In early November, it's late autumn in the northern wilderness. The weather turned colder and was already close to below zero at night.

Luckily, the sun was still shining during the day. On the second floor of the Orchid Town Mansion, outside the large floor-to-ceiling glass window of the bedroom, two sand finchs flew in, standing on the edge of the window and chirping.

Chen Xing was woken up by the sound of birds, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he gradually adapted to the white light.

After rolling on the bed for more than 20 minutes, looking at the table below, it was already half past ten in the morning, and Chen Xing rang the small bell on the round table at the head of the bed.

The two maids soon came in, helped him up, washed him with water, and changed him into a casual room-long shirt. This kind of shirt is looser, the hem is almost knee-high, and it is only suitable for wearing at home, and it is a little unseemly when going out.

After getting dressed, Chen Xing came to the front hall under the double-strand staircase on the first floor, and sat on the fabric sofa and waited for breakfast.

This location is the liveliest part of the whole house, whether you go to the front yard or the backyard, or go to the second floor or kitchen, you will pass by this location.

"Master, this is an almond cookie that my mother made in the morning, you can try it."

Margareth and Lady Ursula had arisen an hour earlier and sat in the antechamber waiting for him.

Chen Xing took a sip of the warm water handed by the maid and picked up a small cookie and put it in his mouth. The aroma of the roasted butter is striking, crispy and crispy, and the mashed almonds are chewy and delicious.

"It tastes good, thank you, ma'am." Chen Xing nodded to Mrs. Ursula, who was full of anticipation, and the latter immediately smiled happily. Recognition for cooking skills is a coveted compliment for every lady.

"My lord, this is the Longhe Daily the day before yesterday, and last week's Sanchahe City Mercenary Magazine." Old K handed over a newspaper and a magazine.

Now there are cars coming and going in Zombieland every day, and you can bring the newspapers from Grayhorn City, but the date will be two to three days behind. Although the information will be a little later, it is better than nothing.

Chen Xing glanced at it a few times, and there was nothing particularly new, so he put the newspapers and magazines aside, and asked Margaris, "You came here, what about your studies?" ”

"I taught myself." Margareth said with her little fist raised.

"How can this work?" Chen Xing and Lady Ursula spoke in unison, and then the two looked at each other and laughed.

"Your little apprentice has just arrived, and you are going to drive her away, what a ruthless man." Margareth sighed.

"Well, it's going to be the harvest festival soon, and it's too late for this semester. After the winter break, I'll take you to Grayhorn to find a school. Chen Xing said, his tone was unquestionable.

"All right......," Margaret replied feebly. She dared to shout at her mother, but she didn't dare to her master.

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

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

Although Chen Xing's current economic conditions are good, breakfast is still lighter.

"Master, I went to visit the Zombie Paradise yesterday, and I was so creative. I met Miss Ellie Claire and we had afternoon tea together. Margaret said excitedly.

Elle Claire is the second lady of the former Polly family and is now in charge of tour guides at Zombieland.

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

Miss Elle lamented that she hadn't been to the ball in a long time. Margareth came over and shook Chen Xing's hand, "Master, I heard that there are also many gentlemen and ladies here, Mayor Bert of Roast Duck Town, and Ambisi's family of Beauty Town, let's hold a special dance party." ”

"Okay, you go and prepare, and the money will come out of the account of the mayor's mansion." Chen Xing said briskly. Now that the Hanged Skull Alliance has been established, it is true that there should be some regular parties, he is a big man, he doesn't have this kind of idle time, at best, he just calls someone to eat. This kind of thing is better left to women.

"The location is on the rooftop of the Wilderness Hotel, remember to invite the head of the Black Snake Brigade, as well as Guo Ying from the church school, and all the people in the town guard." Chen Xing added. Guo Ying is the daughter of the Black Monster, and currently runs a school of the Holy Light Church in the town, specializing in teaching the children in the town the basics and the teachings of the Holy Light. Residents and displaced people can attend school free of charge as long as they have lived for one year.

Before breakfast was over, the details of the ball were finalized, and Margaret and Lady Ursula were to run it.

After eating, Chen Xing called Xiao Yang and drove the wilderness bus to the entrance of the No. 65 underground survival center.

Putting down the folding tables and chairs, laying out the tablecloths, and pouring red wine, Chen Xing's heart moved, and a tide of goblins poured out of the field, rushing into the door of the underground survival center and starting to clean up the garbage inside.

On the flat ground not far from Chenxing, there are mountains of metal garbage. Termites and workers the size of calves line up to bring things underground.

A large number of termites also participated in the clean-up work, they did not have the dexterous hands of goblins, and could not disassemble delicate parts such as screws and wires, but they were strong in carrying and could transport disassembled items out of the ground.

Underground Shelter 65 is huge, with a capacity of more than 50,000 people. If you hire workers to clean up, it will inevitably cost a lot of wages.

Goblins and anthills are completely free, saving a lot.

Next, when the clean-up is complete, the workers are allowed to go in and reinstall the ventilation ducts and air conditioning, and then the renovation of the escape room project begins.

The craftsmanship of the Goblin Craftsman is relatively rough and cannot undertake the delicate decoration work, so he has to hire another decorator to do it.

The water for the underground shelter is connected from the underground water station, and the two are originally connected, but they are in disrepair and need to replace the underground water pipes.

As for the power supply, a small thermal power station will have to be built.

Thermal power stations generate electricity from oil. Each fringe town generates its own electricity from small power generation units, and if a power station is built, it can be expanded to the surrounding fringe towns.

It is even possible to consider the construction of small nuclear power stations, covering a larger area, and the cost of generating electricity and transportation costs will be minimized.

The world's nuclear energy technology is so advanced that the size 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 also lose money.

After all, the income in the border towns is low, and many displaced people cannot afford electricity.

Thermal power stations are cheaper, two or three million gold coins can be solved, but the cost of power generation is relatively high, one is that under the same power generation, the price of fuel oil is much higher than uranium-235. The second is the high cost of transportation, which requires constant transportation of oil from the nearest port, that is, Crow Market. There is no water transportation, you can only rely on tank trucks, and there are safety risks on the road, and the price can be imagined.

The main reason for the high cost of oil-fired power generation is that there are no more oil fields in the laterite world. On the one hand, it had been mined before the cataclysm, and on the other hand, the ground was full of living dead, and there were some sleeping undercurrent creatures, and the risk of drilling was too high.

At present, the main source of fuel is the world debris, and there are many large world debris with rich oil reserves, but they are all monopolized by several large multinational oil companies, and West Africa 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 I don't have much money in the account, so let's get two sets of generators to make do with it, and then talk about it when I make money.

Moreover, the investment value of the fringe town is not very large, first, the infrastructure is too expensive, and second, the output is too small, unless he can build the place into a resort in the wilderness like Shin-Edo, no matter how much he invests, he will lose money.

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

This is the northern wilderness, deep into the heart of the Red Country. Not to mention that the current situation is tense, even in normal times, it is unlikely that the elites will come here. Unless you are idle and panicked, you are not afraid of being kidnapped.

The reason why the edge town is a edge town is that there are many congenital deficiencies that are difficult to make up. Even if you are a traverser, it is difficult to change the perception of two worlds.

Busy until the sun went down, Chen Xing withdrew the goblin army and returned to the mansion. Although the goblin has his own consciousness and does not need him to bother commanding, it has been a long time to summon the army, and his spirit is inevitably a little tired, so he can only wait for tomorrow to continue to work.

In addition, termite worker ants also need to take care of ant colonies and cannot work underground all day long.

In terms of progress, it will take two or three days to complete the cleaning of the underground shelter and start installing the ventilation ducts.

Chen Xing finished dinner and came to the study on the second floor of the mansion.

On the ground is a gold-painted red carpet, which is a woven carpet produced in Saudi Arabia that was transported from Sanchahe City.

As a nomadic people of Dafangzhou, for thousands of years they have lived in felt tents made of sheepskin, and thick blankets are spread on the ground to protect them from cold and dampness. The love and understanding of carpets has far surpassed that of other peoples.

Only the carpets of Saudi Arabia are the best choice.

On both sides were bookcases full of books, but except for a few hot ones in the corner, Chen Xing basically didn't move.

In the middle is a single arched floor-to-ceiling window with thick blackout curtains hanging from the side, followed by a walnut desk more than two meters long, with a polished, clean and spotless top.

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

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

To be precise, it is jadeite jade.

This was excavated by him from the left-handed world, and there were many on the side of the North Bridge Regiment.

In the last life, there was a boom in jadeite collecting in the Red Kingdom, and the reason for this was the jade artifacts unearthed in the left-handed world.

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

Jade is a thing that cannot be sold in large quantities at one time, it must come in waves, otherwise the price will soon be lowered by the quantity.

It is the right thing to do to build a culture slowly, and then gradually increase the price, and create hunger marketing.

He has already checked the relevant history, before the cataclysm, the Eastern Continent once flourished jade culture, and now there are people who collect it, but due to the scarcity of quantity, it has been unable to form a market, so it can only be used

Artifacts in museums.

The Beiqiao regiment also excavated a lot, adding up to several tons, and if it is done well, it will not be a problem to get a few million gold coins.

Although he can harvest through Sora using virtual games, it is Nova's home turf and most of it will be taken by her. And the investment in developing virtual games is not small, and he has little experience, so he has no advantage over other companies, so forget it.

However, he had a preliminary idea of opening a game machine hall, which is commonly known as an "arcade machine" on the earth. He found that this type of ride had not been developed in the world.

He has learned about the history of games, from eight-bit home game consoles to personal computers, to 128-bit three-dimensional video game consoles, to all-round virtual game warehouses, the entire game industry has developed like the earth, but there is no coin-operated arcade arcade.

Of course, now that network technology is so developed, 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, and this retro mode of the game hall may not be able to make any money, but Chen Xing is not interested in ordinary arcade games, but gambling machines, which are commonly known as "fruit machines" and "horse racing machines", etc., which are the real money-making things.

This type of game machine has a similar one in New Edo, and it is a machine that plays with steel balls and is very popular.

Chen Xing plans to develop a batch of them and try to operate them in the 65 underground survival center, and will also add game projects such as balloon shooting and throwing hoops.

Although it is not as good as Shin-Edo's geographical location, it is always closer to the northern wilderness than to the central wilderness for people in the Red Country. To get to New Edo, you need to take a plane or a floatboat, and you only need to take a bus to Orchid Town.

"Tuk Tuk ......"

There was a knock on the door outside, then Margareth's voice, "Master, are you inside?" ”

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

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

Margareth asked, flicking two golden ponytails.

"It's a sniper's skill, but I think you like to use a submachine gun." Chen Xing said.

"It's too cumbersome to aim." Margareth shrugged.

"I suggest you learn Psionic Bursts, also known as Continuous Charge Shots." Chen Xing suggested.

There are two learning directions for charged 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, and the other is the direction of the assaulter with low power and high rate of fire, and you can learn auxiliary skills such as psionic rage and psionic magazines later.

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

"Okay, I'll listen to Master." Then Margareth took out the corresponding skill book on the bookshelf and sat in the corner reading quietly.

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

His trio was promoted to a septet, but the quintet was used for energy storage shooting, and the improvement was not significant. The reason for this is that the amplification exceeds the carrying limit of guns and bullets, which must be upgraded to be more powerful.

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

For a sub-level pseudo-god with a "resistance field" like Manticor, or an existence like the Gluttonous Monarch, the role of guns is even more minimal. Therefore, at a certain point, it will be replaced by a rune cold weapon that can exert the full power of spiritual energy, or a more powerful Sanctuary weapon.

Speaking of which, Chen Xing didn't have any idea about his Sacred Domain armament, and he didn't know how to condense it, so it seemed that he had to find someone to ask.

The Sanctuary Armament, also known as the "Heavenly Armament", is an ancient memory in the imprint of life, an ancient inheritance flowing through the bloodline, restoring the glory of the past with the power of manifestation.

Sanctuary armament is a sign of the lord level, but it is not the only one. In fact, there are many people who have not been able to condense at the Great Lord level, and not every Sacred Domain powerhouse has it.

"Maybe I don't......"

Chen Xing thought sadly. It's easy for him to put himself in the less talented category. No way, it's been like this all these years, he's used to others having him anymore.

But then again, he was able to use psionic energy to manifest guns and bullets, which was already the prototype of the Sanctuary armament. Psionic manifestations are not the ones that manifest all things in the world, but those that are most familiar to the person concerned.

For example, Chen Xing is all kinds of guns and bullets, as well as Yingren knives and battle daggers, such as axes, big knives and spears, cannot be revealed, because he himself does not use or understand.

From the few words in the magazine, it can be felt that the Sanctuary Armament may be some kind of enlightenment brought about by accumulation, and it is purely something in the spiritual realm, and it should have little to do with energy.

It's just that there is no one with the Sacred Domain armed around him, Ye Yang Bailiu has not, and only Lacey has encountered it, but he can't ask the enemy, right?

This matter can only be put aside for a while, first solve the matter of making money, and then get a few more fakes that absorb the magic energy of the void, not to mention the Sanctuary armament, the energy has been enhanced, and the Goblin Legion will also increase.