【 Type 20 "Needle" Gauss Rifle. 】
【 Explanation: As the standard anti-equipment of the orbital paratroopers, the Type 20 "Needle" Gauss rifle adopts a barrelless design and a hollowed-out magnetic guide. Its standard ammunition is a 9mm caliber and a mass of 100g "Spike" fin-stabilized bullets . 】
【 When shooting with standard ammunition, the theoretical exit speed can reach Mach 5, and the muzzle kinetic energy is 144755 joules. Taking into account the special combat environment of the Orbital Airborne Forces, the Type 20 "Needle" Gauss rifle is designed to be able to launch conductive working fluid through side loading, such as truncated iron nails and steel balls, even if it does not have standard ammunition. However, it is important to note that when firing non-standard ammunition, the stability and accuracy of shooting cannot be guaranteed. Please refer to the manual for careful selection. 】
144755 joules of muzzle kinetic energy!
When Lucius saw this number for the first time, he thought he had made a mistake.
If I remember correctly, the 20mm caliber M61 aviation cannon on the F16 fighter jet has a single engine energy of only about 50,000 joules.
The muzzle kinetic energy of more than 140,000 joules is an order of magnitude higher than that of a machine gun!
Can this be called a gun???
But if you only look at the caliber, there is nothing wrong with calling it a gun.
Picking up the terrifyingly powerful Gauss rifle from the conveyor belt, Lucius held it in his hand for a while and took off the heavy magazine.
The bullet stuffed in the magazine is very long, and its shape is more like a long shuttle than a spike. The thread tattooed on the tail is probably its "Stabilizing tail", which allows the bullet to spin stably during flight.
The Gauss rifle used by Lujan and his team members seems to adopt another technical route, that is, a fully enclosed magnetic track, and a rifled barrel is added in the middle of the magnetic track.
When Lucius watched the screen through the drone before, he noticed that their Gauss rifles needed to actively replace the overheated barrels after continuous shooting.
Intuition tells Lucius that the barrelless design may have higher technical content, but the maintenance cost and use cost are hard to say.
"I'm afraid the recoil is not small... Without an exoskeleton or power armor, it may not be able to control it."
"There is also ammunition, 10 bullets are too few."
"Using tungsten steel to make a bullet with a similar shape, I don't know if it will work."
Based on the production conditions of the outpost base, it is impossible to expect the materials to be exactly the same, but it should not be a big problem to make bullets with similar shapes.
Lucius intends to save some of these 10 "Original bullets" and save them for valuable targets. To deal with ordinary aliens, some imitation ammunition is almost enough.
In addition, the optical sight on the gun body is also a good thing, with a maximum magnification of 12 times.
However, maybe all the luck was spent on the advanced blind boxes, and 11 basic blind boxes actually released 11 lollipops in a row. And they tastes like chocolate.
However, Lucius was in a good mood. Instead of raising his blood pressure, he gave each of Sumeria and Yuki a lollipop, sharing the joy in his heart at the moment.
A cannon and a piece of armor. This wave is more than blood money.
It's a fortune!
...
The next day was a rare sunny day. There was not a single cloud in the cloudless sky.
However, the snow last night was very heavy. Snowflakes as big as goose feathers floated all night. When the day dawned, the thickest part of the snow did not even reach the knees.
Still hired two nomads to clean.
After inspecting the training of the guards, Lucius found Old Luka.
"I've given you a task. The details have been updated on your VM. Now go to the brick factory and pick two smarter survivors to be your assistants."
"In a while, our allies will send people to us to register the labor dispatch list, and then you can follow what I explained on the VM and take them away."
Old Luka nodded respectfully.
"As you order, my lord."
It didn't take long for old Luka to go in the direction of the brick factory.
Lucius soon saw through the drone in the sky that an off-road vehicle with big tires broke through the snow and drove from the north.
There were 4 people in the car.
Except for the driver in the car and the bodyguard sitting in the co-pilot wearing an exoskeleton with light weapons hanging on his body, the two people in the back row were not even equipped with an exoskeleton and only wore a uniform gray coat. They were probably civilians.
The road conditions on the wasteland are very poor, especially in urban areas, where there can even be dozens of uneven creases on a single road. Some of the cracks were relatively wide, and even the buried pipelines leaked out, and the width difference was more than two meters.
Not to mention that cars can't get through, even people and livestock can't get through, so they can only walk around the ruins with deep enough foundations on the street.
The road along the wreckage of the elevated highway out of the city was not smooth, and many pits were buried by snow.
Lucius watched from the sky, and Popo guessed when the car would break down. In the end, Popo guessed it right. About 1 kilometer away from Wetland Park, the front wheel of the off-road vehicle fell directly into the ditch.
The snow foam was rolled up to the sky, but no matter how much the tire was embedded in the hole and idling, it just couldn't go out.
The co-pilot and the driver could only get out of the car, holding the wheels with both hands, and lifted the front of the car out of the dark ditch with the brute force of the exoskeleton.
Lucius originally planned to ask two players of the power system to help him, but he immediately dismissed the idea after seeing this scene.
"The power of technology is still strong."
When can I give my cute little players a complete set for each of them.
Isn't it fast to move bricks?
With a sigh in his heart, Lucius looked at the group of people who got back into the car and drove to the north gate of Wetland Park, turned off the VM screen, went downstairs to the north gate and waited.
...
The off-road vehicle could not enter Wetland Park, so the driver and the vehicle waited in front of the north gate of the park, while the other three got off the vehicle and continued on.
The group soon arrived at the outpost, met the manager at the north gate, and came to the reception room at his invitation.
"Let me introduce myself first. I am Howard from the logistics department of the First Pioneering Corps of Silver Wing Group, which belongs to the company. Behind me is our colleague Dante from the logistics department, who is in charge of the temporary office of your camp. Responsible for liaison and communication, and the other is Ace from the security department, who is mainly responsible for his safety."
"Hello, Mr. Manager." The man named Dante wore glasses and looked a bit refined.
The heroic female bodyguard just nodded to him, without saying anything, and did not participate in the topic, as if there was no atmosphere.
Holding Howard's right hand and shaking it, Lucius had a spring-like smile on his face.
"Lucius, Manager of Shelter 404, is honored to cooperate with you. Please sit down."
A handsome face is always unavoidable to make people feel good. Even though his facial muscles were stiffened by the north wind, after seeing Lucius's smile, Howard squeezed out an equally friendly smile from his face.
It is much more comfortable to communicate with civilized people. It doesn't matter if you are poor, at least you can communicate.
Howard had enough of the natives he had met along the way, and he was completely unable to communicate in a civilized way.
Except for the bodyguard standing at the door on duty, the three people in the room sat down one after another.
Howard didn't go around in circles either. After sitting down, he went straight to the topic and took out a tablet computer from his bag.
"So let's get started, I've provided a list here of what we can offer you. We're still charging 1CR per hour for each labor force, 200 people working 10 hours a day, daily wages The total expenditure is 2000CR...this is our budget."
Lucius took the tablet from his hand, swiped his index finger across the screen, and glanced at the list on it.
In general, the purchasing power of CR is still very strong.
Perhaps because the production line was carried on the track, the prices on the list were closer to the local standards of the east coast than those who did not know where they came from, and even felt cheaper than the local survivors' strongholds on the east coast.
1CR can wholesale many commodities. It's just that when he saw a kilogram of starch, a kilogram of glucose, a kilogram of sucrose, and a kilogram of amino acids (30 kinds of lysine, tryptophan, etc.)... these strange trading varieties, Lucius was stunned.
Can you disassemble the product into molecules and sell it?
Of course, in addition to these too hard-core varieties, there are also normal trading varieties.
Such as rice, wheat and corn, the price of these agricultural products is 2CR per kilogram.
Lucius remembers that the starch content of rice is only 75%, so buying rice will be more expensive than buying starch?
In addition, there are vegetable meat patties or minced meat, which only cost 2CR per kilogram, which is actually the same price as rice and wheat.
In any of the survivor gathering places in Spring City, it is impossible to sell the meat at the same price as the things grown in the ground!
Plus, processed foods are on the list.
A type C nutritional package with a net content of 430g requires 1CR, which contains a normal diet that is sufficient to maintain a person's daily meal needs of carbohydrates, fiber, protein, and other mineral nutrients. However, there seems to be a bit of water in it, and a Type A nutrition package with a net content of 800g actually costs 8CR.
Is this a family bucket? The food that can be traded is basically these. Starting from 10CR, the trading varieties have become some daily necessities and industrial products.
For example, the price of one kilogram of sulfur soap is exactly 10CR, and 10 pieces can be cut out according to the net content of 100 grams, which is equivalent to one piece of 1CR.
Another example is salt, they only sell refined salt, or only pure sodium chloride, which only costs 10CR per kilogram.
It is very interesting that their salt price is equivalent to 10 times that of grain and 10 times that of meat. Lucius couldn't decide for a moment whether it was cheap or expensive.
Then starting from the 100CR gear, some good things will appear.
For example, a submachine gun that sells for 200CR, and an assault rifle that sells for 300CR. There is also a bulletproof vest for 100CR and a heavy full protection body armor for 300CR.
Bullets are very cheap, you can buy three bullets in 1CR, which is equivalent to a catty of rice.
"Why no Gauss rifles?"
Lucius directly pulled the list to the bottom, but he found some production tools that he might use, but he didn't find the power armor and Gauss rifle that he wanted more.
Howard said with a positive expression.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Manager, our power armor and Gauss rifle are the lives of soldiers, and this cannot be sold."
Lucius nodded.
"Understood, I took the liberty."
Understood. It seems that it is not easy for you to produce that thing, at least not to the extent that you have a set of people.
In Lucius's impression, although the principle of the coil gun is very simple, it is actually a very expensive technology. Think about it too, how cheap is traditional artillery? It is easy to maintain, one shot is blown, and if the barrel is broken, replace it and continue firing.
Lucius studied all night yesterday, but he didn't figure out what material the magnetic rail of the Type 20 "Needle" Gauss rifle was made of, and he didn't dare to dismantle it to have a look.
He is not stupid. What if the magnetic track is filled with metal hydrogen?
That doesn't just explode.
Researching black technology is more exciting than opening a blind box. After thinking about it, Lucius decided not to bother, not to mention that he may not be able to do it if he understands it. He doesn't have the equipment and preconditions to understand it.
Any tiny breakthrough is the accumulation of thousands of subjects and tens of thousands of experimental results. The equivalent change has accumulated into a qualitative change, which is specific to a certain mature technology, which contains tens of thousands of tiny 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 can there be food, with food can there be people, and with talents can we develop industries, expand territory, and pick up garbage farther away. When the food, electricity and mines are all in operation, and the production capacity has also increased, then we can talk about technology trees.
Otherwise, it won't work for anyone.
Lucius: "There is no problem with the remuneration. In our place, one kilogram of rice needs... well, 10 copper coins. So to convert it, I think the reasonable exchange rate is 1CR to 5 copper coins."
Lucius originally wanted to say that 2CR was exchanged for 1 silver coin.
But after thinking about it, I changed the term "High EQ".
However, I didn't expect this quartermaster friend to be ungrateful at all, shaking his head and saying.
"Mr. Manager, my words may be a bit straightforward. Our captain is a rough man and really doesn't understand these things, but do you think I don't either?"
"Let's not make such a hassle, and it's meaningless to exchange each other's money. We can't stay here forever. We will pay you all the money directly according to the hourly salary standard of 1CR. As for what you plan to give how much silver coins your residents pay is your internal issue, and we will not interfere."
"As for the problem you raised that CR cannot be circulated normally, we have already solved it for you. The list in your hand was summed up overnight by our colleagues in the logistics department. I believe that the materials listed above must be more expensive than yours. Richer than any caravan you've seen here, don't you think?"
To sum up, you can't fool me.
The person who loves to pay you can pay as much as the hourly wage, anyway, that's all we give.
Selling things to you at cost price is enough conscience.
Lucius, who has been in sales for so many years, of course understood what he meant, with an embarrassed smile on his face.
"That's fine."
Originally, he also wanted to say that the minimum hourly salary for his people (players) is 1 silver coin, which should be 2CR in conversion. But I didn't expect that he was quite smart and didn't want his money at all.
Seeing that Lucius expressed his affirmative attitude, Howard looked at him cautiously and said.
"So can I take it that we have reached a consensus?"
Oliver bragged to him yesterday, saying that the manager of shelter 404 is a very straightforward person, and they reached a consensus in less than ten minutes.
Now it seems that it's not that this guy is straightforward, but that their captain is too straightforward...
"It's half done," Lucius 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 your place, and it is impossible for our people to go there every day and waste so much time on the road. And eating, which is also a big problem.”
Originally, Howard was still feeling for blood pressure medicine in his pocket when he heard the first sentence "Half achieved", but he relaxed his nerves only after hearing the second half of the sentence.
This is a reasonable request.
"Don't worry about this. We have built a temporary camp for your workers. Although it is not as comfortable as the shelter, there is no problem with wind and warmth. Don't worry about meals, we will prepare a mobile kitchen for you. Provide three meals a day according to the standard of 1CR per meal."
Lucius nodded, thoughtfully.
"1 CR per meal, so 3 CR per day, right?"
Howard froze slightly, then nodded cautiously.
"Er, yes sir."
Lucius had a smile on his face.
"According to the standard of 3CR per person per day, you can directly send the money to us. We will centrally purchase and prepare our own food. In this way, you don't need to prepare any mobile kitchens, just give us some pots and utensils for cooking. What do you think?"
Howard was dumbfounded.
That's okay too??? However, he did not express his opinion immediately, but silently calculated the cost in his heart.
If mobile kitchens are to be deployed in these workers’ camps, the actual cost will be at least 1,000 CR per day, and you will have to wrestle if you eat something bad.
When they cooperated with the natives before, 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 40%, and there is no risk.
Howard nodded decisively in agreement.
"OK!"
Lucius also decisively extended his right hand.
"Deal!"
...
After reaching a consensus, the two parties quickly drew up a contract in black and white, signed their respective names on it, and pressed their fingerprints instead of the official seal.
At this moment, Howard finally realized the captain's evaluation of the manager as "Refreshing".
Really. His efficiency is impressive.
It's a shame to stay here...
Dante, who was in charge of the office, stayed, while Howard set off under the escort of Ace, and returned to the boarding point at the entrance of Wetland Park.
Afterwards, she will return to the outpost, and Dante will use the materials they brought to build a simple barracks as an office.
"The conditions here are too simple...they are still using the primitive steelmaking method to produce steel." Looking at the big chimney to the south, Dante couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
Ace did not comment on these facilities, but said after a moment of silence.
"That person is strong."
"Strong?"
"Well, it's an awakened person, probably the first stage."
"Which one?" Dante looked up curiously, and found that there were quite a few residents in the surrounding shelters.
These people looked at them equally curiously, wondering what they were looking at.
"The one you talked to earlier."
"You mean their Manager?" Dante looked surprised, "But I remember awakening—"
"Experience countless trials of life and death, at least once through the gate of hell."
Ace still had a blank expression on her face, but there was a trace of caution in her pupils, and she rarely said a word.
It seems that the captain's assessment is correct.
"That person is strong."
【 Type 20 "Needle" Gauss Rifle. 】
【 Explanation: As the standard anti-equipment of the orbital paratroopers, the Type 20 "Needle" Gauss rifle adopts a barrelless design and a hollowed-out magnetic guide. Its standard ammunition is a 9mm caliber and a mass of 100g "Spike" fin-stabilized bullets . 】
【 When shooting with standard ammunition, the theoretical exit speed can reach Mach 5, and the muzzle kinetic energy is 144755 joules. Taking into account the special combat environment of the Orbital Airborne Forces, the Type 20 "Needle" Gauss rifle is designed to be able to launch conductive working fluid through side loading, such as truncated iron nails and steel balls, even if it does not have standard ammunition. However, it is important to note that when firing non-standard ammunition, the stability and accuracy of shooting cannot be guaranteed. Please refer to the manual for careful selection. 】
144755 joules of muzzle kinetic energy!
When Lucius saw this number for the first time, he thought he had made a mistake.
If I remember correctly, the 20mm caliber M61 aviation cannon on the F16 fighter jet has a single engine energy of only about 50,000 joules.
The muzzle kinetic energy of more than 140,000 joules is an order of magnitude higher than that of a machine gun!
Can this be called a gun???
But if you only look at the caliber, there is nothing wrong with calling it a gun.
Picking up the terrifyingly powerful Gauss rifle from the conveyor belt, Lucius held it in his hand for a while and took off the heavy magazine.
The bullet stuffed in the magazine is very long, and its shape is more like a long shuttle than a spike. The thread tattooed on the tail is probably its "Stabilizing tail", which allows the bullet to spin stably during flight.
The Gauss rifle used by Lujan and his team members seems to adopt another technical route, that is, a fully enclosed magnetic track, and a rifled barrel is added in the middle of the magnetic track.
When Lucius watched the screen through the drone before, he noticed that their Gauss rifles needed to actively replace the overheated barrels after continuous shooting.
Intuition tells Lucius that the barrelless design may have higher technical content, but the maintenance cost and use cost are hard to say.
"I'm afraid the recoil is not small... Without an exoskeleton or power armor, it may not be able to control it."
"There is also ammunition, 10 bullets are too few."
"Using tungsten steel to make a bullet with a similar shape, I don't know if it will work."
Based on the production conditions of the outpost base, it is impossible to expect the materials to be exactly the same, but it should not be a big problem to make bullets with similar shapes.
Lucius intends to save some of these 10 "Original bullets" and save them for valuable targets. To deal with ordinary aliens, some imitation ammunition is almost enough.
In addition, the optical sight on the gun body is also a good thing, with a maximum magnification of 12 times.
However, maybe all the luck was spent on the advanced blind boxes, and 11 basic blind boxes actually released 11 lollipops in a row. And they tastes like chocolate.
However, Lucius was in a good mood. Instead of raising his blood pressure, he gave each of Sumeria and Yuki a lollipop, sharing the joy in his heart at the moment.
A cannon and a piece of armor. This wave is more than blood money.
It's a fortune!
...
The next day was a rare sunny day. There was not a single cloud in the cloudless sky.
However, the snow last night was very heavy. Snowflakes as big as goose feathers floated all night. When the day dawned, the thickest part of the snow did not even reach the knees.
Still hired two nomads to clean.
After inspecting the training of the guards, Lucius found Old Luka.
"I've given you a task. The details have been updated on your VM. Now go to the brick factory and pick two smarter survivors to be your assistants."
"In a while, our allies will send people to us to register the labor dispatch list, and then you can follow what I explained on the VM and take them away."
Old Luka nodded respectfully.
"As you order, my lord."
It didn't take long for old Luka to go in the direction of the brick factory.
Lucius soon saw through the drone in the sky that an off-road vehicle with big tires broke through the snow and drove from the north.
There were 4 people in the car.
Except for the driver in the car and the bodyguard sitting in the co-pilot wearing an exoskeleton with light weapons hanging on his body, the two people in the back row were not even equipped with an exoskeleton and only wore a uniform gray coat. They were probably civilians.
The road conditions on the wasteland are very poor, especially in urban areas, where there can even be dozens of uneven creases on a single road. Some of the cracks were relatively wide, and even the buried pipelines leaked out, and the width difference was more than two meters.
Not to mention that cars can't get through, even people and livestock can't get through, so they can only walk around the ruins with deep enough foundations on the street.
The road along the wreckage of the elevated highway out of the city was not smooth, and many pits were buried by snow.
Lucius watched from the sky, and Popo guessed when the car would break down. In the end, Popo guessed it right. About 1 kilometer away from Wetland Park, the front wheel of the off-road vehicle fell directly into the ditch.
The snow foam was rolled up to the sky, but no matter how much the tire was embedded in the hole and idling, it just couldn't go out.
The co-pilot and the driver could only get out of the car, holding the wheels with both hands, and lifted the front of the car out of the dark ditch with the brute force of the exoskeleton.
Lucius originally planned to ask two players of the power system to help him, but he immediately dismissed the idea after seeing this scene.
"The power of technology is still strong."
When can I give my cute little players a complete set for each of them.
Isn't it fast to move bricks?
With a sigh in his heart, Lucius looked at the group of people who got back into the car and drove to the north gate of Wetland Park, turned off the VM screen, went downstairs to the north gate and waited.
...
The off-road vehicle could not enter Wetland Park, so the driver and the vehicle waited in front of the north gate of the park, while the other three got off the vehicle and continued on.
The group soon arrived at the outpost, met the manager at the north gate, and came to the reception room at his invitation.
"Let me introduce myself first. I am Howard from the logistics department of the First Pioneering Corps of Silver Wing Group, which belongs to the company. Behind me is our colleague Dante from the logistics department, who is in charge of the temporary office of your camp. Responsible for liaison and communication, and the other is Ace from the security department, who is mainly responsible for his safety."
"Hello, Mr. Manager." The man named Dante wore glasses and looked a bit refined.
The heroic female bodyguard just nodded to him, without saying anything, and did not participate in the topic, as if there was no atmosphere.
Holding Howard's right hand and shaking it, Lucius had a spring-like smile on his face.
"Lucius, Manager of Shelter 404, is honored to cooperate with you. Please sit down."
A handsome face is always unavoidable to make people feel good. Even though his facial muscles were stiffened by the north wind, after seeing Lucius's smile, Howard squeezed out an equally friendly smile from his face.
It is much more comfortable to communicate with civilized people. It doesn't matter if you are poor, at least you can communicate.
Howard had enough of the natives he had met along the way, and he was completely unable to communicate in a civilized way.
Except for the bodyguard standing at the door on duty, the three people in the room sat down one after another.
Howard didn't go around in circles either. After sitting down, he went straight to the topic and took out a tablet computer from his bag.
"So let's get started, I've provided a list here of what we can offer you. We're still charging 1CR per hour for each labor force, 200 people working 10 hours a day, daily wages The total expenditure is 2000CR...this is our budget."
Lucius took the tablet from his hand, swiped his index finger across the screen, and glanced at the list on it.
In general, the purchasing power of CR is still very strong.
Perhaps because the production line was carried on the track, the prices on the list were closer to the local standards of the east coast than those who did not know where they came from, and even felt cheaper than the local survivors' strongholds on the east coast.
1CR can wholesale many commodities. It's just that when he saw a kilogram of starch, a kilogram of glucose, a kilogram of sucrose, and a kilogram of amino acids (30 kinds of lysine, tryptophan, etc.)... these strange trading varieties, Lucius was stunned.
Can you disassemble the product into molecules and sell it?
Of course, in addition to these too hard-core varieties, there are also normal trading varieties.
Such as rice, wheat and corn, the price of these agricultural products is 2CR per kilogram.
Lucius remembers that the starch content of rice is only 75%, so buying rice will be more expensive than buying starch?
In addition, there are vegetable meat patties or minced meat, which only cost 2CR per kilogram, which is actually the same price as rice and wheat.
In any of the survivor gathering places in Spring City, it is impossible to sell the meat at the same price as the things grown in the ground!
Plus, processed foods are on the list.
A type C nutritional package with a net content of 430g requires 1CR, which contains a normal diet that is sufficient to maintain a person's daily meal needs of carbohydrates, fiber, protein, and other mineral nutrients. However, there seems to be a bit of water in it, and a Type A nutrition package with a net content of 800g actually costs 8CR.
Is this a family bucket? The food that can be traded is basically these. Starting from 10CR, the trading varieties have become some daily necessities and industrial products.
For example, the price of one kilogram of sulfur soap is exactly 10CR, and 10 pieces can be cut out according to the net content of 100 grams, which is equivalent to one piece of 1CR.
Another example is salt, they only sell refined salt, or only pure sodium chloride, which only costs 10CR per kilogram.
It is very interesting that their salt price is equivalent to 10 times that of grain and 10 times that of meat. Lucius couldn't decide for a moment whether it was cheap or expensive.
Then starting from the 100CR gear, some good things will appear.
For example, a submachine gun that sells for 200CR, and an assault rifle that sells for 300CR. There is also a bulletproof vest for 100CR and a heavy full protection body armor for 300CR.
Bullets are very cheap, you can buy three bullets in 1CR, which is equivalent to a catty of rice.
"Why no Gauss rifles?"
Lucius directly pulled the list to the bottom, but he found some production tools that he might use, but he didn't find the power armor and Gauss rifle that he wanted more.
Howard said with a positive expression.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Manager, our power armor and Gauss rifle are the lives of soldiers, and this cannot be sold."
Lucius nodded.
"Understood, I took the liberty."
Understood. It seems that it is not easy for you to produce that thing, at least not to the extent that you have a set of people.
In Lucius's impression, although the principle of the coil gun is very simple, it is actually a very expensive technology. Think about it too, how cheap is traditional artillery? It is easy to maintain, one shot is blown, and if the barrel is broken, replace it and continue firing.
Lucius studied all night yesterday, but he didn't figure out what material the magnetic rail of the Type 20 "Needle" Gauss rifle was made of, and he didn't dare to dismantle it to have a look.
He is not stupid. What if the magnetic track is filled with metal hydrogen?
That doesn't just explode.
Researching black technology is more exciting than opening a blind box. After thinking about it, Lucius decided not to bother, not to mention that he may not be able to do it if he understands it. He doesn't have the equipment and preconditions to understand it.
Any tiny breakthrough is the accumulation of thousands of subjects and tens of thousands of experimental results. The equivalent change has accumulated into a qualitative change, which is specific to a certain mature technology, which contains tens of thousands of tiny 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 can there be food, with food can there be people, and with talents can we develop industries, expand territory, and pick up garbage farther away. When the food, electricity and mines are all in operation, and the production capacity has also increased, then we can talk about technology trees.
Otherwise, it won't work for anyone.
Lucius: "There is no problem with the remuneration. In our place, one kilogram of rice needs... well, 10 copper coins. So to convert it, I think the reasonable exchange rate is 1CR to 5 copper coins."
Lucius originally wanted to say that 2CR was exchanged for 1 silver coin.
But after thinking about it, I changed the term "High EQ".
However, I didn't expect this quartermaster friend to be ungrateful at all, shaking his head and saying.
"Mr. Manager, my words may be a bit straightforward. Our captain is a rough man and really doesn't understand these things, but do you think I don't either?"
"Let's not make such a hassle, and it's meaningless to exchange each other's money. We can't stay here forever. We will pay you all the money directly according to the hourly salary standard of 1CR. As for what you plan to give how much silver coins your residents pay is your internal issue, and we will not interfere."
"As for the problem you raised that CR cannot be circulated normally, we have already solved it for you. The list in your hand was summed up overnight by our colleagues in the logistics department. I believe that the materials listed above must be more expensive than yours. Richer than any caravan you've seen here, don't you think?"
To sum up, you can't fool me.
The person who loves to pay you can pay as much as the hourly wage, anyway, that's all we give.
Selling things to you at cost price is enough conscience.
Lucius, who has been in sales for so many years, of course understood what he meant, with an embarrassed smile on his face.
"That's fine."
Originally, he also wanted to say that the minimum hourly salary for his people (players) is 1 silver coin, which should be 2CR in conversion. But I didn't expect that he was quite smart and didn't want his money at all.
Seeing that Lucius expressed his affirmative attitude, Howard looked at him cautiously and said.
"So can I take it that we have reached a consensus?"
Oliver bragged to him yesterday, saying that the manager of shelter 404 is a very straightforward person, and they reached a consensus in less than ten minutes.
Now it seems that it's not that this guy is straightforward, but that their captain is too straightforward...
"It's half done," Lucius 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 your place, and it is impossible for our people to go there every day and waste so much time on the road. And eating, which is also a big problem.”
Originally, Howard was still feeling for blood pressure medicine in his pocket when he heard the first sentence "Half achieved", but he relaxed his nerves only after hearing the second half of the sentence.
This is a reasonable request.
"Don't worry about this. We have built a temporary camp for your workers. Although it is not as comfortable as the shelter, there is no problem with wind and warmth. Don't worry about meals, we will prepare a mobile kitchen for you. Provide three meals a day according to the standard of 1CR per meal."
Lucius nodded, thoughtfully.
"1 CR per meal, so 3 CR per day, right?"
Howard froze slightly, then nodded cautiously.
"Er, yes sir."
Lucius had a smile on his face.
"According to the standard of 3CR per person per day, you can directly send the money to us. We will centrally purchase and prepare our own food. In this way, you don't need to prepare any mobile kitchens, just give us some pots and utensils for cooking. What do you think?"
Howard was dumbfounded.
That's okay too??? However, he did not express his opinion immediately, but silently calculated the cost in his heart.
If mobile kitchens are to be deployed in these workers’ camps, the actual cost will be at least 1,000 CR per day, and you will have to wrestle if you eat something bad.
When they cooperated with the natives before, 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 40%, and there is no risk.
Howard nodded decisively in agreement.
"OK!"
Lucius also decisively extended his right hand.
"Deal!"
...
After reaching a consensus, the two parties quickly drew up a contract in black and white, signed their respective names on it, and pressed their fingerprints instead of the official seal.
At this moment, Howard finally realized the captain's evaluation of the manager as "Refreshing".
Really. His efficiency is impressive.
It's a shame to stay here...
Dante, who was in charge of the office, stayed, while Howard set off under the escort of Ace, and returned to the boarding point at the entrance of Wetland Park.
Afterwards, she will return to the outpost, and Dante will use the materials they brought to build a simple barracks as an office.
"The conditions here are too simple...they are still using the primitive steelmaking method to produce steel." Looking at the big chimney to the south, Dante couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
Ace did not comment on these facilities, but said after a moment of silence.
"That person is strong."
"Strong?"
"Well, it's an awakened person, probably the first stage."
"Which one?" Dante looked up curiously, and found that there were quite a few residents in the surrounding shelters.
These people looked at them equally curiously, wondering what they were looking at.
"The one you talked to earlier."
"You mean their Manager?" Dante looked surprised, "But I remember awakening—"
"Experience countless trials of life and death, at least once through the gate of hell."
Ace still had a blank expression on her face, but there was a trace of caution in her pupils, and she rarely said a word.
It seems that the captain's assessment is correct.
"That person is strong."
