Chapter 988 Tianyuan Warning Wall, the first battle of the scavengers!
Tianyuan territory border line.
The construction cement machine obtained from the Red Spider Caravan is running rumble.
This large telescopic machine occupies a large area and is divided into three parts.
The first part is a hole-shaped feed processing port, the second part is a square stirring mixer, and the third part is a pipe-shaped discharge port.
At this time, there were villagers pushing small carts in front of the huge discharge port, waiting for transportation.
With a roar, fine and dense fluffy material like foam began to spit out from the pipe and fell into the first trolley.
"Hey, this thing is really useful!"
"Man-Made Empire", the boss of Imperial Building Materials Factory, stood beside the cement machine and couldn't help but sigh.
It is said that technology is the primary productive force.
Since this thing started operating, cement orders from his building materials factory have dropped significantly.
Especially for the recent big project of "Territorial Security Wall", the quotation given by Imperial Building Materials Factory cannot be compared with this machine at all.
In production, the cement foam machine requires less than ten people.
Six of them are responsible for feeding materials, two are responsible for maintaining order, and the remaining two are responsible for discharging materials.
If it is fully powered, this machine can produce about five tons of cement every day.
Although the output is not high enough, it is better because it has an automatic separator integrated inside.
Construction waste recovered from the territory and skeleton remains transported from the western suburbs.
Just pour it all into the mixing bin, turn on the power, and then just wait for the cement to be produced.
"Boss, didn't the lord say that we can exchange shares for machines?"
"As long as we take over this machine, we will not only improve efficiency, but also eliminate a competitor!"
Bao Dafu, the "deputy director" of the building materials factory who is about 170cm tall and looks honest, suggested from the side.
On Earth, he is an experienced construction worker who has spent almost half his life on construction sites.
Whether it's measurement, steel bars, muddy water, electric welding, or erection, Bao Dafu is extremely skilled in these common processes on the construction site.
But something is wrong. At first, the deputy director was not his position, but his custom nickname.
At first, he just wanted to change a note to the real deputy director in the small channel of the Imperial Building Materials Factory.
But for older middle-aged people, even if the game panel is very fool-like, trying to play is still not something that middle-aged people of this age are good at.
After a while, Bao Dafu changed his nickname to deputy factory director.
Because everyone in the channel uses nicknames to communicate directly.
After being misunderstood too many times, the Man-Made Empire simply promoted Bao Dafu to the position of deputy factory director, in charge of specific material construction, which is now considered justifiable.
"That's true, but this thing requires 90% of our shares, which is a lot of money."
The man-made empire was somewhat hesitant to begin with.
When the deputy factory director said this, my heart suddenly became more and more uncertain.
At this stage, relying on the remaining infrastructure projects in the territory and providing other building materials, the Empire Building Materials Factory's income is not low.
Give 90% of the proceeds to others, even if it is the lord of the territory, and put it under the name of Tianyuan Dungeon.
This is also a difficult decision to make.
"Boss, 90% of the shares does not mean that there is only one machine. Didn't the lord say that if there are other construction machines of the same type in the future, they will be handed over to our building materials factory for operation."
"Think about it, if more people join the territory in the future and there are so many building materials factories, how much revenue and market will be lost if our industry does not have moat technology!"
The deputy factory director was still at his side, and his clumsy eloquence, although not very tempting, was actually more impressive at this time.
From a profit perspective, what the building materials factory industry competes with is the ability of the supply chain to keep prices down.
If you want to maintain it for a long time, it is extremely necessary to find and build more moats.
Giving up this construction foam machine now will not affect the income of the building materials factory, but what about in the future?
If there is another brick machine and a steel bar machine, will the Imperial Building Materials Factory still be able to open?
"Hey, the lord is back!"
While the man-made empire was still deep in thought, waves of exclamations came from the distance.
Sumo, wearing the sun-chasing armor, returned from Qinggang City and was standing next to the built warning wall and looking at it.
Oops.
The construction speed is really not slow.
In just one week, hundreds of meters of fence have been erected, one meter wide and two meters high.
Although it still can't be compared with the lightning wall in Sunny Harbor Shelter, it can't be better used to show sovereignty.
On a daily basis, it can block some radioactive creatures that want to sneak over from Qinggang City, and it can become a defensive front during war.
If you can increase the height to three meters and enclose the rear, you can still meet the sixth condition of the Bronze Age upgrade. It can be said that it kills multiple birds with one stone!
And it's not just territorial borders.
After watching the entire battle of the homeless attacking the industrial area, Sumo planned to use the entire buffer zone between Hope Village and Qinggang City.
It has a strategic depth of nearly a hundred kilometers. As long as there are enough defense facilities and traps, it will be absolutely difficult for the opponent to invade.
If you want to go around and attack in other directions of the territory, there is natural terrain that can serve as a cover.
Rather than taking the initiative to attack, it is the wisest choice to defend first.
After all, although most villagers do not lack the courage to go to the battlefield, no one can say what will happen if they actually go to the battlefield.
It is naturally much better to have more time to adapt than to start a contact war right now.
However, just when Sumo was admiring the villagers building the wall, the game interface suddenly popped up and automatically jumped to the private chat channel.
It's Fenglong's message.
"Director, there is big trouble here in the southern suburbs."
"We were accidentally ambushed by radioactive creatures when we entered the southern suburbs. In order to escape, we had to disperse and evacuate."
"About one-tenth of the people have returned now, and the rest have gone to no one knows where. Moreover, the southern suburbs are full of radioactive creatures. It is very difficult for us to go in and find people."
Lost?
Staring at the three lines of information, Su Mo pondered for a moment, but he was not as panicked as Feng Long.
To be honest, since the decision was made to give the villagers a certain degree of freedom, this kind of unexpected danger has been exhaustively deduced by Zero.
The dangers in the city are no less than those in the wasteland, especially now that disaster is erupting.
It's only a matter of time before you encounter uncontrollable dangers.
As for how to deal with
Number Zero previously listed several suitable methods, with varying success rates.
The highest level is naturally when Sumo personally leads people into the rescue. Depending on the length of time, the success rate can be around 70%.
The lowest is to leave it alone and allow the scavengers to perform freely, with a success rate of about 10%.
But can artificial intelligence really predict all situations?
Sumo couldn't deny it, but this time he really wanted to give it a try and chose to believe it.
If you can't even deal with some radioactive creatures with lower IQs, then deal with gopher guys and predators later.
You can't let him, the lord, go out and wipe your butt every time, right?
"All Tianyuan troops are dispatched, bring weapons and supplies."
Jumping the channel, Sumo issued an order.
"Clear the retreat intersection and do not go deep into the rescue."
"Open a way for them to come back. Believe in our scavengers and believe that they can come back."
Route selection brings infinite possibilities to players on Earth, and it is no longer realistic to control them as much as before.
Recently, Sumo has increasingly felt that his time is getting less and less, and he needs to deal with more and more complicated matters.
Especially if you go out for half a day, a thick pile of documents will appear in the office in the dungeon.
In situations like this, it's best to develop appropriate responses.
Otherwise, if he had to take the lead in rescuing every time something happened, then this lord would be too frustrated.
"By the way, send another hundred scavengers to the southern suburbs. Anyway, one missing person is still missing, and a hundred missing people are the same."
"The route they chose was designed to be explored, and now that's just the right situation!"
As expected, I was suddenly notified that I could go to the southern suburbs of Qinggang City to explore.
The scavengers ranked between 100-200 instantly went crazy!
Danger?
It doesn't exist. Is it possible that I now have weapons in my hand, information, food and drink, and bonuses given by routes?
Will it be more dangerous than when we first traveled to the wasteland with nothing?
As for encountering radioactive creatures, you may also encounter predators, wanderers, and even gophers?
This is even more wonderful. Scavengers can pick up things as well as heads.
It just so happened that the warehouse recently sent out a message asking for meat, as long as the meat of the radioactive creatures is definitely edible.
The waste pickers are 100% sure that the southern suburbs of Qinggang City will become the surrounding "holy land".
And those looters, they must have a stronghold, right?
As long as you can follow the clues and follow the clues to enter, wouldn't it mean that you will pick up things and become weak, and your level will rise dramatically?
Coincidentally, the three-person team at the Fifth Ring Road in the southern suburbs also thought the same way.
After a brief hesitation, the three of them, led by the male gunman, took out the crossbow and touched it quietly.
If it is a sunny day, the difference in number of people may be a big disadvantage.
But now that the sight is obscured by the heavy fog, it is simply Lao Yinbi’s paradise!
Hiding on the ground and slowly crawling forward, the old man had a perverted smile on his face.
Even though Blue Star has developed two hundred years longer than the Earth, manhole covers still remain.
From the upturned manhole cover, more than twenty people had come out at this time, and they were vigilantly checking the surrounding situation.
They wore jackets sewn from animal skins, with primitive and mysterious animal teeth hanging on their bodies, which made clanging sounds when they walked.
Perhaps because they were afraid of alerting the surrounding radioactive creatures, guns were not standard equipment for this group of people.
The daggers and crossbows stained with various unknown liquids actually looked more threatening.
Without hurrying to take action, he moved until there was only about ten meters away. Tao Mengzhe motioned for the three of them to hide behind a piece of building ruins.
The advantage of being in the shadows is not only that you can launch raids, but also that you can collect a lot of intelligence.
"Listen to what they are saying first."
From his backpack, he took out a small radio headset and gently threw it in the direction of the figure.
The pebble-sized earphones whirled on the ground, finally stopping very close to the crowd.
Picking up the palm-sized device on the ground, Dream Taoist adjusted it a little, and vague words came out from it.
"Old Taoist, listen well."
Among the three, the male gunman is completely illiterate. Blue Star Language is the worst at learning it, and even basic communication is difficult.
Dream Taoist himself can communicate, but it is still a bit difficult to understand the other party's accented slang.
Only experienced people with full language talent.
Except for the strange accent, I can now communicate normally with the people in the Bone Village.
"There are more and more radiation beasts mutating around. It must be caused by the radiation of tactical nuclear weapons."
"Damn Sunny Harbor Sanctuary, take away our brothers, friends and relatives, we must take revenge!"
"Find a way to seduce the radiation beasts to cause trouble for them."
After listening patiently for a while, I successfully summarized the key points among countless nonsense.
They say the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
As soon as he heard that these people were going to find trouble with the Gopher Man, the old man's eyes immediately lit up.
But before he could express his opinion, he immediately heard news that made people frown.
"Except for Qinggang, the other gophers cannot be spared. Let them know the same pain and displacement as we do."
"Drawing the radiant beast over... Pingtan is all their fault. It's all their fault for provoking the war that led to this disaster."
"The western suburbs...Pingtan and the new Tianyuan Shelter, these gopher guys."
"They all must die!"
Do you want to lure the radioactive beast to the western suburbs, or do you want to lure it into the territory to cause destruction?
After hearing this information, the old man's nose almost became angry.
Good guys, they all say that every injustice has its own owner, and every debt has its own owner.
Tianyuan Territory has not offended you in the slightest, right? Do you have to fire this kind of AOE map cannon?
Everyone had just witnessed the terror of the radiation beasts a while ago. If they were allowed to go into the territory, they would lie in ambush and attack the villagers who were working.
The veteran lowered his head with murderous intent on his face, lowered his voice and said slowly: "Damn, these predator cowboys are really tired of living. Before we even take action, they want to lure the radioactive creatures into the territory to cause destruction."
"Strike first and kill them all?"
"I'll go first, you guys can support me depending on the situation."
I was already prepared to take action and there was no unnecessary nonsense.
The male gunman's eyes turned cold, and his erratic eyes suddenly became focused, like a cheetah's.
I saw him hunched over and rolling forward, the crossbow in his hand suddenly "vomiting" like a poisonous snake.
A crossbow arrow coated with paralysis grass juice flew out and accurately hit the predator standing behind.
There was no warning.
As a dull sound of falling to the ground was heard, what happened?
"Enemy attack!!"
A sharp roaring warning sound sounded.
Living in such a complex area, every raider has a wealth of combat experience.
In an instant, the living targets that were originally standing on the ground disappeared from sight and fell to the ground as quickly as possible.
However.
Boom!
A fragmentation grenade flew from nowhere and landed in the middle of the fallen crowd.