From the end of February to the end of April, the gelatinous monsters split eight times, totaling 64 individuals. They can eat 600 tons of kitchen waste every day, producing the same amount of black sludge.
The garbage recycling system that processes 50,000 tons per month is currently 60% completed. In order to speed up the progress, Zhou Qingfeng no longer requires digging holes underground, and only building walls on the ground is enough.
The huge consumption of garbage made Zhou Qingfeng feel that he could not feed the gluttonous gelatinous monsters. He had ordered those gluttonous monsters to suspend division and slow down their digestion speed.
Otherwise, just buying domestic garbage can make him bankrupt.
"Arcee."
The Mechanical Demon Queen walked out of the shadows and responded crisply: "Master, what are your orders?"
"How much design volume has been completed for the mechanized garbage disposal site?" Zhou Qingfeng asked.
"Eighty percent has been completed and final corrections are being made. The first phase of the project will take half a year, with an investment of 14 million, and a monthly processing capacity of 50,000 tons."
The Mechanical Magic Girl replied, "We have purchased in advance, and the large equipment we need is being shipped. Irene will come forward to start this project as soon as possible."
Zhou Qingfeng nodded.
Currently, the No. 2 garbage warehouse has a simple wall about ten meters high, which looks like a large three-story building.
Steel beams are used to create an open space inside the wall. The internal area is five times larger than the No. 1 garbage warehouse, just to store more garbage at once.
Because the smell inside was extremely sour, Zhou Qingfeng had to wrap himself up tightly and wear a gas mask before entering.
The warehouse was dark, with thousands of ghosts and skeletons standing on the mountain of rubbish, picking at it.
The previous processing flow established by Zhou Qingfeng's brainstorming proved to be inefficient in practice.
Before the mechanized waste treatment plant was built, Sofia and Arcee could only tinker with and optimize the entire process.
Most kitchen waste is packed in plastic bags and is not large in size.
Skeletons will first separate them from large waste items. There will always be one or two big items in a ton of garbage, most of which are household appliances and furniture that can be directly recycled.
Harmony Supermarket now sells 300 to 500 second-hand appliances and furniture every day. Xiao Jinlang ran away, no one came to make trouble, and Zhou Qingfeng continued to sell.
Since the cost of goods is zero and the labor cost is also low, these products can earn more than 300,000 yuan in profit every day.
Recently, almost no new home appliances have been sold in the city, and people are rushing to Hehe Supermarket to buy cheap second-hand goods.
Before the market is saturated, the sales frenzy is estimated to last for another month. This is enough to provide tens of millions of funds to ‘Holy Light’.
It doesn't matter if the consumer demand in Tianyang is saturated. Harmony Supermarket, which is responsible for retail sales, is opening branches throughout the Tianyang area. Even if the entire Tianyang is saturated, this is still just one area.
At present, the mainland has a population of one billion, and there are a huge number of people at the bottom with limited income. There is enough market to digest the second-hand goods obtained by Zhou Qingfeng.
This is the benefit of a unified market, which can provide endless purchasing power.
Groups of skeletons walked past Zhou Qingfeng. They were weak, and their cooperation required the command of a spiritual slave. Only three or five of them could move a refrigerator.
But there are not only large household appliances in the garbage, but also items such as kettles, rice cookers, and thermos cups.
After all, bulky items account for a small proportion of domestic waste.
The separated garbage needs to be screened twice, and there are a huge amount of small pieces of paper plastic that need to be sorted out. Occasionally, some strange things can be found.
"It would be great if there was some kind of mud monster that could directly digest plastic." Zhou Qingfeng said in a low voice.
Small pieces of cardboard and plastic are difficult to recycle. They are picked out because the gum monsters won't eat them, so they can only be temporarily stored and waited to be incinerated.
Sophia's interface replied: "Master, maybe you can try to let the ghost separate the plastic inside. Especially the thin plastic bags inside that are difficult to handle."
Low-level ghosts are gray mist masses of negative energy. They are weaker than skeletons, but have the ability to penetrate physical objects that skeletons do not have.
Sofia summoned a ghost and ordered it to peel light, broken plastic bags from a pile of dirty garbage.
The peeling process is very simple and the result is perfect. The negative energy easily removes the dirt on the surface of the plastic bag.
But Zhou Qingfeng shook his head, "Sofia, you can't stay here to command the ghosts. This is too inefficient."
Sophia immediately had a new idea, "Then we need a high-level undead to command the ghosts. It should be more intelligent and can control at least a hundred ghosts to work."
The undead commanding ghosts?
Zhou Qingfeng frowned, and the space-time door opened behind him. He stepped towards the other world and found the necromancer Mondino who was living in seclusion in Fuqiang Territory.
Before raiding Fabro's alchemy laboratory, Mondino took away an 'Evil Spirit Group', which is said to be used to create ferocious ghosts.
In Mondino's perception, ferocious ghosts are naturally powerful in battle and bloodthirsty and ruthless. But in Zhou Qingfeng's perception, the word "ferocious" should be equivalent to work ability.
Spending a thousand points to exchange for red crystal, Zhou Qingfeng customized a demon from Mondino that was said to be very scary.
The Necromancer also praised his creativity, "The idea of hiding in the dark and commanding hundreds of ghosts to drown the opponent is very good."
The 'terrible' evil spirit is called the 'centurion'.
It is a black air mass containing extremely strong negative energy, which can automatically attract low-level ghosts to surrender to it.
Zhou Qingfeng does not require this thing to have strong combat effectiveness, but only requires it to be smart and have enough recognition capabilities. But it should not be too smart.
Mondino did not let Zhou Qingfeng spend a thousand points in vain. The evil ghosts he created using the "Evil Spirit Group" specifically emphasized the ability to control low-level ghosts, and could even perform some complex operations.
So..., this 'centurion' took up his post.
Zhou Qingfeng taught it how to peel off small pieces of dirty garbage such as plastic, and then asked it to direct other ghosts to do the same work.
In fact, this evil ghost is so perfect that Zhou Qingfeng himself was dumbfounded.
The combat power of ghosts is extremely weak, and a farmer can deal with two or three as long as he is brave. However, they ignore the virtual characteristics of the entity and are too convenient for picking up garbage.
In fact, the combat power of the 'Centurion' is not very high, and Mondino went out of his way to brag to Zhou Qingfeng in order to promote it.
After accidentally hitting it, this thing has no other ability, except that it is extremely capable at controlling low-level undead.
For humans, stripping tattered plastic bags from messy garbage piles is cumbersome, disgusting and inefficient.
But ghosts are not disgusting. They are directly immersed in the garbage. The whole process is "identification", "stripping" and "extraction".
When Centurion starts working, the garbage pile is boiling.
A large number of garbage bags fly out, and the attached dirt breaks away one after another. As long as they are collected and packaged, these waste plastics can be sent to the cracking furnace to produce gasoline.
Cracking furnaces are not high-tech, and they are not expensive. The domestic petrochemical industry can produce them by itself, and you can build a small one for 500,000 yuan.
It is possible to hoard these waste plastics and turn them into wealth again.
It is still a conscientious approach to build a cracking furnace. If you don't care about pollution, a simple still distillation method can also refine oil, and the equipment is cheaper, but it is a bit unscrupulous.
There is no petrochemical industry in Tianyang, so Zhou Qingfeng ordered two sets of cracking equipment from Magic City to process 100 tons of waste plastics per day. Shengguang Machinery only spent 8 million.
Since the payment was made in Hong Kong dollars, the chemical equipment manufacturing company in Shanghai was moved to tears. Without saying a word, they promised to mobilize cash goods to Tianyang and dispatched hundreds of installation and commissioning personnel.
Since the 'Centurion' can control ghosts, he should be able to control skeletons as well.
Zhou Qingfeng ordered two more 'centurions' from Mondino. This made the necromancer very unhappy, fearing that one day the hide would be exposed and Zhou Qingfeng would cause trouble for him.
But there are actually three 'centurions' to direct the ghosts and skeletons to deal with the garbage, which greatly improves the overall work efficiency.
After all, this is actually a hard job that does not require high intelligence, but requires patience and hard work.
The undead have always been very patient and never complain.
Zhou Qingfeng was greatly encouraged when hazardous waste such as batteries, fluorescent tubes, and chemicals could also be sorted and sorted by Centurion.
This means that what is ultimately given to the gelatinous monster for digestion is basically food waste, and the residual sludge produced is safer.
"When Arcee's mechanized sorting facilities are established, the waste processing speed will be faster.
Not only is the garbage turned into treasure, but the monthly processing capacity of 50,000 tons is simply giving me a steady stream of money."