Chapter 8 Recruitment Begins

  It has been three days since Li Ran activated the base, and in these 72 hours, Li Ran did not waste a single minute. First, he built a magnetic energy reactor, followed by an ore refining factory, and placed the mining well on an iron mine three kilometers away. That night, this unmanned or manned mining truck began to work.

  When the mining truck came out, Li Lan almost couldn't close her mouth. Except for the crawler belt, this mining truck looked like a city sanitation truck in every way. The device on the front of the car that sucked up ore looked similar to a sanitation truck, and the cargo box at the back was also fully enclosed just like a sanitation truck.

  If Li Lan hadn't confirmed it three times, he would have thought this was a mining cart, otherwise he would have thought the base was joking.

  Very soon, on the second day at dawn, the mining cart brought Li Lan a pleasant surprise. Because the mining cart recycles every six hours, when Li Lan woke up, the mining cart had already successfully recycled ore in the ore refinery once. The original base funds of 365 had also become 1615 base funds by daylight.

  That is to say, one train of iron ore can recover 1250 base funds. (In the game, each yellow mineral car is 1250, and this book calculates according to this price.) Six hours for one recovery, four recoveries a day, equivalent to daily income of 5000 base funds.

  One mining cart is worth 5,000 base funds in a day. What about ten carts or a hundred? Li Lan Guang thought for a moment and got excited, hugging the Great General tightly. In the Great General's confusion, he even kissed him several times.

  After checking the remaining power, Li Lan confirmed the start of building the barracks.

  Six hours later, at noon on the second day, the barracks were successfully built. The mining cart brought in today's second income, adding 1,250 funds to the base again. At this point, after owning three building units, the base still had 1,865 funds left.

  Afterwards, Li Lan began the construction of the tank factory. Just like in the game, although funds were insufficient, construction could still proceed as long as subsequent funding was received. However, if no funds were received at all, construction would stop once funds were depleted.

  However, with the stable income from mining carts, after a 24-hour construction cycle in the tank factory, which was noon on the third day, the base not only completed the construction of the tank factory but also had 4865 base funds left.

  Li Ran had originally planned to start recruiting soldiers simultaneously with the construction of the chariot factory, but only when the construction began did he discover that there was not enough electricity to meet the needs of the chariot factory, and even the walls could not be built. In the game, overloading the power grid still allowed for continued construction, but in reality, it was impossible.

  Helpless Li Lan had no choice but to accept the current situation and could only wait until the tank factory was completed, which would take twenty-four hours.

  Chariot Factory:

  Produces land-air weapon units, construction price 2000 base funds, occupies 80,000 square meters, construction time twenty-four hours.

  Note: Can produce all land-based military equipment, all naval equipment, and all defensive equipment. However, building and producing weapons will consume a large amount of base funds and electricity. This thing is a big power consumer, to ensure smooth production of weapons, please provide it with sufficient electricity. Otherwise, it will go on strike!

  Special Note: Regardless of the number of tank factories owned, only one weapon unit of the same category can be produced at a time. Different categories can be produced simultaneously, but limited to one type of weapon unit per category.

  Suggestion: If you want to quickly own your armed forces, if you want a Judgment Day tank to come out every second, although it's extremely exaggerated, then please don't hesitate, Commander, build more tank factories. Having two or more tank factories can speed up weapon production. And for each additional tank factory, the production speed will increase.

  Li Lan, who was waiting, also had a good understanding of the term "big electricity user" in the tank factory's explanation. After the tank factory was completed and other units on the base began to return to normal operation, Li Lan understood this explanation even more thoroughly.

  After the construction of the tank factory was completed, whether it was a wall or a unit of troops, they all became clickable colored tags. The power meter in the base control room also turned green all the way, and previously when building the tank factory, it was all red.

  Li Lan had originally wanted to continue building a mineral refining plant to make the base's funds more abundant, but now she had to change her mind and build another magnetic energy reactor instead. She was afraid that when they finally had money, they wouldn't even be able to produce a decent car.

  Outside, the sound of drums and gongs began again, and Li Lan also started his great cause of recruiting soldiers.

  On the troop unit page of the control panel, there are not many places for Li Lan to choose from. To be specific, there are only three.

  Mobilized Soldier: Basic soldier type, possesses certain combat skills, with a very low chance of having commander abilities. Currently available for recruitment, required cost: 100 Base Funds.

  Proficient: Mastery of basic individual weapons handling.

  Optional skill focus:

  1. Enhanced individual soldier capabilities

  2. Armored vehicle and tank operation knowledge

  3. Aircraft operation knowledge

  4. Naval vessel operation knowledge

  Attack Dog: Excellent soldier type, capable of one-shot killing humanoid enemies. Currently available for recruitment, required cost: 200 base funds.

  Expertise: Claws, tearing bites, sense of smell, insight.

  Insight Note: Can identify non-friendly spies, effective range: within line of sight.

  Engineer: Excellent troop type, each one is a first-rate engineer. Currently can be recruited, required cost: 500 base funds.

  Proficient in: renovation, construction, and maintenance.

  Note: Can be used for weapon units and building units for modification, construction, maintenance, and repair.

  In the large category of troops, there are many other icons, but they are all gray and white. From the picture, Li Ran saw familiar icons in the game, American soldiers, Chinese soldiers, spies, SEALs, snipers, and Tang Ya.

  There is also an icon that makes Li Ran somewhat uncalm, Crazy Ivan. Thinking about the tank unit, it seems to have seen a self-propelled truck.

  Somalia is scary enough to people, equivalent to a paradise for terrorists. Do I still have to go and be a terrorist? This was Li Ran's most intuitive thought, but as soon as he thought about it being against some countries he really disliked, the appearance of such units wasn't so bad after all. But why wasn't Yuri, that great big uncle of terrorism, here? (In response to Li Ran's question, with a magnificent and serious tone: "I went to look for Uncle Yuri, but unfortunately Uncle Yuri was not at home, couldn't make it in time for the outline, so I arranged for Yuri to be in the next book.")

  The icon below is unfamiliar to Li Ran, no flying infantry, no chrono commando. However, the next icon gave Li Ran a sense of familiarity, although he hadn't played Red Alert 3 before, but had seen some information about it. No matter how Li Ran looked at it now, wasn't this icon next to Tan Ya Natasha, the hero unit of the Soviet faction in Red Alert 3?

  After a cursory glance, Li Lan directly clicked on the mobilize troops icon, with all abilities choosing to strengthen individual soldiers, numbering 10.

  Confirmed recruitment of ten mobilized soldiers. After the countdown began, Li Lan also recruited two military dogs. As for engineers, Li Lan did not choose to recruit any.

  The time required for mobilization is very short. The total time required for all ten mobilized soldiers to complete their tasks is only 100 minutes, which means that each soldier only needs 10 minutes.

  "Assistant, do I still need to produce weapons for my soldiers? And what do the soldiers look like? What skin color?" Li Lan asked, glancing at the amount of funds displayed on the screen above.

  "Yes, every soldier who comes out except for the military uniform which is provided free of charge by the military camp, all other equipment needs to be taken care of by the commanding officer. In order not to affect the sovereignty of third-party countries, the military uniform will default to the Somali national flag emblem. The appearance of ordinary soldiers will also be the same as Somalis."

  It's okay, this is Somalia, and the sudden appearance of tens of thousands of Somalis won't affect anyone. Li Ran was once again grateful to be in Somalia, at least she didn't have to worry about her soldier identity.

  With the recruitment of ten mobilized soldiers and two military dogs, the base's funds have not changed, but within the next few hours, including the power plant, it will decrease by 2000 points. Since the mining cart's next recovery time is at 6 pm tonight, that means there are only 2865 base funds available for use now.

  Open the single soldier weapon page, Li Ran can also manage other icons, ten pistols, ten AK-47s, ten boxes of pistol bullets and rifle bullets. One pistol requires 20 base funds, one AK-47 requires 50 base funds, and one box of bullets requires 5 base funds. Because Li Ran had previously produced a pistol and three boxes of bullets, the base fund was only 65.

  After these points are completed, the base will have only 2065 usable funds within six hours.

  Then Li Lan simply added a military card to the war chariot, spending 500 base funds. The remaining funds were all invested in the wall by Li Lan, first surrounding the main base.

  Wall:

  Defense unit, construction cost 150 base funds, construction time 30 minutes.

  Description: Each unit's wall has a default height of 5 meters and a thickness of 2 meters. The top of the wall is equipped with a walkway, barbed wire, and electrification, but there are no shooting holes on the wall body. It can resist single soldier infiltration, but it is not enough to resist heavy weapons attack. After construction is completed, the length of the wall can be selected, ranging from 1 meter to 100 meters. The walls can be seamlessly connected when intersecting or connecting with each other. Wall units cannot be recovered for funding.

  Special Note: Having walls and rebuilding the Great Wall is not a dream.

  Usage restrictions: Walls can only protect commanders belonging to large building units and cannot be built on water areas.

  Suggestion: In order to enhance the defensive capability of the wall, multiple walls can be connected horizontally to increase the thickness of the wall.

  PS: Yuri fans, let's just forget about Yuri for now. Huali also wants Yuri to come out and show off his skills, but if Yuri comes out, wouldn't it be necessary to write him as an overpowered character? Otherwise, Yuri would be an invincible existence. So, Huali is once again reluctantly putting Yuri away.

  The previous one was the past, this one is today, and maybe the next one's future will have Uncle Yuri make an appearance, perhaps even the Transcendental Space-Time Troops will show up. However, let me say it solemnly and elegantly, this is not a guarantee.

  Because nobody knows what will happen in the future and this book has just started, thinking too much is not good.