National Juggernaut

Chapter 84 Research Groups

Organize a mid-range hunt just for the psionic materials you need?

After a little calculation, the direct and indirect expenses exceeded 40 yuan. Zheng Li and the newly born Peace Corps were not so generous.

You must know that the reason for the disbandment and collapse of most rookie battle groups is that they did not get enough benefits in the first few activities.

Disharmony in relationships, uneven distribution of spoils, and inappropriate ability matching are all results rather than causes.

As long as they make money at the beginning, even if there is not enough immediate positive feedback (bonuses, spoils), members will be full of expectations for the future and be able to endure temporary injustice.

But if the first task is to be in debt and fail, not to mention that the head of the responsible person will suffer from confidence and pressure, and the members will more or less have other ideas. With ideas, there will be actions and gossip. , Two more failures, the team is not easy to lead when people lose their hearts, and it is not far from complete disbandment.

"The employer is a big shot? Who? From the inner circle?"

Zheng Li noticed that Wu Sanjun was even more concerned about the development of this new battle group than himself, and he was indeed a veteran, so he paid attention to the key points.

"The senior researchers in the R&D department seem to be collecting some materials. They have sufficient funds but lack stable combat power support. They are the group that likes to hire combat power the most. I heard that they are quite generous."

Running a journey alone will definitely lose money, but if you complete one or two other people's task entrustments during your own journey, you will probably earn something.

"Dragon Horn Department? Yes, if it's theirs, it's okay to earn less."

Even the armed forces who are most concerned about the financial situation, when they heard that it was the commission from the Psionic Research and Development Department, they felt that they could earn less, and it would be best if they could make some connections.

The Psionic Research and Development Department, together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Ministry of Communications, and the Military Department, is the first-level four ministries and commissions, and it is also the place where most of the psionic products are produced.

You must know that the three ministries and commissions all have armies and legions directly under them, as well as external military bases. The fact that scholars and academic organizations can stand alongside them is enough to prove their lofty status in Shiqian City.

They are not only top research institutions themselves, but also have inextricable relationships with many large companies and academic groups. They have exclusive sales channels for many new technologies, new products, and military supplies, which is what the independent war group desires most. friendship object.

As long as you are a junior researcher, you can live in the safest area without tax burden. You don't need to go out of the city to have various resources. While enjoying the rights, you also have to bear the responsibility.

It is said that its internal competition is quite terrifying, and it failed to produce results in two quarters. Well, at least for now, people in the Peace Corps are still looking forward to seeing their employers. These people are usually quite rare.

At that time, Zheng Li was a little surprised when he saw the content of the task entrustment. After all, the senior researcher is already a high-level executive in the R&D department, and often has stable partners and cooperative companies, so the possibility of entrusting it outside is not high.

It's just that when those researchers walked in, Zheng Li and his party were astonished and instantly understood the situation.

"Digitals and snake-haired people? It's amazing to be a senior researcher."

What came in was a research team composed of three researchers, but also three races. Uh, it seems a bit politically incorrect, it should be two branches of humans, uh, it still seems wrong, anyway, it is three "humans".

The leader was a vigorous silver-haired old man, with the golden dragon emblem of a senior researcher on his chest, obviously the leader of the group.

But what is more eye-catching is the light-colored number string of "323424235177721" on his forehead, the same number on the back of his right hand, and a new era stripe code pattern on the back of his left hand.

Digital people, digital city. The special product of Ningping City, there is no difference in physiological structure from ordinary purebred humans, but the difference is obvious as long as they open their mouths.

"Hi, I'm Ke Jialiang, a senior researcher in the R&D Department. Thank you for accepting my personal entrustment. I checked your data. According to your past resumes, the probability of completing my B-level entrustment is more than 90%. My personal expectation , this development can be in line with the data, and finally a better result can be obtained.”

After pausing for a moment, making sure that Zheng Li had no doubts and no response, he continued.

"I will increase the entrustment fee according to the completion situation, and the floating bonus will be between 15% and 25%. But if the final task fails due to your fault, I will also file a complaint with the city government and lower your credit rating."

This mouth, mechanical speech and calm expression, both good and bad, the standard "Digital City Robot", 100% business-like, made the audience panic.

Ningping City can be regarded as the first city among the six surrounding cities. The first city in terms of time sequence, they are the only cities that do not have god-level strategic weapons, and they still use psionic technology and strategic weapons from the old era.

In order to gain a firm foothold in this dangerous place, they adopted a very controversial approach at the time. They managed and trained humans with complete data, maximizing human resources.

Including but not limited to human qualification evaluation (don’t waste resources if it’s too bad), awareness knowledge instillation (direct connection in the back of the head), job designation (warrior, researcher), life arrangement package (including but not limited to designated spouse’s offspring breeding ), mass-produced a large number of "Digital City Robots".

Due to immature consciousness and knowledge instillation technology, "digital people" generally behave in a standard and mechanical manner, speak and act in a rigid manner, and interacting with normal people is very uncomfortable.

"Ha, you actually hate Digital City and Digital People? You're racist! You're done!"

"Uh, you're treating digital people as other races, and you're calling me racist?!"

Classic jokes never go out of style. Even if people from Liucheng in Central China meet, they can start the topic with "I hate digital people and digital cities".

The person on the other side will probably say, "What a coincidence, I hate them too. Does anyone in Zhongliu City hate them? Well, they hate themselves! Why are there so many immigrants?"

Of course, with the improvement of the general situation, most of the systems have now been cancelled, and the atmosphere in the digital city has become much more normal.

In the current situation, the number on the forehead of a newborn is more of a custom than an "instruction number to do something in a certain place at a certain time." However, cultural customs have been passed down for hundreds of years, but they are not changed just by saying.

So far, many "digital people" still bear the brand of digital city, speak and act extremely "efficiently", and appear extremely alien and out of group on the outside.

On the other hand, many people don't remember the real name of Ningping City, and they always talk about a digital city and a digital person, which further distances the two sides.

Originally, when they heard that the final competition area of ​​the Juggernaut Competition was in the Digital City, many people gave up the idea of ​​watching the scene, but Zheng Li himself couldn't avoid it.

But he didn't expect to meet a "digital person" at this time. What does it mean to complain?If you don't trust me, don't hire me. Isn't this just finding someone to block you when you first meet?
"Hehe, that's not what Professor Ke meant. He's just used to imagining the situation. He trusts you very much. In his words, if there is no problem with the information, the success rate is quite high."

Uh, Zheng Li is getting a little bit tough, this information is really fake.

The one who came over to say hello with a smile was a middle-level researcher with the Silver Dragon Emblem. Although he was a middle-aged man with a scruffy beard, he seemed to be the most suitable for dealing with people in this research group.

the last one?A snake-haired woman is also a mid-level researcher, but she didn't look at people directly after she came in, and neither did others.

This race is a branch of aliens. It is true that they are human beings in name, but they are indeed a slave race paid by humans in history. The process seems to need no further development.

It may be that there are too many betrayals. The big city of the Eastern Continent is relatively friendly to foreigners who are willing to be naturalized and accept the culture and education of Eastern humans. The experience of this kind of native aliens is often much better than that of foreign aliens. The overall treatment is similar to that of Asians. Is it true? Including it as a demihuman is a traditional parliamentary slobbering issue.

Only the snake-haired tribe, who have received a full set of human cultural education, are always inexplicably expelled from the mainstream cultural circle.

reason?

".Uh uh uh uh, scary! Lots of teeth and eyes!"

The shivering rabbit undoubtedly explained everything.

Snake-haired people do not have hair in the conventional sense. Those who are closer to the dragon snake family often have scales, sharp claws, and tentacles with mouths on their heads, which makes people subconsciously feel uncomfortable.

They have such tentacles on their backs and feet, and they walk like a group of tentacles dragging them. It is said that they are snake-haired tribes, but they are actually closer to the octopus people of soft-bodied creatures.

Cabbage skin, generally over 1.9 meters in size, and eyes that are always closed, with at least a dozen tentacles intertwined, there is a strong sense of alienness all over the body. Clearly, Zheng Li also knows that the snake-haired people of this era , there is really no difference between it and ordinary humans.

The Yinhui researcher in front of him, even in the face of the rabbit's rudeness, only nodded slowly.

She was also used to it, especially since the other party was obviously a stranger, and seemed to be herbivorous, so it was considered polite if he didn't faint or turn around and run away.

A digital person, a snake-haired person, and a middle-aged decadent uncle, such a combination of researchers is extremely rare, if not excluded, it is probably marginalized.

"My name is Ma Xiaobao, and her Chinese name is She Xiangling. Teacher Ke is an expert in psychic botany. I am mainly responsible for the research of companion insects and biological systems. Ms. Snake is an authority in psychic alchemy and biopharmaceuticals. Our research goals It is the cultivation and function of a special companion plant”

It turned out that the destination of their party was also the small world numbered 134.

There, there is an area that was previously opened up as an experimental field. Professor Ke planted some rare spiritual creatures there, hired some local residents to help maintain it, and checked the results regularly.

Now, it's almost time for the harvest. The first batch of harvest can be studied for various uses including pharmaceuticals. There are several new drugs that may be used, and the results are expected.

But from recent letters, the research team learned that the place had become unsafe and needed a certain amount of armed force, so they posted the commission and hired the Peace Corps.

".It's just a B-level entrustment. We don't need you to take the initiative to fight, such as crusade against alien beasts. Just escort us wherever we go. Where there are our acquaintances, there should be no problem in the follow-up. If the cooperation is happy, follow-up entrust me Will contact you again."

Zheng Li nodded, he wasn't stupid enough to ask "Why don't you use the battle group under the R&D department", this is obviously a marginal project for marginal people.

At that time, I took this job because it was just a simple escort task, which was simple and easy to complete, so there was no need to delve into it.

The convoy will only take the main road, and what to do when it reaches a divergence point, a certain amount of guarding force is still needed.

There are a bunch of such escort missions every day, just looking at the mission description, there is nothing special about it.

"Why don't you just live here, there are more rooms, it should be more comfortable than your current room."

Zheng Li also expressed his friendliness by the way. He knew that the other party probably bought the ticket, and every bit of space in those cabins can be sold for money, and the treatment is not as good as the personal space inside Yinghuo.

The three looked at each other, no doubt moved, Professor Ke nodded, and the matter was settled.

There is a comfortable soft bed to sleep on, who wants to squeeze three layers of hard bedding and steamer compartments, the money of researchers is also money, and research funds will always be in short supply.

"Thank you, then we will be disrespectful. In return, I am an agricultural and botanist, Xiao Ma is a biologist, and Xiao Snake is a doctor of medicine and a master alchemist. During our stay, if you have time, you have If you have any needs or questions, you can ask us directly.”

At this time, Zheng Li liked the high efficiency of digital humans a little bit.

Not to mention, he really wanted to trouble the other party with something.

(End of this chapter)