Wasteland Border Inspector-Chapter 246 - 115: Material Harvest, Li Changfeng’s Friendship Fee

Chapter 246: Chapter 115: Material Harvest, Li Changfeng’s Friendship Fee

This probability is neither high nor low, but it definitely doesn’t make the cut for low.

Because the infiltration probability of Happiness City is even lower than this figure, maintaining a steady rate of about 0.0011%, meaning at most one slip for every hundred thousand people.

Of course, this year is an exception, as the anomaly in the celestial phenomena is expected to cause it to double.

But since he crossed over three months ago, Happiness City has only had that one mother source infiltrate; the rest of the time has been quite stable, with no infected body able to sneak in and cause chaos.

"Whether relying on people or machines, they essentially achieve the same result."

Li Changfeng poured a cup of hot tea from the thermal container behind him and handed it over, "Shelter City is small, with few people going out each day, mostly familiar faces. Moreover, residents can’t go too far or to too dangerous places. Sometimes, just a glance will tell if a person is infected."

"If an infected body does sneak in, it’s either a super latent one or an unknown type, which might not be detectable even by us."

Cheng Ye took the hot tea, pondering for a while.

Suddenly, he seemed to understand: "So these devices are actually tailored to fit your scale, rather than being able to detect all infected bodies?"

"Exactly."

Li Changfeng snapped his fingers, a hint of openness in his voice, "Each shelter city’s inspection station develops according to local conditions, with its own model. Zone B4 sees twenty to thirty thousand residents going in and out daily. Without machines and equipment to assist, we couldn’t possibly manage such a massive inspection task."

"Hmm... Like your Happiness City’s model, providing all residents free Defense Communication devices and various living materials - could we learn from that?"

"Definitely not! Take my position as an Inspector, for instance. Apart from some basic equipment issued when I first started, I have to earn points to buy the rest myself. The top doesn’t care about your personal situation, only the final assessment result."

"Basic equipment?" Cheng Ye’s eyes flickered, "What do they issue?"

"It used to be stingy, only a custom badge was issued, and even the Firewood Communication device had to be bought out of pocket." 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

Li Changfeng chuckled, with a touch of the seasoned sarcasm, "It seems there are more benefits now, probably catching up with your Happiness City... Besides the badge and Firewood Communication, they also provide an information-receiving pair of glasses for free, along with a portable body detector that measures physical state and energy fluctuations."

Is this the four-piece set?

Cheng Ye was secretly pleased, but remained calm on the surface, even deliberately furrowed his brows as if deep in thought, "Those glasses are handy, but can they be used outside the Firewood range?"

"Of course they can." Li Changfeng nodded, "The glasses are just an information-receiving tool. Once connected to Firewood Communication, they can extract stored offline information. As long as there’s data stored in the Firewood Communication, it can be accessed even in the depths of the Wilderness."

"Oh, so Firewood Communication and our Defense Communication should be similar things?"

"Yes, the functions are quite similar." Li Changfeng explained, "They’re both identity identifiers, capable of storing points, logging permissions, and storing important information offline. The higher your permission level, the more functions you can unlock."

"Understood."

Cheng Ye nodded, not probing further.

As long as Firewood Communication and Defense Communication are similar, it should work offline outside the signal range.

But permissions... that’s a bit tricky.

If the badge found is Li Changfeng’s, and it’s a blank badge without recorded information, unlocking permissions might require cracking the Firewood Communication first.

As for the difficulty of cracking it, it’s certainly beyond his reach at this stage.

However, Cheng Ye wasn’t in a hurry. It’s easier to manage with something in hand, and he would eventually find a way to crack it.

"Want to rest or see the isolation cabin in the back?" Li Changfeng took a gulp of tea.

"Let’s take a look."

Cheng Ye downed the hot tea in his cup in one go and followed Li Changfeng to the back to check out the isolation area.

Nothing special.

The isolation area is a four-story building with a corridor-style design. Each floor is encased in glass curtain walls, offering a clear view of the isolation cabins inside.

The style isn’t much different from that of Happiness City, just with robotic arms shuttling through the aisles, delivering food and disinfecting automatically.

"These isolation cabins are centrally managed by the system, Inspectors only need to look at the data on the screen."

Li Changfeng pointed at the monitoring screen on the wall, which displayed the real-time status of each isolation cabin: heart rate, body temperature, energy fluctuation values...

"What’s your maximum single-day capacity?"

"Fifty thousand." Li Changfeng answered smoothly, "During last year’s Black Disaster outbreak in the Orange Red District, this building housed six thousand people, and it still functioned efficiently."

Fifty thousand...

Cheng Ye took a sharp breath.

Li Changfeng was right, the Firewood Shelter City’s model is indeed designed with scale in mind.

The North-South Inspection Station in Happiness City combines to handle three thousand people each day, already keeping the Inspectors busy all day. To hit that figure, they’d probably have to pull everyone who can move to work as temporary staff.

But if they actually did that, the infiltration probability could skyrocket dozens or even hundreds of times.

After all, human effort overlooks, without machines screening the first round, it’s really unmanageable.

Toward the end of the tour, under Li Changfeng’s guidance, the two of them followed the spiral staircase in the isolation area up to the top-floor terrace.

Here, facing the direction of the city core, the view was astonishingly wide open; a row of faded metal chairs lined the edge, presumably a spot where many inspection station staff come to unwind regularly.

The two of them sat side by side.

Cheng Ye took out his Defense Communication device to check the time; unknowingly, it was already two in the morning.