North of Spring City.
Near the elevated fifth ring road, a team of six slowly advanced along the cold and dead street.
Originally, there were only five people in the plan for this trip.
At the central square of the outpost, Lucius brought four fully armed little players and was about to set off. However, before walking out of the south gate, Dante chased after him, expressing that he would go together.
As for the reason, it is also very simple——
"There may be many kinds of carbon dioxide trap products. The captain asked me to go with you. Although the probability of large-scale storage of dangerous goods in the urban area is very small, he is still worried about you may encounter danger due to improper operation."
Someone offered to help out of good intentions, of course Lucius would not refuse.
Although some of his players understand chemical engineering, they don't know the characters of this world. He is literate, but he can't understand professional symbols.
Blind boxes of chemicals should not be opened indiscriminately. It is always better to have a knowledgeable person follow them.
In this way, the six of them set out on the road together.
It's just that no one expected that a blizzard suddenly fell on the originally sunny day when they walked halfway.
There are more and more days like this recently.
Lucius reckoned that in November, the weather in this wasteland might be even more exaggerated, and the days would become more difficult every day.
The progress at the greenhouse ruins needs to be rushed!
Bunny, who was walking in front of the team, raised his head, looking at the sudden rush of flying snow, he couldn't help squinting his eyes.
"The last time I saw such a heavy snow was in Harbin."
"I'm on the TV." Tomorrow held Daybreak in his hand, his eyes were cruising on both sides of the street vigilantly, "but I'm more worried about something suddenly jumping out of the side than the snow."
Bunny sighed softly: "To be honest, I miss Walker a little bit. Without his perception attribute, I always feel that something is missing."
"Add one, our team is missing an eye." Gale held a short spear in his right hand and scanned the streets on both sides. His nervous look was even more exaggerated than Tomorrow.
No way, you have to be careful. The two of them now have more expensive equipment than the other, and if they accidentally wiped out a wave, it would be like going back to before liberation.
This steel right hand is so awesome that Gale is reluctant to wash his hands now.
Hearing what these guys said all the way, Edge Paddle yelled dissatisfiedly: "Damn! Isn't it enough for me? I'm also a perception system, and I almost reached level 7, okay?"
Gale: "You are still in level 6."
Tomorrow: "Indeed, I'm already level 8, Gale is coming soon, and Bunny is going to be 9. Brother, you have to work hard."
Edge Paddle: "@#%!"
Walking beside Lucius, Dante, who couldn't understand what the residents of the refuge were talking about, couldn't help but sighed softly.
"I always thought that only natives could speak languages that they didn't understand..."
In the middle of the sentence, he suddenly realized that there seemed to be something wrong with his statement, so he quickly added an explanation.
"Uh, I didn't mean to offend, I just found it strange. Because the residents of the general shelter speak a standard human-linked language, and they rarely even have an accent."
Lucius smiled lightly and didn't care.
"It's okay, I feel as strange as you, why?"
For questions that don't know how to explain, just throw them back intact, this trick Lucius has tried repeatedly.
Instead of making up an excuse full of loopholes and making others feel that you are not sincere and concealing something, it is better to express the same confusion with the other party, and the other party may stand in your position and help you consider the reason.
Why is the sky blue?
Yes, why, the editor is also very curious, what do you think.
Dante didn't ask any further questions, he had seen too many strange things along the way, such a trivial matter is not surprising at all.
The group arrived at their destination quickly.
It was an abandoned office building, and from the outside it was hard to tell what it had been used for in pre-war times.
Perhaps it is precisely because of this unattractive appearance that it has been left behind after two centuries of repeated searches.
According to the map given by Captain Oliver, a group of people moved along the edge of the hall, entered the safe passage, followed the stairs all the way up, and soon reached the target floor.
The corridor was covered with dark green slime mold, some of which had become necrotic and had turned dark brown, and dozens of corpses of different species were lying crookedly on the ground.
The alien species here has been emptied, and there are no new alien species wandering over for the time being.
"Damn... what the hell is this?" Squatting beside a three-meter-tall humanoid alien, he swiped at the edge and poked it with the bayonet of his rifle.
The dark skin was ridiculously stiff, and the bayonet poked it like it was on the tire of a heavy truck, and it couldn't go in at all.
Is this thing really carbon-based?
"Tyrant." Lucius glanced at the alien species on the ground, frowning slightly, "There is such a monster on the Fifth Ring Road."
"Master Manager, is that Tyrant difficult to deal with?" Tomorrow looked at him and asked.
"It's hard to deal with," Lucius thought for a while and said, "If you encounter this kind of creature, a team like yours, it may be able to destroy two groups."
In fact, he has never seen it. But there is nothing wrong with blowing to death.
Tomorrow swallowed, Gale shrank his neck, Bunny and Edge didn't feel much, their equipment is now at the level of a whiteboard.
If you die, you die.
Bypassing the Tyrant's body, Lucius led a group of people through the alloy door with the words [ I dlers and others prohibited from entering ] and came to the interior of the carbon dioxide trap.
The space here is very large, occupying almost half of the entire floor, and opening up the space on the upper floor.
The carbon dioxide produced by the entire building is sent here through the central ventilation system, where it is decomposed into graphite and oxygen as needed, or hydrogenated, or replaced with hydrogen.
For people in that era, atoms were like toys in their hands, and the almost endless energy was enough for them to squander and transform the natural creations into what they needed.
And those produced products are all packed in special boxes and stacked next to the special freight elevator, waiting for the staff who will never come to take them away.
Looking at the hundreds of large and small cubes piled up in the room, Lucius roughly estimated that there are about three or four hundred cubic meters.
he couldn't help asking.
"Your captain has never been curious about what's in those boxes?"
"There's no need to be curious. As long as we have enough energy, we can do things related to carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. At most, it's a matter of cost... For example, this row of black boxes looks like graphite. It seems that your luck is not good."
Dante chuckled and walked to another row of boxes.
Shining a flashlight on it, he read the text on it, and continued to comment with great interest, "This is not bad, it's a pile of high polymer fibers... the label is X-4."
"X-4?"
"A kind of serial number. After all, their spatial structure is complicated and weird. We can't use chemical formulas to express them." After a pause, Dante continued, "By the way, although its main purpose is to make clothes, if you have If necessary, it can also be used to replace the wood fiber in the smokeless powder, and the detonation speed and power can be increased by at least 20%... That's what we do."
This is much easier to understand.
In terms of the game, it would be - [ Rifle ammunition power + 20%, chance of bombing +? ]
Lucius silently wrote down its purpose, and glanced at the number of similar boxes, there were about forty or fifty.
It is estimated that there are twenty or thirty tons less. Looks like it lasts a long time.
At this moment, Dante who was walking in front suddenly let out an exclamation.
"F*ck?!"
Lucius, whose thoughts were interrupted, raised his head and immediately walked to his side. Four little players who thought that the plot had been triggered also surrounded him and moved their heads curiously.
"What happened?" Lucius asked for them.
"Dilat rubber!"
Looking at the unattractive gray box in front of him, Dante took a deep breath, with an unbelievable expression on his face, and envious eyes full of thoughts.
"How did this thing appear here?! It's too abnormal!"
Lucius: "Is there any problem?"
"Of course there is! The products of carbon dioxide traps are mainly determined by the industrial needs of the area. Generally, starch, graphite, and polymer fibers are more common. Olefins, alkanes, and even phenaldehyde ketones may appear near industrial areas. But Dilat rubber... I have only seen it near the Aerospace Industrial Park, so does Spring City have an aerospace industry?"
Taking a deep breath, Dante made a conclusion.
"In a word, you got the jackpot!"
Dilat rubber, a composite nanomaterial formed by chemical bonding of organic components and inorganic components at the molecular level.
Yes, it is not a purely organic component. It cannot be synthesized by simply relying on carbon dioxide and water, and other substances must be input into the reaction system. Even in Ideal City, it can be sold for a lot of money.
That's why Dante was so surprised.
In an oxygen-free environment, its molecular structure is folded and arranged, and it exists in the form of a colloidal liquid macroscopically. Once it encounters oxygen and is at room temperature, it will transform into a solid state in a short period of time, and the molecular structure will also change at the same time, showing a crystal-like form.
It's like cement that has undergone a hydration reaction.
This process is usually irreversible due to changes in molecular composition.
This material has excellent wear resistance, acid and alkali resistance, and has almost metal-like resistance to high temperatures, and is not as easy to age as traditional rubber, which is extremely rare in traditional polymers. It is precisely because of this that it is usually used as an aerospace material.
Lucius: "Can it be produce?"
The expression on Dante's face was slightly embarrassed. After all, he just pretended to be aggressive just now, but he was slapped in the face in less than two minutes.
Coughing slightly, he tried to explain.
"...It can't be regarded as a hydrocarbon in the strict sense! It also contains a lot of inorganic components, which is equivalent to an organic/inorganic hybrid polymer."
Lucius nodded thoughtfully, and tried to translate the sentence he didn't understand.
So it should not be produced.
"A conservative estimate, there are about 50 tons here..." Dante looked at the situation in the warehouse enviously, and said with emotion, "You must not let our section chief know."
"Why."
"I worry about his insomnia."
"..."
As for such an exaggeration?
Lucius felt that if Howard wanted it, he would not be so stingy that he would not give it at all.
It's just that it's such a long way from here to the operation camp, and the goods have to be moved upstairs and downstairs...
Isn't it too much to charge a shipping fee?
In short, according to Dante's introduction, Dilat rubber has a wide range of uses and is of high value. Lucius tried to understand, its position in the rubber industry is probably similar to perfluoro ether rubber in the early 21st century?
And there is no such thing as "Difficult to process".
Before encountering oxygen, it can be kneaded freely like glue, and there is no rubber material that is easier to handle than it.
By the way, due to its good sealing performance, it is widely used in aerospace, nano-devices, bionic engineering, mechanical sealing and other industries.
For example, the power armor produced before the war used this material!
Of course, its use is not limited to this. Many industrial production equipment use rubber. If Dilat rubber can be used instead, the maintenance cost will be greatly reduced and the production efficiency will be greatly improved.
With these goodies, the outpost's industrial area won't have to worry about rubber for a while.
Of course, with so many boxes, it's impossible for just six people to move them back.
Ever since, Lucius immediately updated a courier delivery task on the VM——
[ Task: Move the goods at the designated location back to the outpost. ( Recommended force system) ]
[ Reward: 10 silver coins per box, 10 contributions. ]
Now that there are fewer and fewer jobs in the action camp, Lucius has to find something for these energetic young players...
...
After returning to the outpost, Dante went back to the office and packed his luggage with his partner Ace.
The Pioneer will leave the day after tomorrow, and their work here is over, and a car will pick them up before evening.
Thinking that this drinking buddy who had just gotten acquainted with him was about to leave, Lucius couldn't help feeling a little sad, so he went back to the shelter, selected a bottle of gold-plated red wine from the collection of the old leech, and took it to a temporary errand place.
"Thank you for the time, I don't have anything good to give you here." Putting the red wine into Dante's hand, Lucius looked at him sincerely and said, "This bottle of wine should be a farewell gift. Remember not to drink while working."
"Thank you, your friendship is the most precious gift to me!" Dante took the red wine from Lucius with a moved face, and rummaged in her pocket for a while, showing embarrassment, "...Damn, I Totally unprepared."
His pocket is cleaner than his face. There were still a few banknotes before...
"It's okay, your friendship is equally precious to me," Lucius said with a smile, "When your Journey to the West is finished, just send me a copy."
"That's necessary! But it's different, I have to give you something..." Dante pondered for a while, and suddenly his eyes lit up, "Yes! I'll write a letter for you."
Lucius gave him a strange look.
"Write a letter?"
Dante nodded immediately, and said excitedly.
"That's right, I have a drinking buddy on the east coast. Although his drinking capacity is not as good as mine, he is not bad! Of course, he is not just drinking, he is also an engineer... Although I forgot that the thing he studied is called What's the matter, but I always hear him complain that the life in Ideal City is too boring, and he envies us lucky ones who can embark on the journey for the future of human civilization."
"When I get back on the Pioneer, I'll write him a letter and recommend him to come to you!"
Lucius always felt that this guy was a little naive.
Where is that kind of complaint? It's obviously Versailles, okay?
But out of politeness, he still nodded with a smile.
"Then I look forward to hearing from you."
Dante grinned, patted her chest and said.
"Don't worry! I'm very reliable!"
Ace, who had already packed his luggage, glanced at this guy.
If Lucius is not mistaken, it should be a blank stare...
North of Spring City.
Near the elevated fifth ring road, a team of six slowly advanced along the cold and dead street.
Originally, there were only five people in the plan for this trip.
At the central square of the outpost, Lucius brought four fully armed little players and was about to set off. However, before walking out of the south gate, Dante chased after him, expressing that he would go together.
As for the reason, it is also very simple——
"There may be many kinds of carbon dioxide trap products. The captain asked me to go with you. Although the probability of large-scale storage of dangerous goods in the urban area is very small, he is still worried about you may encounter danger due to improper operation."
Someone offered to help out of good intentions, of course Lucius would not refuse.
Although some of his players understand chemical engineering, they don't know the characters of this world. He is literate, but he can't understand professional symbols.
Blind boxes of chemicals should not be opened indiscriminately. It is always better to have a knowledgeable person follow them.
In this way, the six of them set out on the road together.
It's just that no one expected that a blizzard suddenly fell on the originally sunny day when they walked halfway.
There are more and more days like this recently.
Lucius reckoned that in November, the weather in this wasteland might be even more exaggerated, and the days would become more difficult every day.
The progress at the greenhouse ruins needs to be rushed!
Bunny, who was walking in front of the team, raised his head, looking at the sudden rush of flying snow, he couldn't help squinting his eyes.
"The last time I saw such a heavy snow was in Harbin."
"I'm on the TV." Tomorrow held Daybreak in his hand, his eyes were cruising on both sides of the street vigilantly, "but I'm more worried about something suddenly jumping out of the side than the snow."
Bunny sighed softly: "To be honest, I miss Walker a little bit. Without his perception attribute, I always feel that something is missing."
"Add one, our team is missing an eye." Gale held a short spear in his right hand and scanned the streets on both sides. His nervous look was even more exaggerated than Tomorrow.
No way, you have to be careful. The two of them now have more expensive equipment than the other, and if they accidentally wiped out a wave, it would be like going back to before liberation.
This steel right hand is so awesome that Gale is reluctant to wash his hands now.
Hearing what these guys said all the way, Edge Paddle yelled dissatisfiedly: "Damn! Isn't it enough for me? I'm also a perception system, and I almost reached level 7, okay?"
Gale: "You are still in level 6."
Tomorrow: "Indeed, I'm already level 8, Gale is coming soon, and Bunny is going to be 9. Brother, you have to work hard."
Edge Paddle: "@#%!"
Walking beside Lucius, Dante, who couldn't understand what the residents of the refuge were talking about, couldn't help but sighed softly.
"I always thought that only natives could speak languages that they didn't understand..."
In the middle of the sentence, he suddenly realized that there seemed to be something wrong with his statement, so he quickly added an explanation.
"Uh, I didn't mean to offend, I just found it strange. Because the residents of the general shelter speak a standard human-linked language, and they rarely even have an accent."
Lucius smiled lightly and didn't care.
"It's okay, I feel as strange as you, why?"
For questions that don't know how to explain, just throw them back intact, this trick Lucius has tried repeatedly.
Instead of making up an excuse full of loopholes and making others feel that you are not sincere and concealing something, it is better to express the same confusion with the other party, and the other party may stand in your position and help you consider the reason.
Why is the sky blue?
Yes, why, the editor is also very curious, what do you think.
Dante didn't ask any further questions, he had seen too many strange things along the way, such a trivial matter is not surprising at all.
The group arrived at their destination quickly.
It was an abandoned office building, and from the outside it was hard to tell what it had been used for in pre-war times.
Perhaps it is precisely because of this unattractive appearance that it has been left behind after two centuries of repeated searches.
According to the map given by Captain Oliver, a group of people moved along the edge of the hall, entered the safe passage, followed the stairs all the way up, and soon reached the target floor.
The corridor was covered with dark green slime mold, some of which had become necrotic and had turned dark brown, and dozens of corpses of different species were lying crookedly on the ground.
The alien species here has been emptied, and there are no new alien species wandering over for the time being.
"Damn... what the hell is this?" Squatting beside a three-meter-tall humanoid alien, he swiped at the edge and poked it with the bayonet of his rifle.
The dark skin was ridiculously stiff, and the bayonet poked it like it was on the tire of a heavy truck, and it couldn't go in at all.
Is this thing really carbon-based?
"Tyrant." Lucius glanced at the alien species on the ground, frowning slightly, "There is such a monster on the Fifth Ring Road."
"Master Manager, is that Tyrant difficult to deal with?" Tomorrow looked at him and asked.
"It's hard to deal with," Lucius thought for a while and said, "If you encounter this kind of creature, a team like yours, it may be able to destroy two groups."
In fact, he has never seen it. But there is nothing wrong with blowing to death.
Tomorrow swallowed, Gale shrank his neck, Bunny and Edge didn't feel much, their equipment is now at the level of a whiteboard.
If you die, you die.
Bypassing the Tyrant's body, Lucius led a group of people through the alloy door with the words [ I dlers and others prohibited from entering ] and came to the interior of the carbon dioxide trap.
The space here is very large, occupying almost half of the entire floor, and opening up the space on the upper floor.
The carbon dioxide produced by the entire building is sent here through the central ventilation system, where it is decomposed into graphite and oxygen as needed, or hydrogenated, or replaced with hydrogen.
For people in that era, atoms were like toys in their hands, and the almost endless energy was enough for them to squander and transform the natural creations into what they needed.
And those produced products are all packed in special boxes and stacked next to the special freight elevator, waiting for the staff who will never come to take them away.
Looking at the hundreds of large and small cubes piled up in the room, Lucius roughly estimated that there are about three or four hundred cubic meters.
he couldn't help asking.
"Your captain has never been curious about what's in those boxes?"
"There's no need to be curious. As long as we have enough energy, we can do things related to carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. At most, it's a matter of cost... For example, this row of black boxes looks like graphite. It seems that your luck is not good."
Dante chuckled and walked to another row of boxes.
Shining a flashlight on it, he read the text on it, and continued to comment with great interest, "This is not bad, it's a pile of high polymer fibers... the label is X-4."
"X-4?"
"A kind of serial number. After all, their spatial structure is complicated and weird. We can't use chemical formulas to express them." After a pause, Dante continued, "By the way, although its main purpose is to make clothes, if you have If necessary, it can also be used to replace the wood fiber in the smokeless powder, and the detonation speed and power can be increased by at least 20%... That's what we do."
This is much easier to understand.
In terms of the game, it would be - [ Rifle ammunition power + 20%, chance of bombing +? ]
Lucius silently wrote down its purpose, and glanced at the number of similar boxes, there were about forty or fifty.
It is estimated that there are twenty or thirty tons less. Looks like it lasts a long time.
At this moment, Dante who was walking in front suddenly let out an exclamation.
"F*ck?!"
Lucius, whose thoughts were interrupted, raised his head and immediately walked to his side. Four little players who thought that the plot had been triggered also surrounded him and moved their heads curiously.
"What happened?" Lucius asked for them.
"Dilat rubber!"
Looking at the unattractive gray box in front of him, Dante took a deep breath, with an unbelievable expression on his face, and envious eyes full of thoughts.
"How did this thing appear here?! It's too abnormal!"
Lucius: "Is there any problem?"
"Of course there is! The products of carbon dioxide traps are mainly determined by the industrial needs of the area. Generally, starch, graphite, and polymer fibers are more common. Olefins, alkanes, and even phenaldehyde ketones may appear near industrial areas. But Dilat rubber... I have only seen it near the Aerospace Industrial Park, so does Spring City have an aerospace industry?"
Taking a deep breath, Dante made a conclusion.
"In a word, you got the jackpot!"
Dilat rubber, a composite nanomaterial formed by chemical bonding of organic components and inorganic components at the molecular level.
Yes, it is not a purely organic component. It cannot be synthesized by simply relying on carbon dioxide and water, and other substances must be input into the reaction system. Even in Ideal City, it can be sold for a lot of money.
That's why Dante was so surprised.
In an oxygen-free environment, its molecular structure is folded and arranged, and it exists in the form of a colloidal liquid macroscopically. Once it encounters oxygen and is at room temperature, it will transform into a solid state in a short period of time, and the molecular structure will also change at the same time, showing a crystal-like form.
It's like cement that has undergone a hydration reaction.
This process is usually irreversible due to changes in molecular composition.
This material has excellent wear resistance, acid and alkali resistance, and has almost metal-like resistance to high temperatures, and is not as easy to age as traditional rubber, which is extremely rare in traditional polymers. It is precisely because of this that it is usually used as an aerospace material.
Lucius: "Can it be produce?"
The expression on Dante's face was slightly embarrassed. After all, he just pretended to be aggressive just now, but he was slapped in the face in less than two minutes.
Coughing slightly, he tried to explain.
"...It can't be regarded as a hydrocarbon in the strict sense! It also contains a lot of inorganic components, which is equivalent to an organic/inorganic hybrid polymer."
Lucius nodded thoughtfully, and tried to translate the sentence he didn't understand.
So it should not be produced.
"A conservative estimate, there are about 50 tons here..." Dante looked at the situation in the warehouse enviously, and said with emotion, "You must not let our section chief know."
"Why."
"I worry about his insomnia."
"..."
As for such an exaggeration?
Lucius felt that if Howard wanted it, he would not be so stingy that he would not give it at all.
It's just that it's such a long way from here to the operation camp, and the goods have to be moved upstairs and downstairs...
Isn't it too much to charge a shipping fee?
In short, according to Dante's introduction, Dilat rubber has a wide range of uses and is of high value. Lucius tried to understand, its position in the rubber industry is probably similar to perfluoro ether rubber in the early 21st century?
And there is no such thing as "Difficult to process".
Before encountering oxygen, it can be kneaded freely like glue, and there is no rubber material that is easier to handle than it.
By the way, due to its good sealing performance, it is widely used in aerospace, nano-devices, bionic engineering, mechanical sealing and other industries.
For example, the power armor produced before the war used this material!
Of course, its use is not limited to this. Many industrial production equipment use rubber. If Dilat rubber can be used instead, the maintenance cost will be greatly reduced and the production efficiency will be greatly improved.
With these goodies, the outpost's industrial area won't have to worry about rubber for a while.
Of course, with so many boxes, it's impossible for just six people to move them back.
Ever since, Lucius immediately updated a courier delivery task on the VM——
[ Task: Move the goods at the designated location back to the outpost. ( Recommended force system) ]
[ Reward: 10 silver coins per box, 10 contributions. ]
Now that there are fewer and fewer jobs in the action camp, Lucius has to find something for these energetic young players...
...
After returning to the outpost, Dante went back to the office and packed his luggage with his partner Ace.
The Pioneer will leave the day after tomorrow, and their work here is over, and a car will pick them up before evening.
Thinking that this drinking buddy who had just gotten acquainted with him was about to leave, Lucius couldn't help feeling a little sad, so he went back to the shelter, selected a bottle of gold-plated red wine from the collection of the old leech, and took it to a temporary errand place.
"Thank you for the time, I don't have anything good to give you here." Putting the red wine into Dante's hand, Lucius looked at him sincerely and said, "This bottle of wine should be a farewell gift. Remember not to drink while working."
"Thank you, your friendship is the most precious gift to me!" Dante took the red wine from Lucius with a moved face, and rummaged in her pocket for a while, showing embarrassment, "...Damn, I Totally unprepared."
His pocket is cleaner than his face. There were still a few banknotes before...
"It's okay, your friendship is equally precious to me," Lucius said with a smile, "When your Journey to the West is finished, just send me a copy."
"That's necessary! But it's different, I have to give you something..." Dante pondered for a while, and suddenly his eyes lit up, "Yes! I'll write a letter for you."
Lucius gave him a strange look.
"Write a letter?"
Dante nodded immediately, and said excitedly.
"That's right, I have a drinking buddy on the east coast. Although his drinking capacity is not as good as mine, he is not bad! Of course, he is not just drinking, he is also an engineer... Although I forgot that the thing he studied is called What's the matter, but I always hear him complain that the life in Ideal City is too boring, and he envies us lucky ones who can embark on the journey for the future of human civilization."
"When I get back on the Pioneer, I'll write him a letter and recommend him to come to you!"
Lucius always felt that this guy was a little naive.
Where is that kind of complaint? It's obviously Versailles, okay?
But out of politeness, he still nodded with a smile.
"Then I look forward to hearing from you."
Dante grinned, patted her chest and said.
"Don't worry! I'm very reliable!"
Ace, who had already packed his luggage, glanced at this guy.
If Lucius is not mistaken, it should be a blank stare...
