Chapter 1325 Increase Revenue and Reduce Expenditure

The desert oasis created out of thin air is only the size of two football fields, which is the limit that Damian can achieve with the cooperation of the extraordinary people hired by Damian. After all, the only ones who can come in handy are Poison Ivy, Mr. Freeze, and Harley Quinn. Because it was purely for fun, and Deathstroke could only be a security captain.

Terra, the earth and stone girl, is even more weird. She can obviously control large rocks and fine dust, but she is powerless over sand with medium-sized particles. Damian originally expected her to be like the bald man in his memory who could rub the pyramid with his hands in the desert. He tried to build a tall building from the ground, only to be disappointed.

In addition, the center of the desert is subject to energy constraints. Mr. Freeze's temperature controller cannot operate at full power. The air-conditioning it produces only covers a radius of one kilometer, and the efficiency of condensing free water in the air is very low.

Some people may ask, how can water vapor condense into small lakes in the desert?

This is a misunderstanding caused by lack of knowledge and short experience. The desert has a high transpiration rate, but it does not mean that there is no moisture in the air. The Atacama Desert in northern Chile, South America, the dry pole of the earth, has an average annual precipitation of only 0.1 mm. You can use "fog catching net" to achieve condensation water storage.

The average annual precipitation in the Sahara Desert is 50 millimeters, which is 500 times that of the dry pole. The efficiency of condensation and water storage is higher.

Limited energy means Damian's environmental protection team can only experimentally build an ecosystem covering the area of ​​two football fields. If they want to completely change the desert ecology on a large scale, they can only wait until the seeds of the sacred tree are planted and cultivated. This was only possible after the towering sacred tree.

However, before planting the sacred tree, some preliminary preparations must be made. However, it is not possible to just throw the tree seeds into the sand and the sacred tree saplings will survive. At least a large ecological circle covering an area of ​​tens of kilometers is needed to maintain the sacred tree in its early stage. Nutrients needed for growth.

Now the Konoha Foundation's tree planting team is stuck at a bottleneck. Due to energy constraints, it cannot lower the temperature on a large scale to condense and store water. Without enough water sources, Poison Ivy cannot spawn a large number of plants, so it can only build a small oasis first. Ecosystem, slightly improve the desert living conditions in the upper floors of the foundation.

The energy technology of the DC universe is far inferior to that of the Marvel universe. If you switch to the Marvel universe, building an Ark reactor will completely solve the energy bottleneck. Even if you don't invest in Doctor Octopus's fusion reactor, you can still get a steady supply of energy. But let alone the existence of new elements in the DC universe, even palladium cannot be used to create small nuclear fuel reactors to generate electricity. Nuclear energy is even resisted by various environmental protection saints, who insist that it is not a clean energy source.

Damian can understand this strange mentality. After all, this magical world is not peaceful. Super criminals are always causing trouble and destroying everywhere. Fights with superheroes can be devastating. No matter how high the safety factor of a nuclear power plant is, no matter how rigorous the engineers are. Seriously, it can't stand being smashed and exploded directly, causing a terrible nuclear leak.

Damian stole the Wayne Group's new energy technology information from the Batcave supercomputer. Unfortunately, these new energy technologies are all centered around "wind energy" and "solar energy" and are not keen on the development and utilization of nuclear energy. Nuclear power technology The application level does not reach the level of black technology at all, and the utilization rate of nuclear energy is not high.

Moreover, all major superhero teams around the world are keeping a close eye on nuclear fuel, for fear that super villains like the Joker will steal it to make nuclear bombs and dirty bombs. Even if Damian has the money to buy it on the black market, he is still worried about being discovered by Superman. It takes a second or two. Fly in to investigate.

The tree planting was not going well, so Damian could only put this work on hold until the energy bottleneck was solved. Instead, he focused on infrastructure construction and built a giant secret base in the center of the desert as his home base.

Just like what Terra is currently engaged in is the construction of a desert airport. In Niger, where there are no roads, if you want to transport supplies to the center of the desert, you can only rely on air transportation.

The previous material transportation relied on helicopters, and the efficiency was too low. Damian then decided to build a desert airport and use large transport aircraft to transfuse blood to the oasis base to support subsequent project construction.

Although when he left the Assassin's League, Damian stole a large amount of money from his grandfather and mother, totaling more than 30 billion U.S. dollars, but a large part of it was fixed assets and shares, and the liquidity was not large. After investing continuously for a period of time, paying the Niger government more than one billion U.S. dollars, the liquidity has fallen to the warning level. If you continue to spend money like this, the capital chain will break sooner or later, and you may go bankrupt.

Therefore, Damian seemed to be enjoying a leisurely sunbathing vacation. In fact, in addition to worrying about the slow progress of his tree planting business, he was also thinking about how to make money to support his life.

Generally speaking, the original money-making business of the League of Assassins has two major items.

The first item is to kill. As long as you give enough money, no matter whether they are politicians or celebrities, even superheroes, the Assassin League will kill them for you.

The second item is to sell the water from the Salalu Pool to extend the lives of some dying rich people. This income is even higher than the income from the assassination.

Now that Damian has left the Assassin's League and wants to establish a new organization to clear his reputation, he will naturally not continue to engage in the murder business. The Salar Road Pool cannot be taken away from the cliff camp, and the life extension business cannot continue.

After losing its two major sources of income, the new organization he split off fell into the embarrassing situation of only getting out but not getting in, running crazy deficits every day.

Basic living supplies have to be transported by transport aircraft. You can imagine how expensive it is to maintain this desert oasis base. At this rate, money is being thrown into the desert in vain. Damian made a calculation, and he is afraid that the sacred tree has not had time. , he will sell off his assets to fill this bottomless pit.

The top priority is to open up new sources of funds to ensure the necessary expenses to maintain the sacred tree during its growth period and to build an oasis base.

After thinking for a long time and still having no clue, Damian sent someone to call Deathstroke, who was in charge of guarding the outside of the oasis, and asked him for advice.

"...Above, you have a relatively broad path. Are there any good deals that you can help introduce?"

Deathstroke blurted out: "Of course! As I mentioned to you last time, there is a sect called the Blood God Sect. They are willing to pay 100 million US dollars to hire the best mercenaries to help them capture a superhero team. With our team With such strength, there is no need to send spies to divide them. Once each one is defeated, a frontal attack can easily defeat the team composed of that little brat."

"You are really keen on bullying children, and you still can't forget it. Do you have any deep grudge against that youth team?"

Damian waved his hands impatiently and said: "Didn't I say it before? There is no need to arouse the hostility of superheroes for mere money. The Blood God Cult does not sound like a serious sect. We are interfering with such evil forces. If we are together, we might get hacked after we complete the mission. Why do you think you must take on their ridiculous mission? You are just like Shi Lezhi!"

Deathstroke shrugged and said: "Working for money is the way to survive for us mercenaries. If the Blood God Religion is willing to pay, I will accept the task. Who knows that all decent superheroes like to practice and roll up their sleeves to do the dirty work?" Even if you are extremely rich, you still won’t hire me?”

"etc!"

The black-haired boy seemed to have gotten the hint, clapped his hands and said: "Yes, you are a mercenary. I am not a mercenary. I don't need others to hire me. I can do whatever I want. Since the Blood God Sect spent huge sums of money to hire you, Catching superheroes shows that their fighting power is not good. Let's simply fight against the evil and destroy the weak chicken sect that can afford 100 million US dollars. Doesn't all their money belong to me? Destroy evil The sect is a righteous move, and making some money by the way is equivalent to accumulating righteous funds, and it will not offend the superheroes, so you can kill two birds with one stone!"

Deathstroke was stunned, shook his head and said: "This goes against the professional ethics of mercenaries, we can't take action against our employer!"

"That's all you've got!" The black-haired boy curled his lips in disdain: "Boss, you're not young anymore. You can be a mercenary in a lifetime. You don't feel ashamed but proud of it! Follow me and watch and study hard. If you can learn A little bit of fur is enough to last you a lifetime! Okay, if you don't want to do it, just stay back and I can handle this job myself!

If you kill dozens of ordinary people, you can get back hundreds of millions of dollars in a day or two, but if you plant spies and plan behind the scenes, it will take a year to prepare. Even if you succeed, you will offend a lot of extraordinary beings. It's a hundred times better to leave a bad reputation in the superhero circle and work hard to earn the hard-earned money! "

Deathstroke was so hurt by his suspected biological son that he almost lost his temper. He covered his face and ran out of the oasis. It seemed that his self-esteem had been severely hit by 10,000 points.