Chapter 28, Corpse Starch
Henry really wanted to buy it.
The alloy plastic-steel material itself, as well as the individual vests made from it, have already brought him huge profits.
He was just a traveling merchant in his hometown, Junk Town, but he had a further idea, he was pursuing the identity of an 'agent'.
Garbage Town is a chaotic place, but it is also a holy place for doing business: it is rich in resources and has a large population.
There, if you have a big enough business, enough people under you, and strong enough military power, you can gain enough influence to become an "agent". And in the chaotic political ecology of Garbage Town, it is the agents who have the final say. They each control a unique business, forming a monopoly, competing with each other and uniting with each other, and their power is huge.
Henry didn't have enough people under him, and his business wasn't big enough. But if he could really take over the alloy plastic steel business, he would have a unique business. As long as Feidong Society supported him and allowed him to monopolize it, he would be able to quickly make a lot of profit.
The remaining problem is the issue of money, which is easy to solve.
The identity of an agent was already beckoning to him.
To be honest, if there wasn't the governor behind Feidong Society, he would definitely turn around and leave now, and then find a way to gather a team to wipe out Feidong Society completely and firmly grasp the production capacity of alloy plastic steel in his own hands.
pity……
But it doesn’t matter, as long as I can get the exclusive agency rights for this business, that’s enough.
Henry said to Patel solemnly: "I want all your goods, and I will give you the best price. We can also sign a long-term cooperation agreement. Believe me, I can definitely help you sell these treasures to the entire wasteland world! We will become the best partners, as long as you sign an exclusive agreement with me."
"Wait... wait a moment."
"?"
Henry frowned tightly. "Do you have any other conditions? Just speak up!"
Patel quickly waved his hands: "I don't have any conditions, but in this matter, my words don't count!"
Without waiting for Henry to speak, he continued, "Everything here belongs to the great Governor. I dare not promise you anything casually. Without the Governor's approval, not a single piece of alloy plastic steel can be sold here."
"Governor..." Henry calmed down and started to have a headache.
It might not be difficult to fool Patel, but to fool the Governor...
He had also heard about the deeds of the governor named Gu Hang. He was a maverick who did not take over the power of the Union Government after landing, but instead went to the wilderness to carry out construction.
Can the entire Angry Owl Star be saved through construction?
Henry didn't believe it.
Even though Feidong Society had undergone tremendous changes in a short period of time under the rule of the Governor, such changes alone were still far from changing the ecology of the entire Angry Owl Star.
Two years later, Governor Gu will probably be eliminated by the imperial taxation system just like his predecessors.
But before that, he was the Governor, the nominal supreme ruler of the planet.
How could a small merchant like me have the capital to deceive an imperial governor?
Seeing Henry's hesitation, Patel had no idea what was going on in this "old friend's" mind. He just grinned and said comfortingly: "The Governor is a very good person. As long as you serve him sincerely, you will definitely get rich rewards."
Patel seemed very honest when he said this. But Henry felt vaguely that there was another meaning behind his words:
"If you're not sincere, you're screwed."
It must be an illusion. How could Patel have so many thoughts?
Henry took a deep breath and said firmly: "I will go to see the Governor right away!"
…
The great Governor Gu Hang is currently studying a corpse.
Its shape barely resembles a living creature, with limbs, and it appears to be walking semi-upright, a bit like a headless ape with abscesses all over its body, limbs that are completely disproportionate, and a particularly swollen chest.
It is very fast, extremely ferocious, and has claws on all four limbs. After hunting, it will tear the prey's body into pieces, then corrode and dissolve the prey fragments through the pus on its body, and then "dissolve" them into its own body.
This thing, called 'abscess monster' by the locals, is a common monster in the wasteland.
He was taking a nap in his room when he suddenly heard some noise outside. Zhang Chao reported to him that more than a dozen abscess monsters appeared on the expansion site outside the camp and attacked the workers.
Although the soldiers guarding the camp arrived quickly and wiped out the monsters, three workers were still killed.
Death and injury are, of course, very bad things.
But this is the wasteland.
Gu Hang did not pay attention to things that had already happened and could not be changed.
He looked at the monster corpse in front of him and asked a soul-searching question:
“Is this thing edible?”
"Well……"
Yan Fangxu didn't understand what the Governor was thinking, but he was shocked.
Gu Hang was a little dissatisfied with Lao Yan's shock. He emphasized: "In the wasteland, the most important thing is food! Every day when I open my eyes, I have to think about how to feed thousands of people in the three camps. It is definitely not okay to sit on the mountain and eat until everything is gone. We have to find a way to explore the source of all food. I think this kind of thing has great potential. It is said that there are a lot of them in the wasteland, as well as zombie dogs and other things. If they can all be eaten..."
"Governor, please wait a moment..." Yan Fangxu said helplessly, "These monsters have a lot of highly corrosive abscesses on their bodies. They don't look like something edible, do they?"
"How do we know if we don't try?" Gu Hang was still very persistent. "Of course, I don't want our people to eat it directly. I heard that most hive planets have the technology to decompose all organic matter into food. They call it... corpse starch? Anyway, it's a block of starch. I wonder if there is this technology on the Wrathful Owl? Anyway, it must be on the Quintet, so we still have to try our best to get it."
Yan Fangxu felt even more helpless.
Brother, I have eaten starch blocks too!
That thing is essentially a food chemical product that can decompose recycled organic waste, including textile waste such as old clothes, waste wood, industrial organic waste, and even a series of things such as plant fibers and animal limbs, into small molecules and then refine and process them into synthetic starch blocks.
Although some hive planets with extremely poor resources and extremely high population density really do recycle the bodies of the dead, and even recycle feces, so they are jokingly and derogatorily called "corpse starch", but you shouldn't say it out loud!
After all, in general, the composition of synthetic starch is still normal...
A small part, a tiny amount...
We are still good friends even if we don’t say it out loud.
(End of this chapter)
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