The tenth day of the wave.

Many players have found that there have been some strange NPCs on the battlefield in the past two days.

They wore orange hazmat suits and black gas masks on their heads, and they did not communicate with people, usually carrying a stretcher in pairs, and moving xenomorph corpses from the battlefield in groups of three or five, busy from morning until the sun was about to go down.

These NPCs are very efficient, and the two of them can transport four or five hundred corpses out a day, and they seem to be experts at doing this work regularly.

Some attentive players even saw that they actually had a KV-1 exoskeleton in their hands?

Although it is a "fruit suit" with no welded steel plates and no weapons attached, it will have to sell 800 silver coins in the NPC shop, which is equivalent to four LD-47 rifles.

Players leaning behind the concrete slope bunker are curiously watching the backs of these NPCs whispering.

"What kind of moth did the dog planner do?"

"New class corpse chaser?"

"Comfortable, someone has finally cleaned up this."

"+1, it stinks!"

"Obviously, the pain can be blocked, but the smell can't be blocked!"

Cleaning up xenomorph corpses is not easy.

With the players' brains, they must have used all the methods that can be used.

At first, everyone discussed the idea of burning it, but the actual situation was not as rosy as expected. Often the surface layer is burned into charcoal, the fire is extinguished, and the buried corpse is still sandwiched.

The game is always real in strange places, one Molotov cocktail is enough to kill two or three eaters, but to burn them to ashes, three Molotov cocktails are not enough.

The water content of slime fruiting bodies is much higher than that of humans, and the water vapor itself takes away a lot of heat.

In addition, fat, grease analogues and the like are not so easy to ignite, and often require a large amount of fuel to be added continuously to maintain the fire.

If you can't understand it, you can take a piece of meat from the refrigerator and try it, and it will take some time to get it cooked, let alone burn it to ashes.

At present, the main way to dispose of these corpses on the front line is to drag them out of the city for burial, but the speed of transfer of the corpses is far from keeping up with the speed of accumulation.

The main offensive of the wave usually lasts from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. the next morning, hitting the players' positions in a continuous manner.

Counting the creepers that the Hunter Squad scoured and killed in the ruins, the average player was able to kill more than thirty per day.

Apparently, the number of these xenomorphs is far greater than the 100,000 originally estimated.

After all, the number of players killed in a day is around twenty or thirty thousand, and the wave has passed for ten days, but it shows no signs of abating.

Fortunately, due to factors such as the width of the battlefield, the huge number of waves cannot be fully deployed, and if you encounter so many xenomorphs on the plains, I am afraid that if the number of players triples again, it will inevitably fall into a bitter battle.

According to the posts of the players responsible for transporting ammo to the front line, the consumption of ammo has been around 100,000 rounds per day for the last three days.

A full-power 7mm bullet weighs nearly 25g, and 100,000 rounds is 2.5 tons of ammunition.

In order to gather enough materials for the ammunition production line, Chu Guang could only mobilize the newcomers to dig the ancestral grave of the People's Union, and at the same time direct the military factory to open two new ammunition production lines to produce steel-core steel-shell shells.

Compared with copper-shelled ammunition, steel-shelled ammunition has many problems such as poor ductility, cannot be reloaded, and may rust, but in Chu Guang's opinion, all the shortcomings can be overshadowed by one advantage - that is, cheap.

Anyway, the ammunition was quickly sent to the front line and consumed, and it was a bit redundant to consider the problem of preservation, and the ammunition produced by the assembly line did not need to be reloaded, and the picked up shells were directly sent to the steel plant for melting.

From the eighth day, the battle situation on the front line entered the phase of attrition.

Batches of ammunition were delivered to the front lines, and batches of corpses were dragged down from the front lines, mostly from xenos, but also with a small number of players.

At first, the corpses were moved by newcomers and dragged to the suburbs to dig a pit and bury them, but recently a group of professional NPCs took over the work, and the corpses disappeared, let alone excavated a new pit.

Many players who love to pick out details are full of confusion and curiosity.

What about xenomorph corpses?

Where have they gone?

But the curiosity didn't last long.

Some attentive lifestyle pro players soon opened an NPC factory in the southernmost part of the new industrial area, following the Bucky Aluminum Factory, called Didiwe Food Processing Factory.

The plant's main products are nutritional pastes and organic fertilizers, and it also supplies sulfur and apatite to fertilizer plants.

Those trucks that came down from the front line.

It seems like they're all heading there......

……

The official website of "Wasteland Online".

found that there were really mosquitoes in the WC of the New World, and immediately couldn't wait to open a post on the forum.

"Big news! The whereabouts of the corpse of the nibbler have been found! ”

Less: "Where did you go??" ”

Makabazi: "Hurry up!" Don't be a! ”

Battlefield Atmosphere Group: "That's it!" ”

Seeing that it had caused public outrage, the mosquito who wanted to let the topic ferment for a while and then uncover the mystery did not dare to continue to sell Guanzi, so he hurriedly typed.

"Didiwe Food Processing Plant! Just in the southernmost part of the industrial area. I saw with my own eyes, the trucks dragging the bodies drove straight in! ”

Lao Bai: "Poof...... The name. ”

Quit smoking: "it?!" I also bought one yesterday! (frightened)"

Night Ten: "Awesome! You even bought it?! ”

Quit smoking: "Well, it's mainly cheap, a pound of nutritional paste is only 1 silver coin, and you can eat two meals." (embarrassing)"

Fang Chang: "Not really. (laughs and cries)"

Night 10: "I feel sorry for my brother who quit smoking...... It's also too economical. (covers his face)"

Siss: "Wow...... Are the foodies finally not sparing the nibblers? ”

Tail: "Shocked! Is this a moral degradation or a distortion of human nature! ”

Quit smoking: "Gan! Is it weird to save up for gear? I'm just trying to spend my credits on more useful things, don't you plan to spend money on playing games? ”

Tempest: "In any case, if you can get satisfaction from virtual food in the game, it means that food is part of the gaming experience provided by the operator. Sacrificing part of the gaming experience in order to become stronger will put the cart before the horse? (Squint)"

Tail: "Oh! Tail thinks so too! (✪ω✪)”

Irena: "Reasonable, the nibbler is a fruiting body of slime molds, right?" Although it looks like a mammal, it should be considered a mushroom biologically, right? There's nothing wrong with eating it, right? But what I don't understand is why you can't eat it directly, you can eat it as a nutritional paste. (Funny)"

Elf King Fugui: "What do you want to do, Lao Na." (Funny)"

Irena: "Nothing, pure curiosity. (Funny)"

Curiosity is curiosity, even if Lao Na, who is far away in Honghe Town, is curious about what the taste is, she has no chance to taste it.

However, there are many young players who are keen on death, and with curiosity, they took out a silver coin and bought a catty, and tried it for him.

It's not expensive anyway.

You can't buy a silver coin and suffer a loss, and you can't buy it.

Some of the young players who are willing to share even posted tasting testimonials on the official website.

Objectively evaluated, the nutritional paste made with mutant slime molds actually tastes not particularly curious. And because of the low salt and sugar content, it has almost no taste when eaten.

If that's all it takes, it's not hard to swallow, but what really torments you is the sand-like texture, which is really hard to describe.

After eating, I always feel a mouthful of phlegm stuck in my throat.

Coupled with that green color, it fully suppresses the appetite.

Many players have finally realized why some NPCs would rather starve to death than eat this thing.

This stuff really isn't for human consumption!

After the tasting testimonial, the topic on the forum quickly changed to how to make the nutritional paste less difficult to swallow.

Scrambled eggs with tomatoes: "If you can get a wall breaker and beat the particles a little more finely, I guess the taste will be better." ”

Raven: "Add a little more chocolate and sugar!" (≖ᴗ≖)✧”

Fujito: "Wait...... It's going to get expensive, right? ”

Fang Chang: "+1, put the cart before the horse." ”

Originally, the characteristic of the nutritional paste is that it is extremely cheap.

People who can afford to eat chocolate can't even think about buying such a thing as a nutritional paste.

The topic quickly changed from "how to make the paste less difficult to swallow" to "how to make the paste less unpalatable at the lowest cost".

At this time, a chemical engineering professional player suddenly appeared.

"How about adding some saccharin?"

"Sodium phthalosulfonimide? Cheap is cheap enough, but it's not good for the body. ”

"There is a safe dosage to use, and it doesn't matter if it's less than 5mg per kilogram of body weight...... It's all wasteland, what else to pick? ”

"Big guy 666!"

"Is this the capitalist?"

"Let's get in line first, there aren't enough street lights. (Funny)"

……

While the players were still discussing, the Didiwe Food Processing Factory, located in the southernmost part of the industrial area, was working overtime.

The area of the factory is not small, about the size of a football field, one of the two warehouses collapsed, and the remaining one is structurally intact and can be used.

Judging from the broken bricks on the ground, this place should have just been cleaned up, and many places have not had time to be cleaned, but this does not affect production.

Since inspecting the industrial area and Changchang Farm in the northern suburbs three days ago, Dietway immediately recruited a group of small and medium-sized grain merchants in Boulder City, raised a huge amount of 300,000 chips, purchased a complete set of nutritional paste production equipment, and hired mercenaries to send it to the northern suburbs along with the old one in his small workshop.

Land rent in the northern suburbs is very cheap, rent-free for the first two years, and the only costs are utilities, management fees, and a 20% corporate income tax.

Compared to in Boulder, this cost is already very low.

Especially the cost of employment is cheap.

The basic daily salary of ordinary workers is 10 silver coins, including the cost of meals and so on, the actual cost of a month is about 400 silver coins, and the cost of hiring twenty workers is only 8,000 silver coins a month.

What is the concept of 8000 credits?

To be honest, Dietway doesn't have an accurate idea.

The exchange rate conversion standard provided by the bank is that one chip can be exchanged for 2 silver coins, but this is definitely not the market exchange rate, otherwise the wages of the workers here are simply ridiculously high, and the basic daily salary can reach 5 chips.

What's more, the banks here only provide the service of exchanging chips, dinars, and CR into silver coins, and cannot directly exchange silver coins for chips or other currencies.

If you must use chips, you need to apply on a corporate basis, write down what kind of equipment to buy, and get approval before you can redeem it.

Forex is very tightly controlled here.

However, it is not as strict as other small survivor settlements in Clear Springs, such as prohibiting residents from holding chips or trading with outside traders.

Dietway doesn't really care about that.

While there is no way to exchange silver coins for chips, you can use them to buy things and then ship them to Boulder to sell.

The goods produced can also be taken with them at will, and they can be exported as long as they are tax-paid.

In addition, Vault 404 also provided him with a ready-made factory building and a low-interest loan of 600,000 silver coins to pay for a series of expenses such as labor, water and electricity.

It's equivalent to coming here to set up a factory without spending a penny!

It's enough to come up with equipment and technology!

As for the loss, it doesn't matter, the factory is a limited liability system, the debt will not be traced back to the individual, at most the equipment and other assets will be auctioned.

With such generous conditions, Dietway was so moved that he was about to cry!

“…… At present, the average daily processing capacity of our plant has reached 100 tons, with a daily production capacity of 10 tons of nutritional paste and 4 tons of organic fertilizer! ”

"I assure you that this number will at least triple by the end of the month! Or even three times! ”

Walk inside the spacious factory building.

Dietway, whose face was full of red light, was enthusiastically introducing the production line he had gotten from Boulder City to the manager next to him.

I saw workers in protective suits, throwing the corpses of gnawers, creepers, and even butchers on the truck into steel containers.

The way they look and what they are doing is not at all reminiscent of producing food, but rather like destroying corpses.

The container was stuffed with corpses, and workers standing on the operating table operated a tower crane-like device to lift the container and move it directly above the cylindrical metal tank as thick as an oil tank.

As the container tilted, the corpses of the xenos fell into the huge metal cans like dumplings.

The round hatch was sealed, the pressure indicator began to rise, and with a roaring hum, the whole unit began to work.

And the same thick metal tanks, there are a total of eight here!

After the carcasses are canned, they undergo 24 hours of high temperature, drying, inactivation, extrusion and other processes, and then transported through pipelines to a workshop located on the side of the factory, where they go through a series of complex procedures to isolate the active ingredients.

After this series of pretreatments, the thick substance produced is like a lump of green slimes, and it is basically impossible to see any connection with the mutant slime mold.

Ignore the smell, it's even a little cute.

“…… 100 tons is still a little less, and the number of xenos killed on the front line every day is 20,000, and I hope you can process more than 400 tons by the end of the month. ”

Looking at the equipment in the factory with great interest, Chu Guang asked casually.

"By the way, what about sales? Is the nutritional paste produced easy to sell? ”

This is the second question that Chu Guang is concerned about.

Dietway smiled and said confidently.

"Don't worry about this, although the equipment is not the most advanced, our cost is cheap enough! In terms of price, we have an absolute advantage to beat our competitors! ”

In addition to the cheap production cost, there is also a huge advantage of setting up a factory here compared to setting up a factory in Boulder City, that is, convenient transportation.

Although Qingquan City is rich in resources, the road conditions are really indescribable, and one kilometer here is more difficult to walk than ten kilometers outside the city.

In front of two or three meters long tunnels and four or five meters high cliffs, let alone wheeled vehicles, even tracked vehicles have to be prohibitive.

As a result, Caravans in Boulder City usually chose two-headed oxen or other livestock as a means of transportation when trading with the surrounding area.

Some cross-regional caravans will also choose to settle outside the city, and then hire local ox carts to communicate with the survivors' strongholds in the city.

In the northern suburbs, however, this problem is much easier to solve.

It's a suburb in itself, and just outside the city it's a wilderness, and the products produced in the factories can be loaded onto trucks and hauled away.

“…… At the moment, my partner has received an order from a farmer in the South for a total of 200,000 chips, who need a large amount of nutritional paste to feed the slaves and livestock, and our price and supply are beyond their refusal!

"The other party even expressed willingness to pick up the goods, which will be a long-term deal!"

Chu Guang glanced at him in surprise.

"Can you feed the animals?"

Dietway had a confident smile on his face.

"Of course! Nutritional paste can be eaten by people, of course, by animals, and this is quite high-quality feed! Some farmers will mix them with barley and feed them to two-headed cows, which will be much stronger than those who eat straw and pasture! ”

Not bad.

Chu Guang nodded, a satisfied smile on his face.

I didn't expect the use of nutritional paste to be so wide-ranging.

One day, even if the food processing factory is not operating well, it cannot repay the loan, and finally goes bankrupt and liquidated, he does not have to worry about losing money.

The expression on Dietway's face was the same.

Although he invested a huge amount of money of 300,000 chips at one time, he didn't feel distressed at all, because the money would be earned back soon.

The electricity price of the industrial area of Vault 404 is the same as that of Boulder City, and when all the costs are combined, the cost per ton of nutritional paste is only 200~208 silver coins.

According to the official exchange rate of 1 chip for 2 silver coins, it is equivalent to topping up 100 chips to get a ton of nutritional paste.

And in Boulder City, even the Weijia Commercial Bank costs more than 200 chips to produce a ton of nutritional paste!

Normally, the retail price of nutritional paste is between 1~2 chips per kilogram, while the wholesale price is from 1 ton to 300 to 400 chips per ton.

What does this mean?

This means that his cost is only half that of Vega Comptoir!

The profit is more than three times theirs!

The huge bargaining space allows him to directly hit the ex-factory price below the cost line of the other party as he likes!

As for branding?

What is the brand effect of nutritional paste, which feeds livestock?

The only requirement of the buyer is that he will not die and be full, even if he puts a "very large" brand on it, it will not make the nutritional paste easier to sell.

No matter how Dietwe calculates, this is a surefire deal.

And that's just for the profit of the paste, the waste left over from the production line can be turned into organic fertilizer or sold to the chemical plant next door.

Looking at the non-stop equipment in front of him and listening to the rumbling sound, Dietway only felt a surge of excitement.

If it weren't for the manager standing nearby, he couldn't help but shout cheers for the brood that was desperately trying to give birth.

"Let the tide come harder!"

……

In fact, it doesn't matter if Dietway shouts out, Chu Guang is not so careful, and will blame him for a few words.

I've made a fortune.

It's normal to get excited.

However, no matter how much he earned, it was impossible to earn more than Chu Guang.

More than 70 percent of the production costs of the Dediwe food processing plant, whether it is water, electricity or raw material purchases, are paid directly to the shelter.

Not to mention the fact that for every ton of goods produced, a 20% tax is paid to the shelter before it can be sold.

And those wages paid to the workers, although not paid directly to the shelters, will eventually flow back into Chu Guang's hands.

In this circular economic chain, it not only solves the employment and feeds the labor force, but also boosts the consumption power of residents and generates more demand.

It is impossible to calculate how much Chu Guang won.

In short, it's a win!

……

After inspecting the start of the food processing plant, Chu Guang did not stay in the industrial zone for too long, but went straight to the front line.

Recently, the fighting on the front line has become more and more intense.

In the past week, Chu Guang's focus has basically been on the logistics side.

Now that the plague and the fiscal deficit have been solved, he can finally focus all his energy on solving the problem of the wave.

Temporary command post.

Chu Guang summoned officers and staff officers at the front and held an operational meeting.

The captain of the guard, Wrench, first reported on the situation during this time.

Vanus, who then served as a staff officer, compiled the intelligence and expressed his opinion.

“…… The stalemate has been going on for ten days, the offensive of the wave shows no signs of abating, while the attrition of ammunition and personnel on the front line is constantly increasing. ”

"By all indications, our enemy has hatcheries and even broods on the front line, and the location is in the area of 65th Street."

As he spoke, Vanus drew a red circle on the map with his pen, enclosing the area near the clock tower on 65th Street.

Although there is no direct evidence that the brood is there, according to the footage captured by the drone, the creepers that infiltrated the player's flank position basically spread from here.

Chu Guang frowned slightly.

"In other words, the xenomorphs we have been facing recently are not the wave from the city center? Are they hatched nearby? ”

Vanus shook his head.

"It's hard to say, but their delay in launching a full-scale offensive is rather suspicious, and it's hard not to think of something bad."

The wrench suddenly spoke.

"I don't know if that's right, but these aliens always give me a feeling...... It's as if they're preparing something. ”

After a few days of probing, the xenos have become familiar with the player's defense strategy, but they continue to bring in the Eaters.

If it weren't for the lack of IQ......

Vanus frowned.

"They're stalling for time?"

The wrench nodded.

"I think so too."

Chu Guang stared at the map and thought for a long time, then spoke.

"The front-line positions have been consolidated, we have stockpiled enough ammunition and equipment at the ammunition depots on the edge of the Fifth Ring Road, and now is the best window for a counteroffensive."

As he spoke, Chu Guanghuan glanced at the officers and staff officers around him.

"It doesn't matter what they're preparing."

"Before they're ready, let's get this out of the way once and for all!"