Chapter 5 The First Step in Development

  Ore extraction well:

  Collect auxiliary units, build a base with a price of 50,000 funds, occupying an area of 5 square meters on the ground, and it takes 24 hours to complete the construction.

  Note: A unit rich in many things that cannot be understood by Earth's technology, don't look at the surface as a small building, but actually has a vast underground space. Such a mineral extraction well, under the complex mechanical operation of the underground, can excavate minerals within a range of five kilometers underground and transport them to the ground without causing too much damage to the geology.

  Although the construction price is high, the cost performance ratio is higher, and the disguise degree is excellent, many are harmless.

  Special Note: Once the extractable minerals within the range are depleted to zero, the Mineral Extraction Well will automatically destroy its core device. The destroyed Mineral Extraction Well will completely cease operation. Please instruct the commander to recover it in time. After recovery is complete, the commander will receive one-fifth of the construction cost as compensation.

  Note: The ore extraction well given by the Ore Refinery, after recovery, cannot obtain base fund compensation. Moreover, the given ore extraction well is built by default within a 5-kilometer range of the Ore Refinery, and the construction time overlaps with that of the Ore Refinery, without the need to calculate additional time.

  Suggestion: Choose the number of constructions based on the mineral distribution in the surrounding area. If the mineral density is very high, you can choose to build more. If the mineral distribution is too sparse, please build fewer, otherwise it will be difficult to recover the cost.

  The introduction is very powerful, but it costs 50,000 base funds, which makes Li Lan's head stretch down a few black lines. Nowadays, the entire base has only more than 2,000 funds, an electric factory and a mineral processing plant, adding up to 26,000 funds needed, 50,000 is simply unimaginable for Li Lan at present.

  He originally thought that the construction unit's construction funds would not be a pit, and the emotional pit was behind. As soon as he thought of the string of numbers behind the weapon unit, Li Ran felt his head getting bigger and bigger.

  It's okay now, it's not necessary to build this thing, at least when the construction unit is not fully formed yet, there's no need to consider it.

  Li Ran quickly lost interest in continuing to look after scanning the last page of other icons from the construction unit, and quickly flipped back to the first page. After rubbing her hands together, she lightly clicked on the power plant, and immediately, the control panel's screen turned into a 3D effect diagram, which was the impact around the base.

  "Please select a location for construction, Commander." The assistant's voice also echoed in his ear.

  Li Ran took a glance at the map in front of her, casually selected a location, and then confirmed the construction button. In an instant, the icon of the magnetic energy reactor turned grayish white again, with a countdown on it.

  Looking up at the top of the display in front, the base funds of 2965 didn't move. Li Ran asked somewhat strangely: "Assistant, is it a system error? Why isn't there any movement with the base funds?"

  "When a construction unit is confirmed to be built on the base, the required base funds are not deducted at one time, but are deducted gradually according to the construction progress. Just now, the commander confirmed the construction of the magnetic energy reactor building unit, which requires 600 base funds and takes 6 hours to build. The 600 base funds will be slowly deducted within the 6 hours after the construction is completed."

  The amount of 2965 funds on the screen changed to 2964 as soon as the assistant finished answering. In less than forty seconds, the funds decreased by 1 point again.

  Li Lan, who had some secret joy in her heart, saw the slowly decreasing numbers and helplessly shrugged her shoulders, comforting herself with a sentence: "Thinking too much."

  Li Ran suddenly thought of a very important question and asked the assistant, "Assistant, how many units can be built at once?"

  "Within the same category of building units, only one unit can be constructed at a time. It is not allowed to construct two or more units of the same category simultaneously, regardless of whether they are identical or not."

  "In other words, a building unit can only choose to construct one unit at a time, but I can still continue to construct units under other categories."

  "Yes."

  "Will this restriction change later?"

  "Insufficient information, unable to answer."

  In previous questions, Li Lan got very good answers and thought that after activating the base, the assistant's ability had improved, but the emotions were still the same, not much different from before.

  "Assistant, are there many minerals in Somalia?" This question directly relates to whether Li Lan's development will go smoothly later on. After seeing the relationship between the mineral processing plant and the base funds, he listed it as a top priority.

  "According to the scanning and exploration of the base, Somalia has rich mineral resources, mainly distributed in the northern region, including coal, iron, copper, silver, gold, tin, manganese, nickel, molybdenum, chromium, magnesium, zinc, aluminum, uranium, quartz, olivine, gypsum and rock salt."

  The gypsum reserve is about 30 million tons, one of the largest in the world, but has already been mined by foreign organizations.

  Somalia has rich oil reserves, and the northern coast also has rich oil reserves. The continental shelf extending into the Gulf of Aden also has rich oil reserves. However, the second-largest oil field in the northeastern corner is already being exploited by a foreign organization. The exploiter refers to the commander's home country. According to multiple sources, the United States has long coveted the oil here, but ultimately gave up due to security concerns.

  Copper, silver and gold in the ore are all deeply buried in Mount Surud, the highest peak in Somalia. At the same time, there are also a large number of other minerals around Mount Surud. According to the earth's technology, the profit from mining is not great, but if the commander builds more mineral extraction wells on Mount Surud, it will have a huge boost to the development of the base, and the commander will also usher in a period of rapid development.

  The northeast and southeast coastal areas also have a large amount of natural gas reserves, with a reserve of over 200 million cubic meters according to the base's scanning exploration.

  According to various sources, except for gypsum, bentonite and a small amount of petroleum, all the resources in Somalia remain unexploited.

  Other minerals are mainly distributed in... (The above information comes from the Internet, and Huali has also added a little bit, don't blame me!)

  "What about the surroundings of our base?" The assistant poured out a large pile, also bringing a lot of good news to Li Lan. The whole Somalia was like a piece of virgin land waiting for his development.

  "There are many deep mineral deposits around the base, with the nearest one being an iron mine three kilometers away. The reserves are relatively deep, but they can already meet the commander's early development needs."

  The assistant's answer did not disappoint Li Ran, and the previous description was even better than this one. At least in the early stages of development, Li Ran didn't have to worry.

  Regarding Somalia, Li Ran also learned a lot through the console. The base's console is not only used to control the base but also serves as a supercomputer. These days, Li Ran has been passing time by surfing the internet.

  For his own safety, Li Ran did not personally experience the humanities of Somalia. He used online materials and assistants to translate some Somali websites' information to understand Somalia. Although he knew very little about it, fortunately, he had a general understanding of it.

  Watching the decreasing funds on the screen, Li Ran switched the console's function with interest, changed it to online mode, opened the familiar IE, and entered: ...

  The webpage responded quickly, as if only for an instant, the entire content of the website had already appeared on the huge monitor in front.

  But if Li Lan were to score this website, it would probably be a negative score. Although the website has been translated by an assistant and fully converted into Chinese, Li Lan really didn't have much interest in understanding this mostly blank website.

  If it weren't for this website being that of Somalia's completely discredited government, he wouldn't even have the heart to open it.

  Inside, apart from introducing who government officials are, where they come from and what contributions they have made, with one or two photos attached, basically you can't see any useful news.

  In Li Ran's eyes, this national central website that represents the country to release important messages and commemorate the constitutional system is not even as good as some third-rate websites in China.

  However, despite Li Lan having many opinions about the website, he still comes every day to take a look, looking at the awkwardly translated text sequence, trying to see if he can find some useful information for himself.

  Ten minutes later, Li Lan shut down the website with a headache, as usual, the website was full of nonsense.

  "I really don't know, in a country that is still exploring what knowledge is, why they have to make such a fuss about this and that on the website, saying this is great and that is great. Can't they just be more practical and achieve some useful results?" Li Lan shook her head and couldn't help but sigh. Looking back, compared to Somali officials, every one of China's officials can be called a saint.