Chapter 337 The dog planner is here to reap the profits again!
Chapter 337 The dog planner is here to cut leeks again!
”…We met the people from Shelter 404.”
In the middle of a pure white room, Horn’s face was full of piety.
”Oh?”
As if floating from the dark, a gentle voice sounded in his ears.
”What kind of people are they?”
Horn answered respectfully.
”They are a group of…very special people. My experience cannot help me make a more specific judgment. They have made an invitation, and I want to send a few people to take a look at them.”
”This is a good idea. You need to keep communicating with other survivors. Have you decided on the candidates?”
There was a hint of approval in the voice.
The old face couldn’t help showing a trace of joy, and Horn continued respectfully.
”Not yet, but we plan to select a student and two engineers to go.”
The voice that came from the dark seemed to be lost in thought.
After about two or three minutes, it continued.
”Let Pai go.”
Horn was a little surprised by the mentor’s words, but didn’t say anything.
”I am willing to listen to your teachings.”
The old man said respectfully, and after a pause, he continued to express his thoughts.
”The capital of the New Alliance is more than 100 kilometers away from us. For safety reasons, I would like to apply for a bodyguard.”
”Approved, the door will open at 6 o’clock tomorrow.” The voice in the dark replied very quickly.
Horn nodded slightly.
”Thank you.”
”You’re welcome, go and prepare well,” the voice continued, “I also have to choose a suitable gift for our neighbors.”
The communication ended.
After the voice left, Horn slowly raised his hands, fumbled around his temples with his index fingers for a while, and took off the VR glasses on his head. The
pure white light faded from the surroundings.
At this moment, he was standing in the management center of the camp.
The door of the shelter would not be opened easily.
Generally, if there was something important to discuss, he would sit in the office like this and communicate with the manager using VR equipment.
After pondering for a moment, Horn reached out and pressed the touch screen on the desktop.
Looking at the icon of the communication connection, he slowly spoke.
”Let Ivan come to the management center.”
”I have something important to discuss with him.”
… ”
Wasteland OL” official website.
The settlement of the “Knives Out” expansion pack is in full swing.
This battle has been fought for two months, and almost all players have gained a lot, accumulating a large number of points and waiting to spend them.
Before the settlement began, many people on the official website have posted screenshots to show off their points balance.
Brother Bing and Huo: “Fuck, 100,000 points?!”
I’ll fight you: “You opened something, right?!”
Luo Yu: “Are you envious? I exchanged my life for it. (Proud)”
100,000 points is not the most exaggerated, a fat rat even got 120,000 points.
The most eye-catching is probably the Burning Corps, with an average score of nearly 80,000.
Even the third-tier corps such as the Silver Corps, which have little presence, have an average score of more than 30,000.
It can only be said that the Corps system is worthy of being the father of the version. If individual players want to get high scores, they can only find another way like “forcing others to do things that are difficult”.
But in the Corps system, basically as long as there is a big brother in the group, the rest of the people will not be bad as long as they don’t lie too much and don’t listen to the command and are kicked out of the group, the benefits will basically not be bad.
Although points cannot be exchanged for silver coins, tasks with points generally reward silver coins or contributions.
It can be seen how much “war money” they have made!
Stop bullshitting: “The average score this time may reach 20,000.”
WC really has mosquitoes: “Be more confident, I think it will be at least 40,000. (Proud)”
Canyon Runaway Mole: “Suddenly a little panicked…”
Makabazi: “Why panic? Isn’t it good to have more points?”
Canyon Runaway Mole: “No… You can’t just look at the surface when looking at a problem. More points means more people will participate in the lottery. According to the design of this game’s lottery system, it is not the explosion rate that is fixed but the prizes in the reward pool…”
Stop bullshitting: “Stop, stop, stop, can you speak human language?”
Canyon Runaway Mole: “To speak human language, the reward pool may be diluted.”
Construction Site Boy and Brick: “What the hell?!”
Debt Big Eyes: “It can’t be that bad, right?!”
Fang Chang: “You look surprised, as if it’s your first day playing this game. (Squinting smile)”
Just as the players were discussing, A Guang’s ID suddenly appeared on the forum.
Seeing the ID of the dog planner, not only the players perked up, but also the cloud players, spies from various countries and companies, and the silly netizens all sat up straight.
”Hello everyone, I’m your most beloved planner A Guang. First of all, please allow me to represent all the developers and wish you a happy Children’s Day!”
”In order to celebrate the festival and to make our programmers less anxious, our siege lions designed an automatic banana feeding machine… But unfortunately, the company’s No. 5 batteries are out of stock, and there is no supermarket here, so we can only solve the problem ourselves.”
”Fortunately, our siege lions are reliable enough. Not only did they successfully make the battery, but they also solved some interesting problems. Hint: It’s a layer of film. Everyone unanimously decided that it would be a pity not to use it to make some money to buy snacks, so we decided to sell it to the highest bidder!”
”Just like that, the auction will start in three days, and the starting price is – 1 million silver coins!”
”Let’s get back to the topic. With the arrival of June, the closed beta server of “Wasteland OL” is about to enter the hot summer. Rainfall will be more frequent, urban areas and forests will be more dangerous, reptiles and arthropods will usher in a strong period… There should be no players exploring the southern hemisphere, so there is nothing wrong with this sentence.”
”Also, thank you all for your continued support. The expansion pack has been successfully completed and we have obtained valuable experimental data! Thanks to this data, we have taken a big step towards the public beta!”
”The boss said we are winning, and I believe it’s not just us, you all are the same! Are you excited to see the string of zeros in your account? Are you very happy? Haha, I am as happy as you are!”
”In order to give back to everyone’s continued support, we have prepared generous prizes! From now on, the points lottery and achievement redemption activities are officially open!”
”Let’s celebrate this victory!” At
the same time as the post was published, the official website unlocked the lottery system, and the forum was instantly filled with carnival.
100 points for one draw, 10,000 points means 100 consecutive draws!
Although this game is very stingy and does not have a setting of 20 draws for 100 consecutive draws, everyone has accumulated an average of 40,000 points, and it is enough to draw once!
While the players are busy scratching the lottery and the cloud players are happily eating melons, the intelligence systems of various countries are not idle either. Some are peeking at the screen, some are holding meetings, and at this moment, they are in a state of panic.
A Guang, who has not posted a post for more than two months, has re-entered their field of vision.
For them who have been busy for several months but still have no progress, there is nothing more exciting than this!
”No. 5 batteries are out of stock… An organization that has mastered mature quantum computer technology will be out of stock of No. 5 batteries?”
”This is nonsense!”
”There should be some hidden clues in it… What is that A Guang hinting at us?”
”Lock all areas within a 5-kilometer radius without supermarkets!”
”Is it global? That’s too much…”
Somewhere.
Listening to the discussion of his colleagues, the square-faced man sighed and closed the notebook in his hand.
”Is there a possibility… this person is talking nonsense?”
Everyone in the conference room was stunned.
The man in the police uniform was the first to come to his senses and tapped his index finger on the table.
”Don’t rule out this possibility!”
Without sufficient evidence, any possibility exists.
Various signs indicate that the man whose existence was erased did not seem to realize that he was abducted by an extraterrestrial civilization, or he realized it but did not care and had completely accepted this new job. At
this time, the old man sitting at the table suddenly spoke.
”What do you think that membrane is?”
The square-faced man was slightly stunned.
”Membrane…?”
The old man nodded.
”Didn’t they say they solved some interesting problems?”
As he said that, he looked at the other people in the room and continued to ask.
”Do we have battery experts here?”
Everyone looked at each other and shook their heads.
The man in the green shirt frowned and said,
”Batteries… The batteries of our unit are purchased from cooperative units. I don’t know much about this part.”
At this time, the consultant from the chemical industry suddenly spoke.
”Could he be talking about the SEI membrane?”
the square-faced man asked immediately.
”What is that?”
the consultant said.
”It’s not a rare thing… Simply put, it’s a solid electrolyte interface, which is equivalent to a passivation layer covering the surface of the electrode material, with a thickness of about 100 nanometers. Taking lithium batteries as an example, a good SEI membrane can prevent solvent molecules from co-embedding, allowing lithium ions to pass through and embed smoothly, thereby inhibiting the formation of lithium dendrites.”
The old man sitting next to the conference table said with a blank face.
”Lithium… what?”
He didn’t hear it clearly.
As if he had expected this reaction, the consultant sighed and continued.
”In short, it is a technical difficulty faced by lithium batteries. The tree-like metal lithium formed when lithium ions are reduced will continuously consume electrolyte during the charging and discharging process, and cause irreversible deposition of metal lithium, thereby forming ‘dead lithium’, reducing coulomb efficiency… and may even cause safety hazards when the positive and negative electrodes are connected.”
Moli went bankrupt in the 1980s because of this, and was eventually acquired by the then electrical giant NEC. However, it has not yet overcome the technical difficulties of metal lithium negative electrode batteries.
At present, the mainstream method in the industry is to use carbon-based materials as electrodes, sacrificing battery capacity to ensure safety.
Although the energy density of lithium negative electrode materials is attractive, no one wants to carry a bomb on their body or sit on a rocket under their buttocks.
The old man was still thinking, and the square-faced man probably understood and nodded thoughtfully.
”I roughly understand what you mean… If the problem of that membrane is solved, the energy density of the battery can be improved?”
A bitter smile appeared on the consultant’s face.
”Just understand it like this… But I still have to emphasize that lithium dendrites are only a technical difficulty in studying lithium battery problems, and artificial SEI membranes are only one of the solutions proposed by the academic community for the problem of lithium dendrites.”
”As for whether it is useful or not, how to use it… These are all controversial. The current mainstream research directions are one to build a house and the other to build a wall. Maybe both are right, maybe neither is right.”
A colleague sitting next to him asked curiously, “What does neither mean?”
The consultant answered concisely.
”It means that not all problems can be answered.”
The old man suddenly spoke.
”This membrane… can it increase the battery energy density to what extent?”
The consultant took a sip of tea, moistened his throat and continued.
”… It depends on what battery it is compared with. According to the white paper we released on the development plan of power batteries, the goal for 2025 is to reach 400Wh/kg, and the goal for 2030 is 500Wh/kg. I don’t know much about batteries, but this data should have been referenced by experts from academia and industry.”
”If the graphite negative electrode of the lithium battery can be replaced with pure lithium, the energy density should theoretically be an order of magnitude higher.”
”An order of magnitude?!” The man in the police uniform showed a surprised expression on his face.
Not only him, but everyone in the conference room showed a surprised expression on their faces.
Just listening to the numbers didn’t make any sense.
But once there was a reference for comparison, they immediately understood the value of this technology.
The consultant continued.
”It’s about one or two thousand, which is an order of magnitude higher. As for the specific amount… it’s more reliable for you to go to the industry and ask an expert.”
The man in the green shirt suddenly stood up.
”I’ll call my company.”
The old man sitting at the conference table nodded and said seriously.
”Go ahead.”
At the same time, a similar scene was also playing out in various parts of the world in the real world.
This “Developer Log” of less than a thousand words has been repeatedly studied by intelligence agencies of major organizations for no less than 1,000 times, and even punctuation marks are not spared.
In the end, most intelligence agencies came to the same guess-this may be an enlightenment signal released by extraterrestrial civilization.
As we all know, one of the three pillars of modern technology is energy.
If this mysterious website really comes up with technology that is far beyond the current era, it will undoubtedly provide favorable evidence for the conjecture of “third kind of contact”.
After all, any technology cannot be separated from the support of the scientific research system and cannot emerge out of thin air.
While the players were busy scratching the lottery, the silver coin consignment platform had quietly become lively.
Although it is not known what the official website of “Wasteland OL” is going to auction in three days, it is always right to prepare in advance.
”Foreign exchange” is something that can’t be used until it is needed.
There are only so many transactions on the platform every day. This is not a question of whether it is a buyer’s market or a seller’s market, but there are simply not so many silver coins in the pool to buy.
Players need silver coins to update their equipment, eat, sleep, and even take a bath.
Yes.
According to the information they collected by peeping on the official website, this broken game even costs money to take a bath.
”Shit… Do these lucky guys know what they are doing?”
Fick, staring at the string of numbers on the computer screen, folded his arms, and couldn’t help but curse with envy.
Just half an hour ago, their project team received a batch of funds.
Although the money was not in their pockets, it was still okay to improve their working environment and life “within a reasonable range.”
Part of this money came from grants from official agencies.
But more of it came from giants that were in line with the official agencies.
After all, the government itself did not produce anything, and it was useless to get the technology. In the end, it had to be handed over to companies or individuals, allowing them to register patents, expand production, form a monopoly, and grab other people’s cake.
This is also the rule of the game in the real world.
”It’s better for them to never know!”
”Indeed, truth is something that the fewer people know, the better… Otherwise, where can we get such cheap silver coins?” The intelligence officer standing by laughed and teased.
The colleague next to him clenched his fists and stared at the computer screen to cheer him up.
”Buy now! Damn, why can’t the trading volume go up? You won’t even sell it at $8 per silver coin?!”
The trader sitting in front of the computer analyzed with a serious look.
”I’m afraid it’s not a price problem… The proportion of players holding US dollar and cryptocurrency accounts is too small! There is a certain threshold for foreign exchange trading. Many people may be afraid of trouble and simply filter out uncommon currencies.”
”Not only that, some dense small orders obviously don’t look like player behavior… They are more like speculators who don’t directly participate in the game.” ”
In other words, we didn’t get those large orders of more than 1,000 silver coins at all!”
The silver coin trading platform is not only open to players. Cloud players can not only trade, but also indirectly participate in the investment in the game through the agreement proxy holding method.
When the silver coin trading platform first came out, many people hoarded a lot of silver coins.
Now suddenly someone bought a lot of silver coins, and these retail investors who didn’t understand the situation immediately cashed out and left.
Thanks to the cheap chips contributed by these people.
The real auction will be in three days. The later it is, the more intense the competition will be, and the price of silver coins will probably be even more exaggerated…
The intelligence officer standing next to him said with a serious look.
”We still have to find a way to get a clean RMB account!”
Damn, why is it so troublesome? !
Fike couldn’t help but kick the table.
”Fuck!”
…
There is one thing that Fike’s colleague did guess right.
At present, most of the accounts that are sold on the silver coin trading platform are indeed cloud players.
As for why the players did not participate, it was not entirely because of the account problem.
In the final analysis, everyone was busy scratching the lottery and didn’t pay attention to that area at all.
Many big scorers directly drew 10 100 consecutive draws, and the computer screen was full of golden light.
Each prize has a corresponding card.
Even if you skip the lottery animation, it will take a lot of time to look through each prize.
Not to mention taking screenshots of winning the grand prize to show off on the forum, or scolding the dog planner in the small group if you draw the garbage.
Closed beta player communication section.
Many people have taken screenshots and posted them, and started to share the joy of winning with everyone.
”Wait, what is the arms package? Who got one?”
”The introduction says that it is weapons and supplies of varying amounts, which can be used to trade with other NPC forces, or sold to newbies or used by yourself… This is actually the spoils of war, right?”
”I understand the principle, but why do I have to draw again after drawing once?”
”I also drew… an Eviscerator rifle?”
”What kind of Russian nesting doll is this!”
”Hahaha, I got ten!”
”Awesome!!”
The Eviscerator rifle is the standard weapon of the legion cannon fodder. Its characteristics are that the barrel is long and hard, and the total length with the bayonet is nearly two meters.
This thing has another name on the forum, called Salted Fish Stab.
This equipment has basically no other advantages except saving bullets and not jamming.
In the real battle of bayonets in the trenches, the LD-47, a relatively compact assault rifle, is more handy, and long weapons may not be easy to use.
However, due to the large number of bullets, the bullets of the Eviscerator rifle are much easier to find than the “Black Swan” of the enterprise, so this weapon is very popular in many survivor gathering places.
After all, not all survivor settlements can mass-produce automatic rifles.
Although these weapons cannot be sold at a high price in the New Alliance, if they are dragged to a distant survivor settlement to sell, and then the local specialties are dragged back to the New Alliance, a lot of money should be made.
In general, this “arms gift package” is much better than a consolation prize.
Of course, the new tricks that the dog planners have come up with are just appetizers, and the players are really concerned about the first prize in the reward pool.
Although not everyone has the opportunity to become a European emperor, it is good to be able to absorb the European energy.
It’s a closed beta.
It’s mainly for testing, so it’s normal to have less equipment.
After the public beta, everyone will be able to play it sooner or later!
Under the attention of everyone, the first European emperor of this expansion pack lottery event was finally born.
Fountain Commander: “Fuck! Destroyer I exoskeleton! There is a 120mm mortar on the back…Fuck?! This equipment is awesome!”
Perhaps because he was overwhelmed by excitement, Fountain Brother forgot to be low-key this time.
Not only did he pretend to be awesome, he also posted screenshots and his acceptance speech, sharing the joy of becoming the European emperor with everyone.
However…
no one was happy.
The post exploded instantly.
Edge Pad: “Fuck! Why is it you again!”
Canyon Runaway Mole: “Damn European Emperor! Go to hell!” Quit
Smoking: “It’s a conspiracy! It’s definitely a conspiracy!”
Fountain Commander: “What a conspiracy! I got 120,000 points, why can’t I win! 1200 consecutive draws, brother!”
However, this statement obviously cannot convince the public.
Salted fish don’t care so much.
Silver Father: “I’m sick of it. This old Gou coin can get 120,000 points, why is it only 30,000?”
Garbage Picker Level 99: “Woo woo woo, this is so unfair, I beg the planner to cut it down!”
Lao Wang next door: “Support! Support with both hands!” The
Fountain Commander panicked and deleted the post quickly, but it was too late.
Screenshots of equipment uploaded on the official website are everywhere.
According to the information shown in the screenshots, the Destroyer I exoskeleton is a circle larger than the Type 6 “Heavy Cavalry” exoskeleton, and it is almost catching up with the power armor.
Unlike the Type 6 exoskeleton, the armor of the Destroyer I does not focus on the protection against light weapons, but more on the protection against explosion fragments and shock waves.
Specifically, the inner side of the armor of the exoskeleton is filled with a thick layer of buffer material, so it looks quite bloated.
When deploying the 120mm mortar behind, you need to support the ground with both hands like a running start, and you cannot move.
Since it is equipped with an automatic loading system, in theory, as long as there are enough shells, only one unit needs to be deployed to project a large amount of firepower to the target area in a short period of time.
It is equivalent to an “all-terrain” self-propelled mortar that can be driven into a small alley.
It can be called a street fighting artifact!
However, because the equipment is too bulky, the chemical energy battery is bloated, and the ammunition rack is external, it is not suitable for the front battlefield.
It is no exaggeration to say that this thing is full of flaws, and it would be quite embarrassing to be hit by someone .
Players of the Storm Corps have said that if this old Gou Coin gets this Gou Coin equipment, he will have to go out of his way.
But let’s be honest.
It is also great to be able to have a round of close-range fire support before the attack. There are
more than one new equipment in the reward pool.
This time, the game official has prepared a total of ten first prizes, and half of them have never appeared before.
As for the exoskeleton carrying a mortar, it can’t be considered the most awesome.
After all, this kind of equipment is only useful in specific situations, and ammunition is also a problem.
If we really talk about comprehensive combat effectiveness, it may not be better than the “Type 5” light cavalry.
”Plasma knife! Awesome! I’m going to change my job to Force Warrior!”
”Magnetic slingshot… What’s the use of this thing? Shooting birds?”
”Portable flying backpack… If you don’t understand, just ask, are you going to let me fly up to the sky and be a target for others?”
”Hahahaha, you can discuss it with the buddy upstairs, you be the bird.”
”…”
The computer room of the school.
Browsing the posts on the official website forum, Ye Wei was envious. Damn
!
He also saved more than 100,000 points, why can’t he draw SSSR! It
must be balanced by the dog planner!
But it doesn’t matter.
People can’t be too greedy.
His income from the expansion pack is far more than those points. Even if it is really balanced, there is nothing to complain about.
The construction of the new map Dawn City has just started, and the orders of the Niuma Brick Factory have been scheduled until the end of the year. Now they are expanding production like crazy.
Not only bricks, but also cement, are all within their business scope.
Although there have been many competitors in Dawn City recently, they are not as big as the “Sanctuary Holdings” companies.
Ye Wei left the closed beta player section and browsed the gossip section for a while, wanting to see what the cloud players were talking about.
As a result, he laughed when he saw the first post.
”… Silver coins have increased in price?”
Are you kidding?
It’s not that the price of silver has not increased before, but it usually increases when the expansion pack or new gameplay is just launched. It is impossible to increase when the expansion pack ends. The
remaining income from the expansion pack has just been settled. Now everyone’s pockets are full of silver coins. There is no need to change equipment for the time being. Even the rich will not spend money at this time.
It’s meaningless!
Not to mention the previous few battles, the expansion pack was crazy about spending money, and several big players shipped goods every day to “improve their lives”. The transaction price of silver coins fell to single digits a few days ago.
”Haha, I want to see how high it can go.”
Out of curiosity, Ye Wei casually clicked on the silver coin trading platform and took a look.
It didn’t matter when he saw it, he was stunned on the spot.
”What the hell?!”
8 dollars for a silver coin?!
He confirmed several times that the order listed above was a buy order, not a sell order.
And there was more than one.
There were ten buy orders, each for 100,000 silver coins, lined up in a row with a difference of one dollar!
The top one has been traded for 40%, and the orders for 7 dollars and 6 dollars have not yet started to be traded, after all, the orders with the highest listing prices have not been eaten up.
Not only the US dollar, but also the RMB, the Euro, and other currencies are also listed.
The bids are more outrageous than the other!
It seems that overnight, it has returned to the time when the silver coin trading platform was just launched.
”Are these people crazy?!”
Looking at the 52RMB order, Ye Wei felt his heartbeat speed up, and sweat oozed from the palm of his hand holding the mouse.
His first reaction was to smash the market now!
Now is the time to sell!
If you miss this opportunity, you will never get it again!
However, this thought only stayed in his mind for half a minute before he calmed down.
This is a bit strange!
The entire trading platform is completely blocked by buy orders, and not even a sell order can be seen.
Who is throwing money around?
Taking a deep breath, Ye Wei restrained the urge to sell, grabbed the phone on the table, tapped the screen with his fingers at the speed of light, and sent a message to the brothers in the cattle and horse group.
”Quick!”
”Look at the silver coin trading platform!!!”
(End of this chapter)
