This Game is Too Real

   Chapter 275 Can be used as both food and feed

The tenth day of the    wave eruption.

   Many players have found that there have been some strange NPCs on the battlefield in the past two days.

They wore orange chemical protective suits, black gas masks on their heads, and did not communicate with others. Usually, the two of them carried a stretcher and removed the alien corpses from the battlefield in groups of three or five. Busy until the sun goes down.

   These NPCs are very efficient. The two of them can transport four or five hundred corpses out a day. At first glance, they are experts who often do this work.

   Some attentive players even saw that they actually had a KV-1 exoskeleton in their hands?

  Although it is a "fruit outfit" without welded steel plates and no weapons mounted, it still costs 800 silver coins to put in the NPC shop, which is equivalent to four LD-47 rifles.

   The players leaning behind the concrete **** bunkers watched curiously at the backs of these NPCs and whispered.

   "What else did the dog plan do?"

   "Add professional corpse hunter?"

   "Comfortable, someone has finally cleaned up these shits."

   "+1, it stinks!"

   "It's obvious that the pain can be blocked, but the odor can't be blocked!"

   Cleaning up xenomorph corpses is not easy.

   With the players' brains, all the methods that can be used must be used.

   At first everyone discussed the plan to use fire, but the actual situation is not as optimistic as imagined. Often the surface layer is burned into coke, the fire is extinguished, and the buried body is still alive.

  This game always fails in weird places. One Molotov cocktail is enough to kill two or three gnaws, but to burn them to ashes, three Molotov cocktails are not enough.

  The water content of the fruiting bodies of slime molds is much higher than that of humans, and the water vapor itself will take away a lot of heat.

   Plus things like fats, grease analogs, etc. are not so easy to ignite and often require constant additions of large amounts of fuel to keep the fire going.

   If it is difficult to understand, you can try a piece of meat from the refrigerator, it will take a while to get it cooked, let alone burn it to ashes.

   At present, the main way to deal with these corpses on the front line is to drag them out of the city to bury them, but the transfer speed of the corpses is far behind the accumulation speed.

The main offensive of the    wave usually lasts from 6 o'clock in the evening to 6 o'clock in the next morning, hitting the players' positions in a continuous form.

   Counting the crawlers that the hunter team searched and killed in the ruins, each player can kill more than 30 creepers every day on average.

   Obviously, the number of these alien species is far more than the original estimate of 100,000.

   After all, the number of players killed in a day is around 20,000 to 30,000, and the wave has passed for ten days, but there is no sign of weakening.

   Fortunately, limited by factors such as the width of the battlefield, the huge number of waves cannot be fully deployed. If you encounter so many alien species on the plain, I am afraid that the number of players will be doubled and it will inevitably fall into a hard fight.

  According to the statistics posted by the players responsible for transporting ammunition to the front line, the consumption of ammunition has been around 100,000 rounds per day in the past three days.

   The weight of a full-power 7mm bullet is close to 25g, and 100,000 rounds is 2.5 tons of ammunition.

   In order to get enough materials for the ammunition production line, Chu Guang could only mobilize the new people to dig the ancestral graves of the people's union, and at the same time direct the military factory to open two new ammunition production lines to produce steel core and steel shell bullets.

  Compared with copper-cased ammunition, although steel-cased ammunition has many problems such as poor ductility, inability to reload, and possible rust, in Chu Guang's view, all the shortcomings can be overshadowed by one advantage - that is, cheap.

  Anyway, the ammunition will soon be sent to the front line to be consumed. It is a bit redundant to consider the issue of preservation. The ammunition produced by the assembly line does not need to be reloaded. The recovered bullet casings are directly sent to the steel factory for melting.

  From the eighth day, the battle situation on the front line entered the consumption stage.

   Batches of ammunition were transported to the front line, and batches of corpses were dragged down from the front line, most of which belonged to the aliens, and a small number of players.

   At first, the corpses were moved by the newcomers and dragged to the suburbs to dig a pit and bury them, but recently a group of professional NPCs took over these tasks, and the corpses disappeared, and no new pits were dug.

  Many players who love to pick up details are full of confusion and curiosity.

   What about the corpses of aliens?

Where did    go?

   But this curiosity did not last long.

  Some careful life professional players soon discovered that in the southernmost part of the new industrial zone, after the Bachi Aluminum Factory, another NPC factory was opened, named DiDiwei Food Processing Factory.

   The main products of this factory are nutritional pastes and organic fertilizers, and it also supplies sulphur and apatite to fertilizer plants.

   Those trucks coming down from the front.

   seems to be running there...

  …

   "Wasteland OL" official website.

   I found that the WC in the New World really has mosquitoes, so I couldn't wait to open a post on the forum,

   "Big news! The whereabouts of the gnawing corpse have been found!"

  Short bullshit: "Where did you go??"

  Makabazi: "Hurry up! Don't be so rude!"

   Battlefield Atmosphere Team: "That's it!"

   Seeing the public outrage, Mosquito, who wanted to let the topic ferment for a while and then unravel the mystery, did not dare to continue to sell the secret, and hurriedly typed.

   "Didiwei Food Processing Factory! It's in the far south of the industrial zone. I saw with my own eyes, those trucks dragging dead bodies went straight in!"

  Old Bai: "Pfft...this name."

   quit smoking: "What the hell?! I bought one yesterday! (horrified

  Ye Shi: "It's awesome! You even bought it?!"

  Quit Smoking: "Uh, it's mainly cheap. A pound of nutritional cream is only 1 silver coin, so you can eat two meals. (embarrassment

   Fang Chang: "It's not so. (laughs and cry

  Ye Shi: "I feel bad for my brother who quit smoking... This is too economical. (covering his face

  Siss: "Hey...Are the foodies finally not letting go of the eaters?"

  Tail: "Shocked! This is a loss of morality, or a distortion of human nature!"

  Quit Smoking: "Hey! Is it weird to save money to buy equipment? I just want to spend the silver coins in more useful places. Don't you plan to spend while playing games?"

Gufeng: "Depending on the situation, if you can get satisfaction from virtual food in the game, it means that the food is part of the game experience provided by the operator. In order to become stronger, is it possible to put the cart before the horse by sacrificing part of the game experience? (Squint eyes) )”

  Tail: "Oh! Tail thinks so too! (ω

Irena: "To be fair, the gnat is the fruiting body of the slime mold, right? Although it looks a bit like a mammal, it should be biologically a mushroom, right? It's okay to eat it, right? But what I don't understand is that , Why can't you eat it directly, you can eat it when you make it into a nutritional paste. (Funny

   Elf King Fugui: "Lao Na, what do you want to do. (Funny

  Irena: "Nothing, just curious. (funny

  Curiosity is curiosity. Even if Lao Na, who is far away in Honghe Town, is curious about the taste, she has no chance to taste it.

   However, there are quite a few small players who are keen to kill themselves. With curiosity, they took out a silver coin to buy a pound and tried it for him.

  It’s not expensive anyway.

   One silver coin can't buy you a loss, you can't be fooled.

   Some small players who are willing to share, even posted testimonials on the official website.

   Objective evaluation, the taste of the nutritional paste made of mutated slime mold is not particularly interesting. And because of the low salt and sugar content, it has almost no taste.

   If that's the case, it wouldn't be too hard to swallow, but what really tormented people was the sand-like taste, which was really hard to describe.

   After eating, I always feel a mouthful of phlegm stuck in my throat.

   Coupled with the green color, it fully suppresses the appetite.

   Many players finally realized why some NPCs would rather starve to death than eat this stuff.

   This thing is really not for people to eat!

   After posting the testimonials, the topic on the forum quickly became how to make the nutritional cream less difficult to swallow.

  Tomato scrambled eggs: "If you can get a wall breaker and beat the particles finer, the taste will be better."

  Yoya: "You can add a little more chocolate and sugar! (

  Tengteng: "Wait...it's going to be expensive, right?"

   Fangchang: "+1, the cart before the horse."

   Originally, the characteristic of nutritional cream is that it is extremely cheap.

  Those who can eat chocolate can’t buy something like nutritional cream no matter what they think.

  The topic quickly changed from "how to make nutritional cream less unpalatable" to "how to make nutritional cream less unpalatable with the lowest cost".

   At this time, a chemical player suddenly appeared.

   "How about a little saccharin?"

   "Sodium phthaloylsulfonimide? Cheap is cheap enough, but it's not good for the body."

   "There is a safe dosage, it doesn't matter if it is less than 5mg per kilogram of body weight... It's all waste, so what else can I pick?"

   "Big Brother 666!"

   "Is this the way to bring capitalists?"

   "Let's queue first, there are not enough street lights. (funny

  …

  While the players were still discussing, the Didiwei Food Processing Factory, located in the southernmost part of the industrial zone, was working overtime.

  The area of ​​the factory building is not small, about the size of a football field. One of the two warehouses collapsed, and the remaining one has a good structure and can be used.

   Judging from the broken bricks on the ground, this place should have just been cleaned up, and many places have not had time to clean, but this does not affect production.

After inspecting the industrial area and Changchang Farm in the northern suburbs three days ago, Ditway immediately attracted a group of small and medium-sized grain merchants in Boulder City, raised a huge amount of 300,000 chips, and purchased a complete set of nutritional paste production equipment. Together with the old one in his small workshop, he hired mercenaries and sent it to the northern suburbs.

  The land rent in the northern suburban industrial zone is very cheap, and the rent is free for the first two years. The only costs are utilities, management fees, and 20% corporate income tax.

   Compared to Boulder City, this cost is already very low.

  Especially the employment cost here is cheap.

   The basic daily salary of an ordinary worker is 10 silver coins. Including meals, etc., the actual cost for a month is only about 400 silver coins. If twenty workers are employed, the monthly cost is only 8,000 silver coins.

What is the concept of   8000 silver coins?

   Honestly, Ditwi doesn’t have an accurate concept either.

  The exchange rate conversion standard provided by the bank is that one chip can be exchanged for 2 silver coins, but this is definitely not the market exchange rate, otherwise the wages of the workers here are ridiculously high, and the basic daily salary can reach 5 chips.

   What's more, the banks here only provide the service of changing chips, dinars, and CR into silver coins, and cannot directly exchange silver coins for chips or other currencies in turn.

   If you must use the chips, you need to apply for the enterprise as a unit, write clearly which equipment to buy, and then exchange it after approval.

  The control of foreign exchange is very strict here.

   But not as strict as other small survivor settlements in Qingquan City, such as prohibiting residents from holding chips privately or trading with foreign merchants privately.

  Dittwei doesn't really care about that.

  Although there is no way to exchange silver coins for chips, you can buy things with silver coins, and then transport them to Boulder City to sell.

  The products produced can also be taken away at will, and they can be exported as long as the duty is paid.

   In addition, Vault 404 also provided him with a ready-made factory building and a low-interest loan of 600,000 silver coins to pay for a series of expenses such as labor, water and electricity.

   is equivalent to coming here to set up a factory without spending a penny!

   It's enough to get out the equipment and technology!

   As for the loss, it doesn’t matter, the factory is limited liability system, the debt will not be traced back to the individual, at most the equipment and other assets will be auctioned.

   Such generous conditions, Ditwi was moved to tears!

   "...At present, the average daily processing capacity of our plant has reached 100 tons, with a daily production capacity of 10 tons of nutritional paste and 4 tons of organic fertilizers!"

   "I promise you, this number will at least double again by the end of the month! Maybe even triple!"

  Walk in the spacious workshop.

   The red-faced Ditwi was enthusiastically introducing the production line he got from Boulder City to the manager next to him.

  I saw workers in protective clothing throwing the corpses of gnats, creepers, and even butchers on the truck into containers made of steel.

   Their appearance and what they are doing are completely unreminiscent of food production, but rather like destroying corpses.

  The corpses in the container were stuffed up, and the workers standing on the operating table used a tower crane-like device to hoist the container and move it to the top of the cylindrical metal tank as thick as an oil tank.

  As the container tilted, the corpses of different species fell into the huge metal tank like dumplings.

  The round hatch was closed, the pressure indicator began to rise, and with a humming sound, the whole set began to work.

   And the same thick metal cans, there are a total of eight here!

After these corpses are canned, they will undergo 24 hours of high temperature, drying, inactivation, extrusion and other processes, and then transported through pipelines to the workshop located on the side of the factory building, and then go through a series of complex procedures to separate the active ingredients. .

  After this series of pretreatments, the thick substance produced is like a lump of green slime, and basically no relationship with the mutant slime mold can be seen.

   Ignore the smell, even a little cute.

   "... 100 tons is still a bit less. The frontline kills 20,000 aliens every day. I hope you can handle more than 400 tons by the end of the month."

   Looking at the equipment in the factory with interest, Chu Guang asked casually.

   "By the way, what about the sales? Is the produced nutritional cream easy to sell?"

   This is the second question that Chu Guang is concerned about.

  Ditvey smiled and said confidently.

   "Don't worry about this, although these devices are not the most advanced, but our cost is cheap enough! In terms of price, we have an absolute advantage to beat our competitors!"

   In addition to the cheap production cost, setting up a factory here has a huge advantage over setting up a factory in Jushicheng, that is, convenient transportation.

   Qingquan City is rich in resources, but the road conditions are really indescribable. One kilometer here is more difficult than ten kilometers outside the city.

   In front of a two- or three-meter-long tunnel and a four-to-five-meter-high cliff, not to mention a wheeled vehicle, even a crawler vehicle would be prohibitive.

   Therefore, when the caravans of the Stone City do business with the surrounding areas, they usually choose two-headed cattle or other livestock as means of transportation.

  Some cross-regional caravans also choose to settle outside the city, and then hire local ox carts to communicate with the survivors' strongholds in the city.

   However, in the northern suburbs, this problem is much better solved.

  This place itself is a suburb, and it is a wilderness outside the city. The products produced in the factory can be directly loaded on trucks and towed away.

"...At present, my partner has secured an order worth two hundred thousand chips from farmers in the South, who need a lot of nutritional paste to feed their slaves and livestock, and our price and supply are beyond their ability to refused!

   "The other party even expressed their willingness to pick up the goods, which will be a long-term deal!"

  Chu Guang glanced at him unexpectedly.

   "Can nutritional cream be fed to livestock?"

  Ditvey had a confident smile on his face.

"Of course! The nutrient paste can be eaten by humans, and of course by animals, and it's all very high-quality feed! Some farmers mix it with green wheat and feed it to the two-headed cattle, and this feed is fed out. will be stronger than one that eats straw and pasture!"

good.

  Chu Guang nodded with a satisfied smile on his face.

   I didn’t expect the nutritional cream to be so versatile.

   Even if this food processing factory is not well managed and cannot get loans, and finally goes bankrupt and liquidated, he doesn’t have to worry about losing money.

   Ditwee's expression was the same.

   Although he invested a huge sum of 300,000 chips at one time, he didn't feel bad at all, because the money would be earned back soon.

  The electricity price in the industrial area of ​​Refuge 404 is the same as that of Boulder City. Taking all the costs together, the cost of each ton of nutritional paste is only 200~208 silver coins.

   According to the official exchange rate of 1 chip for 2 silver coins, it is equivalent to recharge 100 chips, and you can get one ton of nutritional cream.

   In Boulder City, the cost of producing one ton of nutritional cream is more than 200 chips even for the Weijia firm!

  Under normal circumstances, the retail price of nutritional cream is between 1~2 chips per kilogram, while the wholesale price is from 1 ton, ranging from 300 to 400 chips per ton.

what does that mean?

   This means that his cost is only half of the Vega Firm!

   Profits are more than three times theirs!

  The huge bargaining space allows him to directly hit the ex-factory price below the cost line of the other party at will!

   As for the brand effect?

  What kind of brand effect does nutrient cream for livestock need?

   The only requirement for buyers is to not eat to death and to be full. Even if a "large quantity" brand is posted on it, it will not make the nutritional cream sell better.

   No matter what Ditwi does, this is a sure-fire deal.

   And this is only the profit of the nutritional paste, the waste remaining from the production line can also be made into organic fertilizer, or sold to the chemical factory next door.

   Looking at the constantly running equipment in front of him, and listening to the rumbling sound, Ditway only felt a surge of excitement.

   If it wasn't for the manager standing next to him, he couldn't even help cheering for the mother nest that was desperately giving birth.

   "Let the tide come more violently!"

  …

   In fact, it doesn't matter even if Ditwee calls it out, Chu Guang is not so careful and will blame him for a few words.

   Made a fortune.

   It is normal to be excited.

   However, no matter how much he earns, it is impossible to earn more than Chu Guang.

   More than 70% of the production costs of the Didiwei food processing plant, whether it is water, electricity or raw material purchase fees, are directly paid to the shelter.

   Not to mention that for every ton of goods produced, a 20% tax is paid to the shelter before it is sold.

   And the wages paid to the workers, although not directly paid to the shelter, will eventually flow back to Chu Guang.

   In this circular economic chain, it not only solves the problem of employment and feeds the labor force, but also boosts the consumption power of residents and generates more demand.

   It is impossible to calculate how much Chu Guang won.

   In short, it's a win!

  …

  After inspecting the operation of the food processing factory, Chu Guang did not stay in the industrial zone for too long, but went straight to the front line.

   The battle situation on the front line has become more and more intense recently.

   In the past week, Chu Guang's work focus has basically been on the logistics side.

   Now that the problems of the plague and the fiscal deficit have been resolved, he can finally focus all his energy on solving the problem of the wave without any worries.

   Temporary Command Post.

  Chu Guang summoned the officers and staff of the front line and held a combat meeting.

   Guard Captain Wrench first reported the battle situation during this period.

   Vanus, who then served as a staff officer, compiled the intelligence and expressed his views.

   "...The stalemate has lasted for ten days, the wave's offensive shows no sign of weakening, and the loss of ammunition and personnel on the front line is constantly increasing."

   "There are indications that our enemies have incubators and even broods on the front lines, right around 65th Street."

   Having said that, Vanus drew a red circle on the map with a pen, and circled the area near the clock tower on 65th Street.

  Although there is no direct evidence to prove that the mother nest is there, but according to the pictures captured by the drone, the creepers that penetrated into the player's side positions basically spread out from here.

  Chu Guang frowned slightly.

   "That is to say, the alien species we have recently encountered are not the wave from the city center? They hatched nearby?"

  Vanus shook his head.

   "It's hard to say, but their delay in launching a full-scale offensive is quite suspicious, and it's hard not to think of something bad."

  The wrench suddenly said.

   "I don't know if that's right, but these aliens always give me a feeling... as if they're preparing something."

   After a few days of testing, these aliens have become familiar with the players’ defense strategies, but they are still sending gnaws up.

  If it wasn't for lack of IQ...

  Vanus frowned.

   "Are they stalling?"

  Wrench nodded.

"I also believe so."

  Chu Guang stared at the map and thought for a long time, then said.

   "The frontline positions have been solidified, and our ammunition depots on the edge of the Fifth Ring Road have accumulated enough ammunition and equipment. Now is the best window for counterattacks."

   said, Chu Guang glanced at the officers and staff around him.

   "Whatever they're preparing for."

   "Let's get this out of the way once and for all before they're ready!"

  ——

   (Thanks to the leaders of "Xiao Yaxi", "The Girl Riding a White Horse", and "Silence in the Wind and Rain" for the reward!!! Sorry, I'm a little late T.T today)

   (end of this chapter)