The stealth spacecraft was piloted by Duran and parked at an aircraft manufacturing factory with a clear goal, where there were various parts he needed.
Before the Mana ecological explosion, human technology had broken through gravity and could challenge the universe. Various parts had been produced in modular formats, and even energy sources could be integrated into energy blocks.
The dust people were very nervous. In the past, they only attacked the low-level civilians, and the superior people were the main force. But this time they only had two unarmed superior people, and the others were dust people. The most powerful weapon was a sharply sharpened knife.
Faced with a monster's skin that bullets cannot penetrate, a knife is even more useless.
"Don't be nervous, everyone." Dulan comforted everyone, but it was obviously of no use.
Leaving the lighthouse and entering a completely unfamiliar environment, monsters that devour the essence of life may appear at any time. It is impossible not to be afraid.
However, they still followed Duran into the facility.
This is an aircraft processing plant with a variety of equipment inside. Unfortunately, the expensive production lines back then are now just a pile of scrap metal.
"What we are looking for is the warehouse, this direction." Dulan seemed to have his own navigation system, going directly to the warehouse without taking any detours.
The dustmen were nervously guarding their surroundings, as if monsters might pop out of the shadows at any time. Of course, they were also curious about things on the surface, including all kinds of unknown things.
A bold person wants to take some back to the lighthouse.
"I advise you not to take them. The load of the lighthouse is also limited. These things are just decorations and are of no use. They only increase the weight of the lighthouse." Duran knew that if the dustmen were allowed to come to the surface, they would definitely have to take things. If they can,
If there are too many, the lighthouse will be overweight and consume more energy, which is a complete waste.
"If it's useless, why did people in the old world make these things?" the common people asked curiously.
"Because people in the old world had a lot of resources, what they pursued was not survival, but preservation of value. Private ownership ensures that they can obtain part of their wealth. If they can keep their wealth from falling in price, they will pursue things that can preserve their value, such as antiques.
Gold, diamonds, gems, and even some random things. The meaning of these things is the container of money. Money will depreciate, but the container can appreciate. In this way, you can ensure that your wealth will not decline."
The common people understand that these common people are all subordinates of 9527 and have been exposed to economic activities. Although they are still struggling to survive on the line of food and clothing, 9527 has already surpassed food and clothing and is pursuing value maximization. If there is surplus food in hand,
Thinking about using more civilian resources, I want to make the surplus food in my hand more valuable.
It's all like this, it's been like this since ancient times.
Ever since humans discovered that they alone could not meet all the basic necessities of life, such as food, clothing, housing, and transportation, and needed the exchange of goods, economic activities have accompanied the development of humans.
The development of mankind is the development of the wheel. The more the wheel develops, the wider the scope of trade. Trade is inevitable. Even in wars and in the end of the world, economic activities will still be active.
9527 also uses the most primitive desires of ordinary people to exchange for surplus food, and then uses the surplus food to go to the superior people in exchange for the resources of the superior people. The superior people need the surplus food, because some of the superior people have very serious doomsday plots, and they are worried that one day the lighthouse will encounter problems.
, there is not enough food to eat.
In fact, these worries are completely necessary. The lighthouse is indeed very fragile, and there may be insufficient food if there is a slight disturbance. Therefore, there is nothing wrong with preparing for war and famine. There is definitely nothing wrong with preparing more rations.
Therefore, ordinary people suffer from hunger and use the saved surplus grain to satisfy their original desires. Then 9527 uses these surplus grains to purchase bread, milk, wine, etc. that can only be enjoyed by the superior people.
Because of their fear, the people on the island would embezzle the lighthouse property and sell it to help themselves obtain more food and ensure safety.
Economic activity takes place.
But this is not enough for 9527, because the market for primitive desires is only so big, and there are only so many resources he can collect. So he opened the Chenmin Hospital and satisfied the needs of the Chenmin worried about the future, so as to make people more comfortable.
The protection law for ordinary people has changed from black to white.
This is not enough, he also hopes to obtain resources from the surface, so that he can raise more subordinates, gain more rights, and make himself safer.
The higher the status of 9527, the more enemies he feels, and everyone wants to take his place, so he has to find ways to consolidate his position.
In fact, you can cooperate with the Church of Light and Shadow to create a divine right of kings. Of course, you can also develop a selection mechanism to steadily select new talents. He becomes the spokesperson of the new talents. The new talents have an unstable foundation and need to unite around 9527 to fight against the old talents. He
What we need to do is to steadily export benefits to new talents and cultivate new talents.
Dustmen are also engaged in economic activities. Although they do not receive the same education as the Shangmin, they accumulate knowledge from practice. 9527 is a person who is familiar with economic activities, and the dustmen around him are naturally aware of it.
The knowledge in textbooks is also a summary of experience, and it must be implemented into practice in the end. Even if some smart people have not studied theory, they can directly master the knowledge that is not lost in textbooks through practice.
"It seems that people in the old world are not very relaxed." Everyone knows that 9527 racks his brains to make the surplus food more valuable, and has to fight with the people every time. This is not an easy thing, if the old world
People who also need to preserve the value of their wealth will definitely have to put in the same effort as 9527.
"It's really not easy." Duran said.
I saw some flesh and soil on the road. These corpses that had absorbed the essence of life were just like sculptures.
"This is the first time I've seen real flesh and soil. It's so scary."
"What's there to be afraid of? These are just corpses. What's really scary is the monster that turns them into flesh and earth. Captain Downey, are there any monsters nearby?"
"There may be, or there may not be." Duran said: "Lighthouse doesn't know enough about the ecology of Mana. In fact, I have long thought that instead of exiling old people with a bone age of over 70, it is better to establish more observation points on the surface and observe more.
The phenomenon of mana ecology.”
The lighthouse really doesn’t know much about the ecology of Mana, because it has been in the sky and has no idea how the ecology on the surface changes. If it is too far away, it is just looking at flowers in the fog. Only by establishing observation points and observing the ecology at close range can we collect more information.
There are many phenomena, and only when there are enough phenomena can we summarize the rules.
Unfortunately, the lighthouse is always in the sky, and there is no stable way to understand the ecology.
Therefore, in the future, lighthouses will either rob surface survivors of their observation experience, or they will be invaded by unknown Mana ecology and have to observe.
Chenmin also nodded, thinking that Donnie was right.
"Captain Downey, people like you can't be reused. Shangmin is just a bunch of rotten insects. They only have fun and have no ability at all." Some people said cynically, thinking that Shangmin didn't know how to employ people at all and was just a bunch of people.
Parasites, instead of looking for the future of mankind, only eat, drink and have fun.
In fact, Shangmin will still look for the future, but the city lord can only use people he trusts, and only a few people can master cutting-edge information and technology. The efficiency of the research can be imagined. The research was done, but it was very slow.
Without the ability to brainstorm ideas, there are naturally many shortcomings.
Dustmen think Downey's observation point plan is very good and necessary.
The group of people carefully walked through the meat and soil and finally arrived at the warehouse. However, the iron door was closed tightly and the electric motor had long since run out of power, so they could only open it manually.
But there will definitely be a lot of noise in this process, which may attract monsters.
"Stop shaking it, use a welding gun to melt the door and make a hole." Duran chose a quieter method.
I brought the welding gun with me. I was worried about encountering obstacles, so I went up to open the door.
Dulan knew that there were a lot of good things in the warehouse, because the place had not been swept by the lighthouse. They were all good things. In addition to flight fuel, there were also a batch of heavy three-dimensional mechas, a total of twelve.
However, these heavy objects are only used as external skeletons for transportation, not weapons. After all, in peacetime, the main purpose of mechas is engineering, not war.
But with the heavy three-dimensional structure, it can be used in combat after some modifications.