After surviving 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 is mainly based on the production of artillery batteries and troops. After seeing the horror of the Zerg, the Broken Blade team no longer dared to expand at will, but prioritized the defense system, and first made good use of the existing base scale advantage.

The mammoth beast broke through the wall and gave everyone a wake-up call, the wall alone was not enough, it had to be reinforced.

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

And of course, we must not forget the workers' living quarters and the garbage disposal center......

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

A new problem arose - there were not enough workers.

At the beginning, as long as everyone built, 3,000 workers could work overtime to complete it.

Nowadays, with the development of the base, more and more functional building facilities have appeared, and if the functions of these building facilities want to be exerted, workers must be in to operate.

And the new round of construction also needs workers.

In order to avoid being dragged down by overtime pay, Shen Yi easily did not dare to let everyone work overtime.

As a result, the amount of work has not decreased, but the efficiency of the workers has decreased.

Recruiting more workers can improve work efficiency, but in addition to more salaries, more supporting construction is needed, more supporting construction is needed, more funds are needed, more funds are needed, more energy converters are needed, more energy converters need more sub-bases and workers, and more sub-bases need more workers and soldiers......

An endless loop.

This troublesome thing made Shen Yi's head big.

"Nearly seven energy beads a day, which is 66,000 points a day, turned out to be ...... Not enough!" Hong Lang's face collapsed.

"I still like the days when you kill monsters and you get rich. The fat man replied honestly.

How good it is to honestly fight monsters and pick up money, you have to engage in some base development, this toss, millions of votes are estimated to not see a splash, and I am really powerless.

"There's no way around it. Still gentle and empathetic: "If you want to fight against such a powerful Zerg, it is not enough to rely on the strengthening strength of adventurers, you can only use the sea of soldiers against the sea of soldiers, and there is no sea of soldiers without a base." ”

In fact, this is also a situation that most bases often have to face, and the necessary logistical assistance is in some ways more delaying the development of the base than the attack of the Zerg, so many times you have to wait.

But Shen Yi was unwilling.

For him, it would be a waste to sit there and kill time doing nothing, a year of development is not a long time, and the efficiency of the workers can certainly make up for the time disadvantage, but the attack of the Zerg will also cancel out the efficiency advantage.

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

"It's really not good, let's go to the wilderness, the Zerg just fought for a short time, and it shouldn't come back in a short time. King Kong suggested.

Shen Yi thought about it.

Going to the wilderness is a choice that the generals will make when they are sure that they have nothing to do for a short time, after all, once you leave the simulation world, you will no longer be able to communicate with the simulation world, and you don't know when the Zerg will attack, so you may miss the return reinforcements.

In addition, you have to pay a certain number of points every time you leave, so you can't come back from time to time, so you have to take advantage of it. Fortunately, the Broken Blade team is strong, and it shouldn't be a problem to get rid of two or three people, and the development of the base is gradually stabilizing, so that they can start to send people out.

Considering the needs of the base, the wilderness finally sent Hong Lang, Gentle and King Kong to form a three-person system, and the time was ten days, and after ten days, they had to rush back anyway.

The next thing is to pray that the Zerg will not attack during this time in any way.

But it turned out that this time good fortune did not favor them anymore, and pinning their hopes on the enemy was also doomed to not be a good idea.

On the fifth day of their departure, the Zerg came, and they were menacing.

There are still seventy broods, and this time the main direction of attack has changed to the Broken Blade base - they love to hit the largest base, and they don't allow it to develop to the point of threat, and they love to hit the smallest base, because it is better to bully.

The Broken Blade team resisted almost with all their might, and the three warships that had been hidden were also launched, Shen Yi's hole cards were not used on the Vientiane Palace, but they were forced out by the Zerg, and finally the fourth ship did not come out, until Zhou Yiyu launched the bloodline transformation again and killed a low-level brood before they forced the Zerg back with difficulty.

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

Due to the short interval and insufficient energy reserves, the defensive canopy was breached, two energy converters, two energy supply centers were destroyed, many were damaged and needed to be repaired, and most of the large number of new batteries on the wall were destroyed.

Three arsenals were destroyed beyond repair, one of which was an artillery factory, and the Terminator assembly line was finally saved, but the Terminator died quite a lot.

Fortunately, the Vientiane Palace did not come, and after losing the four independent bases, they were completely blind and could no longer grasp the movements of the Broken Blade team.

However, looking at the base before the liberation overnight, everyone still wanted to cry without tears.

When the union president came over and said that the residential area was damaged, but it had to be repaired within this month anyway, Shen Yi simply forced himself not to kill the bastard.

But after that, looking at the mess, Shen Yi finally laughed.

"Anyway, there's more left of the ground than the second attack, doesn't it? ”

Laugh with tears!

Life is like this, always growing up in the toss and turns.

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

As a result, a new round of restoration, reconstruction, and redevelopment has made life monotonous and simple.

The good news is that they didn't give it all in vain.

When Gentle they returned, they brought hundreds of thousands of points in funds.

Everyone converted all these benefits into points, actively constructed, and finally completed the construction of the core base at the end of the second month.

By this time, they already had twelve large, medium and small arsenals, two Terminator production lines, and by the time the third month came, they had added two thousand workers, one thousand soldiers, and nearly three thousand members of the Second Corps, bringing the population of the base to 10,000.

A new living area has been built, supporting facilities are also increasing, and the interior of the base has begun to appear with people's laughter, as if a small city is developing from scratch.

Of course, the result of all this is that Shen Yi and they are still in a state of entering and not leaving, and after two full months, they have not reaped a penny of benefits, and all the point income has been invested in the construction and development of the base.

Learning from the lesson of the last time, Shen Yi and the others decided to go to the wilderness to grab money again, but this time it was directly limited to thirty days, and simply let the three people who went out give up the base defense again, and it would save time to waste time if you can't wait left and right, and when we leave, you will come again.

Of course, it is the Broken Blade team that has the courage to release half of the adventurers to grab money.

In the final analysis, strength is the foundation of development.

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Shen Yi was still busy in the office this afternoon.

He's thinking about the next step in his expansion.

For two whole months, the base struggled in the process of demolition and resistance, a protective membrane was broken and repaired, repaired and broken, and the cycle was repeated, gradually growing and growing in the endless destruction.

Now that the number of energy supply centers has increased and the strength of the defenses has increased, the expansion plan of the satellite base, which has been stalled, is finally back on the agenda.

It was at this time that the guards came to report and Meryl came to visit.

Shen Yi was stunned, and before she could be invited in, Meryl had already strode in directly.

She didn't wear a general's uniform, just civilian clothes, and she looked quite charming.

"How can you have time to come over today?" Shen Yi had the urge to ask Zhou Yiyu to come over.

Meryl smiled: "Just come and have a look, and if you dare to call the surnamed Zhou over, I will turn around and leave immediately." ”

“...... All right. Shen Yi spread his hands.

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

"It's a military secret. ”

Meryl's face pulled down.

Shen Yi reluctantly raised his hand in surrender: "OK, OK, can't I take you there...... For the sake of you who borrowed money from me twice. ”

Walking along the newly built Champs-Élysées, Meryl watched with admiration the development and changes of the site.

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

Although the road is still empty, with only a row of unfinished shops, the rudiments of the shops can be seen.

The roads are clean, clean and dust-free.

After the completion of the garbage disposal center, more than 10 driverless cleaning vehicles automatically sweep back and forth on the road every day.

There are also some trees and flowers planted on both sides of the road, and the seeds are brought back from the Independence Island, which can be both pleasing to the eye and can be used as raw materials for potions. Of course, some of the things that are too precious cannot be put there, and some workers do not have so clean hands and feet. When you're poor, there's nothing to steal, and it's hard to say when you're prosperous.

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

As long as the wages are paid, these workers are still very talkative.

At the end of the Champs-Élysées is the training ground, which has the same architectural function as the training ground in Bloody City, but lacks some high-level VIP treatment, of course, it can be built, but it is more expensive. The training ground is divided into two floors, the lower floor is the workers' gym, and the upper floor is the training ground for the generals.

There is also a clothing store and a café opposite the training ground, which is also the only place that is currently open, and Zhao Linger and Shirley are in charge - the goods are exchanged from the system, and the price is very cheap, but the clothing store is currently mainly selling coarse cloth tooling, which makes Zhao Linger very disappointed, she is learning design, and she has designed some clothes by herself, but there are few women in this fucking base!

She's okay, but the coffee shop is even more miserable, and the business is very busy.

Because workers say they need a bar, not a coffee shop.

This disappointed Shirley.

After all, the beauty of the two girls can attract guests, but because of this, the owners want to beat almost every guest out of the door.

Adventurers are really not fit for business!

"I didn't expect you to make this place so beautiful. Meryl exclaimed, "But why are you doing this? Don't you think it's a waste of time? ”

"We have an old saying in China, it is called to plant a plane tree to attract a phoenix. Accompanying Meryl all the way, Shen Yi replied: "If you want to develop business, you must have an atmosphere suitable for business development." The elegant environment does not improve the defense of the base, but it can make the workers here comfortable and let the merchants come. By the way, let me tell you a little secret, although it is said that every month workers will have additional requirements, but if you take the initiative to improve the living environment conditions in addition to the requirements and meet their expectations in advance, then this part of the project only charges the basic cost in the extra overtime, and does not charge extra overtime pay, because they know that it is made for themselves...... Of course, I didn't expect that they didn't like cafes, and petty bourgeoisie really didn't tolerate working people. ”

"You mean you want to develop a business, but what kind of business is there to develop here?" Meryl was surprised: "At best, let some businessmen come and sell some goods to your workers, who have limited income, and the taxes you collect will never be comparable to your salary expenses." ”

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

"For sale?" Meryl was more and more surprised, "What are you selling to the outside world? ”

"Not necessarily, at least not necessarily the living conditions of their workers. The vast majority of the generals only met the basic needs of the workers, and some did not even meet them. We can make some light industrial products for sale, but these are not the big heads, the important thing is the ore!"

"Ore?"

"That's right. Shen Yi Zhengse said: "Don't forget why we chose a place like Tianmei, which has a harsh living environment, as a human base, isn't it because there are enough ores here?" Although the Interstellar Alliance is an NPC country, it does exist, and the system star is the alliance star, there are also people, and there are also production and living needs, the population is as high as tens of millions, and the construction needs are a hundred times larger than ours, and they also need various resources. ”

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

"Yes. Sell to the Alliance, the system doesn't accept this, but the Alliance does, I inquired, they do need it!"

"What about the cost of transportation and mining? ”

"We don't need to transport it, there are merchants. They know how to maximize the profits, I don't even need to mine, there are so many veins in Deputus, I just need to enclose the land, and then declare all the minerals in my territory to be mine, and I need to pay fees and taxes to mine here. ”

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

"That's right. Shen Yi nodded, anyway, he couldn't hide it, so he was just generous.

"Oh my God, you're a businessman through and through, you can do business anywhere you go. Meryl clapped her forehead and exclaimed.

Faced with the threat of the Zerg and the impact of expansion brought about by logistical pressures, Shen Yi had to take another path.

In times of peace, when the country cannot develop internally, it will choose to expand externally.

Shen Yi did the opposite, developing internally when the outside could not expand.

No matter what, Shen Yi wouldn't let it sit idle.

Since he knew that the commercial area could be taxed, Shen Yi made the development of the commercial area a planned goal, because this is the best means of internal development.

With the commercial area, he can save a lot of wages by relying on taxes, and if he can sell some additional minerals, he can even get more income, which can become another financial pillar in addition to the energy converter.

Of course, this plan is not only him, each planet has a special output, but the problem is that very few can develop to this point.

The vast majority of business development was done by the generals in the later stages, and when they started to make money, it was time to leave.

So Shen Yi decided to complete the basic commercial construction within three months anyway, put it into operation in the fourth month, and develop and grow in the fifth month, so that he could still make half a year's money, otherwise it would be meaningless to work hard later.

But this plan has its problems.

Meryl said: "It's not impossible to prioritize the development of business, and some people have done it before, but it's not like you would do such a thing 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 business development.

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

No merchant would be willing to buy or sell in a land where war was frequent.

As a result, business never went well.

In the past, the commercial development of the base was also to meet the needs of workers on the one hand, and to recover part of the funds on the other.

It is rare to try to be big like Shen Yi, and it is rare to succeed.

In response to Meryl's rebuttal, Shen Yi sighed: "So if I can, I really want to have a good talk with the Zerg, wouldn't it be good for us all to coexist peacefully? The Broken Blades have never had territorial ambitions, we are a peace-loving base, and we just 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, it will be fine, right? They never retreat when they can't be attacked, and they never get attached to them. ”

"So do you think you can hold it forever? How do you do it? How do you convince the merchants? Know that if your shield is destroyed once, even one bug will cause damage to the base. The merchants of the Alliance are not as brave as the workers, and even if one dies, they should not expect anyone to come here to do business again. ”

"Not necessarily, 300 percent profit is enough for merchants to risk the gallows. ”

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

"I can give, at least temporarily. At the stage when they still don't trust me, I can open the base for free and provide voluntary protection, and all fees are allowed to be in arrears, and I will slowly charge after I confirm my strength...... They are not allowed to default, I can. ”

"How can you confirm it?"

"Of course, it still depends on strong troops, and the merchants have eyes, and they will analyze the strength of the base and their safety by themselves. Also, the Broken Blades built a 1,000-square-kilometer core base in their first expansion, and developed a full base in 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." ”

The development of two months has made Shen Yi and them suffer, but it has also made the Broken Blade Team grow rapidly.

During this time, Shen Yi can be said to be heartbroken for the sake of the base, and he usually turns on the three-dimensional image, dividing his head to deal with affairs, and even Zeus shouts that he has a headache......

Entering with 800,000 funds, blackmailing other bases, going to the wilderness to grab money against the attack of the Zerg, and then squeezing himself so crazily, Shen Yi believes that after all this, if his own 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 if it continues to develop, it will have more defensive firepower and more factories, and there will only be quantitative changes, not qualitative changes. And the development of the business district that Shen Yi is carrying out now is something that other generals will not do at all, so in terms of the depth of the base itself, there are few bases that can compare to him.

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

"Then unless there's a better choice than me, they'll definitely choose here, right?" Shen Yi said with a smile.

"That's it. Well, I'm convinced by you, but I'll remind you that a base in the context of a war has very limited revenues from taxes and the sale of minerals. How much can you gain by expanding your business? Will it bring you 100 million a month? Even if you do, it's only a million points, which is not as much as a few days more than you can earn from occupying the base. ”

"Of course, I don't expect to make a fortune from it, business development is just a choice of rights and interests and supplementary income when you are temporarily unable to expand externally, after all, this part of the investment is actually not big, it is just more time-consuming and effort-consuming, because there are too many supporting facilities needed, you must continue to plan, arrange, schedule, but the actual cost is very low...... It's all water mill work. By the way, Meryl, have you ever played a strategy game? I mean StarCraft. ”

"Of course. ”

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

"If we look at the hand speed in the game as the ability to execute, the reasonable arrangement in construction as the ability to plan, and the operation technique as the personal strength of the adventurer, you will find that the game is actually no different from the current base building. One million a month is indeed not much for the base, but not to mention one million, even one hundred thousand is worth our efforts to plan and work hard! I can earn an extra 100,000 yuan today, and I will be able to earn an additional 200,000 yuan tomorrow! And this extra money can become a guarantee for me to continue to expand, so that its value continues to expand, isn't this how capital operation comes about?"

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

Meryl was speechless.

Speaking of this, Shen Yi suddenly took out the handheld computer: "This is the battle recorded by our computer, but because it is only a video, it is not comprehensive enough." But the next time the Zerg strikes, we'll be filming the battle from all angles. At that time, Gentle Gentle should not have returned, we will only use three people to defend this place, and completely defeat the Zerg and kill at least one brood before the defensive canopy is destroyed. Then we will send the recorded heroic field to the entire Alliance, so that they can see the heroic posture of our warriors and the great victories after victory...... They will believe in us. ”

Meryl was dumbfounded.

It took her a moment before she said, "That's too high-profile, isn't it?"

Shen Yi snapped his fingers: "Low-key has never been my style, people who do business, I'm afraid that I'm not famous, I'm not afraid of being too high-profile, and I have to hype it up a few times if I have nothing to do." So let the whole world feel that I am invincible in the world, I am not afraid of bearing this false name, and I am not afraid of someone challenging me, I wish I had grabbed a few more bases...... If it weren't for the fact that I think fame would still be of such use. ”

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

"Then wait for the next battle. Shen Yi replied without blushing: "Achievements are promoted, this is optional, who will use the defeat record for publicity?"

“...... You're shameless. ”

Shen Yi laughed: "Okay, I've been open and honest with you, now let's talk about your intentions." ”

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

Meryl replied, "I admit that your plan is good, and you have the ability to carry it out, but something may disrupt your plans. ”

"How?"

"In another month, the Broken Blades base will be in full three months of development, and at that point, 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 watch is estimated to be gone, and the third watch should be, maybe, probably, can.