Chapter 23 Planning

After the second wave of Zerg attacks, the base of the Broken Blade team launched a new round of vigorous development and construction.

The new round of construction mainly focuses on the production of forts and troops. After witnessing the horror of the Zerg, the Broken Blade team no longer dared to expand at will, but gave priority to the defense system, and first made good use of the existing base size advantage.

The fact that the giant mammoth broke through the fence gave everyone a wake-up call. The fence is not enough, it must be strengthened.

The reinforcement of the 85-kilometer wall costs 8,500 points for each upgrade.

Of course, we can't forget the workers' living quarters and the garbage disposal center...

The major production lines are running almost non-stop, producing, and most of the benefits brought by the energy beads are converted into points, and then turned into various types of Terminator corps with actual combat power.

Then came a new problem - not enough workers.

In the beginning, everyone only needed to build, and 3,000 workers could work overtime to complete it.

Nowadays, with the development of the base, more and more functional building facilities are appearing. If the functions of these building facilities are to be fully utilized, workers must enter and operate them.

The new round of construction also needs workers.

In order to avoid being dragged down by overtime pay, Shen Yi easily dared not ask everyone to work overtime.

The result is that the amount of work is not reduced, but the efficiency of the workers is reduced.

Expanding the recruitment of more workers can improve work efficiency, but in addition to more salaries, more supporting construction is required; more supporting construction requires more funds; more funds require more Energy converters; more energy converters need more sub-bases and workers; more sub-bases need more workers and soldiers...

An endless loop.

All these troublesome things made Shen Yi feel dizzy.

"There are nearly seven energy beads per day, which is 66,000 points per day, but it turns out... not enough!" Hong Lang's face collapsed.

"I still like the days when killing monsters and earning money." Fatty replied honestly.

How good it is to honestly fight monsters and pick money, what kind of base development has to be done, this tossing, it is estimated that there will be no splash after several million investment, I am really powerless.

"That's impossible too.

"Still gentle and understanding: "If you want to fight against such a powerful Zerg, it is not enough to rely on the strengthening of the adventurer's strength. You can only use a sea of ​​soldiers to fight a sea of ​​soldiers. Without a base, there is no sea of ​​soldiers. "

In fact, this is also the situation that most bases often face. In some respects, the necessary logistical subsidies hinder the development of the base more than the attack of the Zerg, so in many cases, waiting is just waiting.

But Shen Yi was unwilling.

For him, sitting around doing nothing to kill time is a waste. One year's development period is not too long. The efficiency of the workers can certainly make up for the time disadvantage, but the attack of the Zerg will also offset the efficiency advantage.

Therefore, every day in the development stage is precious and should be cherished.

"If it doesn't work, let's go to the wilderness. The Zerg has just fought for a short time, and they probably won't come again in a short time." King Kong suggested.

Shen Yi thought about it too.

Going to the wilderness is a choice that the generals will make after confirming that there is nothing wrong in a short period of time. After all, once you leave the simulated world, you will no longer be able to communicate with the simulated world. aid.

In addition, you have to pay a certain amount of points every time you leave, and it is impossible to come back and look at it from time to time, so you must take good care of it. Fortunately, the Broken Blade team is powerful, so it shouldn't be a problem to lose two or three people. The development of the base is gradually stabilizing, and only then can we start sending people out.

Considering the needs of the base, the wilderness finally sent Hong Lang, Wen Wen and King Kong to take shape for ten days, and they had to rush back after ten days anyway.

The next step is to pray that the Zerg will not attack anyway during this period.

But it turns out that good luck did not favor them this time, and pinning their hopes on the enemy is also doomed to be a bad idea.

On the fifth day after Gentle and the others left, the Zerg came, and they were menacing.

There are still 70 broods, but this time the main attack direction has become the Broken Blade base - they love to attack the largest base, not allowing it to develop into a threat; they love to attack the smallest base, because it is the easiest to bully.

The Broken Blade team almost resisted with all their strength, and the three warships that had been hiding all the time also launched. Shen Yi's hole card was useless on Wanxiang Palace, but was forced out by the Zerg. Finally, the fourth ship did not come out until Zhou Yiyu launched again Transformed by blood, after killing a low-level brood, they struggled to drive back the Zerg.

At the same time, the base also paid another heavy price after the first attack.

Due to the short interval and insufficient energy reserves this time, the defense canopy was breached, two energy converters and two energy supply centers were destroyed, many were damaged and needed to be repaired, and most of the newly built forts on the fence were destroyed.

Three arsenal factories were destroyed beyond repair, and one of them was an artillery factory. Finally, the Terminator assembly line was saved, but many Terminator died.

Fortunately, the Vientiane Palace didn't come over. After losing those four military bases, they became completely blind and could no longer grasp the movements of the Broken Blade team.

But watching them being beaten back to the pre-liberation base overnight, everyone still wanted to cry without tears.

When the chairman of the labor union came over and said that the residential area was damaged, but it had to be repaired within this month anyway, Shen Yi simply held back and didn't kill the bastard.

But after that, looking at the mess of the place, Shen Yi finally smiled.

"In any case, there are more foundations left now than the second attack, right? This means that we didn't waste this time in vain."

With tears in my smile!

Life is like this, always growing gradually through repeated tossing.

Whether it is ordinary people or Shen Yi and the others, they must work hard to adapt to this new environment.

So a new round of restoration, re-construction, and further development made life monotonous and simple.

The good news is they didn't pay it all for nothing.

When Gentle and the others came back, they brought hundreds of thousands of points of funds.

Everyone converted all these benefits into points and actively built them. Finally, at the end of the second month, all the construction of the core base was completed.

At this time they already had twelve large, medium and small arsenals, two Terminator production lines, and when the third month came, they added two thousand workers, one thousand soldiers, plus the Second Corps The nearly 3,000 members of the base made the base population grow to 10,000.

A new living area has been established, and there are more and more supporting facilities. People's laughter and laughter have begun to appear inside the base. It looks like a small city is developing from scratch.

Of course, the result of all this is that Shen Yi and the others are still in a state of being in and out, and after two full months, they haven't gotten a penny of benefits, and all the point gains have been invested in the construction and development of the base.

Learning from the previous lesson, Shen Yi and the others decided to go to the wilderness to grab money again, but this time it was directly limited to 30 days, and they simply let the three people who went out give up the base defense again, so as not to waste time and wait. Come on, you're here again when we're gone.

Of course, only the Broken Blade team has the courage to release half of the adventurers to steal money.

After all, strength is the foundation of development.

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Shen Yi is still busy in the office this afternoon.

He is conceiving a new expansion plan.

For two full months, the base was struggling in the process of overthrowing and resisting. A protective membrane was torn and then repaired, repaired and then torn, and the cycle went back and forth, gradually developing and growing amidst endless destruction.

Now that the number of energy supply centers has increased again, the defense strength has also increased, and the satellite base expansion plan that has been stranded has finally been put on the agenda again.

At this time, the guard came to report and Meryl came to visit.

Shen Yi was stunned, before she was invited in, Meryl had strode in directly.

She wasn't wearing a general's uniform, just casual clothes, and she looked quite charming.

"Why are you free to come over today?" Shen Yi had the urge to call Zhou Yiyu over.

Meryl smiled: "Just come over to have a look, and, if you dare to call someone surnamed Zhou over, I'll turn around and leave right away."

"...Okay." Shen Yi spread his hands.

"So, why don't you invite me, a guest, to visit your base?"

"This is a military secret."

Meryl's face pulled down.

Shen Yi helplessly raised his hand and surrendered: "Ok, ok, why don't I take you there...for the sake of you lending me money twice."

Strolling on the newly built Champs Elysees Avenue, Meryl watched the development and changes of the base with admiration.

The Champs-Elysées is the commercial street of the future base, and the name is chosen gently - shameless plagiarism.

Although the road is still empty, there is only a row of unfinished shops, but the embryonic form of the shops can already be seen.

The road is very clean, clean and free from dust.

After the completion of the garbage treatment center, more than ten unmanned cleaning vehicles automatically clean up and down the road every day.

There are also some trees and flowers planted on both sides of the road. The seeds are brought back from the ** Island, which can be pleasing to the eye and can also be used as raw materials for medicine. Of course, some are too precious to be put there, and some workers' hands and feet are not so clean. There is nothing to steal when you are poor, but it is hard to say when you are prosperous.

From time to time, some workers walked by on the road, occasionally seeing Shen Yi and saying hello to him.

As long as the wages are paid, these workers are still easy to talk about.

At the end of the Champs-Elysées Avenue is the training ground, which is similar to the building function of the training ground in the bloody city, except that it lacks some high-end treatment. Of course, it can be built, but it is more expensive. The training ground is divided into upper and lower floors, the lower floor is the gym for the workers, and the upper floor is the training ground for the generals.

There is also a clothing store and a coffee shop opposite the training ground, which are currently the only places in business. Zhao Linger and Shirley are in charge. The goods are all exchanged from the system, and the price is very cheap. However, the clothing store mainly sells coarse work clothes at present. , this disappointed Zhao Linger, she was studying design and designed some clothes by herself, but there were not many women in the base of ***!

She is doing well, but the coffee shop is even worse, the business is not doing well.

Because the workers said they needed a bar instead of a coffee shop.

This disappointed Shirley.

Finally, the beauty of the two girls can attract guests, but also because of this, the hosts almost want to knock every guest out.

Adventurers are really not suitable for business!

"I didn't expect you to make this place so beautiful." Meryl exclaimed, "But why did you do this? Don't you think it's a waste of time? These things can't help you resist the Zerg."

"There is an old saying in China that only the phoenix trees can be planted." Accompanying Meryl for a walk, Shen Yi replied: "If you want to develop business, you must have an atmosphere suitable for business development. An elegant environment cannot Improving the defense of the base can make the workers here feel at ease and allow the merchants to come. By the way, let me tell you a little secret. Although the workers will have additional requirements every month, if you take the initiative to improve the living environment beyond the requirements Conditions, meet their expectations in advance, then this part of the project will only charge the basic cost in the extra overtime, no extra overtime, because they know that this is for themselves...Of course, I didn’t expect them not to like cafes, Petty bourgeoisie really cannot be tolerated by working people.”

"You mean you want to develop business? But what kind of business is there to develop here?" Meryl was surprised: "At best, let some merchants come to sell some goods to your workers. The income of workers is limited, and the taxes you collect will never Possibly comparable to your paycheck.”

"Business taxes alone are certainly not enough to pay workers' salaries, but what if they are sold?"

"Sell it to the outside world?" Meryl was even more surprised: "What are you selling to the outside world? All the bases here can produce it themselves."

"That's not necessarily the case, at least the living conditions of their workers may not be improved. Most of the generals only met the basic needs of the workers, and some didn't even meet them. We can manufacture some light industrial products for sale, but these are not big ones. The important thing is the ore!"

"ore?"

"That's right." Shen Yi said seriously: "Don't forget why we chose a place with a harsh living environment like Obelisk as a human base, isn't it because there are enough ores here? Although the Star Alliance is a country, it does Existence, the system star is the alliance star, there are also people there, as well as production and living needs, the population is tens of millions, and the construction needs are hundreds of times larger than ours, and they also need various resources. "

"So you want to sell the ore to the alliance?"

"Yes. The system doesn't accept this when it's sold to the alliance, but the alliance accepts it. I've inquired about it, and they really need it!"

"What about transportation and mining costs? These all require manpower."

"You don't need us to transport, there are merchants. They know how to maximize the income, I don't even need to mine, Tianwei four has too many veins, I just need to enclose the land, and then declare all the mines in my territory The minerals are all mine, and if you think of mine here, you need to pay fees and taxes.”

Meryl was dumbfounded when she heard that: "Then you can take the opportunity to further expand. Expansion will not only allow you to obtain more energy conversion resources, but also more mineral resources?"

"That's right." Shen Yi nodded, anyway, he couldn't hide this matter, so he should be more generous.

"Oh my God, you really are a businessman through and through, you can do business wherever you go." Meryl patted her forehead and cried.

Faced with the threat of the Zerg and the expansion impact brought about by the pressure of logistics, Shen Yi had to find another way.

A country in a peaceful age will choose to expand externally when it cannot develop internally.

Shen Yi did the opposite, when the outside could not expand, he would develop internally.

No matter what, Shen Yi will not let it sit idle.

Ever since he knew that the business district can collect taxes, Shen Yi has listed the development of the business district as the goal of the plan, because this is the best means of internal development.

With the commercial zone, he can save a lot of workers' salaries by taxation. If he can sell some extra minerals, he can even get more income, which becomes another financial pillar besides the energy converter.

Of course, he is not the only one with this plan, each planet has special output, the problem is that very few can develop to this stage.

Most of the business development is done by the generals in the later stage. When they start to make money, it is time to leave.

So Shen Yi decided to complete the basic business construction in three months no matter what, put it into operation in the fourth month, and develop and grow in the fifth month, so that he can still earn the money for the first half of the year, otherwise it will be meaningless to work hard later .

But this plan also has its problems.

Meryl said: "It's not impossible to give priority to business development. Some people have done it before, but it's not like you would engage in such things as enclosing land and selling mines. Have you ever thought about the biggest problem with such a development plan?"

"You mean war?"

War is the greatest threat to commercial development.

In a booger country like Singapore, a missile can crash its stock market.

No merchant would be happy to do business in a war-ridden land.

Therefore, the development of business has never been smooth.

In the past, the commercial development of the base also met the needs of workers on the one hand, and recovered part of the funds on the other hand.

Those who try to become big like Shen Yi are really rare, and those who succeed are even rarer.

Regarding Meryl's rebuttal, Shen Yi sighed: "So if it is possible, I really want to have a good talk with the Zerg. Wouldn't it be great for us to coexist peacefully together? Attracting investment is the key to the development of every city, and peace It is the foundation of development. The Broken Blade has never had territorial ambitions. We are a peace-loving base. We only want to improve the living standards of our people and let everyone live a healthy life..."

"It's not funny at all..." Meryl rolled her eyes.

Shen Yi shrugged: "Okay, no kidding, I can understand your reminder, but the premise you are referring to is that the base is destroyed, as long as the base is not destroyed, nothing will happen, right? The Zerg don't know how to play siege tactics. They have always retreated if they can’t attack, and they will never be nostalgic.”

"Then do you think you can keep it forever? How do you do it? How do you convince the merchants? You must know that as long as your defensive cover is destroyed once, even if a bug enters the base, it will cause damage to the base. Alliance The merchants here are not as brave as the workers, even if one dies, don’t expect anyone to come here to do business again.”

"That's not necessarily the case. A 300% profit is enough for businessmen to take the risk of being hanged."

"The problem is you can't give them that much profit."

"I can give, at least for the time being. At the stage when they still don't trust me, I can open the base for free and provide obligatory protection. All fees are allowed to be in arrears. After I prove my strength, I will charge slowly...they No default, I can."

"How to prove it?"

"Of course it depends on strong troops. Merchants have eyes, and they will analyze the strength of the base and their security level. In addition, the Broken Blade team built a core base of 1,000 square kilometers when it first expanded, and in Develop a complete base within two months, tell me Meryl, can you do it?"

Meryl smiled wryly and shook her head: "I can't do it, and I haven't seen anyone do it."

Two months of development, although Shen Yi and the others suffered a lot, it also allowed the Broken Blade team to grow rapidly.

During this period of time, Shen Yi's heart can be said to be broken because of the base. He usually turns on the 3D stereoscopic video, divides his head to work and handle affairs, and even Zeus complains that he has a headache...

Entering with 800,000 funds, blackmailing other bases, going to the wilderness to rob money against the Zerg attack, and then squeezing himself so frantically, Shen Yi believes that after all this, if his development is not as good as others, it is really unreasonable.

At present, the development and construction of the base itself has been basically completed, and further development will mean more defensive firepower and more factories. There will only be quantitative changes, not qualitative changes. And Shen Yi's current business district development is something other generals would not do at all, so in terms of the depth of the base itself, few bases can match him.

Even if Meryl has the support of the Purgatory Sect, as a part of the joint base, the internal environment development of her base is far inferior to that of Shen Yi. She just expanded two rings more than Shen Yi, and the price is that the perfect conditions in all aspects are far from enough , the workers have already begun to slow down, and the efficiency has dropped significantly.

"Then unless there is a better choice than me, they will definitely choose this place, right?" Shen Yi laughed.

"That's right. Well, I'm convinced by you, but I want to remind you that a base in the context of war can only get very limited benefits from taxation and selling minerals. How much benefit can you gain by expanding your business? Can you bring Do you earn 100 million per month? Even if you have it, it’s just 1 million points, which is not as good as the income you get from occupying the base for a few more days.”

"Of course, I didn't expect to make a fortune from it. Business development is just a choice of interests and supplementary income when I am temporarily unable to expand externally. After all, this part of the investment is actually not big. It just takes time and effort because it requires too much supporting equipment. , you have to keep planning, arranging, and scheduling, but the actual cost is very low... It’s all hard work. By the way, Meryl, have you ever played strategy games? I mean StarCraft.”

"certainly."

"Then you should know the difference between professional players and non-professional players, right? Professional players and non-professional players face off, the basic conditions are exactly the same, there is no difference in troop resources, so what determines who is strong and who is weak? The key lies in their Grasp the details. Superb hand speed and technology, reasonable construction arrangements, resource arrangements, do a good job in the operation of every detail, advance bit by bit, and expand advantages through accumulation!" Shen Yi said seriously:

"If we regard the hand speed in the game as the execution ability, the reasonable arrangement in the construction as the planning ability, and the operation technology as the adventurer's personal strength, you will find that the game is actually no different from our current base construction. One month One million pairs of bases is indeed not much, but let alone one million, even one hundred thousand is worth our effort to plan and work hard! Today I can earn an extra one hundred thousand, and tomorrow I can earn an extra two hundred thousand! And the extra money can become a guarantee for my continued expansion, so that its value will continue to expand, isn’t that how capital operations come about?”

"The strength of the Broken Blade team relies on this accumulation! The completion of the standard base of ten people in two months also relies on this accumulation! We will continue to rely on this accumulation until we completely forget all our competitors Finally! So we will not let go of any benefits we can get, which makes us seem a bit philistine, but in this cruel and ruthless world, philistine is a virtue!"

Meryl was speechless.

Speaking of this, Shen Yi suddenly took out his handheld computer: "This is the battle process recorded by our computer, but because it is only a recording, it is not comprehensive enough. But when the Zergs attack next time, we will take all-round shots This battle. Gentle and the others should have not returned at that time. We will only use three people to defend here, and completely defeat the Zerg before the defensive sky is destroyed, killing at least one brood. Then we will record the heroic Send the scene to the entire league, let them see our fighters in action and our great victories ... and they will believe in us."

Meryl was completely dumbfounded.

It took her a long time before she said, "Isn't this too high-profile?"

Shen Yi snapped his fingers: "Low-key has never been my style. People in business are afraid of not being famous, not too high-profile, and they have to hype a few times if they have nothing to do. So let the whole world think that I am invincible. Now, I'm not afraid of bearing this false name, let alone someone challenging me, I wish I could grab a few more bases... If I don't think the reputation is still so useful."

"...What if you don't make it in the next battle?"

"Then wait for the next battle." Shen Yi replied without blushing: "It's optional to publicize the results. Who would use the defeat record as publicity?"

"...You really are shameless."

Shen Yi laughed loudly: "Okay, I've already told you the truth, now let's talk about your reason for coming."

He didn't think that Meryl really had nothing to do to see him.

Meryl replied: "I admit that your plan is good, and you have the ability to implement it, but there is something that may disrupt your arrangement."

"how?"

"In another month, the Broken Blade team base will have a three-month development period. By then, you will be notified to participate in the joint attack."

This time it was Shen Yi's turn to be dumbfounded.

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ps: Continue to work hard today, the fifth shift is probably gone, the third shift should be, maybe, probably, it can be.