The Fifth Ring Road in the northern suburbs of Qingquan City.
On the 20th floor of an office building located on the edge of the elevated ring road, the crooked corridor was covered with dark green slime mold and corroded moss.
The orange-yellow tracer bullets wove a net in the corridor, and the scorching airflow almost scorched the air, and the center of the concentrated fire was a three-meter-tall humanoid beast.
Its skin was completely keratinized, its knotty muscles were pitch black, and its arms protected its head. It actually took two steps forward against the electromagnetically accelerated mass bullet.
But only two steps
"Roar!"
After a half-reluctant roar, the three-meter-tall tyrant finally fell heavily under the concentrated fire of the Gauss rifle.
Five power armors, in this kind of terrain, there is no reason to lose.
Lu Yang made a neat gesture, and the team members in power armor stepped forward and continued to advance along the corridor covered with slime mold, and came to a heavy alloy door.
One of the team members walked to the door, pulled out a thumb-thick thread from the forearm armor, and connected it to the touch screen on the right side of the door.
"The key has been obtained... Successfully entered the safe mode."
"Open the door."
"Received, opening."
The door panel trembled and slowly opened to both sides.
The stale air rushed in.
Looking at the dust on the ground, Lu Yang felt a burst of joy in his heart.
Leaving two team members guarding the door, he walked in with the other two, looked around, and the excitement on his face became more and more obvious.
"The comparison results match..."
"We found it!"
Carbon dioxide collector!
One of the indispensable basic public facilities in high-density urban agglomerations.
In the prosperous era with highly concentrated population and industry, carbon emissions are a terrifying number. It is obviously not enough to rely on traditional green plants to absorb excess carbon dioxide. Even if the entire city is covered with green plants, it is impossible to absorb so many greenhouse gases. Hypoxia will become another major development problem after the heat island effect.
After entering the middle of the prosperous era, the widely adopted solution of the Human Union is to apply the carbon self-sustaining technology that has been practiced in space activities.
That is, a carbon dioxide processing device is set up on a specific floor of a high-rise building, and carbon dioxide is converted into other carbon-containing compounds through multiple complex chemical processes, so that the air level in the area can reach a habitable level while also producing some industrial raw materials.
It is said that the carbon dioxide processed annually in just half a floor of space is enough to rival an entire primeval forest or the seaweed in a sea area.
The group carefully searched in the facility and soon found a backup thermonuclear fusion generator that had been shut down.
Since entering the Wasteland Era, carbon emissions in the Human Union have dropped sharply, even to the level before the Industrial Revolution. Those carbon capturers naturally stopped working, and the thermonuclear fusion reactors that powered them naturally stopped working.
For this reason, carbon dioxide capturers are one of the few facilities after the war that can stably recycle thermonuclear fusion fuel rods.
Lu Yang took his marines and carefully removed the fuel rods storing liquid helium-3.
"Done!"
"How much energy is left?"
"93%"
"Enough for us to use for a long time!"
Helium-3 is a stable isotope with a negligible half-life. Although thermonuclear fusion cannot be started and used as soon as it is used like cold fusion, the advantage is that there is almost no need to worry about the loss of "fuel" when the reactor is stopped.
This is something that cold fusion batteries cannot compare to at all.
Carefully storing the fuel rods in the metal cylinder, the Marines who completed the operation looked at the boxes and storage tanks of all sizes around.
"Sir, what should we do with the things here?"
Lu Yang looked around.
"Just leave it here."
"Our allies should be able to use it."
…
At the same time, more than 20 kilometers away on the Pioneer, in the office of the logistics department.
Sitting in the office chair, Li De looked at the spreadsheet displayed on the flexible screen, with surprise written all over his face.
This is the production report for the previous week.
The most eye-catching data is that they actually recycled 1,872 tons of garbage last week, reaching 255% of the expected efficiency!
Those blue coats are not ordinary ruthless, with an average daily recycling volume of an astonishing 267.4 tons, and an average of 1.3 tons collected per person per day, which is even more amazing than before the war! If these jobs were handed over to the natives, those who could achieve one-third of this efficiency would have to laugh out loud.
And the extra cost for them was only 9360R.
Li De could hardly believe his eyes. If this report was not handed to him by his secretary in person, he would even doubt whether there was something wrong.
Are they all robots? !
No, they are even better than machines!
To this day, a week has passed since the battle with the Legion. The Pioneer is still filled with a sad atmosphere. Many people are immersed in the grief of losing their comrades, with low morale and low work efficiency.
However, these blue coats are different.
They have obviously suffered more casualties, but they are still not defeated by difficulties. Instead, they turn their grief and anger into motivation and live their lives positively and optimistically every day.
What a strong belief and faith this is!
In short, thanks to the hard work of those blue coats, they almost emptied the entire underground parking lot, plus two abandoned factories that stored cobalt and nickel industrial waste.
From the total weight of 1,872 tons of garbage, they successfully recycled 941.4 tons of metal and successfully processed it into the required parts.
There are even more.
Just when Li De couldn't help sighing in his heart, Wang Jie, the secretary standing in front of the desk, suddenly spoke.
"By the way, there is one more thing."
Li De turned the unfolded tablet in his hand into a pen like a scroll and threw it into the drawer. Li De looked up at the secretary in a good mood and said with a smile.
"What's the matter?"
Wang Jie's expression was a little embarrassed, but he still spoke.
"It's about the demands of the front-line engineers... They asked for an increase in attendance subsidies from 10R per hour to 15R per hour."
"...?"
Li De was confused.
What the hell? ?
Didn't these lazy guys complain a few months ago that they had too much money in their pockets and had no place to spend it, and they despised his stack of waste paper to trick them out to work.
Why do they complain that the subsidies are too little now?
Wang Jie's expression was still awkward, and he spoke quickly.
"Maybe... the survivor settlements we met before were too poor, and the welfare on the Pioneer was too good, so they really had no place to spend the money in their pockets. I don't know how to evaluate it, but our employees have been a bit extravagant when spending money recently... I think we should limit it a little bit."
Li De blushed and knocked on the table with his hands.
"The question is where did they spend the money?! Did they use it to wipe their asses? Can they spend so much on a few buns?!"
Wang Jie "Of course it's not just buns, there are also dumplings with various fillings, glutinous rice balls, soy milk, fried dough sticks and... ahem. I think we need to upgrade our mobile kitchen. Those blue coats use our raw materials to process them a little and sell them to us, and they make a lot of money from us."
Li De: "..."
Wang Jie swallowed his saliva and continued.
"In addition to food, they recently also sell clothes, scarves, and some small items, especially a kind of silk fabric, which is very popular among female passengers. They call it devil silk, which seems to be a specialty of the central region. Surprisingly, this kind of silk thread has extremely high toughness, almost comparable to the fireproof fiber we use in bulletproof vests... The power of nature is really amazing, even I am surprised. Our technicians have studied it for a long time and figured out its composition, but they still don't understand its industrial synthesis method."
Li De pressed his eyebrows.
"Is that all?"
He didn't care about the devil moth silk, nor did he care about what clothes and small items the female passengers bought.
He just wanted to know how much R they wasted in the hands of those blue coats.
These bills are not the bills of the restaurant.
They have to be cashed on the spot!
"Well, there are some special ingredients, such as black truffles... They are very cheap there, only 1R for 1 gram."
Li De raised his head suddenly.
"1 gram only 1R?! Are there any more???"
Wang Jie looked at the section chief in surprise and nodded blankly.
"There should be, the mushroom seller sets up a stall at the action camp around 6 o'clock every night...Section Chief?"
Immediately realizing his gaffe, Li De quickly came back to his senses, coughed lightly, and continued with a serious expression.
"I'm just a little surprised. I didn't expect them to know how to enjoy... By the way, has the magnetic confinement plasma CNC machining machine been repaired?"
Wang Jie nodded and said.
"It's repaired. Our warehouse management staff just delivered it to them. It will probably be delivered to their outpost on the surface in a while."
Thinking of the machine, Li De felt a little sorry.
At that time, they were emotionally overwhelmed and made a hasty decision. Otherwise, the machine tool alone could help them recover 100,000R.
It shouldn't be free!
However, those blue coats did help them a lot. They didn't ask those blue coats to support their war, but they did it anyway, and when the battle was the most tense, they rushed forward with guns without hesitation.
To be honest, if they hadn't been there, it's hard to say what the final casualties would have been like. Maybe they had to drop a second tactical nuclear bomb, maybe far more than three people died that day...
Li De thought about it, if he made the decision again, maybe he would still make that choice.
He said with a sigh.
"Well, it's fine as long as it's delivered. We should leave in a few days."
It's not a good thing to drag it on like this.
The longer it drags on, the harder the road ahead will be. If they hadn't suddenly dropped anchor, they wouldn't have had to fight the legion.
Wang Jie: "Then the salary increase..."
Li De said without a word: "Tell those lazy guys... I mean those engineers, the proposal for salary increase will be raised at the regular meeting at the end of the month. This is the procedure. In addition, I will think of a way to move the kitchen and let the technicians see if they can add a few food processing processes."
Of course, if it works, Li De plans to charge.
What's that word called?
Yes, additional value-added services!
When Wang Jie heard that the salary increase was postponed to the end of the month, he immediately understood what the section chief meant, and a helpless expression appeared on his face.
"Okay, I'll tell them."
Wait until the end of the month.
Those people have nowhere to spend the money in their pockets.
Naturally, they won't clamor for a salary increase.
…
The repaired machine tool is still on the way, and it will probably take some time for the express to arrive.
Fearing that the players would damage the thing, Chu Guang specially arranged two light trucks to transport it. An empty truck with a snow shovel on the bumper drove in front, and the one carrying the machine tool followed behind.
If you encounter a roadblock or a ditch, the front truck will find it in time, and the back truck can avoid it.
To ensure that everything is foolproof, Chu Guang also asked the steady old Luca to sit in the car with him.
The road conditions in the wasteland are really bad. The section outside the city is slightly better. Many roads inside the city are not even accessible to four-legged animals, let alone wheeled vehicles.
Chu Guang plans to build a road to connect the outpost and the action camp in a while.
In the future, wherever the players of the 404 shelter plant their flags, the road will be built there.
What's the saying?
If you want to be rich, build roads first.
It's not easy to implement this project in the wasteland, but it's definitely worth it.
While waiting for the machine tool to be delivered, Chu Guang was not idle. Instead, he sat in the resident hall of the shelter, turned on the computer and glanced at the official website forum.
After a whole night of fermentation, the little players who could not go to work finally vented their resentment, and the atmosphere of communication in the forum finally returned to normal. The topic changed from "Let's go to A Guang together" to "What exactly is updated in lp0.8".
Everything seemed to be nothing.
In general, the players who have experienced the changes in the new version online are still very interested in this unique stronghold gameplay and regional reputation system.
Especially when they learned that "donating materials can gain regional reputation" and "the prosperity of the action camp reaches 100 and it can grow into a survivor stronghold", they worked harder.
In other RPGs, P town is just a bunch of immovable maps, but in "Wasteland L", the survivor stronghold is built by players themselves, moving bricks and ash, and it will grow with the players as they play the game.
This wave is simply a perfect combination of RPG and LG, and one game gives you the joy of two games.
It's a great deal!
The players are happy, and Chu Guang didn't have to work hard.
For him, it was just a matter of compiling a few simple formulas based on last month's report, and asking Xiaoqi to help make a data card similar to the "attribute panel".
Regardless of whether there is an update to the LP0.8 version, he will make the monthly report, but now it is open to the players in the form of a "progress bar".
As for the use.
It is mainly to share with the players the joy of the sapling growing into a towering tree.
After all, just telling the players how awesome our shelter is now because of their efforts, the players are probably confused. But if all these efforts are quantified into a visible progress bar, who can still say that the pattern is useless?
Look at Boss Xia's weapon shop. You contributed a brick. Do you feel more motivated when you think about it?
No matter how miserable those players who can't be resurrected because of BG are, those who are still online and have already made reservations have already blown up. w;w;;;
Chu Guang, who was completely relieved, copied a few good bad ideas and saved them in his little notebook, then stretched his waist and leaned back on the computer chair.
"The express will take another hour to arrive. What should I do?"
That's right.
It seems that I can open a blind box again.
Chu Guang's eyes lit up, and he sat up from the computer chair. He opened the manager system with his eyes wide open and switched to the [Manager Allowance] sub-page.
These days, the players' game behavior is relatively simple. They mainly do resource collection tasks at the action camp. The completion of daily activity tasks is very general, and there are a lot of unsatisfactory tasks left every day.
Even so, Chu Guang still accumulated 33 reward points this week.
Old rules, 3 intermediate blind boxes, 3 primary blind boxes.
But just when Chu Guang was about to open the prize, his heart suddenly moved slightly.
Wait.
Since it's all gambling, why not play a big wave and try to open 33 primary blind boxes at once?
What if the reward of the intermediate blind box or even the advanced blind box is opened from the primary blind box, wouldn't it be a huge profit?
Anyway, it's useless for him to have so many dog-skin plasters and treatment needles.
Thinking of this, Chu Guang no longer hesitated and immediately pressed all the reward points in his account on the icon on the far left.
"System, give me 33 primary blind boxes!"
"Open!"