Chapter 139 Impressive Manager

20-type "Stinger" Gauss rifle

Description: As the standard anti-material equipment of the orbital airborne troops, the 20-type "Stinger" Gauss rifle adopts a barrelless design and a hollow magnetic guide. Its standard ammunition is a 9mm caliber, 100g mass "Spike" tail-stabilized bullet.

When shooting with standard ammunition, the theoretical muzzle velocity can reach Mach 5, and the muzzle energy is 144755 joules. Considering the special combat environment of the orbital airborne troops, the 20-type "Stinger" Gauss rifle is designed to be able to launch conductive working media such as truncated iron nails and steel balls through side loading even without standard ammunition. However, it should be noted that when firing non-standard ammunition, the stability and accuracy of the shooting cannot be guaranteed. Please refer to the user manual and make careful choices.

144755 joules of muzzle energy!

When Chu Guang saw this number for the first time, he thought he had seen it wrong.

If I remember correctly, the 20mm caliber m61 aircraft cannon on the F16 fighter has a single shot energy of only about 50,000 joules.

The muzzle kinetic energy of more than 140,000 joules is an order of magnitude higher than that of a cannon!

Can this still be called a gun? ? ?

But if you only look at the caliber, there is nothing wrong with calling it a gun.

Picking up this powerful Gauss rifle from the conveyor belt, Chu Guang took it in his hand and looked at it for a while, then took off the bulky magazine.

The bullet stuffed in the magazine is very long, and its shape is more like a long shuttle than a long nail. The threaded tail is probably its "stabilizing tail", which can make the bullet spin steadily during flight.

The Gauss rifle used by Lu Yang and his team members seems to adopt another technical route, that is, a fully enclosed magnetic track, and a rifled barrel is added in the middle of the magnetic track.

Chu Guang noticed when he peeked through the drone screen before that their Gauss rifles needed to actively replace the overheated barrels after continuous shooting.

Chu Guang's intuition told him that the barrelless design might have a higher technical content, but it was hard to say about the maintenance and use costs.

"The recoil is probably not small... Without an exoskeleton or power armor, it might not be possible to control it."

"And the ammunition, 10 bullets are too few."

"I wonder if it's okay to use tungsten steel to make a bullet of similar shape."

Given the production conditions of the outpost before, it was unlikely to expect the materials to be exactly the same, but it shouldn't be a problem to make a bullet of similar shape by copying the gourd.

Chu Guang planned to save these 10 "original bullets" and save them for valuable targets. For dealing with ordinary alien species, some imitation ammunition is almost enough.

In addition, the optical sight on the gun is also a good thing, with a maximum magnification of 12 times.

However, maybe I used up all my luck on the advanced blind box, and 11 primary blind boxes actually opened 11 lollipops in a row.

And they were all chocolate flavored.

However, Chu Guang was in a good mood. Instead of having his blood pressure rise, he gave Xia Yan and Xiao Yu a lollipop each, sharing his joy at the moment.

A cannon and a piece of armor.

This wave is more than a bloody profit.

It's simply a fortune!

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The next day was a rare sunny day.

There was not a single cloud in the cloudless sky.

But last night's snow was heavy, and the goose feather-sized snowflakes floated all night. When the sun rose, the thickest snow even exceeded the knees.

Still hired two nomads to clean up.

After inspecting the training of the guard team, Chu Guang found Old Luca.

"I'll give you a task. The details are already on your VM. Now go to the brick factory and pick two smart survivors to be your assistants."

"Our allies will send people to us to register the list of labor dispatch. After that, you just need to take them with you according to what I explained on the VM."

Old Luca nodded respectfully.

"Yes, sir."

Old Luca went to the brick factory for a short while.

Chu Guang soon saw through the drone in the sky that an off-road vehicle with large tires broke through the snow and drove over from the north.

There were four people in the car.

Except for the driver and the bodyguard sitting in the co-pilot wearing exoskeletons and light weapons, the two people in the back seat were not even equipped with exoskeletons. They only wore uniform gray coats and were probably civilian staff.

The road conditions in the wasteland were very poor, especially in the urban area. One highway could even count ten uneven folds. Some wider cracks even leaked the buried pipelines, and the width difference was more than two meters.

Not to mention that cars couldn't pass, even people and animals had difficulty passing, and they could only walk around the ruins with deep foundations on the side of the street.

The road along the wreckage of the elevated road out of the city was not flat, and many pits were buried by snow.

Chu Guang was watching from the sky, guessing with Xiao Qi when the car would break down. In the end, Xiao Qi guessed right. The front wheel of the off-road vehicle fell directly into the ditch about 1 km away from the wetland park.

Xue Mozi was swept up into the sky, but no matter how the tire spun in the pit, it couldn't be dug out.

The co-pilot and the driver had to get out of the car, grabbing the wheel hub with both hands, and relying on the brute force of the exoskeleton to lift the front of the car out of the ditch.

Chu Guang had originally planned to find two power players to help, but he immediately gave up the idea when he saw this scene.

"The power of technology is still strong."

When can I give each of my cute little players a set.

Then wouldn't it be very fast to move bricks?

With a sigh in his heart, Chu Guang looked at the group of people who got back in the car and drove to the north gate of the wetland park, turned off the VM screen, and went downstairs to wait at the north gate.

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The off-road vehicle could not enter the wetland park, so the driver and the car stayed in front of the north gate of the park and waited. The other three people got off the car and continued to move forward.

The group soon arrived at the outpost base, met the manager here at the north gate, and came to the reception room at his invitation.

"Let me introduce myself first. I am Li De from the logistics department of the first pioneering corps of the Silver Wing Group, which belongs to the enterprise. The person behind me is Luo Hua, a colleague of our logistics department. He is the person in charge of the temporary office of your camp and is responsible for liaison and communication. The other is Ai Si from the security department, who is mainly responsible for his safety."

"Hello, Mr. Manager." The man named Luo Hua wore glasses and looked a bit gentle.

The heroic female bodyguard just nodded to him, without any words, nor did she participate in the topic, as if she didn't exist in the air.

Chu Guang shook the right hand that Li De extended, and a smile like spring breeze appeared on his face.

"Chu Guang, the manager of Shelter No. 404, is honored to cooperate with you. Please take a seat."

A handsome face always makes people feel good.

Even though his facial muscles were stiffened by the north wind, after seeing Chu Guang's smile, Li De still squeezed out an equally friendly smile from his face.

It's so comfortable to communicate with civilized people.

It doesn't matter if you are a little poor, at least you can communicate.

The natives that Li De met along the way really made him fed up. There was no way to communicate in a civilized way.

Except for the bodyguard standing on duty at the door, the three people in the room sat down one after another.

Li De didn't beat around the bush. After sitting down, he got straight to the point and took out a tablet from his bag.

"Then let's get started. Here is a list of what we can offer you. The price we offer to each worker is still 1R per hour. 200 people work 10 hours a day, and the daily salary expenditure is 2000R in total... This is our budget."

Chu Guang took the tablet from him, swiped the screen with his index finger, and glanced at the list on it.

In general, R's purchasing power is still very strong.

Perhaps because the production line is carried on the track, the prices on the list are closer to the local level of the East Coast than those of the merchants who came from nowhere, and even feel cheaper than the local survivors' bases on the East Coast.

There are many bulk commodities that can be wholesaled for 1R.

However, when Chu Guang saw one kilogram of starch, one kilogram of glucose, one kilogram of sucrose, one kilogram of amino acids (lysine, tryptophan, etc. 30 kinds)... these strange trading varieties, he was stunned for a moment.

Can the goods be split into molecules and sold?

Of course, in addition to these overly hardcore varieties, there are also normal trading varieties.

For example, rice, wheat and corn, these agricultural products cost 2R per kilogram.

Chu Guang remembered that the starch content of rice was only 75%. Would it be more expensive to buy rice than starch?

In addition, there are plant meat patties or minced meat, which are also only 2R per kilogram, which is the same price as rice and wheat.

In any survivor gathering place in Qingquan City, meat cannot be sold at the same price as things grown in the ground!

In addition, processed mature foods are also on the list.

A 430g quasi-nutrition meal costs 1R, which contains enough carbohydrates, fiber, protein and other mineral nutrients required for a normal diet. However, there seems to be a lot of water in it. A 800g quasi-nutrition meal costs 8R.

Is this a family bucket?

These are basically the foods that can be traded. Starting from 10R, the trading varieties become some daily necessities and industrial products.

For example, a kilogram of sulfur soap is sold at exactly 10R. According to the net content of 100 grams, 10 pieces can be cut out, which is equivalent to 1R per piece.

For example, salt, they only sell refined salt, or pure sodium chloride, which also only costs 10R per kilogram.

Interestingly, their salt price is equivalent to 10 times that of grain and 10 times that of meat. Chu Guang couldn't tell for a moment whether it was cheap or expensive.

Anyway, salt is sold by "liang" here.

Then starting from the 100R level, some good things will appear.

For example, a submachine gun priced at 200R and an assault rifle priced at 300R. There are also bulletproof vests priced at 100R and heavy full-protection bulletproof armor priced at 300R.

Bullets are very cheap, 1R can buy three bullets, which is equivalent to a pound of rice.

"Why are there no Gauss rifles?"

Chu Guang directly scrolled to the bottom of the list, and found some production tools that he might use, but did not find the power armor and Gauss rifle that he wanted more.

Li De said with a serious expression.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Manager, our power armor and Gauss rifles are the lives of soldiers, and they can't be sold."

Chu Guang nodded.

"I understand, I am presumptuous."

Got it.

It seems that it is not easy for you to produce that thing, at least not to the extent that everyone has a set.

In Chu Guang's impression, although the principle of the coil gun is very simple, it is actually a very expensive technology. It costs so much money that the Americans installed the guns on the ship, and then dismantled them after defrauding the military funds.

Think about it, how cheap are traditional artillery?

It is also convenient to maintain, one shot explodes, and if the gun barrel is broken, it can be replaced and continued to fire.

Chu Guang studied all night yesterday, but he still didn't understand what material the magnetic track of the 20-type "Stinger" Gauss rifle was made of, and he didn't dare to take it apart to take a look.

He's not stupid.

What if the magnetic track is filled with metallic hydrogen?

It will explode directly.

Researching black technology is even more exciting than opening a blind box. After thinking about it, Chu Guang decided not to spend the effort. Not to mention that he may not be able to do it even if he understands it, he doesn't have the equipment and prerequisites to understand it at all.

Any tiny breakthrough is the accumulation of hundreds of topics and tens of thousands of experimental results. When quantitative changes accumulate into qualitative changes, it is specific to a mature technology, which contains tens of thousands of tiny breakthroughs.

So it's better to open a blind box.

At least the things opened in the blind box can be used immediately.

Only with guns and cannons can there be food, and only with food can there be people, and only with people can we develop industry, expand territory, and pick up garbage farther away. When grain, electricity and mines are all in place and production capacity is increased, then we can talk about the technology tree.

Otherwise, no one can help.

Chu Guang: "There is no problem with the treatment. Here, one kilogram of rice costs... well, 10 copper coins. So after conversion, I think the reasonable exchange rate is 1R for 5 copper coins."

Chu Guang originally wanted to say 2R for 1 silver coin.

But on second thought, he changed his EQ statement.

However, I didn't expect that this quartermaster friend didn't appreciate it at all, and shook his head and said.

"Mr. Manager, I may be a little direct. Our captain is a rough man and does not understand these things, but do you think I don't understand them either?"

"Let's not make it so troublesome. Besides, it is meaningless to exchange each other's money. We can't stay here forever. We will pay you all the money directly according to the standard of 1R hourly wage. As for how many silver coins you plan to pay to your residents, that is your internal problem and we will not interfere."

"As for the problem that R cannot circulate normally, we have solved it for you. The list in your hand was summarized by our colleagues in the logistics department overnight. I believe that the materials listed above are definitely richer than any caravan you have seen here. What do you think?"

In short, you can't fool me.

You can give your people as much hourly wage as you want, anyway, this is all we give.

We sell everything to you at cost price, which is conscientious enough.

Chu Guang, who has been in sales for so many years, of course understood his implication and showed an embarrassed smile on his face.

"That's fine."

Originally, he wanted to say that his people (players) had a minimum hourly wage of 1 silver coin, which should be 2R in exchange. But he didn't expect that they were quite smart and didn't want his money at all.

Seeing Chu Guang's affirmative attitude, Li De looked at him cautiously.

"Then can I think that we have reached a consensus?"

Yesterday, Lu Yang boasted to him that the manager of Shelter No. 404 was a very straightforward person, and they reached a consensus in less than ten minutes.

Now it seems that it's not that this guy is straightforward, but that their captain is too straightforward...

"Half of it has been reached," Chu Guang nodded, and continued, "Your captain promised me that he would provide food and accommodation for our people. After all, there is a distance of 10 kilometers from us to you, and our people can't waste so much time on the road every day. And eating is also a big problem."

Originally, when he heard the first sentence "half of it has been reached", Li De was still touching his pocket for blood pressure medicine, and he relaxed his nerves when he heard the second half of the sentence.

This is a reasonable request.

"Don't worry about this. We have built a temporary camp for your workers. Although it is not as comfortable as the shelter, it is windproof and warm. Don't worry about the meals. We will prepare a mobile kitchen for you and provide three meals a day at the standard of 1R per meal."

Chu Guang nodded and said thoughtfully.

"1R per meal, so 3R a day?"

Li De was slightly stunned and nodded cautiously.

"Uh, yes sir."

Chu Guang smiled.

"According to the standard of 3R per person per day, you can directly transfer the money to us. We will purchase and prepare our own food. In this way, you don't need to prepare any mobile kitchens. Just give us some pots and pans for cooking. What do you think?"

Li De was confused.

Is this okay? ? ?

However, he did not express his opinion immediately, but silently calculated the cost in his mind.

If mobile kitchens were to be deployed in the camps of these workers, the actual cost would be at least 1000R per day, and if they got sick, they would have to argue.

Similar problems had occurred before when they worked with the natives.

According to the standard of 3R per person per day, 200 people would be 600R, which directly cut the cost by 40%, and there was no risk.

Li De nodded decisively in agreement.

"Okay!"

Chu Guang also decisively extended his right hand.

"Deal!"

...

After reaching a consensus, the two parties quickly drafted a contract in black and white, signed their names on it, and pressed their handprints instead of official seals.

At this moment, Li De finally realized the captain's evaluation of the manager's "frankness".

Indeed.

His efficiency was impressive.

It was a waste of talent to stay here...

Luo Hua, the head of the office, stayed, and Li De set off under the escort of Ai Si and returned to the bus stop at the entrance of the wetland park.

After that, she will return to the outpost, and she and Luo Hua will use the materials they brought to build a simple barracks as an office.

"The conditions here are too simple... They are still using primitive steelmaking methods to produce steel." Looking at the large chimney in the south, Luo Hua couldn't help but sigh.

Ai Si didn't comment on these facilities, but said after a moment of silence.

"That person is very strong."

"Very strong?"

"Yes, he is an awakener, probably in the first stage."

"Which one?" Luo Hua looked up curiously and found that there were quite a few residents in the shelter around.

These people also looked at them curiously, not knowing what they were looking at.

"The one who talked to you before."

"You mean their manager?" Luo Hua looked surprised, "But I remember that awakening doesn't have to"

"Go through countless life and death tests, at least walk through the gates of hell once."

Ai Si's face was still expressionless, but there was a trace of caution in his pupils, and he rarely said one more sentence.

It seems the captain's assessment is correct.

"That person is very strong." -