Chapter 235 Fuel Engine
Chapter 235 Fuel Engine
Before 12 o’clock in the morning.
The convoy finally arrived at Changjiu Farm.
And the players also returned to the outpost one after another, or logged off at the nearby save point of the farm.
Many people had symptoms such as fever, fatigue, and dizziness before logging off.
They had read the strategy post on the forum and immediately understood what was going on, and found a hibernation chamber to lie down.
Near the save point.
The air was full of joy.
”Good brother, you are here too?”
”Hahaha, everyone is here together, what a coincidence!”
”My requirements are not high, just give me an SSSR when I draw talents!”
”Isn’t this a high requirement?!”
”Planning blessing, I am willing to exchange everyone here being single for an invincible talent.”
”The planner said he knew, and said that he would arrange a talent that can turn you into a futa.”
”Fuck.”
The awakened players celebrated each other, and the players who were just one point or one hundred million points away were eating lemons crazily, with expressions of envy and jealousy on their faces.
Although the talents hidden in the gene sequence have been determined since the moment they “logged into the game” and the planners could not change it, Chu Guang was still sincerely happy for them.
At least ten people awakened in this battle.
Maybe more than twenty! It
is another big step towards forming an awakened company.
Standing next to the warehouse of Changjiu Farm, Chu Guang looked at the trucks full of supplies and the young players who were growing up vigorously, and couldn’t help but smile like an old father.
The tender shoots in the field have grown taller.
It’s great.
…
The offline players brought the battle situation on the front line to the forum and shared the joy of victory with the professional players in the rear and the cloud players who were still queuing.
By the way, they also took a few “photographic-level” game original paintings that had passed the review.
As for Chu Guang, he finally got the battle report he had been waiting for all day.
The first was the blocking battle at the highway entrance, with 227 players participating in the battle, facing the four over-equipped 100-man teams under Black Snake, as well as the logistics transport team and the artillery team with a total of 628 people.
Among them, 17 players were killed (including seriously injured) and 33 were injured.
A total of 371 looters were killed and 257 were captured. The number of those who escaped in the chaos was not counted, and it is estimated that only about 10 to 20 people escaped.
Among the prisoners, there was a centurion and two staff officers.
What made Chu Guang a little regretful was that the centurion Black Snake was killed while escaping, and his little player failed to catch him alive.
But it didn’t matter. It would be the same if he caught the staff officer. What he could ask from Black Snake could also be asked from his staff officer.
If he couldn’t ask, he basically didn’t know.
The prisoners who were worth interrogating were temporarily detained in Changjiu Farm, and Chu Guang handed the worthless prisoners to Luca.
Recently, he planned a labor camp in the north of Linghu Lake, responsible for reclaiming the wasteland north of Linghu Lake.
Although the labor camp is still a bare piece of land, Chu Guang will give the prisoners more than a dozen woodcutting axes and let them build their own cells by themselves.
Very humane.
Escape?
This idea is very creative, you can try it.
In addition to the captives, there are 488 slaves who have been liberated.
It is said that there were 2,000 people at the beginning, but only half of them were left in winter, and now only these are left.
Most of them are young and strong laborers, and many are craftsmen like Wu Mu, the director of the paper mill, who are proficient in construction, forging, planting, animal husbandry and even simple medical skills, or have learned arithmetic and literacy and other skills.
Most of them come from the central and northern parts of the River Valley Province, and some from other southern regions. Most of them were captured by the looters when they plundered the villages. It can be said that they suffered both mental and physical torture along the way.
Chu Guang plans to temporarily place them in the refugee camp, and take literacy classes with the refugees to learn literacy, arithmetic and geometry.
Only educated labor can become a high-quality labor force.
These people will become the foundation of industrialization.
Although it will put some pressure on food supply in the short term, in the long run, this investment is absolutely worthwhile.
Besides, Chu Guang had just obtained a batch of food from the looters. A rough estimate showed that there were about 84 tons of food that could be used, half of which were potatoes, 30% were rice, and the rest were various grains and cereals.
In addition, there were 21 tons of nutritional paste, which was probably used by the looters to feed slaves, just right as rations for prisoners of war.
”…We have seized a total of 25 trucks, which carried a large amount of cotton products and unprocessed cotton, as well as animal fur, in addition to food.”
”In terms of weapons, the looters mainly used standard weapons of the legion, including 610 ‘Ripper’ rifles, 50 Pu-9 submachine guns, 98 ‘Blade’ assault rifles, and a small number of iron rifles and centurion pistols.”
”In terms of ammunition, their trucks were equipped with 60,000 7mm bullets and a small number of other caliber bullets. 100 Panzerfausts and 150 100mm ammunition, etc.”
While reporting the situation, Wrench handed a list to Chu Guang.
In addition to weapons, food, and things for keeping warm, there are some other supplies on the list.
For example, gold.
For example, various types of wine.
These plunderers not only inherited the equipment of the legion, but also inherited their habit of liking gold and alcohol.
After looking through the entire list, Chu Guang had only one feeling in his heart.
These guys are really fucking rich, and they can be described as fat as oil.
How much wealth did the Bone Chewing Tribe inherit from the expeditionary army?
These equipment may be a little less to arm a regiment, but it is more than enough to arm a reinforced company or a battalion.
If every thousand-man team is so fat…
Putting down the list in his hand, Chu Guang sighed softly.
”Thank you for the express delivery from afar, I will use it well.”
The wrench was slightly stunned.
Express delivery?
What is that.
But it was not the first time that he heard some words he had never heard of from the administrator, so he was not too surprised.
Wrench knew that in front of the vast ocean of knowledge of the Administrator, what he knew was just a drop in the ocean, and it was normal that he could not understand.
”The caliber of the Legion Rifle is also 7mm, but the shell length is different, so they are not compatible with each other… It’s a pity to waste these 60,000 bullets.”
Wrench nodded and said, “Indeed, but their Pu-9 submachine gun is a good thing. Although it is less powerful than our short sickle, it is much more maneuverable.”
Short sickle is LD-47c, a short-barreled version of the sickle assault rifle, that is, a submachine gun with “an automatic rifle receiver and full-power bullets”.
Compared with the short sickle, the Pu-9 submachine gun is mainly designed for street fighting and trench sweeping, with a combat distance of within 50 meters, and rarely 100 meters.
At this distance, small-caliber and high-rate submachine guns do have certain advantages. With an extended magazine or drum magazine, it can even burst out a firepower advantage that is not inferior to a machine gun in a short period of time.
Chu Guang picked up a gun from the car, played with it for a while, and an interested expression appeared in his eyes.
This thing is very light, less than three kilograms.
The shape is a bit like a Thompson submachine gun, but only the slanted grip looks similar, and the internal structure is obviously not the same thing.
Chu Guang inserted a magazine and fired a burst of bullets at the snow pile beside him.
The sound was like tearing cloth, which sounded very crisp and pleasant, but the power felt a little bit smaller.
”It is still very useful against ordinary gnawers or martyrs, but it is a bit difficult to deal with crawlers, and it should not be able to break the defense of tyrants.”
”It is also okay against mutant cockroaches, rats, and hyenas. The high rate of fire can make up for the lack of accuracy, and there is no difficulty in controlling it at close range. It is suitable for dealing with low-defense targets.”
”However, it may not pay for itself to use it to fight cockroaches.”
Chu Guang turned off the safety of the gun, put it back in the car, and gave a fair evaluation.
”You can give it to new players.”
The new players mentioned here do not refer to the newbies who have just entered the game, but players between LV2 and LV5.
Most of them have completed the “passing on the torch” task, mastered basic combat or survival skills, graduated from their masters, and most of them have contributed to the level of citizens, saving enough money to buy the “user interface”.
According to the economic system designed by Chu Guang for players, players at this stage can complete the second change of clothes in their lives within 3 to 7 days, replacing iron rifles or crossbows with “modern weapons”, and start to experience the complete game content.
However, the LD series of weapons designed for the current development environment of the shelter are actually not suitable for new players.
Especially for the intelligence system, if the initial intelligence attribute is 7, the strength is usually only 3. There is a chance to add a little strength in the first ten levels, and another point is added after awakening. Basically, you can have a stable strength of 5 points at LV10…which is the average level of a normal adult. It is
still a bit difficult to operate the LD-47 assault rifle without the help of an exoskeleton or mechanical prosthesis.
For them, it is a good choice to use weapons designed for ordinary people from other factions to make a transition.
After checking the weapons, Chu Guang went directly to the last row of the convoy.
There was an armored pickup truck parked there.
It was also the only intact one among the eight armored pickup trucks. The others were more or less damaged and needed to be repaired before they could be used, or simply exploded and could not be repaired.
Chu Guang was very curious about this vehicle, especially its power source.
After opening the hood and checking it, Chu Guang then walked to the side and rear of the Kara truck and found the fuel tank on the rear compartment.
The location of this thing was very cleverly hidden. The front was the cab, and the two sides were armored steel plates. There was also a protective cover on top to place the base for fixing the machine gun.
Unless it was bypassed to the rear, or the side armor was directly penetrated, it was basically impossible to hit the fuel tank.
Chu Guang opened the fuel tank cap, stretched out his index finger to touch it, and put it close to his nose to sniff it.
The smell was very light, not very volatile, and the oil was thick, a bit like diesel.
”Diesel engine?”
The wrench was slightly stunned.
”What is that…”
Chu Guang wiped his hands and said casually.
”Nothing, an oil-burning engine, it should be considered an antique.”
Compared to this world, fossil fuel engines are indeed antiques.
Civilian-grade solid hydrogen batteries have been popularized in the prosperous era, and some special equipment has even used metal hydrogen batteries, completely separated from chemical energy, and directly used cold fusion.
No matter how advanced the technology is, the bottleneck of fossil fuel engines is there. With the continuous innovation of energy storage methods and energy technology, it is only a matter of time before they are eliminated.
However, when civilization declines, many technologies that have been swept into the grave seem to have been dug up again.
Looking at the wrench, Chu Guang continued to ask.
”Did you see fuel on those trucks? They may be in barrels, just like the liquid in this tank.”
The wrench was stunned for a moment, thought carefully for a while, and nodded.
”It seems that I have found it, but I thought it was the fuel used to make Molotov cocktails, so it was counted in the raw materials. It should be on the list I gave you before.”
Chu Guang found the list and read it through. Sure enough, in the raw materials, he found the item [combustion agent].
These predators have quite a lot of reserves, 10 200L iron barrels, and some are in 5-liter barrels.
This fuel may not be enough to supply a whole convoy, but it is enough to supply a few armored pickup trucks.
Chu Guang frowned slightly.
Food can be robbed, but it may be difficult to maintain fuel by robbing.
After all, this is a wasteland.
There are definitely few survivor settlements with industrial capabilities. Even if there are alkane fuels, it is difficult to match them directly without unified production standards.
”The Bone Chewing Tribe is suspected to control an oil well with uncertain production capacity and reserves, or other special fuel production facilities.”
”What is certain is that this fuel contains alkanes, and it can’t be edible oil.”
”Could it be an oil crop?”
Oil is not only a fuel, but also an important industrial raw material.
At present, the common organic chemical raw materials in Qingquan City mainly come from the Kamu tree planted in large and small survivor settlements.
The fruit of this tree can be used to extract oil, and the resin is high-quality rubber. It is not uncommon in the central region of Zhongzhou, and the technology was born in the pre-war era.
Chu Guang silently memorized the information in his mind, thought for a moment, looked at Wrench and gave instructions.
”Send these fuels to the outpost.”
It would be better to let Yin Fang identify the composition of this stuff to see whether it was dug out from the ground or produced by something else.
This guy was a D-level explorer in the academy before. He must know more about the wasteland than himself, who has just come to this world for less than a year, and definitely more than Heya, who just came out of the hibernation capsule, and Boss Xia, who is extremely superstitious about urban legends.
If the composition and production method of the fuel can be determined, it will help Chu Guang to have a more comprehensive grasp of the information of the Bone Chewing Tribe.
And it is definitely more reliable than the information he asked from the captives.
After all, most of the captives have little education, and it is easy for them to add their own imagination when explaining the problem, and sometimes the information they ask is all kinds of strange.
It’s not that they don’t want to confess, but they don’t understand it themselves.
Chu Guang still remembers that believer of the Torch Church, who called the “collar” that can enslave the Death Claw a “miracle”.
Wrench said seriously.
”Okay, sir, do you need to send it over now?”
Chu Guang thought for a while and said.
”Let’s go early tomorrow, it’s safer.”
After noting the manager’s instructions, Wrench was about to leave to direct the guards to unload the goods, but suddenly remembered something and continued.
”By the way, sir, in addition to the oil, there is something on the truck. We studied it for a long time but still couldn’t figure out what it is. The captives couldn’t explain it clearly, but they just said it was Lord Black Snake’s stuff.”
Chu Guang’s heart moved and he said immediately.
”Take me to see.”
”Please follow me!”
Wrench took Chu Guang to the back of the truck quickly.
Two guards boarded the carriage and lifted a wooden box down.
Chu Guang opened the box and took a look, and he was stunned.
This thing…
Isn’t it the Death Claw hanging around his neck in the shed at the west gate? ?
Chu Guang asked immediately.
”How many of these things are there?”
The guard replied.
”We counted them and there are 37 in total.”
Chu Guang’s face was happy.
37!
Wow.
It seems that the person who performed the surgery was captured, and these predators have no idea how to use these things, so they just threw them in the car.
Epic enhancement of the intelligence system!
Unlike the previous times.
I’m afraid it’s really enhanced this time! –
(Sorry to the brothers who have been waiting for a long time. It’s not that I don’t want to update earlier, but I really can’t catch up… I have been writing from 1 a.m. to now, including the conception, detailed outline, and main text. I have to make up for my sleep and get up to continue writing. I should have written about the settlement of the mission rewards, the gay meeting of the captives, and the next plot point today… But my hand speed is not fast enough, so I only wrote half of it.
I’m really sorry! I will try my best to maintain a daily output of 10,000, but I have never tried such a long burst before, and it has always been 4k. I will finish it in the morning, if not 10 o’clock, try to be before 12 o’clock. Please give me a little time and tolerance… Love you.)
(End of this chapter)
