Chapter 119
To be honest, it had been a long time since Su Yi had experienced what it felt like to be short of money.
But sometimes things are just so absurd.
Although Tianyu Group was making money hand over fist from the sales of Life Water and carbon-based crystal elements, the accumulation time was still too short after all.
The money earned in a short period of time really couldn't support this kind of super project.
It was only natural that he was short of money.
Of course, with the strength of Tianyu Group, if Su Yi was willing, he could directly use the technology as collateral to get a loan from Jiuzhou, let alone a mere two or three hundred billion.
If he gave out the complete set of carbon-based crystal element technology, even if he asked for one trillion, the Jiuzhou officials probably wouldn't bat an eye, and would transfer the money to his account at the speed of light, for fear that he wouldn't borrow it.
They would even wish that he wouldn't be able to repay the money after giving it to him.
After all, if he couldn't repay it, they would gladly accept the technology at that time.
They would be making a killing, okay?
But Su Yi was quite resistant to this kind of loan.
When he had just graduated from school, he bought a car because it was inconvenient to commute to work.
He paid the down payment and took out a three-year loan.
Those three years could be said to be the darkest three years of his life.
Although he only needed to repay three thousand each month, and his salary was much higher than that number.
But the three thousand was like a death warrant, urging him to concentrate and devote himself to work at all times, not daring to slack off in the slightest, and even more afraid of losing his job.
Every day he opened his eyes, he was thinking about how many days were left until the next repayment date.
In just three years, it had already given him loan PTSD.
He couldn't even imagine what kind of ruthless people those who took out a thirty-year mortgage to buy a house were.
Now he felt uncomfortable all over as soon as he heard about loans.
Since there was a better solution, he definitely wouldn't borrow money from others.
Although he knew that this kind of loan was completely different from what he had before, it didn't prevent him from not wanting to touch it at all.
"Bai Lu has it, right? Then I'll go find her now."
Su Yi immediately got up.
Now that the invitations had been sent out, the first phase of construction on the island had to be completed within three days.
In the transaction space, after Su Yi initiated a transaction invitation to Bai Lu, Bai Lu seemed to be free at the moment and immediately appeared in front of him.
"It shouldn't be the agreed transaction date yet, right? Why are you looking for me so suddenly?"
Bai Lu sat down casually in her seat.
Her perfect and exaggerated figure under the tights could even be placed directly on the table in front of her.
Su Yi glanced at it and moved his gaze away imperceptibly, and started talking about business.
"Metal hydrogen batteries? You want this kind of backward thing?" Bai Lu showed a surprised look when she heard this, but soon nodded thoughtfully:
"That's right, your world focuses on psionic energy, so it's normal to be behind in these technological researches."
Is it possible that our world is also very backward in the research of psionic energy.
Su Yi twitched the corner of his mouth and didn't take the bait:
"So can you get it? It's quite urgent."
"Of course, this couldn't be simpler." Bai Lu waved her hand, ready to go directly to get it for Su Yi, but after thinking about it, she said:
"Is there anything else you want? Why don't you finish talking first?"
"Not really..." Su Yi paused, and then seemed to think of another question, and quickly asked:
"By the way, I have a question, do the soldiers in your world's army have a set of powered armor per person?"
"The Guards Corps of the Central Star System can achieve standard powered armor, as for us rabble troops in these marginal and remote areas, how could we have this kind of technology. Even the ten most basic and old-fashioned powered armors I gave you are worth a lot, and any set can be worth the pension of one hundred ordinary soldiers." Bai Lu gave him a roll of her eyes, seemingly not knowing why he would have such an idea.
Although she disliked the old style of the powered armor when she gave it to Su Yi, and it had no characteristics, that was only from her point of view.
To be honest, the fusion furnace inside alone could be sold for a sky-high price if it was dug out and put on the black market.
As expected!
Su Yi's eyes lit up, and he quickly asked:
"Then what equipment do you usually use?"
"Since powered armor is not standard equipment, your Near-Earth Orbit Airborne Brigade, as the unit that needs to be deployed to ground combat as soon as possible, can't let the soldiers sit in the landing craft, land, and rush out with their guns, right."
"Exoskeletons, what else could it be? It's an old thing that has been eliminated for who knows how long. What, are you interested?" Bai Lu raised an eyebrow:
"This thing has simple technology. Our Near-Earth Orbit Airborne Brigade's exoskeletons are completely consumables. The higher-ups usually give us production lines and money directly, so that we can purchase raw materials locally and make them ourselves. If you want, I can get you a few production lines, and I guarantee you can make an exoskeleton army with a combination of light and heavy."
"Although the money for purchasing materials and updating exoskeletons is deducted by me every time it is issued, resulting in our brigade's few production lines only being used twice since they were sent, and they are still 99% new, but in terms of time, it should be time to replace them with new ones."
"Give me a good price, and I'll pack it for you directly."
"Of course, if you're not in a hurry and are willing to wait for a while, I'll go back and apply to the higher-ups to update the old exoskeleton production line. When the new ones are sent, there's no problem in directly packaging and selling the new ones to you."
Good fellow, you're planning to sell it before the things even arrive in your hands?
Although Su Yi was indeed in a hurry to use them now, he couldn't help but ask curiously:
"If your brigade's exoskeletons aren't updated, how do you usually fight?"
"Why not update?" Bai Lu rolled her eyes:
"Our Orbit Airborne Brigade has 600,000 soldiers on the roster, but only 20,000 actual soldiers. If the exoskeletons are broken, there are plenty of brand new ones in the warehouse to replace. The reason why those production lines aren't opened is because the inventory can't be used up."
"Where did the remaining 580,000 people go?"
"Of course I'm pocketing their salaries, could they be dead?" Bai Lu said impatiently:
"No, do you want it or not? Do you want the old ones or the new ones?"
"... Awesome!"
Su Yi gave her a thumbs up, and then said without thinking:
"Didn't you say they're 99% new? I happen to need them urgently, so give them to me."
"Do you have any guns, ammunition, airplanes, or cannons? If you do, get me some, preferably with a complete production line."
"Our Orbit Airborne Brigade's warehouse has millions of sets of spare individual weapons. If you want them, I can give them to you directly. If you want the production line, I can go to the black market to help you purchase it, but it will take some time. As for cannons... we don't have this kind of backward weapon. As for airplanes, we only have space fighters. This thing is only useful in space warfare, and it doesn't have the ability to strike the ground. If you don't have a space carrier, there's no place to park it, so it's useless to take it."
Bai Lu obviously didn't care about these things at all, and could be said to be all-knowing and all-answering.
In the end, after friendly negotiation, Su Yi got a complete set of metal hydrogen battery technology and an old battery production line from her.
As well as several sets of 99% new exoskeleton production lines, from light to heavy, for various purposes.