Chapter 742 Daily Life of the Chief “Mascot” of the Allied Forces
Chapter 742 The daily life of the chief “mascot” of the coalition
”Five… five million?! Silver coins?!”
Scientific expedition team, the recycling registration office of the relics of the prosperous era.
A sudden scream floated out from the reception room with the door closed, disturbing the crowd of people who were queuing with numbers.
People stretched their necks to look in the direction of the reception room, and their faces showed envy and even greed.
Without asking, they can guess what happened in the small house. After all, they are “hunters” who specialize in this line.
A long time ago, the scientific expedition team of the alliance opened a channel for paid recycling of relics of the prosperous era.
And now, “archaeology” has developed into a mature industrial chain in the alliance.
Some people are responsible for registration, some are responsible for identification, some are responsible for valuation and acquisition, and some are responsible for fooling and picking up leaks.
For the scavengers who picked up the treasure, if they choose the recycling channel of the scientific expedition team, they only need to bring the things over to fill out a form, and then patiently wait for up to 7 working days to get the identification results. The final decision is to shake their heads or nod.
For customers who don’t want to sell, the expedition team will not force them to do so. They can take the things they brought with them.
However, since the prices given by the researchers have always been very good, most people will sign readily.
Many scavengers even come here from the eastern provinces and even the territory of the Science and Technology Commission to trade treasures. After all, the reputation of the Alliance is obvious to all wastelanders.
If you are lucky, a well-preserved relic of the Prosperous Era can be sold at a sky-high price of more than 100,000 silver coins, and you can just lie down for the rest of your life.
Even if the expedition team doesn’t like it, people from the museum or Camp 101 may pick it up, and some blue jackets from Shelter 404 may also take it.
For example, the big boss who runs Goblin Technology often spends a lot of money to buy things that seem useless and are actually useless and take them back to tinker with them.
Many scavengers even make a living from this.
And many mercenary groups in the Stone City have switched to this after the collapse of the inner city.
Occasionally, they will cooperate with the blue jackets from Shelter 404 to open up some distant ruins.
But the seven-digit recycling price…
Even the big guys who make a living by picking up garbage haven’t heard of it for a while.
Everyone started to whisper to each other, guessing what treasure the lucky guy had picked up.
”Isn’t it a spaceship or something?”
”I guess it’s a Titan!”
”Not really… If there is such a thing, the people in the academy would have picked it up eight generations ago.”
”I guess it’s a treasure found in some deserted corner.”
”That’s right… Apart from that kind of place, even if there are good things, most of them have been dragged away by the people of the War Construction Committee.”
In theory, the War Construction Committee has the most complete information, and the people who know best where there are good things in the wasteland are in that organization.
In the era of the three giants, the academy “inherited” the archaeological clues of the War Construction Committee, and scraped again the places that the War Construction Committee had not been able to lick clean for half a century, and scraped for a century and a half.
It is conceivable how many real treasures are left in this wasteland.
While everyone was talking about it, in the closed reception room, a man with tanned skin opened his eyes wide in surprise.
Five million silver coins!
When he heard this number, Ma Jinwei thought his ears were broken.
But the researcher didn’t seem to be joking and handed him a stamped list.
”Of course it’s silver coins. If you want other currencies, I can apply to my superiors.”
”No, no, just silver coins will do!”
Ma Jinwei smiled honestly.
The reason for this smile was not because he was so honest, but because he had never seen so much money in his life, and he didn’t know what expression to make for a while.
More than half a month ago, he was still farming in Mafu Town, but he didn’t expect that the iron lump in the old warehouse could make him such a fortune.
He only remembered that his grandfather dragged it from the city more than 100 kilometers away. He planned to repair it and use it as a tractor, but after thinking about it for a long time, he couldn’t figure out how to start the tractor, so he threw it in the warehouse to collect dust.
Until recently, when the Sticky Community declared war on the Torch, and he saw the letter sent back by the mayor, he remembered that he could drag this thing out to exchange for money. So after hesitating for a long time, he finally made up his mind to rent a train car and transport this thing to Dawn City to try
his luck. He vaguely remembered the strange expressions of the staff from Dawn City when the Mafu Town Station used a loading and unloading crane to load this thing onto the train .
It was like looking at a monster.
After checking the amount on the card, Ma Jinwei immediately pressed his fingerprints on the list, and even wanted to give some to the two researchers who helped him, but the latter was shocked and waved his hands to refuse.
The funding and treatment of the scientific expedition team can be said to be the highest in the entire alliance.
Although their treatment is not as exaggerated as seven figures, they are basically well-fed and well-clothed. There is no need to risk being targeted by the Guards for a little money that “cannot change their lives”.
Moreover, most of them did not join the expedition for money, but to fulfill the ideal of ending the wasteland era described to them by the managers.
In the wasteland, anyone who has the knowledge or skills of the prosperous era has some nostalgia and yearning for that great era in their hearts.
”…My friend, please don’t use this kind of thing to test us. Besides, we are just on duty here to register. The identification and valuation are handled by people from different systems. Even if you give us gifts, it will be useless.”
Ma Jinwei didn’t really understand the researcher’s laughable refusal.
After all, there are not so many complicated doors and so many strange businesses in Mafu Town.
Seeing that they refused to accept any “filial piety”, he could only touch the back of his head and smiled embarrassedly to smooth things over.
”This, is that so… Haha, you are really hard-working.”
The researcher said with a smile.
”It’s not hard. We have our own performance. In two months, we will be transferred to other departments to do research work. If you have any more discoveries, you can still come to this office.”
”Okay! I will definitely come if there are any more! Thank you, then I’m leaving.” Ma Jinwei smiled, his hands were not knowing where to put them, and he nodded while walking towards the door.
When he returned to the town, he might be able to use the money to open a hotel.
However, it seems unnecessary to drive to Mafu Town. The place called “Kun Town” is obviously more lively.
Recently, many passengers who got off in Mafu Town went there. He also heard that the Alliance was going to build a Weifu City there, just like Luoye City in the northwest.
Maybe he could take the money and try his luck there. After all,
it is still too difficult to make a fortune by farming.
Of course, before that, he had to find some fun with his good brothers in the town.
He promised that if he really got the money, he would treat them to a meal…
”Please take care. By the way… go this way.”
Seeing that he was about to go out from the main gate, the researcher remembered something and pulled him to the back door leading to the safe corridor.
This guy just shouted, I’m afraid everyone outside knows that he has 5 million on him.
Although there is no need to worry in the territory of the Alliance, it’s hard to say when you go to the wasteland.
Ma Jinwei was stunned, and then he understood, and hurriedly smiled and nodded to thank him, and then walked out of the back door every three steps.
The office became quiet.
The researcher who had been sitting in front of the computer and had not spoken a word glanced at the one standing.
”Isn’t 5 million too much?”
He always had a feeling that even if he gave that guy 50 million, he might have to throw it all away. It would be better to make the money disappear in a more meaningful way.
Maybe they should open a fund management fund and sell it to those lucky people who “made their fortune purely by luck”.
For this reason, he even proposed this suggestion to his superiors, but it was a pity that such a meaningful suggestion was rejected by his superiors.
The researcher in charge of receiving customers was thinking about something else and replied with a smile.
”It’s not much. Meissner effect armor… If you can get that thing, adding two zeros is a bargain.”
Whether in terms of economic value or military value, this thing is definitely worth so much money.
At present, the Alliance has mastered two shield technologies, but both the deflector shield and the nitrogen shield have their own weaknesses.
For example, the former is not good at dealing with low-speed, guided weapons, and because the technical principle is achieved by driving gravitons, and this technology is also a new thing in the era of prosperity, it consumes a lot of energy.
As for the latter, it is not good at dealing with high-speed and high-energy particle beams, and can only be used in standard atmospheric conditions.
Meissner effect armor is different from the other two. Its characteristic is to specifically restrain metal weapons. Since most hard armor-piercing weapons use alloy materials, especially the electromagnetic guns widely used during the prosperous era, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the nemesis of “hard core armor-piercing bullets”.
To use a simple metaphor to describe it, assuming that the deflector shield and the Meissner effect armor use the same capacitor and power supply device, the former can block 1~2 electromagnetic gun shots, and the latter can block 3~4 shots.
It is said that during the three-year war, some captains of the United Nations would even consider turning off the deflector shield under special circumstances and activating the more efficient Meissner effect armor to fight against the dense firepower network created by the rebel fleet through the mass launcher, so as to increase the overall resistance efficiency of the fleet to metal warheads.
If used properly, this may become a technology that can affect the direction of the war.
Judging from the limited intelligence, the enterprise may not have mastered this technology.
The researcher sitting in front of the computer turned the pen in his hand and made a helpless expression.
”That makes sense… but I just think that it doesn’t make any sense to give him this money. You can see that he doesn’t deserve so much wealth. In other words, this thing is worth so much money, but the person who found it is not worth it at all.”
If it were a resident of Shelter 404, he might not have any objection.
After all, those guys are really using their lives to exchange for rewards, and they go to the most dangerous places in the wasteland, unlike that confused farmer who made a fortune just because of good luck.
After hearing what he said, the researcher in charge of receiving customers smiled and said.
”Meaning, my friend, don’t say that. ‘Meaning’ is the most untestable thing. If you have to think about whether it makes sense when doing anything, then the final result must be that everything is meaningless.”
The researcher sitting in front of the computer looked at him.
”What do you mean?”
Walking to the side of the coffee machine and pouring himself a cup of coffee, the researcher in charge of receiving customers said slowly.
”It means that the closest relative of pragmatists is nihilism. After all, people’s likes and dislikes are ever-changing. If you think he is not worthy today, you will think that they are not worthy tomorrow, so we must set a rule that must not be vague and ensure that it is implemented impartially. Even if this rule becomes outdated one day, it must be changed after sufficient discussion…not based on your and my evaluation.”
This is Mr. Yin Fang’s speech at the third internal meeting of the scientific expedition team.
That big guy is indeed a senior talent from the academy. He is quite good at both academic research and management. I heard that the entire alliance’s scientific research/archaeology system was built by him.
To be honest, he admired Yin Fang in his heart, especially after learning about that guy’s legendary experience.
The researcher sitting in front of the computer shrugged his shoulders, stretched out his hand boredly and clicked on the screen, selecting the next lucky person on the list.
”I’m not interested in that kind of thing. I just want to finish my work here as soon as possible and go to the laboratory to do something meaningful.”
The researcher holding the coffee said with a smile.
”You must complete the score for the administrative position, and this is also to make you familiar with the business process of the scientific expedition team. I have one month left, and you have three months left, so just hold on a little longer.”
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Weifu Military Base.
In the office of the supreme commander of the coalition forces, Chu Guang called Yin Fang again through the special line of the shelter constructed by the Southern Construction Corps, and listened to the latter’s report of the whole process of the whole thing.
After understanding the whole process, his mood was probably the same as when he played “Civilization 6” and saw the primitive tribe sharing the “Doomsday Mecha” technology with him. He was confused and felt that it was a little reasonable. After calming down,
he asked.
”Where was this thing found?”
Yin Fang smiled and said, knowing what Chu Guang was concerned about.
”Don’t worry, I have arranged for your ‘wanjia’ to investigate near that coordinate.”
Chu Guang nodded and smiled.
It seems that Yin Fang has mastered the player’s usage skills proficiently, and this guy no longer needs his own guidance.
But he soon became curious about what the “nearly complete” Prowler tank looked like.
If he hadn’t just arrived at the frontline a few days ago, he really wanted to get on the airship immediately and go back to take a look at the war weapons of the prosperous era.
Seeing Chu Guang’s impatient expression, Yin Fang took a sip of coffee and continued with a smile.
”…To be honest, I didn’t expect that the sticky community you created could actually get such an interesting thing…The Prowler tank equipped with Meissner effect armor is much rarer than power armor. The Human Alliance has only built a few of them. The stocks with production numbers were recovered by the War Construction Committee more than a century ago. I guess only the Legion and the Great Rift Valley can see them.”
Chu Guang asked curiously.
”The Academy doesn’t have it?”
Yin Fang shook his head.
”In my impression, they didn’t get a complete Prowler tank. But with their technical reserves, it’s not difficult to replicate the Meissner effect armor. But you also know how scarce the helium-3 resource is, so in my impression, only some senior researchers’ research ships are equipped with similar defense functions.”
When saying this, Yin Fang’s voice was meaningful, with a bit of advice in it.
Chu Guang nodded thoughtfully.
Indeed.
Helium-3 is a big problem.
At the time of the Prosperous Era, there are still a large number of undeveloped mineral deposits on the earth, and there are even “garbage mines” unique to the Wasteland Era, as well as “seabed deposits” that were listed as ecological protection areas and prohibited from mining in the pre-war era.
However, helium-3 is brought by solar wind, and the reserves on the earth protected by the magnetic field and atmosphere are negligible. If you want to get it, you either have to go to the moon, or go to places like Mercury, or just dig up old graves from the Prosperous Era.
It is precisely because of the special nature of helium-3 resources that the “managers” in the wasteland have to face a special trouble –
that is, whether to use the advanced technology of the Prosperous Era.
The Alliance used wood generators for a period of time. Obviously, that thing cannot catch up with nuclear fusion reactors, but it is quite convenient compared to solar power generation that needs to be equipped with energy storage equipment. And what Qingquan City lacked the most at that time was wood, and it was also quite convenient to obtain fuel. They even installed the same generator on a truck.
However, there is a fatal problem.
Limited by factors such as the magnitude of energy and the efficiency of acquisition, wood-burning generators can only support the technology of the middle and late atomic energy era at most, let alone the black technology of the prosperous era, and even cannot get propeller planes into the sky.
If the alliance has always used traditional energy, it is probably still competing with Boulder City for survival resources, and there will not be such great development later.
But if more advanced energy is used, there will be another risk, that is, the unsustainability of helium-3 resources.
As for how to control the limited helium-3 resources, enterprises, colleges, and legions have adopted completely different approaches.
The same is true for the alliance.
When Chu Guang makes every decision, in addition to weighing the pros and cons of a single field such as politics, economy, military, technology, production, and culture, he must also consider from a global perspective whether the alliance’s strategic reserves can support it.
For example, power armor, as a single soldier’s equipment, consumes relatively few helium-3 resources, and a battery can even be used until the armor is scrapped. Therefore, with the alliance’s nuclear energy resource reserves, it is more than enough to maintain a staff of several hundred power armors.
But if these hundreds of “Xiaguang” power armors are all equipped with deflector shields or Meissner effect armor, the one thousand cubic meters of helium-3 resources will be tight in an instant.
Investing too many strategic resources in the military will even affect the supply of fusion reactors in Xizhou City, which is related to the stability of all production and living facilities in the entire alliance.
Therefore, he would rather accept the scrapping of expensive equipment such as power armor in battle, and is reluctant to pile up shields with high energy costs for these non-strategic weapons. At most, he will approve a few experimental models to test the feasibility of the technical route.
After all, in most cases, even if these equipment are completely scrapped and cannot be repaired, the fusion batteries inside can be recycled, and the loss is only some money.
This is also the most realistic reason why deflector shields and nitrogen shields are difficult to be installed on a large scale.
Chu Guang could hear Yin Fang’s reminder to himself in that sentence. Even with the energy reserves of the academy, he would rather seal this technology than install it on a large scale in the army to improve combat capabilities.
As for the Legion, it was even more direct. They simply did not reverse-engineer the treasures in their hands. They used whatever they had. When they ran out of them, they used the “wild boar” and “bison”, which were “real antiques” or “hybrid antiques” produced and developed by themselves.
The longer the time dragged on, the further away this world was from the prosperous era, and the advantages of the Willant people who had already adapted to the wasteland in advance became more and more obvious.
After all, with the current situation in outer space, it was almost impossible to restore the Earth-Moon flight, and the legacy of the prosperous era was destined to be exhausted one day.
”…It’s a pity that such an interesting technology can’t be used.” Chu Guang sighed lightly, but he was thinking about another thing in his heart.
Although the equipment at the tactical level could not be used, the equipment at the strategic level might be tried.
According to Yin Fang’s previous statement, this thing is simply the nemesis of the electromagnetic gun.
Wasn’t the Southern Alliance on the southern line suppressed by the “cannons” of the Northern Federation battleships?
If a shield is put on the friendly fleet, I wonder if it can regain some advantage.
However, compared to deciding the outcome at sea, his players seemed to place more hope on the “submarine carrier” under construction.
Chu Guang secretly thought that he could throw this card to Fang Chang and the others to play, regardless of whether it would be useful in the end.
Thinking that Chu Guang was disappointed, Yin Fang comforted him.
”In fact, if you think about it from another perspective, the real value of this thing may not be entirely on the battlefield. The technology we can recover from it is far more than the ‘superconducting shield’, but also includes more than 30 sub-technologies in the fields of energy, materials, and information processing. Especially superconducting materials and high-performance capacitors under several specific conditions, most of which are not open to us by our allies.”
The college and the alliance reached a scientific research cooperation agreement, and the company also launched a number of production cooperations with the alliance, but the technical communication between the two sides has not reached the level of unimpeded.
Especially these key technologies.
They also spent a lot of money to get them, and it is impossible to open them to outsiders.
Hearing the comforting voice on the other end of the phone, Chu Guang leaned back in his chair and said with a smile.
”This is beyond my ability. I’m sorry to bother you.”
Scientific research is probably the only area where he has difficulty getting help from reality.
In fact, very early on, he tried to introduce some truly capable young scholars from the original world and observed their gaming behaviors.
Including the first professor of Nanjing University, Kuangfeng, who entered the game, and [The Lone Wolf of the End of the World] who followed in, and [Kokoda] who worked under a certain academician, etc.
Unlike Mosquito, who was just a half-baked engineer, they were real researchers. They not only had a strong ability to accept things, but also had rich frontline work experience.
However, due to the huge generation gap in basic theory and the differences in professional terms and terminology, many things in this game were no different from “game settings” or even “magic” to them, so their progress had been very slow, and they often pondered with a skeptical attitude.
Weighing the inestimable risks and extremely limited benefits, Chu Guang finally did not interfere with their game progress, but only maintained limited observation.
However, based on Xiao Qi’s continuous observation of multiple samples, they might only be able to complete the first generation of controlled nuclear fusion technology at best, and it would be difficult to make further progress.
As for the second generation of controlled nuclear fusion, for the foundation of the “real world”, it is equivalent to a singularity above a singularity, and even if they study it, it would probably be a waste of effort.
And this is when he doesn’t make trouble.
If he really wanted to make trouble, even if he just used the authority of the dog planner to “secretly change” a parameter or a formula, he could make them work for years in vain, and even completely give up hope on the technical ideas in “Wasteland OL”.
After all, in the eyes of a small number of “informed people”, “Wasteland OL”, which has too many “irrational” aspects, is equivalent to an olive branch thrown by extraterrestrial civilizations.
If a “higher civilization” that “does not show malice” believes that a certain technical route is not desirable, then from the perspective of a “junior”, it is naturally a more rational choice to try other technical routes.
”…You are too polite. This is my job. If I don’t show some real skills, how can I be worthy of the coffee machines you gave me.”
Yin Fang replied in a teasing tone, and then suddenly remembered something and continued to speak.
”Oh, there is one more thing. The Southern Alliance wants us to set up a branch of the scientific expedition team in the Ring Island and Coral City. In fact, the conditions they offer are not bad, and you know the education rate there, which can bring some fresh blood to our scientific expedition team.”
Chu Guang hesitated.
”Have they taken Coral City back?”
Yin Fang on the holographic screen made a helpless expression.
”Obviously they are still fighting for it. I guess they want to use your power… But to be honest, I am not very good at these things. It’s better for you to decide.”
After thinking for a moment, Chu Guang said.
”If you think the cooperation plan they offer is sincere, I think it is acceptable. As for Coral City, I will let the players active there think of a way.”
He has taken over Shelter No. 70 from Sun Yuechi. The islands of the Southern Alliance are also accepting of the alliance’s governance methods and concepts. In the end, it is likely that they will unite with the survivors of the Valley Province like the Boulder City, and the union may even be more thorough than the Boulder City.
After all, they have the same origin, and the concept of equality is more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
In that case, there is nothing to hesitate about.
Moreover, his little players have been eyeing the coral city on the seabed for a long time, and maybe he doesn’t even need to send a special task to encourage them.
After getting Chu Guang’s permission, Yin Fang showed a happy smile on his face.
”Okay, then it’s a happy decision.”
After saying the last thing, Yin Fang hung up the phone and continued his research.
Chu Guang, who was leaning on the chair, was planning to take a break, but before Ibers’ “daughter” X-16 made the tea, the Alpha Task Force of the academy called again.
”…We plan to launch an offensive against Blood Mountain tomorrow, and I want to request support from the coalition artillery.”
While saying this, the commander with a dull facial expression sent the battle plan together.
Chu Guang clicked it and saw that there were dozens of GB, which gave him a headache. So before clicking on the content, he lightly swiped his index finger and sent it to Vanus first.
”…No problem, I will ask all units to provide necessary support for your attack according to the action plan.”
The commander nodded, politely left a “thank you”, and simply hung up the phone.
Talking to this guy was unexpectedly refreshing, and Chu Guang found that he had slightly changed his stereotype of the academy.
It seems that not all people in the Wandering Swamp like to beat around the bush.
But the embarrassing thing is that this guy’s presence is really ridiculously low.
As the nominal supreme commander of the coalition, Chu Guang found that he couldn’t remember the guy’s name.
”…Xiao Qi, what is the name of the commander sent by the academy?”
Xiao Qi, who was sitting on his shoulder, retrieved the information from the database and quickly replied: “Um… Alpha Zero? This is the name in the record.”
Alpha Zero?
Chu Guang, who was taking the black tea from the tray in X-16’s hand, couldn’t help but be slightly stunned.
What surprised him was not the strange name, but that he actually forgot such a unique name.
Chu Guang took a sip of tea and muttered to himself.
”It’s really strange…”
(End of this chapter)
