In early November, late autumn has arrived in the northern wilderness. The weather turned colder and it was already close to freezing at night.
Fortunately there was still plenty of sunshine during the day. On the second floor of the Orchid Town mansion, outside the large floor-to-ceiling glass window of the bedroom, two sand sparrows flew over and stood on the window sill, chirping.
Chen Xing was awakened by the chirping of birds. He narrowed his eyes slightly and gradually adapted to the bright white light.
After rolling on the bed for more than 20 minutes, he looked at his watch and saw that it was already 10:30 in the morning. Chen Xing rang the small bell on the round table beside the bed.
The two maids came in quickly, helped him get up, brought him water to wash him, and then changed him into a casual indoor long shirt. This kind of shirt is relatively loose, with the hem almost reaching the knees. It is only suitable for wearing at home, and it is a bit unseemly to go out.
After getting dressed, Chen Xing came to the front hall under the double stairs on the first floor and sat on the fabric sofa waiting for breakfast.
This location is the busiest location in the whole house. Whether you are going to the front yard or backyard, or going to the second floor or the kitchen, you will pass by this location.
"Master, these are the almond cookies my mother made when she got up in the morning. You can try them."
Margulies and Mrs. Ursula had been up an hour earlier and were sitting in the front room waiting for him.
Chen Xing took a sip of the warm water handed to him by the maid, then picked up a small piece of cookie and put it into his mouth. The roasted butter is fragrant, crispy and crunchy, and the mashed almonds are slightly chewy and very delicious.
"It tastes good, thank you, madam." Chen Xing nodded to the expectant Mrs. Ursula, who immediately smiled with joy. Being recognized for your cooking skills is the praise that every lady dreams of.
"Sir, this is the Longhe Daily from the day before yesterday, and the Sanchahe City Mercenary Magazine from last week." Old K handed over a newspaper and a magazine.
There are now vehicles coming to Zombieland every day, and you can bring newspapers from Gray Point City, but the date will be two to three days behind. Although the information will be a little late, it is better than nothing at all.
Chen Xing took a few glances and found nothing particularly new, so he put the newspapers and magazines aside and asked Margulies, "You are here, what are you going to do with your studies?"
"I taught myself." Margulies said, raising her little fist.
"How can this work!" Chen Xing and Mrs. Ursula said in unison, and then they looked at each other and smiled.
"Your little apprentice has just arrived and you are driving her away. You are such a heartless man." Margulies sighed.
"Let's see, the Harvest Festival is coming soon, and it's too late this semester. After the winter vacation, I will take you to Gray Horn City to find a school." Chen Xing said, his tone unquestionable.
"Okay..." Margulies responded weakly. She dared to yell at her mother, but she didn't dare to yell at her master.
After a while, the cook, whose waist was thicker than a bucket, brought breakfast with a wooden tray.
There are barley porridge, fresh milk, fried eggs, ham sausage, fruit salad, freshly baked toast and green onion pancakes.
Although Chen Xing's current financial situation is good, he still needs to pay attention to light breakfast.
"Master, I visited the zombie paradise yesterday. It was so creative. I met Miss Ellie Claire and we had afternoon tea together." Margulies said happily.
Ellie Claire is the former second daughter of the Polly family and is now in charge of tour guides in Zombieland.
"What did you all talk about?" Chen Xing asked casually while drinking milk.
"Miss Ellie sighed and said that she hasn't attended a dance for a long time." Margulies came over and held Chen Xing's hand. "Master, I heard that there are many gentlemen and ladies here. Mayor Bert of Roast Duck Town , the Ambisi family of Beauty Town, let’s hold a unique dance party.”
"Okay, you go make preparations and the money will come out of the account of the mayor's house." Chen Xing said cheerfully. Now that the Hanged Skeleton Alliance has been established, it is indeed necessary to hold some gatherings regularly. He is a grown man, and he doesn’t have such free time. At best, he just invites people to come and have a meal. It's better to leave this kind of thing to women.
"The location is on the rooftop of the Wilderness Hotel. Remember to invite the leader of the Black Snake Brigade, Guo Ying from the mission school, and everyone in the garrison." Chen Xing added. Guo Ying is the daughter of the black old monster. She currently runs a Holy Light Church school in the town, specializing in teaching basic knowledge and Holy Light teachings to the children in the town. Regardless of whether they are residents or refugees, as long as they have lived for one year, they can attend school for free.
Before breakfast was over, the details of the ball were finalized, with Margulies and Lady Ursula to perform it.
After eating, Chen Xing called Xiao Yang and drove the wilderness bus to the entrance of the No. 65 underground survival shelter.
After putting down the folding tables and chairs, laying out the tablecloth, and pouring the red wine, Chen Xing thought, and a tide of goblins poured out of the field, rushed into the door of the underground survival shelter, and began to clean up the garbage inside.
On the flat land not far from Chen Xing, there are mountains of metal garbage piled up. The termite workers, the size of calves, line up and bring things up from the ground one after another.
A large number of termites also participated in the cleanup work. They do not have the dexterous hands of goblins and cannot dismantle precision parts such as screws and wires, but they have strong handling abilities and can transport disassembled items out of the ground.
The underground survival shelter No. 65 is very large and can accommodate more than 50,000 people. If you hire workers to clean up, it will definitely cost a lot of money.
Goblins and Anthills are completely free, which saves a lot.
Next, after the cleaning is completed, workers will be sent in to reinstall the ventilation ducts and air conditioners, and then the decoration of the escape room project will begin.
The goblin craftsmen's skills are relatively rough and they cannot undertake the fine decoration work, so they can only hire other decoration workers to do it.
The water for the underground survival shelter can be connected from the underground water station. The two were originally connected, but they were in disrepair and needed to be replaced.
As for power supply, we have to consider building a small thermal power station.
Thermal power stations use fuel to generate electricity. Each edge town generates its own electricity with small generating units. If a power station is built, it can be considered to expand to surrounding edge towns.
It is even possible to consider building small nuclear power plants that would cover a larger area and where the cost of generating electricity and transportation would be minimized.
Nuclear energy technology in this world has become very advanced, and the size of nuclear power plants can be reduced to about thirty meters in diameter. But the smallest investment is in the tens of millions of gold coins, which is equivalent to more than one billion of the earth. And if there is an excess supply of electricity, you will still lose money.
After all, the income in edge towns is low, and many refugees cannot afford electricity.
Thermal power stations are cheaper, and can be solved with two to three million gold coins, but the cost of power generation is relatively high. First, for the same power generation, the price of fuel is much higher than that of uranium-235. Second, transportation costs are high and oil needs to be constantly transported from the nearest port, namely Crow Market. There is no water transportation, so we have to rely on tankers. There are safety risks on the road, and the price can be imagined.
The main reason why the cost of fuel-fired power generation is high is that there are no exploitable oil fields in the red earth world. On the one hand, it was already fully mined before the catastrophe, and on the other hand, the underground was full of living dead, as well as some sleeping undercurrent creatures, so the risk of drilling was too high.
At present, the main source of fuel is world fragments. There are many larger world fragments that contain abundant oil, but they are monopolized by several large multinational oil companies, and West Africa is one of them. Oil prices are controlled by them and remain high.
Chen Xing quickly gave up the idea of building a power station. There isn't much money left in the account now, so let's get two sets of generators to make do, and wait until we make some money.
Furthermore, the investment value of Edge Town is not great. Firstly, the infrastructure cost is too high, and secondly, the output is too little. Unless he can build it into a resort in the wilderness like New Edo, no matter how much he invests, it will be a loss. money.
And the location here is not as good as Shin-Edo. Although New Edo is in the wilderness, it is the central wilderness, the very center of the Red Continent, and it is a neutral zone where tourists from the three kingdoms can go.
This is the northern wilderness, deep into the heart of the Red Country. Not to mention the current tense situation, even in normal times, it is unlikely that the powerful would come here. Unless you are in a hurry, you are not afraid of being kidnapped.
The reason why Edge Town is an edge town is that it has many inherent shortcomings that are difficult to make up for. Even if you are a time traveler, it is difficult to change your understanding of two worlds.
After being busy until the sun went down, Chen Xing took back the goblin army and returned to the mansion. Although the goblin has its own consciousness and does not need to bother to command, it takes a long time to summon the army, and it is inevitable that the spirit will be a little tired, so it can only wait until tomorrow to continue.
Moreover, termite workers also need to take care of the nest and cannot work in the underground survival shelter all day long.
Judging from the progress, it will take another two or three days to complete the cleaning of the underground survival shelter and start installing ventilation ducts.
After Chen Xing finished his dinner, he came to the study on the second floor of the mansion.
The floor is covered with a gold-painted red carpet, which is a woven carpet produced in Saudi Arabia and transported from Sanchahe City.
As a nomadic people in the continent, they have lived in felt tents sewn from sheepskin for thousands of years, with thick blankets on the ground to protect them from cold and dampness. The love and understanding of carpets has far exceeded that of other ethnic groups.
Only carpets from Saudi Arabia are the best choice.
There are bookcases filled with books on both sides, but except for a few popular books in the corner, Chen Xing has basically left them untouched.
In the middle is a whole arched floor-to-ceiling window, with thick blackout curtains hanging on the side of the window, and then a walnut desk more than two meters long. The tabletop has been polished, clean, translucent, and spotless.
In the corner is a life-size world globe. It is the same thing as a globe, but the area is different from the continental plates.
Chen Xing walked to the bookcase and opened the door below, revealing a whole cabinet of stone handicrafts.
To be precise, it is jade.
This was something he dug out from the left-hand world, and there were also many in the Beiqiao Regiment.
In the previous life, there was a craze for jade collection in the Red Kingdom, and the reason was the jade artifacts unearthed from the Left Hand World.
Now that I finally have some free time, I can consider doing some operations and collect a sum of money to come back.
Jade cannot be sold in large quantities at one time. It must come in waves, otherwise the price will soon be driven down by the quantity.
The correct operation is to slowly form a culture, then gradually increase prices and create hungry marketing.
He has checked the relevant history. Before the great catastrophe, jade culture once flourished in the Eastern Continent. Nowadays, some people also collect it. However, due to the scarcity of the quantity, it is no longer possible to form a market and can only be used as a collection.
Artifacts in the museum.
The Beiqiao Regiment also excavated a lot, which weighed several tons in total. If the operation is done well, it will not be a problem to get several million gold coins.
Although he can use the virtual game to harvest through Sora, that is Nova's home field, and most of it will be taken away by her. Moreover, the investment in developing virtual games is not small, and he has little experience. He has no advantage over other companies, so he forgets it.
However, he had a preliminary idea to open a game arcade, which is also commonly known as an "arcade" on earth. He found that the world had not developed this type of rides.
He has learned about the development history of games. From eight-bit home game consoles to personal computers, to 128-bit three-dimensional imaging game consoles, and then to all-round virtual game warehouses, the development process of the entire game industry is similar to that on earth. But there was no coin-operated arcade.
Of course, now that network technology is so advanced, the computing power of the black watch alone exceeds that of computer groups on the earth, and the network transmission speed is tens of thousands of times. This retro-style game arcade may not make much money, but Chen Xing sees it What's on is not ordinary arcade games, but gambling machines, commonly known as "fruit machines", "horse racing machines", etc., which are the real moneymakers.
There is a similar game console of this type in Shin-Edo. It is a machine that plays steel balls and is very popular.
Chen Xing plans to develop a batch of them and try to operate them in the 65 underground survival center. In addition, he will also add game projects such as playing balloons and throwing circles.
Although the geographical location is not as good as that of New Edo, for people in the Red Country, it is closer to the northern wilderness than to the central wilderness. You need to take a plane or aerial boat to go to Shin-Edo, but you only need to take a bus to come to Orchid Town.
"Tuk tuk tuk..."
There was a knock on the door, and then Margulies's voice said, "Master, are you in there?"
After getting Chen Xing's consent, Margulies opened the door and came in.
"Master, I want to learn psychic compression as my next skill. What do you think?"
Margulies asked, swinging her two blond ponytails.
"This is a sniper skill, but I see you like using submachine guns." Chen Xing said.
"Aiming is too much trouble." Margulies shrugged.
"I suggest you learn psychic burst shooting, also called continuous charged shooting." Chen Xing suggested.
There are two learning directions for charged shooting. One is a sniper direction with high power and low fire rate. In addition to psychic compression, you can later learn auxiliary skills such as psychic stabilization and psychic vision. The other is an assault with low power and high fire speed. In the direction of the hand, you can learn auxiliary skills such as psionic rage and psionic magazine later.
Margulies has learned psychic armor, so naturally she cannot learn mirror clone, and in terms of personality, the direction of assaulter is more suitable for her.
"Okay, I will listen to Master." Then Margulies dug out the corresponding skill book on the bookshelf and sat in the corner reading quietly.
When talking about charged shooting, Chen Xing remembered that it was time to get a better gun.
His trio was upgraded to a ninet, but the ninet was used for charged shooting, so the improvement was not obvious. The reason is that the increase exceeds the load-bearing limit of firearms and bullets, and firearms and bullets must be upgraded to exert greater power.
This is also the reason why after reaching a certain level, firearms gradually withdraw from the mainstream stage.
Against secondary false gods like Manticore with a "resistance force field" or beings like the Gluttonous Monarch, the role of firearms is minimal. Therefore, when it reaches a certain level, it will be replaced by rune cold weapons that can exert the full power of spiritual energy, or more powerful sacred weapons.
Speaking of which, Chen Xing doesn't have any idea about his holy domain weapons, and he doesn't know how to gather them together. It seems that he has to find someone to ask.
The Sanctuary Arms, also known as the "Heavenly Arms", is the ancient memory imprinted in life, the ancient inheritance flowing in the blood, and it can reproduce the glory of the past with the power of reality.
The Sanctuary Arms is the symbol of the lord level, but it is not the only symbol. In fact, there are many people who fail to condense it when they reach the great lord level, and it is not something that every strong person in the sanctuary has.
"Maybe I don't have it..."
Chen Xing thought sadly. He easily puts himself in the less talented category. There's no way, it's been like this all these years, he's used to other people having him and not having him.
But then again, he can use his spiritual energy to manifest guns and bullets, which is already the prototype of the Sanctuary's weapons. The manifestation of spiritual energy does not manifest everything in the world, but the things that the person involved is most familiar with.
For example, Chen Xing has all kinds of firearms and bullets, as well as Yingren knives and combat daggers, such as axes, broadswords, and spears, but he can't manifest them because he doesn't use them and doesn't understand them.
From the few words in the magazine, we can feel that the Sanctuary Arms may be some kind of enlightenment brought about by accumulation. It is purely something in the spiritual realm and has little to do with energy.
It's just that there is no one with the Holy Domain Arms around him, not even Ye Yang Bailiu, and the only one he has met is Lacey, but he can't possibly ask his enemies, right?
We can only put this matter aside for now, solve the problem of making money first, and then get a few more fake weapons to absorb void magic energy. Not to mention the holy weapons, as the energy increases, the goblin army will also increase.
