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After a pause, Lin Hai continued, and his voice also raised: "Do you know how much experience I need to promote to lieutenant colonel now?" 100,000 experience, converted into human lives, is a full 10,000 human lives. Converted into heavy equipment, that's 500 tanks like the T-55. Do you think that in those war-torn places in the world now, how many people can let us kill, and how many equipment can we destroy? We are not butchers, we are not executioners. If it's just to kill people for experience, I'd rather give up on the command system. Don't forget, the reason why we want to create a big force is only to help those in need. That's what we were trying to do, and that's why you convinced me in the first place. Lao Liu, you have to remember that we are not the kind of so-called scientific maniacs who can do without anything for the sake of science, we are human beings, and we have our own moral bottom line and conscience. ”

>> I apologize! Liu Yan, who was speechless by Lin Hai's words, was stunned for a while before patting his head heavily and said sincerely, "I actually didn't mean that, I admit that I was dazzled by those advanced technologies." ”

>" Chen Xi clapped his hands, and the slap woke up the two young people who were still asking themselves, "Time is almost gone, we still have a lot of things, first settle my plan to get out all the base facilities in your hands, and then I will explain the purpose to you one by one." ”

As a result, all the building facilities such as barracks, refineries, command posts, armories, automatic cannon towers, and defender batteries were deployed to the designated location by Lin Hai according to Chen Xi's requirements.

After working for a long time, Lin Hai finally finished it, Lin Hai breathed a sigh of relief, took the water handed to him by the soldier and took a sip, and then was dragged by Chen Xi to a huge building with several chimneys. This building is called the Refinery.

>> Why do military bases have such facilities that are clearly civilian? This is obviously used to smelt ore, right? Liu Yan, a scholar, first raised another question.

"Logically speaking," replied Chen Xi, "but on Mars, it's something that can't be done." Human colonization of Mars, in addition to the initial problem of reducing population pressure, is also for the rich minerals on Mars. The battles on Mars are frequent, and the scope of the battle is not only those colonial cities, but also includes various important mining areas, and the original owners of the mining areas are those large commercial companies, but in the war they have no way to protect the mining areas, and those mining areas are often robbed in the hands of several major forces, and the mining production will be completely affected, which also makes the equipment supply of the defense forces problematic. In this case, the military simply incorporated some important mining areas directly into the military base, and the army itself protected the mining areas and mined them themselves, so that on the one hand, they could lure the enemy to attack the base and destroy them by the way, and on the other hand, the army's material supply was not prone to problems. ”

& What are we doing with this refinery now? Lin Hai asked puzzledly, "There are no minerals in Kilimanjaro. ”

> Do you think that as an efficient military, you really want to be just a miner? Chen Xi said with a smile, "This refinery is not only about refining the mined ore into rough embryos, but also about deep processing the ore and refining it into various materials needed by the military." It is directly processed into the material. For example, if we mine a cart of iron ore, we don't smelt it into crude iron ingots, but according to our needs, for example, if we want to make tanks, then the refinery will directly refine this cart of ore into materials for making tanks. We make firearms, and the refinery refines the ore into materials to make firearms. ”

&Impossible, right? Liu Yan exclaimed, "Modern weapons and equipment are not the era of ancient cold weapons, where only iron can be used to build arms, and modern equipment is a multi-faceted integrated ......."

& Up! Lin Hai hurriedly interrupted Liu Yan, "When you figure it out, we won't have to go home!" Listen to Chen Xi! ”

I don't really know, I just know that this is using a technology called 'atomic remodeling', which can disrupt the atomic structure of some matter and reshape it, and the specific way is very complicated, I don't know. Anyway, you can understand that after the iron atom is reshaped, it directly becomes an aluminum atom, a copper atom, a titanium atom, and so on. ”

&So, isn't this thing even capable of reshaping heavy metal atoms? Looking at this huge factory, Liu Yan was already shocked and about to worship.

Chen Xi shook his head and said, "It doesn't seem to work yet, atomic remodeling still has its own boundaries, otherwise it can really turn lead into gold." Maybe in the future, but for now, it's not possible. ”

Lin Hai opened his mouth and asked at this time: "Let me ask, you just said that the ore will be directly refined into the materials needed by various armies in the military base, but is this necessary?" You see, the base mines the ore itself, and then refines the ore? Refined materials are sent to the manufacturing plant? Isn't that a waste? In terms of manpower, material resources and time! And if these refined materials are snatched up in the middle, as you just said, this is a common thing, and the stolen manufacturing materials will not become the enemy's immediate use? ”

& I should have said it earlier, right? An important military base, in addition to these building facilities that you have now," Chen Xi stretched out his hand to draw a circle in the direction of those deployed buildings, "There is also an important facility, and that is the arsenal. For every military base with a refinery, there will be an arsenal. And this arsenal is the place where these equipment are manufactured. Whether it is guns, tanks, airplanes, artillery, or missiles, they are all manufactured by this arsenal. As long as you have enough materials to craft, you can craft enough equipment. ”

&&Isn't it scientific? Since such a military base can be self-sufficient, isn't the military top brass afraid that the base commander will support his own troops? Self-reliance? ”

In a sparsely populated place like Mars, the defense forces can't protect all of them, and it often happens that important military bases are surrounded by rebels or robots. If the base can't be defended, it's a different matter, if the base is held for a while, but it is surrounded for a long time, and reinforcements and materials can't get in, then the base that could be defended will be lost. It is precisely to prevent this that important military bases like these will be self-sufficient. Of course, the situation you mentioned is not unprecedented, in the earliest times, as long as it was a medium-sized military base, there would be refineries and arsenals. At that time, there were several mutinies. In the end, the Defence Force put down the rebellion at great cost. Eventually, the higher-ups put a limit on the system, which was that you could make a lot of equipment, but you didn't have enough people to handle it. Later, it was added that only the most important military bases could be used to build refineries and arsenals. ”

Lin Hai thought for a while, and suddenly said in surprise: "What do you mean to say that not only did you use those heavy equipment to make your own before, but even the soldiers could be self-sufficient?" ”

& Longbing. Chen Xi pointed to himself and the soldiers around him, "It can be made in a medium-sized base at the earliest. Now it has been changed to a standard large base to be manufactured. It was made from the barracks. He pointed to a building that was made up of two relatively separate low-rise buildings.

& What's in the camp? Liu Yan asked.

> The Clone Soldier Batch Training and Manufacturing Factory, referred to as the Clone Factory, and the Soldier Rest Area. ”

Lin Hai asked again: "But wouldn't the later large military bases rebel?" They're good at making soldiers. ”

& What resources do you think would be needed to make a clone? It's not like in the game, just gold or some kind of energy. When Chen Xi said this, he beckoned everyone to follow him, "To create a clone soldier is to create life." Although in the eyes of the natural people in the coalition government, the clones are just weapons and tools, just like guns, but the clones are not robots after all, and they are not made by ore alone. For six hours, from the time the embryo is born until the culture is completed, you'll have to deliver nutrients to the clones you're cultivating. Therefore, the resource for making the clones is organic matter. Of course, you can't expect a pack of grass to make a clone. ”

&It's meat, right? "This is the so-called equivalent exchange. Swap a lot of dead organic matter for a living life? ”

& Not quite right, but it's pretty much the same. ”

Liu Yan looked at Chen Xi and said a question he had always wanted to ask: "So, in addition to writing loyalty in the genes of the coalition government when making cloned soldiers, it is still impossible for them not to guard against you, right?" ”

& That's the lifespan of the clones. The lifespan of a clone soldier, calculated from the time they came out of the culture chamber, is only fifteen years. When the clones were first created, they were already twenty-six years old, and the age of their bodies was also twenty-six years old, and after fourteen years, they were exactly forty years old, and in the last year, the clones would age sharply, and within this year, they would die of old age. ”

& That's all the way it is? Live for fourteen or five years and die? All of you? Including you? Hearing this, Lin Hai and Liu Yan asked anxiously.

& Not exactly. Chen Xi smiled, "In order for the clones to be able to fight hard, the military and the government naturally need to have rewards. Promotions and making a fortune or something are not attractive at all for the clones who are born as warriors, and only living longer is the most attractive. Therefore, the high-level will genetically adjust the clones who have achieved great achievements to prolong their lives and retire. Or lift the lifespan limit of the top-tier clones that were already created as scientists. As for me, I'm an elite special forces, and although I can't be considered a top-level clone soldier, I don't have a lifespan limit. Because a high-level special clone like me has a failure rate when it comes to manufacturing. ”