Players Invade Cyberpunk

"Big Guy."

The good buddy carrying loads of bags poked his head out from below the hill.

"Gloria is here. I heard she seems to be talking about shooting an advertisement, but the task hasn't been released yet. I remember Big Guy is working on this, maybe we can take up the private task."

Lin Miao didn't plan to stay long in Big Sur, instead, he handed over the initial work to Gloria.

Big Sur is over a hundred kilometers away from Night City, with a train line passing through, but it's quite far from the construction site, and there's no road, making the round trip time lengthy. He's unsuitable for long absences from Night City.

As for airborne vehicles... due to certain reasons, this place is not on their route.

"Shooting an advertisement?"

Indeed, the Publicity Department belongs to an advertising and marketing company in Fujian, but he was a bit puzzled. If they're shooting an advertisement, shouldn't they find someone in Night City? Why come all the way here to talk about it?

"Let's go, let's go, first let's ask the mentor what's going on."

The Truth Department doesn't care that much, as long as they can get a private task, it's definitely a big gain.

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Unlike repairing houses bit by bit over at Stone Ridge Mountain, Lin Miao plans to build a water plant in Big Sur, purifying the water resources here for commercial or industrial use. And for the purification plant, Lin Miao has existing blueprints and the Shiva's Super Bacteria ready to be used inside. The construction is not only fast but the quality is bound to be stronger than the buildings at Stone Ridge Mountain.

This is one of the reasons Lin Miao can confidently leave things to Gloria.

Except this time, it's not Mann and his group who came over, but Sol and Adcardo's team.

This bare-chested man folded his arms, occasionally glancing toward the northern horizon.

"Have you already confirmed the construction site?"

Gloria nodded, "Yes, we've found a suitable location for the water plant. Once the equipment arrives, we can start working at any time."

With the geological and hydrological conditions brought back last time by Adcardo and military technology, Sea God quickly found the site after learning from big data.

Unlike conventional water plants, this plant is a combined version of sewage treatment plants and civilian water plants.

For players, this might sound terrifying, because how can something coming out of a sewage plant be guaranteed to be sanitary? Even if it's colorless and odorless, he wouldn't dare drink it if it was free.

But the cyber world is like that, there's no choice. Lin Miao also wants to find clean water sources, but global water resources have long been completely polluted.

However, there is no issue in terms of technology, and the structure of the water plant meets technical requirements.

The first round consists of three grid filters, because even in a place like Big Sur, far from the city, it cannot be avoided to contain plastic waste, metallic solid particles, paper, and even feces... Pollution is everywhere.

After filtering large solid waste, the sewage enters an aeration grit chamber, where a large amount of oxygen is introduced into the sewage. The shear force from water flow removes organic substances from suspended organic grit, resulting in grit resembling wet coal ash.

Next is the basic sedimentation tank, where the sewage enters a still pool to further settle large particles into sludge while scraping off the surface oil and other liquids.

All solids produced in these three steps, such as garbage and sludge, with extremely high water content, will not be discarded but will be pumped into a concentration tank for mixing and settling by high-pressure pumps. The sewage returns to the sedimentation tank while the remaining concentrated sludge is sent to the next stage for 40° fermentation.

Somewhat similar to methane fermentation in septic tanks, the microorganisms will decompose the organic matter in the sludge into gases like methane, which can be emitted for electricity generation or cooking...

After fermentation, the products undergo centrifugal dehydration, turning into completely dry particulate matter. These dry materials are then transported to a sludge incineration plant for drying and burning, and the remaining product has a high phosphorus content, which can be processed into fertilizer or chemical materials.

The heat from burning can be used for electricity generation. According to the design power, theoretically, it can meet 70% of the power demand of the entire sewage treatment plant. The remaining electricity supply doesn't require external power and moves to the next stage.

That is the biological decomposition tank, where Lin Miao's drawn Shiva's Super Bacteria comes into play.

This special strain can conduct a reduction reaction on metal elements in sewage, converting them from compounds into metallic simple substances while conducting extracellular electron transfer. It's a unique microbial population.

Conventional cells and microorganisms decompose ATP molecules inside, releasing energy for life activities, while this Shiva's Super Bacteria is different. It transfers electrons outside through special conductive proteins on the cell membrane, completing extracellular discharge.

During this process, heavy metal pollutants like mercury, silver, and manganese in sewage are reduced to elemental particles and neutralized with ferrous salts from ammonium nitrate generated by other microorganisms, allowing phosphorus, the most abundant element in sewage, to be separated.

At the same time, inserting special electrodes into the biological decomposition pool can harness the electricity generated by these Shiva's Super Bacteria, not only meeting the full demand of the sewage pool but also having excess for external supply.

And further through ultrafiltration membranes, the kind of water purification medicine supramolecular compound filtration held by Lin Miao, ozone filtration, and sand layer filtration, removing the remaining hormones, pesticides, and chemical residues.

The final output is pure water that can be directly consumed, and all the by-products generated during the process can be reused.

Not only are there many processes, but the technology also requires a lot. For most companies, sewage treatment is a complete loss-making business, but for Lin Miao, it's a way to generate wealth.

Because water, especially clean water, is very valuable.

The remaining issue is just the publicity and suppression of competitors...

The Super Balloon Trio excitedly rushed to Gloria.

Truth Department: "Gloria teacher, I just heard from a good buddy that you want to shoot an advertisement, isn't this a coincidence?"

He pushed the Publicity Department to Gloria.

"This brother of mine is nicknamed the advertisement genius. Dozens of companies have been revived by him, and the advertisements he has made are highly acclaimed. His appearance fee starts in seven figures, definitely no problem in finding him."

Anyway, bragging doesn't cost money, isn't it self-promotion? Truth Department could even say he's Ma Huateng's biological son, could NPCs check their background?

"....."

Gloria was stunned... she and Lin Miao indeed have such plans but didn't think of letting players solve it. After all, this is a serious matter, and God knows what kind of trouble these fire-fighting players might cause...

But then...

Gloria saw infinite possibilities in these people, maybe letting them try it out isn't impossible, anyway as Lin Miao said, at worst, they can say their work didn't meet the requirements...

Thus, Gloria spoke to the three players before her sincerely, in a tone taught by Lin Miao.

"I'm glad you thought of alleviating my worries, but I cannot judge if you can fulfill this job... how about this, you shoot a sample for me, and if the sample is up to standard, I'll consider giving you this task."

"The theme is drinking water, and it has to compete directly with the current real water market in Night City."

The Truth Department immediately patted his chest in agreement for the Publicity Department.

"Understood, the task will be completed, and if we can't make it, we'll go bomb that company's building!"

"Dare to compete with Super Earth for business? I think they're tired of living!"