Chapter 101
She obviously didn't understand, so Wen Yan explained to her:
"The performance of that King's work in front of us yesterday and today was very different. There are two main reasons. One is that the early arrival of the cold wave may have interrupted The second reason for their layout plan is to use our possible connections to obtain more supplies in City No. 88." He
nodded with half-understanding. 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? After all, 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 themselves!" 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. The establishment is 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 one 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 surrender 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 goods represents the flow of knowledge and information. They use these things to exchange materials with various numbered cities." "So for the numbered cities, they are just some
... There is no need to worry about consumption. , there is no need to issue military pay, or even items that do not need to worry about life and death. Many numbered cities will not accept the submission of the Wilderness Army at all, but similarly, they will offer a higher price 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 waited until they had walked a long way before he said, "Can't they exchange with City No. 88 now?" "The exchange has been completed.
Half of the supplies in the car are eighty-eight." From City No. 8."
"Then can't the exchange be carried out? What they are obviously short of now is energy, and they can exchange other things with the energy from City No. 88..." "Theoretically, it is possible. But I don't think you will
. I really want to accept the reason why they failed to 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 need to understand is , energy and energy are different. And their fleet obviously needs oil and electricity. The former is probably not available in City 88. As for the latter... the fire's energy supply method is an antimatter reactor. With today
's Judging from the lack of technology, City 88 obviously has no way to supplement it. This is why City 88 later shifted its energy research direction to biomass energy. Compared with antimatter energy, biomass energy can The level gap cannot be said to be huge, it can only be described as outrageous. The only advantage is that the way to obtain raw materials is very simple. Do you
remember the people who were killed in that parade?" Zhang Cishun suddenly changed his mind and asked.
Jing Shuo nodded: "Remember, does this energy have something to do with them?"
Jing Shuo had never considered the issue of energy. It was not that he had never asked Wei Jin about this before, but from Wei Jin's words The answer was: "Enough to last through this winter. That is, half a year!" "The
simplest way of biomass energy is combustion. Biomass can be converted into heat and electricity through combustion, but this is very important to No. 88 City. Today's technology tree level is too low in effectiveness, so before burning, they will extract... and the material is corpses."
Jing Shuo's breath was obviously choked, probably because he never thought about No. 88 The city's energy source is 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 No. 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 poor. Therefore, we have to use solar energy to store energy independently.
"Yes, it seems that City No. 88 has a lot of choices, but obviously they have given up a lot. Let's talk about light energy briefly." The knowledge in Zhang Cishun's mind was dancing, digesting what Kumar had brought to him. The most valuable part of his memory 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 3,000 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 electrons and hole pairs. These free electrons 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 It interacts with atoms or molecules in the material to transfer the energy of the photon to the electrons in the material.
Second, electron 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, forming an electric current, which can flow through a circuit connected to the material. Fourth, electrons and holes recombine. …This
is
not What a complicated principle, and it has never been lost in human science from beginning to end, because it is not complicated or difficult. City No. 88 once implemented it on a large scale for a while, but it soon They quickly gave up. Because they discovered a fatal problem. When the number of light plates reaches a limit, the energy conversion efficiency of photons decreases exponentially. The more the number exceeds this limit, the greater the loss, until... used to generate Energy devices became huge energy consumers in an instant." "
And this is why City No. 88 did not go further on this road. Instead, it spread this technology." Zhang Ci Shun 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. There was nothing wrong with City 88's idea of large-scale expansion of solar panels to utilize solar energy, 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." "This
problem Even today's biomass energy cannot completely solve the problem. Therefore, energy is very precious to City 88. This preciousness is put on these fleets, which means it is expensive." "Of course, it is expensive
. Whether the price is affordable for 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 allowed City 88 to accumulate In order to get energy through this winter, allocating part 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."
Ku. Ma 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 from 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 clearly was the reading of City No. 88 City No. 88 is written with the word "cannibal".
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. The shape does not belong to City No. 88, 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 mumbled a few 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 Their performance just now illustrates this point well."
"I suddenly thought of a question..." Jing Shuo added: "Our arrival is a surprise to them. Logically speaking, they can completely Let's 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 chapter)