The five foreigner at first had a very hard time living in the town as they couldn''t communicate with anyone.

    But fortunately, most of the communication between the foreigner and locals could be done through hand signal and pointing at menus, as well as the occasional English speaking that could communicate with Kate.

    Just as December was closing in, the new zone was completed, as well as the first factory in the industrial district away from the residential and commercial area.

    Although its called a factory, it was more of an big concrete warehouse that happened to have all the machine tools and raw material inside to create firearms.

    After the three men walked inside the factory, they were happy with the tools and material to create their gun. Meanwhile Anna had an smaller room inside the factory to create her own.

    Three day after the factory had opened, they showed Yiming and Xiaoyun four different gun.

    "Are these the AK-47 in the movies?" Xiaoyun pointed at the three similar gun on the left.

    "This is an AKM. All three feel a little weird to touch, maybe because the lack of coating. But its fine." Yiming put the AKM down and pick up another one.

    "This one is an AK-47... and this one is AK-74." Yiming held all three of them one by one.

    "This AK-74 and is not going to work well, most of the part used here are just bunch of metal replacement part rather than the original required material. Can you translate that?" Yiming asked.

    Xiaoyun translate it to Kate as Kate translated back to the three Russian.

    "Kate told me that they can only work with the material they have in hand... well this might be partially my fault, but this is the best raw material I can find." Xiaoyun defended himself.

    "Well then we can disregard making this one." Yiming put the AK-74 to the side.

    "Only the AK-47 and AKM looked closer to its original and looked usable. Well the two are almost the same gun except with few modification."

    "What modification?" Xiaoyun couldn''t tell the difference between the two.

    "Here, this is the AK-47''s receiver has its sling swivel, while the AKM has sling mounts to the heel of the stock. Just imagine it as different way of manufacturing and slightly different feel when using it." Yiming replied.

    "Then which one is better?" Xiaoyun got a little impatient as he asked Yiming.

    "The AKM is definitely a lot better, at least that what a foreign friend told me when I was in military drill with another country." Yiming paused for a second, then continued.

    "However, we already have the M16, I don''t see the need to transition right now. However it will be handy against more mutants ones as AKM has better piercing with its cartridge size." Yiming gave his advise.

    "Okay, then we use this one." Xiaoyun told Kate in English as Xiaoyun pointed at the AKM.

    The three appeared unfazed by Xiaoyun''s choice and said something.

    "They told me that they can produce six rifle a day with enough material. Also they can produce more if you can get more machining tables and people." Kate translated for the three.

    "Sure, I will ask Yezi to look for it, and I can hire some workers here." Xiaoyun responded back to Kate to translate.

    "Hey Xiaoyun, have you thought of the bullets?" Yiming suddenly brought it up.

    "Oh shit you are right, I completely forgot about that. Kate can you ask them why is there no bullet?"

    "They both tell me that there is no resource here at all. They need a lot of copper, steel, Charcoal, sulfur, potassium nitrate, and nitrocellulose." Kate translated.

    "Nitrocellulose? What? How do you make that?" Xiaoyun couldn''t understand what Kate just said.

    "Its nitric acid with a cellulose like paper." Kate explained without even needing asking.

    "Oh I see, I remember that from chemistry classes. Yeah we can provide all that, but it going to take quite some time." Xiaoyun replied.

    Kate explained to the four as they nodded.

    "Well we are done here then. I''ll go send some people here to help with the production. The material is going to be here by tomorrow." Xiaoyun replied in English to Kate as he left with Yiming.

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    Xiaoyun delivered all the material to the factory as promised, as well as asking Yuqi to allocate people who could speak English to the factory to work there. This was to allow Kate be translator between the worker and the four gun engineer.

    Xiaoyun also noticed when he cloned all the material to be delivered to the factory, an solid block of copper or steel was much easier to create than something like a hallow steel block.

    When the four with Kate saw the materials given, they seem a bit shock at the material looking very similar to each other, but didn''t ask any question.

    The factory was finally in full effect as it started producing guns and bullets to a new storage room next to it.

    "Finally I don''t have to worry about ammo or guns, its so tiring producing it everyday." Xiaoyun stretched his arm as he laid on the sofa.

    "Well, we are not out of the wood yet. They can only produce few guns and few mag a day." Yuqi paused for a second as she pulled out a record detailing the factory production.

    "We really need Yezi somehow find a entire factory and move it here rather than having the workers handcraft every single gun and bullet with the machining tables." Yuqi commented.

    "Well we aren''t going to find it here. Most factory here are either textile or electronic. We will have to go so far up north to get that." Xiaoyun reminded her.

    "Yeah, kind of sucks that its almost across the whole country. Maybe we can build it ourselves at some point." Yuqi proposed a more realistic possibility.

    "Yeah." Xiaoyun answered with a single word as the room went back to silent.

    "Are we going to do end of the year celebration? Its almost end of December now." Yueyue suddenly chimed in to brighten up the mood.

    "Hm, maybe we should do a celebration, we haven''t celebrated something for so long now." Xiaoyun agreed with the idea.

    "Fine, let start planning it then." Yuqi brought out a new paper as the three started brainstorming.

    After planning for the entire day, they finally got a draft for the celebration.