Chapter 15: High-Value Eggs
After transforming multiple insect eggs and obtaining the same number of energy points, after determining that 1 insect egg was worth 1 energy point, Lin Xiao finally breathed a sigh of relief. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Next, he was not welcome, and transformed all the worm eggs, gaining a total of 314 points of energy.
There can be 31 pikemen in all productions, which is a great increase in overall strength.
Of course, Lin Xiao couldn't clone all the pikemen, he didn't have iron now, and he needed workers to mine it.
For the existing infrastructure to run stably, it takes at least 20 workers, which is 200 energy.
After Lin Xiao thought about it, he was only going to clone 10 workers, and at present, 25 workers could still maintain operations, after all, there were not many troops.
For the remaining energy points, Lin Xiao is ready to clone a short knife soldier, which only needs 10 energy points like a spearman.
However, it takes more iron to make a knife than a spear, so it is not as cost-effective as a basic class as a pikeman.
Lin Xiao was also a little hesitant, but short sword soldiers were still very beneficial to pikemen, for example, the short knife soldiers in a scattered formation were stronger than the pikemen.
There are not many plains in the east, and the closer you get to the colonial warships, the more mountains there are, and it is difficult to put up a formation, and there are not enough people now, so there is no decent formation.
And the threat of the knife to the ant-monster is much higher than that of the gun, you must know that the weakness of the ant-monster is the insect eye, the gun can only stab the head if it wants to kill the ant-monster in seconds, and the ant-monster will not stick its head stupidly over.
Spearmen basically poke the antlibuke in the abdomen and then grind the internal organs to kill the antlibuke, a process that takes a certain amount of time.
But if it is replaced by a knife, the body of the ant monster is not strong, Lin Xiao tried to cut the ant monster in half with a knife, and even if he does not die, he will die of combat effectiveness.
This made him have to think about the daggers.
The iron that a short knife soldier needs is a point that Lin Xiao needs to consider, after all, the armor he makes for his soldiers is as good as possible, so as to avoid casualties, after all, a soldier needs 10 points of energy, and even if he wins if he dies, he will lose money.
Without immediately cloning the short knife soldiers, Lin Xiao cloned 10 workers, and went to see the iron mine first, and the output was enough before making plans.
One night passed, and the 10 workers were cloned, and since they had no clothes, they could only wear straw skirts to cover their shame.
The clothing problem still needs to be solved as soon as possible, not only to cover shame, but also to create armor.
Although the half-body armor is good, it consumes too much iron, and it is okay to equip every soldier with a small number of people, but it is impossible to afford it if there are too many people.
Lin Xiao first took the workers to the east 1 kilometer to take a look at the iron ore, in the absence of relevant equipment, with manpower mining 1 day can get 10 kg of steel iron ore, will definitely be more in the future, provided that it takes 2 days to dig the hole first.
But there wasn't much manpower to make weapons and armor, and it would take at least 10 days to equip all the soldiers.
Everything was difficult at the beginning, Lin Xiao frowned and thought about it, he found that he was a little too impatient, and he desperately wanted to develop military strength.
After all, this is about his life and death, and it will be impatient for any person.
Judging from the current situation, it is possible to slow down the expansion of the army, go all out to clone workers, lay a good foundation first, and then expand it is not too late.
There are no ant-monsters to trouble him now, and those ant-monsters seem to be breeding, so they only stay in one place, as long as they don't run around, they shouldn't get into trouble.
And he had an idea, since the ant-monster eggs were so valuable, he could use himself as bait to lure the ant-monster away, and send someone to steal the eggs.
This plan is not difficult to achieve, after Lin Xiao observed, he found that the speed of the ant monsters was slower than his own, and with the crawler transporter, he could completely get rid of them.
After he figured it out, he gave up the idea of expanding the army immediately, and developed it first.
The remaining energy points are directly cloned into 20 workers, and the remaining 14 points are cloned into a scout to facilitate intelligence work.
Iron ore, Lin Xiao didn't move for the time being, now that there are more people, the colonial warships are a little insufficient.
Moreover, the colonial warships are full of high-precision equipment, and he doesn't want the workers to bump into them during their activities, and there is no place to repair them.
The construction of civilian houses was necessary, and barracks were also needed for the training of soldiers.
Although the soldiers obeyed his orders, they were still a little emotional, such as when they asked him to do things that he didn't belong to.
After all, the mood is not good, the efficiency is still very low, and 3 soldiers are not worth the workload of 1 worker.
This is not to say that they are not good soldiers, they are still very brave in their work, and they are not afraid of death.
In the end, Lin Xiao still has to take care of the emotions of these soldiers, even if these soldiers obey his orders, he doesn't know if he will continue to obey like this.
It is important to know that the manual for building the pod clearly indicates that if the clones are allowed to do work outside of their own duties for a long time, there is a chance of desertion and mutiny.
In addition to doing work other than one's own job, starvation can also occur.
These are human nature, and even machines can erase them all.
This is also one of the reasons why Lin Xiao gave up the expansion of the army, he didn't want to be unable to afford it because of the expansion of the army, and finally defected.
You must know that the amount of food of the workers is much less than that of the soldiers, they are born with no sense of fighting, and the value of force is very low, even if there is an escape, he can suppress it.
When the workers were cloned, Lin Xiao immediately sent 15 people to the west to cut down trees and build wooden houses and barracks.
Twenty men went to dig iron, coal, and limestone, and the last 10 were responsible for making saws, nails, and other tools needed to build a wooden house from what little iron was left.
At present, cloth is in short supply, and many workers wear straw skirts, but there are no plants in this area that can make cloth, not even linen.
Lin Xiao searched here from the perspective of God, but he still didn't get anything, he didn't want to be stuck here.
Fortunately, after his patient search, he finally found several plants in the west that could be used as materials, but he still needed to see the finished product.
Lin Xiao directly took 2 workers who cut down trees to go in person, it was not very far from the colonial warship, and it would be there in a while.
When he came to the scene, Lin Xiao asked the two workers to take a look, and after they tested it, they shook their heads and said that they were not suitable for weaving.
After looking at several kinds of plants, I still found 5 kinds of plants, 3 of which are very small, I don't know if the reproductive ability is not strong, if you have to give up.
The remaining two are more common, one is like hemp, and the other is like cotton, but they are pitifully small, and Lin Xiao almost can't recognize them.
With the amount of this cotton alone, the amount of cloth that can be woven is enough to make two or three garments.
"I almost forgot that I could use a genetic recombiner to change the genes of these plants, and maybe increase their yields!" Lin Xiao suddenly thought.
He didn't understand breeding or anything, and the simple and violent equipment of the genetic recombinator was just right for him.
Digging up some of these 5 plants, and letting the rest be cut back by these 2 workers to weave cloth, Lin Xiao rushed back to the colonial warship with interest.
After accumulation, there are already 5 normal-grade dark matter energy blocks, which can be used 5 times.
In addition to these, it also needs to guide genes, Lin Xiao must use the right one, and the rich weeds outside are his target.
The weeds in this medium strip are very proliferated, and this area is almost all their territory, and there is not a single other species of plant to be seen.
And their growth rate is also very fast, Lin Xiao asked the workers to cut enough weeds some time ago, and it didn't take long for new shoots to emerge, and a large patch would grow in less than a month.
Extracting their reproductive ability and transplanting them to these five plants became Lin Xiao's goal.