Chapter 175 New Gathering Point and Steel Plant Relocation
Chapter 175 New Gathering Point and Relocation of Steel Plant
In order to avoid trouble, Old Luca finally decided to separate the two groups after discussing with Wrench for a while.
30 young and strong laborers recruited from the refugee camp were assigned to the cement factory site, which was managed by the civil engineering player [Knife-Leave-The-People] and 4 foremen selected from the brick factory.
These foremen all wore VMs, which could translate the player’s language into simple and easy-to-understand phonetic symbols.
After working in the brick factory for so long, they have long been familiar with how to work with those “blue coats”. As long as there are translation tools, communication is not a big problem.
[Knife-Leave-The-People] is responsible for directing the construction, and the foremen are responsible for leading people to work. The division of labor is clear and everyone has their own duties.
The other 25 prisoners of war were escorted by two guards and cleared obstacles along the elevated road out of the city from Changjiu Farm to Linghu Wetland Park.
If it is some gravel, throw it to the side of the road with a shovel. If it is an abandoned vehicle, it will be dismantled on the spot with tools, loaded onto a trailer, and transported to the south gate of Changjiu Farm.
The pioneers did not take all the equipment away before, and left two hydraulic presses in the warehouse for Shelter No. 404, which can press the roughly cut garbage into blocks that are easy to transport and send them to the steel plant to be remelted into useful materials. It
is 10 kilometers from Changjiu Farm to the outpost base. Due to the frequent activities of players, this area has formed a relatively safe area.
While repairing the highway, Chu Guang plans to plan a heavy industrial base on the road, relocate the No. 81 steel plant, and build related supporting industries nearby.
For example, bullet production lines, firearms production lines, etc.
After all, the terrain of Linghu Wetland Park is so large that large vehicles cannot drive in, and there are trees all around. There is only one open-air parking lot that can recycle metal resources.
The resources in that open-air parking lot were not many to begin with. After the players’ rounds of plunder, now let alone the rusted car frame, even the railings next to the parking space have been pulled out.
If you want to expand the scale of production, you still have to be closer to the resource point, and then the transportation is convenient. It would be better if there are ready-made buildings to use.
Combining these factors, Chu Guang immediately thought of the Blood Hand Clan’s nest – the abandoned tire factory.
There is not only a complete wall there, but also a very spacious warehouse, the kind that trucks can drive directly into from the main gate.
In terms of geographical location, this tire factory is separated from the city viaduct by a short section of road, located in the middle of Linghu Wetland Park and Changjiu Farm – and closer to the wetland park.
At that time, because there were not enough people and it was too far from the resurrection point, Chu Guang simply gave up the base and asked the players to set it on fire before leaving.
Now that the number of NPCs and players has increased, it can be used again.
The only trouble is that it is probably crawling with mutant cockroaches and rats, and a few players have to go in to clean it up.
But this is not a big deal for Chu Guang.
It can be thrown to the newcomers who enter the game in Alpha 0.8 version to level up and get familiar with the gameplay of this game and the fighting skills with aliens.
”I should have gotten a nutrient paste synthesizer from the merchants in Honghe Town.”
I heard that the nutrient paste made of mutant cockroaches and mutant mice is quite popular in Honghe Town.
Chu Guang thought to himself that it was a pity, stretched out his index finger and clicked twice on the screen of the VM, placing a mark on the map.
[Task: Clear the aliens in the abandoned tire factory (located 4 kilometers north of Linghu Wetland Park)]
[Requirement: Kill at least 10 mutant mice or mutant cockroaches, this task can be claimed repeatedly. ]
[Reward: 10 silver coins, 20 contributions]
He will send a guard to the entrance of the “Monster Lair” in a while. As a task-related NPC, he will be responsible for issuing tasks and confirming completion, which is equivalent to supervising the players to work.
”I heard that the tail of the mutant mouse seems to be edible, but I don’t know if it’s true or not.”
Although the players don’t eat it, the refugees don’t mind.
This thing is all meat.
Who cares what it came from?
…
4 kilometers north of the wetland park, at the intersection where the elevated road out of the city connects to the urban area.
A young guard carrying an “Arbitrator” rifle was walking on the snow on the ground, heading towards the abandoned tire factory.
His name is Lv Bei, and he is the youngest member of the outpost guard team.
Although he has been in the job for less than a month, his loyalty has been recognized by the manager.
Just now, the manager personally gave him a task and asked him to go to the front line to supervise the residents of the shelter to clear the aliens from the abandoned tire factory.
Lv Bei still remembers this place.
After all, just over a month ago, he was still a captive of the predators here.
It was really a memory that he couldn’t bear to look back on.
Although the predators here have been cleared, when he returned here again, he couldn’t help but tremble instinctively.
”Come on… Lv Bei, you have to cheer up.”
Patting his face hard, the 14-year-old boy took a deep breath of cold air and overcame his fear with loyalty.
”This is a task that the administrator has personally assigned to you!”
Lu Bei mustered up his courage again, took off the heavy rifle on his back, and stood at the door of the abandoned tire factory.
He didn’t have to wait for long.
Soon, several residents of the shelter, wearing hunting clothes and carrying long and short cold weapons, approached.
Even in this horrible weather, their faces were still filled with sunny, confident and optimistic smiles, but they didn’t have VMs on their arms.
In the words of the administrator, they were all “newcomers” who needed to accumulate merits to obtain proof of identity.
Thinking of this, Lu Bei couldn’t help but feel a little proud, because he happened to have such a “proof of identity” on his arm.
The players walked up to him and asked.
”Hello, is this where I get the mission?”
”Brother, we want to do the mission of clearing the aliens in the abandoned tire factory. Do we need to go through any procedures?”
”Fuck, where is the mission pop-up window?”
”You are 484 stupid, where is the mission pop-up window? User information is integrated in the VM. You can only buy it after you reach the citizen level!”
”Damn, this game is too real. You have to pay for the user interface!”
Lu Bei didn’t understand what they were talking about.
But it didn’t matter.
The manager had told him that he only needed to follow the instructions on the VM, do what he was supposed to do step by step, read the lines he was supposed to read, and then supervise their work.
”You are finally here.”
After saluting these people, Lv Bei stood at attention and said in a sonorous voice.
”The abandoned tire factory is occupied by a group of alien species, and we need to clear them out.”
”Your task is to kill at least ten mutant rats or mutant cockroaches. After completing the task, I will report your results to the captain.”
Although Lv Bei himself did not know what he meant by what he said, after hearing it, the players rushed into the abandoned tire factory excitedly and fought with the alien species wandering in the building.
It is hard not to admire those figures who disregard their own safety and bravely kill the enemy.
Although they did not wear VM, their bravery was not inferior to anyone.
Lv Bei looked at their backs, and he admired them and felt ashamed.
A few minutes ago, he almost didn’t dare to get close to here because of a bad memory.
”It turns out that I haven’t trained enough…”
With a firmer look in his eyes, Lu Bei tightened the rifle in his hand.
In order not to shame the VM on his left arm and to be worthy of this identity certificate, he had to be more loyal!
…
Just as the new players were waving axes and mallets, cleaning up the mutant rats and cockroaches in the abandoned tire factory, the commander of the fountain, who had changed into new equipment, was taking two familiar players to attack the abandoned school in the northern part of Changjiu Farm.
The area of this school is not very large. It was probably a community college before the war.
Last time, he and an old friend from the perception department found an abandoned military camp here, as well as traces of the survivors’ past lives.
His intuition told him that he should be able to find something good here.
The sound of gunfire broke the silence here.
Breaking into the abandoned teaching building, his two teammates, with automatic weapons in their hands, continued to harvest the gnawers wandering in the lobby on the first floor.
Raising his hand and sweeping down three gnawers that rushed up, the [Battlefield Atmosphere Group] excitedly shouted to the teammates next to him.
”Hahaha, brother, I’m not showing off, this ‘scythe’ is so damn easy to use!”
It’s worthy of being a CF joint weapon!
The thumping sound is much more pleasant to listen to than the coughing sound of the iron pipe rifle!
”+1!” The red face reflected the jumping flames from the muzzle, and [I’m the Darkest] shouted excitedly, “I’ll shoot it!”
Compared with the sickle assault rifle, the 5mm revolver rifle he used before was simply a squirting gun!
At this moment, the fountain commander wearing an exoskeleton was holding a crowbar in his hand.
Seeing that his teammates actually wasted bullets on the gnawer, he couldn’t help but curse.
”Gan, you guys should save some ammunition, one bullet for one silver coin!”
Originally, he also planned to buy an LD-47 for fun, but he had to give all the money in his pocket to Mosquito.
Fortunately, Mosquito was finally reliable for once, and he really didn’t lie to him, and he really got him a set of armor that was exactly the same as the administrator.
The hanging armor basically protected all the vital parts of the body. Without affecting the mobility, the original mining exoskeleton was directly upgraded to heavy infantry armor.
It would be perfect if it could be equipped with a hammer!
The only pity is that he didn’t even have a copper coin in his pocket. He had dinner at his good brother’s place yesterday.
If he gets nothing this time, he will have to starve in the northwest wind in the future.
Battlefield atmosphere group: “Don’t panic, the money you earn is to spend it!”
I smiled and said: “That’s right! If you don’t spend money lavishly in the game, what’s the difference between you and salted fish!”
Battlefield atmosphere group: “Brother, I don’t seem to have many bullets, can you give me some?”
I said: “Oh, brother, you should have told me earlier, my bullets are almost gone.”
Battlefield atmosphere group: “Damn! Why didn’t you save some.”
I said: “How dare you say that to me!”
Fountain commander: “…”
That being said, after going deep into the building, the two people who were shooting and slamming stopped.
A magazine shoots out 30 silver coins, and it’s still a bit painful to think about it carefully. The battlefield atmosphere group inserted a bayonet under the barrel, and I was the darkest and showed the axe hanging on my waist.
Playing is playing, but you still have to be cautious when you need to be cautious.
This kind of narrow terrain can be solved with melee weapons, so it is better to use melee weapons as much as possible.
Passing through the hall and entering the corridor.
The three people clearly felt that the atmosphere here was not natural.
I was the darkest: “This should be the experimental building.”
Battlefield atmosphere group: “Why?”
I was the darkest: “I don’t know, maybe it’s full of liver smell.”
Fountain Commander: “…”
”Seriously, no more jokes,” I was the darkest frowned, his eyes wandering around alertly, “I feel something is approaching us.”
Perception system sequence LV4, 10 points of perception attribute, still a little weaker than the big guys, but it is enough to perceive general dangers.
Don’t dare to take it lightly.
Fountain Commander switched the crowbar from his right hand to his left hand, and then took out the centurion pistol from his waist with his right hand.
However, almost at the same time, a shrill roar suddenly came from above the half-collapsed ceiling in front.
The three of them were startled and raised their guns quickly, only to see a crawler sticking its head out from behind the rubble and roaring as it ran towards them.
”Fuck! Crawler——”
The commander of the spring water, who was standing in the front row, was the first to be hit by the running crawler.
It happened so suddenly
that no one could react at all.
Thanks to the breastplate hanging on the exoskeleton, the commander of the spring water was hit hard, but he was not seriously injured.
The pistol was thrown out, and the commander of the spring water and the crawler rolled back five or six meters, hitting the wall hard from behind.
Seeing the crawler bite down, he almost instinctively raised the crowbar to block the blood spurting out of the bite, and held forward with both hands.
”Roar——!”
The stained teeth were close at hand!
The spring water could even smell the bad breath emanating from its mouth.
”Fuck!”
The steel pipe was gradually bent, and the spring water dodged the dripping saliva and cursed, constantly increasing the output power of the exoskeleton, and pushed out his right hand, which was clenched into a fist, and finally aimed at the beast’s head.
”Give it to me–”
”Go to hell!”
The moment the voice fell, there was a bang.
As the copper shell as thick as a fist was thrown out from the outside of his arm, a steel nail as thick as a thumb was hit from the front of his arm and pierced the head of the crawler fiercely.
Black blood splattered.
After struggling for a while, the crawler with a smashed head finally fell heavily next to the commander of the spring water. The
two people who came to support, including the spring water himself who was pressed by the crawler, were all shocked by the power.
”Fuck, what kind of equipment is this?”
Wiping the blood on his face, the commander of the spring water spat and said.
”I don’t know… Mosquito said this thing is called a nail shooter, and said that if I want, I can call it Steel Nail 1.0.”
The principle seems to be that nitrocellulose is compressed and ignited, pushing the steel nails in the nail shooter on the left arm to shoot out. According to Mosquito himself, it can penetrate a 20mm steel plate at a close distance.
For example, the one hanging on his chest.
”This is too easy to use…” I was so envious and picked up the hot shell on the ground. “Why don’t you use electric drive? Don’t you have batteries on you?”
Commander Quanshui: “Mosquito said this is more powerful.”
Indeed.
Explosive propulsion is much more powerful than electric motors. The only disadvantage is that you have to reload the gunpowder if you want to stab it a second time, and you can’t continue to output like a pile driver.
However, it seems that there is no need for that.
The crawler’s half head was blown off…
The battlefield atmosphere team reached out and pulled Quanshui up from the ground.
”Brother, are you OK?”
”I’m fine, but my stomach hurts from the collision.”
Shaking his head, Quanshui picked up the centurion pistol that had fallen from the ground and continued to explore forward with two teammates.
The previous crawler seemed to be the last BOSS. The ones
encountered later were all stupid gnawers, which could be easily solved with a few close combats. It was not difficult at all.
Next to a laboratory, the group found the entrance to a basement.
The door of the basement was open, and the dark passage was chilling.
Commander Fountain swallowed his saliva and said nervously.
”Do you want to go down and take a look?”
This was obviously nonsense.
They were already here, and they couldn’t return empty-handed.
If there was an entrance to a maze or a hidden experimental institution below, it would be great.
But the question now is…
who will go down first?
My Darkest: “I always feel that there is something bad in there… Fountain, I leave it to you.”
Fountain Commander: “Fuck! You told me there is something bad, but you still let me go down!”
My Darkest: “What else? You have the highest tankiness. If you don’t go in front, do you want me to go in front?”
Fountain Commander argued anxiously: “Is this a tankiness issue?”
Seeing that his teammates were more unreliable than each other, the old man in the battlefield sighed and stood up bravely.
”Let me do it.”
Fountain Commander looked at him excitedly and put his right hand on his shoulder.
”Good brother, come on! I leave it to you!”
My Darkest also put his hand on his shoulder and cheered him up: “Go brother, we’ll wait for your news on the official website!”
Battlefield Atmosphere Group: “???”
Fortunately, my darkest intuition did not come true this time. There was neither deadly radiation nor traps in the passage leading to the basement, nor dangerous monsters lurking.
But relatively speaking, the end of the passage was not the remains of pre-war civilization, the entrance to the underground maze, nor the mysterious experimental institution.
However, they did not make a wasted trip.
In the spacious basement, ten cryogenic hibernation capsules were neatly arranged. The hatch was open, and judging from the dust on it, it should have been open for a long time.
The battery had been taken away. Perhaps a scavenger had come here, or perhaps those who woke up from the hibernation capsule took the battery away.
Fortunately, although the battery was taken away, the motor equipment behind the hibernation capsule was intact, without even a scratch!
According to the purchase price offered by the outpost warehouse, the parts of an undisassembled abandoned hibernation capsule can be sold for at least 50 silver coins, and even up to 100 silver coins!
And here, there are ten of them!
The three of them held their breath at the same time. Especially the commander of the spring, whose pockets were cleaner than his face, clenched his fists excitedly at this moment.
Awesome!
Directly a wave of fat!
Battlefield Commander: “There is only one problem now, how can we move so many things back?”
Commander Quanshui said excitedly: “This is easy, we can rent a truck and drive it outside the city. I have consulted the price, and it is only about 10 silver coins per kilometer.” It
is about 20 kilometers from here to Linghu Wetland Park. It is easy to earn back the road expenses by just looting.
”By the way… why does this mark look familiar?” Standing next to a desk, my darkest hand held a metal box that he had turned out from a drawer.
The box was completely black, and the material was unknown. It was impossible to tell what it was used for, and there was no mechanism or button that could be opened.
Only on the back of the box was there a sunken circular LOGO.
”Let me take a look.”
Walking to my darkest side, Quanshui took the black box from his hand and stared at the LOGO for a while.
I saw that the outside of the big circle was surrounded by a small dot, which looked a bit like the earth and the moon, and also a bit like a hydrogen atom.
It looked so familiar…
I always felt like I had seen it somewhere.
Quanshui frowned.
At this moment, the man from Zhandi, who was standing by and watching, suddenly interrupted.
”I’ve seen this! It’s in the document updated in the official website database yesterday!”
Quanshui suddenly came to his senses and blurted out.
”College!?”
The three people who reacted were stunned for a moment.
Holy shit!?
Is this going to trigger a plot?!
(End of this chapter)
