Chapter 3: Red Alert Base (Part 2)

  Familiar with opening the firearms and ammunition page, Li Lan familiarly clicked on a task for producing handgun bullets.

  Ammunition page is the most categorized page among all major pages and also absolutely invisible in game.

  Apart from the handgun, rifle, machine gun and individual heavy weapon classes that can be seen now, there are many gray and white categories. From the gray and white pictures, it can be seen that these are shells, missiles, and cruise missiles.

  The only estimate in the entire base that can prove Li Ran still has a presence is several colorful icons in the handgun and rifle classes.

  Rifle category, now can only choose ammunition production, even the first icon AK-47 cannot be produced. Fortunately, the pistol brought a sense of security to Li Ran. The pistol he carried with him for the past two days was produced from here.

  This was also the greatest persuasive power that he didn't think he had been fooled, and from the beginning, he produced two boxes of bullets, one box was 200 rounds of pistol bullets, and the other box was rifle bullets, also 200 rounds.

  And these three consumed only a few tens of base funds. Also because of the production of these, the original 3,000 start-up funds became more than 2,900.

  Rifle bullets, there are still one hundred and sixty rounds left, of which forty rounds have become Li Lan's goods, exchanged for food. As for the pistol bullets, there are less than twenty rounds left now. For these four days, Li Lan has been practicing shooting every day.

  After all, he's a military enthusiast, who can resist the temptation of holding a gun. There isn't a day when he doesn't fire a few hundred rounds, and after getting addicted, Li Ran is still quite restrained, mainly because he's afraid that the sound of gunfire will attract some fugitives' attention. Of course, whether or not he has the skills to fire hundreds of bullets in one day is another matter altogether.

  Clicked the icon of pistol bullets, and the 3D projection and detailed data of the bullets immediately appeared on the console. Selected production type and quantity, selected bullet caliber, entered Arabic numeral 1, and clicked confirm.

  The icon of the pistol bullet immediately turned into a countdown clock, and the second hand only jumped for one second before announcing that the bullet Li Lan had just clicked was already produced.

  Li Ran knew from the first production that the unit of bullets was a box, and ordinary rifles and pistol bullets were two hundred rounds per box. As for the number of other types of bullets, he didn't know.

  Picking up the food bag, Li Ran no longer wanted to look at it and got up from the very comfortable armchair, walking to the small door on the left side of the control room. Just like when he first entered the base, as soon as Li Ran approached, the door automatically opened.

  The space inside the base is very large, at least in Li Lan's view, it's estimated that even those historic castles in Europe are no more than this. Moreover, the anti-theft facilities here are also the safest, don't look at how the door will automatically open as long as Li Lan approaches, if it were someone else, I'm afraid it wouldn't be opening the door, but a row of bullets.

  As the supreme commander, Li Lan can adjust the defense level of the entire base. Once it reaches the highest level, anyone who tries to enter the base illegally will be met with the base's powerful automatic defensive firepower.

  Of course, if it were an armed force that destroyed the base from the outside, Li Ran would not dare to guarantee the safety of the base. Because in his eyes, except for the mechanical arm, the base looked no different from other houses, at least on the surface, the anti-impact ability was about the same.

  Is it really so?

  He walked through the small door, inside was an elevator. He took the elevator down to the third floor, and Li Lan arrived at a room-like place. However, he didn't stay there, but instead walked towards another wall with an elevator on it, which this time brought him directly to the base's courtyard, or the first floor.

  Above the courtyard, there are two huge mechanical arms. Underneath the mechanical arms is a large platform that is precisely in the center of the courtyard. On top of the platform, a long rectangular iron box sits quietly.

  Li Ran walked over to pick up the iron box, re-entered the base, made several turns and arrived at the elevator, returned to the room, took another elevator, and came to the top floor of the entire base, that is, the rooftop.

  The entire base has a total of four floors. When Li Lan returned, she went straight to the fourth floor, which is the core of the base, the control room. The third floor is arranged for the rooms of the base commanders, and the two lower floors have many small rooms, as well as living rooms and conference rooms. It's obviously prepared for the base commanders' subordinates and guards.

  The first time Li Ran visited the base, he always thought that the base only had three floors. After the assistant's explanation, he finally knew that the fourth floor contained an inexplicable spatial structure, which was also the core of the base. In the entire world, only he, Li Ran, could enter. It was also to ensure the safety of the base.

  However, Li Lan still knew that there were other things under the base these two days, because he knew that the platform in the yard was a device that could be opened and merged, and the box of bullets just now came up from under the platform.

  Maybe it's a huge factory below, but Li Lan couldn't verify because he couldn't go down and his assistant couldn't answer either. Maybe he'll find out next time!

  These days, at night, Li Lan would come to the rooftop, enjoying the cool breeze, eating something, gazing up at the starry sky, quietly thinking about her worries, and then practicing her marksmanship.

  Every time he comes here, standing under the starry sky, Li Ran's mood becomes exceptionally calm. He doesn't know if he has ever seen such a starry sky before, but he dares to guarantee that the starry skies he has seen in these days are absolutely the most beautiful ones in his life.

  The stars are scattered all over the sky, as if layered and dotted together. The entire sky is filled with starry clouds, and one after another, the starry rivers are wrapped around each other, magnificent and beautiful.

  Li Ran, who had been struggling for a living all along, didn't have time to enjoy these things. Even if he wanted to look, it was basically very hard to see such a beautiful starry sky.

  Looking up at the city sky, you can see a few stars. Many cities may only be able to see Venus and Sirius, which are relatively bright stars. In childhood, the Big Dipper in the sky, how many people can see it now?

  As I stepped out of the elevator that had risen to the top floor, the scorching heat hit me in the face. In the base, it was always air-conditioned and constant temperature all year round, so naturally, I felt the scorching heat of Africa as soon as I came out.

  "Ah!" Perhaps due to excitement or anticipation for the future, a gust of wind blew by, and Li Lan couldn't help but let out a loud shout.

  Startling many nocturnal animals in the distance, General Da Men stood up quickly at the gate of the base, sniffed hard for a few times, and then continued to lie down after half a sound.

  Sitting casually on the ground, quietly eating banana steamed rice, biting into already roasted camel meat, and occasionally taking a sip of camel milk. Although she was in this foreign land, Li Lan still felt a special sense of existence.

  Looking back on the changes of the past four days, Li Lan always had a feeling of being in a dream. He often wondered if he would wake up to find himself back in that crowded dormitory, still living an early-to-rise and late-to-bed life. Facing his superior's stern face, facing piles of work, every day was still aimlessly wasting his youth as time slipped away.

  All of this is now in the past. He believes that as long as he can activate the construction unit of the base, Somalia, a place nobody cares about, will become the biggest stage of his life.

  With a base in existence, there is no place in the world more suitable for oneself than Somalia. Coming to Somalia, far from the center of the world, is one's greatest opportunity.

  And Somalia is also a country that needs to be saved, its people need jobs that can feed them, they need better medical care, and someone to lead them to regain their dignity.

  Somalia needs itself and itself also needs Somalia.

  Put away the remaining food, take out the pistol from the pocket, stand up, release the safety catch, aim at a wooden stick standing upright on the edge of the rooftop twenty meters away.

  Without any adjustment, a burst of gunfire rang out until all the bullets were fired. Taking a look at the intact wooden stick, he shrugged his shoulders, opened the iron box containing the bullets, took out the bullets and slowly pressed them into the clip.

  A string of gunfire rang out again, and the general who was lying at the gate only moved his ears slightly, with no major reaction from his body. This sound had already become familiar to him.

  Two hours later, when Li Lan returned to the console, she glanced at the still grayish icon.

  "Think too much, go wash and sleep!" Self-comforting, at the moment of stepping into the elevator, Li Lan spoke out: "Assistant, when can the building unit be activated?"

  "Sorry, Commander. The assistant is only a primary intelligent program and cannot access the base core, so it cannot answer your question." The unchanging electronic synthesized voice responded to his question without delay.

  "Why can't you use it? You should know by now!" Li Ran had already heard this answer countless times and had developed enough immunity to it.

  "As long as the commander meets the activation conditions, it can be used. The assistant needs to remind the commander that your current authority is primary authority. Even if the activation condition is reached, only things at the primary authority level can be built."

  Another answer that sounds nice but is actually nonsense.

  "Can't you answer the question about the funds?" Li Lan seemed to still have some lingering doubts.

  "Sorry, Commander, the assistant is just a junior intelligent program and cannot answer your question."

  "All day saying you are a primary programmer, what about the advanced one?" This time Li Lan asked a question that he had never asked before. As for how to upgrade permissions, he had already asked when he first came, and was told that as long as certain conditions were met, he could be promoted. The answer at the time had completely shut Li Lan up.

  "As long as the commander's authority is upgraded, in order to better serve the commander, the intelligent program of the assistant will also be upgraded."

  "Okay! I hope you can answer my questions after upgrading."

  P.S: Some settings are the same as in the previous book, so please bear with it.

  During the new book period, I'd be grateful if everyone could spare some precious recommendation tickets and collect them, thank you all very much.