Chapter 2: Red Alert Base (Part 1)

  Red Alert Base Introduction: The birthplace of all wonders, covering an area of 10,000 square meters.

  Note: This is a masterpiece of God, so don't be surprised at its functions. It can transform into various architectural forms.

  Nothing is impossible for him; everything is possible with him.

  Advice: Cherish it if you have it, for even the base of separation cannot replace it. It is a unique existence in the universe.

  The sunset is infinitely beautiful, but it's just near dusk.

  The sunset in Africa is really beautiful. This was the only sentence of praise that Li Lan said after unexpectedly coming to Somalia.

  Under the sunset, at the end of a field overgrown with weeds, there appeared a very magnificent building. Two huge mechanical arms kept rotating, scaring away many animals that originally lived here.

  Listening to the distant sound of dogs barking, Li Lan felt completely at ease, tore off the black cloth on his body, turned off the safety of the pistol and put it in his pocket, because he was already home.

  In front of the withered yellow weeds, a figure in yellow rushed towards Li Ran at high speed, and soon appeared before her.

  This is a very majestic military dog, with strong limbs supporting its body that is almost as tall as Li Lan's buttocks, looking not much smaller than a lion.

  Seeing the military dog spinning around her, Li Lan reached into the food bag she had just exchanged and pulled out a piece of camel meat, placing it in the palm of her hand and extending it to the dog's mouth.

  The clever military dog directly picked up the piece of meat, raised its neck and swallowed it without even chewing.

  This military dog has been Li Lan's best companion over the past few days and a major guarantee of his safety.

  To others, it might just be a very majestic and healthy big dog, but in Li Lan's eyes, a military dog is still a military dog, with the words "Third-Class Military Dog, Excellent Quality" floating above its head.

  With the military dog by her side, Li Ran returned to what had become her greatest reliance and hope, this strange building that suddenly appeared in Somalia.

  The mechanical arm looks enormous from a distance, and even more impressive when you get closer. The slight friction sound caused by the machine's operation also becomes clear and audible. The entire building is like an integral whole, like a huge castle.

  Familiar figure arrives at the gate, no password, no iris scan, no fingerprint verification, the gate opens automatically.

  "General, guard the door." Li Lan ordered the military dog he had named General, and then walked in naturally.

  "Woof!" The general shouted and then lay quietly at the gate.

  The big gate of the building closed silently after Li Lan went in.

  As Li Lan entered the building, after the door closed, she heard a very stiff electronic synthesized voice: "Welcome back, Commander. Everything is normal in the base."

  To this sudden voice, Li Ran was already used to it. After seven twists and eight turns, she took the elevator to a huge hall with a strong sense of science fiction, scanned the vast space at a glance, and sat directly in the middle of a very luxurious armchair, putting the food bag in her hand aside casually.

  At this moment in front of Li Lan's eyes was a huge screen, a display that occupied the entire wall.

  Familiar with the various buttons projected in front of her chair, Li Ran no longer had the curious baby feeling she had four days ago.

  Four days ago, Li Ran was just an ordinary office worker, spending his days either working or squeezing onto public transportation, with a salary that barely allowed him to keep from going hungry, and wanting to stand out from the crowd was just a pipe dream.

  The day the miracle happened, Li Ran returned home as usual. He was walking on the road when he suddenly lost consciousness without any warning signs. When he woke up, he found himself in the base. And only less than a minute had passed.

  Under the repeated explanations of the self-proclaimed assistant's electronic voice and after his own complicated verification, Li Lan finally believed that all this was true.

  Because when he asked to go out and take a look, Li Lan saw a group of lions, a group of lions with bloodstains at the corners of their mouths. In the distance was an endless expanse of wild grass, everything forcing Li Lan to confront it.

  It took Li Ran four days to fully control her emotions and thoroughly explore the functions of this base.

  For Li Lan, who has an old computer in the dormitory, after work, there are only three interests. One is to read some military news and browse mainstream military websites as a pseudo-military fan. The second is to open the game platform and use games to vent real-life pressure. The third point... men all understand.

  Li Lan's most played game on the platform is Red Alert, because he has had a general dream since childhood, countless times fantasizing about commanding the world's most advanced sea, land and air forces to conquer one enemy after another. And Red Alert is his favorite game, although there are many BUGs inside, but over the years, he still can't put it down.

  Perhaps Li Lan's thoughts moved a certain god, after Li Lan fully understood the function of this base and confirmed that it was not a prank or a dream, Li Lan also officially entered his own role: the highest commander of the base.

  However, this base is not omnipotent, and this place is not safe either. The most important point is that the base only provided 3,000 yuan in start-up funds, plus a gift of a third-level military dog to guard the base.

  According to the normal gameplay, Li Ran should immediately choose a power plant, then build an ore refinery, accumulate money for barracks, chariot factory, and equip himself with basic weapons.

  However, in fact, it was not the case. For these three days, no matter how many times Li Lan looked at the construction page, the building unit icon was gray and white, and no matter how he clicked, there was no response. Li Lan asked the base assistant several times, but the assistant did not give an effective answer.

  He was originally full of passion, but was suddenly drenched with a basin of cold water, from head to toe. These days, Li Lan wakes up every day and immediately comes to the control panel to see if the icon has lit up.

  At this moment, Li Lan opened the control panel again, and the result still made Li Lan's face fall. Looking at the more than 2,900 funds on the front display screen, compared to the various beautiful building icons on the construction unit page, Li Lan was anxious like a cat scratching.

  But no matter how Li Lan operates, the icon is still gray and white.

  Flipping through the firearms production page, Li Lan felt a bit comforted, at least it wouldn't make him feel like the highest commander of this base was just a figurehead.

  Since Li Lan was familiar with this operation panel, she had always understood that this was after all reality. Even if this base was indeed the base car of Red Alert, it couldn't be completely copied from the game.

  In addition to the original building units in Red Alert, there are many new units here. The selection page also has an additional firearms and ammunition section. Moreover, the four major items of the game's operation interface: construction, defense, characters, tanks, and ships are divided more detailedly.

  A single building item is divided into military, civilian and scientific research uses here. In addition to the units in Red Alert, there are many new units, and from the graphics alone, Li Ran can't tell what function each building unit has.

  The two major items that have changed the least are defense and character, while the one that has changed the most is the last major item. It's not so much a change as it is reclassifying things within the game. Divided into three categories: sea, land, and air, just looking at the icons inside makes Li Ran feel a sense of excitement and fervor.

  Army First Class, Li Ran saw very familiar armed mining trucks, multi-functional infantry fighting vehicles, rhinoceros tanks, Revelation tanks, and Guangling tanks. What made him regret was that after flipping through several times, he didn't see the expected Phantom tank.

  Air Force First Class, apart from the familiar female deer, Night Eagle helicopter, Invader, and Black Hawk fighter jet icons that Li Lan knew well, what he was more looking forward to were the two question mark icons inside.

  Navy, from snail to aircraft carrier, all units in Red Alert are here, including magical dolphins and giant octopuses. Unfortunately, there is no question mark in the naval icon that Li Ran expected.

  However, after the excitement had passed, as soon as he saw the string of numbers under each unit, plus the defensive units, with no less than a million of each type, Li Ran got a headache. He still couldn't figure out where the funds in Red Alert base came from, and if it was supposed to be obtained through mining vehicles, who knew when they could build an army of pure Red Alert land, sea and air forces.

  The long-awaited fissure generator, Guangling Tower, French giant cannon, spy satellite, Patriot missile and strategic deterrent nuclear missile silo, when will they become a reality.

  What brings some comfort to Li Lan is that the construction cost of building units and personnel unit types has not changed. It's still the same as in the game. Even the largest nuclear power plant among building units hasn't changed.

  This also makes Li Lan feel like she hasn't been cheated.

  To know that now is the 21st century, on the display in front of Li Lan, a group of huge numbers gently and clearly indicated that the current time was 2014.

  In addition, being in Somalia, this yellow-skinned foreigner's life and property are not his own. If he doesn't quickly come up with a self-defense force, no one can guarantee that tomorrow this place won't be discovered by Somalis, and then a large group of armed men will swarm in, at which point even his small body might be torn apart.