As players had expected, they found four wounded and lone mutants in the residential area of Sandbank Island.

Three of them hid in the sewers, and one hid in the hospital morgue.

The special habits they have developed on the Ten Peaks Mountain have made them accustomed to hiding in dark corners.

After solving all the hidden dangers, the residents of Sandbank Island finally returned home one after another on the second day after the naval battle.

Construction of the submarine cable and fresh water pipeline to Sandbank Island will begin as soon as possible and is expected to be completed between the end of August and the beginning of September.

After absorbing the technicians and experience from Vault 70, Baiyue's subsea construction capacity can be said to have grown by leaps and bounds.

From the "crab" underwater engineering armor to the "electric ray" underwater self-welding unmanned boat, to the modular construction scheme of the deep-sea environment, etc., both "hardware" and "software" have been improved by leaps and bounds.

Of course, this is mainly because Baiyue has a good foundation.

With the strong backing of the two major industrial zones of Dawn City and Boulder City, as well as the engineering technology excavated by the scientific expedition team from a series of ruins including Vault 100, and more importantly, there is a strong alliance behind it, otherwise the technicians of Vault 70 alone would not have been able to do such an astonishing construction speed.

In addition to Sandbank Island, the four southern islands in the southern seas and Coral City, which is located near the mid-section line, are connected to the fresh water supply network and power grid of the port of french fries.

Although Coral City has only restarted 20% of its facilities due to high power consumption, it is enough for the Conch "Diving Mother" plan.

On the fourth day after the naval battle, a twin-engine Viper transport plane landed on the tarmac of Anle Island, and a group of twenty players walked out of the cabin.

They are all pilots with superb piloting skills, not only have they been tested countless times in actual combat, but they have also obtained the "Ace Pilot" certificate issued by Brother Mosquito!

Soon they will go to the Conch to complete the tests of the new "underwater carrier-based aircraft" of the Alliance.

Not far from the tarmac.

Commander Li Minghui of the Anle Island Fleet of the South China Sea Alliance looked at the Viper transport plane with envy, and said to the commander standing beside him.

"You guys have a lot of tricks on the plane."

Fang Chang said with a faint smile.

"It's a masterpiece of the Great Stone Military, it existed before the birth of the Alliance."

"Much smaller than that "Overlord" looks. ”

"After all, before this, the nobles of the inner city of Boulder City only focused on regional affairs and themselves, and the residents there only served the nobles of the inner city, and the Viper transport aircraft had completely covered their short-distance 'travel needs'."

Li Minghui raised his eyebrows with interest, looked at Fang Chang and asked.

"And now?"

Fang Chang continued.

"There is no inner city in Boulder now, they have their own town hall, city lord and courthouse. Residents only need to fulfill their obligations as survivors of Boulder City and citizens of the Alliance, such as obeying the laws that everyone must follow. ”

Li Minghui nodded thoughtfully, and suddenly asked other questions.

"What about the other settlements? Is it the same? ”

Fang Chang said with a faint smile.

"Of course not, for example, Singularity City has a clear hierarchy and promotion system, but that's what the local survivors are looking forward to. Our administrators respected their choice, deprived them of the freedom to sell others in accordance with the Coalition Constitution, and left nothing noticeably altered, and even generously gave them an absolutely impartial AI regulator. ”

Li Minghui nodded approvingly and said in agreement.

"I think he did the right thing when it came to local conditions...... We should consider the survivors' own thoughts. ”

"Me too, after all, it seems to me that it's stupid and ridiculous to have a bunch of guys who understand equality as 'do whatever they want' suddenly get equality. They feel awkward themselves, and we don't feel comfortable with it, and in the end there is no other use than to make the word equality stink. The manager said from the beginning that we can't take everyone to the new world, and some people are destined to have to live at their own pace. ”

Looking at Li Minghui with flickering eyes, Fang Chang's heart moved slightly, and he said with a smile.

"If the survivors of the South China Sea Alliance support you to be their president, of course our administrators will approve of you."

Li Minghui was stunned for a moment, and then pretended to be relaxed and said with a smile.

"Come on, I didn't think so...... Even if they all support me, they have to ask for my opinion. Don't forget that I'm also one millionth of the South China Sea Alliance, so don't even think about pushing me to the front, don't even think about it! ”

Fang Chang smiled noncommittally, didn't say anything, just set his eyes on the submarine mother in the distance.

"I hope everything goes well, if only this war could end sooner."

People's hearts are separated by the belly, and there are many people who do bad things with their conscience in the wasteland, and he is not the kind of student who has not yet left the society at night ten, and people put aside what they say to think about it for a long time.

He doesn't care what this guy says, and he doesn't care if he wants to come to the manager.

But they'll all watch and see what he's going to do.

Li Minghui also looked in the direction of the diving mother, sighed softly for a long time, and said insincerely.

"yes......"

If only it had ended sooner.

Although it might be better to be late......

……

Wasteland OL forum.

The tests of the new equipment are not over yet, and half of the ace pilots have already come online.

"This new plane is also too exciting for Nima!"

"There is a saying and a truth, highlighting a steady and accurate ruthlessness. Of course, I'm not talking about airplanes, I'm talking about cannons. ”

"If only I could get insurance."

“+1。”

The discussion post quickly took to the dozens of floors, and the onlookers were tickled in their hearts.

Finally someone couldn't help but be curious and asked below the post.

"Guys, do you have any pictures or videos? I didn't mean anything else, I was just curious about what the plane looked like. ”

"The main thing is that I haven't seen it, curious."

Seeing someone asking a question, a person familiar with the matter soon came out to answer.

"I didn't bring a camera with me."

"Confidential."

"Holy! This can also be classified!? Can it still be leaked on the forum? ”

"What's the hurry, the PV video will come out on the day of landing, and you will naturally see it. (Funny)"

“+1。”

“@#%&！”

“……”

Irena: "Is it my delusion, how do I remember that there were only 20 pilots." (Funny)"

Night Ten: "Good guy, how many clouds are there?" ”

……

Time passed day by day, and soon from the beginning of August to the end of the month.

The coalition forces sent by the Commune to Haiya Province have advanced the front from the north of Laishan City to the southern suburbs through a step-by-step offensive strategy, and although no survivors have been found, the decontamination of the local soil has advanced to 70%.

In addition, the purification of the Weifu Wasteland is also continuing to advance.

Under the influence of the alliance order, more and more survivors from the southern part of Geumcheon Province settled near the Weifu military base, and the population of the Weifu Castle settlement officially exceeded the 50,000 mark and advanced towards 100,000.

Progress on the northern front is staggering, and progress on the southern front is not far behind.

The Alliance's missile launchers and radars have been successfully deployed on Sandbank Island, and the Conch submarine has been quietly completed and secretly commissioned into service with the Alliance's navy.

All the pieces have been prepared, and now we just wait for a suitable opportunity.

According to the information released by the Daily Survivor, the alliance and its allies in the southern seas are planning a decisive battle with the authorities of Charas, and time and space are running out for the latter......

In addition to the progress on the front, there have been two major events in the alliance recently.

The first thing was the official signing of a ceasefire agreement between the Alliance and the Xilan Empire.

The Empire is required to pay a total of 500,000,000,000 silver coins to the Alliance, and immediately halt the suspension of operations at the port of Golden Gallen, and restore normal shipping and trade activities along the Yongliu River.

However, considering that the empire does not have sufficient foreign exchange reserves of silver coins, the compensation will be secured by foreign trade duties, and the alliance commission agency will collect it on its behalf, and pay the reparation to the empire in proportion to the part of the indemnity.

The part of the collection is mainly from the port of Golden Gallon to Borneo, while the customs duties on different goods are discussed and signed separately by the two parties.

In other words, the Emperor of the Empire does not need to take the indemnity out of the coffers, and can even collect money from the Alliance. And considering that there are many more varieties of trade in the port of Golden Gallen now than before, it is difficult for them to make even more.

Therefore, after hearing about this "improvement plan", the Duke of Galava immediately agreed.

As for the ownership of the port of Kingalen, it was impossible for the alliance to let the empire take it back, and the Duke of Galava obviously did not expect to take it back, so he proposed to put aside the dispute and maintain the status quo.

That is, the Coalition does not turn the port of Golden Gallen into its seventh or eighth settlement, and the Empire neither claims nor gives up the power it will claim in the future.

However, the alliance did not intend to turn the port of Jingallen into its own territory, which was neither in the interests of the alliance nor in line with the purpose of the alliance, so the foreign minister of the alliance, Cheng Yan, agreed.

After the ceasefire agreement takes effect, the port of Kingalen will officially release all prisoners of war.

In addition to this, the Reich received a sum of 150 million dinars.

However, this compensation is not due to the ceasefire agreement, but to another agreement - the pension bill passed at the recent meeting of the COAD.

This compensation is mainly from the Sticky Community, and is paid out of the military expenses jointly paid by the parties to the Sticky Community, and is used to compensate soldiers who "fought for the fate of mankind and died or maimed as a result".

The indemnified party can decide how to use the compensation according to its own circumstances, but must ensure that at least 30% of the compensation is spent directly or indirectly on the individual.

No matter how low the power and status of the rat people in Borneo is, they are all recognized by the Sticky Community as "natural and social persons", and they come from the provinces that are less affected by slime molds, so they are entitled to full compensation.

As for why it was the dinar that was compensated, and not the silver coins that signed the most currency swap agreements, it was mainly at the strong request of the Duke of Galava.

Although Chu Guang felt strange, he thought that the empire was a good friend of the Wilantes after all, so he didn't say anything and agreed kindly.

However, he didn't know that the Duke of Galava didn't think about it at all, he was just afraid that if the Sticky Community gave him silver coins, the Alliance would directly withhold the money.

If he knew, he would have laughed out loud at this lovely thought.

In addition, since most of the treasury of the Golden Gallen Port Bank was obtained from the slave trade, it was not returned to the empire, but belonged to the local residents of the Golden Gallen Harbor for local construction, and was managed by the reorganized Golden Gallen Harbor Bank.

The Duke of Galava, who had already asked His Majesty about this, did not have any opinion, but only proposed supplementary terms for the establishment of embassies in each other, and Cheng Yan, the foreign minister of the alliance, also gladly accepted it.

In short, with the official signing of the ceasefire agreement, the coalition's military operation in the port of Golden Gallen was officially declared.

Although there are still some problems in the port of Kingallen, such as low labor income, high smuggling and rising crime due to the influx of immigrants, it is much better than the previous settlement of either eating soil or eating people.

Problems must be solved one by one, and the problems born due to development must be developed in a way that requires the development method, and the local survivors cannot expect the players to solve all the problems, not to mention that the players of the alliance have left them some good tools and methods.

For example, the council of representatives selected from among the citizens, and the courts and police agencies, which separate the law enforcement and judicial powers, and so on.

As for the second event, it is the establishment of the Shuguang City Stock Exchange and the listing of Baiyue Company.

After more than a month of audits and investigations, Union Bank and the Economic Department approved Baiyue's listing plan.

The economic experts of Camp 101 completed the supervision and the design of the trading system, and the listing counseling agency of Ideal City completed the listing counseling of Baiyue Company.

According to the listing plan approved by the board of directors of Baiyue Company, the first batch of shares to be issued is 50 million shares, and the issue price is 10 silver coins per share, accounting for 8% of the total shares, and it promises to allocate no less than 10% of the profits for dividends every year.

All the funds raised will be used for the expansion of Baiyue's main business, and strive to make the company bigger and stronger.

According to the valuation calculated according to the issue price, the valuation of the entire Baiyue company has reached 6.25 billion!

This figure is even higher than the financial expenditure of the league for the whole year last year!

However, all those who know a little about the development of Baiyue Company know that this value is actually underestimated.

The business of Baiyue Province in the port of Jingalen alone is more than 6 billion silver coins according to the most conservative price-earnings ratio of 20 times, and the issue price is set at 40 silver coins.

The reason for the relatively low issue price is to some extent to share the dividends brought by development with the residents of the alliance.

After all, if there were no workers from the alliance who worked hard in the factory to create value, the alliance would not have become an economic miracle in the wasteland, and it would even be able to use surplus resources to incubate a pioneering place such as the French fries port.

The best way to repay these people is to send them money directly.

Of the 50 million shares, 30 million non-tradable shares have been subscribed by insurance (pension, unemployment insurance, etc.) in the social sector of the alliance, and the other part has been bought by insurance in the public sector (railway insurance, housing insurance, etc.), and the biggest beneficiaries are mainly low- and middle-income residents who pay social insurance and enjoy the most public services.

As for the remaining 20 million shares, they will be issued as tradable shares to middle- and high-income residents of the alliance.

Holders of the alliance's ID card and provide the alliance's domestic bank deposit or statement certificate can open an account on the stock exchange, and individuals can subscribe for up to 100,000 shares, and there is no restriction on buying and selling in the secondary market.

Players can also trade Baiyue shares, but for the time being, only the channel of the silver exchange is open for trading, and the proportion of transactions in the silver exchange is not limited, just like other ongoing equity transactions, only large equity transactions will be reviewed.

The reason for this is that, on the one hand, the trading system of the silver exchange is relatively mature, and on the other hand, the player's task income is already an order of magnitude higher than that of ordinary NPCs, so there is no need to grab that dividend with NPCs, just play by yourself behind closed doors.

Moreover, with the deposit of NPCs, I am afraid it will be difficult to take over the market for players who want to cash out.

But this is not the case with the silver exchange, where there are a large number of "mystery customers" waiting and willing to shell out real money at any time.

In order to take care of the work and rest of the majority, the release date is specially set as a rest day.

Not only that, the banks in each settlement of the alliance have opened windows to open accounts, but there was still a long queue at the entrance of the Dawning City Exchange that day, almost paralyzing the traffic on the adjacent streets.

Although most residents of Dawning City still have the impression of Baiyue Company in the seafood market in the northern suburbs of Dawning City, and do not know much about the specific business of this company, the headline of "Goblin Observer" lit a fire in everyone's hearts-

[Subscribing to Baiyue Company's shares is to support the alliance's overseas expansion business! ] 】

When everyone saw this, they immediately became excited as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.

Isn't supporting the Alliance's overseas expansion a pledge of loyalty to its managers?

Although the manager never said this, it can't stop the young lads from making up their own brains.

Of course, the most important thing is that they have money in their pockets.

Since Boulder joined the Alliance, the Alliance has absorbed not only Boulder Technology, but also Boulder City's "Bol the Awakened" and the Workers' Association.

The merchants have their own guilds of traders, and the workers have their own organizations, and with the two forces balancing each other, the median hourly wage in most factories has risen from 5 silver per hour before Boulder joined the alliance to 8 today.

With an issue price of 10 silver coins, even a guy who washes dishes in a tavern can buy 100 shares if he is not an alcoholic who spends all his income on alcohol.

And most of the people who open an account don't even think about making money from this thing, just with the simple idea of wanting to contribute to the manager.

1000 credits can be exchanged for 5 assault rifles.

One Boulder City has increased their hourly wage by 60%, and if you donate 5 guns, you can help the Alliance liberate a few more "Boulder Cities", even if you lose all the 1,000 silver coins!

“…… Are these guys crazy?! ”

Looking at the crowded stock exchange, Niyang, who slipped out of the embassy street to join in the fun, his eyes widened in surprise, and his expression was almost like seeing a sea monster in the Borneo Sea.

The security guard who maintained order in the line glanced at him and felt that this face did not look like a local, so he said politely.

"Hello, sir, the original ID card of the alliance is required for equity transactions...... Can you give me a look? ”

Before, many wastelanders tried to blend into the queue, but in the end they found that they couldn't do it and began to splash and roll around and even play tricks, making a lot of noise, so his superiors asked him to politely invite people who were not eligible to subscribe out of the queue, so as not to waste everyone's time.

It's not that he suspects that this guy doesn't have an ID card, but he suspects that this guy doesn't have it at all.

However, to his surprise, the man first glanced sneakily left and right, as if to confirm something, and then puffed up his chest, generously took out an ID card from his bosom and handed it to him, while politely speaking.

"Of course it's convenient, this is my ID, like a fake ID card...... Ahem, I mean it could never be fake. Do you need to enter my number in the system to confirm? Mr. ”

The security guard was stunned, on the one hand, because this guy was so obedient and cooperative, and on the other hand, because this guy really had it.

Since the establishment of the Adhesive Community, the threshold for applying for an ID card has been raised from three months to one year, and there must be a series of complicated procedures such as tax payment certificates and work certificates, otherwise even those who enter through the homeless homes can only obtain the right of abode as "supervised persons".

Is it the same group of refugees from the Battle of Luoxia?

Giving him a strange look, the security guard nodded and handed him back.

"That's not necessary, just show me it, and the staff will confirm the authenticity of the documents later. Other than that...... Thank you for your cooperation and have a great day. ”

"I wish you a happy life too."

Niyan saluted politely, even more politely than to the Duke of Galava, with a sunny smile on his face.

As early as the first day of arriving in Dawning City, he was learning about what to do with the alliance's ID card, and at that time, the threshold for applying for an ID card was not as high as it is now, as long as the person was in Dawnlight City and worked a job of 120 hours a month.

He found a tavern owned by a wasteland guest, gave the owner a sum of money, and solved the problem easily.

Although the Duke of Galava has a bad temper, as long as he licks the guy comfortably, the guy is still very generous.

Of course, there are still many smart people in the alliance, especially the Yue Clan girls from the French Fries Port to help them, the loophole of "paid work" has been plugged, and the threshold for applying for a license has also been raised a lot.

It's just that the law doesn't go back to the past, and it has no impact on the "identity of a resident of Dawning City" that he has already gotten.

At that time, he only applied for that certificate out of longing for that adult, but he didn't expect that the decision at that time would bring him such a big benefit.

Although Baiyue Company beat up his emperor, so what?

He hated the thousand pillars in the City of a Thousand Pillars, and he wished that the Baiyue Company would take another step forward and smash all the pillars there.

Even if it only smashes the Rat Clan's pillar!

The residents of Dawning City felt that it didn't matter if they lost money, it was a coincidence, he happened to be the same, even more radical than them, there were still too few dead rats on the Ten Peaks Mountain!

Of course.

Having carefully read every "Survivor Daily", he knows very well that this is actually a benefit given to everyone by the manager, and it is almost impossible to lose money, and it is almost the same as picking it up for nothing.

The team moved slowly.

After waiting in line for two hours, Nyan finally saw the door of the stock exchange, and his heart beat with excitement as the line kept moving.

Although he was checked three times by three different security guards in the past two hours, his mood was not affected at all, and he did not feel discriminated against or anything.

After all, this little offense was nothing compared to the humiliation he had endured in White Elephant City and with the Duke of Galava.

They had better be more strict so that the other rats would not get in and defile him with his dirty paws to taste a little bit of cream.

The line has finally come to an end.

The air conditioning in the hall blew away some of the heat in his heart, and under the guidance of the staff, he quickly got his number and the form he needed to fill out, and couldn't wait to rush to the counter after hearing the call.

Helping him with the formalities was a beautiful Union girl, whose face was as delicate as pebbles on the beach, and her eyes sparkled with water.

Compared to her, the Duchess of Galava and her lovers are like cows in a shack!

He admits that he may have a filter in his eyes, and that the Alliance's cosmetics have the power to turn decay into magic, but he can swear he's not lying.

In the Union, even ordinary people are so sparkling!

Somewhat uncomfortable by the fiery eyes, the teller lady coughed lightly and said in a businesslike tone.

"Please show your ID."

"Nyyan, citizen of the Union."

Niyan quickly showed the fast-disc slurry certificate in his hand and smiled at her with a courteous smile.

She had to face at least a thousand such smiles a day, but she still responded with a professional smile, and after confirming the documents, she was about to leave the form he had filled out in his hand.

This attentive and almost fanatical appearance is probably a wastelander who has just joined the Alliance.

Thinking so, she looked at the form, but after seeing the numbers on the form, there was a hint of surprise in her eyes, and she couldn't help but open her lip gloss mouth wide.

“…… 90,000 shares?! ”

That's almost the upper limit of individual purchases!

How did this guy make so much money?

It's not that she's snobbish, she treats all clients equally, but the contrast this client brings to him is too great, like a beggar pulling out a large stack of bills from his pocket.

It's hard not to wonder where his money came from.

Seeing the surprise in the beauty's eyes, Niyan smiled humbly, but couldn't hide the pride in his eyes.

"I made a little money from my business, and it is definitely a legal follow-up business, whatever you want to check...... But please give me this opportunity after the investigation, I am also a citizen of the Alliance, and I want to use this money to invest in greater causes. ”

Rescuing the look of surprise on her face, the teller lady stared at him and continued.

"Out of my duty, I must say that in the front, Baiyue Company does not run a great business, it is just a for-profit organization, which is fundamentally different from other relief agencies such as homeless homes."

"We need you to be aware that this is an investment, and that this is neither a donation nor a gamble. At the same time, there are risks involved in any investment, and you have to take responsibility for your choices and swear that you are fully aware of what you are doing. ”

"Need me to put up a few fingers and swear?" Nyan smiled and raised his right hand above his head.

"No," the teller lady pulled out two copies of the contract from the drawer, "you need to read this share subscription agreement and the risk notice carefully, and sign it at the end." ”

Reaching out to take the contract and the pen, Niyan signed the two agreements without looking at them, and then gently placed the pen on the table.

"I know very well that this is not a great business, and I know that respected managers don't have any money for me, but I still hope they can be faster, faster...... Please understand the small wishes of a mouse, my power is so small, so small that my master does not take me seriously at all, and even thinks that I am so weak that I am not even qualified to betray him...... And I really don't, and I really don't have that qualification, my business can't be done without his support. ”

Looking at the dazed teller lady, Niyan slightly performed imperial court etiquette.

"Have a good life, beautiful lady, a girl as old as you in Borneo is just a cargo...... Of course, as an animal, I am the same. ”

Looking at the guy who turned around and walked out of the door after completing all the formalities, the girl standing behind the counter blinked in confusion, looked at the older colleague on the side and whispered a question.

He was her senior, and she trusted him a lot.

"Is Borneo so exaggerated?"

As she spoke, she didn't stop her hand, and clicked on the tablet to call the next number.

The colleague next to him shook his head, teased noncommittally, and took care of the next job.

"Who knows how many words are true of what the wastelander says? Maybe he just wants to soak you, see that guy is from the port of fries, and I've heard that people there dream of talking about a person in Dawnlight...... Hey, that's far enough away from the fries port. ”

As for Borneo, it was so far away that he had no interest in learning about it, but he was only interested in eating its specialties in a restaurant.

But those "mush" tasted like that, and he couldn't tell the difference between the mush, and it couldn't be compared with the alliance's dazzling delicacies.

Maybe Baiyue Company has really changed the lives of the people there, such as teaching the people there to eat with utensils and eat at the table, so that the people there still expect more.

But that's their business, he's just a small clerk in Dawning City, he doesn't care about that kind of thing.

In contrast, he cared more about the interests of the respected Mr. Manager and the Alliance, at least so that he was worthy of his hourly wage of 8 silver coins.

Praise the manager!

He was always loyal to the noble gentleman, who could have put all the money in his pocket, so that these guys in line could only look at it with envy.

I heard that the survivors of the Golden Gallen were paid only one-tenth of his hourly salary, and before that it was even less.

I'm curious how they survived.

(End of chapter)