Chapter 29 Open Sources and Reduce Expenditure
The desert oasis created out of thin air is only two football fields, which is already the limit that Damian hired to achieve with the cooperation of extraordinary people. After all, only the Poison Ivy and Mr. Frozen can be used for fun. Harley Quinn is purely for fun, and Death Knell can only be a security captain.
The earth and stone girl Terra is even more bizarre. She can control large pieces of rocks and fine dust, but she is powerless to do anything to the sand with the size of particles. Damian originally expected that she could rise up the high building on the ground like a bald man in the desert who could rub a pyramid in the desert, but she was disappointed.
In addition, the desert center is limited by energy, and Mr. Jiyi's temperature controller cannot operate at full power. The air conditioner coverage area of the manufactured air conditioner is only one kilometer, and the efficiency of condensing free water in the air is very low.
Some people may ask, how can there be water vapor in the desert condense into small lakes?
This is because of the misunderstanding that the desert transpiration rate is high, but it does not mean that there is no moisture in the air. The Atacama Desert in northern Chile, the earth's dry extreme South America, has an average annual precipitation of only 0.1 mm, and it can be achieved by using a "fog-catching net" to achieve condensation and water storage.
The average annual precipitation in the Sahara Desert is 50 mm, which is 500 times that of the dry pole, and the efficiency of condensation and water storage is higher.
Limited energy has enabled Damian's environmental protection team to experimentally build an ecosystem covering the area of two football fields. If you want to completely change the desert ecology on a large scale, you can only wait until you plant the seeds of sacred trees and cultivate towering sacred trees.
However, before planting the sacred tree, some preliminary preparations are required. Instead of throwing the tree species into the sand, the sacred tree seedlings can survive. At least a large ecosystem covering an area of dozens of kilometers is needed to maintain the nutrition required for the early growth of the sacred tree.
Now the tree planting brigade of the Konoha Foundation is stuck at the bottleneck. Due to energy limitations, it is impossible to reduce the temperature and condense water on a large scale. Without enough water source, poison ivy women cannot spawn large quantities of plants. They can only build a small oasis ecosystem first to slightly improve the desert living conditions of the high-rise foundation.
The energy technology of the d Universe is far inferior to that of the Marvel Universe. If it were the Marvel Universe, a set of Ark reactors would completely solve the energy bottleneck. If you don’t invest in Dr. Octopus’ fusion reactor, you can also obtain a continuous supply of energy. However, there are no new elements in the d Universe, and even palladium cannot be used to make small nuclear fuel reactors to generate electricity. Nuclear energy has been resisted by various environmental protections, and it is believed that it is not a clean energy.
Damian can understand this strange mentality. After all, this magical world is not peaceful. Super criminals often cause trouble and destroy things everywhere. Fighting with superheroes can even break the sky and the earth. No matter how high the safety factor of a nuclear power plant is, no matter how rigorous and serious the engineers are, they cannot withstand the terrible nuclear leakage directly being smashed and blasted.
Damian stole Wayne Group's new energy technology information from the Bat Cave supercomputer. Unfortunately, these new energy technologies are all about "wind energy" and "solar energy". They are not enthusiastic about the development and utilization of nuclear energy. The application level of nuclear power technology does not reach the level of black technology, and the utilization rate of nuclear energy is not high.
Moreover, major superhero teams around the world are very focused on nuclear fuel, fearing that super villains like the clown will steal to create nuclear bombs and dirty bombs. Even if Damian has money to buy in the black market, he is worried that Superman will notice it and spend a second or two to fly to investigate.
The progress of tree planting is not going well, so Damian can only put aside this work before solving the energy bottleneck, and instead do everything in infrastructure to build a giant secret base in the center of the desert to serve as a nest for himself.
Just like what Terra is now engaged in the construction of a desert airport. In Niger, where there is no road to falling, if you want to transport supplies to the center of the desert, you can only rely on air transport.
The previous few supplies were all delivered by helicopters, and the efficiency was too low. Damian decided to build a desert airport and switch to a large transport plane to transfusion blood to the oasis base to support subsequent engineering construction.
Although Damian stole a large sum of money from his grandfather and his mother when he left the Assassin Alliance, which totaled more than 30 billion US dollars, most of them were fixed assets and shares, and the working capital was not much. During this period, he invested one after another and paid more than 1 billion US dollars in the Niger government. The working capital had fallen into the warning line. If he continued to spend money so much, sooner or later, the capital chain would break, and he might have to go bankrupt.
Therefore, Damian seemed to be leisurely sunbathing and vacationing, but in fact, in addition to worrying that the business of planting trees was stuck at the bottleneck and progressed slowly, he was also thinking about how to make money to maintain his life.
The original money-making business of Assassin League generally has two major items.
The first item is to kill people. As long as you give enough money, no matter whether it is a politician or a celebrity, even a superhero, the Assassin League will kill you.
The second item is to sell the pool water from the Pond of Sarah to prolong life for some dying rich people, which is even higher than the income from assassination.
Now that Damian has left the Assassin Alliance and wants to establish a new organization to whitewash the bad reputation, he will naturally not continue to engage in murderous transactions. The Pond of Sarah cannot be taken away from the cliff camp, and the deal of prolonging life cannot continue.
Losing two major sources of income, the new organization he split out fell into an embarrassing situation where he only went out but didn't go in and was in a crazy deficit every day.
Basic daily necessities have to be transported by air transport aircraft. It is conceivable how expensive it is to maintain this desert oasis base. At this speed, Damian did some calculations, but he was afraid that before the sacred tree could reach the end, he would sell his assets to fill this bottomless pit.
The most urgent task is to open up new sources of funds to ensure the expenses to maintain the growth period of the sacred tree and build the oasis base.
After thinking for a long time, Damian still had no idea. Then he sent someone to call the death knell, who was responsible for the vigilance of the Oasis, and asked him for advice.
"...Above, your path is relatively broad. Are there any good deals that can be introduced to me?"
Death Knives blurted out: "Of course there is! I mentioned to you last time that there is a sect called the Blood God Cult who is willing to spend 100 million US dollars to hire the best mercenaries to help them capture a superhero team. With the strength of our team, there is no need to send spies to separate and differentiate. If you defeat them, you can easily defeat the team composed of the little brat even if you attack in a head."
"You are really keen on bullying children, and you still miss it. Do you have any deep hatred with that teenager team?"
Damian waved his hand impatiently and said, "Didn't I say that there is no need to arouse the hostility of superheroes for just money. That Blood God Sect doesn't sound like a serious sect. We are mixed with this evil force. If we don't complete the task, we will be criticized after we finish it. Whatever you think, you must take their broken mission. It's simply Shi Lezhi!"
Death Knell shrugged and said, "Working money is the way for our mercenaries to survive. If the Blood God Cult is willing to pay, I will take on the task. Who makes decent superheroes like to roll up their sleeves to do dirty and tiring work by themselves? Even if they are particularly rich, they will not hire me?"
"etc!"
The black-haired boy seemed to have received a prompt and slapped his hands and said, "Yes, you are a mercenary. I am not a mercenary. I don't need to hire me. I can do whatever I want. Since the Blood God Sect has invested a huge amount of money to hire you to capture superheroes, it means that their combat effectiveness is not good. We simply want to kill the weak sect that can afford 100 million US dollars. Wouldn't their money be mine? To destroy the evil sect is a just move. Making some money by the way is equivalent to accumulating justice funds. It won't offend superheroes, and kill two birds with one stone!"
Death knell was stunned and shook his head and said, "This violates the professional ethics of mercenaries. We cannot attack our employer!"
"You have such a little success!" The black-haired boy curled his lips contemptuously: "You are old and can be a mercenary for the rest of your life. You are not ashamed but proud! Follow me and study hard. It is enough for you to learn a little bit of fur for your whole life! Okay, if you don't want to do it, just go a little longer, and I can handle this job myself!
Kill dozens of ordinary people and you can get back hundreds of millions of dollars in one or two days. However, you are a spy and a behind-the-scenes planner. It will take a year to prepare in the early stage. Even if you succeed, you will offend a large number of extraordinary people. You will have a bad reputation in the superhero circle. You can only earn that little hard work and make a hundred times better!"
Death knell was so damaged by his own son that his old face could hardly be too resistant. He covered his face and ran out of the oasis, as if his self-esteem had been hit by ten thousand points.
Chapter completed!