Chapter 4 Activation

  A new day has begun, and Li Ran gets out of bed when the sky is just dawning.

  Li Lan hastily came to the control room and sat down at the console after washing up.

  Before Li Ran could open the control interface, the base assistant spoke in a toneless voice:

  "Congratulations, Commander. Since you have successfully survived in Somalia for five days, the base has been officially activated. You can start building your own kingdom and recruit a loyal guard exclusive to you."

  Li Lan, who still had a hint of drowsiness, heard the assistant's words and instantly became spirited. Ignoring the assistant, she excitedly opened the control panel, clicked on the building unit, and saw that the first icon "Magnetic Energy Reactor" was no longer black and white, with detailed explanations below it.

  It's not just that, the icons of the mineral refining factory, barracks, chariot factory and so on are also different from yesterday. Although they are still gray and white, there are detailed descriptions under the icons.

  However, the following icons such as shipyard, radar, air force command and so on are still the same as before, gray and white pixels, without any introduction or explanation.

  "Why can only power plants be built, while others cannot?" Li Ran's excitement had initially been high, but upon seeing that only the colored power plant had a build button, her smile faded significantly.

  "The base operates on the principle of considering everything for the commander, and all units with instructions are within the commander's construction authority. Although the base itself comes with basic power usage, there is no surplus power to provide normal electricity for other units. In order to ensure that the base's functions are not affected, please ensure sufficient power supply when the commander builds units."

  "Geez, you scared me. Upon hearing the assistant's response, Li Lan finally understood that it was no different from the game. The only difference was that she couldn't build a mineral refining factory first, but had to build a power plant instead."

  Through the assistant's answer, Li Ran also basically understood that her initial permission could only build up to a tank factory. However, for Li Ran, this early operation was already sufficient.

  Li Lan did not rush to take the first step towards her ambitious goal, but instead carefully read through the descriptions of the four buildable units in the construction unit.

  Magnetic confinement fusion reactor:

  Energy unit, construction price 600 base funds, power 1.5 million kilowatts, occupying 1000 square meters. Construction time required is six hours. (Power is nonsense, Data Emperor and Knowledge Emperor don't come to ask me anymore.)

  A magnetic motor converts magnetic energy into mechanical energy, its components include a housing, rotor sleeve, rotor shaft, rare earth neodymium iron boron permanent magnet, pressure cover, end cover. Mainly adopted magnetic reaction pile, aluminum alloy pad, demagnetization pipe and fixed bracket, spring fixed frame, spring force frame and other components. The magnets are attached around the magnetic reaction pile with the rare earth neodymium iron boron permanent magnet to produce a repulsive or attractive force. The spring force frame is hooked under the action of the spring to hook the brake hook, thereby causing the rotor sleeve and rotor shaft to produce a mechanical torque, driving other mechanical work.

  Special Note: Not using gasoline or diesel but using magnetic energy to create a magnetic engine undoubtedly solves the problem of energy shortages, reasonably utilizes resources, is odorless, safe, and non-polluting, has a simple structure, is easy to manufacture, and has low costs, making it an essential unit for development and production.

  Suggestion: In the early stages of construction, since all buildings consume a large amount of electricity, please instruct the commander to build more power plants.

  Barracks:

  Recruitment unit, construction price 1000 base funds, occupying an area of 50,000 square meters. Construction time required is six hours.

  Note: By paying a certain base fund, you can recruit clone soldiers without any other consumption. Newly recruited soldiers are basically level 1 soldiers, and occasionally there will be one or two surprises. Each soldier will unconditionally and forever be loyal to the base commander Li Lan. In conjunction with the combat laboratory and training center, higher-level or special troops can be recruited.

  Special note: Although the soldiers are all clones, they also have lives and each person has their own story.

  Suggestion: Every soldier can take a bullet for you, so commanders should cherish their soldiers. At the same time, soldiers are the foundation of the three armies, and carefully allocate soldiers with assignable abilities.

  Ore Refinery:

  Collection and processing unit, construction price 2000 base funds, covering an area of 20,000 square meters. Construction time required is twelve hours.

  Note: All mineral elements on the periodic table can be collected as base funds, which is also the only source of base funds. A mineral processing plant comes with a free armed mining truck and a mineral extraction well. Each mining truck has a six-hour interval for mineral recovery. Building a mineral processing plant can shorten the mineral recovery time. Each mineral processing plant can provide recycling services for up to three mining trucks.

  Note: Only the first Mineral Refinery will come with a free Mineral Extractor and Mining Cart.

  Special Note: The commander can decide whether to recover all the collected minerals into base funds as needed. It can be classified and decided, and the refinery will save the minerals that are not wanted to be recovered according to the commander's settings. The mineral refinery is not limited to the source of minerals and can also recover minerals from other sources.

  Suggestion: To speed up the development process of the commander, please build more mining carts and mineral extraction wells, or let the commander obtain more minerals from other channels.

  Three construction units, with explanations and suggestions, Li Lan also basically understood them. The power plant didn't have much to think about, but the barracks and the mineral processing plant had many questions for him.

  "Assistant, what kind of soldiers are recruited in the barracks? How are they recruited and what kind of people are recruited?"

  "Red Alert base as a super-time space technology, has its own unique side. The soldiers recruited by the barracks unit, each with their own personality, thoughts, emotions, and will also be born, grow old, get sick, and inherit. Commanders just need to treat them as normal earthlings."

  Every soldier recruited by the barracks will unconditionally follow the commander's orders, they live for you and die for you. Even if the commander orders them to commit suicide, they will execute it without hesitation.

  When recruiting soldiers, the base gives them basic combat capabilities, so every soldier who comes out is a qualified soldier with basic combat skills. They can use various weapons and are the foundation of the army, navy and air force that commanders will form in the future based on different requirements.

  Recently recruited soldiers are basically primary soldiers, who can improve their abilities through learning and actual combat. The highest level is the third-level elite, and higher-level soldiers can control lower-level soldiers of the same type. Some soldiers with great talents will also advance to become officers with command capabilities and individuals with stronger individual combat capabilities.

  At the same time as Assistant's answer, a row of text explanations also appeared on the large screen in front of Li Ran, as if afraid that Li Ran had not heard clearly.

  "Are you saying that if we produce weapons like warships and tanks in the future, we will also need to recruit additional soldiers to use them?" Li Lan asked.

  "Yes. When the commander starts recruiting soldiers, there will be soldier ability options, which the commander can experience after the barracks are built."

  Anyway, Li Ran quickly shifted his attention to the mineral refining plant, because there was a point on the instructions that made Li Ran anxious to confirm.

  "Where did the base's funding come from? You should have an answer today!"

  "For the previous inability to answer the commander's question, the assistant says sorry. This question was also only known by the assistant after the commander reached the base and fully activated it."

  The source of base funds must all go through the mineral refinery, and the mineral refinery can recover minerals, convert them into equivalent base funds, and then accumulate funds to command the construction of various units in the base.

  Minerals are not limited to mining vehicles, as long as minerals enter the decomposition pool, they can be converted. For example, if a commander puts one ton of gold into the mineral refining factory's decomposition pool, with the commander's consent, the mineral refining factory will immediately convert that ton of gold into equivalent base funds.

  However, commanders are reminded: base funds cannot be converted back into minerals."

  "Oh, oh." Two "oh"s in a row. Having understood these few questions, Li Lan has now begun to have some plans and ideas for the future.

  However, there is still something that Li Lan doesn't understand and asks again: "What is the ore extraction well mentioned in the Ore Refining Factory's description?"

  The assistant didn't respond, but instead a video appeared on the screen in front of Li Ran, a familiar game scene that Li Ran knew well.

  This is a very ordinary Red Alert map, except that there are no base vehicles or other forces on it. In the middle of the map, there is something like an oil derrick constantly rotating, and some yellow minerals are being brought out continuously. The area around the oil derrick is already filled with yellow minerals.

  "This is it! There's nothing here either, and the mining cart can't even dig out the minerals." Li Lan muttered to herself after the image disappeared.

  "Why is this thing only sent one at a time? It's not enough! If there are more mining cars in the future, won't they have to line up?" Li Ran's greed was starting to get the better of her.

  "On the last page of the building units in the control panel, there is a construction icon for this mineral extraction well."

  After getting the assistant's answer, Li Ran flipped through the control panel and found that the building unit had changed from two pages to four. Turning to the last page, the first icon was this mining stone extraction well. The icon was colorful, and the explanation was simple, but the construction funds amount behind it made Li Ran hesitant.

  PS: Red Alert was originally a fantasy game, so it's natural that it is. Don't take it seriously.

  Don't think that these explanations are just for show, if you think that way, then I'll be too hurt. If not for writing these explanations, I can write at least a thousand more words every day.

  Since No. 1, I have been preparing these notes for three days in a row, and all of them are typed out one by one, not copied or pasted. So, please give me more understanding.

  The previous book, many people complained that except for hanging the name of Red Alert, there was actually not much about Red Alert. This point will be improved in this book, trying to maximize the effectiveness of the Red Alert base.