didn't feel any surprise, and still had that gentle expression on his face.

   "Ivan is still sorting out the materials in the document library underground, and it will take a few days to come up. He is Pai's teacher, and I think Pai should be able to guide you to find him."

   Pai nodded vigorously, and turned his head to give Xiayan and Xiaoyu a reliable look.

   "Hmm! Don't worry, leave it to me! I just happen to be going underground!"

  She did not forget the agreement with Chu Guang, and discussed with the manager of No. 101 shelter about borrowing the VM.

  Tris nodded with a smile.

   "Then please."

   "However, before you go underground, you might as well pack up the luggage you brought."

   "We have prepared a dormitory for you, just next to the school in the camp... Please come with me."

  …

  Camp No. 101 has only been under construction for less than two weeks. Although it is already inhabited, the conditions are still a bit rough.

   But even so, the local residents still prepared a two-person barracks as dormitories for these students from the new alliance.

  The relationship between the two parties is in the honeymoon period. The new alliance has not been stingy with aid to them, and they will naturally not be stingy with the care within their capabilities.

   While Boss Xia and his party were busy packing their luggage, Chu Guang, who was far away in Shuguang City, was also busy.

   First of all, new production lines for ammunition, weapons and accessories.

  While this is mainly the responsibility of the workers in the industrial zone and the officials of the Ministry of Industry, it takes time to introduce the commando logistics personnel to them and arrange the work.

   After finishing these things, Chu Guang then took Yun Song to the shooting range and showed off the alliance's weapons.

  Including LD series assault rifles and 20mm light cavalry guns and 37mm heavy cavalry guns, and 60mm mortars and so on.

   and the portable, versatile RPG bazooka!

  Especially the latter, although it is a bit difficult to face heavy vehicles, and there is no automatic tracking and laser guidance, so it can only be aimed visually, but at medium and short distances, it is completely sufficient to deal with some light and medium armor and vehicles!

   Replaced with high-explosive grenade with fragmentation damage, it is perfect for dealing with unarmored light infantry!

   After firing a few rounds, Yun Song happily purchased 120 launchers, 500 rounds of armor-piercing shells and 700 rounds of high-explosive grenades!

  Although the penetration of chemical armor shells is more than a little worse than that of plasma shells and rail guns, they don't always encounter opponents worth using plasma shells.

  And just like Chu Guang said, sufficient quantity is also an advantage.

  With these weapons, a company of light infantry under him can instantly become an "anti-tank company"!

   With the help of the exoskeleton, it is not a problem to bring a few more high-explosive grenades!

  Of course, the biggest reason why Yunsong placed the order so readily was that these weapons were priced in silver coins, and his logistics officer helped him negotiate a good price with the trade items they brought.

  So when he bought, bought, bought, he didn't feel any distress at all.

  Looking at the launch tube emitting blue smoke, and the target that was blown into pieces in the distance, Yun Song said with a joyful expression on his face.

   "Is it really okay to sell us 100 silver coins each? Is it too cheap?"

   It was the first time that Chu Guang saw someone who thought the things he sold were too cheap, so he couldn't help but said with a smile.

   "Cheapness is one of the strengths of our weapons."

  Seeing that the friend in front of him finally realized the charm of goblin technology, Chu Guang was also sincerely happy for him.

  The large inventory of weapons produced by the Northern Expedition was finally digested for him by someone.

   But then again.

  Wearing this kind of technological power armor, but carrying an antique rocket launcher on his shoulder.

   This combination is full of weirdness no matter how you look at it.

  Looking at the launch tube on his shoulder, Chu Guang said with some regret.

   "It's a pity that there is no uranium or plutonium... Otherwise we can get some more powerful tactical nuclear bombs out."

  Powered armor with individual nuclear bomb launchers.

   This is much more reasonable!

  However, the man carrying the launch tube didn't think so much.

  Compared with the problem of painting style, he cares more about whether it is easy to use.

   Obviously, this weapon is quite to his liking.

   "Haha, that's not necessary! Conventional weapons are powerful enough to deal with general threats," Yun Song said with a smile, looking at Chu Guang, "Thank you, brother! I like your weapons very much!"

   "You're welcome, our harvest is not small." Chu Guang said with a smile.

  He purchased a full 100 sets of "Miner" I-type exoskeletons with metal hydrogen batteries installed and a retail price of 4000CR.

   Not only that, there are also two hundred one-kilogram metal-hydrogen batteries, which are quite useful whether they are used for energy storage or as explosives.

  Chu Guang spent less than 1 million silver coins in total to purchase these goods.

   And based on the value of these goods, even if they are re-shipped to Boulder City, the value of these goods is far more than 1 million chips!

  In addition to these "regular" equipment, there are a lot of things that are not so easy to get.

   For example, a bionic kidney produced by Ideal City.

   Put this thing in Boulder City, and one can be sold for 500,000 chips!

  Chu Guang only used 270,000 silver coins to negotiate the transaction price with Heding, and the shelter officials directly purchased five coins.

  Although he doesn't need it very much, it is still quite good to resell it as a trade item to the merchants who came to the northern suburbs from Boulder City.

  In addition to the goods from Ideal City, there are also the spoils captured by the soldiers along the way.

  To be honest, Chu Guang didn't have much hope for those trophies at first.

  After all, the situation in the eastern provinces is not much better than that of the river valley provinces, so what good things can there be?

  However, the reality is beyond his expectation...

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   (The second half is not finished... Today is short, I will admit my mistake first T.T)

  (end of this chapter)