Chapter 9 Territory

Tianwei 4 star. m.

This is a remote and desolate planet.

Its area is not large, only about a quarter of the earth's area, with a total land area of ​​80 million square kilometers and an ocean area of ​​30 million square kilometers.

The ocean area less than half of the land makes its natural ecology extremely bad, with sparse vegetation, large temperature difference between day and night, and even a complete biosphere cannot be formed. In the end, it depends on the system to make it a place where human beings can barely survive.

Tianwei 4 Star Triangle Area, Purgatory Angel Base.

A convoy is coming from afar.

The leading flaming chariot stopped at the gate of the base, and a heroic-looking woman in a general's uniform walked out of the car, and it was Meryl.

Meryl walked towards the gate of the base, and the soldiers in charge of security saluted together: "Your Excellency, General!"

Meryl returned a military salute, then looked around, frowning: "Where's Alfonso? Why didn't anyone come over for a security check?"

"I'm here." Not far away, a young man in a leather jacket and earphones came over lazily: "I just walked around."

"Aren't you going to be lazy?" Meryl gave him a cold look: "It's not like you don't know that all convoys that go out have to undergo routine inspections when they return."

"I just trust you..."

"I don't need your trust!" Meryl glared at him and said, "I just need you to abide by the rules of the base!"

Alfonso raised his hands: "OK, OK, you guys, go to check the convoy and let it go after you're done, hurry up!"

A group of soldiers rushed forward.

"You're always so rigid, Meryl, it's so boring." Alfonso said helplessly.

Meryl gave him a cold look: "You are always doing nothing, Alfonso, when will you put on your damn military uniform?"

"Come on, we're not real soldiers."

"But we are generals, and your performance will reduce your prestige among the soldiers."

"I do not care,

I didn't rely on them to fight. Alfonso spread his hands, and he made a gesture of shooting with his hands: "If those bugs come, I can clean them up by myself. "

Meryl snorted, she had nothing to say to this guy with good strength but so arrogant. After all, Alfonso's time to enter the fifth difficulty is too short. He has only experienced two small-scale insect swarm attacks, and he has not really seen the horror of the Zerg.

The soldier in charge of the inspection came back soon and reported: "Report to General Alfonso. The inspection of the convoy has been completed. No abnormalities were found, no signs of camouflage or infiltration. Two thousand tons of ore were obtained, with a purity of 66%. The report is complete."

"Wow, the purity is sixty-six percent!" Alfonso whistled: "Good job, Meryl, every time you go out, you always gain the most."

"And you are always the least." Meryl said bluntly.

Although the ecological environment of Tianwei 4 is very poor, it is rich in ore veins, rich in a large number of high-grade metal ore veins.

Metal veins are not a resource that adventurers need to turn in, but it can be the best alternative resource for base expansion.

Base walls, defense towers and other facilities will use a lot of metal. These infrastructures can be purchased by spending points or completed by construction. The latter is certainly more troublesome, but the advantage is that it can reduce a lot of investment. However, the wall built purely with metal is not strong enough, and the system needs to be strengthened, which can only be done by spending points.

In addition, some other defense measures can also use this kind of metal veins. For example, the development of the Red Alert base requires a large amount of metal.

The red police base is a commonly used defense method in the fifth difficulty. The soldiers produced through the base vehicle building are cheap and numerous, which is far cheaper than recruiting soldiers from the system.

However, the development of the Red Alert base requires mineral resources. To be precise, the Red Alert base is not cheaper, but can use a large amount of alternative resources.

Tianwei 4 is rich in mineral veins, far superior to Tatooine, so although the living environment here is harsh, the defense conditions are relatively good.

As long as you have enough time and mineral resources, you can build a huge ground force with only a few points.

Therefore, in a sense, the convoy is like a mining vehicle in Red Alert, which is responsible for mining.

Of course, the Red Police base car is not the only option.

In addition to the Red Police base vehicle, there are some more powerful bases, the most typical being the Terran Star Base, which is the base in StarCraft. This kind of base produces the arms in StarCraft, including those Thors that can be exchanged directly, and warships can also be obtained through production. Because metal mines replace resources and self-production, the price is cheaper than exchanging points.

However, few people do this on difficulty level 5. Firstly, this type of base has a huge investment. A single base car costs 5 million points, and later production still needs to consume points, which is difficult even for generals. The second is that this kind of base is like a natural mockery, which will attract fierce attacks from the Zerg. The base built at a huge price may be taken away by the Zerg before it has much effect.

Hearing what Meryl said at this moment, Alfonso laughed: "Why do you care so much, Meryl, it doesn't matter if there are too many, after all, it will be distributed to everyone."

"It is because everyone thinks like you that the third ring defense system has not been completed until now." Meryl said angrily.

Cooperation is like this. Everyone hopes that others will do more, and everyone hopes that they will do less.

The Chinese are like this, and the Europeans and Americans are not much better.

Just when she was about to teach Alfonso a lesson, the roar of an engine suddenly came from the sky.

The two looked up at the sky at the same time, and saw a large formation of transport planes flying in the distant sky, escorted by hundreds of fighter jets on both wings.

"It's a courier!" Alfonso screamed strangely. He jumped into the air, first landed on the 30-meter-high fence, and then jumped onto a nearby sentry tower, took out a telescope from the sentry and looked at it. Looking from a distance, he shouted: "A total of thirty-two super-large L700 transport aircraft, how can there be so many? Damn, this is not a follow-up supplement, this is the opening of a new base, we are coming to new neighbors!"

Meryl also jumped up and looked into the distance: "It may also be a newcomer."

"A total of thirty-two super-large transport planes were used to deliver the goods. It cannot be a newcomer. No newcomer has this ability. This must be a joint base!" Alfonso replied. Those who open up new bases may not all be newly joined generals, and it is also possible that the seniors feel that the territory is too small to further expand their sphere of influence, and they may not necessarily be in the original area.

But no matter which one it is, being able to deliver so many materials for construction at one time when opening up a new base is a big deal and a bold effort.

You must know that the vast majority of newcomers can only choose a small amount of investment when they first open a new base, and then take advantage of the time to develop and grow step by step. Even if it is the expansion of the elderly, they will not invest so much at once. , the support from the main base of the system is mostly handled by three or five transport planes, more than a dozen or twenty planes are quite a lot, like now, the delivery of more than 30 super large transport planes in one go, even Meryl and Alfonso It was also the first time I saw it.

"That's not necessarily the case." Meryl said casually, "Some newcomers may be able to do this."

When she said this, she didn't deliberately think about who could do it, but after she said the words, the image of the Broken Blade team involuntarily came to mind.

Why can't I always forget them?

Meryl shook her head, she didn't want to think about everything she had experienced, but deep in her heart, some people were stubborn and stubborn, unwilling to disappear, and that hateful smiling face teased her again and again. Meryl's heartstrings... Alfonso obviously didn't care about Meryl's mood at the moment, his binoculars were chasing the transport plane all the way: "Look where their location is... oh... no... hell... They actually chose the Platinum Mountains...they are right next to us!"

Alfonso's voice became sharper, but then his face showed a lot of anger: "No, don't these bastards understand the rules? That's our radiation zone, they can't build a base there!"

The so-called radiation area is the indirect control area.

For example, if an adventurer establishes a territory with an area of ​​10,000 square kilometers, it does not mean that he really wants to build a wall of more than 300 kilometers along this land.

That would be too big an area.

The real way is to build a core base corresponding to the territory first, and the periphery of the base belongs to the radiation area of ​​the energy converter, but absolute control is not required.

This is like the relationship between the city and the countryside. The surrounding countryside is still attached to the city. When calculating the area of ​​​​the city, the rural area will also be included in the calculation, such as the total area of ​​​​one city and three counties, etc., but the city wall itself only protects the city.

For adventurers, as long as there are no other adventurers in the radiation area to intervene.

But just because the scope of the radiation area is vague and there is no wall control, there will often be overlaps in the radiation area, and sometimes conflicts will arise.

Unexpectedly, the first thing the new residents did was to settle down in the radiation area of ​​the West Joint Base, so it was no wonder that Alfonso wanted to jump and curse.

This is almost a joint base, the only difference is that the joint base allows radiation coverage, but the neighbors do not, and the back garden cannot be shared.

Meryl was still calm enough, she jumped to the top of the sentry tower, and also raised the binoculars to look into the distance, until she saw clearly where the transport plane landed, she said: "No, Alfonso, they were not built on the radiation zone. , but the border is approaching...they calculated the distance...they came prepared."

No radiation zone coverage does not belong to the joint base, only to the neighbors.

But this time the neighbors obviously belong to the neighbor level, the distance between 101 and 102.

The problem is there are enough empty houses here, why are you so close to me?

"Really?" Hearing Meryl's words, Alfonso was taken aback, and he also jumped up to look carefully into the distance, and finally confirmed what Meryl said was true: "But in this way, we can't expanded over there."

Although the other party did not violate the radiation zone, the borderlines on both sides were close, virtually blocking an expansion direction of the Purgatory Angel base.

The right to expand the territory is also a power that all adventurers value, and it can only grow if it continues to expand outward.

"They kept some of it." Meryl continued to look.

During the landing transport, some engineers were coming out of the transport plane, and they were flying all the way in a special engineering vehicle. White powder leaked from the bottom of the vehicle and drew white lines on the ground. This was to demarcate the area. After the outer radiation area is drawn, it is the inner base area.

Judging from the direction of the engineering soldier's line, the opponent obviously did not intend to block the expansion of the Angel of Purgatory, and kept most of the blank area, which made the opponent's area not a complete circle, but this is not important. The environment needs to be considered. The opponent's base is built on the side of the Platinum Mountains, which allows them to save the construction of a wall in one direction.

However, these blank areas do not mean that only Purgatory Angels can use them, and the opponent's base can also develop in this direction.

"They can still be human." Alfonso also saw it, and finally dispelled some of his anger, but he still felt uncomfortable when the other party built a new territory next to him.

How can you allow others to sleep soundly on the side of the collapse?

"Maybe we should talk to them and let them go a little further."

"I will, but I have to see who they are first..." Meryl suddenly got stuck here, because she saw a group of terminators coming out of the transport plane.

terminator?

A large number of terminators were carrying goods out of the transport plane and heading to various designated locations, and then several familiar figures appeared.

"Oh... no..." Seeing that familiar face, Meryl couldn't help moaning, and the telescope fell to the ground.

———————————— “Seven energy converters, 12 double S-class shore-based fortress guns, eight energy cannons, four super fortress guns, 3,000 workers, 500 soldiers and All other materials are in place, please sign for receipt.”

An adventurer from the Message Alliance handed the receipt to Shen Yi.

"I don't know there is such a program to sign for." Shen Yi smiled and signed his name on it, and the adventurer took it over and said with a smile: "It's a simulated world, the system functions are gradually being replaced."

The adventurer said and looked back at the workers and soldiers who were busy working behind him: "This is the biggest escort I have ever experienced. The Broken Blade team is indeed the Broken Blade team. It has a large territory of 100,000 square kilometers. Others The team starts with one or two energy conversion territories. You must know that the hardest time is at the beginning, and what those bugs love to do most is to destroy them all in one go before your territory construction is completed. Let all your investment be in vain. And the larger the territory, the longer the construction cycle and the longer the period of weakness."

"That's why we need to recruit more workers. It's a pity that workers' wages are still too high. Three thousand workers is 150,000 points." Shen Yi sighed.

She smiled softly: "Look, this is the face of a capitalist. Even the boss hates having to pay wages."

The adventurer smiled and said, "It's not bad. I didn't expect you to have so many soldiers and terminators. Otherwise, it would cost more points just to recruit temporary soldiers."

In fact, with the number of soldiers and terminators that Shen Yi and the others have now, it is completely unnecessary to recruit new soldiers. After all, there are as many as 3,000 people in the Second Corps alone.

The problem is that the defensive measures such as those bought fortress guns can only be used by recruited soldiers. Although his own soldiers can be cultivated, it takes too much time. Therefore, Shen Yi recruited a group of soldiers with a number of about 500 to be responsible for manipulating All kinds of forts.

He didn't buy many forts, only 24 in total, but all of them were double S grades. As for the middle and low-level artillery, the artillery that comes with the fortress is enough for use. The reason for this is to reduce the recruitment of soldiers.

The scope of the core base has begun to be delineated, all work has its own regulations, and there is no need for temporary design, and the efficiency of recruiting workers is far higher than that of people on Earth. In fact, the physical fitness of these workers alone is stronger than the best special forces on Earth. , otherwise it would not be possible to survive on this harsh planet.

Even so, it still takes at least fifteen days for 3,000 workers to build a core base with an area of ​​1,000 square kilometers and six satellite bases.

In the past, in order to get through the start-up period as quickly as possible, adventurers either took shelter from other adventurers, or joined forces, or first established an ultra-small base for self-protection before seeking development.

The Broken Blade team was a standard base of ten people from the beginning, and it was more than one or two steps ahead. According to Meryl, this was already the first expansion after the completion of the standard construction.

And most of the teams complete the standard construction after going through a period of one to two months, and the Purgatory Angel Base has not even completed the third comprehensive expansion yet.

Of course, they take thirty-six people as the standard.

"Zeus, hurry up and complete the zoning work, we are already five minutes behind schedule!" Shen Yi shouted to Zeus, the construction commander in the distance: "Only when the zoning is completed can the construction of the energy supply center begin!"

The energy supply center is like a city power plant, the core that supports the operation of all equipment. Due to the relatively large scale from the beginning, the base of the Broken Blade team even built ten energy supply centers.

After explaining to Zeus, Shen Yi turned around and smiled at the adventurer: "Okay, thank you this time, I believe there will be opportunities to trouble you in the future."

"You're welcome, then I wish you all good luck." The adventurer knew that this was the busiest time for the generals, so he didn't say much, and left directly.

Watching the transport fleet leave, Shen Yi clapped his hands: "Well, from now on we will have a good time playing this farming game. Arias, you take a few people to set up a temporary security point over there, Frost, Lyle, Ralph, you take your men over there, over there and over there. Michelle, take your men and set up a patrol. Hong Lang, King Kong, Linger, you are responsible for helping the construction, speeding up the project Progress, let those God of War mechs come to help, high power is not only used to kill. Gentle, you go to explore the nearby metal veins. Yiyu, find a suitable open space between the main base and the satellite base to put down the fortress! Until the base is complete, we're counting on it."

"Understood!" Everyone replied together.

"What about you?" Rourou blinked at Shen Yi.

"I'm in charge of foreign affairs, receiving some visiting guests." Shen Yi replied with a smile.

Looking back, a shuttle is flying towards here at high speed. q