Chapter 096: Crystal Card Crisis
Ding You was thinking that if he had such a batch of crystal cards, just taking food from the supermarket space could provide everyone in the entire base for a year and a half.
Of course, the high-tech planting and cultivation warehouse is a one-time investment, and it only needs a little manpower and some nutritional supplements to maintain in the future, and it can be used for a long time.
But no matter what, now that I lack a crystal card, how to solve the crystal card problem is the most critical.
But where can I get a lot of crystal cards?
Counting on the transactions in the material trading area, that amount is too small.
So in this case, there is a great possibility that the city center with a huge number of zombies is hidden, and it is a hurdle that cannot be bypassed!
According to the existing number of military personnel in the base, going to the city center to search for zombie crystal nuclei is not completely sure of safety. In particular, I know that there are dangerous elements such as Pan Wu in ambush not far away, and the radar in the base cannot provide long-distance support.
But no matter how difficult it is, you can't sit still, if you don't attack, you have to starve to death, how can Ding You bear to watch the nearly 20,000 people under his hands repeat the tragedy of the previous underground shelter.
Take the initiative, and maybe there's a glimmer of hope!
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Comfortable days always pass quickly, except for the incident on the first day of the new year, the next few days are relatively calm. The arrival of the eighth day of the Lunar New Year has completely opened a new chapter for the development of the new Blue Star Base.
In the early morning of the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, interested residents will find that a new consumption statistics program module has appeared on the BM bracelet they are wearing. All the consumption points earned by each person for their previous work during the trial period are recorded in it.
The main base, the 6th block, and the relevant stores in the new town of the eastern side of the mountain are all invested in the counting equipment of consumption points. In the future, when eating and shopping, all consumption points will be used for accounting, which is similar to credit card or wireless payment before the end of the world.
Some residents who see more points on their bracelets are very happy in their hearts, and more points mean more items to purchase.
Those residents with fewer points on their bracelets are secretly determined to work hard, strive to earn more consumption points, and work hard to improve their lives.
This is a benign promotion, but for Ding You, it is currently adding pressure to himself.
Because of the consumption points, residents may buy more goods at one time, and the stocking pressure of the entire base is relatively much greater than when the supply is rationed.
In order to prevent the emergence of panic buying, the Supreme Council listened to the advice of the asset management working group led by Tian Hanqiu, and stipulated that each resident could only buy up to the total amount of food in the next three days in a single day, and no repeated purchases were allowed within three days.
After all, the stocking of the whole base is not large enough for residents to open up to buy, and many shopping habits also need official guidance.
Only by reassuring the residents and convincing them that the Deep Blue Star Base can be stable for a long time, can they not hoard goods in a swarm to prevent shortages.
Because of the introduction of the new system, the way of life of the entire base has changed. It is basically in the direction of the normal order of human life before the end of the world.
With or without a family, every resident has a job, except for the older and school-educated children, who go to work in the morning and go to the market in the evening to buy groceries and cook at home.
Of course, because it is not easy to obtain consumption points in the early stage, many families do not plan to cook in their own homes for the sake of conservation, after all, the consumption of energy and water resources has also begun to be billed.
However, there are still some people who are ahead of their time and pay attention to the atmosphere of family life, so the work pressure of the canteen in the base has also been reduced.
After two weeks of trial operation, the overall feedback is not bad, and there are some small problems, and there is also a dedicated team responsible for improvement.
And Ding You didn't have time to spend on the housekeeping work of the base, after all, with the normalization of life order, he was now in urgent need of replenishing the energy crystal card.
Otherwise, this good situation will not last long.
Ding You also thought about making the residents in the base self-reliant, encouraging them to go out and find their own land in the surrounding area. However, this idea is not mature at present, because if you want to grow reliable food, you can't do it without high-tech planting and cultivation equipment.
In order for each inhabitant to ensure that his or her own land can provide a stable food ration, then each person needs almost 20 square meters of planting area. To build the equipment, about 440 kg of equipment materials are required.
Although a single one is taken from the supermarket space, it is only 440 energy points, but if the planting and cultivation equipment is sold too cheaply, and the whole base is swarmed to buy, then it will go back to the old problem, Ding You does not have so many energy points to allow him to take goods from the supermarket space.
And doing so will also affect the cohesion of the base, and when everyone can rely on themselves to ensure the food supply, who will contribute to the base?
Even if you want to sell high-tech planting and cultivation warehouses to the outside world, the price cannot be set so that ordinary people can buy them casually. Ding You is kind, but definitely not stupid. He didn't want the treasure he had worked so hard to get to give away to someone else in vain.
Since this idea is currently immature, Ding You thought twice and felt that it would be better to centralize power in the last days, so he decided to put this idea aside for the time being.
Wait until you have enough capacity to provide strong security for civilians and make others willing to stay in the protected areas you have created.
So during this time, Ding You still followed the selected special commandos according to the original plan, and first began to check the surrounding areas of the base one by one.
Small villages and towns and places with construction facilities are not spared, and they are basically searched from house to house. Although there are not many zombies, I can finally find some, which is a bit rewarding.
However, the total amount of crystal cards harvested is less than 30,000, and the daily consumption of about 15,000 in the base is consumed, and the harvest in two weeks is only enough for 2 days, Ding You can't accept it.
Despite the basin in the mountains, Ding You has provided Wang Luyi with 30 acres of planting and breeding equipment. It's a pity that even if the food inside is harvested, it can only feed more than 1,000 mouths stably.
For the current base population of nearly 19,000, it is obviously much less.
Can't wait any longer, have to try your luck in the city center.
If you continue to wait like this, not to mention that there is not enough time, the crystal card will not be able to support it.
A heavy supreme meeting is over, Ding You decided to set off in the next two days, it is really unbearable, there are so many people in the base waiting to be fed, and it is not possible to set off.
Although everyone is a little afraid of the center of Linjiang City, which is full of crises, but now, Huashan is a road, and you have to go if you don't go.
Of course, Chen Nuo was also not at ease with Ding You, and originally strongly asked to go with Ding You, but Ding You was willing. Don't look at the base now, it seems relatively calm, but if there is no one in charge, if something happens, what if it happens.
In fact, at the recent meetings of the Supreme Council and the Ministry of Defense Technology, there was already a controversy over the expatriates.
It's not that the commanders and fighters under them are cowardly, but they almost broke their heads and made a fuss in order to get a place to go out with Ding You.
Logically speaking, maybe Cheng Hai and Zhao Gang should be the first candidates to go out to fight with Ding You, but Ding You thought about it again and again, and felt that there were no two of them in the base, and he was not at ease outside.
In the end, Sun Tianhao and Lin Feiyue got the opportunity. Brought out the two generals of the army at once, how could Ding You bring Cheng Hai and Zhao Gang again.
For this reason, Zhao Gang's guy was still a little tempered, and he looked unhappy.
With Cheng Hai and Zhao Gang here, plus Xiao Han and Fan Gaofeng, the armed forces are still trustworthy.
The artillery battalion did not take away, only 300 soldiers with nimble hands and feet were selected. In addition, 50 modular armed robots were created from the supermarket space, as well as several light tanks and armored personnel carriers, plus two single-vehicle mobile integrated anti-aircraft missile vehicles.
In this way, the security and defense forces of the base are still sufficient, so that Chen Nuo can stay, and Ding You can rest assured.
It is very dangerous to go out this time, according to Ding You's character, how can he allow the woman he likes to take risks with him!
So even if Chen Nuo was angry, coquettish, and scoundrel, Ding You resolutely did not let go.
After preparing in the base for another three days, and the food reserve was enough for a month, Ding You looked at the only 800,000 energy points left on the supermarket bracelet, and walked in the underground laboratory in a daze.
For the current Deep Blue Star Base, the role of the crystal card is to replenish energy points for Ding You's supermarket bracelet. Other times, the heap doesn't work at all there.
But Ding You is worried now, there are only so many energy points left, and there are so many people in the base, what if this time the exit does not go smoothly and nothing is found?
Next door to the underground science laboratory, in the gloomy freezer, Ding You looked at the tall freezer tanks in front of him, and his brows could not be stretched.
He has a lot of information, such as the fact that Pan Wu in District 9 escaped from here, and the existence of the Survivor Alliance.
There are paratech conglomerates that were already very powerful before the end of the world, and there are also the terrifying radiation mutants with a certain amount of intelligence, and the ugly and disgusting zombies.
There are a lot of messages, but they are extremely messy.
Ding You always felt that there was an invisible thread in these things, connecting everything together. But I can't see it, let alone touch it.
In the urban area of Linjiang City, even the ninth district does not dare to touch it wantonly, what kind of danger will be hidden there?
Ding You wanted to ask Zhou Qingquan before leaving, but the old doctor simply didn't know anything. It is only said that he is not from Linjiang City, and he has been secretly transported to the laboratory in the left-behind area since the outbreak of the apocalyptic crisis.
He also couldn't say anything valuable about the specific situation there. Now Ding You is completely blind, and it seems that he can only bite the bullet!