Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 77 Opening up new industries
Yuan Tong summoned his subordinates and began to push the two reinforced ships out of the snow.

Seeing that they were struggling, Zhou Yi called in the warrior crabs to help, and they easily carried the boat from the community to the beach.

Yuan Tong boarded the boat and asked others to clean the deck and clear the snow, while he crawled into the bottom of the cabin.

After a while, he came out again, exhaling white air and said, "Chairman, the boat is fine. The two light marks on the keel are intact, and the energy pack is still there, enough to get to the sea."

Zhou Yi also followed him down the ladder into the cabin.

The keel of the boat is painted with a layer of asphalt-like black oil, but it doesn't feel sticky when you step on it. There are white lines on the black oil, and the linear structure covers the entire keel frame, creating a very special mathematical visual effect.

Zhou Yi discovered that the white line was actually in the dent. First, thin grooves were chiseled on the keel, and then the white line was filled in, and finally sealed with a layer of glue.

Yuan Tong pointed at the layer of black oil and said, "Chairman, this is a light wall made of light soot, mixed with insect repellent spices, resin, oil and some stone powder. Although it is the simplest primary light wall, it is enough to carve a light mark and fix it on it."

"Look, this amber-encapsulated light spine is so neat and beautiful... Although this ship is small, its quality is not bad. The two E-level light seals "propulsion" and "light buoyancy" are connected through the light spine, one connected to the rudder and the other covering the bottom."

He pointed to the straight white lines above.

Zhou Yi didn't understand and asked, "What about Guangbo and Guangji?"

Yuan Tong looked a little surprised. He said, "Amber is a kind of sticky oil that accumulates at the bottom of the Dead Sea. Some of it is like clay. It is distributed in some special areas on the seabed. The sea lords and cities are exploring for this resource. If you can find a mine nearby, you can make money."

"After removing the impurities, mix the amber with a portion of gold, silver or copper and other metals in proportion and then cast it to complete the filling on the carved light wall. This is the light ridge, representing the spine of the light seal."

"The light wall made of light soot, plus the light ridge fixed on it, constitutes the simplest light seal. The raw materials and processed products related to light seals are basically not difficult to sell. They are needed everywhere and are strategic materials."

Zhou Yi remembered that he had indeed seen similar oily substances on the seabed.

Those things were pitch black, with wisps of them coming out, and sometimes they twisted around like living things. They looked like some kind of spiritual pollution, and if you got close you would feel a buzzing in your ears, which was very strange.

"Ah! You are talking about the high-concentration natural amber vents..."

Yuan Tong opened his one eye wide and murmured, "High concentrations of light amber will indeed cause discomfort to all kinds of life. This thing itself is a paste of dead light deposits. It needs special means to be collected, and it will turn white after purification and removal of impurities."

Zhou Yi was delighted.

In the future, I can take the warrior crabs to dig for amber on the seabed.

The Dead Sea is such a great place.

He took out the diary he carried with him and wrote down Guangbo's situation.

A good memory is not as good as a bad writing.

More importantly, writing it down in a notebook can urge yourself not to be lazy and to move on to the next goal after achieving the previous one.

Next, Yuan Tong demonstrated the specific operations of collecting light soot.

He used a cloth bag-like tool to probe into the Dead Sea mist, dragging it carefully, making clockwise circles over and over again.

After about five minutes of repeated scooping, Yuan Tong pulled up the long pole, put the cloth bag into the wooden barrel filled with snow next to him, and scraped the inner layer of the bag cloth with a wooden board.

There were some fine black particles on the snow layer in the bucket.

"This is the light soot sand."

Yuan Tong pointed at the particles and smiled: "Chairman, although it may seem insignificant, the price of soot sand is four times that of copper."

"You need a ship or special port buildings to collect soot sand. The requirements are not low. The ship needs energy packs to operate, which is another expense, so the threshold is actually not low."

"Plus, the Dead Sea itself is very dangerous. We need to ensure that we will not be attacked by nearby light species before we can carry out the collection operation. Because collecting light soot sand is a job that requires patience and stability."

He rubbed his hands together and said, "The company's Emerald City is used to deter the shallow Dead Sea area, and the warrior crabs are patrolling, so I came up with this idea."

The prerequisites are met.

Now there is only one key question left. Zhou Yi said solemnly: "Talk about the costs and benefits."

"Yes, Chairman."

Yuan Tong seemed to have made a detailed calculation in this regard, and he blurted out: "The cost includes two parts. One part is manpower, which is simple. What Emerald City lacks the least at present is manpower. The second part is the consumption of energy packs."

"A reinforced ship driven by a light seal consumes one energy pack every 12 hours. According to the general price, 1 energy packs are worth one light seed, or 10 gold. The cost is very high."

He counted on his fingers and said, "If we keep the two ships working alternately, with each ship working for half a day, then a month is 30 days, and the cost is 60 energy packs, equivalent to 6 light seeds, or 600 gold."

"As for the revenue, we have only done it sporadically for a few days before, so we can use it as a reference."

Yuan Tong recalled: "At that time, we worked half a day and rested half a day. Some people had to scout the surrounding area, and some people had to work. After selling the light soot sand, the average daily income per person was about 200 mushrooms."

"With full-time operation and without having to allocate half of the manpower to guard, the benefits will be at least twice this."

Zhou Yi thought this was good.

"Then let's try it out first. We'll set your salary based on your previous income and set it at 6000 per month."

The farming group in Jitou Town is considered a good job in the Shagang area, and the monthly salary of those people is only 3000 mushrooms.

Creating new jobs will allow community residents to get paid through their labor and change their lives, it will also generate some income for the company and help the long-term stability of Emerald City.

"But, Chairman, the most difficult issue is sales."

Yuan Tong scratched his head and smiled bitterly: "Many people know about the collection and operation process, but to sell the goods, they have to be delivered all the way to the city. Individual sellers can easily be undercut, and there are many risks along the way."

"I'll take care of this."

Zhou Yi said: "First, find some residents of Shangu Town and teach them how to collect light ash. I will let the sea hunters and warrior crabs patrol to ensure your safety."

"Okay, I'll go right away."

Yuan Tong is a man who does what he says. He first sent the boat back to the shore with the Warrior Crab, and then took his men to Building 2 to recruit people.

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The channels for selling soot.

The first thing Zhou Yi thought of was the recursive market.

One advantage of doing business with electromechanical life is that they have clear pricing standards, so you don't have to worry about being charged an exorbitant price.

But this place is 2000 kilometers away from Recursion City.

Transportation is a problem.

Red Falcon suggested: "Why not trade with a nearby city? Energy Storage City is closer to this area, just 800 kilometers to the northeast."

"Energy is the core industry there, and prices are fair. As far as I know, they have strong freight transport capabilities, and have a sound transportation and logistics system for both purchasing raw materials and exporting processed products."

Zhou Yi was overjoyed: "Can we contact the Energy Storage City?"

"There is no service with the optical stack over there. I will go there first to inquire about the situation. Wait for my news."

"Wait, bring some light seeds and go over to open the service."

Zhou Yi remitted a sum of 500 light seeds to it.

"I'll go back quickly."

With that, the drone took off into the air.

(End of this chapter)