Chapter 1006: The Worries of the Tiger Hunter: A Strong Dragon Cannot Defeat a Local Snake!

As a warrior and army commander in the wasteland, Liehu feels that he is very successful, at least he is a well-known top figure in this Qinggang City.

Once upon a time, when he was the youngest and strongest.

Once he led the Pingtan Army to go to war.

Not to mention the monsters around the city, even the army of the Qinggang Shelter had to give him some face.

But as a manager of the shelter, Liehu feels that he has failed.

Ten years have passed.

The once powerful Pingtan Army has gradually aged with the passage of time.

The new generation of Pingtan Army trained is not up to the task, and can no longer use the previous plundering methods to make up for the consumption gap of the shelter.

Although the residents here did not complain about the decline in their quality of life, the data will not lie.

The Pingtan Shelter is still half-dead, and the material reserves have never grown positively.

If it were not for the foresight of the previous shelter manager, he spent a lot of money to buy six machines for making various food ingredients.

Liehu even suspected that the Pingtan Shelter would be in a food crisis.

After all, those damn mutants are just too good at eating!

"Have they been like this all these days?"

Looking at the lively scene in front of the warehouse on the B-7 floor, Liehu tilted his head and looked at the deputy manager of the shelter, 'Shizhang'.

Just like Liehu changed his name to 'Pingtan' for the convenience of management after becoming the manager.

Shizhang 'Jin Guqiao' was originally his deputy in the Pingtan Army, and then he followed him to become the deputy manager of the shelter.

Hearing Liehu's question at this time, Jin Guqiao did not answer immediately, but glanced at Liehu's face slightly.

Slightly strangely, Liehu's face did not have a trace of blame, but was a little relieved.

This performance immediately made Jin Guqiao feel at ease and knew what he should and should not say.

"Yes, this scene has been happening frequently since we started the third transaction with Tianyuan Shelter. Because of the friendly agreement reached between Liu Lu and Tianyuan Shelter, they are now only willing to trade with him for supply, and managers at other levels need to make secondary purchases from Liu Lu here."

"He makes a profit from the price difference?" Liehu frowned and said bluntly.

He is good at monopolizing.

When the western suburbs were still bustling, he secretly monopolized several black-eating-black businesses with his men.

Robbed passing caravans.

Disguised and robbed goods ordered by other shelters.

He even pretended to be a member of a shelter and went out to cheat for supplies. He did this many times.

At that time, Liehu made a lot of money from these small businesses, and the equipment he provided to the Pingtan Army was always the best.

Now, when he heard what Jin Guqiao said, he immediately thought of "monopoly".

It is not a good sign for one's own people to make money from one's own people in the shelter, and it is easy to cause civil unrest.

If Liu Lu really dares to do this, he should be punished.

However.

"Master Pingtan, you misunderstood. How dare Liu Lu monopolize our shelter? He can be regarded as the most obedient floor master in our entire shelter." Jin Guqiao smiled, and flashed through his mind the several large boxes of goods that Liu Lu personally delivered a few days ago. He couldn't help but praise: "On the contrary, the supplies he got from Tianyuan Shelter can be exchanged by the floor masters of other floors with only some insignificant supplies, and it is even cheaper than buying from Tianyuan!"

"Well? Then he didn't lose money?"

Liehu said in a deep voice.

"You said he was obedient, I don't refute." Thinking of Liu Lu taking over Jin Dafa's mess, he was able to revitalize the B-7 floor at such a fast speed, and he had no complaints about the management and dispatch of the shelter.

"But he is not a fool, he is very capable. I have seen the details of the material reserves reported by B-7 last month. Now the deficit has been made up by nearly 70%, which is not something that ordinary people can do."

"Yes, Liu Lu is indeed a smart man, a very sensible smart man."

Jin Guqiao smiled and nodded slightly: "You are right, he lost money in the transactions between the various levels of our shelter, and the loss was huge. The price given by Liu Lu for those fresh vegetables and various novel gadgets is sometimes even lower than the machines we use, which directly dispelled the idea of ​​managers of other levels and Tianyuan Shelter to open up trade routes."

"But you forgot that he lost money here, but not in Tianyuan Shelter?"

"Huh?"

Liehu didn't have much business sense.

After all, if he could calculate these accounts clearly, he wouldn't have to stay in the shelter and worry.

In the transactions between the major shelters, he was best at talking with his fists, using weapons to blast open the other party's door, and plundering all valuable goods without paying any cost.

Let him negotiate prices, negotiate transactions, and negotiate cooperation.

That's really too difficult.

"I don't know how he talked to the manager of Tianyuan Shelter, but he actually made the other party agree to exchange materials for those abandoned industrial waste. Do you know that we can exchange a thousand kilograms of fresh vegetables for an antique that is more than a hundred years old? This is incredible!"

"And those toilet readings, the garbage that you almost ordered to be burned before, they actually need these things, and the price they offer is not low!"

"In exchange for those things, only industrial waste is required?"

Yehu frowned slightly, instinctively feeling that something was wrong.

The waste left over from the pre-war era does take up space in the shelter and cannot be put to good use.

He immediately thought that the other party would take back these industrial wastes for repair and reuse.

But when it comes to repairs, the foundation can definitely do it.

But 99% of the time, the price of repairing something is much higher than the price of buying a new machine.

He didn't quite believe it.

wrong.

There was absolutely no means of maintenance in Yuan Shelter that day, otherwise it wouldn't be so low-key.

"What do they want that for?"

"I heard it is." Jin Guqiao pondered for a moment, and then repeated the reason Liu Lu had revealed before: "The people there are very strange. They have an inexplicable admiration for machinery. But how can I put it, it's like us Like those high-end industrial tools in the Qinggang Shelter, if you can’t get them, you can only use waste for research.”

Talking about collection is simply ridiculous.

Even hunting tigers wouldn't believe it if they exchanged useless supplies for some useless iron lumps.

But the reason for saying that you want to dismantle it, study it and then imitate it is at least a little bit credible.

After all, this was the only reason Jin Guqiao could think of in the past three days.

Talking about other things, he couldn't think of any other more valuable ways to use these waste products with burnt internal circuits and even collapsed mechanical structures.

"If it's research, it doesn't matter. We can sell them any amount of these things."

Liehu nodded, stood in the distance and watched the transaction scene for a while, and finally chose to shake his head and leave.

Ten years of constant lifelessness had wiped out too many of his ambitions.

The rotten shelter system is not something he can overturn on his own.

This is a big ship sailing towards the future.

He is the captain.

The residents of the shelter are the crew.

If the captain wants the ship to run faster, he can also use stimulation or punishment to urge it.

But if you want to turn and sail from a safe sea area to a dangerous sea area, the resistance is unimaginably great.

At least Hunting Tiger has tried several times, and each time it ended in failure.

In desperation, he could only choose another way and build a new ship.

It's just that this "mutant" ship doesn't seem to be very useful now.

Especially since the supply of supplies has slowed down recently, the damn mutant leader has expressed his dissatisfaction several times.

"For the transaction with Tianyuan Sanctuary, you must send people to protect this trade route and don't let other interested parties destroy it."

"Our enemy will not wait until the end of recuperation and then come to try to attack."

"They are a group of hungry wolves that will pounce on them at any time. As long as they find an opportunity, maybe after this heavy fog ends, the war between the major shelters in Qinggang City will completely break out."

"There has been peace here for too long. The shortage of supplies must be solved by war."

"And our neighbors to the south of the city. If a war breaks out, they will never stand idly by."

After walking all the way back to the office on the bottom floor along the elevator, pointing at the map on the wall, Liehu gave the order.

When it comes to economic development, he is not good at it.

But when it comes to fighting, even if he has become an "old" tiger, there are still few people in Qinggang City who can surpass his strategic vision.

A lot of experience told him that this seemingly peaceful city would soon become manic.

When the cake cannot be made bigger, people who eat the cake will start to think about grabbing it from others.

This is a change and an opportunity.

I heard that the prototype of another city has arrived on the outskirts of the southern suburbs.

Although it is not as large as Sunny Harbor Sanctuary, it is still a small group of forces that cannot be ignored.

A strong dragon cannot defeat a local snake.

If the gopher guys in Qinggang City don't want to share the results of the war behind others, then waiting until the fog ends and launching a war immediately is the best choice.

"Prepare the army, wait until the fog disappears and we will be the first to attack!"

"That area in the southern suburbs has been peaceful for too long."

Tianyuan territory, outside Hope Village.

Zero opened a pair of ten centimeter-long wings and flew freely in the air.

Sometimes it launches rapidly at high altitudes, reaching speeds of thirty kilometers per hour.

Sometimes it sways low in the sky, scurrying left and right in the gaps between the wheat fields.

For fixed obstacles, No. 0 avoided them very promptly.

But for moving obstacles

Buzz.

Hover in front of a player on the farming route who is squatting in the field and secretly "fertilizing".

The latter's eyes widened, with a hint of obvious embarrassment in his eyes.

"Lord Lord, why did you bump into me again?"

"Uh hahaha, I'm just passing by, you go on, go on."

Inside No. 0, Sumo's awkward yet polite laughter could be heard.

Then the small square lifted into the air at the fastest speed, hurriedly escaping in the eyes of the opponent.

The scene changes.

In virtual reality, in a simulated room.

Taking off the headphones on his head, Sumo rubbed his shoulders and controlled the mouse with his right hand to click on the hosting mode.

"Number Zero, this won't work. It's no fun to operate."

The screen on the monitor is a simulated picture of the information flow transmitted from Map Zero.

Except for the sacrifice of 360P image quality for fluency, the operation is still smooth.

The keyboard WASD controls the character up, down, left, and right, the spacebar climbs, and the ctrl drops.

Coupled with the mouse to switch perspectives, the operation is really not difficult to get started.

But this also lowers the upper limit of this player system.

Unable to make more precise micro-operations, only some straight-line operations can be performed in a big way.

Unable to monitor moving obstacles in real time, if entering a battle, it will definitely be a catastrophic performance.

In addition, it is impossible to be immersed in the situation and unable to concentrate.

Encountering an emergency is as embarrassing as what just happened.

"Master, your operation is good enough, far exceeding Zero's previous prediction."

"Are you praising me?"

"Yes, you are awesome!" Zero's happy voice came from the void.

Pure artificial intelligence does not have so many twists and turns.

In the previous prediction, Zero roughly predicted that the number of takeovers would be about twice a minute.

But in fact, after testing, it only took over once in five minutes.

All other situations were avoided in advance by Su Mo's abnormal reaction and body control.

"But Zero has also noticed the problem you mentioned, but we can't solve it at this stage."

"The game model matched by the "Player Login System" of version 0 is different from the finished game you provided before. Those have limited range of activities and logical behavior. There are prescribed behavior patterns that limit the player's control limit, and there are even some unsolvable bugs, such as Civilization and Rule of Law 5, where motorcycles can fly on the surface of buildings at a vertical angle of 90 degrees, and can jump from a mountain thousands of meters high without any damage. It's too outrageous!"

"In comparison, our game is completely simulated. The physical rules here are completely universal with reality, with air resistance, weight, etc. There is a real collision volume, and there is no lame air wall setting. Players can freely experience the world of full reality in the game and can perform any operation that only exists in imagination. In addition, don't think that this game looks simple and the upper limit is not high. In fact, if you want to play it proficiently, it is definitely dozens of times more difficult than any game produced on the earth.

Admittedly, the growth curve of such a difficult game is indeed unreasonable. You may not feel fun at the beginning, because it cannot arouse human curiosity in a familiar environment, but if you go to a strange and dangerous environment, I believe that even you will like it! "

Zero gave a series of explanations familiarly, answering the previous question clearly.

In the eyes of ordinary Ai, there may be no difference between fun and not fun, only the difference between practical and impractical.

But for a product like Zero that has touched the boundary of true artificial intelligence.

This explanation is enough to convince humans.

Including Su Mo himself.