Chapter 17, I want an explanation
About a hundred kilometers north of Huidongshe, it has almost entered the category of high-walled ruins.
There was a core city before the Age of Catastrophe, now in ruins. Waste energy storms, mutant monsters, green-skinned orcs...both the environment and the things living in it are a huge threat to mankind.
However, the vast ruins of the city also contain wealth from the pre-war era.
Garbage Town is right next to the ruins of the high wall.
Initially, scavengers established this gathering point as a supply point and trading place when exploring and excavating the high-walled ruins.
Later, it continued to develop and eventually formed a sizable town.
There is no central government or ruler in Garbage Town. Instead, merchants called ‘agents’ control the situation, forming a social structure of agents-caravans-adventurers and mercenaries-scavengers. Armed adventurers lay down and protect resource points everywhere, scavengers enter to dig for resources, caravans purchase and sell resources, and agents sit behind the scenes to control everything and monopolize the business.
The garbage picked up by the scavengers will be initially processed into various raw materials, mainly metals, which is also the main output of the garbage town.
Another major output is energy.
Here we have to mention the ‘Disabled Energy Storm’, the most terrifying disaster on the Raging Star.
The so-called waste energy storm is a huge trauma left during the war. The sweeping strong wind will stir up high-density waste energy - the residual energy influence after the psychic energy burst. This energy cannot be utilized under normal conditions. Instead, it causes fatal damage to the human body, machinery, and electronic equipment.
Humans cannot survive in this environment, and even the mutated monsters spawned by waste energy do not dare to move in the core of the storm when the waste energy storm is at its most intense.
The high-wall ruins are one of the areas with the most frequent and violent waste energy storms.
But after the storm, there is always some legacy left behind. The violent waste energy combines with some minerals to occasionally produce something called 'hot gray stone'. This thing is not the same thing as a high-density energy crystal block, but it can continue to generate high temperatures after being ignited.
Then it can be used to generate electricity.
Raw materials, hot gray stone, these are the two major outputs of Garbage Town.
Gu Hang still remembered that the ore produced by the Feidong Society in the past was basically sold to Junk Town. They would also like to sell it to Fuxing City, which is closer, but Fuxing City does not want raw ore. The closest place with the ability to initially process raw materials is Garbage Town. The price given was low, which was one of the important reasons why Huidongshe didn't have enough to eat in the past.
The past events are no longer mentioned. What Gu Hang cares about is that the Wasted Cave Club is connected to the Garbage Town.
Gu Hang made up his mind and asked Patel to contact Garbage Town.
For his direct territory to continue to develop, sufficient raw materials and energy support are indispensable.
As for the trading items, he had already thought about it.
food.
Garbage Town does not produce food, they usually import it from Fuxing City.
What Gu Hang wants to build is to produce alloy plastic steel from the Wastedong Society, and possibly other industrial products in the future, and transport them to Fuxing City for sale; purchase grain from Fuxing City and sell it to Garbage Town; purchase raw materials from Garbage Town to expand production .
Great loop!
The one hundred tons of grain he requested from Fuxing City this time will be effective.
In addition to supporting the governor's territory, he planned to sell a batch of the rest to Junk Town.
This batch of supplies would arrive in eight days, and Gu Hang waited patiently.
And in these eight days, two pieces of news came, one good and one bad.
The good news is that the value of the monthly fixed gift income has increased rapidly with the large-scale production of alloy plastic steel launched by the Wastedong Society. [Current Gift Points: 1]
【Monthly fixed income: 12】
【Governor’s Camp: 8/Terra Month】
【Waste Cave Society: 4/Terra Moon】
Doubled!
Both territories did not increase their population. The main change during this period lies in the productivity improvement of alloy plastic steel. The improvement of Wastedong Society from 1 to 4 should be a reflection of productivity.
The improvement of the governor's camp should also be a reflection of productivity improvement. The difference is that the Wasted Dong Society relied on two erected smelting furnaces, while the governor's camp relied on two black box manufacturing machines. Although the output of alloy plastic steel is not as good as that of Huidongshe, its quality is much higher, and it has also produced two smelting furnaces.
In short, expanding production must be a good thing. Not to mention the things produced, the increase in monthly fixed income within the system is equally valuable.
Gu Hang hopes to increase his monthly fixed income as much as possible before the gift points are distributed this month.
He could think of ways to increase the population, open up trade routes, expand production... In the past few days, apart from inspecting the training of the soldiers, he was also considering these plans.
However, on the seventh day, he got bad news:
……
"The goods were robbed?"
Gu Hang had a sullen face as he pressed the man in front of him.
The man cried out in pain: "Yes, we set out from Fuxing City with thirty carts of supplies. When we were about to arrive, we planned to take a rest before continuing. Everyone was sitting on the ground singing a song. Hundreds of people jumped out. The plunderer robbed us!”
Why didn't you eat hot pot by the way?
Gu Hang sneered and said: "There is not a single piece of goods left, and there is not a single casualty. Are the looters in the wasteland so kind now?"
"It's not like there were no casualties! Lord Governor, look at my nose! The butt of the gun fell down and the bridge of my nose was broken!"
The man was still talking, watching the governor's face getting worse and worse, and his voice getting smaller and smaller. He began to feel a majestic pressure filling his heart, as if a mountain was about to press on him.
He spoke again with difficulty: "We surrendered. The people who robbed did not seem to be simple robbers or wasteland plunderers. I knew the two people inside. They seemed to be mercenaries hanging out outside Fuxing City. At the beginning, we also We were very scared, but after we surrendered, they did not kill any of us, they just took the bullock cart away.”
At this point, he paused and spoke again: "I suspect that when we set off, someone saw the supplies we were transporting. Those mercenaries who were blinded by greed did not dare to take action near Fuxing City, so they Follow all the way..."
Gu Hang interrupted him: "You said you were robbed fifteen kilometers away from my camp?"
"Yes."
"You were small in number and didn't carry enough guns. You surrendered after they surrounded you. Then the looters didn't kill you, but just took away the goods?"
"Yes."
"Okay." Gu Hang was too lazy to say any more to this person.
He left the board room where the transport team members were temporarily housed, called Yan Fangxu over, and asked him to set off with the more than 20 marines in the camp, as well as the waste hole company that had completed training. , first go to explore the situation at the scene of the incident and try your best to track down the plunderers.
He himself returned to the house and asked his follower Zhang Chao to connect him to the communication of Fuxing City Council Chairman Hodgson.
"My goods have been robbed, and I want you to give me an explanation."
(End of chapter)