[Type 20 "Stinger" Gauss rifle]

[Note: As the standard anti-equipment equipment of the orbital airborne troops, the Type 20 "Stinger" Gauss rifle adopts a barrelless design and hollow magnetic conductivity, and its standard ammunition is a 9mm caliber and 100g mass "Spike" tail stabilized bullet. 】

[When firing with standard ammunition, the theoretical discharge velocity can reach Mach 5, and the muzzle kinetic energy is 144755 joules. Taking into account the special operational environment of the Orbital Airborne Forces, the Type 20 Stinger Gauss rifle is designed to launch conductive fluids, such as truncated nails and steel balls, through side loading, even without standard ammunition. However, it should be noted that the stability and accuracy of shooting cannot be guaranteed when firing non-standard ammunition, so please refer to the user manual to choose carefully. 】

144755 joules of muzzle kinetic energy!

When he saw this number for the first time, Chu Guang thought that he had read it wrong.

If I remember correctly, the 20mm caliber M61 aviation cannon on the F16 fighter has a single engine energy of only about 50,000 joules.

More than 140,000 joules of muzzle kinetic energy, an order of magnitude higher than a machine gun!

Can this still be called a gun???

But if you just look at the caliber, there's nothing wrong with calling it a gun.

Picking up this terrifying Gauss rifle from the conveyor belt, Chu Guang held it in his hand and looked at it for a while, then removed the bulky magazine.

The bullet stuffed in the magazine is very long, more like a shuttle than a spike, and the thread tattooed on the tail is probably its "stabilizing tail", which allows the bullet to spin and stabilize during flight.

The Gauss rifles used by Lujan and his squad appear to have taken a different technical route, namely a fully enclosed magnetic track, with a rifled barrel added to the middle of the magnetic track.

When Chu Guang peeked through the drone before, he noticed that their Gauss rifle needed to actively replace the overheated barrel after continuous shooting.

Intuition told Chu Guang that the design without a barrel may be more technical, but it is difficult to say the cost of maintenance and use.

"I'm afraid this recoil is not small...... Without an exoskeleton or power armor, you may not be able to control it. ”

"And then there's the ammunition, 10 bullets is too little."

"I don't know if it will work to make a bullet of similar shape out of tungsten steel."

It is unlikely that the production conditions of the outpost will be exactly the same in terms of materials, but it should not be a big problem to make a bullet of similar shape from a gourd scoop.

These 10 "original bullets" Chu Guang intends to save some of them and leave them for valuable targets. To deal with the average xenomorph, it's almost enough to use some imitation ammo.

In addition, the optical sight on the body of the gun is also a good thing, with a maximum magnification of 12 times.

It's just that, perhaps after spending all the luck on the advanced blind box, the 11 primary blind boxes actually opened 11 lollipops in a row.

And it's all chocolate.

However, Chu Guang was in a good mood, and instead of increasing blood pressure, he gave Xia Yan and Xiaoyu a lollipop and shared the joy in their hearts at the moment.

One cannon, one piece of armor.

This wave is more than just blood gain.

It's a fortune!

……

The next day, it was a rare sunny day.

There was not a single cloud in the cloudless sky.

But last night the snow was very heavy, and the goose-feathered snowflakes drifted all night, and when the day dawned, the snow was even knee-deep at its thickest.

Still hired two nomads to clean up.

After inspecting the training of the guards, Chu Guang found Old Luca.

"I'll give you a mission, the details have been updated on your VM, you can go to the brickyard and pick two clever survivors to be your assistants now."

"In a while, our allies will send someone to us to register the labor dispatch list, and then you can follow what I explained on the VM and take them out."

Old Lukka nodded respectfully.

"Yes, my lord."

Old Luca didn't go long in the direction of the brickyard.

Chu Guang soon saw through the drone in the sky that an off-road vehicle with big tires was driving from the north through the snow.

There were 4 people in the car.

Except for the driver who drove the car and the bodyguard sitting in the co-pilot, who wore exoskeletons and small arms on their bodies, the two people in the back row were not even equipped with exoskeletons and only wore uniform gray coats, presumably civilian personnel.

The roads in the wasteland are in poor condition, especially in urban areas, where a single road can even count ten jagged folds. Some of the cracks are relatively wide, and even the buried pipelines under them leak out, and the width difference is more than two meters.

Not to mention that cars can't get through, even people and animals can't get through, so they can only walk around the ruins on the side of the street with deep foundations.

The road along the wreckage of the elevated highway out of the city was uneven, and many of the pits were buried in snow.

Chu Guang watched from the sky, and Xiao Qi guessed there when the car would break down. In the end, Xiao Qi guessed correctly, about 1 km away from the wetland park, the front wheel of the off-road vehicle was planted directly into the ditch.

The snow foam was swept up into the sky, but no matter how the tire was embedded in the pit, it couldn't be plowed.

The co-pilot and driver could only get out of the car, grasping the wheel hub with both hands, and lifted the front of the car out of the dark ditch by the brute force of the exoskeleton.

Chu Guang originally planned to find two power-based players to help him, but when he saw this scene, he immediately dispelled his thoughts.

"The power of technology is still strong."

When will I be able to give my cute little players a whole set?

Isn't it fast to lift bricks?

With a sigh of emotion in his heart, Chu Guang looked at the group who got back into the car and drove to the north gate of the wetland park, turned off the VM screen, and went downstairs to the north gate to wait.

……

The off-road vehicle could not drive into the wetland park, so the driver and the car stayed in front of the north gate of the park to wait, and the other three got out of the car and continued to move forward.

The group soon arrived at the outpost, met the manager at the north gate, and went to the reception room at his invitation.

"Let me introduce myself first, I am Li De of the Logistics Department of the First Pioneer Corps of the Silver Wing Group, which belongs to the company, and behind me is Luo Hua, a colleague of our Logistics Section, who is the person in charge of the temporary office of your camp, responsible for liaison and communication, and the other is Ace of the Security Section, mainly responsible for his safety."

"Hello, Mr. Manager." The man named Luo Hua was wearing glasses and looked a bit Sven.

The heroic female bodyguard just nodded to him, without any words or participating in the topic, as if there was non-existent air.

Holding Li De's outstretched right hand and shaking it, Chu Guang had a smile like a spring breeze on his face.

"Vault 404 manager Chu Guang, it's an honor to cooperate with you, please take a seat."

A handsome face is always a good impression.

Even though his facial muscles were stiffened by the north wind, after seeing Chu Guang's smile, Li De still squeezed out an equally friendly smile from his face.

It's so much more comfortable to communicate with civilized people.

It doesn't matter if you're poor, at least you can communicate.

The natives Li De had seen along the way had really fed up with him, and he couldn't communicate in a civilized way at all.

Except for the bodyguards who were standing at the door on duty, the three people in the room sat down one after another.

Li De didn't go around in circles, and after sitting down, he went straight to the point, taking out a tablet from the bag he was carrying.

"So let's get started, I've provided a list of what we can offer you. THE PRICE WE CHARGE FOR EACH WORKFORCE IS STILL 1CR PER HOUR, 200 PEOPLE WORK 10 HOURS PER DAY, AND THE DAILY SALARY EXPENSES ARE TOTALING 2000CR...... Here's our budget. ”

Chu Guang took the tablet from his hand, swiped his index finger across the screen, and glanced at the list on it.

Overall, the purchasing power of CR is still very strong.

Perhaps because of the production line on the tracks, the prices on the list are closer to the local standards of the East Coast than those who don't know where they came from, and even feel cheaper than the local survivor strongholds on the East Coast.

There are many bulk commodities that can be wholesaled by 1CR.

It's just that you can see a kilogram of starch, a kilogram of glucose, a kilogram of sucrose, and a kilogram of amino acids (30 kinds of lysine, tryptophan, etc.) in the back...... When these strange trading varieties were made, Chu Guang was stunned for a moment.

Can you still disassemble the goods into molecules and sell them?

Of course, in addition to these overly hardcore varieties, there are also normal trading varieties.

For example, rice and wheat and corn are priced at 2CR per kilogram.

Chu Guang remembered that the starch content of rice was only 75%, so buying rice would be more expensive than buying starch?

In addition, there are plant-based meatloaf or minced meat, which is also only 2CR per kilogram, which is actually the same price as rice and wheat.

In any of the survivors' gathering places in Qingquan City, it is impossible for meat to be sold for the same price as what grows in the ground!

In addition, processed and mature foods are also on the list.

A 430g C-Nutrition Package requires 1CR and contains a normal diet with enough carbohydrates, fiber, protein and other minerals to sustain a person's meal. However, the water in this seems to be a bit large, and a class A nutrition package with a net content of 800g actually costs 8CR.

Is this a family bucket?

That's basically all the food that can be traded, and from 10CR onwards, the trading varieties have become some daily necessities and manufactured goods.

FOR EXAMPLE, A KILOGRAM OF SULFUR SOAP IS SOLD AT EXACTLY 10CR, AND 10 PIECES CAN BE CUT OUT ACCORDING TO THE NET CONTENT OF 100 GRAMS, WHICH IS EQUIVALENT TO 1CR PIECE.

Another example is salt, they only sell refined salt, or only pure sodium chloride, which also only needs 10CR per kilogram.

Interestingly, the price of salt is 10 times that of both grain and 10 times that of meat. Chu Guang couldn't figure out for a while, whether this was cheap or expensive.

Anyway, with him, salt is sold at the rate of "tael".

THEN FROM THE 100CR GEAR, SOME GOOD STUFF WILL APPEAR.

For example, a submachine gun that costs 200CR and an assault rifle that costs 300CR. There is also a bulletproof vest priced at 100CR and a heavy-duty full-protection bulletproof armor priced at 300CR.

Bullets are very cheap, 1CR can buy three, which is equivalent to a pound of rice.

"Why is there no Gauss rifle?"

Chu Guang directly pulled the list to the bottom, but found some production tools that he might use, but did not find the power armor and Gauss rifle that he wanted more.

Li Deban said with a straight expression.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Manager, but our power armor and Gauss rifles are the lives of soldiers, and this can't be sold."

Chu Guang nodded.

"Understood, I was presumptuous."

Got it.

It doesn't seem like it's easy for you to produce that thing, at least not to the point where you have a set of hands.

In Chu Guang's impression, although the principle of the coil cannon is very simple, it is actually a very money-burning technology.

Think about it, how cheap is traditional artillery?

It is convenient to maintain, blow up one shot, and continue to fight if the barrel is broken.

Chu Guang studied all night yesterday, but he didn't figure out what material was used for the magnetic track of the Type 20 "Stinger" Gauss rifle, and he didn't dare to remove it to take a look.

He's not stupid.

What if the track is filled with metallic hydrogen?

That's not going to blow up directly.

Studying black technology is even more exciting than opening a blind box, and after thinking about it, Chu Guang still decided not to spend this effort, not to mention that it may not be possible to do it if he understands it, and he doesn't have the equipment and preconditions to understand it at all.

Any small breakthrough is the result of thousands of topics and tens of thousands of experimental results. The accumulation of equivalent changes into qualitative changes is specific to a mature technology, which contains tens of thousands of small breakthroughs.

So let's open the blind box.

At least the things that come out of the blind box can be used immediately.

Only with guns and artillery can there be food, only with grain can there be people, and only with people can we develop industry, expand territory, and pick up garbage farther away. When the grain, electricity, and mines are all alive, and the production capacity has also risen, it is worth talking about what science and technology trees are.

Otherwise, it won't be easy for anyone to come.

Chu Guang: "There is no problem in terms of treatment, we need a kilogram of rice here...... Well, 10 copper coins. So to convert, I think the reasonable exchange rate is 1CR to 5 copper coins. ”

Chu Guang originally wanted to say 2CR for 1 silver coin.

But after thinking about it, I changed the term of high emotional intelligence.

However, I didn't expect this quartermaster friend to appreciate it at all, and shook his head and said.

"Mr. Manager, my words may be a little direct, our captain is a rough man, and he really doesn't understand this, but do you think I don't understand either?"

"Let's not get into such trouble, and there's no point in exchanging each other's money, we can't stay here forever. We pay all your money directly to you according to the standard of 1CR hourly wage, as for how many silver coins you intend to pay your residents, it is your internal matter and we will not interfere. ”

"As for the problem that you raised that CR cannot circulate normally, we have solved it for you. The list you have in your hand was summed up overnight by our colleagues in the logistics department. I'm sure the supplies listed above are more abundant than any caravan you've seen here, don't you think? ”

To sum up, you can't fool Lao Tzu.

The people who love to give you will be paid as much as they want, and that's all we give anyway.

Everything is sold to you at cost price, which is enough conscience.

Chu Guang, who has been doing sales for so many years, can certainly understand what he said, and an embarrassed smile appeared on his face.

"That'll do fine."

Originally, he also wanted to say that the minimum hourly wage of his people (players) is 1 silver coin, which should be 2CR when converted. But I didn't expect that people were quite smart and didn't want his money at all.

Seeing that Chu Guang expressed an affirmative attitude, Li De looked at him cautiously and said.

"Can I assume that we have a consensus?"

Yesterday, Lujan bragged to him that the administrator of Vault 404 was a cheerful man, and it took them less than ten minutes to reach a consensus.

Now it seems that it's not this guy who is happy, but their captain is too happy......

"Half of the deal," Chu Guang nodded, and continued, "Your captain promised me that he would provide food and lodging for our people. After all, there is a distance of 10 kilometers from us to you, and it is impossible for our people to waste so much time on the road every day. And eating, which is also a big problem. ”

Originally, when he heard the previous sentence "half of it was achieved", Li De was still feeling the blood pressure medicine in his pocket, and he relaxed his nerves when he heard the second half of the sentence.

That's a reasonable appeal.

"Rest assured, we've built a makeshift camp for your workers, and while it's not as comfortable as a shelter, there's no problem with keeping it warm from the wind. FOR MEALS, DON'T WORRY, WE'LL HAVE A MOBILE KITCHEN FOR YOU, SERVING THREE MEALS A DAY AT A RATE OF 1CR PER MEAL. ”

Chu Guang nodded and said thoughtfully.

"1CR per meal, then 3CR a day, right?"

Li De was slightly stunned and nodded cautiously.

"Uh, yes sir."

Chu Guang smiled on his face.

"According to the standard of 3CR per person a day, you can directly send us this money. We will purchase and prepare our own food by ourselves. You don't need to prepare any mobile kitchens, just give us some pots and pans for cooking, what do you think? ”

Li De looked confused.

That's fine???

However, he did not express his opinion immediately, but silently calculated the cost in his mind.

If the mobile kitchen is to be deployed in the camp of these workers, the actual cost is at least 1000CR per day, and if you eat a bad stomach, you will have to rip it off.

In the past, when they were working with indigenous peoples, they had similar problems.

According to the standard of 3CR per person per day, 200 people are 600CR, and the cost is directly cut by 4%, and there is no risk.

Li De nodded decisively in agreement.

"Okay!"

Chu Guang also stretched out his right hand decisively.

"Deal!"

……

After reaching a consensus, the two parties quickly drew up a contract written in black and white, signed their respective names on it, and pressed their handprints instead of official seals.

At this moment, Li De finally realized the captain's "refreshing" evaluation of this manager.

Truly.

His efficiency is impressive.

It's a shame to stay here......

Luo Hua, who was the head of the office, stayed, and Li De set off under the escort of Aisi and returned to the bus stop at the entrance of the wetland park.

After that, she would return to the outpost, and Luo Hua and the others would use the materials they had brought to build a simple barracks as an office location.

"The conditions here are too rudimentary...... They are still producing steel using the primitive steelmaking method. Looking at the big chimney in the south, Luo Hua couldn't help but sigh.

Ace didn't comment on the facilities, but said after a moment of silence.

"That guy is strong."

"Very strong?"

"Well, it's the Awakened, probably the first stage."

"Which one?" Luo Hua looked up curiously and found that there were still quite a few residents of the shelter around.

The men looked at them with the same curiosity, not knowing what they were looking at.

"The one you talked to before."

"Their managers, you say?" Luo Hua looked surprised, "But I remember that the awakening didn't have to-"

"After countless trials of life and death, at least once when the ghost door was closed."

Ace still had an expressionless expression on his face, but there was a hint of caution in his pupils, and he said something rarely.

It seems that the captain's assessment is correct.

"That guy is strong."

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(Sorry, it's a little late, I just fell asleep on the table...... QAQ）