Chapter 302 This is obviously not something humans do.
If he hadn't been sure that he didn't take the wrong map, Wu Lun would have almost thought that he had gone to the wrong place.
He was silent for a while and said in an uncertain tone.
"...This is Xizhou?"
"It should be." Dimit nodded, squinting his eyes and looking into the distance, "The southern suburbs of Xizhou City should have been called Qingshi County before the war."
The county town is surrounded by mountains on the east and west sides and is located under the ridge. It is surrounded by dense vegetation and trees.
There are no high-rise buildings here, only gardens, townhouses and villas. It can be seen that the people who lived here before the war were very pursuing the quality of life.
There is a highway and a maglev station to the east, connecting Xizhou and Qingquan, but now these infrastructures have long been turned into a pile of concrete garbage and debris by wild vegetation...
In the prosperous era with convenient transportation, this was just an inconspicuous small county town, but now it has become the southern gate of Xizhou City.
Obviously, the Ya clan stationed in Xizhou City are also aware of this. If they can't deal with their neighbors to the south, they must at least take care of their own front teeth.
Looking through the telescope, Wu Lun noticed that there were quite a few raiders stationed here, at least one or two thousand-man troops.
Not only that, they also reinforced the position.
Semi-collapsed townhouses and villas have been sealed with wood and aluminum panels. Concrete buildings with more than three floors have been transformed into bunkers and blockhouses. The streets are filled with barricades made of concrete stones and wooden piles. Everywhere
The windows seemed to be hiding sentries, either bright or dark.
The entire town has been transformed into a fortress.
I didn't expect this group of rabble to be capable of this.
Dimit couldn't help but glance at them.
"How do we contact them?"
"use this."
Wu Lunyan answered briefly and concisely, took out the signal gun and fired a shot into the sky.
The red signal flare goes up.
Not long after, dozens of figures appeared in front of them.
These people wore animal skin suits, and many were even bare-chested, looking uncivilized. However, in their hands, without exception, they held the sharp weapons of civilized people, automatic or bolt-action rifles.
Watching this group of soldiers wearing jet-black exoskeletons with vigilance, the leader of the group, the captain of ten, stared at Uulun who was walking at the front, and asked cautiously.
"Who are you?"
The helmet's eyepiece faced him, and Wu Lun took out the iron plate that proved his identity, shook it, and answered expressionlessly.
"torch."
torch?
The looters following the ten-capion made a commotion, with expressions of surprise on their faces and whispers to each other in low voices.
The captain's face was also full of surprise, but it soon turned into ecstasy.
"Please come with me!"
After the two groups of people met, the group continued on the road.
The tenth captain led the way, and soon led Uulun, Dimit and his entourage through the checkpoint at the entrance of the county town.
However, after entering the fortress, Dimit immediately retracted his previous evaluation of these "allies".
The sanitary conditions here are extremely poor, it's like a garbage dump.
The street was filled with the stench of decay, corpses and excrement were dumped randomly on the street, and rats as big as fists shuttled freely through the street, as if they considered this place their home.
Dimit lowered his voice and whispered in the communication channel.
"There may be an outbreak of plague here."
Wu Lun's eyes wandered down the street and he softly replied.
"That's a no-brainer."
Sensing Wu Lun's gaze lingering in the corner, the captain who led the way smiled flatteringly.
"Don't worry, it's just a few mice... we'll be there soon."
The headquarters of the Ya clan is located in the Qingshi Department Store Center on the west side of the county. The five-story cylindrical building looks outstanding in the entire county.
In terms of concealment alone, it is definitely not a good idea to use this place as a headquarters. However, the exterior walls of this building use a large number of steel structures, and there are also two floors of underground commercial areas and garages that go directly to the surface. From a defensive perspective,
In fact, here is the most suitable choice.
On the first floor of the department store, Ulen and Dimit met the supreme commander here, Lion Tooth.
"Welcome! Friends who have come from afar! I am Lion Tooth, the captain of the Ya clan. You can regard this place as your own home."
Lion Tooth came up to him with an overjoyed expression, and opened his arms to give his ally a hug. However, seeing that the other party was indifferent, he changed the conversation to a handshake.
Wu Lun reached out and shook his hand.
"Wulun, the apostle of the Holy Son."
"I wish the old man Shengzi good health, and please say hello to him for me..." Sensing a trace of evil in the eyes of the man in front of him, Shiya quickly stopped his lame greetings and quickly ended the topic with a slight cough, "Then, Lord Apostle,
May I ask why you have come all the way here?"
Without caring about his offense, now is not the time to make extraneous matters, Wu Lun said concisely and concisely.
"The blue coats in the northern suburbs of Qingquan City took away our things. I need you to help us get them back."
"Took...your things? From the Death Coast? That's really far away." Lion Tooth looked at him confused and continued, "Can I ask what it is?"
"A box and a set of power armor. What we need is the former. As for the latter, you can take it."
Powered armor!
Greed flashed in Lion Tooth's eyes for a moment, but he soon calmed down.
"They have power armor?"
"Yes," seeing the hesitation in the predator's eyes, Wu Lun continued, "Don't worry, that set of powered armor has no shield, which means it is a living target with stronger defense. If it appears on the battlefield,
Come on, just leave it to us to deal with it."
After hearing this, Shiya finally breathed a sigh of relief, with a comfortable smile on his face.
"That's great, my friend. Although we caught a few monsters and brown bears with the equipment you provided, when it comes to power armor... I'm really not sure."
"It's not the power armor you have to worry about, it's the fact that these blue jackets have planes."
"airplane?!"
Those blue jackets have planes?!
Did Boulder sell the plane to them?
Lion Tooth's eyes were full of surprise, and his face was full of disbelief.
impossible……
That thing is the same as power armor, but anything inherited from before the war will be a treasure in any survivor colony.
What's more, the people in Boulder City took over the equipment from the Post-War Reconstruction Committee.
"That's right." Looking at the surprised Lion Tooth, Wu Lun almost squeezed out the second half of the sentence through his teeth, "Although it is just a ridiculous propeller plane, there are two machine guns on it.
Be careful."
Lion Tooth looked confused.
He didn't know what a propeller plane was, but if these people weren't joking, the group of blue coats in the northern suburbs of Qingquan City might be more troublesome than he imagined.
"Thank you for the reminder. I will discuss countermeasures with my staff later...how to strengthen our defensive positions."
"Reinforce the defensive position? How do you want to strengthen it? It's almost turned into a turtle shell here," Dimitar, who was standing aside, looked at him in surprise, "Are you still planning to continue going south?"
"Of course we thought that this piece of fat had already reached our lips, but we did not expect that the situation in Xizhou City would be so difficult."
With a helpless expression on his face, Shiya continued.
"The survivors here are not our opponents, but they hid in the subway cunningly and relied on their familiarity with the terrain to fight guerrillas with us. In addition, there has been a plague outbreak here recently, and the rats are gnawing everywhere like crazy.
, we even have to put our shoes in the cupboard when we sleep now... we don’t have any extra energy to continue going south.”
Wu Lun's face looked a little ugly.
"How long will it take you to sort out these troubles?"
Lion Tooth said in an uncertain tone.
"It should be okay before this winter."
"It's too long!" Wu Lun shook his head, "We can't wait so long! Those blue coats are absorbing nearby refugees. When they gain a foothold in the local area, they will become more and more difficult to deal with! Concentrate all your efforts now
Eliminating them is your only chance, you can't wait until winter."
A trace of displeasure appeared on Lion Tooth's face.
After all, they are just allies, not superiors and subordinates. The reason why I respect them so much is because the missionaries of the Torch Church can control the alien species, and the monsters, brown bears and even death claws that charge into the battle help them deal with them.
A lot of tough opponents.
In exchange, the Bonechewer tribe allowed them to preach in their own territory, spreading their faith to raiders in the Vale Province and beyond.
However, this does not mean that I have to obey their orders.
Can’t wait until winter?
joke.
What do a group of refugees have to be afraid of?
He admitted that the combat effectiveness of the wolf coats was indeed not weak, but their numbers were limited after all.
In just a few months, the number of raiders who came to join them has doubled the size of the Ya clan.
When autumn comes, tens of thousands of their troops march together, and one person can drown those blue gophers with just a drop of spit!
"We have our own plan. I can't take my people to die just because you are looking for a broken box. Winter has just passed for a few months, and their wheat has only grown a handful of green seedlings. Let's kill it and eat it now.
What? Gnawing turf?”
"What's more, Black Snake has fallen into their hands. I can't deal with those people alone. If you are in a hurry, just go find our leader. Lord Jinya is in the city of Xizhou. He is the one I am stationed here."
Only he has the authority to command me!"
Negotiations failed.
Lion Tooth did not hesitate to reject the suggestion from the apostles of the Torch Church to go south immediately. He would continue to strengthen the defenses here and work with his staff to make the entire county impregnable.
But the commander also said that if he received the order from the leader, he would send a team of 100 people to support them.
A team of 100 men...
Wu Lun just smiled after hearing this suggestion.
What can a hundred savages do?
These people are just cannon fodder on the battlefield, and they don't seem to have this awareness at all.
However, after understanding that these people were stopped because of the orders in their hands, Wu Lun knew that he might have to meet their leader to convince them to continue going south.
After coming out of the department store center, Dimit glanced at his teammates.
"Shall we go to the city now?"
"Well," Wu Lun nodded and made a vague stroke with his index finger in the air, "It's only about thirty kilometers from here to Xizhou. We're going along the corridor under the ridge... If we hurry, we should be able to arrive before tomorrow evening.
"
He raised his foot and crushed a mouse that had sneaked up to his feet. Wu Lun rubbed the sole of his shoe in disgust, his brows knitted into a ball.
These damn rats...
Where did it come from?
…
Where did these rats come from?
Even if you force someone to do something difficult, you will still be confused.
He acknowledged that he might have been a slight catalyst, but that was about it.
To be fair, there are already a lot of rats and cockroaches in the wasteland, and any corner where dirt and evil practices hide can become a breeding ground for them.
Those undisposed corpses and insufficient numbers of natural enemies were the root causes of the plague.
Compared to mutated cockroaches, although mammal mice are slightly inferior in reproductive capacity, they have the upper hand in terms of IQ and combat effectiveness, and they soon became the real masters of Xizhou City.
They move in groups and bite everything they encounter, whether on the surface or underground. There is nothing that predators or survivors can do against them.
It's not that I have tried to restrain my subordinates and improve the discipline of the team, but I found that what I thought was totally unworkable.
First of all, the language is different.
Secondly, rats are cunning by nature and have no loyalty at all.
Even the younger brothers who were subdued by him did not always obey his orders, and it was common for them to obey the orders of others.
The wood-burning generator whirred, and the threads next to it had been repaired several times.
These damn rats always gnawed on the ends of wires while he was sleeping, and even electrocuted several of them without learning a lesson. Fortunately, the radio station and the dormant warehouse were not damaged by gnawing, otherwise it would be called blood loss.
The most loyal ones are the female rats.
After obtaining enough food and living space through "artificial intervention" that was difficult for others to do, the rats lined up to reproduce and frantically expanded the size of the population.
谷/span>It’s just that their affectionate eyes make it a bit scary to force others to do something difficult.
Thank God!
It doesn't have that stuff yet.
This was the first time that he had the idea that it would be a good idea not to carry a handle...
"Respected, respected administrator... the plague in Xizhou City is really not my fault!"
The lair under the ruins.
The strong man standing next to the radio station shivered nervously after hearing the manager's question.
Although he had been reporting the situation in Xizhou City to the rear, he selectively concealed the plague, whether on the forum or on the phone.
He is not afraid of other NPCs, but managers are managers after all.
This guy has GM authority over settings and can take physical punishment for illegal gaming behavior.
Who the hell is not panicking?
And who knows what kind of punishment logic AI has.
Aguang has emphasized to them more than once on the forum that there are many problems with the server in the closed beta stage. If the GM cancels the closed beta qualification, there is no manual appeal and unblocking channel. The reclaimed closed beta qualification will be inherited by new players.
A serious voice came from the other end of the phone.
"I don't mean to blame you, I just hope you will truthfully explain the situation there."
It is difficult for a strong person to know that he could no longer hide it. After hesitating for a while, he finally chose to confess honestly and tell everything he had concealed before.
After listening to the description that was difficult for a strong person to describe vividly, Chu Guang felt dumbfounded for a while.
This guy is so damn talented that he can even think of artificial breeding.
No, I should say he is a rat.
After all, it's not something humans do.
"...Mr. Manager?" Seeing that there was no voice on the other end of the phone, I felt even more uneasy about forcing someone to do something difficult.
"...Ahem, it's nothing. I'm just a little surprised. Let me think for a while."
Time passes minute by minute.
To force someone to do something difficult, every second seems like a year.
Finally, the manager on the other end of the phone spoke again.
"...You did a good job. The plague slowed down the Ya clan's march south and bought us valuable development time. But on the other hand, you really failed to restrain your men. The plague indiscriminately affected the local survivors.
The resistance movement had a serious impact.”
The strong man said with a frustrated look.
"You really can't blame me. I tried to make appointments with them, and they all listened to me on the surface... but they did one thing in front of me and another behind their backs."
"I know, so I don't blame you, but I can't publicly commend you," Chu Guang paused and continued, "The new alliance will remember your contribution, but it will not recognize your credit. We
You will be rewarded in other ways, do you understand what I mean?"
Huh.
It scared me to death.
That's it.
He breathed a sigh of relief.
It doesn't matter whether he expresses praise or not, since he can't understand what the NPC is saying anyway, it won't affect the mission rewards, nor will it affect his pretentiousness on the forum.
And it sounds like I triggered a hidden mission?
Not only did Qiangren not feel disappointed, but he became excited and swore in an excited voice.
"Don't worry, dear manager, I will keep secret what I have done! There must be shadows under the light, and I am willing to be the sharp blade under your cloak! Clear away all the obstacles that stand in our way for you!"
Chu Guang's embarrassed toes almost dug through the ground.
But in order to take care of the players' gaming experience, he finally held back, cooperated with this guy's performance, and finished the plot seriously.
"... I'm glad you think so. From now on, I need you to find out the intelligence on our way forward, and mark the opponent's ammunition depot, firepower point, command post, garrison post, as well as secret passages and trenches on the map as much as possible.
Cooperate with our ground forces and air forces to eliminate the looters entrenched in the local area."
"Can these things be done?"
He said excitedly, "Don't worry, leave it to me! I can still do this little thing!"
"Well, I'm looking forward to your good news!" After explaining these things, Chu Guang hurriedly hung up the phone.
Communication ends.
The strong man breathed a sigh of relief, and his originally frowning face was filled with happiness.
Up!
It’s definitely gone up!
Just because of the tone of the manager’s last few words, the favorability level has definitely increased!
The rat boys surrounding him were chattering for a while. Although they didn't know what the boss was excited about, his fat belly must be full of bad water.
He turned around and faced his younger brothers. He couldn't wait to show off and stood up straight, shouting at the top of his voice.
"Young men, call all your brothers."
"Follow your Grandpa Mouse to cause trouble!"
…
Although mice can't speak, they have their own ways of forcing people to do something difficult.
After living with rats for so long, he has already figured out their living habits and how they usually communicate with each other.
These cunning rats may not strictly follow his orders and die, but there is no problem in helping him detect the enemy's situation.
A dangerous place means there are many people, and a place with a lot of metal means that weapons or ammunition may be stored. After confirming the general location, he will smell the smell and go over to take a look in person.
Even if you don't find valuable information every time, you can gain something at least six times out of ten.
Once he discovers a high-value target, he will not do anything immediately. Instead, he will mark it on the map with a VM and then quietly evacuate it.
At this time, alerting the enemy will only make the enemy alert.
When the war begins, the new alliance's aircraft and artillery will give these predators a big surprise.
Unaware of what was happening beneath his feet, Shiya was further strengthening the position in Qingshi County with the cooperation of his staff officer Bernie.
They hid fixed machine guns on the roof of the building, used water tanks, distribution boxes, ventilation ducts and other facilities as bunkers, and installed high-power searchlights on some roofs to search nearby airspace and mountainous areas at night.
Of course Lion Tooth didn't come up with these ideas by himself.
But there are legionary staff officers in his team.
Although Lion Tooth didn't think those blue coats would dare to come over and cause trouble for him, the tragic death of Black Snake made him completely learn a lesson.
Even if there is only a 1% possibility, he will nip it in its infancy!
…
Early April.
A full week has passed since the high-level meeting on the Northern Expedition Plan.
Dawn City is like a running water pump, frantically absorbing resources from all directions along the opened trade routes.
Steel and aluminum are the major sources of demand.
Not only is it necessary to manufacture light and heavy equipment, but the railway being laid is a black hole devouring resources, and it is almost impossible to see the bottom.
One steel plant could no longer meet the development needs of the new alliance. In order to meet the growing steel demand in the industrial zone, not only did the No. 81 Steel Plant open a branch, Chu Guang also signed an administrative document, instructing the Logistics Department to establish the new alliance.
A steel plant.
This is also the first steel plant in the new alliance to be operated by NPC and collectively controlled by the alliance.
It is different from Factory No. 81, which mainly produces military equipment.
The steel produced by the First Steel Plant is mainly supplied to infrastructure construction. Part of its equipment is processed by machine tools and part is purchased from Boulder City. The technical staff include professional players and unemployed engineers hired from Boulder City.
As for the A3 type aviation aluminum produced by the Bach Aluminum Factory, most of it is supplied to the "e-mule" production line, and the remaining production capacity is basically taken up by the Lister Factory to produce stronger KV-1 exoskeleton improvements.
type.
Before the war begins, Chu Guang needs enough trucks to deliver supplies and troops to the front line, and uses KV-1 exoskeletons to ensure players' mobility and combat capabilities.
Before the end of the month, the number of players can reach 2,500+, but the actual number of professional combat players on the front line is only about 1,500.
The disadvantage in numbers can only be made up for by mobility and firepower.
In addition to steel and aluminum, the second most demanded resources in the new alliance are copper and sulfur.
Copper is mainly used to make bullets and lay electrical grids. Needless to say, this goes without saying.
Artillery shells can be made of steel shells, but it is better to use copper bullets, which are not only easier to preserve, but also have excellent shooting performance. Compared with steel-cased ammunition, they can effectively reduce the jamming rate and rifling wear.
As for power, it is even more critical. Whether it is an exoskeleton, a truck, or a player's save point, they all need the support of the power system.
The main use of sulfur is to produce sulfur and acid.
This thing is related to more than just a production line. From steel plants to chemical plants, there are few industrial chains that can do without this thing.
With the start of the war machine, the production capacity of industrial zones continues to expand, and the demand for almost all resources is rising sharply.
At this moment, Charlie, the president of the Hongshang Trade Union, brought bad news to Chu Guang...
"Although you have probably noticed something from the inventory data, I still have to tell you just in case. The expansion of our industrial scale has exceeded expectations. The copper and sulfur mines produced in the surrounding survivor settlements have already
The price went up after we bought it.”
The reception room of the base.
After listening to Old Charlie's report, Chu Guang thought for a moment and raised his head.
"How much has it increased?"
"The price of copper in Honghe Town has increased by 20%, and the price of sulfur has increased by at least 30%. This is the latest data."
Chu Guang nodded thoughtfully.
"It's similar to what I know."
Players discussed this matter in the forum last night. Not only copper ore and sulfur ore, but also some rare metals are simply out of stock.
Chu Guang had actually expected this situation before.
The tickets issued by the Honghe Town Mine are essentially a kind of futures. This trading model is not only to facilitate their purchase of goods from other survivors, but also to facilitate their own coordination of the mine's production capacity.
In other words, they will not produce a bunch of ore that is not used at all and store it in inventory. Instead, they will decide the production of the next quarter based on the tickets issued in the previous quarter.
If someone suddenly needs a large amount of spot goods, the price will naturally increase.
but……
The speed of this price increase is quite sudden.
The Northern Expedition has only been launched for a week. No matter how fast the demand grows, Chu Guang doesn't believe that the warehouse in Honghe Town doesn't even have this little reserve.
Chu Guang had reason to suspect that someone might have guessed something through some information and was trying to hoard goods with him but not sell them.
Old Charlie obviously guessed what might be going on and said cryptically.
"Our resources are controlled by people, and the impact of this problem will become more and more obvious. Either we can open up more business routes and reduce our dependence on a single source of raw materials, or we can have our own source of raw materials and solve part of the resource needs by ourselves."
"I think so too. In fact, one of the purposes of this Northern Expedition is to solve the problem of raw materials."
Chu Guang nodded and looked at the map on the wall.
"The scientific research team of the New Alliance has investigated the data of Qingshi County. The Qingshi Geopark in the mountainous area to the west was formerly the mining area of Qingshi Mining Company. The porphyry copper-molybdenum deposit beneath it is rich in reserves, estimated to be at least one million tons."
Charlie had a surprised expression on his face.
“It hasn’t been mined there?”
"It has been mined, but only a small part. According to data, the mine was shut down due to cost issues in the early prosperity era. It was later transformed into a geological park, with an internship base and a geological institute next to it."
Chu Guang smiled faintly and continued.
"In fact, it's not just copper-molybdenum deposits. According to the analysis of our scientific expedition team, there are many resources that have been explored but not developed in the surrounding areas. As long as we conquer Xizhou City, the resource problem will naturally be solved.":.
"But what's the current problem? Even if we take over Qingshi County, mining will still take time."
As soon as he said these words, a hint of understanding suddenly appeared in old Charlie's eyes.
"I see……"
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