The fifth ring road in the northern suburbs of Qingquan City.

The twentieth floor of an office building on the edge of the Ring Road elevated corridor is covered with dark green slime molds and corroded moss.

Orange-yellow tracer warheads weaved a web through the hallway, the scorching air almost scorching the air, and at the center of the fire was a three-meter-tall humanoid beast.

Its skin was completely keratinized, its knotted muscles were jet black, its arms were protecting its head, and it was forced to take two steps forward against the mass bullet accelerated by the electromagnet.

But there are only two steps-

"Roaring ——!"

With a half-reluctant roar, the three-meter-tall tyrant finally fell heavily under the fire of the Gauss rifle.

Five power armors, on this terrain pair, there is no reason to lose at all.

With a clean gesture, Lujan's power armor-clad squad stepped forward and continued along the slime-strewn corridor to the edge of a heavy alloy door.

One of the team members walked up to the door and pulled out a thumb-thin thread from the armor of his forearm and attached it to the touchscreen on the right side of the door.

"The key has been obtained...... Successfully entered safe mode. ”

"Open the door."

"Roger, on."

The door panel shuddered and slowly opened to the sides.

The stale air is blowing in the face.

Looking at the ashes on the ground, Lu Yang's heart burst with joy.

Leaving two members of the squad to guard the door, he walked in with the other two, and glanced left and right, the excited expression on his face became more and more obvious.

"The comparison results match ......"

"We've found it!"

CO2 Trap!

It is one of the indispensable basic public facilities for high-density urban agglomerations.

In an era of prosperity with a high concentration of population and industry, carbon emissions are a rather frightening number. If it is obviously not enough to absorb excess carbon dioxide by relying on traditional green plants, even if the entire city is planted with greenery, it is impossible to absorb so many greenhouse gases, and the lack of oxygen will become another major development problem after the heat island effect.

As we entered the middle of the boom era, the widely adopted solution was to apply carbon self-sustaining technologies that had been practiced in space activities.

In other words, a carbon dioxide treatment device is installed on a specific floor of a high-rise building, and the carbon dioxide is turned into other carbon-containing compounds through multiple complex chemical processes, so that the air level in the area can reach a livable level and produce some industrial raw materials.

It is said that the annual carbon dioxide process in such a half-story space is comparable to that of an entire primeval forest or seaweed in the seaweed.

The group searched the facility and soon found a backup thermonuclear fusion generator that had been shut down.

Since the carbon emissions in the territory of the People's Union fell sharply after entering the wasteland era, even to the level before the Industrial Revolution, those carbon traps naturally stopped working, and the thermonuclear fusion reactors that powered them naturally stopped.

For this reason, carbon dioxide traps are one of the few post-war facilities that can be stably recovered into thermonuclear fusion fuel rods.

Lu Yang, with his own Marines, carefully removed the fuel rods that stored liquid helium-3.

"That's it!"

"How much energy is left?"

“93%”

"It's been enough for us for a long time!"

Helium III is a stable isotope with a negligible half-life, and although thermonuclear fusion cannot be used as readily as cold fusion, it has the advantage of almost no need to worry about the loss of "fuel" when the reactor is shut down.

This is completely incomparable to cold fusion batteries.

Carefully keeping the fuel rods inside the metal cylinders, the Marines glanced at the large and small boxes and storage tanks around them.

"Sir, what to do with the things here?"

Lu Yang glanced around.

"It's better to stay here."

"Our allies should be able to use it."

……

At the same time, more than 20 kilometers away, the Trailblazer, the office of the logistics section.

Li De, who was sitting in an office chair, looked at the spreadsheet presented in the flexible screen, and his face was full of surprise.

This is a report on the production situation of the previous week.

One of the most striking statistics is that they actually recycled 1,872 tons of garbage last week, which is 255% of the expected efficiency!

Those blue coats are not ordinarily ruthless, the average daily recycling volume has reached an astonishing 267.4 tons, and the average daily collection per capita is 1.3 tons, which is even more amazing than before the war! If you leave these tasks to the natives, you will have to laugh out loud if you can do a third of this efficiency.

And what they spent extra on was just 9360CR.

Li De could scarcely believe his eyes, and if the report had not been handed to him by his secretary himself, he would have even wondered if something had gone wrong.

Are they all robots?!

No, it's better than a machine!

Today, a week after the battle with the Legion, there is still a sense of sadness aboard the Trailblazer, and many people are wallowing in the grief of losing their comrades, demoralized, and inefficient.

These blue coats, however, are different.

They have suffered more casualties, but they are still not defeated by difficulties, but turn their grief and anger into motivation and live their lives positively and optimistically.

What a powerful belief and belief this is!

In short, thanks to the hard work of the blue coats, they emptied almost the entire underground parking lot, plus two abandoned factories containing cobalt and nickel-containing industrial waste.

From the total weight of 1,872 tons, they successfully recovered 941.4 tons of metal and successfully processed it into needed parts.

There are even many.

Just when Li De couldn't help but sigh in his heart, Wang Jie, the secretary standing in front of the desk, suddenly spoke.

"By the way, there's one more thing."

Putting away the unfolded tablet in his hand like a scroll into a pen and throwing it in the drawer casually, Li De looked up at the secretary in a good mood and said with a pleasant face.

"What's the matter?"

Wang Jie's expression was a little embarrassed, but he still spoke.

"It's about the demands of front-line engineers...... THEY ASKED FOR AN INCREASE IN THE ATTENDANCE ALLOWANCE FROM 10CR PER HOUR TO 15CR PER HOUR. ”

“……？”

Li De looked confused.

What the heck??

Didn't these lazy dogs complain a few months ago that they had too much money in their pockets to spend their money, and hated his stack of scrap paper to trick them into going out to work?

Why is it that there are fewer subsidies now?

Wang Jie's expression was still embarrassed, and he said quickly.

"Probably...... The survivor colonies we met before were so poor, and the benefits on the Trailblazer were so good that they really didn't have the money in their pockets. I don't know how to rate it, but lately our employees have been a bit lavish when it comes to spending money...... I feel like we should be a little more restrictive. ”

Li De blushed and tapped his hand on the table.

"The question is what do they spend their money on?! Did you take it and rub your ass? How many buns can you spend so much?! ”

Wang Jie: "Of course, it's not just buns, but also dumplings with various fillings, glutinous rice balls, soy milk, fried dough sticks and ...... Ahem. I felt the need to upgrade our mobile kitchen, and those blue coats were sold to us with a little processing of our raw materials, and a lot of money was made from us. ”

Li De: "......"

Wang Jie swallowed his saliva and continued.

"And then in addition to food, they have recently sold clothes, scarves, and some small items, especially a silk fabric, which is very popular with the female occupants, which they call devil's silk, which seems to be a specialty of the central region. Surprisingly, the toughness of this silk thread is so high that it is almost the same as the fireproof fibers we use in body armor...... The power of nature, to be honest, is amazing, even I was amazed. Our technicians studied for a long time and figured out its composition, but they never understood its industrial synthesis method. ”

Li De pressed his eyebrows.

"Is that all?"

He didn't care about the silk of the devil's moth, nor did he care about what clothes and small items the female crew members bought.

All he wanted to know was how much CR they had wasted in the hands of those blue coats.

These banknotes are not the signature of the restaurant.

It's to be cashed out on the spot!

"Well, there are some special ingredients, like black truffles...... They are very cheap there, only 1CR for 1 gram. ”

Li De raised his head suddenly.

"1 gram only sells for 1CR?! Anything else??? ”

Wang Jie looked at the section chief in surprise and nodded stunned.

"There should be, the mushroom seller has a stall at the action camp around six o'clock every night...... Chief? ”

Immediately realizing his gaffe, Li De quickly came back to his senses, coughed lightly, and continued with a serious expression.

"I was just a little surprised, I didn't expect them to enjoy it...... By the way, has that magnetic confinement plasma CNC machining machine been repaired? ”

Wang Jie nodded and said.

"It's repaired, our warehouse keepers have just delivered it to them, and it is estimated that they will all be sent to their outpost on the surface in a little while."

Thinking of that machine tool, Li De felt a little pity in his heart.

At that time, the emotions were up, and the decision to do it was too hasty, or that machine tool alone could help them recover 100,000 CR.

It shouldn't be free!

The blue coats did them a great favor, though. They didn't ask the blue coats to support their war, but they did, and rushed forward with guns in their guns at the height of the battle.

To be honest, without them, it's hard to say what the final casualty would have been. Maybe they had to drop the second tactical nuclear bomb, maybe there were far more than three people who died that day......

Li De thought about it, if he made another decision, maybe he would still choose that.

Sighing softly, he said.

"Well, just deliver it, and we should go in a few days."

It's not a problem to drag on like this.

The longer it dragged on, the more difficult the road ahead would be, and if it hadn't suddenly broken down, there would have been no need for them to fight with the Legion.

Wang Jie: "The salary increase ......"

Li De didn't say a word: "Tell those lazy people...... I mean, for those engineers, the bill for a salary increase is proposed at the regular meeting at the end of the month, and this is the procedure. In addition, I will think of a way to move the kitchen and let the technicians see if they can add a few more food processing processes. ”

Of course, if it can be successful, Li De intends to charge a fee.

What's that word called?

Yes, additional value-added services!

As soon as he heard that the issue of salary increase would be moved to the end of the month, Wang Jie immediately understood what the section chief meant, and couldn't help but have a helpless expression.

"Okay, I'll tell them."

Wait until the end of the month.

The money in those pockets had nowhere to spend it.

Naturally, there will be no clamoring for a raise.

……

The repaired machine tool is still on the way to be delivered, and it is estimated that it will take some time for this express delivery to arrive.

For fear that the players would spoil that thing, Chu Guang specially arranged two light trucks to be responsible for transporting it. An empty car with a snow shovel on its bumper drove in front, followed by the one carrying the machine.

If a roadblock or ditch is encountered, the first truck can spot it in time and the next truck can avoid it.

In order to ensure that nothing went wrong, Chu Guang also asked the steady old Luca to sit in the car with him.

The roads in the wasteland are in terrible condition, and the part outside the city is slightly better, and there are many roads inside the city that can't even be walked by four-legged cattle, let alone wheeled vehicles.

Chu Guang planned to build a road after a while to connect the outpost with the operation camp.

In the future, the players of Vault 404 will build the road wherever they plant the flag.

What do you mean by that?

If you want to get rich, build roads first.

It's not easy to carry out this project on the wasteland, but it's definitely worth it.

During the time when the machine tool was delivered, Chu Guang was not idle, but sat in the resident hall of the shelter, turned on the computer and glanced at the official website forum.

After a whole night of fermentation, the young players who couldn't go to work finally vented their resentment, and the atmosphere of communication in the forum finally returned to normal, and the topic changed from "We rushed Ah Guang together" to "What did Alpha0.8 update".

It's as if nothing happened.

Overall, players who have already experienced the changes in the new version online are still very interested in this unique stronghold gameplay and regional reputation system.

Especially when they learned that "donating supplies can gain regional prestige" and "the operation camp can grow into a survivor base when it reaches 100 prosperity", they have become significantly more hard-working.

In other MM, NPC towns are just a bunch of immovable textures, but in Wasteland Online, the survivor strongholds are built by the players themselves, and they will grow with the players as they play.

This wave is simply a perfect combination of RPG and SLG, one game to experience the joy of two parts.

It's just blood, okay!

The players were so happy, and Chu Guang didn't have much effort on his side.

For him, it was just based on the last month's report, he made up a few simple formulas, and asked Xiaoqi to help make a similar data card to the "Attribute Panel".

With or without the Alpha 0.8 update, he will do the monthly report, but now it is in the form of a "progress bar" that is available to players.

As for the usefulness.

The main purpose is to share with players the joy of a small sapling growing into a towering tree.

After all, just telling the players that thanks to your efforts, our Vault is now awesome, and the players are probably confused. But if all these efforts are quantified into visible progress bars, who's to say that patterns are useless?

Look at Boss Xia's weapon shop, there is a brick you contributed, is it more motivated when you think about moving bricks?

And no matter how miserable the players who can't be resurrected because of bugs, those players who are still online and have already made reservations have blown up anyway.

Chu Guang, who was completely relieved, copied a few good bad ideas and stored them in his small notebook, and then stretched his waist and leaned back on the computer chair.

"The courier will take an hour to arrive, so why not?"

That's right.

It seems that the blind box can be opened again.

Chu Guang's eyes lit up, he sat up from the computer chair with a bang, opened the manager system with two eyes, and switched to the [Manager Allowance] sub-page.

These days, the game behavior of players is relatively simple, mainly doing resource collection tasks on the side of the action camp, and the completion of daily active tasks is very average, and there are a bunch of unattained ones left every day.

But even so, after this week, Chu Guang still saved 33 bonus points.

The old rules, 3 intermediate blind boxes, 3 primary blind boxes.

However, just when Chu Guang was about to draw the lottery, his heart suddenly moved slightly.

Wait a minute.

Since it's all gambling, why not play a big wave and try to open 33 primary blind boxes at a time?

In case if the rewards of intermediate blind boxes or even advanced blind boxes are opened from the primary blind box, wouldn't it be blood gain?

Anyway, it's useless for him to ask for so many dog skin plasters and treatment needles.

Thinking of this, Chu Guang no longer hesitated, and immediately pressed all the reward points on the account on the leftmost icon.

"System, give me 33 primary blind boxes!"

"Open!"