Chapter 160 This is probably the most expensive AK in the world
“MMP!”
The alloy door panel shook for a while. Looking at the things lying on the conveyor belt, Chu Guang couldn't help but curse.
Out of 33 primary blind boxes, 22 lollipops were actually opened, which almost made his nose crooked with anger.
Fortunately, half of these lollipops can be buffed, and his young players will probably spend money to buy them. They will lose money but not completely.
In addition, there are 3 cans, 2 barrels of instant noodles, 1 pack of compressed biscuits and other food reserves, and 2 bottles of soy sauce and 2 bottles of vinegar.
To be honest, since the Pioneer came here, Chu Guang has not been that interested in the food taken out of the blind box.
Do I still need to eat canned food?
: With a bunch of sleazy gamers — why not just tell me what you want to eat.
The only thing that made his eyes light up was the palm-sized, vacuumed transparent packaging bag placed at the end.
It looks like it contains seeds?
“What the hell is this?”
Chu Guang picked up the bag of seeds and looked at it curiously for a while when a light blue label floated out from the side.
[β-712 cotton seeds: As the name suggests, these seeds can grow cotton. After genetic engineering design, this variety has a larger yield per plant and a shorter growth cycle. Traditional soil planting cannot highlight the advantages of genetic improvement. It is recommended to use soilless cultivation.
Technology is concentrated on planting to ensure the purity of seeds.】
Well, it turns out to be cotton seeds.
Although it is questionable whether this thing can be regarded as food, these cotton seeds are still very useful for Vault 404.
I heard that cotton can be harvested once a year and it takes several months to mature.
Not knowing how long it would take for the seeds drawn from the blind box to mature, Chu Guang planned to find a young player who loved farming and throw the seeds to him to try.
Although the outpost now has devil's silk, cotton still has its irreplaceable role in terms of warmth and economy.
Especially, the output of cotton is large enough, the output is stable, and it has a wide range of uses. It can be used for both weaving and filling.
In the absence of large-scale preparation of man-made fibers, cotton can at least solve some of the players' clothing needs.
After all, the number of blue jackets is limited, and players cannot always wear them.
For example, when hunting or going out on missions, most players will also change their clothes while changing their equipment.
“Speaking of which, I don’t know if this intermediate blind box can produce living creatures.”
Having opened so many cans of pork, it would be great if a pig could be opened sometime.
If that doesn’t work, chickens and ducks will do.
Milk is occasionally drunk. Chu Guang has not eaten eggs for a long time.
Excluding bird eggs.
…
Around 5 p.m.
The Marines led by Lu Yan returned from the south and arrived at the outpost almost at the same time as the two light trucks escorting the machine tools.
At the same time, the good news that "the fuel rods have been found" also arrived.
Lu Yang, who was wearing power armor, walked up to Chu Guang, tapped his index finger on the side of his helmet, lifted his mask, and said with a hearty smile.
“…Thanks to the guide you recommended to us, we finally found the fuel rods we needed. The energy is still 93%, which is quite impressive and will last for a long time!”
To be honest, this may be good news for the Pioneer, but for Chu Guang, it is not something to be happy about.
After all, for the current Vault 404, the Pioneer is like a big leg. In theory, the longer they stay, the more beneficial it is to them.
However, looking at the hearty smile on Captain Lu’s face, Chu Guang was still sincerely happy for him.
“Congratulations! After searching for so long, I finally found it.”
“Yeah, it’s really not easy.” Lu Yang said with emotion on his face and a complex tone, “We thought we could find it in two or three days quickly, but we didn’t expect it to take so long.”
In fact, about three days ago, they had found a carbon dioxide trap from the pre-war era on the 25th floor of a hotel.
Regrettably, however, after they worked hard to capture the target, they discovered that it had been conquered many years ago.
Not only were the fuel rods that should have been inserted into the generator empty, but even the recyclable materials inside had been looted.
There are various indications that a group of survivors once lived there between 0 and 10 years of the Wasteland Era. They stayed in the hotel for a short time and spent a difficult time using the glucose, starch and other resources produced by the carbon dioxide trap.
time.
After the carbon dioxide trap stopped working because the carbon dioxide concentration dropped to the threshold, they unplugged the fuel rods of the backup generator to power the hotel facilities, and finally left after the fuel rods were completely exhausted, with their lives and deaths unknown.
This is also a normal thing.
After all, it is already the year 211 of the Wasteland Era, and the garbage they can pick up is nothing more than the leftovers picked by others, the ones missed, or the ones whose strength and conditions did not allow them to pick up at that time.
Surviving in this world requires a little bit of luck.
How much more to pick up rubbish?
Chu Guang: “Are you leaving?”
Lu Yang nodded and said.
“Well, we have been here for half a month. Now the damaged equipment has been repaired, the fuel rods have been found, and the resource inventory is full... It’s time to get back on the road.”
There is no such thing as a banquet that lasts forever. The Pioneers traveled such a long distance not to help the poor. They have a more important mission to complete.
With nuclear fuel and sufficient resources, this journey is expected to go very far.
If the situation is optimistic, there should be no need to stop in the second half of the journey.
Hearing the expected answer, Chu Guang sighed softly.
“Although it’s only for a short period of time, I still can’t bear to leave you.”
"Me too," Lu Yang said sincerely, looking at Chu Guang, "I have learned a lot from you, including your noble qualities, which shocked me even more."
“Let’s go to each other!” Chu Guang said with a smile, “Your skills are equally impressive to us! Let’s save the farewell until the day you set off. This is a day worth celebrating, so don’t let the atmosphere be so sad.”
Lu Yang also smiled.
“By the way, the carbon dioxide trap we found has a lot of interesting things left in it. I will send you the coordinates in a moment. If you are interested, you can go and recycle it.”
Chu Guang asked subconsciously.
“What’s in there?”
Lu Yang smiled mysteriously and did not answer him directly.
“If I told you, wouldn’t it be less fun to open the box?”
Looking at Captain Lu who was cheating, Chu Guang had a helpless expression on his face.
Is it another blind box?
He has opened quite a lot of blind boxes today.
However, although Captain Lu did not say what was there, Chu Guang still guessed a lot of information from his mysterious smile.
There should be a lot of good things placed there.
This guy probably wanted to give him a surprise.
“Okay, I’ll take two people over to take a look at it early tomorrow morning.”
…
The Pioneer will depart within three days.
After exchanging pleasantries with Chu Guang, Captain Lu took the Marine Corps members back on the road and escorted the fuel rods back towards the Pioneer.
Old Luca, who had been waiting for a long time, saw that the manager had finished his work, so he came from the direction of the truck, looked at him and said respectfully.
“Sir, your goods have been delivered. Where do you want to unload them?”
Chu Guang glanced around, and finally landed on the main building of the sanatorium. After several renovations, the quality of the rooms was still quite good.
At least it is much better than the newly built brick houses outside.
“Just put it on the first floor of the nursing home. Find a larger room to put it in. I’ll go over and take a look later.”
Old Luca nodded respectfully.
“Yes, sir.”
Machine tools are large and heavy.
Out of caution, Old Luca first asked the players in the carpentry hut to make several unloading brackets, and arranged for four strength players to successfully unload it from the truck.
Another incident happened here.
Since the machine tool had already been assembled when it was delivered, the whole machine could not pass through the door of the sanatorium. Chu Guang had no choice but to choose a room near the outside and had half of the wall demolished to carry the machine tool in.
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The silver metallic paint surface, the boxy, and angular shell looks like a large freezer from a distance. However, its internal structure is far from as simple as it seems on the surface. It can be said that it is unique.
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Chu Guang glanced at the manual briefly.
The processing chamber has a volume of 1.5 cubic meters and can process materials up to 1X1X1m.
Due to the particularity of magnetically confined plasma processing, the device has very high requirements for the processing environment and requires a near-vacuum environment. Therefore, after the device is sent into the feed port, it will first enter the buffer chamber between the two air locks for injection protection.
The gas is evacuated to a near vacuum and then sent into the processing chamber.
The operation process is quite rigorous and even cumbersome.
However, relatively speaking, this device has no requirements for the environment in which it is located. It can be used as long as it is plugged in. There is no need for Chu Guang to set up a dust-free workshop to serve it.
Looking at the high-tech machine tool behind the broken arm, Chu Guang couldn't help but let Xiao Qi take a photo of it.
This is a wasteland!
The device is deployed and then powered on.
Chu Guang carefully checked the rated power of the device. When he saw the unit clearly, he wondered if he had seen it wrong.
“Megawatt?! Damn it… does it consume so much electricity?”
According to the information Chu Guang found on the Internet, the power consumption of general machine tools is only KW level.
However, such a device that covers an area of less than 3 square meters actually consumes MW power!
But after thinking about it, Chu Guang felt relieved.
After all, this thing operates plasmas with hundreds of millions of degrees. It not only needs to generate magnetic fields to constrain them, but also accurately arranges them into single-atom knives that can cut materials.
Such a terrifying control power, let alone making machine tools, is enough to ignite a fusion reactor. If you think about it this way, the power does not reach the GW level, but it can be regarded as relatively energy-saving.
Chu Guang even suspected that if this thing was slightly modified and the working gas was replaced by helium or hydrogen isotopes, it might actually be used as a nuclear reactor.
It’s just that if you use it that way, it’s more or less like burning the harp and boiling the crane...
In short, fortunately Captain Lu gave him two cold fusion batteries before.
Otherwise, the 10kw wood generator he bought from Liszt before, combined with the ones seized from the old leech, would not be able to drive this power-hungry machine.
Chu Guang fumbled around for a while and found the emergency power socket near the wiring port, which could just fit in a general-purpose cold fusion battery.
Power on.
The signal light is on!
Looking at the touch screen that gradually lit up in front of him, Chu Guang touched his chin with interest and looked at it carefully.
“Speaking of which, what is this thing used for?”
There seems to be a manual on the screen.
Just when Chu Guang was about to open it and take a look, Xiao Qi’s voice suddenly came from upstairs.
“Master, if you don’t know how to use it, Xiaoqi can help you.”
Hearing the sound coming from the third floor, Chu Guang was surprised, walked outside and raised his head and asked.
“Would you still use this?”
Xiaoqi: "Theoretically it shouldn't be difficult. This kind of machine tool has a high degree of automation. You only need to fill in the preset processing parameters and then put in the materials. You don't have to worry about the rest. I believe that if the owner reads the instructions
Once it’s done, you can definitely operate it, Xiaoqi just helped you simplify the process... Speaking of master, can you take Xiaoqi over for a look first?"
“Wait a minute, I’ll go back to the shelter to search for some blueprints, and you can try to process them for me!”
After saying that, Chu Guang turned around and returned to the shelter without waiting for Xiao Qi to speak.
Occasionally there will be some big guys on the official website forum who will throw some drawings that they got from nowhere in the discussion area and argue with other people.
Some classic firearms such as AK, Mosin Nagant, Ka, SKS, Type 56, etc., have everything from GIF animations of the internal structure to professional drawings with parts dimensions. Although Chu Guang did not refine it after reading it,
All were preserved silently.
Intuition told him that there would definitely be a chance to use these things.
And now, this opportunity has indeed come.
Choosing a handful of AK47 design drawings, Chu Guang then went to the warehouse to pick up a few steel ingots of suitable size and shape.
Although the quality of the steel produced by the No. 81 Steel Plant is very average, these steel ingots are all stockpiles looted from a private shelter by the cattle and horse team.
Perfect for processing gun barrels and receivers!
The gate is closed, and as the material is input from the feed port into the buffer chamber, the CNC machine tool starts to work.
In the face of hot plasma, solid steel is like a piece of mud, easily torn into pieces.
Chu Guang was surprised to find that this equipment can not only process multiple geometric surfaces of the same part, but can also form 8 plasma blades through pre-programmed design to perform cutting of different depths from multiple angles, and even
It is to cut multiple parts of different sizes and geometric shapes from the same piece of material, minimizing the remaining scraps!
Since AK rifles do not require high precision of parts, the processing time is not too long.
Excluding the time for the machine to start up, Chu Guang waited for about ten or twenty minutes before all the processing procedures were completed.
The finished parts and the cut waste materials are sent out from the discharge port together and placed separately.
Although it is processed by plasma with hundreds of millions of degrees, because there is very little working fluid used for cutting, the temperature of the workpiece being processed does not actually rise much, only forty or fifty degrees, which minimizes the temperature change.
resulting in machining accuracy errors.
According to the description in the manual, if the accuracy of the parts is required to be at the nanometer level, the temperature of the finished workpiece can even be made exactly the same as when it is fed into the feed port.
It’s just that the time consumed will also increase exponentially.
Chu Guang assembled the parts according to the drawings, and soon got an AK-47 without a wooden stock or handguard.
Taking into account the power consumption, materials and hidden costs converted into technology, this is probably the most expensive AK in the world.
Xiaoqi: "Master."
Chu Guang, who was so excited, had no time to pay attention to it and made a casual remark.
"What's wrong?"
Xiaoqi: "Xiaoqi always feels...this machine tool doesn't seem to be used to produce such rough things."
Chu Guang said without hesitation: "I know, I just want to try to see if this thing works."
If you can make a gun, you can also make the tools to produce the gun.
When the entire production line is reproduced, all his players will not be able to take it into their own hands?
At that time, when the production capacity of steel is increased, the production capacity of rifles will also increase, and everyone will be good brothers with 50 yuan. No, I should say mobilization soldiers with 100 yuan.
One life every three days, one gun every day, the "BUG" that the weapon store could not replenish in time has been completely fixed, and you no longer have to worry about guns being more expensive than people!
Playing with the AK in his hand, Chu Guang looked at it from left to right, with an excited expression on his face.
It’s a pity that there are no matching bullets.
Otherwise he really wanted to shoot twice.
If there is no problem with using it, just throw it in the warehouse and sell it as a limited edition skin. After all, it is a fantasy linkage with CF, so selling it for 500 silver coins is not too much, right?
Xiaoqi watched quietly from the side, not daring to speak.