Volume 6: The Twelve Wallfacers Chapter 14 I want them all!
[Quantum Armor] or [Quantum Generator]?
Invest now or invest in the future?
To shake or not to shake...that is the question.
Shen Jin thought for a long time on the mountain but couldn't find a suitable method. Finally, he decided to go to the inner city, hoping to find some strategic inspiration.
Sometimes looking at a problem from a different angle can lead to a better solution.
At 8 o'clock in the evening, Home No. 1 is bustling with activity. The commercial streets in the inner city are flourishing with flowers, giving it a bit of the flavor of a large commercial district in a pre-apocalyptic city.
After eating some roadside snacks and rejecting several poor young ladies who needed his financial support, Shen Jin still didn't find his inspiration.
Passing by College No. 1, where classes were about to start, Shen Jin saw a student running over in a hurry, preparing to attend an open class. He was still wearing his factory work clothes and it seemed that he had not had time to change them.
Academy No. 1 is not only training extraordinary people to join the Corpse Killing Team for Home No. 1, but has also recently opened various open courses that can be taken for a fee.
It mainly serves the permanent residents of Home No. 1. Before ordinary people become pseudo-superhumans and superhumans, most of them have not experienced any decent battles, and they have no corresponding understanding of zombies. If they don’t learn, even if they earn enough money to buy a bottle of [Primary Superpower Awakening Potion] and become a first-level superhuman, they are likely to become a zombie if they go out alone. It is equivalent to Home No. 1 spending a bottle of medicine and successfully awakening a first-level evolved zombie.
This is a very stupid behavior, so it is important to offer this kind of open course!
These people can be trained some basic knowledge about zombies and supernatural beings and simple combat skills.
After becoming pseudo-superhumans or superhumans, they may not have the courage to fight zombies, because fear often comes from the unknown. Through the training courses in Academy No. 1, they can observe the zombies up close, so that they can more clearly know the types of zombies, their weaknesses, and their attack methods, as well as the actual combat demonstrations of the instructors.
In Academy No. 1, powerful extraordinary people went outside to capture many ordinary, first-level evolved, and second-level evolved zombies, specifically for use in classroom demonstrations.
This kind of "teaching material" does not need to be fed. Just leave a window in the place where they are imprisoned so that they can be exposed to the sun during the day to maintain their vitality. It is the favorite of capitalists.
Students who have been trained in the No. 1 Academy’s open class at least have a clear understanding of zombies and have had close contact with zombies. They will not be so scared that they can’t walk or wet their pants when they encounter zombies outside...
This was a very great move. Shen Jin rewarded Shang Qian physically many times ...
The scene returned to Shen Jin's eyes. The student in front of him, wearing factory work clothes, was obviously an ordinary person. He had not yet taken the gene optimization potion 1.0 to become a pseudo-superhuman.
Weird...why would ordinary people come here to take public classes?
Shen Jin stopped the young man and said, "The tuition here doesn't seem cheap. Why don't you wait until you are promoted to a pseudo-transcendent before attending the class?"
Shen Jin believes that it would be more appropriate for this young man to save money to buy the basic gene optimization agent 1.0 instead of spending money to learn this.
There is no need for him to learn this knowledge in advance. After all, he is just an ordinary person... He will basically be killed by zombies when he goes out. With his ability, he can't even wear a full set of bone craftsman soul armor.
The young man was a little confused when he was pulled back. He subconsciously lowered his head at first, and then saw Shen Jin's highly recognizable silver-white armor and the photo of his idol that he hung on the wall at home. He was so shocked that his mouth trembled, "You! You...you...are the boss! Boss Shen!"
He looked a little excited and took a moment to tell Shen Jin about his experience.
"It's like this, boss. I'm a newcomer here, from Hulu District. I work in a fertilizer factory during the day. After work at 6 o'clock, it's time for the extraordinary people to go home, so I bought a set of cooking utensils and sell fried rice at the subway entrance. I can make a lot of money selling fried rice! More than what I make working in the factory. After the extraordinary people go home, I will close the stall and eat a little meal by myself, just in time to catch the evening classes here."
"Now I make a lot of money every day from two jobs, with a net income of at least 6 home coins a day. A bottle of gene optimization potion only costs 50 yuan, and I can buy one in a few days. I just contacted a former fellow villager a while ago. They are now pseudo-transcendents here and are willing to take me out to kill zombies and scavenge. I heard that this thing can make more money! So in order to keep up with their pace, I decided to make up for the basic courses while making money here, so as not to drag the team down. I have calculated that after I finish a week of courses here, the remaining money will be just enough to buy a bottle of gene optimization potion. By then, I will also learn some skills to kill zombies, and I can complete the seamless transition from evolving to a pseudo-transcendent to joining the scavenging team, hehe~! I just like to make plans, the end of the world! The most important thing is hope. Thank you, boss, for creating this hopeful place for us. When I was in the Hulu District, I thought that the No. 1 home they were talking about was a spiritual home that only existed in utopia. I didn't expect it to be true. It's even fairer than before the end of the world..."
The young man chattered on and on about what he had seen and heard, as well as his future plans, but Shen Jin didn't continue listening because... he seemed to have caught a fleeting inspiration.
"Time management master..."
Shen Jin left a bottle of [Primary Superpower Awakening Potion] for the young man and flew away again. The young man was overjoyed and felt like he had picked up a piece of pie from the sky.
“The pattern! This is the pattern! When ordinary people like us are calculating, cautious, and struggling to make a living, the little things that others peek through their fingers are things that we may not be able to get even if we try our best.”
Shen Jin did not listen to his plan. In fact, after he was promoted to a pseudo-superhuman, he was still planning on how to do more work in a shorter time so that he could buy the superpower awakening potion that cost 2,000 yuan a bottle and become a superhuman. Only then could he truly have a foothold in this world. As a result, Shen Jin directly fulfilled his ultimate wish!
"It seems that I need to make some longer-term plans, such as...promoting to the second-level extraordinary!"
Shen Jin didn't know about this and he returned to his new studio.
Sudden!
He caught the idea that had just flashed through his mind.
“Time planning!”
"In fact, my current situation is somewhat similar to that of this work-study student. Gaining stronger power is the present, while learning more knowledge is the future. The two are not contradictory, but dialectically unified! Learning knowledge is to gain more power. After gaining more power, you naturally need to learn more knowledge to lay the foundation for gaining the next step of power. But the role of knowledge is to gain stronger power faster."
"It's the same with electricity! We build more [Quantum Solar Generators] to get more electricity, so as to produce more powerful equipment. And now we build quantum armor for the survival of the team members, while improving combat effectiveness and the efficiency of clearing zombies. But overall... zombies cannot be cleared overnight. 111 days is not enough for us to clear all the zombies in China, and we may not even be able to clear all the zombies in H Province!"
"If we want to fight a long-term war, we must consider the future and not lose the big picture for the sake of small gains. And I just calculated that it takes 2,200 sets of quantum armor to equip this 2,200-man team. Even if the electricity from these 1,000 wind power stations and the current five nuclear power stations is used to produce quantum armor at the same time, excluding the charging part, it can only produce one set a day at most! It will take nearly 7 years to produce these 2,200 sets. And the actual time is much longer than 7 years, and there may even be a problem in the middle of the process where the power supply cannot keep up with the charging of the quantum armor. This is unreasonable!"
"If we first manufacture a large number of [Quantum Solar Generators], this time will be greatly shortened. It may take two to three years to manufacture these 2,200 sets. After the production is completed, it can also meet the charging problem of these 2,200 sets of quantum armor!"
"After considering the future and the current survival issues, our current extraordinary strength is actually enough to crush the zombies. 1,200 level 2 extraordinary people plus 1,000 level 1 advanced extraordinary people! It is enough to easily deal with the zombie tide below one million! Even if the zombies open the time lock in more than 20 days and all become level 1 evolved zombies, the level 1 advanced extraordinary people wearing the new Artisan Soul armor and Artisan Soul weapons will definitely not lose out in a one-on-one fight, not to mention that each person has two laser guns and a crossbow, which are lethal weapons that can kill level 1 evolved zombies in seconds."
"That is to say... judging from the current data, in the short term, at least within 111 days, we will not encounter the problem of insufficient combat power. There is no need to produce 2,200 sets of quantum armor first. I was too obsessed before. The people of Shen Ji are very powerful, and it is difficult for our extraordinary people to defeat them, but ordinary zombies... are actually far from being our opponents, unless the zombies' next time lock is opened for a very short time..."
That situation is not within Shen Jin's consideration. In 25 days, the scientists from Tianluodiwang will tell him the answer.
"After clarifying these issues, the strategy will be obvious! Only children make choices, adults want everything! Make a small amount of quantum armor for storage, and use the remaining electricity to manufacture [Quantum Solar Generator]!"
Clearing out the zombies will not happen overnight, so Shen Jin chose to lay the foundation for the future.
When the zombies open the next time lock and all evolve into second-order evolved zombies, his troops will be fully equipped with quantum armor, and their combat effectiveness will still be much higher than that of the zombies. The time... will be just in time.
"The plan worked!"
After setting the overall strategic goal, Shen Jin actually has more additional options.
First of all, we cannot just rely on the generators in front of us to work. The basic generators of the industrial modules can be manufactured using only conventional metal materials.
For Shen Jin, who has stored a huge amount of metal materials in the past six months...it can't be said to be inexhaustible, but it can also be used to mass-produce generators.
Some generators that may have been discarded in the past due to material problems or power generation efficiency issues can now be used.
For example, the most basic [solar generator] in the original version, because of its low power generation and unstable power generation, and it cannot generate electricity at night, Shen Jin never used this thing except in the early days.
Shen Jin still remembers the power generation capacity of this thing. During the day, it is only about 10 degrees per hour, and at night it does not generate any electricity at all. Based on an average of 12 hours of sunlight a day, this [solar generator] can generate 120 degrees of electricity every day.
It can be said to be very low.
"But what if I make 100,000 units? Wouldn't that mean 12 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per day?"
Its synthesis formula is very simple:
[Glass] × 3 + [Coal powder] × 3 + [Circuit board] × 2 + [Thermal generator] × 1, only a small amount of copper, iron, tin, and redstone (graphite) are needed to make a [solar generator] that can generate 120 degrees of electricity every day.
[Glass] and [Coal Powder] are too much for Shen Jin. They are inexhaustible...
"It is true that quantitative change leads to qualitative change. The [Solar Generator] should be the machine with the smallest power generation in the entire industrial module, but once it reaches the 100,000 level, the daily power generation is comparable to that of half a nuclear power plant! The installation of this thing is not like the machines in the [Advanced Solar] expansion module, which require gaps. If you install them side by side directly, you can put hundreds of them on any roof. There is no problem in manufacturing 100,000 [Solar Generators]. The biggest problem is installation. Building a reasonable power grid to collect all this electricity... Let Jia Taolong do it. Their power bureau and construction team will take care of these things."
Now, Shen Jin only needs to hand over many of his things to his subordinates, which is also the result of Shang Qian's continuous improvement of logistics for him.
It is foreseeable that... as the No. 1 Home Base becomes larger and larger, the organization behind it will become more and more complex, the division of labor will become more and more refined, and Shen Jin will have less and less to do, and will focus more on decision-making and the use of his own system capabilities.
In addition to these 100,000 [solar generators], Shen Jin also thought of a good thing - [hydroelectric generator].
This generator, which he had previously selectively ignored, had a problem similar to the solar generator: it generated very little electricity and was very unstable.
It must rely on the flow of water to flush the rotor inside to generate electricity.
Power generation: 0~20 degrees/hour, depending on the speed of water flow.
“Hongshui District, Hulu District and No. 1 Home Headquarters are all close to the sea. The tides rise and fall at the seaside, and the water is always flowing. It will not freeze even in winter.
If we install a [hydroelectric generator] in the sea water at the edge of the coast, we can absorb the power of the tide to bring water power, and the power generation will be similar to that of a [solar generator]. If there are only a few of them, the effect will not be obvious at all, but once the amount is large and they are laid in one or even two circles along the coast the total power generation will be terrifying, no weaker than a [solar generator]!
The synthesis formula of [Hydroelectric Generator] is simpler.
[Wooden board] × 4 + [Wooden stick] × 4 + [Fuel generator] = [Hydroelectric generator] × 2
This one doesn't even require [glass], [coal powder], or [circuit boards]. It can even be made with just 1/2 of a [thermal generator] and some broken wood.
It's simply a cheap deal - it's so cheap!
"[Hydroelectric generators] can also be densely placed, or even stacked up. If they are densely piled along the 200-kilometer coastline of Homeland No. 1... well, at least 200,000 hydroelectric generators can be placed!"
If the terrain is suitable, they can be stacked side by side, and if two [hydroelectric generators] are placed in each location, then a total of 400,000 units can be obtained!
Shen Jin looked at the system description and found...
The power generation efficiency of the [hydroelectric generator] is higher than that of the [solar generator] because it can also generate electricity at night. As we all know, the waves on the coast are one after another and never stop. Even if the tide is sometimes longer and the water flows faster, and sometimes it is calmer, it is always flowing. In other words... these [hydroelectric generators] will work day and night and work twice as long as [solar generators].
If the average power generation rate is 10 kWh per hour, one machine can generate 240 kWh of electricity per day. These 400,000 machines can generate enough electricity...96 million kWh!
"Fuck! This is too cruel!"
Shen Jin couldn't help but be shocked by the number he calculated.
"Do it! Do it!"
