158: Chapter 158 Zhang Yuankui's Public Speech

However, Niu Xinwang's answer allowed others to hear the hidden meaning. This Chamber of Commerce has already started doing business with several Military Regions, and its background is unfathomably deep. They thought it would be best not to offend the Chamber of Commerce in the future.

"Alright, next, please welcome Mr. Celestial Fiend, the President of the Mercenary Guild, to introduce the Mercenary Guild's services to everyone."

After Niu Xinwang finished speaking, he handed the stage over to Zhang Yuankui.

"Hello everyone! The Mercenary Guild was also established as an effective supplement to the Settlement's functions. I believe everyone deeply understands that the Settlement's weak defense has always been a persistent problem. I think the reasons for this are nothing more than a few points:", "First, there is a lack of supplies, which is a persistent problem facing the Settlement. Supporting people requires consuming resources, including the daily training, room and board wages, and medical support for Security Guards. This leads to most Settlements not having the prerequisites to establish large-scale security forces."

"Secondly, the hardware facilities are incomplete. Training grounds, commuter vehicles, defensive facilities, and so on, are all incomplete. I want to ask everyone present, which Settlements have built large-scale defensive fortifications in the past six months? How many commuter vehicles are used for security? Which Settlements have set up independent office buildings specifically for Security Guards, for office work and training?"

"If the above reasons are secondary, then the problem I am about to discuss is the biggest obstacle to the Settlement's development of security forces: weapons and equipment. To date, the production capacity of weapons and equipment is less than one-tenth of what it once was, and it is basically not open to the public. Unless there is a geographical advantage, almost all Settlements will only have some light firearms, mainly pistols and portable submachine guns, only in the Police Department. Moreover, the ammunition reserves are very small and non-renewable. It can be said that one shot consumed is one less. Therefore, everyone will absolutely not use a single gun or bullet unless it is absolutely necessary, is that right?"

Some people below nodded, some chuckled. Clearly, they had been hit where it hurt.

Zhang Yuankui's inherent steadiness and tenacity easily created a natural persuasiveness. Therefore, although his eloquence was not very good, the content was down-to-earth and uniquely infectious.

"Another point is that the professional level of Security Guards recruited from the public is limited. In the absence of training, their discipline is not high, they are unfamiliar with the use of weapons, unfamiliar with combat techniques, and they are not even clear about some basic defensive techniques. This leads to difficult personnel management and a high death rate."

"Speaking of the death rate, there is another constraining factor, which is medical conditions. Security Guards are undoubtedly the group among the Citizens with the highest injury rate, highest infection rate, and greatest risk of death. Coupled with the virus's nearly 100% fatality rate, this industry is a high-mortality industry. If not for the sake of livelihood, almost no one would choose to engage in this work."

"For our Settlement, there is another constraining factor that prevents everyone from investing resources, which is that security forces are a purely consumptive department. There is only input, no output."

"These are some of the realistic problems I have summarized regarding the development of security forces in most Settlements. Now, I will explain how we solve these problems by introducing the Mercenary Guild's services."

"The first service of our Mercenary Guild is equipment rental. As the name suggests, Citizens can rent weapons and equipment from the Mercenary Guild. The rental prices will be publicly announced in the form of a quotation, with transparent pricing and no deception."

At this point, everyone burst into laughter. Because Niu Xinwang had just used the same phrase.

"At the current stage, the types of weapons and equipment provided by our Guild are not many. Today, I will take this opportunity to briefly introduce them to everyone."

"The first piece of equipment is the Guardian Type 2 Combat Suit. ..."

At that moment, Zhang Yuankui introduced the main features and usage methods of the Guardian Type 2 Combat Suit. While introducing, he also called up a Mercenary member to demonstrate it on site.

This introduction directly caused an uproar at the scene.

To date, only some Soldiers from Yan Zhengping's Southwest Military Region and Zongzheng Yue's Southeast Military Region are equipped with Combat Suits. The Northeast Military Region and Northwest Military Region have only learned about them through Yan Zhengping's introduction and have not yet begun to equip them. However, they know that this equipment also needs to be procured through other channels, so they will not make any statements at this moment.

Among the heads of the various Settlements, apart from Mayor Gong Kaiming and Mayor Left Wen Shan, the others had never even heard of it.

Therefore, the meeting had to be paused at this point to give most of the attendees time to digest the information.

"A divine artifact! It's simply a divine artifact!"

"It's simply the bane of zombies!"

"With such equipment, the safety of the Settlement can finally be guaranteed!"

Everyone talked to each other privately, clearly very impressed with this equipment.

A few minutes later, the order at the scene finally stabilized. Zhang Yuankui continued to speak:

"However, for this service to be successfully implemented, two prerequisites are required."