My Apocalypse Fortress Vehicle

Holding a small box of gold, Gu Zhuo was in a good mood with such a rich unexpected harvest. He returned to the Fortress of Doom, put down the box, and poured a glass of milk into Sam's bowl:

"Drink, I'll reward you tonight. Without you, I wouldn't be able to get this box of goodies."

Sam wagged his tail, barked a few times, and then began to lick the milk in the bowl with his tongue.

Gu Zhuo walked to the place where the armor was placed and took off the war machine. He noticed that Chaoying made no movement and was not in the living cabin. He probably fell asleep directly in the cab.

Sure enough, when he walked into the cab, he saw Chao Ying leaning on the passenger seat and fell into a deep sleep. He didn't even feel Gu Zhuo coming back.

Afraid that Chaoying would catch a cold, Gu Zhuo brought her a blanket and covered her gently.

He didn't want to disturb Chaoying, so he covered her with a blanket. After watching her for a while, he tiptoed back to the living cabin.

The accident he encountered in Yangzhong during the day made Gu Zhuo realize one thing. Even though his doomsday fortress had medicine and some emergency medical kits, it was useless. It still lacked a real medical equipment.

Chaoying's unexpected situation today made him really worried, fearing that something might happen to her.

Even if Chaoying recovered later, she still wouldn't know what made her look like that today. Now it's not like before. If you feel a little uncomfortable, you can go to the hospital for a full body checkup.

But it was precisely because it was unlike before that Gu Zhuocai was determined to carve out a special medical area on the Doomsday Fortress.

He may not be able to use it, but he can't live without it.

Thinking of this, he would have to trouble Chaoying again tomorrow, and she would have to draw the drawings of medical equipment.

When she thought that Chaoying had helped her so much, she had drawn him the upgrade drawings of the Doomsday Fortress and the design of the war machine. She also needed to handle the current medical facilities. Gu Zhuo couldn't help but sigh. Fortunately, he saved Chao Ying that day, otherwise he would have caused so many troubles out of thin air.

Seeing that Sam had finished drinking the milk in the bowl, Gu Zhuo knelt down and touched his head.

I don’t know when it started, but Sam went from being wary and distrustful at the beginning to now treating Chaoying as one of his own.

"Sam, go to bed and don't make too much noise, do you understand?"

Gu Zhuo whispered to Sam. He didn't want Sam to disturb Chaoying.

Hearing this, Sam gave a low "whimper" twice and returned to his kennel, sweeping his tail on the ground.

It was getting late, and it was time for Gu Zhuo himself to rest.

He glanced in the direction of the cab again before reluctantly returning to his bedroom.

After taking a bath and changing his clothes, Gu Zhuo lay on the bed and soon fell asleep.

...

"Oh shit!"

Gu Zhuo yelled and then sat up suddenly from the bed.

It was another nightmare. In the dream, the six infected people treated him like a toy, rubbing him randomly in their hands and throwing him around like garbage.

"Those idiots, they won't let me go even in my dreams!"

Gu Zhuo cursed hard and then looked at the time. It was now 7:30 in the morning, and he had only slept for three or four hours.

However, he was no longer sleepy by that dream. He got up, brushed his teeth, washed his face, and walked out of the bedroom.

Unexpectedly, Chaoying woke up early and took a shower. Her hair was now wet and hanging on both shoulders. The air conditioner was on in the Doomsday Fortress, so it wasn't cold. She only wore short sleeves.

She was sitting on a chair, looking at the small box that Gu Zhuo brought back last night and placed on the table, seeming very curious.

"Morning."

Gu Zhuo walked to her side and sat down.

"morning."

Chaoying raised his head and responded to him.

After taking a shower, before she had time to dry her hair, she was as beautiful as a hibiscus emerging from the water.

It took Gu Zhuo a lot of effort to move his eyes away from her face, and then he heard Chao Ying say:

"Did you bring this box back yesterday? I was asleep yesterday and didn't know what was in it. You didn't wake up in the morning, so I couldn't open it without permission."

"Yes, I brought it back yesterday."

As Gu Zhuo spoke, he quickly moved the box between the two of them, then opened it and said:

"It was an accidental discovery. There is actually a hall hidden in this ruins. It is probably a big bandit den. They wanted to sell off the stolen goods and sealed the entire hall. If it weren't for Sam, I wouldn't have discovered it at all yesterday."

By the time Gu Zhuo finished speaking, the box had been opened, and the box of gold bars appeared in front of Chao Ying:

"Only this box is full of gold. I've looked at all the others, and they're all useless, just a bunch of junk."

The moment a small box of gold appeared in front of Chaoying, Chaoying took a breath and his eyes lit up.

But it wasn't because she was blinded by the wealth, but as someone with a deep understanding of materials and engineering, she knew how much the gold could help them.

"I really can't believe it. The chance of this happening is so small. It's like I'm dreaming!"

Chaoying murmured.

"Yes, but this kind of good thing actually happened to us. Maybe it was because we were so unlucky a few days ago, and now things are turning."

Gu Zhuo scratched his head and answered.

Chaoying took out a gold bar from the small box. Due to the high density of gold, gold bars that are too large are generally heavy. But the gold bars in the small box were deliberately cut into small strips, as if to make them easier to carry.

She took the gold bar in her hand and looked at it carefully, and then said:

"Generally speaking, the gold content of gold bars from the Qing Dynasty is not very high, and there were a lot of bribes at that time, so the gold content is very low. Gold ingots with high gold content are basically impossible to appear in places like this, and they should all be among collectors or wealthy people. Keep it at home.”

Hearing this, Gu Zhuo didn't know much about this, so he heard a not-so-valuable sentence and quickly asked Chaoying:

"Are you saying all this gold is not good?"

Hearing Gu Zhuo ask her such an urgent question, Chao Ying smiled, glanced at him, and replied:

"There is no distinction between good and bad. Even if it is a bribe, there is real gold in it, not brass. It is just a distinction between how much gold it contains. I really want to refine it and bring it out completely.

"In the past, the wires in mobile TVs in 2000 were made of gold wire. Even such a small gold content can be refined into gold by someone who is willing. Do you think there will be less of these gold bars?"

Hearing Chao Ying say this, Gu Zhuo breathed a sigh of relief. It’s good that I didn’t feel happy in vain yesterday.

"Then how can we extract the gold inside? Is it melted?"

"It doesn't have to be melted, but it's not inconvenient and requires a lot of chemical reagents."

Hearing that a lot of chemical reagents were needed, Gu Zhuo's Doomsday Fortress didn't seem to have any of these prepared. He could only sigh and said:

"Okay, it seems we don't have any means to extract the gold from it now."

Hearing that Gu Zhuo seemed disappointed, Chaoying asked:

"Do you really want to refine gold? For us, this doesn't seem to be a necessity now, so there is no need to worry."

Hearing this, Gu Zhuo told Chao Ying what he was thinking about last night:

"Actually, I want to install an additional medical area in the car, so that if something happens in the future, I don't have to be so panicked and helpless."

"Install a medical area?"

Chaoying repeated it, and she suddenly realized that Gu Zhuo must have done this because of the way she looked yesterday.

"Yes, but adding a medical area will definitely require you to draw the design drawings, and you will have to provide medical equipment and the like. And if you want to add a medical area inside, you will definitely have to rearrange the internal space. Maybe even expand the original space in the car.

"So I thought, let's just upgrade the Doomsday Fortress for the third time!"

Hearing this, Chao Ying nodded.

She looked at the box of gold and knew why Gu Zhuo was eager to refine pure gold. Gold can play an immeasurable role in certain aspects of the medical field. It has even become an important material for artificial organs because of its high chemical stability, good biocompatibility, and suitable mechanical properties. .

If gold nanoparticles can be added to medical devices, the functions that this medical device can provide will be very extensive.

Thinking of this, Chaoying took a breath and said:

"Okay, I will draw the design drawings, whether they are for medical equipment or the drawings required for upgrades. But the first thing we have to do is to extract the gold. As for how to extract it, we have to start from scratch. First Build a machine for refining gold."

[Author's digression]: Theoretically, it is feasible to extract gold from mobile phones and TVs. And there are people who actually make a fortune from this.

When I was a kid, I had a neighbor who recycled old phones and computers that other people didn’t want every day, and then refined gold at home, and he made a lot of money from that. But this kind of thing is very harmful to the body, and it costs money for technology and body. My grandfather knew that man and learned a little from him. If his family hadn't stopped him, my grandfather would have learned to refine gold at home with him.

My grandfather told me some gold-alchemy skills, but unfortunately I was young at that time and have forgotten all about it now. I only remember that refining gold manually at home is very harmful to the body, and it is usually done by older people.