[Equipment:

Type 20 Gauss Rifle, Thorn

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[Description:

As the standard anti-material equipment of the orbital airborne troops, the Type 20 Gauss Rifle adopts a barrelless design and hollow magnetic rails. Its standard ammunition is a spike tail stabilized bullet with a caliber of 9mm and a mass of 100g.

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When shooting with standard ammunition, the theoretical discharge speed can reach Mach 5, and the kinetic energy of the muzzle is 144,755 joules. Taking into account the special combat environment of orbital airborne troops, the Type 20 Gauss rifle is designed to fire conductive mediums such as truncated iron nails and steel balls through side loading even without standard ammunition. However, what needs to be considered is that when firing non-standard ammunition, the stability and accuracy of shooting cannot be guaranteed. Please refer to the user manual and make a careful choice.

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144,755 joules of kinetic energy!

When first seeing the number, Chu Guang thought he had read it wrong.

If I remember correctly, the 20mm caliber gun, M61 Vulcan, on the F16 fighter jet can only fire about 50,000 joules of energy per bullet!

The kinetic energy of more than 140,000 joules is an order of magnitude higher than that of M61!

Can this even be called a gun?!

Well… If they strictly based it on the type of bullet fired, it was probably still considered a normal gun.

Picking up this terrifyingly powerful Gauss Rifle from the conveyor belt, Chu Guang took it in his hand and looked at it for a while, before taking off the cumbersome magazine.

The bullet stuffed in the magazine was very long, and its shape was more like a long shuttle than a spike. The thread on the tail was probably its stabilizing tail, which could make the bullet spin and stabilize during flight.

The Gauss rifles used by Lu Yang and his team seemed to have adopted another technical route, that was, a fully enclosed magnetic rails. A rifled barrel was added in the middle of the magnetic rails.

Chu Guang noticed when peeping through the drone before that their rifles needed to have the overheated barrel replaced after continuous shooting.

Intuition told Chu Guang that the barrelless design may be more advanced, but it was difficult to say the maintenance cost and the use cost.

"The recoil might not be small... Without an exoskeleton or an exoframe, it will really be impossible to control it."

"And the ammunition… Aren’t 10 bullets a bit too few?"

"I don’t know if the bullet made of tungsten steel would work.”

With the production conditions of the outpost, it was impossible to expect the material to be the same, but it should not be a problem to make a bullet with a similar shape.

Chu Guang intended to save a few of the original bullets for valuable targets. For ordinary mutants, some low quality ammunition should be enough.

In addition, the optical sights on the gun were also a good thing, with a maximum magnification of 12 times.

His luck seemed to have been spent on the advanced loot box as when he opened all 11 basic loot boxes, he received 11 lollipops. They were also all chocolate flavored.

However, Chu Guang was in a good mood. Not only did his blood pressure not rise, but instead he gave Xia Yan and Xiaoyu a lollipop each, sharing the joy he was feeling.

A cannon and a piece of armor.

He wasn’t just slightly lucky.

He hit the damn jackpot!

...

The next day was a rare sunny day.

There was not a single cloud in the sky.

However, there was a lot of snow from the night before, and snowflakes the size of goose feathers had been falling all night. When the sun came up, the deepest part of the snow was above the knees.

Chu Guang still hired two nomads to clean the snow in the outpost.

After inspecting the training of the guards, Chu Guang found Luca.

"I’ll give you a mission. The details are already on your VM. Go to the brick factory and pick two clever survivors as your assistants."

"Later, our allies will send people to register with us for the list of dispatched laborers. After that, you can set out with them according to what I explained on the VM."

Luca nodded respectfully. "As ordered, sir."

Not long after Luca went in the direction of the brick factory, Chu Guang saw through the drone in the sky that an off-road vehicle with large tires was tearing through the snow from the north.

There were 4 people in the car.

Except for the driver of the car and the bodyguard who wore exoskeletons with light weapons, the two people in the back were not even equipped. They only wore gray coats and were probably civilians.

The road condition on the wasteland was very poor, especially in the urban area. One stretch of road could have ten uneven broken sections. Some of the relatively wide cracks even revealed the buried pipeline, and the width could be more than two meters.

Not to mention how cars couldn’t pass through… Even people and animals found it difficult to pass, and could only walk around the ruins that were relatively intact.

The road along the viaduct out of the city was not smooth, and many pits were buried by snow.

Chu Guang watched from the sky and guessed with Little Seven when the car would break down. In the end, Little Seven guessed it right. About 1 kilometer away, the front wheel of the off-road vehicle s;ammed into a ditch.

Snow flew into the sky, but no matter how tires were spinning, the car just couldn’t get out of the pit.

The co-pilot and driver could only get out of the car, grabbing the wheel hub with both hands, and using the brute force of the exoskeleton to lift the front of the car out of the ditch.

Chu Guang originally planned to find two strength type players to help them, but when he saw what was happening, he immediately dismissed the idea.

"The power of science and technology is still much better."

When can I give my adorable players a whole set each?

When that happens, how fast will they be able to move bricks around…?

With a sigh in his heart, Chu Guang turned off the VM screen and went downstairs to the north gate to wait, after the group of people got back into the car and drove to the north gate of the Wetland Park.

...

The off-road vehicle could not enter. The driver and the car stayed in front of the north gate of the park and waited, while the other three got out of the car and continued on their way.

The group quickly arrived at the outpost, met the administrator at the north gate, and went to the reception room at his invitation.

"Let me introduce myself, I am Li De from the Logistics Division of the Silver Wing Corporate Group First Pioneering Corps, which is affiliated to Enterprise, and behind me is Luo Hua, a colleague of our Logistics Division, who is in charge of liaison and communication and the temporary office in your camp. The other is Ace from the Security Division, who is mainly responsible for our safety."

"Hello, Mr. Administrator." The man named Luo Hua wore glasses and looked a little gentle.

The valiant female bodyguard just nodded to him without saying anything, as if she didn’t exist.

Holding Li De’s outstretched right hand and shaking it, Chu Guang had a bright smile on his face.

"I am the administrator of Shelter 404, Chu Guang. I am honored to cooperate with you. Please take a seat."

Having a handsome face would always make making friends a lot easier.

Even though the facial muscles were stiffened by the north wind, after seeing Chu Guang’s smile, Li De forced himself to make an equally friendly smile on his face.

Communicating with civilized people was always a very comfortable thing to do.

It didn’t matter if they were poor, at least he could communicate with them.

Li De had had enough meeting the natives along the way because he couldn’t communicate with them in a civilized way.

Except for the bodyguard who was on duty at the door, the three people in the room sat down one after another.

Li De didn’t go around in circles either. After sitting down, he went straight to the topic and took out a tablet from the bag he was carrying.

"So let’s get started, I have a list here of what we can offer you. We will still offer 1CR per hour for each laborer. The total expenses for 10 hours of work a day for 200 people will be 2000CR… This is our budget."

Chu Guang took the tablet from his hand, swiped his index finger on the screen, and glanced along the list above.

In general, the purchasing power of CR was still very strong.

Perhaps because of the fact that the production line was carried on the crawler, the prices on the list were closer to the standard of the East Coast than those traders that traveled from places to places to sell goods. It might be even cheaper than the local survivor strongholds.

1CR can buy a lot of commodities.

It was just that Chu Guang was stunned when he saw one kilogram of starch, one kilogram of glucose, one kilogram of sucrose, one kilogram of amino acids, and 30 other kinds of varieties such as lysine, tryptophan, etc....

Can the product be broken down and sold in smaller units?

Of course, in addition to these hard-core goods, there were also normal trading goods.

Things like rice, wheat, corn, and other agricultural products were 2CR per kilogram.

Chu Guang remembered that the starch content of rice was only 75%, so buying rice would be more expensive than buying starch…

In addition, there were vegetable meat patties or minced meat, which were also only 2CR per kilogram, which was actually the same price as rice and wheat.

In any survivor settlement in Clearspring City, it was impossible for meat to be sold for the same price as what grew in the ground!

Moreover, processed foods were also on the list.

A quasi-nutritious meal with a net content of 430 grams required 1CR, which contained a normal diet that was sufficient to maintain the carbohydrate, fiber, protein and other mineral nutrients required for a meal. However, the water in it seemed to be a bit large, and a class A nutrition package with a net content of 800 grams actually costs 8CR.

Is this like the KFC family bucket?!

The food that could be traded was basically on the list. Starting from 10CR, goods that could be purchased became some daily necessities and industrial products.

For example, the price of one kilogram of sulfur soap was exactly 10CR. According to the net content of 100 grams, 10 pieces could be cut, which was equivalent to 1CR per piece.

Another example was salt, they only sold refined salt, or only pure sodium chloride, which also only cost 10CR per kilogram.

Interestingly, their salt was 10 times as expensive as grains and 10 times as expensive as meat. Chu Guang couldn’t decide for a while whether it was cheap or expensive...