Data Wasteland

In early November, it was late autumn in the northern wilderness. The weather further turned colder, and it was close to minus at night.

Fortunately, there is still plenty of sunshine during the day. On the second floor of the Orchid Town Mansion, outside the large floor-to-ceiling glass windows of the bedroom, two sand finches flew over, standing on the edge of the window chattering.

Chen Xing was awakened by the chirping of birds, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he gradually adjusted to the bright white light.

Tumbled on the bed for more than 20 minutes and looked at the table below. It was already 10:30 in the morning, and Chen Xing rang the small bell on the round table beside the bed.

The two maids came in quickly, helped him get up, washed him with water, and then changed him into a casual indoor long shirt. This kind of shirt is looser, and the hem is close to the knee, so it is only suitable for home wear, and it is a bit shameful to go out.

After putting on his clothes, Chen Xing went to the lobby under the double-stranded stairs on the first floor, sitting on the fabric sofa and waiting for breakfast.

This location is the most lively location in the whole house. Whether you go to the front courtyard or the backyard, or to the second floor or the kitchen, you will pass this location.

"Master, this is the almond cookies my mother made when she woke up in the morning. Try it."

Marguerite and Mrs. Ursula got up an hour earlier and sat in the lobby waiting for him.

Chen Xing took a sip of the warm water handed over by the maid and picked up a small piece of cookie and put it in his mouth. The toasted butter has an amazing aroma, crisp and crunchy, and the mashed almonds are slightly chewy and very delicious.

"It tastes good, thank you Madam." Chen Xingchao nodded in greeting to Mrs. Ursula, who was looking forward to her, and the latter immediately showed a happy smile. The recognition of culinary skills is the praise that every lady dreams of.

"My lord, this is the Longhe Daily from the day before yesterday, and the Mercenary Magazine from Sancha Hecheng last week." Old K handed over a newspaper and a magazine.

Now the Zombie Paradise has vehicles coming and going every day, and the newspapers from Gray Point can be brought over, but the date will be two to three days behind. Although the information will be later, it is better than none.

Chen Xing took a few glances, there was nothing particularly new, so he put the newspapers and magazines aside, and asked Marguerite, "You have come here, what about your studies?"

"I'm self-taught," Marguerite said with her small fist raised.

"How can this be done!" Chen Xing and Mrs. Ursula said in unison, and then they laughed at each other.

"Your little apprentice has just arrived, you have to drive her away, what a ruthless man." Marguerite sighed.

"Well, it's the Harvest Festival soon, and it's too late for this semester. After the winter vacation, I'll take you to Grayhorn City to find a school." Chen Xing said, his tone was beyond doubt.

"Well..." Marguerite replied feebly. She dared to yell to her mother, but not to the master.

After a while, the cook whose waist was thicker than a bucket brought breakfast with a wooden tray.

There are barley porridge, fresh milk, fried eggs, ham sausage, fruit salad, freshly baked toast and green onion pancakes.

Although Chen Xing's current economic conditions are good, breakfast should be lighter.

"Master, I visited the Zombie Park yesterday, so creative. I met Miss Ali Claire, and we had afternoon tea together." Marguerite said cheerfully.

Allie Claire is the second young lady of the former Polly family and is now in charge of the tour guide affairs in the Zombie Park.

"What did you guys talk about?" Chen Xing asked casually while drinking milk.

"Miss Allie sighed and said that she hadn't participated in the dance for a long time." Marguerite came over and held Chen Xing's hand. "Master, I heard that there are many gentlemen and ladies here too, Mayor Bert of Roast Duck Town. , The Ambissi family in Beauty Town, let’s hold a special dance party."

"Okay, you go to make preparations, and the money will be paid out of the mayor's mansion." Chen Xing said readily. Now that the Hanging Skeleton Alliance is established, it is indeed necessary to hold regular gatherings. He is a big man, and he doesn't have such idle time. At best, he will ask someone to eat. It's better to leave this kind of thing to a woman.

"The location is on the rooftop of the Wilderness Hotel. Remember to invite the head of the Black Snake Brigade, Guo Ying from the mission school, and all the people who guard the mansion." Chen Xing added. Guo Ying is the daughter of the black old monster. Currently, she runs a school of the Holy Light Church in the town, which specializes in teaching the children in the town the basic knowledge and the doctrine of Holy Light. Both residents and refugees can enroll for free as long as they have lived for one year.

Before breakfast was over, the details of the dance party were finalized, and Marguerite and Mrs. Ursula were responsible for it.

After eating, Chen Xing called Xiao Yang and drove the wilderness bus to the entrance of No. 65 Underground Survival Center.

Putting down the folding tables and chairs, spreading the tablecloths, and pouring the red wine, Chen Xing thought about it, and the tide of goblins gushed out of the field, rushed into the gate of the underground survival center, and began to clean up the garbage inside.

On the flat ground not far from Chen Xing, there are piles of metal **** like hills. Calf-sized termite workers lined up in a queue, and one after another carried the underground stuff up.

A large number of termites also participated in the cleanup work. They do not have the dexterous hands of goblins, and cannot disassemble precision parts such as screws and wires. However, they have strong handling capabilities and can transport the disassembled objects out of the ground.

The underground survival center No. 65 is very large and can accommodate more than 50,000 people. If workers are hired to clean up, it will inevitably cost a lot of money.

Goblins and Anthills are completely free, saving a lot of money.

Next, when the cleaning is completed, workers are allowed to go in to reinstall the ventilation ducts and air conditioners, and then the decoration of the escape room project.

The goblin craftsman's craftsmanship is relatively rough, unable to undertake the delicate decoration work, so they can only ask the decoration workers to do it.

The water for the underground survival center can be connected from the underground water station. The two are originally connected, but they are in disrepair for a long time, and the underground water pipe needs to be replaced.

As for the power supply, we have to consider building a small thermal power station.

Thermal power stations use fuel oil to generate electricity. All marginal towns use small generator sets to generate electricity on their own. If a power station is established, it can be considered to expand to surrounding marginal towns.

You can even consider building small nuclear power plants to cover a larger area, and the cost of power generation and transportation will be minimized.

Nuclear energy technology in this world is already very advanced, and the scale of nuclear power plants can be reduced to about 30 meters in diameter. It's just that the smallest investment is at the level of tens of millions of gold coins, which is equivalent to more than one billion of the earth. And if there is an oversupply of electricity, it will lose money.

After all, marginal towns have low incomes, and many refugees cannot afford electricity.

Thermal power stations are cheaper. Two or three million gold coins can solve the problem, but the cost of power generation is relatively high. First, the price of fuel is much higher than that of uranium-235 under the same power generation. Second, the transportation cost is high, and it needs to continue to transport oil from the nearest port, namely Crow Market. There is no water transportation, only tanker trucks, there are safety risks on the road, and the price can be imagined.

The main reason for the high cost of fuel-fired power generation is that the red earth world has no oil fields to be exploited. On the one hand, it has been mined seven or eight before the cataclysm, on the other hand, the underground is full of living dead, and there are some undercurrent creatures that have fallen asleep, and the risk of drilling is too high.

At present, the main source of fuel is world fragments. There are many large world fragments that contain abundant oil, but they are all monopolized by several large multinational oil companies, and the West Fes Company is one of them. Oil prices are under their control and have remained high.

Chen Xing quickly dismissed the idea of ​​building a power station. Now that there is not much money on the account, first get two sets of generators to make do with it, and wait until the money is made.

Moreover, the investment value of the fringe town is not great. One is that the infrastructure cost is too high, and the other is that the output is too low. Unless he can build a resort in the wasteland like Shin-Edo, he will lose no matter how much he invests. money.

And the location here is not as good as Shin-Edo. Although Shin-Edo is in the wilderness, it is the central wilderness, the center of the red soil continent, and it is a neutral zone that can be visited by tourists from the three kingdoms.

This is the northern wilderness, deep into the hinterland of the Red Country. Not to mention that the current situation is tense, even in peacetime, it is unlikely that the rich and powerful will come here. Unless you are in a panic, you are not afraid of being kidnapped.

The reason why marginal towns are marginal towns is that they have many inherent shortcomings that are difficult to make up for. Even if it is a traverser who has the knowledge of two worlds, it is difficult to change.

Busy until the sun went down, Chen Xing took back the goblin army and returned to the mansion. Although the goblin has his own consciousness, he does not need to bother to command, but the time for summoning the army is long, and the spirit will inevitably be a little tired, and can only wait for tomorrow to continue working.

In addition, termite workers also need to take care of the ant nests and cannot work in the underground survival ground all day long.

Judging from the progress, the underground survival center will be cleaned in two or three days and the ventilation ducts will be installed.

After dinner, Chen Xing came to the study on the second floor of the mansion.

The ground is covered with gold-painted red carpets, which are woven carpets produced in Sha Country, transported from Sanchahe City.

As a nomadic people in Dafangzhou, they have lived in felt tents made of sheepskin for thousands of years. Thick blankets have been laid on the ground to resist the cold and humidity. The love and understanding of carpets has far surpassed other ethnic groups.

Only the carpets of Saudi Arabia are the best choice.

On both sides are bookcases full of books, but apart from a few popular novels in the corner, Chen Xing has basically not moved.

In the middle is a whole arched French window with thick blackout curtains hanging on the side of the window, and then a walnut desk of more than two meters long. The tabletop has been polished, clean, translucent, and spotless.

In the corner, there is a cosmopolitan of equal height, which is the same thing as the globe, but the area is different from the continental plate.

Chen Xing walked to the bookcase and opened the cabinet door below, revealing a whole cabinet of stone crafts.

To be precise, it is jade.

This is what he unearthed from the left-hand world, and there are also many on the North Bridge Regiment.

In the last life, Hongguo once set off a wave of jade collection craze, the reason is the jade unearthed in the left-hand world.

Now that I am finally idle, I can consider operating a wave and collect a sum of money back.

Jade can’t be sold in large quantities at once, it must come in waves, otherwise the price will soon be lowered by the quantity.

It is necessary to gradually form a culture, and then gradually increase the price, creating a hungry marketing is the correct operation.

He has checked the relevant history. Before the cataclysm, the East Continent once flourished the jade culture, and some people collect it now. However, due to the scarcity of the quantity, it has been unable to form a market.

Relics in the museum.

A lot of them were excavated on the North Bridge Regiment, which weighed a few tons in total. If the operations were done well, it would not be a problem to get several million gold coins.

Although he can use virtual games to harvest through Sora, that is Nova's home field, and most of them will be taken away by her. Moreover, the investment in developing virtual games is not small, and he has no experience and has no advantage over other companies, so forget it.

However, he has a preliminary idea to open a game arcade, which is commonly known as an "arcade machine" on the earth. He found that the world did not develop this type of rides.

He has learned about the development history of games, from eight home game consoles to personal computers, to 128 three-dimensional video game consoles, and then to a full range of virtual game warehouses. The development process of the entire game industry is similar to that on the earth. But there is no coin-operated arcade hall.

Of course, now that the network technology is so advanced, the computing power of the black watch alone exceeds that of the computer group on the earth, and the network transmission speed is tens of thousands of times. This retro-mode gaming hall may not be able to make any money, but Chen Xing sees It is not an ordinary arcade game, but a gambling machine, which is commonly known as the "fruit machine", "horse racing machine" and so on. That is what makes money.

This type of game machine is similar in Shin-Edo. It is a machine for playing steel **** and is very popular.

Chen Xing intends to develop a batch and try to operate it in the 65th Underground Survival Center. In addition, he will add games such as playing balloons and throwing circles.

Although the geographical location is not as good as that of Shin-Edo, for people in the red country, it is always closer to the northern wilderness than to the central wilderness. To get to Shin-Edo, you need to take a plane or a floatboat, and you only need to take a bus to Lanhua Town.

"Tuk tu tu..."

There was a knock on the door, and then Marguerite’s voice, "Master, are you inside?"

After getting Chen Xing's consent, Marguerite opened the door and came in.

"Master, I want to learn psionic compression for my next skill, what do you think?"

Marguerite asked with two golden ponytails.

"This is the skill of a sniper, but I think you like to use a submachine gun." Chen Xing said.

"Aiming is too much trouble." Marguerite shrugged.

"I suggest you learn Psionic Burst, which is also called continuous energy storage shooting." Chen Xing suggested.

There are two learning directions for energy storage shooting. One is the direction of a sniper with high power and low rate of fire. In addition to psionic compression, you can learn auxiliary skills such as psionic stability and psionic vision. The other is for assault with low power and high rate of fire. In the direction of the hand, you can learn auxiliary skills such as psionic frenzy and psionic magazine.

Marguerite learned the psionic armor, so naturally she couldn't learn the mirror clone, and in terms of character, the direction of the assault was more suitable for her.

"Okay, I listen to the master." Then Marguerite pulled out the corresponding skill book on the shelf and sat in the corner quietly reading.

Speaking of energy storage shooting, Chen Xing remembered that it was time to get a better gun.

His trio was promoted to a ninet, but the ninet was used for energy storage shooting, and the improvement was not obvious. The reason is that the increase exceeds the load-bearing limit of firearms and bullets, and firearms and bullets must be upgraded to exert greater power.

This is also the reason why firearms gradually withdrew from the mainstream stage after reaching a certain level.

For the existence of a secondary pseudo-god like Upper Manticore with a "resistance field", or the existence of a gluttonous monarch, the role of firearms is even minimal. So at a certain level, it will be replaced with a rune cold weapon that can exert the full power of psionic energy, or a more powerful sanctuary weapon.

Speaking of it, Chen Xing didn't have any idea about his sanctuary armed forces, and he didn't know how to condense it. It seemed that he had to ask someone to ask.

The Sanctuary Armed Forces, also known as the "Heaven Armed Forces", are ancient memories in the mark of life, an ancient heritage flowing in the blood, recreating the glory of the past with the power of manifestation.

Sanctuary armed is a symbol of the lord level, but it is not the only symbol. In fact, there are many people who have not been able to condense at the high lord level, and not every sanctuary powerhouse has something.

"Maybe I don't..."

Chen Xing thought very sadly. It is easy for him to classify himself as a less talented one. No way, it's been like this all these years, he and he is used to others without him.

But then again, his ability to manifest guns and bullets with psionic energy is already the prototype of the sanctuary armed. Psionic manifestation is not the ability to manifest everything in the world, but the ones most familiar to the person concerned.

For example, Chen Xing is all kinds of firearms and bullets, as well as Yingren's knives and combat daggers, such as the axe, big knife and spear.

From the few words in the magazine, it can be felt that the sanctuary armed forces may be the enlightenment brought about by some accumulation. It is purely a matter of the spiritual realm, and it should not have much relationship with energy.

It's just that there is no one with Sanctuary Arms around him, Ye Yang Bailiu hasn't yet, and only Lexi has met him, but he can't ask his enemies, right?

This matter can only be put aside for a while, first solve the problem of making money, and then get a few more pseudo-devices that absorb the void magic energy, not to mention the sanctuary armed, the energy is increased, and the goblin legion will increase.