Chapter 364: Cheapness is one of the advantages of our weapons

"...The Enterprise Expedition Team appeared in the northern suburbs?"

Jumbostone Military Industrial Building, Chairman's Office.

Ibers, who was sitting behind his desk, was full of surprise after listening to his subordinates' reports.

Unlike Melvin and Duron, he certainly didn't need to obtain information about the northern suburbs through the "Survivor Daily". As early as late yesterday, he learned from the spies disguised as mercenaries and caravan guards that a group of caravans suspected to be from Ideal City appeared in the northern suburbs.

After a night of investigation, he can now finally be sure that those people are professional soldiers of the enterprise.

"...Why did the people of the enterprise appear here?" Ibers' eyes showed a trace of fear.

Unlike the nobles in the inner city, his attitude towards the enterprise is more to stay away from it.

Based on past experience, it would not be good to rashly involve those behemoths.

Especially last year, the enterprise and the legion had a fight in the northern suburbs. God knows why these people came.

Standing next to him, the old secretary seemed to think the same as him and spoke slowly.

"Could it be related to last year's Pioneer?"

"I think so too."

Rubbing his brow with his index finger, Ibers pondered for a long time and suddenly spoke.

"In any case, we have to find out what they are here for."

The old secretary asked.

"Do we need to report this to the city lord?"

Ibers said simply.

"Just a routine report."

Reporting or not, it doesn't really make any difference.

He has his own intelligence network, and the wise and majestic city lord certainly has one too.

However, as the most loyal servant of that lord, he should report the news as soon as he gets the news.

No matter whether the city lord knows it or not.

This is his duty...

...

As the news of the arrival of the corporate "visiting group" spread, the entire Qingquan City became lively.

Especially the business owners, factory owners and nobles in the inner city of Boulder City, all cast fiery and even jealous eyes towards the northern suburbs.

How could that damned bunch of country bumpkins gain the friendship of the enterprise?

Of course, what they care more about than jealousy is the business opportunities hidden in this news.

That's a visiting delegation from Ideal City!

Any one or two items brought here can be sold at an unimaginable high price.

The civilians in Giant Stone City have no consumption power, but the nobles in the inner city are all rich.

Their industries are all over Giant Stone City. They don't lack money to spend, but they lack places to spend money.

Whether it's bionic prosthesis that enhances the body's ability or serum that delays aging, it's enough to make the whole inner city crazy...

Just when Qingquan City was bustling, Xizhou City, a hundred kilometers away, was no different.

But the difference is that the two sides are completely different...

Next to the crudely built platform, boxes and bundles of materials were piled up into a small mountain.

Looking at the small mountain of materials, both the foremen of the aid team and the survivors of Dawn City had surprised expressions on their faces.

"170 tons of grain, 81 tons of yams, 1,000 cotton work clothes, 1,000 pairs of rubber-soled short boots, 11 boxes of medical gauze and alcohol..."

Holding the cargo list handed over by the train conductor, Rudy's face was full of surprise as he read it quietly. He couldn't believe his eyes.

The materials on the list were exactly what they needed most.

Especially work clothes and waterproof shoes.

It had rained for several days before, and the northern construction site was low-lying and almost soaked in puddles.

There was no pump, so in order to drain the water, the workers could only carry iron buckets to the ground.

Ordinary straw shoes, wooden shoes, and shoes made of tree bark are not waterproof at all, and the number of waterproof shoes made of plastic is limited, so many people's feet were soaked.

There are also medical gauze and alcohol, which are even more necessary for construction sites where bumps often occur.

Without disinfection and bandaging of medical supplies, even a small injury may become inflamed and festered, becoming a serious problem.

Not to mention food, which is always precious in the wasteland.

You can tolerate the shortage of other things, but you can't work if you are hungry.

There are 30,000 people in Dawn City. 251 tons of food, combined with the prey and fish caught by the residents of the shelter, are enough for two weeks of expenses!

After a long while, he swallowed his saliva and said.

"...Did you pick up the pre-war reserves?"

Before becoming the captain of the aid team, he was a centurion under Vanus and followed the legion in the north and south for several years. In his impression, such a rich reserve of materials is hard to see even in some wealthy survivors' settlements.

The New Alliance may be able to get these materials, but it is impossible to get them together in such a short time.

Looking at Rudy with a dazed look on his face, the train conductor said with a smile.

"What do you mean picked up? These things were bought from Boulder City! Oh, tell the people at the warehouse for me that another batch of supplies will be delivered in three days. Tell them to expand the warehouse so they don't get in a rush."

Rudy, who came to his senses, nodded immediately and said seriously.

"I'll go and tell them right away!"

As the supplies were put into the warehouse.

The news about this batch of goods also spread among the survivors.

Lunch time.

Several foremen of the construction team squatted together with the workers, eating with bowls in their hands, and talking about the gossip they heard from others.

"...I heard about it! The supplies are imported from Boulder City!"

"Not just daily necessities, but also generators and power distribution devices... probably for setting up the power grid!"

"It will cost a lot of chips, right?"

"That's for sure... at least hundreds of thousands."

"Hundreds of thousands? Hundreds of thousands is more like it!"

Hearing that these supplies would cost so much money, many people showed sighing expressions on their faces, and even lost their minds for a moment.

Especially those survivors who have lived in Qingquan City since childhood.

The refugees have no idea about the purchasing power of chips, but they know how many good things those chips can get.

Not to mention hundreds of thousands of chips, three-digit chips are an astronomical figure for them, and five-digit chips are not wealth that ordinary people can have.

In their cognition, only the former mayor of Beth Street and Old Brown of Brown Farm can afford so many chips.

But those stingy people will not spend their chips on others.

They wanted to hold every chip tightly in their hands, not to mention spending it on others, and even reluctant to spend more on themselves.

For them, the biggest ambition in this life is to save enough chips to move into Jubi, squeeze into the upper class there, and spend their old age in luxury and wealth.

If it is really bad, buying a few buildings on the edge of the outer city and living as a resident is also a good choice.

After thinking about it, they can only think of the benevolent manager who is willing to take out their own chips and spend them on ordinary people like them without hesitation...

...

On the other side, in the eastern district of Xizhou City, on the abandoned streets.

A group of survivors are moving their luggage out of the collapsed subway station in an orderly manner and stacking them in an open space not far from the subway station.

In the open space a little further away, there are more than 30 container houses and dozens of barracks moved out of the underground tunnel.

The construction site that the aid team is responsible for is not only Dawn City, but also Camp 101 in the eastern district of Xizhou City.

Since the Bone Chewing Tribe has been destroyed, Xizhou City has returned to its former tranquility. The residents of Camp 101 will also return to the surface and return the buffer zone at the entrance of the shelter to the "pioneers".

Chu Guang promised to help the residents of Camp 101 rebuild their homes.

A week ago, the workers of the Alliance arrived here.

There are a total of 200 people involved in the construction.

Among them, 20 are foremen from Dawn City, and 180 are survivors from Dawn City.

In addition, there are patrols from the 2nd Corps, responsible for the safety around the camp.

After all, mutant hyenas, rats, cockroaches, flies as big as washbasins, and blood-sucking worms with needles longer than arms - those alien species that can't be killed will not follow the predators.

Especially after the beginning of summer, the number of alien species active in the ruins has more than doubled compared to two months ago.

Fortunately, a group of enthusiastic little players turned them into food, so that the alien species did not become unbearable...

For the sake of its own future, Camp 101, after referring to Chu Guang's suggestion, finally decided to set up a new camp at the old site of Xizhou University not far from Shelter 101.

The terrain there is relatively flat.

Although the building was severely damaged, this is actually an advantage, at least it will not be too troublesome to demolish it.

In the wasteland, demolishing a building is much more troublesome than building a building.

Some houses look shaky and seem to collapse if you push them, but in fact they can be fine after being hit by two 100 kg bombs.

Especially in "Wasteland OL", the blown-down buildings will not turn into ash and disappear like in other RTS games, but will most likely form a wall on the ground.

Large pieces of construction waste cannot be moved at all, and must be broken into small pieces before they can be moved.

This is also the reason why Dawn City and Dawn City are both built in suburbs with low building density.

According to the planned drawings, the first phase of Camp 101 covers an area of ​​30 mu, with the former site of the Xizhou University Library as the center and spreading out to the surrounding areas.

After the completion of the third phase of the project, the entire camp will basically cover the core area of ​​the former Xizhou University, covering an astonishing area of ​​500 mu.

Although the mayor of the camp, Horn, said with a smile that they could not use so much area, Chu Guang still generously drew this pie.

Can't use it?

Of course, he knew that this small village with only two or three hundred people would not need so much land.

But he and Horn considered different issues.

In Chu Guang's view, it was the future "national university" of the alliance, a holy place for academic exchanges and technological research.

Only 500 acres.

He still thought it was too small!

However, food must be eaten bite by bite.

For now, the number of students that Camp 101 can accommodate is almost the limit of three to five hundred people.

The 30 acres planned for the first phase is completely enough, and only two five-story teaching buildings will be built.

After nearly a week of construction, this brand-new camp has taken shape.

Although the teaching building is not yet visible, square barracks have already stood on the open space.

The space here is much more spacious than underground. They don't have to put all the houses next to each other. Each barracks door can leave a large area as private space.

The children are laughing and playing in the camp, chasing and running.

The construction site not far away was in full swing, and a concrete building of unknown purpose had been built halfway.

In order to prevent alien species from breaking into the camp, the camp's walls were covered with wire mesh and steel bars were driven into the soil.

Standing at the gate of the new camp, Pai opened her eyes wide in surprise, and her mouth seemed to be able to fit an egg.

It had not been two weeks since she left home, and everyone had moved from underground to the surface!

This was too fast!

"Pai?"

Looking at the little girl standing at the gate of the camp, Tris smiled gently, "You're back?"

Hearing the voice of the "gatekeeper", Pai immediately came back to his senses from surprise, and a smug expression appeared on his face, and he said with his chest puffed out.

"Well! Mission successfully completed!"

Although his face was full of pride, his big eyes couldn't help but look around curiously.

"By the way, is this our new home?"

Tris nodded and said with a smile.

"Well, originally we planned to move from underground to above ground in two months, but the progress was smoother than expected. Thanks to those kind people, we only took a week to accomplish so many things."

Of course, they should be thanked for defeating the bloodthirsty looters.

No one likes to live underground, endure the dampness and darkness and the inedible food.

For him, there is nothing more pleasing than watching the children running in the sun.

At this point, Tris saw the thirty young people behind Pai and said with a smile.

"You are the students of the New Alliance, right?"

Xia Yan, who was walking in front of the team, nodded and said neatly.

"Yes, the administrator asked us to report to the old... teacher named Ivan. Can you tell us where he is?"

Although she said so, she didn't look like a student at all at the moment. She was dressed like a wasteland mercenary.

He wore a durable leather jacket over his shirt, with bulging magazines in his pockets and an LD-47 assault rifle on his back.

Tris didn't care.

He often dealt with wastelanders, so he didn't feel any surprise, and his face was still gentle.

"Ivan is still sorting out the information in the document library underground. It will probably take a few days for him to come up. He is Pai's teacher. I think Pai should be able to take you to find him."

Pai nodded enthusiastically and turned back to give Xia Yan and Xiao Yu a reliable look.

"Well! Leave it to me with confidence! I just happened to be going underground!"

She didn't forget her agreement with Chu Guang to find the manager of Shelter No. 101 to discuss the matter of borrowing VM.

Tris smiled and nodded.

"Then I'll leave it to you."

"However, before you go underground, you might as well pack up the luggage you brought with you."

"We have prepared dormitories for you, right next to the school in the camp... Please follow me."

...

It has been less than two weeks since the construction of Camp 101 began. Although it is already habitable, the conditions are still a bit rudimentary.

However, even so, the local residents still prepared barracks for two people in a room as dormitories for these students from the New Alliance.

The relationship between the two sides is in the honeymoon period. The New Alliance has not been stingy in assisting them, and they will naturally not be stingy in taking care of them within their capacity.

While Boss Xia and his group were busy packing their luggage, Chu Guang, who was far away in Shuguang City, was not idle either.

The first thing is to add new production lines for ammunition, weapons and accessories.

Although this matter is mainly handled by the staff of the industrial zone and the officials of the Ministry of Industry, it always takes time to introduce the logistics personnel of the commando to them and arrange work.

After doing these things, Chu Guang took Yunsong to the shooting range and demonstrated the weapons of the alliance.

Including LD series assault rifles, 20mm light cavalry rifles, 37mm heavy cavalry rifles, and 60mm mortars, etc.

And the RPG rocket launcher, which is easy to carry and has a wide range of uses!

Especially the latter, although it is a bit difficult to deal with heavy vehicles, and there is no automatic tracking and laser guidance, it can only be aimed visually, but at medium and short distances, it is completely sufficient to deal with some light and medium armor and vehicles!

Replaced with high-explosive grenades with fragmentation, it is perfect for dealing with unarmored light infantry!

After testing a few rounds, Yunsong immediately purchased 120 launchers, 500 rounds of armor-piercing shells and 700 rounds of high-explosive grenades with a happy face!

Although the penetration of chemical energy armor-piercing shells is more than a little worse than that of plasma shells and electromagnetic guns, they do not always encounter opponents worthy of using plasma armor-piercing shells.

And as Chu Guang said, sufficient quantity is also an advantage.

With this batch of weapons, a company of light infantry under his command can instantly transform into an "anti-tank company"!

With the help of exoskeletons, it is not a problem to bring a few more high-explosive grenades!

Of course, the biggest reason that prompted Yunsong to place the order so readily was that these weapons were priced in silver coins, and his logistics officer used the trade goods they brought to help him negotiate a good price.

Therefore, when he bought, he didn't feel any pain at all.

Looking at the smoking launch tubes and the targets that were blown to pieces in the distance, Yunsong said with a happy expression on his face.

"Is it really okay to sell it to us for 100 silver coins each? Isn't it too cheap?"

It was the first time that Chu Guang saw someone who thought the things he sold were too cheap, and he couldn't help but smile.

"Cheap is one of the advantages of our weapons."

Seeing that this friend in front of him finally realized the charm of goblin technology, Chu Guang was sincerely happy for him.

The large amount of weapons inventory generated by the Northern Expedition was finally digested by someone for him.

But then again.

Wearing this high-tech power armor, he carries an antique rocket launcher on his shoulder.

This combination is weird no matter how you look at it.

Looking at the launch tube on his shoulder, Chu Guang said with some regret.

"It's a pity that there is no uranium and plutonium... otherwise we can make some more powerful tactical nuclear bombs."

Power armor with a single-soldier nuclear missile launcher.

This is much more reasonable!

However, the man carrying the launch tube didn't think so much.

Compared with the style of painting, he cares more about whether it is easy to use.

Obviously, this weapon is quite to his taste.

"Haha, there is no need! Conventional weapons are powerful enough to deal with general threats," Yunsong said with a smile, looking at Chu Guang, "Thanks, brother! I like your weapons very much!"

"You're welcome, we have gained a lot." Chu Guang said with a smile.

He purchased 100 sets of "Miner" I exoskeleton with metal hydrogen batteries installed and retail price of 4000CR.

Not only that, there are also metal hydrogen batteries weighing 200 yuan per kilogram, which are very useful whether used for energy storage or as explosives.

Chu Guang spent less than 1 million silver coins in total to purchase these goods.

And with the value of these goods, even if they are resold and shipped to Giant Stone City, the value of these goods is far more than 1 million chips!

In addition to these "conventional" equipment, there are a lot of things that are not so easy to get.

For example, a bionic kidney produced by Ideal City.

This thing can be sold for 500,000 chips in Boulder City!

And Chu Guang only spent 270,000 silver coins to negotiate the transaction price with Hedin, and the official shelter directly purchased five.

Although he didn't need it, it was still quite good to sell it to the merchants from Boulder City to the northern suburbs as a trade item.

In addition to the goods from Ideal City, there were also the spoils captured by the soldiers along the way.

To be honest, Chu Guang didn't have much hope for those spoils at the beginning.

After all, the situation in the eastern provinces is not much better than that in the valley province, so what good things can there be?

However, the reality was beyond his expectations...