Invincible Chapter 344
For people like Kane who play "I am the world", working hard is already a necessity in their lives.
The production fleet is already on the right track, and it is estimated that it will take a year to complete the overall adjustment and finalization of the technical system. Then you can start the Zhao-style style that explodes the drone sea.
He couldn't stay idle, armed with a gray beard and came to Marsala to experience life.
Of course, the main experience is the upcoming tribal war.
On November 21, Kane has been in Marsala for three weeks in a blink of an eye.
One thing that makes Kane happy is that the money is going well.
This is really something to be happy about. After all, currency is just a convenient symbol of wealth and has no value in itself. With his network of contacts, it is not easy to conduct large transactions according to his wishes.
However, he was inevitably targeted.
Someone told the trade representative that because of the commission he had earned from Greybeard, the 'Purple Badge', which seemed to be overlord recently, had already focused part of its attention on Port of Exile, and Greybeard was the focus.
The so-called 'Purple Badge' refers to a group of closely-knit founding families.
The Tyrann Federation is not governed by a grand president, but by a veteran.
The Founding Families constitute the main representatives of the Senate, and within this circle the ruling senators are born.
Under the Senate is the House of Representatives, which is composed of representatives of the major regions of the Federation's planets. Their votes determine which elder will be in power. The term is 6 years, but they cannot be re-elected.
There are also differences between the founding families, and the Purple Badge is the most cohesive little alliance of veterans in the past 50 years. Including the ruling elders, who will end their term in two years, are also members.
Purple often represents magnificence and nobility, and the badge is a nameplate. This kind of alliance is not on the table and is not recognized by the Federal Constitution, so it is called instead.
It doesn't matter to Kane, he got the dry goods, and he will start fighting immediately. He believes that the "Purple Badge" gang will never be so dizzy that they will attack him as the first priority.
And as a lot of money was thrown out, more than a dozen ships that had been sailing to the dock to dismantle scrap iron fell into his hands.
It's no joke that scavenging is addictive.
For Kane,
One of the joys of being idle is turning waste into treasure.
No one needs to be amazed, shocked, praised, or admired. Just getting it done through your own efforts is already full of sense of accomplishment.
In the case of some reincarnations, anyway, in the upcoming three-clan war, countless ships of the human military and civilians were destroyed by the insect swarm. Rather than using Zerg as a target ship, it’s better to make me cheap, and still play a role, so grab his mother...
Kane will not do this. As a law-abiding camp, he generally does not take the initiative to disrupt the existing order, especially when there is big right and wrong. There are rules of play to achieve the goal.
The flying rags he bought have already arrived in Port of the Dead.
There itself is a super scrap yard, a dismantling center, a production complex, and a sacred place for modification.
For example, the famous Mira Han, who recognizes money but does not recognize people, has her own fully automatic production space station, which can produce everything from small drones to large battlecruisers.
Mira Han, who has surplus production capacity, doesn't mind modifying the small money all the time. Of course, for the gray beard with a bad reputation on the street, he must pay first.
However, Kane had no money, so he sold Mira Han a message.
Simply put, the war is about to start.
Kane said: "This news says that it is worth 1 billion federal credit currency. I count you 300 million. You don't have to believe it, but if you do something afterwards, then I have the right to treat you as a broken promise. Graybeard is not as good as you The army is strong, the money is powerful, but to obtain this level of information, it is natural to have a higher-end boss, you prevent the gray beard from taking the opportunity to make money, and this account will be settled sooner or later."
"Yo! Greybeard, I just realized that you can also threaten people. You have always done it directly before." Mira Han has always had a not-so-serious joking tone: "You forgot that Port of the Dead is the least Is food a threat? I trust Wushuang Liang Mira, so I won’t take money and do nothing. However, if there is a problem with your news, I will send your ships that are going to transport pigs to make money, and I will send them directly to the scrap yard.”
Mira Han is obviously a human being, and he immediately figured out that Graybeard bought these ships that were about to be scrapped to be used as space sampans to transport a large number of refugees.
In what she said privately to her girlfriends: "A gray beard who never knew what long-term development is. In order to catch up with this wave, I'm afraid I even sold my underwear, so I scraped together the money to buy a bunch of junk."
In the end, her best friend was not a fuel-efficient lamp, and reported the purchase list of Gray Beard in the past few months.
Then it was Mira Han's turn to turn pale: "Damn it, we must quickly find a way to avoid financial risks, the Federation is going to die!"
When the federation is over, whether the new rulers of its credit currency are willing to pay the bill is definitely a very questionable matter. Even if they are willing, their purchasing power will inevitably plummet. Mira Han still has a lot of money to play the money making money investment company game.
From a certain perspective, Mira Han can be regarded as a microcosm of the channel class.
Compared with those well-informed or simply news creators who knew early on that storms were coming, and even personally participated in calling for storms, Mira Han would recite Amitabha without losing money.
But compared with the people at the bottom, she doesn't know where her foresight has gone. Most of the people are afraid that they will not know that the little assets accumulated through years of hard work will soon shrink, or simply go to waste, until the war breaks out and prices skyrocket.
What a prosperous location, what a mountain and riverside, a beautiful environment, and the logistics are cut off, so you can’t live anymore. The salary of the past month is not even enough for a week’s expenses. Consumption is much more nutritious than the nutrients you eat carefully. Where is it used to exercise to lose weight? Just a sudden reduction in eating and drinking and worrying about the future are enough to lose weight quickly.
Then there is the stage where the face is shattered, the favors are quickly exhausted, and even the self-righteous favors are actually found to be non-performing assets.
And then there is the moment when human life is worthless, and the family's feelings are tested. If there happens to be a daughter-in-law who is still in the family, or a daughter who is just young, tsk tsk, then things will be even more lively...
This is all conceivable if you think about it seriously, and the probability of it happening is very high. That's why I say, I'd rather be a dog of peace than a chaotic person. Don't listen to some people's nonsense. If you haven't suffered from that crime, it's hard to understand what kind of pain it is.
When Kane was half a child in his previous life, he asked his grandma: "Why do we have a noodle jar and a rice jar?"
The reason for asking this is that with such a tank, it accumulates a lot, eats slowly, always eats stale noodles and rice, and is prone to worms.
Kane’s childhood memory is that his grandma would always use a noodle basket to sieve noodles every year because of bugs.
Grandma smiled and said nothing.
Is it because of stupidity? No, it was because of being too restricted. If you haven't been starving for years, or seen the overall weakening of your immune system, death from exhaustion, or lack of medical treatment, people are tossed to death by parasites alone, and you can't really understand the pain and horror.
Kane has tasted it later, at least he has witnessed human tragedies more than once. This world may be able to produce artificial food similar to the kind in {The Matrix} because of advanced technology, so that people will not die of thirst or starvation, but there are other factors that cause pain. There are really countless.
So Kane felt that, without delaying his own enjoyment, he could still do some personnel work, which should be done.
He clearly remembered that in the original historical line, the number of people Jim Raynor finally rescued from Marsala was at most a few hundred families, because the initial combat strength of the Raynor Rangers was a few hundred people, and each family was counted. Out of gratitude, they sent a representative to follow Renault, the leader of the militia, and there were no more than 3,000 people. This is definitely an overcalculation, not a conservative estimate.
And the investigation mission that Kane has arranged since he arrived in Marsala has also taken shape. 1.3 million, at least 1.3 million people have not been infected.
There are 400,000 humans in Chosala, and 3.1 million humans in Marsala. The land is vast and sparsely populated.
Kane reckoned that he and the Federation had the same thoughts. They both wanted to protect the big and let go of the small. Those who wandered outside the large community really had to look at their faces. When the time came, they would send armed transport planes to sweep them, and they could save as much as they could.
As for the entire training camp, Kane said in his heart: "I see it as a real Starport."
That's right, it was so grand that it was regarded as a reliable refugee evacuation point.
There was no Hydralisk in the video he sold to Sean Fox. Fox and the others didn’t know that after upgrading to the lair, the Hydralisk could mutate twice, master the skills of burrowing and launching attacks, and even be so developed that it could tear open the battlefield. The armored limbs on the side of the car can sneak and walk, and ordinary human facilities cannot withstand this kind of offensive.
In the original history line, many people thought that hiding deep underground was a good way, but the ant nest was dug out by the Zerg.
Starting from November 24th, the scrapped ships repaired by Mira Han's interstellar shipyard began to arrive in the Sara galaxy one after another.
But Kane didn't have much time to pay attention to the details of these ships at this time. Since the 22nd, he has been caught in a bunch of entertainment.
The mountain rain is about to come and the wind is all over the building, and now the wind has blown.
Originally, the training of the militia was agreed to be 240 class hours, 8 hours of training a day, that is, training for one month.
As a result, it had to be interrupted for a little more than two weeks. First, a series of vicious incidents in the jurisdiction kept Jim Raynor busy, and then more wild beast attacks forced the militiamen to participate in patrol operations.
As I said before, the garrison is focusing on the main towns, and compared to the entire Marsala, their personnel are still too small, and Kane suspects that they are probably responsible for certain tasks, such as observing the Zerg virus way of transmission.
In this context, the administrators of the towns can only organize militias to protect the scattered settlements outside the towns but within the jurisdiction.
There are always people who are stubborn and stubborn, reluctant to part with their family business, and then when something really happens, they cry and complain that the government is not doing their best.
Kane can understand the difficulty of earning a fortune. What he can't understand is why he still expects others to be responsible for his own safety when he knows that there are no people's soldiers and efficient and responsible officials? Why do we have to wait for the moment when death is approaching to realize the simple truth of "everything is irrelevant when people are gone"?
I have to say, trusting people is the first difficulty, and the second difficulty is communication. Various factors lead to the inability to communicate, and I am really drunk.
From Kane's point of view, there are only a few people in a town who are willing to do dangerous work at this time. This is not to say that if the salary is sufficient and the treatment is good, there will be a lot of people. After all, this is an era when most people think of themselves as porcelain, and it is a group of people who talk about levels even if they encounter disasters.
Take the soldiers, most of the soldiers of the Federation are criminals or rebels, who have undergone forced neurological modification.
This one alone is enough to show that civilized voluntary military service is by no means the mainstream, especially the game of "one radish, one hole, flesh and blood as soldiers".
Marsala, as a frontier planet, is considered to have a strong folk style, and there are objective reasons for the lack of official protection and rampant space bandits, so there are militia organizations.
And not all mayors are as shrewd and courageous as Dominic. Not to mention training the militia, even the weapons and equipment are better than rags. Now that something is wrong, I am in a hurry and go to the doctor. I hope Gray Beard can help If the issue of law and order is settled, people will panic, the economy will be seriously affected, and the loss will be huge.
Kane has been busy with socializing recently, mainly this.
"It's not impossible to expect all of us to dispatch to protect a certain area, but my offer may make you feel disingenuous. In my opinion, each of my boys is worth the money, and I have participated in them at least ten times It's worth it to survive the firefight while still alive. So my offer is this..."
"One of our teams will lead the local militia organization. In addition to paying high salaries, you also have to pay for weapons and equipment. Of course, it is not for my soldiers, but for the militia. After all, this is a battle, not some big man's. At funerals, guns don’t need to be accurate, as long as they fire, it’s OK.”
"Of course, if you feel the pain of spending the money, you can contact my colleagues. There is no channel to come to me. Of course, I won't guarantee that they are as elite as us."
There is no doubt that Kane's business attitude is stinky, and he is completely using his own people as treasures, with an attitude of "love to use, don't leave".
In fact, Kane's men are indeed treasures. They can be counted as the humans who know how to fight the Zerg best in this universe, if biological humans are also considered humans.
Some people gritted their teeth, and the money was spent. Some people think that there is no need to be alarmed. It is okay to spend a small amount of money to buy peace of mind and make the people feel at ease. But if it is too expensive, it is better to spend less money on those media. Anyway, they have long been unscrupulous, distorting the facts and playing word games. Maybe it can survive the limelight.
Pass the limelight? The fun has only just begun.
In fact, Kane has been thinking about a problem, and that is the effect of biomass on the zerg.
He has confirmed that Zergs can survive on desolate planets that are not suitable for human beings, and they even deliberately choose such planets with harsh environments to hone the sharpness and vigor of Zergs, and sometimes even use the harsh environment, Play the 'evolve or die' forced experiment.
What he wasn't sure about was whether, if there was enough biomass, frankly, all kinds of meat, including human flesh, would contribute to the crazy explosion of the zerg.
Although he participated in the mission of SC in his previous life, more than once. But the tasks arranged by the Wanxiangmen system have never been easy for the reincarnators, and most of them come and go in a hurry, and the price they need to pay to stay is not ordinary. So he didn't have a deep understanding of some situations.
For example, Josala, Marsala, and other planets that were slaughtered by Zerg. Whether the Zerg mainly descended from the sky, or activated their nests, exploded with all their strength, and then supported them with war.
To be honest, he doesn't quite believe that Zerg managed to make a space raid in the original historical line without being discovered, or that all the messages were broken.
It's not that it can't be done, but human beings have never been their main target, and they don't bother to be so cautious.
Then, according to the human technology of this era, it is hard to imagine that there are a large number of foreign objects in space, and they are already close to the planetary circle, but they were not observed in time, and the message was not sent out.
This is not a matter of insufficient monitoring due to the intensity of investment in the colonies. After all, interstellar navigation, detection is a big foundation. Even ships can have such strong detection capabilities, accurately grasp the location, play warp raids, and set up a ground or space base station to monitor the solar system. How expensive and laborious is it?
The trading of one's own ships also requires relevant information support. This is actually a business that can be compatible with the air traffic control tower in the earth age when it is upgraded to the space level.
Every time the Zerg soldiers approached the city, they knew they had invaded. Such a gravity well-level warning net was too low.
This time he came to the Sara Galaxy, he made a special trip to investigate this aspect.
The answer is that since entering the interstellar era without encountering an alien civilization for so many years, human beings think that they are a special case in the universe, at least the Milky Way, so they relax their vigilance and have no habit of prosecuting.
In more detail, if the monitoring level is too high, it will be inconvenient to carry out certain gray and black transactions. So in fact the dignitaries played a very negative role in the monitoring of the galaxy.
In the words of some people: "Behind those space pirates, there are often benefactors standing. In order to snatch benefits, they have already fought a lot, including robbing and destroying each other's cargo ships and passenger ships in the name of pirates."
Faced with this situation, Kane could only do it himself and have enough food and clothing. He bribed the relevant personnel of Marsala and arranged three observation ships in high orbit. He wanted to see what the truth was?