Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 19 Replacement
for the rest of the time.

Song Shi first went to an exchange office and exchanged most of his credit points for digital currency.

The stability of digital currency is not very high and is easily affected by macroeconomics, technological progress, etc. There are even cases where the value of digital currency held the day before was as high as hundreds of thousands of credit points, but it suddenly plummeted the next day, leaving only a few thousand credit points.

But this thing is safe enough and suitable for anonymous transactions, and it is not easy to be detected.

Song Shi fought his way out of the research institute.

In other words, he has torn up the "volunteer service contract", which is equivalent to breach of contract and breaking the law.

No matter how slow the research institute is, it is estimated that it will block his personal account and deactivate various financial accounts within the next two days. If he does not quickly exchange the credit points for digital currency, they will be worthless soon and cannot be used at all.

Even so.

"Two hundred dinosaur coins, Teddy coins, and Demon King coins in total."

Song Shi took a quick look.

According to the recent currency volatility index of the exchange, the total amount of these various digital currencies is about 10,000 credit points - this is Song Shi's entire fortune.

If you say it’s a lot, it’s definitely not much, but if you say it’s a little, it’s really very little.

These 10,000 credit points were the sum of the money that the original body had saved from working since childhood and the farewell money that everyone in the welfare home contributed when he became independent.

But the problem is not big.

Song Shi has already thought of a way to make money quickly, and he can try it tomorrow.

Thousand Star City (Palosser area).

The underground weapons dealer "House of Sweet Wine".

This is the weapon dealer recommended by Tom. According to him, the service is good and the price is fair. The only drawback is that the weapons may not be first-hand and the sources are also strange.

But it's not a big problem.

At least the basic services of soaking in disinfectant water, removing obvious stains, replacing overly worn parts, erasing production number certification and cracking weapon usage permissions are all available and you can use them right away without worrying about the trouble.

Song Shi spent digital currency equivalent to four thousand credit points to buy two pieces of equipment in total.

A second-hand multifunctional engineer shovel, made of carbon steel, cold forged and polished, so its strength is guaranteed. The disadvantage is that the original liquid pump booster device is completely broken and cannot be repaired. Now it can only be used by brute force. It cost 2,500 credit points.

The other item was an ammunition box with a total of 140 rounds, which contained common ammunition such as ordinary steel core bullets, armor-piercing bullets, and white phosphorus incendiary bombs. Originally, five fragmentation grenades were also given, but at Song Shi’s request, they were replaced with two electronic pulse grenades (EMP), and 1,500 credit points were collected.

When facing a highly modified cyborg, unless the opponent has been implanted with an anti-electronic interference module, the effect of an electronic pulse (EMP) is far stronger than that of an ordinary fragmentation grenade.

As for firearms.

Song Shi already has the kinetic pistol "Black Powder" that he took from the security guard of the research institute. This thing has quite good firepower, but its range is a bit short. But it is enough for now. He just needs to buy some special ammunition to make do with it.

“Thank you for your patronage! Welcome to come again next time!”

The virtual service portal of "Sweet Wine House" is a bar with gorgeous decorations. There is a smiling woman at the bar, who greets Song Shi warmly when he comes out - this woman is essentially an interactive interface, and cannot be considered as high-end as artificial intelligence.

Now the appearance of this "woman" is equivalent to the "weapon purchase interface" covered with a skin, which is simply more pleasing to the eye.

"Reaching the locker within two days is pretty efficient."

Walking out of the sweet wine house, Song Shi thought.

The "lockers" here are of course not the lockers at home, but the smart express lockers of a well-known company [Yuan Tu Logistics]. [Yuan Tu Logistics] was originally a more traditional transportation company, but the rise of the giant company [Shi Ji Tong Xing] in recent years has strongly continued to suppress the market share of the former with its technological and policy advantages.

Talk about law?
ChronoPass is one of only nine giant companies in the [Corporate Alliance]. It is a noble existence that looks down on all living beings like a god. Even the "arbitration agency" of the Corporate Alliance has to be cautious.

Fight with force?
Time Travel is even more laughable. If it weren't for the restrictions of the "First Standing Arms Act", the former could activate a large number of intelligent control factories under his command at any time, and launch various intelligent weapon groups one after another. Even the ultimate strategic weapon such as the aerospace carrier could be built.

Even if we ignore the advantages of technology and productivity, in terms of single-round individual force, Chronopathic Path has a fifth-ring psychic—

Thirty years ago, in the large-scale corporate war when the giant company [Pure White Biology] went bankrupt and disintegrated, [Emerald Pharmaceuticals] received the most inheritance and reaped the biggest rewards, but the one who actually contributed the most was [Time Passage]. The latter, which was not yet a giant company at the time, was crazy enough to spare no expense in order to take over the position of Pure White Biology.

You can’t win by reasoning, and you can’t win by force.

Therefore, [Long Distance Logistics] has fallen into decline, and its own market share in the transportation industry has continued to shrink, so it has to find another way.

Thus, the "locker" was born.

This is an anonymous "express locker" that uses some special anonymous technology salvaged from the [abyss] for long-distance logistics.

The specific principle is very complicated, but the effect can be simply stated as follows: apart from the transportation process, even [Long Distance Logistics] itself does not know what the transaction items are or who the transaction partners are, and the two parties to the transaction obviously do not know each other's information.

Delivery, storage, transaction.

There are three steps and no one will know who is on the other side. The express will be delivered by drones throughout the process and the information will be kept confidential.

Absolute anonymity and absolute information security.

It is a favorite of some people who cannot speak, and many of their unspeakable transactions are greatly protected by the "lockers".

Thanks to the "lockers", [Long Distance Logistics] has become much stronger and has regained a considerable part of the market.

Then, faced with the sudden arrival of [Time Passage] at its headquarters one morning and the overwhelming swarm of intelligent armed drones, Long Distance Logistics immediately begged for mercy, hurriedly streamlined the company's departments, and only retained a few businesses centered on "lockers", becoming a niche elite company.

It is said that at that time, Time Travel had seriously considered whether to launch a corporate war to destroy Long Distance Logistics and seize this anonymous technology, which could be called a "black box".

However, Long Distance Logistics threatened to die, indicating that although they were no match for the technology, they still had time to destroy it.

In addition, the arbitration agency of the corporate alliance intervened and persuaded Time Pass to give up this idea in the name of "protecting technology" and "not disrupting the market."

There are thirteen "locker" locations in Palose, and the Deep Moss area accounts for six of them.

Sweet Wine House was also very considerate. It automatically defaulted to conducting transactions through lockers and paid the usage fee in advance. Otherwise, Song Shi would not even be able to pay the locker usage fee now.

Some of the equipment has already been purchased.

The situation of Palose is also known.

"It seems that the progress is better than I thought. The next step is to improve our spiritual power as quickly as possible."

Song Shi looked around and finally fixed his eyes on the colorful sky.

His sight seemed to penetrate the sky, through the overlapping neon buildings, across the winding inland sea tributaries, and fall into the spotless central hall covered by the "artificial sky".

There, the headquarters building of Emerald Pharmaceuticals in Plosser stood tall, and the lights behind the floor-to-ceiling windows kept on all night, like eyes without a trace of emotion, looking down indifferently at the mortal beings below.

Song Shi raised his head and met the gaze.

"Come on." He smiled slowly, "Next, let's see who falls first."

(End of this chapter)