Chapter 44: Chapter 44: Hidden Gold and Unit Flood
There are nearly a hundred of these small animal trinkets.
Birds and beasts, fish swimming in the water, all-encompassing.
Each one is yellow and orange, looking charmingly naive.
As Ye Fan approached these things, his heart couldn’t help but become excited.
Although reason told him, no matter how rich the director was, he couldn’t possibly put gold trinkets here because it would be inviting trouble.
But Ye Fan, already frazzled by lack of money, still had high hopes for these things.
What if they’re real?
What if this director had a moment of madness?
He picked up an elephant trinket, waiting for Nana’s notification sound.
Whenever Ye Fan got his hands on a precious metal, Nana would give a prompt, indicating it could be converted into System Money.
But when Ye Fan picked up this elephant, the system did not give any alert sound.
"Damn! It’s brass."
Ye Fan regrettably tossed the elephant trinket aside, but still held on to hope.
He picked up a shark.
Still no alert sound.
"Could it be that among these many trinkets, there’s one that’s gold? The rest are just there to cover it up?"
Ye Fan tirelessly picked up the trinkets one by one, hoping that one would bring him a surprise.
One after another, disappointment after disappointment, until only a red-crowned crane trinket was left.
He picked it up, and the alert sound still did not go off.
"I knew it, there’s no way someone would put so many gold trinkets in an office, no matter how rich they are, they’d still consider safety."
He regretfully placed both hands on the flimsy brass shelf.
"Beep beep~~~! Precious metal discovered, can be converted into System Money, would the officer like to convert it?"
Ye Fan was stunned for a moment.
He could hardly believe his ears.
How could this thing, which looked obviously like brass, be a precious metal?
When he lifted his hands, the alert sound disappeared; pressing them again, the alert sounded again.
Then a great joy overwhelmed him!
He understood!
The director was operating in the open but hiding in the dark!
Those conspicuous trinkets were nothing but a smokescreen, the real treasure was this.
Even if someone stole his things, at most, they’d steal those trinkets, hardly thinking the treasure was the shelf.
Ye Fan didn’t quite understand the mindset of this director, perhaps chuckling over his cleverness, perhaps using this method to satisfy some peculiar desires.
After all, no one would pay attention to these meaningless things, even if someone did, they’d be drawn by the yellow-orange trinkets.
Ye Fan, somewhat knowledgeable about gold, was also fooled by this illusion, let alone others; this shelf was definitely tampered with.
But none of that mattered anymore, Ye Fan didn’t care, now was the apocalypse, everything of the past was history, what he gained was tangible.
This somewhat rusted brass shelf definitely contained a large amount of gold.
Those trinkets were not big, but this thing was definitely not small, weighing it by hand, it weighed at least a dozen pounds!
"Convert!"
Ye Fan unhesitatingly converted it.
"Congratulations officer, you’ve received 8500 Money!"
Ye Fan was almost knocked over by the immense happiness.
8500!
Since he got the system, this was the largest single gain, which proved the pure gold content of this trinket reached 8.5 kilograms!
Back then, with this thing, he could have immediately activated the radar and promoted to company commander.
Even now, he only needed a bit more to be able to build the Tank Factory.
Even taking it back to build the base, probably the first Wall and the Machine Gun Bunker in a circle could be constructed.
However, at the moment, Ye Fan was more inclined to increase his firepower.
The situation outside had become difficult to handle, still being affected by the restriction of manpower.
So for this money, he planned to rapidly expand his soldiers!
Adding the 300 Money he just got, he now had 8800 Money.
Just as Ye Fan planned to rapidly expand his troops, Nana provided a prompt.
"Officer, please establish the unit size for your company."
Ye Fan pondered for a moment: "A company has three platoons, I’ll set one platoon to 32 people, which makes 96 people for three platoons."
"Plus a logistics support team for the company, adding eight more people."
"I see the quota for Flamethrower Warriors is three, and Rocket Launcher Warriors is also three, so six more"
"This totals to 110 people."
"Add one company commander, three platoon leaders, bringing the total to 114 people, squad leaders can be generated within squads."
"If we add one escort for the company commander and platoon leaders, plus some engineers, or reserve space for more advanced combat units in the future production lineup, then a company should be sized for 130 Red Alert Units, not including vehicles!"
Ye Fan’s calculations were all based on full staffing calculations, and also according to his own needs, which differed somewhat from Qin Han’s reality in terms of organization.
"Personnels set, our side has a company of 130 Red Alert Units, excluding vehicles."
With this set, Ye Fan decided to begin production.
Judging from today’s situation, he was lacking all kinds of soldier types.
First, Flamethrower Warriors performed excellently today, must fill these slots to leave here.
Ye Fan directly spent 1000 Money to produce two more Flamethrower Warriors.
There were not enough war dogs, two dogs hardly sufficed for the big scene, now there was still one left at Donghua Grand Restaurant, assuming three for a platoon, six more are needed.
Ye Fan spent 1800 to supplement six war dogs, filling this quota too.
There were not enough snipers, but they were expensive, produced another one, costing another 800 for a sniper.
The Medic count is two per platoon, total should be six, Ye Fan decided to add two more, the current two were obviously overworked, it’s thanks to them that the battle losses weren’t too severe, only one died in combat, others survived.
Money, two medics produced.
These have cost 4000 Money, leaving 4800.
Ye Fan thought, a Rocket Launcher Warrior was necessary for emergencies.
was expensive, but he gritted his teeth to produce one.
left.
This money could be used to add ordinary combat units, Ye Fan decided to spend it all at once, creating twelve Army Soldiers and twelve Conscripts.
Incrementally adding the main combat unit of a platoon!
All these began production, Ye Fan took a look.
Flamethrower Warriors, two; Rocket Launcher Warrior, one; Medics, two; Sniper, one.
Army Soldiers, twelve; Conscripts, twelve.
War dogs, six!
A total of 36 Red Alert Units!
Ye Fan quite enjoyed this method of troop expansion, balanced firepower, stronger combat capabilities.
With just singular troop types, it wouldn’t suffice for complex environments and situations, for example with today’s money, even if he produced 88 Conscripts, he’d still be wiped out outside.
With this firepower, forget leaving the zoo, even storming Lingshui Middle School, he’d be fairly confident.
The room’s door opened, and the soldiers started filing in one by one.
The small office became increasingly crowded with armed soldiers, and intimidating war dogs, filling the room with a murderous aura.
After who knows how long, the troop expansion was complete!
Ye Fan opened his eyes, looking at the room full of black-clad soldiers, looking at the row of squatting war dogs, a heroic spirit rose in his heart!
"Sniper Lin Qing reporting, sir!"
"Flamethrower Warrior Lin Zhikang reporting, sir!"
"Flamethrower Warrior Li Hao reporting, sir!"
"Rocket Launcher Warrior Su Mo reporting, sir!"
"Medic Xiao Jing reporting, sir!"
"Army Soldier XXX reporting, sir!"
"Conscript XXX reporting, sir!"
"Woof! Woof!"