North of Qingquan City.
Near the Fifth Ring Road elevated road, a team of six people was slowly advancing along the cold and silent streets in the howling wind.
Originally, there were only five people in the plan for this trip.
At that time, in the central square of the outpost, Chu Guang brought four fully armed little players and was about to set off. However, before he walked out of the south gate, Luo Hua caught up and said he wanted to go together.
As for the reason, it was also very simple-
"There may be many kinds of products of carbon dioxide collectors. The captain asked me to go with you. Although the probability of large-scale storage of dangerous goods in the city is very small, he is still worried that you may encounter danger due to improper operation."
Someone offered to help out of kindness, and Chu Guang certainly would not refuse.
Although some of his players understand chemical engineering, they do not recognize the characters of this world. He can read, but he cannot understand professional symbols.
Blind boxes of chemical products are not popular, and it is always better to have someone who knows the business to follow.
In this way, the six people set off together.
However, no one expected that it would suddenly snow heavily halfway through the journey on this sunny day.
There have been more and more days like this recently.
Chu Guang estimated that when November comes, the weather in this wasteland will be even more extreme, and life will become more and more difficult.
The progress of the greenhouse ruins needs to be accelerated!
Lao Bai, who was walking in front of the team, raised his head and looked at the sudden and rapid snow, and couldn't help but squinting his eyes.
"The last time I saw such heavy snow was in Harbin."
"I was on TV," Fang Chang, holding Dawn in his hand, looked around on both sides of the street, "but compared to the snow, I am more worried about something suddenly jumping out from the side."
Lao Bai sighed softly: "To be honest, I miss Ye Shi a little bit. Without his perception attribute, I always feel that something is missing."
"Plus one, our team is missing an eye." Kuang Feng held the short spear in his right hand and scanned the streets on both sides. His nervous look was even more exaggerated than Fang Chang.
There is no way, so I have to be careful.
Their equipment is more expensive than each other now. If they are not careful, they will be wiped out. It will be like going back to the days before liberation.
This Iron Right Hand is so awesome that Kuangfeng is reluctant to quit now.
After listening to these guys all the way, Bianbianhuashui yelled in dissatisfaction: "Fuck! Is it not enough to have me? I am also a perception system, and I am almost at level 7, okay!"
Kuangfeng: "No matter how much you are short, you are still a little six."
Fang Chang: "Indeed, I am already level 8, Kuangfeng is almost there, and Laobai is about to reach level 9. Brother, you have to work hard."
Bianbianhuashui: "@#%!"
Walking beside Chu Guang, Luo Hua, who couldn't understand what the residents of the shelter were saying, couldn't help but sigh softly.
"I always thought that only the natives would speak those incomprehensible languages..."
Halfway through the words, he suddenly realized that there seemed to be something wrong with his statement, so he quickly added an explanation.
"Well, I don't mean to offend you, I just feel strange. Because the residents of the shelter usually speak standard English, and rarely even have an accent."
Chu Guang smiled lightly and didn't care.
"It's okay, I feel strange just like you, why is that?"
For questions that you don't know how to explain, just throw them back intact, this trick Chu Guang has tried and tested.
Instead of making up a flawed excuse that makes others think you are not sincere and have something to hide, it is better to express the same confusion to the other party, and the other party may even stand in your position to help you consider the reason.
Why is the sky blue?
Yes, why, the editor is also curious, what do you think.
Luo Hua didn't ask further questions, he had seen too many strange things along the way, and this trivial matter was not surprising at all.
The group quickly arrived at their destination.
It was an abandoned office building. Just looking from the outside, it was difficult to tell what it was used for in the pre-war era.
Perhaps it was precisely because of this unremarkable appearance that it was left behind after two centuries of searches.
According to the map given by Captain Lu, the group moved along the edge of the hall, entered the safe passage, went up the stairs, and soon reached the target floor.
The corridor was crawling with dark green slime molds, and the necrotic part of it had turned dark brown. Dozens of alien corpses were crookedly lying on the ground.
The aliens here have been cleared, and no new aliens are wandering around for the time being.
"Damn... What is this thing?" Crouching next to a three-meter-tall humanoid alien, he pokes it with the bayonet of a rifle.
The dark skin was ridiculously stiff, and the bayonet was poked into it like poking the tire of a heavy truck, and it couldn't be poked in at all.
Is this thing really a carbon-based creature?
"Tyrant." Chu Guang glanced at the alien on the ground and frowned slightly, "There is such a monster on the Fifth Ring Road."
"Manager, is that tyrant difficult to deal with?" Fang Chang looked at him and asked.
"It's not easy to deal with," Chu Guang thought for a while and said, "If we encounter it in this kind of terrain, a team like yours will probably wipe out two people."
In fact, he had never seen it.
But it's always right to blow it to death.
Fang Chang swallowed his saliva, Kuangfeng shrank his neck, and Lao Bai and Bianbian didn't feel anything, because their equipment was only at the level of a blank board.
If they die, they die.
After bypassing the tyrant's body, Chu Guang led a group of people through the alloy door with the words [No entry for outsiders] and came to the interior of the carbon dioxide collector.
The space here is very large, occupying almost half of the entire floor, and connecting the space on the upper floor.
The carbon dioxide produced by the entire building is sent here through the central ventilation system, and is decomposed into graphite and oxygen according to needs, or hydrogenated, or replaced with hydrogen.
For people of that era, atoms are like toys in their hands, and the almost endless energy is enough for them to squander and transform natural creations into what they need.
The products that were produced were packed in boxes made of special materials and piled up next to a dedicated freight elevator, waiting for the staff who would never come to transport them away.
Looking at the hundreds of cubes of various sizes piled up in the room, Chu Guang roughly estimated that there were about three or four hundred cubic meters.
He couldn't help asking.
"Has your captain never been curious about what's in those boxes?"
"There's no need to be curious. As long as there is enough energy, we can make anything related to carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. The most is a matter of cost... For example, this row of black boxes is graphite at first glance. It seems that your luck is not very good."
Luo Hua laughed and walked to another row of boxes.
Shine the flashlight on it, he read the words on it, and continued to comment with interest, "This is okay, it's a bunch of polymer fibers... Look at the label, it's X-4."
"X-4?"
"A number. After all, their spatial structure is complex and bizarre, and we can't use chemical formulas to represent them." After a pause, Luo Hua continued, "By the way, although its main use is to make clothes, if you need it, you can also use it to replace the wood fiber in smokeless gunpowder, and the detonation speed and power can be increased by at least 20%... That's what we do."
It's much easier to understand this way.
In game terms, it's - [Rifle ammunition power +20%, burst probability +? ]
Chu Guang silently memorized its use and glanced at the number of similar boxes. There were about forty or fifty of them.
At least twenty or thirty tons.
It looks like it will be enough for a long time.
At this time, Luo Hua, who was walking in front, suddenly exclaimed.
"What the hell?!"
Chu Guang, whose thoughts were interrupted, raised his head and immediately walked to his side. The four little players who thought they had triggered the plot also surrounded him and put their heads closer out of curiosity.
"What happened?" Chu Guang asked for them.
"Dilat rubber!"
Looking at the unremarkable gray box in front of him, Luo Hua took a deep breath, his face full of disbelief, and muttered with envy.
"How could this thing appear here?! It's too abnormal!"
Chu Guang: "Any questions?"
"Of course! The products of the carbon dioxide collector are mainly determined by the industrial needs of the region. Generally, starch, graphite, and polymer fibers are more common. Olefins and alkanes, or even benzoaldehydes and ketones, may appear near industrial areas. But Dilat rubber... I have only seen it near the Aerospace Industrial Park. Does Qingquan City have an aerospace industry?"
Taking a deep breath, Luo Hua made a summary.
"In a word, you are rich!"
Dilat rubber, a composite nanomaterial formed by chemical bonding of organic and inorganic components at the molecular level.
Yes, it is not a pure organic component. It cannot be synthesized by relying solely on carbon dioxide and water. Other substances must be input into the reaction system. It can sell for a lot of money even in Ideal City.
That's why Luo Hua was so surprised.
In an oxygen-free environment, its molecular structure is folded and arranged, and it exists in the form of a colloidal liquid at a macroscopic level. Once it encounters oxygen and is at room temperature, it will transform into a solid state in a relatively short period of time, and the molecular structure will also change at the same time, presenting a crystal-like form.
It's like cement that has undergone a hydration reaction.
Due to the change in molecular components, this process is usually irreversible.
This material has excellent wear resistance and acid and alkali resistance, and has almost metal-like resistance to high temperatures. It is not as easy to age as traditional rubber, which is extremely rare in traditional polymers. It is precisely for this reason that it is usually used as aerospace material.
Chu Guang: "Can you produce it?"
Luo Hua's expression was a little embarrassed. After all, he just pretended to be cool, but he was slapped in the face in less than two minutes.
He coughed lightly and tried to explain.
"...It can't be considered a hydrocarbon in the strict sense! It also contains a lot of inorganic components, which is equivalent to an organic/inorganic hybrid polymer."
Chu Guang nodded thoughtfully and tried to translate the words he didn't understand.
So it should not be produced.
"Conservatively speaking, there are about 50 tons here..." Luo Hua looked at the situation in the warehouse with envy and said with emotion, "Please don't let our section chief know."
"Why."
"I'm worried that he will suffer from insomnia."
"..."
Is it so exaggerated?
Chu Guang felt that if Li De wanted it, he would not be so stingy as not to give it at all.
It's just that the distance from here to the action camp is so long, and the goods have to be moved down from upstairs...
It's not too much to charge a freight fee?
In short, according to Luo Hua's introduction, Dilat rubber has a wide range of uses and is of high value. Chu Guang tried to understand that its position in the rubber industry is probably similar to perfluoroether rubber in the early 21st century?
And it is not "difficult to process".
Before encountering oxygen, it can be kneaded at will like glue. There is no rubber material that is easier to handle than it.
By the way, due to its good sealing performance, it is widely used in aerospace, nanodevices, bionic engineering, mechanical seals and other industries.
For example, the power armor produced before the war used this material!
Of course, its use is not limited to this. Many industrial production equipment will use rubber. If it can be replaced by Dilat rubber, the maintenance cost will be greatly reduced and the production efficiency will be greatly improved.
With these good things, the industrial area of the outpost will not have to worry about rubber for a while.
Of course, it is unlikely that six people can move so many boxes back.
So, Chu Guang immediately updated a courier task on VM——
[Task: Move the goods from the designated location back to the outpost (recommended for strength)]
[Reward: 10 silver coins per box, 10 contribution]
Now there is less and less work at the action camp, Chu Guang has to find something for these energetic little players to do...
...
After returning to the outpost, Luo Hua went back to the office and packed his luggage with his partner Ai Si.
The Pioneer will set off the day after tomorrow, and their work here is over. A car will pick them up before the evening.
Thinking that this drinking buddy who had just become familiar with was about to leave, Chu Guang couldn't help feeling sad, so he returned to the shelter, selected a bottle of gold-plated red wine from the old leech's collection, and took it to the temporary office.
"Thank you for your time. I don't have anything good to give you." Chu Guang stuffed the red wine into Luo Hua's hands and looked at him sincerely and said, "This bottle of wine is a farewell gift. Remember not to drink it while working."
"Thank you, your friendship is the most precious gift to me!" Luo Hua took the red wine from Chu Guang with a touched face. He searched in his pocket for a while and looked embarrassed, "... Damn, I'm not prepared at all."
His pockets were cleaner than his face.
There were clearly a few bills before...
"It's okay, your friendship is equally precious to me," Chu Guang said with a smile, "When you finish writing Journey to the West, just send me a copy."
"That's a must! But this is different, I have to give you something..." Luo Hua thought hard for a while, and suddenly his eyes lit up, "I got it! I'll write a letter for you."
Chu Guang looked at him strangely.
"Write a letter?"
Luo Hua nodded immediately and said excitedly.
"Yes, I have a drinking buddy on the East Coast. Although he can drink less than me, he is pretty good! Of course, he is not only a drinker, he is also an engineer... Although I forgot what the thing he is studying is called, I always hear him complain that life in the ideal city is too boring and envies us who are lucky enough to embark on the journey for the future of human civilization."
"When I return to the Pioneer, I will write a letter to him and recommend him to come to you!"
Chu Guang always felt that this guy was a little naive.
That kind of complaint was not a complaint at all, it was obviously Versailles, okay?
But out of politeness, he still smiled and nodded.
"Then I look forward to your good news."
Luo Hua grinned and patted his chest to guarantee.
"Don't worry! I'm very reliable!"
Ai Si, who had packed his luggage next to him, glanced at this guy.
If Chu Guang was not mistaken, it should be a roll of the eyes...