Near the Fifth Ring Road Elevated Line, a team of six people braved the howling wind and slowly advanced along the cold and dead streets.
Originally, there were only five people planned for this trip.
At that time, in the central square of the outpost, Chu Guang brought four fully armed young players and was about to set off. However, before he could walk out of the south gate, Luo Hua caught up with him and said he wanted to go together.
As for the reason, it’s very simple——
"There may be many products of carbon dioxide traps. The captain asked me to go with you. Although the probability of large-scale storage of dangerous goods in urban areas is very small, he is still worried that you may be in danger due to improper operation."
Someone offered to help out of good intentions, and Chu Guang would certainly not refuse.
Although some of his players knew about chemical engineering, they did not recognize the characters of this world. He was literate, but could not understand professional symbols.
Blind boxes of chemical products are not to be opened randomly. It is always better to have a knowledgeable person follow you.
In this way, the six of them set out on the road together.
However, no one expected that a blizzard would suddenly fall on this sunny day just halfway through.
There are more and more days like this lately.
Chu Guang estimated that when November comes, the weather in this wasteland will probably be even more exaggerated, and the days will become more difficult day by day.
The progress on the greenhouse ruins needs to be accelerated!
Lao Bai, who was walking at the front of the team, raised his head and looked at the sudden rapid snowfall, and couldn't help but squint his eyes.
"The last time I saw such heavy snow was in Harbin."
"I'm watching the TV," he said, holding the Dawn Square in his hand, his eyes wandering on both sides of the street in warning, "but compared to the snow, I'm more worried about something suddenly jumping out from the side."
Lao Bai sighed softly: "To be honest, I miss Ye Shi a little. Without his sensory attributes, I always feel that something is missing."
"Plus one, our team is missing an eye." Guangfeng held a short spear in his right hand and scanned the streets on both sides. His nervous look was even more exaggerated than a square.
I have no choice but to be careful.
Their equipment is now more expensive than the other, and if they are accidentally wiped out in a wave, it will be like sleeping back to before liberation.
This steel right hand is so awesome that Guang Feng is reluctant to wash his hands now.
After listening to what these guys were talking about, Bian Piao Shui shouted dissatisfied: "Geez! Am I not enough? I am also a Perception System, and I almost reached level 7, okay!"
Kuangfeng: "You're still a little old boy, more or less."
Fang Chang: "Indeed, I'm already at level 8, the wind is getting faster, and Lao Bai is about to reach level 9. Brother, you have to work hard."
Edge stroke: "@#%!"
Walking next to Chu Guang, Luo Hua, who had no idea what the shelter residents were saying, couldn't help but sigh softly.
"I always thought that only indigenous people can speak languages that are incomprehensible..."
Only halfway through his words, he suddenly realized that there seemed to be something wrong with his statement, so he quickly added an explanation.
"Well, I don't mean to offend, I just find it strange. Because the residents of the shelter generally speak standard Renlian and rarely even use an accent."
Chu Guang smiled faintly and didn't care.
"It's okay. I feel weird just like you. Why?"
For problems that you don't know how to explain, just throw them back as they are. This is a trick that Chu Guang has tried repeatedly.
Instead of making up an excuse that is full of loopholes and making others think that you are not sincere and have something to hide, it is better to express the same confusion as the other person, and the other person may stand in your position and help you consider the reasons.
Why is the sky blue?
Yes, why, the editor is also very curious, what do you think?
Luo Hua did not ask further questions. He had seen too many strange things along the way, and this trivial thing was not surprising at all.
The group of people arrived at their destination quickly.
It was an abandoned office building, and just looking at it from the outside, it was hard to tell what it was used for in the pre-war era.
Perhaps it is precisely because of its humble appearance that it has been forgotten until now after two centuries of repeated searches.
According to the map given by Captain Lu, the group moved along the edge of the hall, entered the safe passage, went up the stairs, and soon reached the target floor.
The corridor was covered with dark green slime mold, and the necrotic parts of it had turned dark brown. Dozens of alien corpses lay crookedly on the ground.
The alien species here have been cleared, and no new alien species have wandered in for the time being.
"Holy shit... what the hell is this?" He squatted next to a three-meter-tall humanoid alien and poked it with the bayonet of his rifle.
The dark skin was so stiff that the bayonet felt like it was on the tire of a heavy truck, unable to penetrate at all.
Is this thing really a carbon-based organism?
"Tyrant." Chu Guang glanced at the alien species on the ground and frowned slightly, "There is such a monster on the Fifth Ring Road."
"Master Manager, is that tyrant difficult to deal with?" Fang Chang looked at him and asked.
"It's not easy to deal with," Chu Guang thought for a while and said, "If we encounter them in this kind of terrain, a team like yours can probably kill two of them."
In fact, he has never seen it.
But there's nothing wrong with blowing it to death.
Fang Chang swallowed, and Guangfeng shrank his neck. Lao Bai and Bian Piao didn't feel much at all. Their equipment was only at the level of a blank slate.
If you die, you will die.
After bypassing the tyrant's body, Chu Guang led a group of people through the alloy door that said "No entry for idlers and others" and came to the inside of the carbon dioxide trap.
The space here is very large, occupying almost half of the entire floor, and opens up the space on the upper floor.
The carbon dioxide produced throughout the building is sent here through the central ventilation system, where it is decomposed into graphite and oxygen as needed, or added with hydrogen, or the oxygen is replaced with hydrogen.
For people of that era, atoms were like toys in their hands, with almost endless energy enough for them to squander and transform nature's creation into what they needed.
The produced products are packed in boxes made of special materials and stacked next to a dedicated freight elevator, waiting for staff who will never come to transport them away.
Looking at the hundreds of large and small cubes piled up in the room, Chu Guang roughly estimated that there were about three to four hundred cubes.
He couldn't help but ask.
"Have you, captain, never been curious about what's in those boxes?"
"There's no need to be curious. As long as we have enough energy, we can make things related to carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. At most, it's a matter of cost... For example, these rows of black boxes look like graphite. It seems you are out of luck.
How good."
Luo Hua chuckled and walked to another row of boxes.
Shining a flashlight on it, he read the text on it and continued to comment with interest, "This is okay, it's a pile of polymer fibers... the label is X-4."
"X-4?"
"A number. After all, their spatial structures are complex and bizarre. We can't express them with chemical formulas." After a pause, Luo Hua continued, "By the way, although its main use is to make clothes, if you have
If necessary, you can also use it to replace the wood fiber in smokeless gunpowder, and the explosion speed and power can be increased by at least 20%...that's what we did."
It is much easier to understand in this way.
In game terms, it is - [Rifle ammunition power +20%, probability of explosion +?]
Chu Guang silently wrote down its purpose and glanced at the number of similar boxes. There were about forty or fifty.
It is estimated to be less than twenty or thirty tons.
It looks like it will last a long time.
At this moment, Luo Hua, who was walking in front, suddenly let out an exclamation.
"Holy shit?!"
Chu Guang, who was interrupted from his thoughts, raised his head and immediately walked to his side. Four young players who thought they had triggered the plot also gathered around him and leaned their heads curiously.
"What happened?" Chu Guang asked for them.
"Dirat Rubber!"
Looking at the unattractive gray box in front of him, Luo Hua took a deep breath, with an unbelievable look on his face, and muttered with envy in his eyes.
"How could this thing appear here?! It's so abnormal!"
Chu Guang: "Is there any problem?"
"Of course! The products of the carbon dioxide trap are mainly determined by the industrial needs of the area. Generally, starch, graphite, and polymer fibers are more common. Close to industrial areas, olefins, alkanes, and even benzaldehydes and ketones may appear. But Di
Latte Rubber... I have only seen it near the Aerospace Industrial Park. By the way, is there an aerospace industry in Qingquan City?"
Taking a deep breath, Luo Hua concluded.
"In a word, you are rich!"
Dilat rubber is a composite nanomaterial formed by chemical bonding of organic components and inorganic components at the molecular level.
Yes, it is not a pure organic component. It cannot be synthesized simply by relying on carbon dioxide and water. Other substances must be input into the reaction system. It can be sold for a lot of money even in Ideal City.
That's why Luo Hua was so surprised.
In an oxygen-free environment, its molecular structure is folded and arranged, and macroscopically it exists in the form of a colloidal liquid. Once it encounters oxygen and is under normal temperature conditions, it will transform into a solid state in a short period of time, and its molecular structure will also change at the same time.
Changes occur, taking on a crystal-like form.
It's like cement that has undergone a hydration reaction.
This process is usually irreversible due to changes in molecular components.
This material has excellent wear resistance, acid and alkali resistance, and has almost metal-like resistance to high temperatures. It is not as easy to age as traditional rubber, and is extremely rare among traditional polymers. That is why
, it is usually used as aerospace materials.
Chu Guang: "Can you produce it?"
The expression on Luo Hua's face was slightly embarrassing. After all, he had just pretended to be cool, but he was slapped in the face in less than two minutes.
He coughed slightly and tried to explain.
"...It is not a carbon hydroxide compound in the strict sense! It also contains many inorganic components, which is equivalent to an organic/inorganic hybrid polymer."
Chu Guang nodded thoughtfully and tried to translate the words he didn't understand.
So it probably cannot be produced.
"A conservative estimate, there are about fifty tons here..." Luo Hua looked at the situation in the warehouse with envy and said with emotion, "You must not let our section chief know."
"Why."
"I'm worried about his insomnia."
"..."
Is it such an exaggeration?
Chu Guang felt that if Li De wanted it, he wouldn't be so stingy as not to give it to him at all.
It’s just that the journey from here to the action camp is so long, and the goods have to be moved downstairs...
Isn’t it excessive to charge a shipping fee?
In short, according to Luo Hua's introduction, Dilat rubber has a wide range of uses and is of high value. Chu Guang tried to understand that its status in the rubber industry is probably similar to perfluoroether rubber in the early 21st century?
And there is no such thing as "difficult to process".
Before it encounters oxygen, it can be kneaded like glue. There is no rubber material easier to handle than it.
By the way, due to its good sealing performance, it is widely used in aerospace, nano-devices, bionic engineering, mechanical seals and other industries.
For example, the power armor produced before the war used this material!
Of course, its use is not limited to this. Rubber is used in many industrial production equipment. If it can be replaced with Dilat rubber, maintenance costs will be greatly reduced and production efficiency will be greatly improved.
With these goodies, the industrial area of the outpost won't have to worry about rubber for a while.
Of course, with so many boxes, it is impossible for just six people to move them back.
As a result, Chu Guang immediately updated a courier delivery task on the VM——
[Task: Move the goods at the designated location back to the outpost (Strength system recommended)]
[Reward: 10 silver coins per box, 10 contribution]
Now that there is less and less work in the action camp, Chu Guang has to find something for these energetic little players to do...
…
After returning to the outpost, Luo Hua returned to the office and packed his luggage with his partner Aisi.
The Pioneer will set off the day after tomorrow, and their work here is over. A car will pick them up before evening.
Thinking that this drinking buddy he had just become familiar with was about to leave, Chu Guang couldn't help but feel a little sad, so he returned to the shelter, selected a bottle of gold-plated red wine from Old Leech's collection, and took it with him for temporary work
at.
"Thank you for taking this time. I don't have anything good to give you here." Putting the red wine into Luo Hua's hand, Chu Guang looked at him sincerely and said, "Just think of this bottle of wine as a farewell gift.
Remember not to drink while working."
"Thank you, your friendship is the most precious gift to me!" Luo Hua took the red wine from Chu Guang's hand with a moved expression. Luo Hua rummaged in his pocket for a while, with an embarrassed look on his face, "... Damn it, I
Totally unprepared.”
His pocket is cleaner than his face.
There were obviously a few bills coming before...
"It's okay, your friendship is equally precious to me," Chu Guang said with a smile, "When your Journey to the West is finished, just send me a copy."
"That's necessary! But it's different. I have to give you something..." Luo Hua thought hard for a while, and suddenly his eyes lit up, "Yes! Let me write a letter for you."
Chu Guang gave him a strange look.
"write a letter?"
Luo Hua nodded immediately and said excitedly.
"Yes, I have a drinking buddy on the East Coast. Although his drinking capacity is not as good as mine, he is still pretty good! Of course, he is not just a drinker, he is also an engineer... Although I forgot that the thing he studied is called
What, but I always hear him complain that life in the ideal city is too boring, and envy the lucky ones like us who can embark on a journey for the future of human civilization."
"When I get back to the Pioneer, I will write a letter and send it to him, recommending him to come to you!"
Chu Guang always felt that this guy was a little naive.
That kind of complaint is not a complaint, it is obviously Versailles, right?
But out of politeness, he smiled and nodded.
"Then I'm looking forward to your good news."
Luo Hua grinned, patted his chest and said.
"Don't worry! I'm very reliable!"
Aisi, who had already packed her luggage next to her, glanced at this guy.
If Chu Guang saw it correctly, it should be a roll of the eyes...