Chapter XXXVII Industrial Zones
"This is my munitions factory, and there are hundreds of meters of laborers working for me, delivering metal gadgets to the good guys or the bad guys. We won't go in, the temperature inside is simply not human. ”
I always feel that this sentence is a bit contradictory
Zhao Chenwu pointed to the fiery military factory that seemed to be in operation, and proudly explained to Jiang Chen that this appearance was not much different from those developers in the world.
"And this one too, but the production here is all some expensive things, such as .50 caliber fixed sentry guns, and the things equipped on the inner ring wall are basically from my factory."
When he walked to a factory building that was obviously much smaller than the building just now, Zhao Chenwu pointed with a finger holding a cigarette and continued.
The last days will naturally not be without such things as cigarettes. Alcohol could not be produced on a large scale due to food shortages, so smoking became a relief device for most people. The smell of tobacco burning here has a strong spicy taste, and not everyone is used to smoking it. Radiation has brought uncontrollable mutations to life across the planet, but not all mutations are malignant. This particular tobacco, for example, adapts to the soil of the wasteland like the mutated plants that can be found everywhere. It can be planted in a large area without high-end cultivation technology, which is why cigarettes are not expensive in the last days. Many survivors plant a few plants in front of their homes, both for medicinal purposes and for smoking cigarettes.
Jiang Chen naturally couldn't stand this spicy taste, Zhao Chenwu smiled when he saw this, and said that he could just throw it away if he didn't care about it. In fact, this is all relative, when he took over the China handed by Jiang Chen, Zhao Chenwu also felt that the taste was too light and unpleasant.
"Oh? I'm also quite interested in this kind of automatic weapon, I don't know if it's inconvenient for Boss Zhao to sell me a few units? Jiang Chen watched as an employee in white overalls used a tablet to adjust the half-human-tall machine, controlling the muzzle of a 360-degree rotation to aim at the target in the isolation room, pouring ferocious firepower.
"Hahaha, of course no problem. However, the production of this thing is really low, and the sixth block has recently updated the equipment of the northern checkpoint, and the orders are scheduled for two months. I have to trouble Boss Jiang and so on. ”
"It's okay." Jiang Chen smiled absently.
The two walked side by side in this high-tech factory, and the female secretary named Su Lei followed behind the two, carrying Zhao Chenwu's briefcase in her hand. The people along the way saluted the three of them, and they felt like leaders entering the factory to inspect.
Seriously, after taking a turn in this factory, Jiang Chen became more and more frightened the more he looked at it. Including the kind of magnetic levitation drone the size of a frisbee, and the half-assembled 2-meter-tall power armor
Although as Zhao Chenwu said, the output of these things is very low, because facilities such as military factories must be the focus of wartime, and it may not be difficult to scavenge from the wasteland to the civilian-level assembly line, but it is a joke to find a complete military production line.
Including the power armor under construction, most of the equipment is hand-built. Jiang Chen watched a worker holding something like a hammer, beating the armor plate in the high temperature state little by little, and some workers carefully assembling tiny electronic components into the armor, perhaps these processes were completed through high-precision automatic production lines before the war, but in the last days, many things have to rely on manual DIY.
Of course, the lack of manufacturing processes is all for complex equipment. Bullet assembly line or something, it's still easy to solve.
But even so, there is no doubt about the firepower that the survivors will be able to have. No matter how hard the zombie's head is, it's just a bullet for a headshot. Even though the blades of the Claws can tear through the shell of power armor, there are still tanks as its mortal enemies.
So the question is, even with such powerful equipment, can't humans conquer those bloodthirsty xenos and zombies?
Thinking of this, Jiang Chen couldn't help but be a little silent, he was very curious about what kind of existence existed in the city center.
"Some of this equipment will go into my private army, and some of it will be sold to the army in the Sixth Block or other interested buyers. However, power armor is generally not allowed to be sold, and some heavy weapons such as spider tanks are also prohibited. Unless it's a munitions bill voted by the Sixth Block Council, my factory won't start producing these hard-to-serve things. Zhao Chenwu didn't notice Jiang Chen's contemplation, but said to himself, his words had the meaning of giving Jiang Chen a preventive shot, if Jiang Chen wanted to buy a power armor, he would really be embarrassed.
"Oh? So Boss Zhao is an arms dealer? Jiang Chen put the question behind him and asked after smiling.
"Half of it, I also have a pharmaceutical factory, and I also run some real estate business in the inner circle. If Mr. Jiang Chen is interested in buying a house in the inner circle, you might as well come to me, haha. Zhao Chenwu took a puff of cigarette, said with a hearty smile, and casually took a ring-shaped arm guard from the table and threw it into Jiang Chen's hand.
"Boss Jiang is away all the year round, so this nitrogen armor should be regarded as a gift from me."
"Then it's better to be respectful than to obey." Jiang Chen didn't shirk either, after taking it, he smiled and put it on his hand, and then looked at Zhao Chenwu with an inquiring gaze.
What does this stuff do?
Zhao Chenwu beckoned to the soldier who was testing the equipment on the side, and the man immediately saluted, and then ran to the center of the isolation room. I saw the soldier unfold the nitrogen armor in his hand, and the high-density gas ripples spread out from the ring in the center of the arm like a viscous stream of water.
At this moment, a heavy machine gun appeared in front of the soldier, and the black hole sprayed tongues of fire directly from the muzzle.
Because the sound insulation effect was so good, Jiang Chen couldn't hear the sound in the isolation room, but he was surprised to find that all the bullets were bounced around after touching the nitrogen barrier. The soldier standing behind the shield still maintained a half-crouching posture, not even the impact of the bullet.
Boy! It's just a shield?
"Through the inert atomic vortex effect, the nitrogen is pulled by the central field to form a high-pressure circulation haha, in short, the theoretical things will be handed over to those experts to have a headache, I just look at the effect. Is Boss Jiang satisfied with this thing? Zhao Chenwu waved his hand to signal that the test was over, and then the machine gun was lowered.
"Satisfied, very satisfied. I don't know if there are any restrictions on the use of this thing. Jiang Chen played with it for a while and put it away.
"It's not too restrictive, but the energy consumption is a bit high, and the overheating problem of the central worm device has not been solved so far. 1 point of subcrystalline is probably enough to activate this thing for 1 minute, and it will overheat after 10 seconds of continuous use. After using it for a while, I am afraid that the subcrystals consumed will be more expensive than the cost of making it. And it has little effect on optical weapons and particle weapons, of course, the effect on kinetic weapons is still good. Zhao Chenwu spat out the smoke ring and said.
"I didn't expect Boss Zhao's military factory to have the ability to develop weapons." Jiang Chen sighed and said.
"Haha, that's natural, but it's not selling very well, and not too many people can afford it. But my scientists are working on applying this thing to power armor, and see if the local armor can make it useful Not to mention this, this annoying thing is just left to the experts, haha, or that sentence, I just look at the effect. ”
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After leaving the factory, Zhao Chenwu took Jiang Chen to the pharmaceutical factory to go around. However, the size of the pharmaceutical factory is small, so there is not much to visit. It is said that the genetic potions produced here occupy 30% of the market share in the sixth block, and there are other potions that are also very popular in the wasteland. Like adrenaline and the like, hematopoietic needles and the like.
After seeing all this, the two of them went to the door of the slum together.
It was still the talent market administrator named Wang Yi, and I saw that after the fat man who thanked him saw Zhao Chenwu, he ran out like flying, and then bowed exaggeratedly. It's a bit funny, but it's surprisingly not boring. It seems that this fat man is not an ordinary person, and in the last days, he can live so nourishingly by flattery, and ordinary people can't do it.
Zhao Chenwu didn't talk too much nonsense with this little person, just glanced at the female secretary Su Lei behind him, and then continued to brag with Jiang Chen. Su Lei took out a piece of paper from her briefcase, and then handed it to Wang Yi's hand very competently. I saw that after Wang Yiwei took the document, he immediately nodded and said that it must be done, and quickly ran back to the office, and quickly took out a stack of documents.
"Just pick, these are surplus laborers who don't have a job, don't worry about getting into trouble by moving the workers in other people's factories," Zhao Chenwu waved his hand, and Su Lei stepped forward and handed the stack of documents to Jiang Chen's hand. These 30 people Jiang Chen has reached an agreement with Zhao Chenwu to transfer them to Jiang Chen at the price of 20 subcrystals per person, and the settlement has been made when the goods are delivered just now.
Among them, 1 Yajing is the official price for the sale of criminals, and the other 19 Yajing is the cost of installing the latest insurance system at Jiang Chen's request. Among them, Zhao Chenwu didn't earn a penny from Jiang Chen, and it was purely sold to him at cost price as a personal favor. After all, compared to the benefits brought by trade agreements, this petty altruism is really a bit unacceptable.
The latest safety system, much safer than an electronic collar, was achieved by nanoscale surgery, implanting a microchip in the back of the slave's cervical spine. As soon as someone betrays the phenomenon, Jiang Chen can directly activate the self-destruct program in the microchip, and the traitor's head will fly like a football to a few meters away, although it is cruel, but Jiang Chen does not intend to take his own safety to pity people other than important people.
At the same time, this chip also has functions such as nerve current polygraph, map positioning, optic nerve access, and nerve signal blocking. It can be said that slaves have nothing to speak of, and they have no ability to betray at all. This is more high-end than that electronic collar I don't know how many times, of course, the price is also N times higher.
However, Jiang Chen is a very enlightened person, as long as these people don't have crooked thoughts, he doesn't mind letting them live a much more comfortable life than here.
"Haha, if you fancy one, tell me directly, and they will be 'expelled' immediately because they have a terminal illness." Zhao Chenwu just opened his mouth to decide the fate of this voter.
I have to say, rights are a really good thing.
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Jiang Chen took a bunch of resume-like things and quickly flipped through them. This kind of resume is not like a bunch of in the past, but a very intuitive record of how valuable a person is. How to put it, after passing the special assessment procedure, the review process of artificial intelligence makes a judgment from an objective point of view, and then gives an intuitive overview of the ability. For example, if you have computer literacy, then it can give you five levels of how far you can use computer literacy.
Like a construction major, a mechanical major, or something like that, in the sixth block, where there is a surplus of labor, if it weren't for the outstanding ability assessment level, I really couldn't find any jobs. Let's just say that Zhao Chenwu himself didn't want to go into the munitions field, and the guys fiddling with bullets on the assembly line are all mechanical experts. Of course, he was able to work there not because of his mechanics major, but because of his good physical fitness.
However, for Jiang Chen, these talents are all treasures, because he really needs manpower too much.
Talents in various high-tech majors account for one-third, and construction, mechanical repair, chemistry and other applied technical talents account for two-thirds. Priority is given to those with special abilities, such as what Jiang Chen can cook or something, will consider it.
Then there is the priority of good physical fitness, after all, it takes work to renovate the villa.
Then there is the priority of having a family. With a strong sense of belonging to a family, Jiang Chen doesn't have to worry too much about their loyalty. In addition, it also saves you from worrying about the physiological problems of this group of people.
Jiang Chen handed the selected resume to Su Lei's hand, and then the capable female secretary quickly took the 30 resumes to the door of the slum.
It could be seen that Zhao Chenwu had already greeted the slum manager, and after a while, those people were summoned and taken to the isolation room. In the name of quarantine, in fact, the diagnosis report or something has been written a long time ago, and all 30 people were labeled as X1 flu epidemics, and then taken to the confinement room to be implanted with slavery chips.
(Person) rights? Joke, there are still people talking about (human) power in the last days?
From the moment they received the base's nutritional supplement from the base, their freedom was no longer theirs.
Jiang Chen didn't rush to see these people, but returned to the inner circle with Zhao Chenwu. By the way, Zhao Chenwu helped Jiang Chen log in the gene ID in the white list of the inner circle, and after that, Jiang Chen did not need to pay the gate tax of 1 sub-crystal when he entered and exited the inner circle. Although the city gate tax is not much, it can be regarded as a gesture of goodwill.
Those who were bought by Jiang Chen were "placed" with the materials, pressed by Zhao Chenwu's private forces into the sewer entrance, and went to the agreed delivery point of the goods, just waiting for Jiang Chen to go back to pick up the goods.
No matter what kind of fear those frightened survivors were going through, Jiang Chen was at Zhao Chenwu's invitation to have dinner with him at this moment. At the dinner table, the big man of the sixth block frequently toasted him, which made Jiang Chen feel a little emotional. Sure enough, the power of money is so powerful in any era.
Next, you just need to think about how to develop your strength and try to keep the cake in your hand.
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