Real Players of the Department of Life

Chapter 101

She obviously didn't understand, so Wen Yan explained to her:
"The performance of the king worker in front of us yesterday and today is very different. There are two main reasons. One is that the early arrival of the cold wave may have interrupted their layout plan. The other is that they hope to use our possible relationship to establish a new business in City 88. Get more supplies.”

He nodded again as if he didn't understand.She obviously still doesn't understand much, but now that they are a team, she can trust Zhang Cishun and the others unconditionally.

On the way back, Jing Shuo's eyes kept glancing towards the car, but most of the supplies were packed in boxes, and the scattered items that were exposed were also covered. What they could see just by being exposed could not be analyzed. what.

"Why do they want to rely on us? No matter what, they are still the Wilderness Army, right? And I remember seeing a lot of supplies in Wang Gong's camp yesterday. Those should be products of City No. 88!" Jing Shuo asked .

"The Wilderness Army belongs to the wilderness." Before Zhang Cishun could answer, Wen Yan answered his question.

"Only those who move in the wilderness are the Wilderness Army, and the Wilderness Army we saw in the city before has to be preceded by Zeng. Many people in the Wilderness Army will become people after they are unable to persist in the wilderness. Those compiled shall be attached to the numbered city.”

"Of course, the Wilderness Army in the city will perform the same tasks as the Wilderness Army outside the city, but they can get more assistance. The simplest and most intuitive thing is the upgrade of weapons." Wen Yan said.

"It seems like there's nothing wrong with it, so why don't they surrender to Numbered City? Instead, they continue to form an army alone in the wilderness?" He interrupted again and asked.

"There are reasons for strength, ambition, and all kinds of things. The wilderness is like a big treasure house, where the treasures of civilization are buried. When the wilderness army marches in the wilderness, they will always discover things in various places due to various opportunities. to these treasures.”

"And...don't take submission too simply." Wen Yan said.

"The Wilderness Army is free in the wilderness. Most of the places they go deep into are in surveyed safe areas. Other than that, they follow the garbage trucks and circle around various areas. They are mobile and represent technology. The flow of information represents the flow of knowledge and information. They use these things to exchange materials with various numbered cities and so on."

"So for the numbered cities, they are just some... items that do not need to worry about consumption, military pay, or even life and death. Many numbered cities will not accept the surrender of the wilderness army at all, but similarly, they A higher price will be charged for anything the Wilderness Army brings.”

Wen Yan calmly revealed a slightly cruel fact, but despite this, others did not show any strange emotions because of her words.

After all, that’s how the world is.

Jing Shuo thought about it, and after they had walked a long way, he said, "Can't they exchange with City No. 88 now?"

"The exchange has been completed. Half of the supplies on the car belong to City 88."

"Can't we continue to exchange? What they are obviously short of now is energy. They can exchange other things with the energy of City 88..."

"Theoretically, it's possible. But I don't think you'd want to accept the reason why they didn't succeed." Wen Yan said.

"Energy is very scarce in this land." Zhang Cishun said: "Because City No. 88 is built on fire, it naturally has a strong energy advantage, but one thing you have to understand is that energy It is different from energy. And their fleet obviously needs oil and electricity. The former is probably not available in City 88. As for the latter...

The energy supply method of the fire is the antimatter reactor. Judging from the current lack of technology, it is obvious that City 88 has no way to supplement it.This is why City 88 later shifted its energy research direction to biomass energy.Compared with antimatter energy, the energy level gap between biomass energy cannot be said to be large, and can only be described as outrageous.The only advantage is that the way to obtain raw materials is very simple.

Remember the people who were killed in that march? "Zhang Cishun suddenly changed his mind and asked.

Jing Shuo nodded: "Remember, does this energy still have something to do with them?"

Jing Shuo has never considered the issue of energy. It's not like he hasn't asked Wei Jin about this issue before, but the answer he got from Wei Jin was: "It's enough to survive this winter. That's half a year!"

"The simplest way of biomass energy is to burn. Biomass can be converted into heat and electricity through combustion. However, this is too ineffective for the current technology tree level of City 88. Therefore, before burning, They will extract it first...and the material is the corpse."

Jing Shuo's breath was obviously suffocated, probably because he had never thought that the energy source of City 88 was in this way.Just listening to it gave him a ridiculous feeling.

"This..." Jing Shuo wanted to say something, but in addition to feeling hairy on his body and his throat twitching, he could only utter one word.

"Light energy... wind energy... City 88 should have more choices, but why?"

Jing Shuo asked.The reason why he said this was because when he was in the lower city, the electricity he could get from the city was extremely scarce.Therefore, we have to use solar energy to store energy independently.

"Yes, it seems that there are many choices in City 88, but obviously they have given up a lot. Let's talk about light energy briefly." The knowledge in Zhang Cishun's mind danced, digesting the memories that Kumar brought to him. The most valuable part of it is that he always comes into contact with and learns something again and again in his life. Although it is not in depth, the amount is sufficient.Most of these things are classified into the researcher/engineer category. In terms of entries, there are more than 3000 entries.

With such a huge number, he had to hide them, otherwise his field of vision would be completely filled by just unfolding the panels.

"You have built related simple equipment yourself, so you should know that the main process of converting light energy into electrical energy is the photoelectric effect. When light irradiates the surface of certain materials, the electrons in the material will gain enough energy to jump to conductive energy. stage, and generate free electron and hole pairs. These free electron and hole pairs can move freely in the material to form the current we need.

This step can be roughly divided into four parts.

First, the absorption of photons.Light interacts with atoms or molecules in the material to transfer the energy of the photons to the electrons in the material.

Second, electronic excitation.The energy of the photon causes some electrons to jump to the conduction band and leave the valence band. These excited electrons are free electrons.

Third, electron drift.Free electrons move through conductive energy levels in the material, creating an electric current that can flow in an electrical circuit connected to the material.

Fourth, electrons and holes recombine. …

This is not a complicated principle, and it has never been lost in human science from beginning to end, because it is not complicated or difficult. City 88 promoted it on a large scale for a while, but quickly gave up.Because they discovered a fatal problem.When the number of light panels reaches a limit, the energy conversion efficiency of photons decreases exponentially.The more it exceeds this limit, the greater the loss will be, until... the device used to generate energy becomes a huge energy consumer in an instant. "

"And this is why No. 88 City did not go further on this road. Instead, it spread this technology." Zhang Cishun said.

This scene was still fresh in his mind, and Kumar's memory of it was quite profound.Because it was winter at that time, it was the time when the cold wave hit. City 88’s idea of ​​large-scale expansion of solar panels to utilize solar energy was not wrong, but the final result was something no one expected.

That year, that winter, was extremely cold. "Other methods also have disadvantages of one kind or another, and as City 88 develops faster and faster, one of the disadvantages becomes more and more obvious. That is that the energy provided is too little."

"Even today's biomass energy cannot completely solve this problem. Therefore, energy is very precious to City 88. This preciousness is placed on these fleets, which means it is expensive."

"Of course, whether the high price can be afforded by the fleet is not something we consider. It is not the reason why I rejected Wang Gong, but because the essence of energy in City 88 is human life. The massacre of a parade made City 88 The energy accumulated to survive this winter and allocating part of it to the team means that new life is needed to fill the furnace."

"I'm not used to it, at least not now, putting other people's lives on the card table."

Kumar can make decisions without any burden because he never cares.Just like Kumar once said to Zhang Cishun, he respects everyone, but doesn't care about them.For Kumar, living and living by any means is the first priority.

What else does it have to do with him?

Zhang Cishun's words silenced Jing Shuo.He already sees the world as dark, but it may actually be darker than he thinks.

He clearly knew that there were many things that Zhang Cishun had not told him, and whether those things that he did not know were even darker.

"Don't put shackles and burdens on yourself because of other people's plight. Don't forget that they have individual flying devices, and they don't actually rely on us. The reason why they choose to contact us is just because of that permission, that printed Permission granted by the think tank’s seal.”

She listened to the conversation between Zhang Cishun and Jing Shuo again, but she didn't seem to hear it. It seemed like she couldn't understand the energy they were talking about at all. The only thing she understood was that City No. 88 was pronounced City No. 88, and was written as "Eat a Man Two". Character.

The wind is getting stronger.

It's also a little colder.

Seeing the white light in the distance getting closer and closer, Zhang Cishun and the others could clearly feel that the people here were a little impetuous.

Many people have stopped working and returned to the car to encapsulate and insulate the already dense car.But in fact, this effect is not great, it can only comfort people's hearts.

at noon.

The convoy finally stopped.

Before the shutdown, Wang Gong personally came to see Zhang Cishun and the others, trying to persuade them to help again, but this time it was not Zhang Cishun who rejected him, but Jing Shuo.

His tone was not very good, and he even directly said that they could use individual devices to enter the city, without them being the middleman at all.Jing Shuo's straightforward words made Wang Gong's face look much uglier. His expression changed over time, and finally turned into the cold expression he had when they first met.

That's right.

This fits the appearance of a team boss who begs for food in the wilderness.All the kind words and kindness he showed were just to get something from Zhang Cishun and the others.

Now that this hope was shattered, he naturally did not need to maintain such a posture.

"We can't prepare all the things on the list for you, especially energy. All reserves must be given priority to the fleet. I will not and cannot give away precious energy just for a piece of permission. But you can temporarily Follow the convoy and we will arrange vehicles for you.”

This is what Wang Gong said after that meeting.Even in order to express deterrence, the people he brought showed their weapons at Zhang Cishun and the others.

It's a weapon I've never seen before.It does not belong to City No. 88 in terms of shape, so they obviously exchanged it from other numbered cities.

Maybe it's hostility, maybe it's malice.This time, before Zhang Cishun and the others could react, the dumbfounded Jing Yan took the lead.She tilted her head and said a few muttered words. Wang Gong and the others were stunned.

Fortunately, Jing Shuo was not slow in his actions. After liberating his own abilities, he hijacked and suppressed Jing Yan's power.

This process was extremely short, so short that even Wang Gong and the others didn't notice it.

After they left, Jing Shuo reached out and tapped Jing Yan's forehead, pushing her little head back with considerable force.

"Recovering soon?" Zhang Cishun asked Wen Yan.

"It's just a stress reaction. It will take a lot of time to fully recover." Wen Yan replied.

Jing Shuo took back his hand, and Jing Yan stared at Jing Shuo blankly for a long time, and then let out a long yawn.

"..."

"It seems that they are not very willing to follow the think tank's permission, but why don't they refuse?" Jing Shuo asked.

"Because City No. 88 can provide them with what they want. They will not refuse City No. 88's permission unless necessary. But they will not do it completely." Zhang Cishun replied: "For example, what they just said The performance illustrates this very well.”

"I suddenly thought of a question..." Jing Shuo added: "Our arrival is a surprise to them. Logically speaking, they can enter the city with permission to coordinate material assistance."

"Normally speaking, yes, but that is a normal situation. But City 88 is not normal now. The afterglow of the riots has not dissipated, and the most critical resource allocation model has not yet been rebuilt..."

Zhang Cishun explained, but before he could say a few words, Wen Yan interrupted him. She pointed to the north, pointing in the direction of the cold wave.

"Look, there's a car coming over there."

(End of this chapter)