Chapter 136

Three power armor remained at the north gate.

As for their captain Lu Yang, he followed Chu Guang into the outpost.

It can be seen that he is very confident in his strength and doesn't worry about what accidents he will encounter.

Of course, Chu Guang had no intention of making trouble for himself.

He invited Lu Yang to the reception room of the sanatorium. Chu Guang wanted to entertain him, but when he took out his glass, Lu Yang quickly waved his hand to stop him.

"I appreciate your kindness! But I'm still on duty and can't drink."

"What about milk?"

"Really not. Our armor has reserves of fresh water and liquid food. We can only eat our own food during the mission. This is discipline."

"The stool --"

"No, I'll sit down."

"All right."

I didn't expect to meet disciplined troops on the waste soil.

Of course, it may be out of caution.

Chu Guang didn't insist anymore and put things away.

"Speaking of, I'm a little curious about what your sc-500 crawler transport platform looks like and what it means to put it together... Can you satisfy my curiosity?"

Lu Yang nodded.

"Of course not."

With that, he stretched out his hand and lit it on his helmet. The button sized integrated lamp at the collar projected a beam of light on the burning brazier.

Looking carefully, the light is composed of many light beams as thin as cilia. Soon, those "cilia" swing gently and interweave a transparent three-dimensional holographic image above the flame.

"Holographic projection?"

"Yes," Lu Yang nodded with pride on his face. "This is our pioneer! Isn't it magnificent?"

Four tracks nearly 20 meters long carry a square platform 50 meters long and 50 meters wide. Rectangular modules are stacked on the platform, which are spliced and stacked like containers, looking like uneven magic squares or three-dimensional mosaics.

There are four platforms in the same platform, which are distributed in four corners in a matrix, and the middle is connected by pipelines. It seems that they can be separated.

It's not so much a cruiser on land.

It's more like a four legged fortress!

"It's really magnificent... Are there any photos? I mean, that kind of photography is not a hologram like a skeleton."

Lu Yang was stunned and nodded.

"Photos? Yes... I can send them to your VM if you need them."

"Please send me one!"

Although he was confused about the use of Chu Guang's photos, Lu Yang picked a less sensitive photo and passed it to him.

Hiding the happy look on his face, Chu Guang coughed gently, looked at Lu Yang seriously and continued.

"Thank you. It's a great help. In addition, I've probably understood your demands. In short... You need 100 workers to engage in resource collection and material handling, right?"

Luyang nodded seriously.

"Yes, it would be better if there were more people! We need a lot of manpower to collect vehicle wreckage and other metal waste, drag them back to our production workshop, smelt them again, and produce the steel and other alloy materials we need."

"As for technical problems, you don't have to worry. Our engineers will be responsible for solving them! Your people only need to do some simple work."

"As a reward, we are willing to provide food and accommodation for each worker, and pay them an hourly salary of 1Cr, which is settled on a daily basis."

Chu Guang asked.

"What is 10Cr?"

"... I almost forgot, that's it!" Lu Yang patted his head, took out a 100cr note from his waist, showed it to Chu Guang, smiled and explained, "The bonds issued by enterprises are also used as currency. The full name is credit point, or Cr for short! You can use it to buy anything you want at any survivor stronghold on the east coast... As long as they have it."

"In addition, all the caravans from the east coast recognize its value. You can exchange this note for all the goods in their hands. Such a note is enough for an enterprise employee to spend a week and save a little. Two weeks is enough!"

Chu Guang smiled and joked.

"So the hourly salary of 1Cr is the minimum wage of the enterprise?"

"We don't have a minimum wage, but the basic manual labor is at this price. The hourly salary of 1Cr is 12Cr for 12 hours a day. Isn't it enough? We will provide accommodation for your workers!"

"This is the valley province, not the east coast. Well, do you have any chips?"

Lu Yang looked blankly.

"... chips?"

"Yes, this generation in Qingquan city mainly uses this plastic chip as currency. All businessmen here know that. I think you know a little better." Chu Guang took a white chip out of his pocket and shook it gently in front of Lu Yang.

The anti-counterfeiting paint printed on the chips, even after two centuries, still has no trace of fading, as if it were integrated with the material itself.

Lu Yang's face was a little embarrassed.

"Unfortunately, we are not businessmen... Frankly speaking, we are going to the west to perform a very important task, which is related to the fate of all people on this planet. Can we make some accommodation for the sake of the future of civilization? As far as I know, the valley province is also within the business scope of the enterprise. I guarantee you with my credit score that these banknotes can be used!"

"For the sake of the future of civilization, such words were chewed up a century ago. Now they have been abandoned in 211, and nothing has changed."

Put away the chips in his hand, Chu Guang looked at Lu Yang and continued.

"You should have something that can be traded? Do you live on air all the way? We need it very much, whether it's food, weapons, or production tools and methods. It's meaningless for you to give me this kind of paper. God knows when your caravan on the East China Sea bank will pass by us. What's the use of it alone, even 100C R can buy a set of power armor on the east coast, and he may not be able to buy a cow here! "

Even in a civilized society with convenient logistics, the purchasing power of different currencies in different regions is also different, not to mention waste land.

A caravan arrived here across an actual distance of tens of thousands of kilometers in order to exchange the goods in hand for a pile of paper that can't be spent locally?

They do business, not express delivery.

I have to take something back!

Lu Yang coughed and said: "... No matter where it is, 100cr can't buy a power armor, even if it is scrapped. But I probably understand what you mean. What you need is food, weapons and production tools, right?"

"Very right!" Chu Guang looked at him with bright eyes and continued, "if you want to hire my people, you have to give them silver and copper coins. If you want silver coins, you can exchange them with what we need!"

Luyang nodded.

"I see. This is a reasonable demand. But I'm not good at this. I'll ask someone from the logistics section to talk to you about the transaction, and he will arrive here tomorrow morning. In addition, if it's convenient, I hope to set up an office here for us to communicate in time. The size of this office will not be very large, and the staffing should be just two people. How about?"

Chu Guang nodded happily.

"That's what I expected!"

Lu Yang's face was finally a smile.

Communicating with civilized people is always much easier than communicating with indigenous people. Although the transaction is a little troublesome, it's just a headache for the people in the logistics section.

The pioneer has no shortage of food and fresh water, and daily necessities can be produced by itself. What it lacks is only mining and electricity. With working workers, the problem of the mine has been solved, and now there is the last problem left.

"... then the next thing is the guide."

Chu Guang looked at him and said, "no problem. My people know this area very well. The key is what you want to find."

Lu Yang: "controllable fusion fuel rod! Of course, I'm not talking about the fusion battery for power armor, tanks or small workshops, but a fuel rod with helium 3 reserves of more than 5kg and output power of 100MW ~ 1GW, which can make the pioneer move! The model of this fuel rod is a little special, but our people can recognize it."

Chu Guang: "do you know where to find this thing?"

Luyang nodded confidently.

"Of course, according to our analysis of the map data before the war, there is a carbon dioxide collection station near the Fifth Ring Road in the northern suburb of Qingquan city. This kind of public facilities is very common in densely populated cities. Its main function is to absorb the carbon dioxide accumulated in the urban agglomeration by using the electricity in the low peak period, that is, to maintain the so-called carbon balance."

"The model of standby generators and fuel rods in the carbon dioxide collection station is similar to ours, but the trouble is that they are usually not marked separately on the civil map, but combined with some high-rise buildings such as office buildings and apartments, usually between 20 and 30 floors. We can only speculate its approximate location based on limited data."

Hearing this, Chu Guang couldn't help interrupting his words.

"Are you sure it hasn't been searched?"

"We're not sure, so we need a local guide to cooperate with our Marines to find what hasn't been searched yet."

After a pause, Luyang offered the terms of exchange.

"If we are lucky enough to find it, we only need the controllable fusion fuel rods there. As for other by-products, such as long-chain alkanes, olefins or ketones and lipids, you can take them away at will. Whether you use them as firewood or make them into something else."

It shouldn't burn.

Chu Guang felt that he should not do such a violent thing.

This high-quality industrial raw material can be sold even if it can't be used temporarily. Survivors' strongholds with industrial capabilities such as Stonehenge should be happy to buy them.

Chu Guang remembers that old Luca once said that every year, caravans from Boulder City come to brown farm to buy the oil and resin produced by Kam tree.

Looking at Lu Yang, Chu Guang nodded.

"No problem."

"I'm glad we reached a consensus, that's all," Luca smiled happily and stretched out his right hand. "I wish us a happy cooperation!"

He took his right hand and shook it. Chu Guang's face was also smiling.

"Happy cooperation!"

……

Looking at the captain who came out of the fence, he was nervous and relieved to see several Marines standing at the north gate.

The curious sight around them made them feel uncomfortable.

Haven't these Hicks seen power armor?

Fortunately, these people were restrained and didn't come up.

"It's getting late. Let's go back first!" he stopped by his teammates. Lu Yang looked at Chu Guang and said with a smile, "our people will come tomorrow!"

Chu Guang nodded.

"Then I won't send you."

Luyang and his men are ready to leave.

However, just then, the voice of his teammates came from the communication channel.

"Captain, there are explosion lights and gunshots in your East... My view here is not good, but it seems that there is an exchange of fire."

Lu Yang was slightly stunned and asked Chu Guang.

"Are you at war?"

Guess that the big brother they left outside saw it, Chu Guang said calmly.

"You mean the east? If it's a war, our people are really fighting mutants."

"Mutants?" Lu Yang's face changed slightly. "Are there mutants here?"

"Where not? Those green skinned guys are everywhere," Chu Guang smiled. "Of course, I'm not sure whether the mutants in the valley provinces are the same as those on your east coast. I heard that dark green and light green are not the same."

"Whatever it is, they are a group of disgusting guys! These animals like dogs are like tumors. They can't be killed. They are the cancer of civilization!"

Lu Yang gnashed his teeth and said, with an expression of hatred for evil on his face. Chu Guang always felt that there was a story.

Chu Guang looked at him and said.

"Are you willing to help us solve this problem? For the future of civilization."

Lu Yang was stunned, hesitated for a moment and said.

"This... Is not very good. Our discipline does not allow us to intervene in the disputes of the local people."

If he gets involved in the disputes of the local people, the troublesome things will be one after another. He is too experienced.

It's OK not to intervene in local disputes.

Why didn't you say that when you asked us for help?

"Mutant people can't be regarded as people," Chu Guang said patiently without giving up, "and you are actually helping yourself by helping us."

Lu Yang: "what does that mean..."

Chu Guang: "think about it. If we have to deal with the harassment of mutants, how can we do our best to help you? I promise you that as long as you solve the problems of mutants for us, we can double the number of workers supporting you... That is, 200 people. Is reasonable trading also against your discipline?"

Two hundred workers

It seems that alpha 0.7 has to be advanced.

Chu Guang thought in his heart that the new version just opened a new map and sent players to move bricks. Of course, nominally, this is not a "labor dispatch", but a time limited activity in the game.

There are limited time activities in the closed beta stage, and you can get rewards without krypton gold. Where can such a conscientious game company find it?

Chu Guang was almost moved by his conscience.

Lu Yang, who stood opposite him, was stunned.

Two hundred people?!

Are there 200 people in this survivor's settlement??

If you count the village outside, maybe there should be, but what he needs is strong labor, not those old and weak women and children.

But it's also possible that someone else didn't come up underground.

After weighing the pros and cons in his heart, Lu Yang finally reluctantly nodded.

"I hope you keep your promise."

If more people help, their progress will be faster. If he could, he didn't want to waste too much time here. They walked slowly enough after entering the valley province!

"Of course, I am the most trustworthy person!"

When he said this, Chu Guang smiled very cheerful.

He knows.

From the moment the man lowered his head, the mutant people who stayed on 76th street had died