Wasteland Border Inspector - Chapter 757

Chapter 757: Chapter 252: Dabo Research Institute, Ghost Shadow Spider!

Crunch.

The heavy alloy box on the ground slowly opened, and the contents inside surprised Cheng Ye.

Transit fleece?

Beneath the fleece lay a set of uniquely styled alloy equipment, hard and heavy in texture.

“This clothing truly surprised me. No Inspector has ever used materials from the Infection Source to make protective equipment against it like you.”

Yu Erlan bent down, gently pinching the sleeve of the fleece with her fingertips. “I’m very curious, how did you make it?”

“Oh? Even the institute couldn’t decipher it?”

Cheng Ye raised his eyebrows and proceeded to explain, “Its initial purpose was to deceive the Demon Eye Sponge’s perception, but from my subsequent analysis, this fleece should also be able to isolate part of the Infection Source’s contamination.”

“Yes, our research shows that even the contamination naturally emitted by the Anti-state Extraordinary Mother Source can be partially neutralized by it. It is indeed a highly valuable piece of protective equipment.”

Yu Erlan nodded and straightened up, adding, “We have already analyzed its basic elemental composition. However, since this equipment was produced during your mission, the institute has paid the analysis fee to the checkpoint according to regulations.”

“Oh? How much?” Cheng Ye paused for a moment and instinctively asked.

“Considering its potential for mass production, the current evaluated price is…thirty thousand points.”

Damn!

This transit fleece is worth…a three-lane highway connecting directly from Wenlu County’s logistic hub to Dapo Town?

However, he reacted quickly, immediately restraining his surprise, and got straight to the point: “You want its manufacturing technology?”

Yu Erlan showed a rare interest on her face, “Oh? So Inspector Cheng really understands research?”

“Of course, I humbly admit I have some unique insights into Infection Source research. Frankly speaking, the checkpoint is already preparing to set up an internal institute, but I also want to build a well-equipped Infection Source Research Institute in Dapo Town.”

Setting aside those intricate Extraordinary theories, as soon as it came to a legitimate technology trade, Cheng Ye instantly became proficient.

The week when Tan Ming faced off with the Immortal Objects, he wasn’t idle; he already thoroughly understood the principles behind the transit fleece’s manufacture.

If there were any unexplained key aspects, he wouldn’t easily hand over this equipment.

In fact, the logic behind the fleece’s creation wasn’t too complicated; the core was affixing and fixing the Demon Eye Sponge’s fleece patterns onto the clothing.

Two key technologies are involved:

First is how to stably fix the fleece on the fabric and achieve the special effect of “touch to wear.”

Second is how to efficiently collect fleece patterns as the fundamental material for mass production.

The latter is actually quite simple, as long as artificial breeding of the Demon Eye Sponge can be achieved, the fleece can be harvested continuously, which is far simpler than humans forcibly dissecting the fleece’s underlying principles and then conducting artificial configuration.

The former, the “touch-to-wear” technology has already been verified with the Obsidian Battle Armor, including the battle armor he’s wearing now, which is also in the self-covering form, so the focus left is just fixing the fleece.

Currently, the ‘transit fleece patterns’ still have 200% trait value that can be analyzed, analysis should not be difficult.

Before coming out, he had prepared a plan: if the institute inquired about technology, he would seize the opportunity to establish a cooperation line; if not, he would attempt to continue researching the finished product to attract the institute’s attention.

Unexpectedly, things went so smoothly, completely heading in the direction he anticipated.

Cheng Ye skillfully sidestepped detailed technical inquiries, while dressing in the alloy battle armor under the guidance of research personnel, he jovially suggested, “If Director Yu is willing to provide some manpower and resources to assist in building a research institute in Dapo Town, I can gift the transit fleece manufacturing technology to the institute for free, and the subsequent research outcomes from both parties can be shared mutually.”

“Oh?” Yu Erlan raised her eyebrows, “Do you know how much a research institute costs?”

“That, I’m not quite sure,” Cheng Ye replied honestly.

“Let me tell you, the construction cost for the first-phase research institute at your checkpoint was a staggering fifty-five thousand contribution points.”

Yu Erlan’s lips twitched slightly, “Moreover, the first phase can only be equipped with basic research instruments, the entire construction period is divided into five phases, with a total cost of five hundred seventy thousand contribution points.”

Steal, steal less?

Five hundred seventy thousand?

Are you robbing here?

Lei Hu said before that a Fifth-phase Inspector going on field missions earns at most several thousand to ten thousand contribution points.

At this rate, even if the sixty High-phase Inspectors at the checkpoint worked tirelessly for seven to eight years, they couldn’t plug this astronomical gap.

Cheng Ye did a quick calculation and immediately realized, “These instruments wouldn’t be imported goods purchased from other Shelter Cities, would they?”

“Indeed, instruments are fundamental to research; without qualified basic equipment, everything is just talk.”

Money!

Or rather, resources!

This is an unavoidable realistic problem; even someone as formidable as Yu Erlan, a master of Extraordinary, is constrained by it.

Happiness City’s foundation might allow for not having a problem pulling out this amount.

After all, he spent a whopping thirteen thousand contribution points during one hospital stay; but for the resource-limited checkpoint, this figure is undeniably astronomical, utterly impossible to bear.

“The checkpoint’s research institute isn’t a necessary expense, so it won’t receive special funding from above, but correspondingly, any research results you produce can be sold to Happiness City at market value and receive extra special rewards.”

“If Inspector Cheng wants to establish a research institute in Dapo Town, doable. I can personally donate some ‘obsolete’ instruments for startup use and even arrange a few researchers to help settle in, but the premise is, what can you bring to the table?”