Chapter 36: Money to buy life, lithium deposit!
Cheng Ye is still clear about his own needlework skills.
In the early years, when PDD didn't have time to buy cheap goods, he often sewed up his ripped jeans. Later, when a pair of jeans sold for 20 yuan, he still didn't want to sew them.
If your worn-out shoes are recycled at Cainiao Station, you can get 4 yuan in exchange. Then you can look for coupons and buy a new one for a maximum of 10 yuan.
After all this time, I have almost forgotten this skill and can only use it to the point where I can use it.
"It seems that the action point retrieval is my highest level."
Cheng Ye thought about it for a while, then secretly sighed why he was worrying about this.
In fact, there is no need to worry about the standards for action retrieval. In the future, complex actions will inevitably require supporting skills to execute, and the requirements for simple tasks will definitely not be too high.
Even if you really can't execute it, it won't take too much time to learn and apply it immediately.
After all, the wasteland is not the end of the world, and Happy City is not a city ruin with zombies everywhere.
Human civilization is still being passed down here. As an inspector, it may be difficult for him to obtain high-tech information, but it is relatively easy to obtain the widely circulated common sense.
in addition.
Cheng Ye reached out, opened the table pocket, and stuffed his backpack in.
Although the collector can conceal the biological perception while in action, the finished product cannot remain concealed.
I have to pay attention to this in the future and try to use actions when no one is around.
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I couldn’t go anywhere in the quarantine area, and more than four hours in the morning passed in a flash.
As the saying goes, a sudden rain doesn't last long, but a light rain will linger for a long time.
Last night's rainstorm came too suddenly and turned into light rain in the morning. Now it is clearing up directly.
The temperature is rising rapidly and the sun is making people dizzy.
At first, Cheng Ye was a little worried that he might be infected and difficult to deal with, so he looked intently at the passage the whole time, and stood up from time to time to move his body and keep warm.
But throughout the whole morning, at least a hundred people were released into the quarantine area B next door, but there was no sign of anyone from area A on his side.
"Could it be that last night's heavy rain caused the road outside to collapse?"
"Not really. Who could drive out without expecting it to rain?"
Cheng Ye was very surprised.
It would be a good thing for him if he could get through the first day peacefully.
But Murphy's Law is so magical.
As luck would have it, just as this thought came to mind, the shadow of a moving vehicle finally appeared in the distance.
Here we come!
Cheng Ye's spirits perked up, and he subconsciously opened the collector panel and glanced at the upper right corner.
In nearly five hours, the charging value has recovered from 0% to 18%, which is a gratifying efficiency.
If I charge at this rate until I get off work, I'll have enough power for another search tomorrow.
Moreover, he was worried about the search failing before, but now, if it fails, he can get action points, so he won’t lose anything.
The vehicle gradually approached, and as expected, it was the most common large Jinbei in the buffer zone.
Cheng Ye noticed that when the car drove onto the hard road and passed through Channel No. 1, the two front tires were pressed abnormally flat, and it was obvious that the car was carrying a lot of cargo.
"Stop and wait for instructions!"
Cheng Ye stood up suddenly, took out a loudspeaker from the table frame, and shouted at the approaching big Jinbei.
Although this was his first time working at a rapid checkpoint, he spent the entire morning observing the procedures in Area B next door and had a general understanding of the ins and outs.
It’s probably a routine:
First divert, then check, talk to each other, and verify the results.
The Western inspectors in Area B seemed particularly reluctant to use instruments. Scavengers who could not give him satisfactory answers would often be labeled as "infected persons" and stuffed into isolation chambers, and the minimum stay would be seven days.
Regardless of whether this approach is right or wrong, at least the efficiency is very low.
As a typical academic, Cheng Ye has figured out his own methodology in the past two months. Combined with the tricks taught by Luo Xiaoxue, he is confident that he is no worse than the fool next door.
The big golden cup drove through the passage and slowly stopped in front of the isolation iron gate.
The Western driver was stunned when he found that there was an Eastern prosecutor sitting inside.
"Get off the bus and report your number. Don't you understand?"
Cheng Ye shouted, and the people in the car woke up as if from their dream. They quickly opened the door and got out.
There are four people in total.
There were two people sitting in the front row and two in the trunk, all of them were Westerners.
"Do you have the documents for leaving the city? Pass them to me through the window."
“Yes, yes!”
The Western driver nodded quickly, turned around and took out an envelope from the storage compartment next to the seat.
"Please check it out, sir."
There is a palm-sized window on the outer isolation iron door, which is specially used for the inspected person to deliver documents.
Cheng Ye took it, returned to the alloy table and opened it for inspection.
Unexpectedly, when he opened it, six coins fell out. The front of the coins was engraved with the giant wall pattern of Happy City, and the back was engraved with the number '100'.
600?
Not over it?
You want to destroy the economic system of Happy City, right?
Cheng Ye was stunned for a moment. Although prosecutors had many ways to make money, it was not difficult for them to earn a thousand Happiness Coins a month.
But the official monthly salary is really not that much. He, a trainee prosecutor, gets 500 coins, and a senior fourth-term prosecutor like Liu Bi only gets 950.
Now anyone can come and pay a bribe of 600 happiness coins. Isn’t this nonsense?
Sweeping the coin aside, Cheng Ye raised his head slightly and looked at the four people standing outside the isolation door.
This one look immediately made him see something.
The driver and the co-pilot were fine, but the two people who got out of the trunk of the big Jinbei were probably injured.
The person on the left injured his arm and was bending it unconsciously, while the person on the right injured his leg and had to hold on to the tailgate to stand steadily.
"No wonder you want to send such an expensive gift."
"If this injury happened in Area B next door, I'm afraid they wouldn't even ask any questions and would just throw him into the quarantine cell for ten days or half a month. When the quarantine period is over, the one with the arm injury might be able to hold on, but the one with the leg injury is unlikely to make it."
Cheng Ye immediately understood.
As Raven had said before, this type of four-seater gold cup usually doesn't offer much bribes, and is mainly made up of local specialties from surrounding settlements and sanctuary cities. It is rare, but its value is generally around 50 happiness coins.
After all, you have already paid part of the "toll" at the checkpoint before leaving the city.
Only large transport convoys would give a bribe of one or two hundred coins when entering the city for inspection, just to ensure safety.
"Six hundred coins for a life, that's a lot of money..."
Cheng Ye opened the city exit slip and looked through it.
There was nothing special recorded on it. It was just a normal transaction approval. The goods were nothing more than tools such as wrenches, screwdrivers, hammers, as well as small industrial products such as radios, tapes, and wires, all within the scope of Xingfu City's export permit.
No...these people came back with a full car.
Suddenly remembering that the tire of the Jinbei was flat when it entered the station, Cheng Ye immediately realized that the problem was with the cargo.
"Who's the leader?"
"Sir, it's me!" The driver raised his hand.
"name?"
"Cole Waters."
"I'll open the isolation gate. You drive your car in alone. I'll inspect the goods. Everyone else waits outside. Do you understand?"
Cheng Ye spoke in a decisive tone.
Cole's heart skipped a beat. He didn't expect that this Eastern inspector guessed that there was something wrong with the goods without asking any questions.
But at the same time, he realized that Cheng Ye did not directly refuse, which meant that there was more to discuss.
The isolation door slowly opened upwards.
The isolation gate of quarantine area A is much wider than that of area B, and is more than enough to accommodate the large golden cup.
When the trunk support was removed, the man with the injured leg immediately staggered and looked strange, and fell to the ground without waiting for his teammates to support him.
Cole caught a glimpse of this scene in the rearview mirror, his face changed slightly, but he could only slowly drive the car into the inspection area, turn off the engine and get out obediently.
In front of Cheng Ye, he took off his shirt and pants without saying a word, and stood in the box inspection area with only his underwear.
This is standard procedure at rapid checkpoints, intended to demonstrate that there are no obvious symptoms of infection or hidden weapons.
"Count first."
Cheng Ye took a quick look. Although Cole had several scabbed abrasions all over his body and his calves were swollen, these were not infected injuries.
Only scratches, bites, and puncture wounds larger than 10*10cm meet the characteristics of an attack by an infected body.
"37.1 (body temperature) / 66 (heart rate) / 18 (respiratory rate)."
"Do you look relaxed?"
Cheng Ye forced a smile, which frightened Ke so much that he shuddered and quickly replied:
"Sir, I've always had a big heart since I was a child. Even when I was fighting against infected bodies, my heart rate never went above 130."
"You think I mean this?"
Cheng Ye reached out and knocked on the table, causing the five coins to tremble on the alloy table.
"I'll give you three chances to say something I want to hear."
"Yes...yes, sir!"
Cole's throat rolled. Even though he was facing a young man who was more than ten years younger than him, he felt under great pressure.
It's not just because of the power in the other party's hands, but also because of the unquestionable confidence and dominance in the other party's eyes.
"After we delivered the goods to the Bluestone gathering place, we met a wandering scavenger on our way back. He wanted to exchange a piece of information for two weeks' worth of food, and I agreed."
"The message is about an undeveloped mineral location."
"We found the mine, but we didn't expect the scavengers had already set a trap. Luckily, we won and dug up a lot of samples."
Cole spoke very quickly, fearing that his every sentence would not be refined enough and would be interrupted by Cheng Ye.
"mineral?"
Cheng Ye raised his eyebrows slightly, "Is it extraordinary mineral material?"
"You're joking, sir. How could we possibly dig up such a scarce commodity? It's a small lithium deposit in the form of pegmatite."
"What, lithium mine?!"
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