This Game Is Too Realistic

The tenth day when the wave broke out.

Many players have discovered that there have been some strange NPCs on the battlefield in the past two days.

They wore orange chemical protective suits and black gas masks on their heads. They did not interact with others. Usually two people carried a stretcher and moved the alien corpses away from the battlefield in groups of three or five. Since the morning I'm so busy that the sun is going down.

These NPCs are very efficient. The two of them can transport four to five hundred corpses a day. At first glance, they are experts who often do this job.

Some attentive players even saw that each of them actually had a kv-1 exoskeleton?

Although it is a "fruit package" without welded steel plates or mounted weapons, it still costs 800 silver coins in the NPC store, which is equivalent to four LD-47 rifles.

The players leaning behind the concrete slope shelter looked at the backs of these NPCs curiously and whispered.

"What kind of trick did Dog Planner pull?"

"A new professional corpse chaser?"

"Comfortable, someone finally cleaned up these damn things."

"+1, it stinks!"

"Obviously it can block the pain, but it's embarrassing if it can't block the odor!"

Cleaning up the bodies of alien species is not easy.

Based on the imagination of the players, every available method must have been used.

At first, everyone discussed using fire to burn it, but the actual situation was not as optimistic as imagined. Often the surface layer is burned into coke, the fire is extinguished, and the body is buried.

This game always fails in strange places. One Molotov cocktail is enough to kill two or three Gnawers, but if you want to burn them to ashes, three Molotov cocktails are not enough.

The water content of slime mold fruiting bodies is much higher than that of humans, and the water vapor itself will take away a lot of heat.

In addition, fats, oils and other similar things are not so easy to ignite, and it is often necessary to continuously add a large amount of fuel to maintain the fire.

If it's hard to understand, you can try a piece of meat from the refrigerator. It takes a while to cook it, let alone burn it to ashes.

At present, the main way to deal with these corpses on the front line is to drag them outside the city and bury them, but the transfer speed of corpses is far from keeping up with the speed of accumulation.

The main offensive of the wave usually lasts from 6 o'clock in the evening to 6 o'clock in the morning of the next day, continuously attacking the players' positions.

Counting the crawlers that the hunter team searches for and kills in the ruins, each player can kill more than thirty crawlers every day on average.

Obviously the number of these alien species is far more than the 100,000 originally estimated.

After all, the number of players killed in a day is around 20,000 to 30,000, and the wave has passed for ten days, but there is no sign of weakening.

Fortunately, due to factors such as the width of the battlefield, the huge number of waves cannot be fully deployed. If they encounter so many alien species on the plains, I am afraid that even if the number of players triples, they will inevitably find themselves in a difficult battle.

According to statistics posted by players responsible for transporting ammunition to the front line, the daily consumption of ammunition in the past three days has been around 100,000 rounds.

The weight of a full-power 7 bullet is close to 25g, and one hundred thousand rounds is 2.5 tons of ammunition.

In order to collect the materials needed for the ammunition production line, Chu Guang could only mobilize the newcomers to dig up the ancestral graves of the People's Federation, while directing the military factory to open two new ammunition production lines to produce steel core and steel case bullets.

Compared with copper-cased ammunition, although steel-cased ammunition has many problems such as poor ductility, inability to be reloaded, and possible rust, in Chu Guang's opinion, all the shortcomings can be outweighed by one advantage - that is, they are cheap.

Anyway, the ammunition is quickly sent to the front line for consumption. It is redundant to consider the issue of preservation. There is no need to consider reloading of ammunition produced on the assembly line. The recovered shells are sent directly to the steel factory for melting.

Starting from the eighth day, the battle situation on the front line entered a stage of attrition.

Batch after batch of ammunition was transported to the front line, and batch after batch of corpses were dragged down from the front line. Most of them belonged to the aliens, and a few belonged to players.

At first, the newbies were moving the corpses, dragging them to the suburbs and digging a hole for burial. But recently, a group of professional NPCs took over the work, and the corpses disappeared, and no new holes were dug.

Many players who love details are full of confusion and curiosity.

Where are the alien corpses?

Where have they all gone?

But this curiosity did not last long.

Some careful life professional players quickly opened another NPC factory after the Bachi Aluminum Factory in the southernmost part of the new industrial zone, named Didiwei Food Processing Factory.

The factory's main products are nutritional pastes and organic fertilizers, and it also supplies sulfur and phosphorus to fertilizer plants.

Those trucks coming down from the front lines.

It seems like everyone is heading there...

…

"Wasteland OL" official website.

I found out that there were really mosquitoes in WC in the New World, so I couldn’t wait to post on the forum.

"Big news! The whereabouts of the Gnawer's body have been found!"

Stop talking nonsense: "Where are you going??"

Macabazi: "Hurry up! Don't be so pretentious!"

Battlefield Atmosphere Group: "That's right!"

Seeing the public outrage, Mosquito, who wanted to let the topic ferment for a while before revealing the answer, did not dare to continue to talk about it, and quickly typed.

"The Didiwe Food Processing Factory! It's at the southernmost edge of the industrial zone. I saw it with my own eyes, and those trucks dragging corpses drove right in!"

Lao Bai: "Pfft...this name."

Quit smoking: "WTF?! I bought one yesterday! (Horror)"

Ye Shi: "Awesome! You actually bought it?!"

Quit smoking: "Well, it's mainly because it's cheap. One pound of nutritional ointment only costs 1 silver coin, which can last for two meals. (Embarrassing)"

Fang Chang: "No way. (laughing and crying)"

Ye Shi: "I feel sorry for my brother who quit smoking... This is too frugal. (face covering)"

Sisi: "Hey...have the foodies finally stopped even eating the nibblers?"

Tails: "Shocked! Is this a loss of morality or a distortion of human nature!"

Quit smoking: "Gan! Is it weird to save money to buy equipment? I just want to spend the silver coins on more useful places. Don't you plan your expenses when playing games?"

Kuangfeng: "Depends on the situation, if you can get satisfaction from virtual food in the game, it means that food is part of the game experience provided by the operator. Sacrificing part of the game experience in order to become stronger, wouldn't it be putting the cart before the horse? (Squint) )"

Tails: "Oh! Tails thinks so too! (?w?)"

Irena: "To be honest, the gnawer is the fruiting body of slime mold, right? Although it looks a bit like a mammal, it should be considered a mushroom biologically, right? There's nothing wrong with being edible, right? But what I don't understand is , why can’t you eat it directly? You can eat it by making it into a nutritional paste. (Funny)”

Elf King Fugui: "Lao Na, what do you want to do? (Funny)"

Irena: "Nothing, just curious. (Funny)"

Curiosity is curiosity. Even if Lao Na, who was far away in Honghe Town, was curious about what it tasted like, she had no chance to taste it.

However, there were many young players who were keen on committing suicide. Out of curiosity, they took out a silver coin to buy a pound and gave it a try for him.

It's not expensive anyway.

One silver coin cannot buy you a loss, and you cannot buy a fool.

Some young players who are willing to share even posted testimonials on the official website.

Objectively speaking, the taste of nutritional paste made from mutant slime mold is not particularly interesting. And because of the low salt and sugar content, it tastes almost tasteless.

If it were just that, it wouldn't be hard to swallow. However, what really tortured people was the sand-like texture, which was really hard to put into words.

After eating, I always feel like there is a lump of phlegm stuck in my throat.

Coupled with the green color, it fully suppresses appetite.

Many players finally understood why some NPCs said they would rather starve to death than eat this stuff.

This thing is really not for human consumption!

After giving the testimonials, the topic on the forum quickly turned to how to make the nutritional cream less difficult to swallow.

Tomato scrambled eggs: "If you can get a wall-breaking machine and beat the particles a little finer, the taste will probably be better."

Crow Crow: "Can you add a little more chocolate and sugar!?"

Teng Teng: "Wait...will this become expensive?"

Fang Chang: "+1, putting the cart before the horse."

Originally, the characteristic of nutritional cream is that it is extremely cheap.

People who can afford chocolate will never buy nutritional creams no matter how much they think about it.

The topic quickly changed from "How to make nutritional cream less unpleasant to swallow" to "How to make nutritional cream less unpleasant to eat at the lowest cost."

At this time, a player majoring in chemical engineering suddenly appeared.

"How about some sweetener?"

"Sodium o-benzoylsulfonimide? It's cheap enough, but it's not good for your health."

"There is a safe dosage. It doesn't matter if it's less than 5g per kilogram of body weight... What else can we choose if it's already a wasteland?"

"Boss 666!"

"Is this bringing along the capitalists?"

"Let's get in line first, there are not enough street lights. (Funny)"

…

While the players were still discussing, the Didiwe Food Processing Factory located in the southernmost part of the industrial zone was working overtime.

The area of ​​the factory is not small, about the size of a football field. One of the two warehouses collapsed, and the remaining one is structurally intact and can be used just right.

Judging from the broken bricks on the ground, this place must have just been cleaned up recently, and many areas have not had time to be cleaned, but this does not affect production.

Since inspecting the industrial zone and Changjiu Farm in the northern suburbs three days ago, Ditwei immediately attracted a group of small and medium-sized grain merchants in Boulder City, raised a huge amount of 300,000 chips, and purchased a complete set of nutritional paste production equipment. Together with the old one in his small workshop, the mercenaries were sent to the northern suburbs.

The land rent in the northern suburbs industrial zone is very cheap. The first two years are rent-free. The only costs are water and electricity bills, management fees and 20% corporate income tax.

Compared to Boulder City, this cost is already very low.

Especially the labor cost here is cheap.

The basic daily salary of an ordinary worker is 10 silver coins. Taking into account meal expenses, etc., the actual cost per month is only about 400 silver coins. If you hire 20 workers, the monthly cost is only 8,000 silver coins.

What is the concept of 8000 silver coins?

To be honest, Dietwei didn't have an accurate idea.

The exchange rate conversion standard provided by the bank is that one chip can be exchanged for 2 silver coins, but this is definitely not the market exchange rate, otherwise the wages of the workers here are simply ridiculously high, and the basic daily salary can be as high as 5 chips.

What's more, the banks here only provide the service of converting chips, dinars, and CR into silver coins, and cannot conversely convert silver coins directly into chips or other currencies.

If you must use chips, you need to apply as a company and write down clearly what kind of equipment you want to purchase. You can only redeem it after getting approval.

There are very strict controls on foreign exchange here.

But it is not as strict as other small survivor settlements in Qingquan City, such as prohibiting residents from holding chips privately or trading with outside merchants privately.

Dietwei didn't really care about this.

Although there is no way to exchange silver coins for chips, you can use silver coins to buy things and then transport them to Boulder City to sell them.

The things produced can also be taken away at will, and they can be exported as long as the duties are paid.

In addition, Vault No. 404 also provided him with a ready-made factory building and a low-interest loan of 600,000 silver coins to pay for a series of expenses such as labor, water, electricity, etc.

It's equivalent to setting up a factory here without spending a penny!

It’s enough to provide equipment and technology!

As for losing money, it doesn't matter. Factories have limited liability systems, and debts will not be traced back to individuals. At most, the equipment and other assets will be auctioned.

With such generous conditions, Ditwe was so moved that he almost cried!

"...At present, the average daily processing capacity of our factory has reached 100 tons, and the daily production capacity is 10 tons of nutritional paste and 4 tons of organic fertilizer!"

"I guarantee you that this number will at least double again before the end of the month! Or even triple it!"

Walking around the spacious factory building.

The red-faced Ditway was enthusiastically introducing the production line he had acquired from Boulder City to the manager beside him.

Workers wearing protective clothing were seen throwing the corpses of gnawers, crawlers, and even butchers from the truck into containers made of steel.

The way they look and what they are doing are not reminiscent of food production at all. Instead, they seem to be destroying corpses and exterminating traces.

The container was filled with corpses. A worker standing on the operating platform operated a tower crane-like device to lift the container and move it directly above the cylindrical metal tank as thick as an oil tank.

As the container tilted, the corpses of the alien species fell into the huge metal tank like dumplings.

The circular hatch was sealed, the pressure indicator began to rise, and with a roaring buzzing sound, the entire device began to work.

There are a total of eight similarly thick metal tanks here!

After being canned, these corpses will undergo 24 hours of high temperature, drying, inactivation, extrusion and other processes. Then they will be transported through pipelines to the workshop located on the side of the factory building, and then go through a series of complex procedures to separate the active ingredients. .

After this series of pre-processing, the thick substance produced is like a green slime, and it is basically impossible to see any connection with the mutant slime mold.

Ignore the smell, it's even a little cute.

"...One hundred tons is still a little less. At least 20,000 mutants are killed on the front line every day. I hope you can handle more than 400 tons before the end of the month."

Looking at the equipment in the factory with interest, Chu Guang asked casually.

"By the way, what about the market? Is the nutritional cream produced easy to sell?"

This is Chu Guang's second concern.

Ditwe smiled slightly and said confidently.

"Don't worry about this. Although these equipment are not the most advanced, our costs are cheap enough! In terms of price, we have an absolute advantage and can beat our competitors!"

In addition to cheaper production costs, setting up a factory here has another huge advantage over setting up a factory in Boulder City, and that is convenient transportation.

Although Qingquan City is rich in resources, the road conditions are really difficult to describe. One kilometer here is more difficult to walk than ten kilometers outside the city.

In the face of two to three meter long tunnels and four to five meter high cliffs, not to mention wheeled vehicles, even crawler vehicles are intimidated.

Therefore, when caravans from Boulder City do business with surrounding areas, they usually choose two-headed oxen or other livestock as transportation.

Some cross-regional caravans will also choose to settle outside the city, and then hire local ox carts to exchange supplies with the survivor strongholds in the city.

However, in the northern suburbs, this problem is much easier to solve.

This place itself is a suburb, and there is a wilderness outside the city. The products produced in the factory can be directly loaded onto trucks and towed away.

"...Currently, my partners have obtained an order worth a total of two hundred thousand chips from farmers in the south. They need a large amount of nutritional paste to feed slaves and livestock, and our price and supply are beyond their ability. Rejected!

"The other party even expressed his willingness to come and pick up the goods. This will be a long-term deal!"

Chu Guang glanced at him in surprise.

"Can nutritional paste be fed to livestock?"

Ditwe had a confident smile on his face.

"Of course! Nutritional paste can be eaten by humans, of course it can be eaten by animals, and it is a very high-quality feed! Some farmers will mix it with green wheat and feed it to the two-headed cows. This kind of feed is A cow that eats straw and pasture will be much stronger than one that eats straw and pasture!”

good.

Chu Guang nodded, with a satisfied smile on his face.

I didn’t expect that nutritional cream has so many uses.

Even if the food processing factory is not operating well, cannot repay the loan, and eventually goes bankrupt and liquidates, he does not have to worry about losing money.

It was the same look on Ditwi's face.

Although he invested a huge sum of 300,000 chips at one time, he didn't feel bad at all because the money would be earned back soon.

The electricity price in the industrial area of ​​Vault 404 is the same as that in Boulder City. Taking all costs together, the cost of each ton of nutritional paste is only 200 to 208 silver coins.

According to the official exchange rate of 1 chip for 2 silver coins, it is equivalent to recharging 100 chips and you can get a ton of nutritional cream.

In Boulder City, even for Weijia Trading Company, the cost of producing one ton of nutritional paste is more than 200 chips!

Normally, the retail price of nutritional paste is between 1 and 2 chips per kilogram, while the wholesale price starts from one ton, ranging from 300 to 400 chips per ton.

what does that mean?

This means that his cost is only half of that of Weijia Trading Company!

The profit is more than three times theirs!

The huge bargaining space allows him to set the ex-factory price directly below the other party's cost line at will!

As for brand effect?

What kind of branding is needed for a nutritional paste that is fed to livestock?

The only requirements of buyers are that they can eat to death and be full. Even if a "extra large quantity" sign is put on it, it will not make the nutritional cream more popular.

No matter how Ditwei calculated it, this was a sure-fire deal.

And this is just the profit from the nutritional paste. The remaining waste from the production line can also be made into organic fertilizer or sold to the chemical factory next door.

Looking at the equipment that was constantly running in front of him and listening to the rumbling sound, Ditwe felt a surge of heart.

If the manager hadn't been standing nearby, he wouldn't have been able to help but shout cheers for the mother's nest that was desperately trying to give birth.

"Let the wave come harder!"

…

In fact, it doesn't matter even if Ditwe shouts out, Chu Guang is not so petty and will blame him for a few words.

Got rich.

It's normal to get excited.

However, no matter how much he earns, it is impossible to earn more than Chu Guang.

More than 70% of the production costs of Didiwe Food Processing Factory, whether it is water, electricity or raw material procurement fees, are paid directly to the shelter.

Not to mention that for every ton of goods produced, a 20% tax is paid to the shelter before sale.

And the wages paid to the workers, although not paid directly to the shelter, will eventually flow back to Chu Guang.

In this circular economic chain, it not only solves the problem of employment and supports the labor force, but also boosts residents' consumption power and generates more demand.

It’s hard to calculate how much Chu Guang won.

Anyway, it’s a win!

…

After inspecting the operation of the food processing plant, Chu Guang did not stay in the industrial area for too long, but went straight to the front line.

The fighting on the frontline has become increasingly fierce recently.

In the past week, Chu Guang's work focus has basically been on logistics.

Now that the problems of the plague and the fiscal deficit have been solved, he can finally focus all his energy on solving the problem of the wave with no worries.

Temporary command post.

Chu Guang summoned the frontline officers and staff and held a combat meeting.

Guard Captain Wrench first reported on the battle situation during this period.

Vanus, who then served as a staff officer, summarized the intelligence and expressed his views.

"...The stalemate has lasted for ten days. The wave's offensive shows no sign of weakening, while the loss of frontline ammunition and personnel is constantly increasing."

"There are various indications that our enemies have deployed incubators and even brood nests on the front line, and the location is in the area of ​​65th Street."

As he spoke, Vanus drew a red circle on the map with a pen, enclosing the area near the clock tower on 65th Street.

Although there is no direct evidence that the mother nest is there, according to the footage captured by the drone, the crawlers that infiltrate into the player's side positions basically spread from here.

Chu Guang frowned slightly.

"In other words, the alien species we faced recently were not the wave that came from the city center? But they were hatched nearby?"

Vanus shook his head.

"It's hard to say, but their delay in launching a full-scale offensive is quite suspicious, and it's hard not to think of something bad."

Wrench suddenly spoke.

"I don't know if it's right to say this, but these alien species always give me a feeling... as if they are preparing something."

After several days of testing, these alien species have become familiar with the players' defense strategies, but they still continue to send the gnawers up.

If it weren't for lack of IQ...

Vanus frowned.

"Are they stalling for time?"

Wrench nodded.

"I also believe so."

Chu Guang stared at the map and thought for a long time before speaking.

"The frontline position has been stabilized, and we have accumulated enough ammunition and equipment in the ammunition depot on the edge of the Fifth Ring Road. Now is the best window period for counterattack."

As he spoke, Chu Guang glanced at the officers and staff around him.

"Whatever they're preparing for."

"Let's get rid of this problem once and for all before they're ready!"