Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 278 Help from All Sides
The next day, a small fortified ship sailed into Yalong Bay.

An armored warrior came down from the boat with a little monkey sitting on his shoulder.

The visitor claimed to be the manager of the Spring and Autumn Merchant Group, named Shang Fulin.

The Red Falcon led him all the way into the Emerald City.

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Zhou. Hello. It's my honor to come to this magical place and have the opportunity to cooperate with your company."

Shang Fulin speaks in a gentle and polite manner and is quite decent.

His entire body was wrapped in hard dark brown armor. He was about two meters tall, and he walked with heavy steps. Two metal boxes were fixed on his back.

From Zhou Yi's [Alert] perspective, he could see a faint white light under the armor layer.

"Are you an Enhancer or a Light Narrator?"

"I am a skeleton."

Shang Fulin explained: "I was seriously injured in the past, and my bones were shattered. Fortunately, I survived the operation. The doctor made this auxiliary exoskeleton according to my situation, and fixed my bones inside so that I can walk around."

Zhou Yi was surprised: "This doctor is really amazing."

"Yes, I appreciate that, too."

Shang Fulin pointed to the little monkey on his shoulder and said, "This is my partner and assistant. His name is Ye Zi. As you can see, he is a red-haired monster."

"Although this group of people are violent and aggressive by nature, they are actually not stupid. Ye Zi was adopted by me when he was a baby. He usually helps me do some heavy work and can also scare the thieves from the looting group."

The red-haired monster in the form of a little monkey stared at Zhou Yi blankly.

"Yezi, call for help."

Shang Fulin greeted him.

Then the little monkey jumped off its shoulder and danced a savage dance on the spot.

"Nice to meet you. I'm Assistant Ye Zi."

The pronunciation is through a signal transceiver it wears, I think it uses a translator.

Zhou Yi smiled and responded to the dancing monster: "Hello, nice to meet you."

"It looks like this assistant is very enthusiastic."

"Not really."

Shang Fulin said: "This guy is very smart and has high standards. When he sees someone he thinks is not good enough, he will pretend to be stupid and keep silent. But when he sees you, he tells you from a distance that you are a very powerful character, which gives him a strong sense of oppression."

"It dances to show its respect."

The red-haired monster had climbed back onto Shang Fulin's shoulder and was secretly looking at Zhou Yi.

Zhou Yi was stunned.

This monkey is quite picky about who you are dealing with.

"Mr. Zhou, let me first introduce the situation of our business group."

Shang Fulin said: "The Spring and Autumn Merchants Group is not large in scale, but it has many channels and suppliers, and mainly deals in various electromechanical city products. Including various equipment and facilities, electromechanical optical printing, electromechanical life maintenance and repair, machine stack erection services and other technical service support."

"For special VIP customers, we also supply imitation electromechanical optical printing. Of course, despite the name, the accuracy itself is very high, but these imitations cannot provide the warranty of the electromechanical city, and will be handled by our business group after-sales."

"However, the number of these imitations is not large. When there is stock, we will notify all VIP customers."

"Because of shareholder authorization, your company has become our VIP customer. Not only do you enjoy this service, we will also station a base in Emerald City. Ye Zi and I will be here for a long time and contact the business group to place orders according to your needs. In addition, we are also very interested in many of your company's products and hope to purchase them."

Zhou Yi understood it as soon as he heard it.

The so-called imitations are actually defective products that flow out of the mechanical and electrical city, but they are just said this to avoid accountability.

There is another very important point.

The company has now been disconnected from the Internet, and the mechanical and electrical staff's machine stack services are completely unusable. The controller's login pages for several cities are directly blocked from access.

Zhou Yi asked: "For the machine stack service, do you build it yourself, or do you transfer it to other cities?"

"You know what you are talking about."

Shang Fulin immediately said: "Our machine stack service accesses the database built by the Spring and Autumn Merchants Group. It will be updated regularly. The main data source is Recursive City, which is a legal mirror over there."

"The database contains all kinds of basic data of the five major centers, including Snow County, Holy Mountain, and Mirror City. All of them can be accessed and queried. It's just that the update will be a week later. Everything else is the same."

"The shareholders have authorized us to provide you with a free machine stack service port."

Zhou Yi felt relieved.

That's fine, all employees can connect to the network.

Recursive City has indeed invested a lot in the company.

Zhou Yi asked Hongshun, Da Vinci and other mechanical and electrical employees to connect to the Spring and Autumn Merchants Group's machine stack. For mechanical and electrical life, the impact of network outage is huge.

"We've heard about Wasteland Express for a long time."

Shang Fulin changed the subject: "On behalf of the business group, I hope to promote express delivery cooperation with your company. Although the business group has its own flying and electromechanical transportation, they are too few in number and the cost is high. Many customers think it is too expensive."

"We at Chunqiu Merchants have always been known for our low prices and affordability, so we have been trying to reduce this expense so that customers can accept the transportation costs."

Zhou Yi immediately asked Hong Shun to call Qian Su.

After the Iron-Headed Girl arrived, she began to discuss with Shang Fulin.

……

the other side.

Ye Zi transformed into a giant ape and began to build a house on the spot. It took some wooden boards from the transport ship and skillfully assembled them together to form a small shop.

The store mainly sells through pre-orders. There are many wooden signs hanging on the wall, with various mechanical and electrical urban products written on them.

Antifreeze oil, coolant, light blocker, refined amber, soot cable, lightning rod, thermometer, enhanced controller, enhanced vehicle... there are so many of them.

Shang Fulin, who is in charge here, has gradually become familiar to everyone.

Two days later, Qian Su also reported on the initial cooperation with the Chunqiu Merchants Group. "Chairman, their merchant group mainly delivers to confidential customers. The other party uses the pickup code to pick up the goods, and the delivered goods also need to be kept confidential. In fact, the delivery requirements are very high. Not only does it need to be delivered immediately, but it also needs to be delivered to the designated recipient."

“But we can do it.”

"In cities where express delivery is available, the delivery centers have hired people to deliver the last leg of the journey, and they just need to connect according to the code."

"Each order can be paid for 10 to 5 mushrooms, which is ten times lower than before. However, this is the highest price at the moment."

Qian Su did some calculations: "According to the current order volume, the Spring and Autumn Merchants Group will give us 10-20 orders every month, and we will deliver the goods to the corresponding cities. If the subsequent cooperation is good, the order volume will increase."

Zhou Yi told her to go ahead and do it with confidence.

A little later, Qin Xie from the Dead Sea Knights also contacted Zhou Yi.

"You've really made a big splash this time."

"At first I was skeptical that anything would change, that you could reach an agreement or something to lift the sanctions. Now it seems that you are determined to go for it?"

Zhou Yi said: "The company is only defending its legitimate rights. It is a red line that cannot be compromised by outside interference in its internal affairs."

“That’s true.”

Qin Xie sighed, "But sometimes, you have to bow your head under the eaves. You are the only one who would rather suffer a huge loss of light seeds than argue about right and wrong."

"If you need help, just ask."

"Ah."

Zhou Yi appreciated it in his heart.

……

One day later.

Zhou Yi received another message from United City.

"The Mechanical and Electrical City has imposed sanctions on the Wasteland Development Company. We have confirmed this news repeatedly."

"From an economic perspective, even you will be greatly affected."

Kunming Station said: "What is going on?"

Zhou Yi briefly explained the whole story.

After hearing this, the other side was silent for a while: "You mean... the "Time Anchor" you funded the Mechatronic Knights to make can repair the semi-civilized body? What is the success rate?"

“The current repair rate is over 95 percent.”

"No wonder you are against the mechatronic city. The semi-civilized beings are a group that they find difficult to control, but their number is very large. If they are repaired, they will become a new force that will change the entire mechatronic society..."

"In this world, the most important things are people and land."

The people at Kunming Station suddenly got excited: "In fact, we have a strong need here as well."

"You know, I'm a satellite ground station. In fact, I receive more than three satellites. There are two more satellites in United City. It's just that they fell into the Dead Sea and were attacked by the Star Hub in terms of program and data, causing them to become semi-enlightened. We have tried many ways, but none of them can be repaired."

"Can we send them to your place so that you can try using the time anchor?"

Zhou Yi said cheerfully: "No problem, send it over. But I can't guarantee it will work."

"Then I will arrange it immediately and send them to you by business jet."

Kunming Station sighed: "Your company is always ahead every time. If we didn't have to rely on a large amount of loans from the Mechanical and Electrical City, I would also like to follow your example and contact the Mechanical and Electrical Knights directly... Unfortunately, the actual situation does not allow it."

"In fact, we in the United City have always considered this aspect, and we will eventually have to take this path to gradually weaken and reduce the impact of the Mechanical and Electrical City on us. Otherwise, the United City will eventually be indirectly controlled by the Mechanical and Electrical City."

"The good news is that this time it seems that we can follow your company's lead and avoid many detours in the future."

Zhou Yi didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

He didn't want to be the first to get involved, but since the special commissioners from the Mechanical and Electrical City had come to enforce the law across the border, he had no choice but to confront them head-on.

Autonomy can never be given up.

"It is not easy for us to publicly support, but if the company lacks funds, we can provide assistance. If you need it, please feel free to ask. We are very happy to provide an interest-free loan." Kunming Station said.

Zhou Yi also said: "Okay. If I can't hold on any longer, I'll ask you, United City, for a loan."

"We don't have anything else, but we have plenty of seeds, so don't worry."

That night, a small plane landed on the coast of Yalong Bay, and two semi-open satellites were sent to Maria Hospital by the Program Department for examination and diagnosis.

Two more days passed.

A person who hadn't been seen for a long time came to the company's residence.

"Long time no see, Mr. Zhou."

The man in front of me stopped his blue and white sidecar motorcycle. He was wearing a tight black shirt inside and a sleeveless robe outside.

Zhou Yi shook hands with him warmly.

"Long time no see, Cui Mao, you haven't been here for nearly two years, right?"

"It is my duty to do so. I dare not leave my jurisdiction casually."

Cui Mao still looked calm and steady. He smiled and said, "Besides, there is really nothing to bother you. Mr. Zhou, you are busy here too. It is best not to disturb you."

"We all know about the sanctions imposed on the company by the Mechanical and Electrical City. I have obtained authorization from the headquarters. Jincheng, where the Tianjin Knights are located, hopes to purchase your light soot sand for a long time. The price cannot be too high, so it is still the standard price of 4 copper/5g."

"But we will take whatever you have, and the goods will be delivered by our transport ship."

Zhou Yi was very surprised: "Why would the Tianjin Knights..."

"You have helped us before and are our friend. The Ninth Squadron encountered danger in United City, but luckily you helped and saved the life of Captain Yao Yuan. The Tianjin Knights always repay a favor."

The other party laughed.

Although the company was suppressed and sanctioned by the city's mechanical and electrical city, many friends lent a helping hand in times of crisis.

Zhou Yi couldn't help but feel happy: "Okay, okay!"

(End of this chapter)