Chapter 160 Section Chief, there is not enough money!

  Chapter 160 Section Chief, I don’t have enough money!

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

  On the 20th floor of an office building located on the edge of the elevated ring road, the crooked corridor was covered with dark green slime mold and corroded moss.

  The orange-yellow tracer bullets wove a net in the corridor, and the scorching airflow almost scorched the air. At the center of the concentrated fire was a three-meter-tall humanoid beast.

  Its skin had completely keratinized, its knotted muscles were pitch black, and its arms protected its head. It actually took two steps forward against the electromagnetically accelerated mass bullet.

  But it was only two steps –

  ”Roar!”

  With a half-reluctant roar, the three-meter-tall tyrant finally fell heavily under the concentrated fire of the Gauss rifle.

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

  Lu Yang made a neat gesture, and the team members in power armor stepped forward and continued to advance along the corridor covered with slime mold, and came to a heavy alloy door.

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

  ”The key has been obtained… successfully entered the safe mode.”

  ”Open the door.”

  ”Received, opening.”

  The door panel trembled and slowly opened to both sides.

  Stale air rushed in.

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

  Leaving two team members to guard the door, he walked in with the other two, looked around, and the excitement on his face became more and more obvious.

  ”The comparison results match…”

  ”We found it!”

  Carbon dioxide capture device!

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

  In the prosperous era with highly concentrated population and industry, carbon emissions are a very terrifying number. It is obviously not enough to rely on traditional green plants to absorb excess carbon dioxide. Even if the entire city is planted with green plants, it is impossible to absorb so many greenhouse gases. Hypoxia will become another major development problem after the heat island effect.

  After entering the middle of the prosperous era, the widely adopted solution of the Human Union is to apply the carbon self-sustaining technology that has been practiced in space activities.

  That is, a carbon dioxide processing device is set up on a specific floor of a high-rise building, and carbon dioxide is converted into other carbon-containing compounds through multiple complex chemical processes, so that the air level in the area can reach a habitable level while also producing some industrial raw materials.

  It is said that the carbon dioxide processed annually in just half a floor of space is enough to rival an entire primeval forest or the seaweed in a sea area.

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

  Since the entry into the Wasteland Era, carbon emissions in the Human Union have dropped sharply, even falling to the level before the Industrial Revolution. Those carbon capturers naturally stopped working, and the thermonuclear fusion reactors that powered them naturally stopped working.

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

  Lu Yang took his marines and carefully dismantled the fuel rods storing liquid helium-3.

  ”Done!”

  ”How much energy is left?”

  ”93%”

  ”Enough for us to use for a long time!”

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

  This is something that cold fusion batteries cannot compare to.

  The Marines who carefully stored the fuel rods in the metal cylinder and completed the operation took a look at the large and small boxes and storage tanks around them.

  ”Sir, what should we do with the things here?”

  Lu Yang looked around.

  ”Just leave it here.”

  ”Our allies should be able to use it.”

  …

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

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

  This is the production report for last week.

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

  Those blue coats were extremely ruthless. They collected an astonishing 267.4 tons of waste every day, 1.3 tons per person per day, which was even more amazing than before the war! If the work was handed over to the natives, even those who could achieve one-third of this efficiency would have to laugh out loud.

  And the extra cost for them was only 9360CR.

  Li De could hardly believe his eyes. If this report was not handed to him by his secretary in person, he would even doubt whether there was something wrong.

  Are they all robots? !

  No, they are even better than machines!

  Today, a week has passed since the war with the Legion. The Pioneer is still filled with a sad atmosphere. Many people are immersed in the grief of losing their comrades, with low morale and low work efficiency.

  However, these blue coats are different.

  They have obviously suffered more casualties, but they are still not defeated by difficulties. Instead, they turn their grief and anger into motivation and live their lives positively and optimistically every day.

  What a strong 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 1,872 tons of garbage, they successfully recycled 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 spoke.

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

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

  ”What’s the matter?”

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

  ”It’s about the demands of the front-line engineers… They asked to increase the attendance subsidy from 10CR per hour to 15CR per hour.”

  ”……?”

  Li De was confused.

  What the hell? ?

  Didn’t these lazy guys complain a few months ago that they had too much money in their pockets and didn’t know where to spend it, and they despised him for tricking them into working with a stack of waste paper?

  Why do they complain that the subsidy is too little now?

  Wang Jie’s expression was still awkward, and he spoke quickly.

  ”Maybe… the survivor settlements we met before were too poor, and the welfare on the Pioneer was too good, so they really had no place to spend the money in their pockets. I don’t know how to evaluate it, but our employees have been a bit extravagant when spending money recently… I think we should restrict it a little bit.”

  Li De’s face was red and his neck was thick, knocking on the table with his hands.

  ”The question is where did they spend the money?! Did they use it to wipe their butts? How much money can be spent on a few buns?!”

  Wang Jie: “Of course it’s not just buns, there are also dumplings with various fillings, glutinous rice balls, soy milk, fried dough sticks and… cough cough. I think we need to upgrade our mobile kitchen. Those blue coats use our raw materials to process them a little and sell them to us, and they make a lot of money from us.”

  Li De: “…”

  Wang Jie swallowed his saliva and continued.

  ”In addition to food, they recently also sell clothes, scarves, and some small items, especially a kind of silk fabric, which is very popular among female passengers. They call it devil silk, which seems to be a specialty of the central region. Surprisingly, the toughness of this silk thread is extremely high, almost comparable to the fireproof fiber we use in bulletproof vests… To be honest, the power of nature is very magical, even I am surprised. Our technicians have studied it for a long time and figured out its composition, but they still don’t understand its industrial synthesis method.”

  Li De pressed his eyebrows.

  ”Is that all?”

  He didn’t care about the devil moth silk, nor did he care about what clothes and small items the female passengers bought.

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

  These bills are not the bills of the restaurant.

  They have to be cashed on the spot!

  ”Well, there are some special ingredients, such as black truffles… They are very cheap there, only 1CR per gram.”

  Li De raised his head suddenly.

  ”Only 1CR per gram?! Anything else???”

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

  ”There should be. The mushroom seller sets up a stall at the action camp at around 6pm every night… Chief?”

  Li De immediately realized his mistake and quickly came back to his senses. After a light cough, he put on a serious expression and continued.

  ”I was just a little surprised. I didn’t expect them to know how to enjoy themselves… By the way, has the magnetic confinement plasma CNC machining machine been repaired?”

  Wang Jie nodded and said.

  ”It has been repaired. Our warehouse management staff just delivered it to them. It will probably be delivered to their outpost on the surface in a while.”

  Thinking of the machine, Li De felt a little sorry.

  At that time, the decision was made too hastily because of the emotion. Otherwise, the machine alone could help them recover 100,000 CR.

  It shouldn’t be free!

  However, those blue coats did help them a lot. They didn’t ask those blue coats to support their war, but they did it anyway, and when the battle was the most tense, they rushed up with guns without hesitation.

  To be honest, if it weren’t for them, it’s hard to say what the final casualties would be. Maybe they had to drop a second tactical nuclear bomb, maybe more than three people died that day…

  Li De thought about it. If he made the decision again, maybe he would still make that choice.

  He sighed softly and said.

  ”Well, it’s fine as long as it’s delivered. We should leave in a few days.”

  It’s not a good idea to delay it like this.

  The longer it is delayed, the more difficult the road ahead will be. If they hadn’t suddenly dropped anchor, they wouldn’t have had to fight with the legion.

  Wang Jie: “Then about the salary increase…”

  Li De said without hesitation: “Tell those lazy guys… I mean those engineers, the proposal for salary increase will be raised at the regular meeting at the end of the month. This is the procedure. In addition, I will think of a way to move the kitchen and let the technicians see if they can add a few food processing processes.”

  Of course, if it succeeds, Li De plans to charge.

  What’s that word called?

  Yes, additional value-added service!

  When Wang Jie heard that the issue of salary increase was moved to the end of the month, he immediately understood what the section chief meant, and couldn’t help but show a helpless expression.

  ”Okay, I’ll tell them.”

  Wait until the end of the month.

  Those people have no place to spend the money in their pockets.

  Naturally, they would not clamor for a raise.

  …

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

  For fear that the players would damage the thing, Chu Guang specially arranged two light trucks to transport it. An empty truck with a snow shovel hanging on the bumper drove in front, and the one carrying the machine tool followed behind.

  If there is a roadblock or a ditch, the front truck can find it in time and the back truck can avoid it.

  To ensure that everything is foolproof, Chu Guang also asked the steady old Luca to sit in the car with him.

  The road conditions in the wasteland are really bad. The section outside the city is slightly better. Many roads in the city are so bad that even four-legged animals can’t pass, let alone wheeled vehicles.

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

  In the future, wherever the players of the 404 shelter put their flags, the road will be built there.

  What’s the saying?

  If you want to be rich, you must first build roads.

  It is not easy to implement this project in the wasteland, but it is definitely worth it.

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

  After a whole night of fermentation, the little players who could not go to work finally vented their resentment. The atmosphere of communication in the forum finally returned to normal, and the topic changed from “Let’s go to A Guang together” to “What has been updated in Alpha0.8”.

  Everything seemed to be nothing.

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

  Especially when they learned that “donating materials can gain regional reputation” and “the prosperity of the action camp reaches 100 and it can grow into a survivor base”, they obviously worked harder.

  In other MMORPGs, NPC towns are just a bunch of immobile maps, but in Wasteland OL, the survivors’ strongholds are built by players themselves, and they will grow with the players as they play. This wave is

  simply a perfect combination of RPG and SLG, with one game to experience the joy of two games. It’s

  really a bloody profit, isn’t it!

  The players are happy, and Chu Guang didn’t spend much effort on this.

  For him, it’s just based on last month’s report, he compiled a few simple formulas, and asked Xiaoqi to help make a data card similar to the “attribute panel”. Regardless of whether

  there is an update to Alpha 0.8, he will make the monthly report every month, but now it is open to the players in the form of a “progress bar”.

  As for the use.

  It is mainly to share with the players the joy of the sapling growing into a towering tree.

  After all, just telling the players how awesome our shelter is now because of your efforts, the players are probably confused. But if all these efforts are quantified into a visible progress bar, who can still say that the pattern is useless?

  Look at Boss Xia’s weapon shop, there is a brick you contributed. Thinking about it this way, aren’t you more motivated when moving bricks?

  Regardless of how miserable those players who can’t be resurrected due to bugs are, those who are still online and have already made reservations have already blown it up.

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

  ”The express will take another hour to arrive, what should I do?”

  That’s right.

  It seems that I can open a blind box again.

  Chu Guang’s eyes lit up, and he sat up from the computer chair, opened the manager system with his eyes wide open, and switched to the [Manager Allowance] sub-page.

  These days, the players’ game behavior is relatively simple, mainly doing resource collection tasks at the action camp, and the completion of daily activity tasks is very average, with a lot of unmet tasks left every day.

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

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

  But just when Chu Guang was about to open the prize, he suddenly had an idea.

  Wait.

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

  What if a reward of an intermediate blind box or even a high-level blind box is opened from a primary blind box, wouldn’t it be a huge profit?

  Anyway, it’s useless for him to have so many dog-skin plasters and treatment needles.

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

  ”System, give me 33 primary blind boxes!”

  ”Open!”

  (End of this chapter)