Wasteland Development Diary

Qian Su felt a little dazed.

The result was completely different from what she had imagined.

Her skills were all about bargaining and the knowledge and experience she had accumulated in the field of weaponry. She originally thought that as the company gradually expanded its industries, relying on her familiarity and active participation in various company activities, she would have a chance to become a weapons consultant.

So after the beginning of spring, she had been staying in Building 2 of Emerald City, not in a hurry to go out and sell goods.

She waited and waited, but there was no news.

Qian Su even began to wonder if Zhou Yi, this Celestial, had forgotten about her?

Or was he doing it on purpose, just enjoying dangling her like this?

It's hard to guess the hobbies of Celestials.

So Qian Su deliberately strolled around the neighborhood every day so that he could see her. She opened the carriage of her 'Mission' vehicle, pretending to be inspecting the goods inside.

When the temperature rose in summer, Zhou Yi finally noticed her.

Qian Su spent a lot of effort and finally repaired the high-speed machine gun on the scrapped war chariot.

Then he said, "You will be the head of the courier center."

The reason was also strange.

This black-haired, black-eyed Celestial said with a serious face: "Aren't you driving 'Mission' around to deliver goods? You must have accumulated a wealth of experience in this area. What we want to do now is this industry."

"Currently, there are ship transports and rail transports between cities, but there is no point-to-point cross-Dead Sea express delivery for individual users. We need to speed up the time and deliver goods to individual users in a timely manner."

Qian Su said softly, "Is the company not considering the weapons business at all..."

"Courier service here is more important."

Zhou Yi waved his hand: "Except for some specific large cities, orders in small and medium-sized cities are more dispersed, so mechanical and electrical cities prioritize satisfying large cities with more concentrated and numerous orders. But transportation units are limited, and the whole process becomes very long with back-and-forth trips."

"Now the company has reached an agreement with Recursive City. We will be responsible for undertaking some of their small-item deliveries, radiating the nine major cities within a 600-kilometer radius around us. Recursive City will make announcements to these cities to inform them of our official cooperation with Recursive City. The company's courier center, 'Wasteland Express,' will transport small items on behalf of Recursive City."

He added: "Our cooperation with Recursive City is based on a revenue-sharing agreement. For small-item delivery orders, each delivery fee is 50 Light Seeds. The company and Recursive City split it 20/80, resulting in a profit of 40 Light Seeds per order."

"30% of the courier revenue will be at the free disposal of your courier center, which is 12 Light Seeds per order for your free disposal, but you need to support the couriers yourself and pay your own expenses."

"Recursive City has issued 37 orders to us this month, which means you can earn 444 Light Seeds."

Zhou Yi looked directly at her: "Any questions?"

Qian Su originally had many questions.

But since it was so profitable, she felt there were no problems.

Then she drove to Zhanjiang Bay No. 1 and saw her courier subordinates.

Four very large Bone Fish.

They were surprisingly obedient. After being raised from fry to their current size on the breeding platform and trained, they passed the Recursive City's assessment and were recognized as workable Photon-Na species individuals.

Agricultural consultant Zheng Tao introduced them to her one by one.

"This is 'Strongman,' the most comprehensive and with the best endurance."

"The largest one is 'Hercules,' which can swallow the most goods at once for transport."

"'Quickfoot' is the fastest, reaching 60 kilometers per hour, but cannot maintain this speed for long."

"Finally, there's 'Bigmouth,' which has the largest mouth opening and can handle some non-disassembled and relatively large items."

Zheng Tao said: "These are the first batch of Bone Fish couriers. They are very obedient, but they need to be fed enough chicken bones and shells to keep them motivated. Running around everywhere is also hard work."

Qian Su remembered them one by one.

She tried to touch these domesticated Bone Fish and found them very gentle, just lazily lying on the platform deck sunbathing.

"Uncle Zheng, how do I give them instructions and make them recognize me?"

"That's simple."

Zheng Tao taught her with a smile: "Feed them. As long as you feed them and stay with them, they will recognize you."

"Actually, this is more like a group recognition. Bone Fish are not very intelligent. They just know that you give them food, don't harm them, and show them kindness, so you can be trusted. Mainly, after they were born, they saw humans feeding them, so they are very close to humans."

Qian Su suddenly understood.

No wonder they were completely different from wild Bone Fish, without that alert wildness.

"There's also a technical secret here."

Zheng Tao grabbed a wooden bucket next to him and said in a low voice: "That's our special fish feed. It contains chicken bones, shells, scarab carapace fragments, and most importantly, Sage Mushrooms."

"Among them, scarab carapace fragments are a method that Sun Chonglai and I tried. Those fragments cannot be used to make armor and shields, but Bone Fish like them very much. Strongman ate this, and then there was a clear improvement in bone strength. So it is the youngest, but the most comprehensive inside."

"Sage Mushrooms can reduce their wildness and impatience, can better remember and master training content, and are easier to get along with people."

Qian Su began to gradually get started with the work.

She first tied a locator to each of the four couriers and connected it to 'Mission,' so that she could see their movements at any time through the partner.

The first order was to Steel Refining City, which was the closest.

The list provided by Red Falcon showed that Steel Refining City had ordered a batch of Light Imprints from Recursive City.

This batch of Light Imprints included 'E-1 Grade High Temperature,' 'E-1 Grade Propulsion,' and 'E-1 Grade Shock Absorption,' totaling 52, divided into two orders.

The orderers were the Steel Refining Duke and the local Craftsman Guild.

Mechanical and electrical Light Imprints have high precision and stability, so many human cities manufacturing Light Imprint devices still use mechanical and electrical Light Imprints for their core parts, rather than Craftsman Light Imprints.

Mechanical and electrical Light Imprints are sealed in tin boxes, containing processed circles of copper wire light ridges, and block-shaped solidified light walls, with simple installation diagrams attached. As long as the light wall is heated and shaped according to the diagram, and then the light ridge is fixed on it, the operation and installation are very simple.

So whether craftsmen or warlocks, they prefer this kind of high-end goods.

Qian Su understood at a glance that these three types of Light Imprints should all be used for smelting steel. If you blindly save costs in mining and iron smelting, it will not only cause a large number of worker casualties, but also lead to a decline in the quality of steel, which cannot be sold at a good price in the market.

She arranged for Strongman to do the delivery.

It took 11 hours and 27 minutes, and Strongman returned safely.

Recursive City had notified the customers, asking them to wait in advance at the port outside Steel Refining City. If no one came to pick them up at that time, the customers would bear all the consequences themselves. Neither the Steel Refining Duke nor the Craftsman Guild were people that ordinary people could afford to offend, so no one dared to impersonate them. Both customers signed for the goods.

To further confirm the identity of the consignee, Qian Su could think of a way to recruit people locally to specifically do the confirmation and signing.

The second target was Shell City.

The goods were also successfully delivered.

Next were several cities in the south and west.

Qian Su couldn't handle it alone, so she asked Zheng Tao to bring Zheng San over.

Now that Uncle Zheng had fully recovered, he no longer needed such a servant to follow him at all times.

Zheng Tao was very happy: "It's his luck and blessing that you think highly of him. Zheng San, you must follow Miss Qian Su to work hard, watch carefully, learn carefully, remember?"

"I remember, Master."

Zheng San said to Qian Su: "Miss, I will do whatever you say."

"Don't call me Miss, call me Director at work."

"Yes, Director."

Zheng San's efficiency and effort exceeded Qian Su's expectations.

He fed the couriers, checked their bodies, and was literate, able to read orders and lists, and even able to independently complete the daily paper work records.

With Zheng San taking care of daily affairs, Qian Su mainly looked at the radar tracking map of the partner 'Mission' to confirm whether the four couriers encountered any difficulties on the road.

Soon she found Zhou Yi and applied for an office location for the courier center next to the breeding platform.

Emerald City used room bodies to build a circle of surrounding houses here. Most of the rooms were warehouses, piled with goods transported back from Recursive City, which were about to be sent to various places.

Two days later.

Qian Su hired another person to specifically manage the warehouse, after all, every item from Recursive City was not cheap and could not be lost.

This person was called Awei, who worked as a worker on the dam. His Photon-Soot collection volume had always been among the best, indicating that he was efficient and motivated to make money.

At first, Awei was unwilling: "Anyone can guard the warehouse. I get paid for how much I do, and there are extra rewards."

"A guaranteed monthly salary of 12,000, with extra monthly bonuses."

The other party immediately showed a smile: "Director, you really have a good eye! I'm just suitable for guarding the warehouse!"

Only half a month after the courier center opened, Recursive City sent another 30 orders.

Excluding the local Sandport City, the nearby Steel Refining City and Shell City, the other cities were all about 500 kilometers away, and it took the couriers a whole day to run back and forth.

Bone Fish also need enough time to rest after work, otherwise they will be very tired and difficult to sustain.

Qian Su fell into a predicament she had never experienced before.

Too many orders.

She couldn't even earn money fast enough.

Under her constant urging, Zheng Tao sent two new courier Bone Fish, barely making up for the gap.

This was an extremely busy month.

The entire courier center worked overtime to barely deliver a total of 67 orders.

Zhou Yi also gave Qian Su a Photon-Na box on time, containing 804 Light Seeds of the split.

This month earned more than Qian Su had earned in the past three years, making her feel as if all her exhaustion had been swept away.

Zhou Yi found her again and made her a bowl of instant noodles.

"Recursive City is very satisfied with Wasteland Express and hopes to open a fixed express channel from 'Recursive City - Courier Center - Coral Mouth.'"

"Coral Mouth has a large number of small items and a large delivery demand. After Recursive City and Coral Mouth are connected into a Dead Sea express channel, our Wasteland Express will be equivalent to monopolizing the small item delivery here."

The other party slowly ate the noodles: "The Sea God can take the couriers to run two trips first to confirm the location and mark the route... but the order volume is a bit large, and I can't say the exact number."

"Can the courier center handle it?"

Qian Su took a hard sip of the noodles: "We can handle it!"

A fool wouldn't make money when it's available!

Coral Mouth is a large trading hub port in the south and a mechanical and electrical city of considerable size. If we can take the small item delivery there, the courier center can directly enter the fast lane and take off directly.

Qian Su was now completely red-eyed.

She turned around and invited Bone Man Jacob to join, so that it could be specifically responsible for the training and development of couriers, and to understand the condition of the Bone Fish at any time to ensure their health.

Then she scouted several company employees, poached them to work at the courier center, and streamlined the entire workflow.

Finally, Qian Su boarded the Sea God and took the couriers to Coral Mouth to do the docking work there.

Before, she had been living every day doing nothing.

But now suddenly began to accelerate madly.

Businessmen know that a person's opportunities sometimes only come once or twice.

Qian Su had only one idea.

Taking advantage of this rare opportunity, she wanted to earn enough money to retire!