On the first day alone, two-thirds of this batch of electronic waste had been repaired.

Uncle Li's order will be delivered in three days. It stands to reason that if the delivery is really required by then, as long as the repairs are almost completed within three days, Chen Yan can at least have an explanation.

But he didn't intend to hand over all the repaired electronic equipment to Uncle Li.

"As for the remaining one-third, each of them is a tough nut to crack, and it is quite troublesome to repair. Just testing will take a lot of time, so you'd better not expect that all those devices can be repaired."

"The more difficult it is to repair, the higher the integration level, the more complex the internal structure, and the higher the value. The remaining one-third of the equipment is basically like this. It doesn't matter if it can't be repaired. Once it is repaired, you will make a lot of money——

Garbage guys in Yanan City call such things "big goods", and "big goods" need to be encountered, and they require luck and eyesight. Picking up garbage in the garbage dump is a more exciting game than betting on horses at the racecourse. Victory means

The excess harvest it brings will make any normal person greedy.”

Jack Baldo explained that he had come across some information like this when he was a street hustler, and he roughly knew what the price of black goods of this level was in the market.

George Lebster can't say anything in this regard. He is a pure technician who only knows repair technology and has no understanding of the newly emerging e-waste market.

"The remaining one-third of the equipment contains some that I have never seen before, and neither has George. Even if I look at the internal parts, I don't know what the equipment is for. This kind of equipment is usually a small machine.

For special products in the field of science and technology, even if they cannot be repaired, if you meet someone who knows how to do it, you can still get a high price by selling the parts alone."

"But... good brother, we are not short of money. We still have a lot of money from selling Snake Kiss Rock before. We can't spend it all in a while, so why do we still need to make money?"

Chen Yan said:

"That money is one-time and unsustainable. If you want to make more money, you need to obtain the means of production - such as land, production and maintenance equipment, tools, raw materials, etc."

He didn't seem to answer the question.

Jack Baldo looked thoughtfully at the integrated maintenance equipment brought back by Chen Yan yesterday at the table and said:

"The means of production...such as this kind of equipment are all specially supplied and cannot be purchased. They are not available on the market...that Uncle Li must have a special way."

Chen Yan said slowly:

"It's not just the equipment that can't be bought with money, the land on Days Island can't be bought with money either. In this mechanical hive that seems advanced but is actually wild, the law of the jungle prevails, and gangs control the lives of the people at the bottom.

Everything, if I buy a piece of land and open my own store, and my business not only has to pay taxes to the logistics center, but also has to pay protection fees to the gang, my business - no matter what business, has to go through the gang, and

What’s the point of such a business if the gangs get a share of the pie?”

Jack Baldo scratched his face and thought, in fact, we can sail away from here and go to the next island chain. Maybe the situation can be improved?

Chen Yan didn't need to use synesthesia to understand his general thoughts from the way he hesitated to speak. Jack Baldo always had everything written on his face.

"After I learned about the situation on Dais Island, I suddenly understood a fact - it is the same everywhere in the world. Even in the center of the world, the most prosperous imperial capital, the situation is not the dirtiest than in Nan City.

How good is the commercial street?”

He said in a joking tone:

"But I don't think humanity is hopeless."

The other two people probably understood what he meant. They both came from the lowest level of society and knew what the world was like. The situation on Dais Island made them feel like they were back home - one was a little shabby than before, but they had enough to eat and drink.

, and there is no need to worry about a home without toys to play with.

Such a familiar world does not give them the feeling that "this shitty place sucks."

"I estimate that the situation in the next few island chains will be similar to that of Dys Island, or even worse than that of Dys Island."

Chen Yan didn't say the reason because everyone could guess it.

He continued following the topic just now:

"We assume that in a normal business environment without gang interference, once you have the means of production, you can produce more goods and earn more money."

"Rather than spending your savings... Although it's okay to spend your savings, it's meaningless to spend that money because that money can't bring you normal means of production - on Days Island, the means of production you get are actually

Others lease it to you, such as logistics centers or gangs, and they have some control over the means of production in your hands."

"But you can't rush in with a gun and kill them all, because they are everything on this island - the situation here is worse than Pianan City, with completely unenlightened people fighting for the interests of gangs.

Those who rush to the front line to defend property are not those damn gangsters, but ordinary people who think they are defending their homes - they think they are completely tied to the interests of the gang!"

After Chen Yan finished speaking, he paused for a moment before continuing:

"I made this inference based on my past understanding of the world. I hope I am wrong. I hope people are more rational than I thought, so that we will reduce a lot of unnecessary conflicts."

George Lebster stayed with Chen Yan for a short time, so he didn't know what Chen Yan was thinking, but Jack Baldo probably knew Chen Yan's thoughts and motivations for thinking about all this. In his eyes, Chen Yan

What he had to do was very difficult or even impossible, and all he could offer was help and comfort - he silently patted Chen Yan on the shoulder.

In the silence, a voice suddenly came from the hatch of the bottom cabin.

"Completely correct."

The three people in the cabin looked towards the cabin door at the same time, and saw Thomas Gilbert, who had appeared at an unknown time, staring directly at George Lebster - to be more precise, staring at

His shrimp head.

The latter was a little at a loss and wanted to escape in panic, but he had nowhere to escape here.

"Your inference is completely correct, but you haven't been exposed to many things on the island. Is this what Asians call "seeing the leopard through the tube?"

Chen Yan's eyes twitched and he corrected:

"This is a work of insight."

Thomas Gilbert's eyes moved from the shrimp man's head to the work table in the center of the room, and then moved up to Chen Yan's face:

"Only one-fifth of the total is enough to satisfy Uncle Li's appetite. The natives on the island have never seen the world. They don't know the value of these things. I have never given them the list."

Chen Yan said nothing. Although he was dissatisfied with his sudden visit, he agreed with this approach.

Thomas Gilbert looked at shrimp man George Lebster again, the "interest" in his eyes almost overflowing.

"I have a brother."

Thomas Gilbert shifted his gaze to Chen Yan, whose face was almost full of impatience.

"I have a brother...a member of the Razor Party family, a tough guy who licked blood from his knife. He once dealt in a strange ore that could generate electricity, and his supplier was a man with a shrimp head. I

I have never met his supplier, because he said that the shrimp man never leaves the underground, he said..."

Chen Yan interrupted him rudely:

"Does hanging around your partner's house without being invited indicate your sincerity in cooperating?"

Thomas Gilbert looked at Chen Yan, obviously feeling embarrassed.

But this embarrassment obviously did not affect him, because he quickly continued in a joking voice:

"I thought he was lying, and I firmly believed that the sudden large amount of money he got came from sleeping with the old ladies on Birmingham Street."

Thomas Gilbert was obviously not good at telling jokes. Even if he found it funny, his facial expression did not change much, so these words made the atmosphere even colder.

He cleared his throat and tried to change the subject to let the other three people know that "he doesn't care about the identity of the shrimp man":

"Even one-fifth is still a large amount of goods for Uncle Li, because there are not very powerful repairmen on Dais Island, and there are only a handful of repairmen who can repair chip equipment. The ones I brought to the island are all

For big products, one-fifth can fully satisfy his appetite."

"And I will use the rest to give it to you to express my apology."

Chen Yan looked at Jack Baldo, who nodded slightly to him and showed a different look from before.

That look clearly said "This is a lot of fucking money!"

So Thomas Gilbert was forgiven by Chen Yan.

"I need to get some repaired equipment ahead of time."

Thomas Gilbert inevitably revealed his purpose and promised what he thought was a generous reward:

"One-fifth, Mr. Chen, you will receive one-fifth of the net profit from the sales process for which I am solely responsible."

The cold air in the hold echoed with Thomas Gilbert's deep and magnetic voice.

"There is no need for you to enter the mechanical hive in person at the risk of having your tie pulled by the tie gang. There is no need to spend a lot of money to recruit untrustworthy salesmen, and there is no need to worry that these salesmen will hand over the equipment you repaired to people like Uncle Li. No

You need to have someone you trust face to face with those barbarians to collect money..."

He raised enough and dangerous risks, and firmly believed that Chen Banyan would try to avoid these risks.

"I have taken care of everything on the island, so you just need to leave the business to me and let me complete the most dangerous part."

He pointed to the workbench in the center of the hold.

"And all you need to do is stay in the safe house, take a screwdriver and small parts, repair these valuable, delicate, and broken things at the first touch, and then hand them over to me."

He came to Chen Yan and stretched out his hand.

"how about?"

Chen Yan said:

"I want half."

The very slight smile on Thomas Gilbert's face froze, looking like he was wearing a human skin mask.

His hand was in mid-air, and the embarrassment lasted for a while.

"one third."
To be continued...