Players Invade Cyberpunk-Chapter 729 - 235: Merchants Are Here to Make Money—If He Doesn’t Want Money, What Else Could He Want? He’s Not Going to Blow Up Night City, Right?
Lin Miao didn't prepare a fully human body for Kasper, but instead a mechanical body modified from the Night Wanderer's cyborg body, hence Kasper was very dissatisfied.
It's not about discriminating against mechanical bodies; it's just that electronic components in high radiation zones are practically instantly killed, dying on the spot, far inferior to human flesh and blood, which can continue to function for a long time even if the gene chain is shattered by neutron flows.
Though the things left by our ancestors look outdated, the result of millions of years of evolution is durability.
When Lin Miao found him, he had not yet adapted to his new body, with six cybernetic eyes each moving on its own, bumping into walls as he walked.
"Which idiot installed so many eyes on themselves? If you like eyeballs so much, why not reincarnate as a fly in the next life, get trapped in a jar, and watched while mating, deservedly dying early!"
He kept grumbling until he heard Lin Miao's question, which made him pause and rummage through his memory bank before recalling.
"Purify radioactive elements? What bullshit is that?"
He slapped his forehead
"Ah, I remember now, you must be talking about that little poor thing from the nuclear material project next door."
"Their project's main focus back then was to develop new anti-corrosive materials, after all, thorium salt's corrosiveness is too strong, constantly replacing reactor components won't reduce costs, and the maintenance loss from shutdowns is huge, you know."
"In the end, that guy was always yelling about developing new materials in the project, running to the supervisor with research reports, later caught embezzling project funds to privately purchase instruments for personal use, which made the board so mad they threw him into the reactor to be burned to death."
"Tsk... courting death."
Lin Miao didn't know whether to call this guy foolhardy or a martyr for science.
This sort of technology with no commercial value is almost impossible to attract investment, and the outcome of taking a risk was just getting himself killed.
"In your view, how feasible is this technology?"
"Somewhat useful, but not high."
After steadying his errant right eye with his hand, Kasper said
"After that guy passed, someone showed me his thesis, utilizing lithium ions from superoxides to precipitate tritium formed by other radioactive elements in the water into flocculent, but it didn't solve the fundamental problem, even without tritium there's still cesium, plutonium, strontium..., the cost to completely clean it up is exorbitant... please, that's the five oceans, pouring all of earth's company's funds can't scrub it clean."
"Hearing you say that means there's no hope."
Lin Miao felt a bit disappointed after hearing that, not because he's some environmental ambassador, just thought if such technology existed, it might be used to wring some money out from other companies.
The matter of "washing the sea" was still too distant for him at present.
"Not necessarily."
Kasper mumbled and said
"Back then we only found part of his thesis, who knows where he hid the rest, they say he had decent hacking skills, maybe there's an improved design plan tucked away in some corner of a database, you might have them search again."
"Also, when can my promised nuclear lab be set up? Working seventeen, eighteen hours a day, are you treating me as a beast of burden? Even Huang Ban didn't exploit employees like this back then!"
It's well known that robots and AI do not need rest or sleep and do not have human rights, hence not under labor law.
Lin Miao chuckled
"Next time, for sure."
No kidding, nuclear engineering investments start from billions, does he have spare money for this right now?
Besides, Night City doesn't have any needs to build new nuclear reactors, just wait and see.
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As to the 'design' perfection of facilities, among the several districts in Night City, unquestionably, Taiping Continent ranks first.
When developing Taiping Continent as a Night City tourism project initially, you could say all sizes of companies in Night City, along with the city council poured in a massive amount of funding, not only for building the most luxurious commercial towers, but also seaside villa areas, coastal amusement parks, resort villages, luxury hotels, vast luxe buildings sprawl across every corner of this coastal district.
From sewers to skyscrapers, they were all the result of the Oxen and Horses sweating over extra hours from the design bureau.
But the hundreds of billions in investment vanished into thin air with the arrival of the Unification War, becoming the most notorious abandoned project district in Night City. 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺
Several construction companies went bankrupt collectively, land and development rights bought and sold over, always having the stubborn ones hoping to bottom-fish gamble once more, ending up losing their shirts, leading to economic disputes so vast they could bury Night City court judges alive.
"Wow, people come here for vacation too? What sort of strange appetite is this?"
Standing on the seaside beach, Red Barrel incredulously watched the dark sea.
Though he's a southwestern inland man, he's still been to seaside to see the ocean, compared to the vast blue seas, the messy sea in front is like a muddy pond, God knows how many chemicals are hidden in the murky swirling sea water, standing here you can smell the stench of industrial wastewater discharge.
What kind of thinking builds a seaside resort in a city dumping industrial wastewater into the sea?
"You don't understand, maybe rich folks just fancy this kind of thing."
Following Red Barrel is a member from the Ox and Horse Construction Corporation, known as the Grand Ass of Cattle[Five-Star Big Butt], who was a demolition engineer, now a member of Ox and Horse.
