Ch 97: TGCIR

The auction is still a full week away. Apart from the medicine, Shen Cheng has prepared armor made from mutant animal fur and shells for the auction.

The armor from the Noah Base is all uniformly produced by the system. Currently, the armor available for auction is either not fully compatible with the attributes of the materials and internal personnel of the base, or it has relatively low attribute values, or the buyers themselves are ready to upgrade.

To put it bluntly, it’s either defective goods or second-hand items.

But even if they are second-hand or defective, after removing the cost of labor and the premium brought by multiple market circulations, the final starting price and attributes still surprise many people. Some even doubt whether armor with such attributes can actually exist.

But in the video, a Tier 3 ability user wearing a set of “Defense 20” insect shell armor indeed managed to withstand the attack of a Tier 3 strength-type zombie. And after he took it off, he showed that besides a relatively obvious white scar, the shell was almost intact.

With such defense and such armor, the starting price is only 500 credits.

Has the Noah Base become so affluent?

There was a sound of the remote control being slammed on the table.

The man pushed his glasses up his nose and squinted. “Playback.”

“Playback.”

“Play it again, two seconds.”

He watched it a total of five times, and the footage finally stopped at the scene showing the armor.

Actually, the people around him didn’t quite understand what the man was looking at until he coldly scanned the entire room. “Have any of you noticed anything?”

In the end, a female voice in the room answered, “There are no seams.”

He nodded.

With his approval, the girl who answered correctly smiled proudly and happily.

The man said, “If this set of armor is hand-sewn, or even machine-sewn, as long as the previous industrial standards are used, there will definitely be traces of stitching. And stitching will bring about wear and tear.”

This is an undeniable fact.

Even if the material itself is sturdy and durable, if the material or the stitching technique doesn’t keep up, the overall durability of the armor will be greatly reduced.

This is the problem that most base armor production is facing now. The materials are always sufficient, but there aren’t enough skilled seamstresses. And no matter how expensive the materials are, once they fall into the wrong hands, they become nothing but scrap.

Scrap, which disregards human life.

Even after two whole years in this wasteland, many ordinary people still die under the claws of zombies, and one of the most important reasons is the high price and scarcity of armor.

The research institute has also been trying to solve these technical problems. They just came up with a way to replace stitching with something else, but achieving a completely seamless finish is still not possible.

Yes, after being reminded by the man and carefully watching the footage, everyone in the room thought of four words.

Seamless.

Isn’t that what the legendary armor is supposed to be, seamlessly integrated with no gaps between each part?

And this kind of clothing, even their scientific institute hasn’t been able to make it using mutant beast materials. They can use synthetic materials that can be cast, but most synthetic materials cannot replace mutant beast materials, whether in terms of cost or abrasion resistance.

A base has actually surpassed them.

For all those who consider themselves geniuses, this is undoubtedly a heavy slap in the face.

The man’s gaze was deep and unpredictable. His eyes flickered. “junior brother is still in Noah, right?”

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The Noah Base has been relatively quiet for almost a year.

After confirming that their vegetables and food only had relatively low levels of contamination, the man repeatedly probed the situation at the Noah Base, but found nothing suspicious.

If one must say, his overall impression of the Noah Base is that its administrator must be an idealist.

He doesn’t dislike idealists.

Although they are not of the same kind, in this world, the fact that some people can still uphold ideals is ridiculous yet worthy of admiration.

So, the man hadn’t issued more intelligence infiltration orders regarding Noah before. To him, the value of Noah at that time was not worth it.

But now, the armor, especially this video, has piqued his interest.

His slender fingers lightly picked up the invitation card on the table, and he smiled faintly as he pushed up the reading glasses on his nose. “This time, let me lead the team personally. I’m also very interested in all the products they have at the base now.”

On her phone, Shen Cheng watched the outsiders walking around the Noah Base, tagging all non-base personnel she could see.

In fact, Noah Base had already conducted a screening and registration when entering the base, giving names to those they thought needed closer observation. But for Shen Cheng, seeing so many yellow, green, and red figures moving around the base still made her a little worried.

After observing, Shen Cheng found that the auction attendees were mixed, with the majority being neutral (yellow), a dozen or so being green, and the number of reds being about the same as the greens. These reds were probably spies sent by other bases’ loyalists. Shen Cheng noted down all their names and gave them to Li Weilan. He looked at the list and nodded lightly. “It’s similar to what I expected.”

Li Weilan lightly tapped a few names on the list, crossed them out with a pen, then raised his face to look towards the empty space, although he couldn’t see the other person’s face, hearing her voice was enough for him. “These few people were the ones we were uncertain about before, but with your help, it’s confirmed now.”

Shen Cheng scratched her head and smiled. “It’s what I should do.”

Li Weilan handed the list to Su Yun, the poison-based ability user who wore the only face-changing mask in the base. Her originally slightly colorful facial features had become plain and inconspicuous over the past year, and her demeanor had become as cold as frost and snow, blending into the shadows when she didn’t speak.

Li Weilan knew that her hands were stained with a lot of blood, but no matter what, all that blood was shed for the base.

So when Su Yun was on leave, she had a lot of power and the best enjoyment. But he had seen that her vacation was usually spent with the children in the base.

The only softness in this woman’s heart was revealed only when she saw the little children.

Su Yun didn’t ask where this list came from.

She read it three times, memorized all the names marked in red, and then glanced at the remaining yellow names before rolling up the paper and burning it in the fire.

“Be careful of trouble,” Li Weilan said.

“Don’t worry, Brother Li,” Su Yun nodded.

Her ability had evolved to Tier 4.

Unlike other common types of abilities in the base, her ability, to evolve, meant the passing of life.

In the early days, the base did not intend for Su Yun to engage in the espionage and intelligence work she does now. Initially, they planned to let her do some work she enjoyed, like taking care of the children in the base who had lost both parents and were still young.

Su Yun had also tried it for a while.

But later, as the base developed and that lady boss no longer appeared, more and more people came to the base, and even the place where the children lived occasionally had people poking their heads around. There was even one time when Su Yun found someone attempting to abduct one of the children.

That person is dead.

Although Su Yun’s initial ability only caused rashes and itching upon contact, she managed to complete every mission perfectly through other auxiliary methods.

So now she has been promoted to the head of the counter-espionage department.

Shen Cheng still remembers her. If she remembers correctly, she was the first ordinary person in the base to gain abilities through the activation agent.

But Su Yun is already at Tier 4 now.

Her upgrading speed is too impressive.

“Lan Lan, about those who are hostile to Noah,” Shen Cheng finally couldn’t help but ask this question. In fact, after the system sent out so many invitations, Shen Cheng had also worried about this issue. But seeing Li Weilan not worrying, her heart settled a bit. “Will it be okay to let them in?”

Her impression of Noah still lingered on last year’s impression of needing to complete misleading tasks to prevent leaks. Perhaps because in reality, it had only been two months, Shen Cheng remained quite worried.

“Cheng Cheng,” Li Weilan said, “Don’t worry, I’ll earn you some materials.”

Shen Cheng didn’t quite understand what he meant at first. But when she saw the base directly bringing out those discarded or broken equipment from the warehouse and taking them to trade, exchanging them for various rare materials, even the red bloods (Red color marked people) came to exchange a bunch.

To Shen Cheng, they were basic equipment, but to those people, they were not.

The basic attributes of these equipment were also very high.

Unlike the gold masters who might pursue gold artifacts and green sets, for most people in the wasteland, having a set of such high basic attribute armor, especially with high defense values, was already very desirable. They had never seen weapons with additional attributes like “armor penetration.”

Those Red Bloods had no idea that their prices were different from others, after all, everyone traded what they had. They also didn’t know that they were being treated differently by the Noah Base, exchanging for what was deemed mediocre equipment, and Noah Base had confirmed weapons to counter them.

On the other hand, what they exchanged for were all high-level raw materials, just enough to match their psychological expectations.

The people at the Noah Base were quite arrogant. Their attitude was basically “take it or leave it, there’s only us, no alternatives, if you don’t exchange, get lost.” This made those few people feel frustrated, but in the end, they obediently took out the materials.

With this exchange, their high-level materials were exchanged for even better armor by Noah, which was then placed into their exchange warehouse. Watching the income, Shen Cheng couldn’t help but wonder why they were even holding an auction. With this income, Noah could splurge for a long time.

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