Titan IV.

This is a remote and barren planet.

Its area is not large, about a quarter of the Earth's area, with a total land area of 800 million square kilometers and an ocean area of 300 million square kilometers.

Less than half the land area of the ocean makes its natural ecology extremely harsh, with sparse vegetation and large temperature differences between day and night, and even unable to form a complete biosphere, and eventually relying on the system to make it a barely viable place for humans.

The Triangular Region of the Celestial Radius, the Purgatory Angel Base.

A convoy is approaching from afar.

The leading flame chariot stopped after coming to the gate of the base, and out of the car came a woman who looked heroic in a general's uniform, and it was Meryl.

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

Meryl returned a military salute, then looked around and frowned, "What about Alfonso, why didn't anyone come for a security check?"

"I'm here. Not far away, a young man in a leather jacket and headphones walked lazily: "I just went around the city." ”

"Are you going to be lazy?" Meryl gave him a cold look: "All the outgoing convoys have to go through routine inspections when they come back, and you don't know it." ”

"I just believe you ......"

"I don't need your belief!" Meryl glared at him, "I just need you to follow the rules of the base!"

Alfonso raised his hands: "OK, OK, you guys, go check the convoy, let it go when it's over, hurry up!"

A group of soldiers had already rushed forward.

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

Meryl gave him a cold look, "You're always so unprofessional, Alfonso, when are you going to put on your damn uniform?"

"Come on, we're not really soldiers. ”

"But we are generals, and your performance will make your prestige among the soldiers diminish. ”

"I don't care, and I don't rely on them to fight. Alfonso spread his hands, and he made a gesture of firing his hand: "If those bugs come, I can clean them all up by myself." ”

Meryl snorted, she had nothing to say about this guy who was good but proud of herself. After all, Alfonso's time to enter the fifth difficulty was too short, and he had only experienced two small-scale insect tide attacks, and he had not really seen the horror of the Zerg.

The soldier in charge of the inspection soon returned and reported: "Report to General Alfonso, the convoy has been inspected and no anomalies have been found, no signs of camouflage or infiltration. 2,000 tons of ore with a purity of 66 percent were obtained, and the report was completed. ”

"Wow, sixty-six percent purity!" Alfonso whistled, "Well done, Meryl, you always get the most out of every trip." ”

"And you're always the least every time. Meryl said politely.

Although the ecological environment of Tiantu-4 is very bad, it is rich in ore vein resources, rich in a large number of high-grade metal veins.

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

The base's walls, towers, and other facilities use a lot of metal, and these infrastructures can be purchased by spending points or can be completed by building, which can be a bit more troublesome, but has the advantage of reducing a lot of investment. However, the strength of the fence built purely with metal is not enough, and it needs to be strengthened by the system, so this can only be done for points.

In addition, there are other defenses that can use this type of metal vein, such as the Red Alert base, which requires a large amount of metal to grow.

The Red Guard base is a common means of defense at the 5th difficulty, and the soldiers produced through the base car building are cheap and numerous, far cheaper than recruiting soldiers from the system.

However, in order for the Red Police Base to develop, it needs to have a mineral source, to be precise, the Red Police Base is not cheaper, but can use a large number of alternative resources.

The abundance of mineral veins on the Tiantu-4 satellite is far better than that of Tatooine, so although the living environment here is harsh, the defense conditions are relatively good.

With enough time and ore sources, it only takes a few points to build up a large ground force.

Therefore, the convoy is in a sense like a mining truck in the Red Police, which is responsible for mining work.

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

In addition to the Red Alert base car, there are some more powerful bases, the most typical being the Terran StarCraft, which is the base in StarCraft. This kind of base produces the same classes in StarCraft, including those that can be exchanged for Thor, and ships can also be obtained through production, which is cheaper than exchanging points for metal ore resources and self-production.

However, few people do this with five difficulties, one is that the investment in this kind of base is huge, and a single base car costs five million points, and later production still needs to consume points, even the generals are difficult to bear. The second is that this kind of base is like being born with its own taunts, which will attract fierce attacks from the Zerg, and the base built at a huge price may be taken away by the Zerg before it has played much role.

Hearing Meryl say this at this moment, Alfonso smiled: "Why care so much, Meryl, even if there is more, it will be distributed to everyone after all." ”

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

Cooperation is like this, everyone wants others to do more, and everyone wants to do less.

The Chinese are like this, and the Europeans and Americans are no better.

Just as she was about to teach Alfonso a hard lesson, the roar of an engine suddenly sounded in the sky.

The two of them looked up into the air at the same time, only to see a large transport plane formation flying in the sky in the distance, and hundreds of fighter planes escorted by both wings.

"It's a courier!" Alfonso screamed, he jumped into the air, first landed on the thirty-meter-high wall, and then jumped onto a nearby watchtower, took out a telescope from the sentry and looked into the distance, and shouted: "There are a total of thirty-two super-large L700 transport planes, how can there be so many? Hell, this is not a follow-up addition, this is the opening of a new base, we are coming to a new neighbor!"

Meryl also jumped up and looked into the distance: "It's also possible that someone new has joined." ”

"It took a full thirty-two oversized transport planes to deliver the goods, it can't be a newcomer, no newcomer has the ability, this must be a joint base!" Alfonso replied. It is not necessarily the new generals who open up new bases, it is also possible that the predecessors are too small and further expand their sphere of influence, and they may not necessarily be in the same area.

But no matter which one it is, it is a bold effort to be able to send so many materials for construction at one time when opening up a new base.

You must know that the vast majority of newcomers, when they first open up a new base, can only choose a small amount of investment, and then take advantage of the time to develop and grow step by step, even if it is the expansion of the old man, it will not invest so much at once, most of the time, the support from the main base of the system is mostly done by three or five transport planes, more than a dozen or twenty is considered a lot, like the delivery of more than thirty super-large transport planes in one breath like now, even Meryl and Alfonso are seeing it for the first time.

"Not necessarily. Meryl said casually: "Some newcomers may be able to do this." ”

She didn't deliberately think about who could do this, but after the words came out, the image of the Broken Blades team involuntarily came to mind.

Why can't we forget them?

Meryl shook her head, unwilling to think about everything she had experienced, but deep down, the shadows of some people were stubborn and stubborn and unwilling to disappear, and the hateful smiling face tugged at Meryl's heartstrings again and again......

Alfonso obviously didn't care about Meryl's mood at the moment, his telescope was following the transport plane all the way: "Look where they are located...... Oh...... No...... Damn it...... They actually chose the Platinum Mountains...... They are right next to us!"

Alfonso's voice was visibly sharpened, but then a lot of anger appeared on his face: "No, don't these bastards know the rules? This is our radiation zone, they can't build a base there!"

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

For example, if an adventurer builds 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.

In that case, the area would be too large.

The real approach 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 it does not need absolute control.

This is like the relationship between the city and the countryside, the surrounding countryside is still attached to the city, and the rural area will also be counted when calculating the urban area, 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 within the radius to intervene.

However, precisely because the scope of the radiation zone is vague and there is no fence control, there is often overlapping of the radiation zone, and sometimes there are contradictions.

Unexpectedly, the first thing the new residents did was to settle in the radiation area of the joint base in the western district, and it is no wonder that Alfonsu jumped to his feet and scolded.

This is almost a joint base, the only difference is that the joint base allows the radiation area to be covered, but the neighbors cannot, and the back garden cannot be shared.

Meryl was still calm, she jumped to the top of the watchtower, and also raised her binoculars to look into the distance, until she saw where the transport plane had landed, and then said, "No, Alfonso, they are not built on the radiation zone, but the border is approaching...... They calculated the distance...... They came prepared. ”

Without radiation zone coverage, it does not belong to the joint base, only to the neighbors.

However, this time the neighbor is obviously at the level of close neighbors, with a distance of 101 and 102.

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

"Really?" Alfonso froze when he heard Meryl's words, and he jumped up to look into the distance, finally confirming that what Meryl said was true: "But in this way, we will not be able to expand that way." ”

Although it is said that the other party did not violate the radiation zone, the two sides of the edge line are close, which invisibly blocks a direction of expansion 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 watch.

During the landing transport, some engineers were getting out of the transport plane, riding a special engineering vehicle and speeding all the way, white powder leaking from the bottom of the vehicle, drawing white lines on the ground, which was demarcating the area. After the outer radiation zone, there is the inner perimeter base area.

Judging from the direction of the engineer's line, the other party obviously did not intend to block the expansion of the Purgatory Angels, and retained most of the blank area, which made the opponent's area not a complete circle, but this is not important, the construction of the territory needs to consider the environment. The opposing base is built on the side with the Platinum Mountains in the back, which allows them to avoid the need for wall construction in one direction.

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

"They're human. Alfonso saw it too, and finally eliminated some of his anger, but he still felt uncomfortable with the other party building a new territory next to him.

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

"Maybe we should talk to them and let them come a little longer. ”

"I will, but we'll have to see who they are......" Meryl said as she saw a group of Terminators emerging from the transporter.

Terminator?

Large groups of Terminators were emerging from the transport planes with cargo and heading to the designated locations, followed by several familiar figures.

"Oh...... No, ......" Meryl couldn't control her moaning at the sight of the familiar face, and the telescope snapped to the ground.

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"Seven energy converters, 12 double S-class shore-based fortress guns, eight energy cannons, four super fortress cannons, three thousand workers, five hundred soldiers and other supplies are all in place, please sign for them." ”

A news alliance adventurer handed the slip to Shen Yi.

"I didn't know there was such a thing as signing for receipt. Shen Yi smiled and signed his name on it, and the adventurer took it and said with a smile: "Analog world, system functions are gradually being replaced." ”

The adventurer said and looked back at the workers and soldiers who had already begun to work behind him: "This is the biggest escort I have ever experienced, the Broken Blade Team is worthy of being the Broken Blade Team, it is a large territory of 100,000 square kilometers when it comes up, and the other teams all start with one or two energy transformation territories first." You must know that the first time is the hardest, and what those bugs love to do is to destroy them all in one go while your territory is not yet completed, so that all your investment will be wasted. And the larger the territory, the longer the construction period, and the longer the period of weakness. ”

"That's why we have to recruit more workers, but unfortunately the wages of workers are still too high, 3,000 workers is 150,000 points." Shen Yi sighed.

Gentle smile: "Look, this is the face of a capitalist, and those who are bosses hate to have to pay salaries." ”

The adventurer smiled, "It's already good, I really didn't expect you to have so many of your own soldiers and terminators, otherwise it would cost you more points just to recruit temporary soldiers." ”

In fact, with the number of soldiers and terminators that Shen Yi and they had now, it was completely possible to completely eliminate the need to recruit new soldiers. After all, the Second Corps alone numbered as many as 3,000 people.

The problem is that those purchased fortress cannons and other defensive measures can only be used by recruited soldiers, although their own soldiers can be cultivated, but it is too time-consuming, so Shen Yi recruited a group of soldiers with a number of about five hundred, who are specifically responsible for operating various types of batteries.

He didn't buy many forts, only 24 in total, but all of them were double-S level goods, as for the middle and low-level artillery, the guns that came with the fortress were enough to use, and the reason for this was to reduce the recruitment of soldiers.

The scope of the core base has begun to be demarcated, all work has its own charter, and there is no need for temporary design, and the efficiency of recruiting workers is far higher than that of earthlings, in fact, the physical fitness of these workers alone is stronger than the best special forces on earth, otherwise they would not be able to survive on this harsh planet.

Still, it would take at least 15 days for 3,000 workers to build a core base of 1,000 square kilometers and six satellite bases.

In the past, in order to get through the initial period as quickly as possible, adventurers either took refuge with other adventurers, or united, or first established ultra-small bases to protect themselves and then try to develop.

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

Most of the teams only completed the standard construction after a one-to-two-month cycle, and the Purgatory Angel Base has not even completed the third full-scale expansion yet.

Of course, they are based on the standard of thirty-six people.

"Zeus, hurry up and finish the partition work, we are already five minutes behind schedule!" Shen Yi shouted to Zeus, the construction commander in the distance: "Only by completing the partition can we start the construction of the energy supply center!"

The energy supply center is like a city power plant, the heart of everything 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 Zeus, Shen Yi turned around and smiled at the adventurer: "Okay, thank you this time, I believe there will be a chance to trouble you in the future." ”

"You're welcome, then good luck to you. The adventurer knew that this was the busiest time for the generals, so he didn't say anything more, and just left.

Watching the transport fleet leave, Shen Yi clapped his hands: "Okay then, from now on, we have to play this farming game." Arias, you take a few people over there to set up a temporary cordon, Frost, Lyle, Ralph, you take people over there, and there is that and there. Michelle, take your people to build a patrol. Hong Lang, King Kong, Ling'er, you are responsible for helping the construction, speeding up the progress of the project, and letting those God of War mecha also come to help, high power is not only used to kill people. Gentle, you go to explore nearby metal veins. Yi Yu, find a suitable open space between the main base and the satellite base to lay down the fortress! We will count on it until the base is completed. ”

"Understood!" everyone replied together.

"What about you?" Gentle winked at Shen Yi.

"I'm in charge of foreign affairs and I have some guests who come to visit. Shen Yi replied with a smile.

Looking back, a shuttle was flying towards this side at high speed.