Chapter 226: Mercenary Captain (Extra chapter for the passing of the leader's youth)
"Huh!"
Zhang Yang breathed a sigh of relief, only to find that he was so nervous that he was sweating all over.
People who don’t know the inside story have no idea how important these short two minutes are. A missed bullet can cause the whole thing to collapse.
It is no exaggeration to say that this Iron Demon is difficult to kill. Even if Zhang Yang recovered 1% of his strength ten days later, he would not be able to kill this Iron Demon at this moment.
And ten days later, as long as this iron demon absorbs all the steel in this factory area, Zhang Yang will not be able to kill it even after a hundred days.
"Boss, are there any other bosses?"
Mai Tian, Sun Cheng and others gathered around, and most of them thought, wow, it seems that the boss is not difficult to kill.
"No more. There is no way there will be any more. This factory area, or even this city, may only have one Iron Demon because there are not enough resources."
"Tell Li Dong and the others to come and move the supplies. Move whatever you like. Maitian, your team will go look for survivors. Sun Cheng, your team will go to guard and cover. The three of you, find a commanding position, and wait—"
When Zhang Yang said this, he opened Li Meng's attribute panel and frowned slightly. Li Meng didn't upgrade to a sniper?
His current job description is -
"Professional, fast and accurate shooter (mercenary captain level)."
"Main weapon, semi-automatic rifle (upgradeable)."
"Secondary weapon, Desert Eagle pistol (upgradable)."
"Secondary weapon, combat dagger (upgradeable)."
"Basic attributes: Strength D, Agility D, Defense D, Soul E"
"Talent: Firearms Expertise."
"Talent: Stability."
"Rifle proficiency: 420."
"Pistol proficiency: 400."
"Dagger proficiency: 200."
"Skill: Triple Burst Shooting. Explanation: This is a very ordinary shooting skill, but it can produce unexpected magical effects in actual combat. You can shoot all the bullets at the same location, causing 200% overflow damage and 50% penetration damage to the target."
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"So, the so-called mercenary captain is actually a general standard of strength, similar to the captain-level archer and the captain-level infantry. They are all captain-level, but the professional subdivisions are different. In this case-"
Zhang Yang's eyes fell on Du Chao and Tian Bo. He quickly glanced at their attributes and found the word "upgradeable" on Du Chao's attributes.
This was when they were shooting the Iron Demon just now. Du Chao performed more stably than Tian Bo. He fired about five more shots, accounting for 42% of the effective kill in the damage share of killing the Iron Demon.
The experience points provided by the Iron Demon are undoubtedly more than those of the Swift Blade Demon. In addition, even if the Iron Demon's magic soul is incomplete, its value is higher than the complete magic soul of the Swift Blade Demon, so this meets the upgrade conditions.
"Then upgrade."
“Buzz!”
A white light flashed, enveloping Du Chao. One minute later, the upgrade was successful.
And this time, Zhang Yang finally got what he wished for and became a captain-level sniper.
"Du Chao, from the Sky Dome Human Race."
"Age, 26."
"Gender: male."
"Occupation: Sniper (Mercenary Captain Level)"
"Basic attributes: Strength D, Agility D, Defense E, Soul D."
"Main weapon: Five-shot sniper rifle (upgradeable)"
"Secondary weapon: Pistol with 12 rounds of ammunition (upgradable)"
"Secondary weapon: Combat dagger (upgradeable)"
"Talent: Firearms Expertise."
"Talent: Stability."
"Skill: Focus Lock. Description: Sniper skill. Able to attach a small amount of soul power to the bullet and lock onto the target. It senses wind speed, gravity, humidity, etc., and causes 200% defense-breaking damage to the target in the most perfect way with minimal kinetic energy consumption."
"Rifle proficiency: 450."
"Pistol proficiency: 450."
"Dagger proficiency: 200."
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"Interesting, this is how the professions are divided."
Zhang Yang nodded secretly. It is impossible to accurately distinguish which of the two professions is stronger. It can only be said that their battlefield positioning is different. According to this rhythm, there may even be captain-level light and heavy machine gunners, captain-level fire assaulters, and captain-level artillerymen. Well, this is a good feeling.
"But artillery is a must."
Just thinking about the fact that he will have to face 100 million demonized zombies in the future, and how many iron demons there will be among them, is simply chilling.
So we need not only artillery, but also air force.
While daydreaming like this, Zhang Yang did not dare to delay and immediately checked the weapon upgrades of Li Meng and Du Chao. The result disappointed him. There was no prompt in the Doomsday Village Building Order. Perhaps these weapon upgrades needed to be sent to the weapon modification workshop?
Putting this matter aside, Zhang Yang summoned the golden scale again.
A portion of original demon blood was exchanged for a demon-destroying saber.
The Iron Demon's Heart was not exchanged because this thing is very magical. Its effect is that it can continuously purify ore. Specifically, it can purify 1,000 units of iron ore into pig iron in one day.
1000 units of pig iron can be refined into wrought iron in three days. 1000 units of wrought iron can be refined into crude steel in ten days.
Refine 1000 units of Crude Steel into Fine Steel within 30 days.
This is amazing.
As for the remaining ordinary iron, ordinary copper, and ordinary silver, they cannot be sold, because these are materials that can be used in the world of immortal cultivation.
The next thing was easy. Fatty quickly found his father and about 300 survivors in the deepest part of the air-raid shelter.
There are only so many left. Actually, there were more than 4,000 survivors in the air-raid shelter at the beginning, but they were chased by the Iron Demon and the Swift Blade Demon all the way, and almost all of them died.
It means Zhang Yang and the others arrived quickly enough. If it had been a few minutes later, the fat man would have been able to bury his old man.
So, there is no need to say more. These 309 survivors successfully joined Zhang Yang's camp after wailing or vomiting, and they are recruitable (they need to return to Zhang Yang's Doomsday Fortress to rest for three days before they can be recruited). Well, they are counted among the 5,000 people.
This made Zhang Yang feel very comfortable, and allowed him to complete three ordinary side quests and one emergency side quest.
The so-called ordinary branch quest is to rescue 50 survivors, with a maximum limit of three times per day.
The sudden side quest is generated the moment the Iron Demon appears, and can be completed by killing it.
The effect is that the progress of one sudden side quest can be exchanged for the progress of three important side quests.
As for the rest, there is no reward for completing the task as usual.
So Zhang Yang recruited 30 skilled workers remotely without saying anything, consuming 30 white fragments of hope + 3 ordinary side quest progress + 150,000 energy points.
These skilled workers play a very important role nowadays. After all, this is a factory area, and all kinds of machine parts are precious. They need professional skilled workers to disassemble and move them.
If we move these machine parts back now, we will have to pay at least several times or even dozens of times the price in the future.
Then.
Zhang Yang thought seriously for a second, then broke down the progress of the sudden side quest. He first recruited 10 mechanical engineers, all of whom were experienced drivers who had a deep understanding of engineering machinery. Of course, they mainly focused on heavy equipment such as vehicles, tanks, armored vehicles, airplanes, and ships.
So Zhang Yang let Li Dong be the temporary team leader and asked these fifteen mechanical engineers to hurry up and search for modified vehicles. After all, they were going to withdraw to the Doomsday Fortress.
In fact, Zhang Yang was really helpless at this time. It would have been great if he had placed the Doomsday Village Construction Order directly in this factory.
But just thinking about it told him that it was impossible.
The end of the world is coming, and countless forces are watching, especially this three-headed demon boss. Without the armed mercenaries he recruited, he can't take this place.
"Let's recruit two more teams of armed mercenaries. I will take away as much of this factory area as I can, so the journey back is bound to be a fierce battle."
With a sigh, Zhang Yang decisively decomposed the purple fragment of hope and obtained ten golden fragments of hope. With the remaining one, there was still some left.
"Form a sniper team, with Du Chao as the leader and Tian Bo as the deputy. Transfer two precision shooters to cooperate, and two snipers as team members."
"Form a fire support team, with Li Meng as the leader and Cheng Yuanzhi as the deputy. Transfer four light machine gunners and four precision shooters as team members."
"Form the first assault team, with Mai Tian as the leader and 11 members."
"Form a second assault team, with Sun Cheng as the captain and 11 members."
Zhang Yang reorganized 40 mercenaries, mainly strengthening the heavy firepower and sniper teams, especially with Li Meng and Du Chao, the two captain-level main forces as the core, so that both of their teams have the strength to kill a swift knife demon alone.
As for the assault teams in Wheat Field and Sun City, they are responsible for normal defensive battles.
"What we lack now is a tank. It would be great if we had an armored vehicle."
Zhang Yang couldn't help but think about it, but he also knew that it was unrealistic.
"Yangzi, it's really you!"
Just as he was daydreaming, the fat man and a thin, bloody middle-aged man staggered over, so Zhang Yang immediately matched the identities from his memory. The man was the fat man's father, the thin man.
"Uncle, are you okay?"
Zhang Yang hurried forward. After all, this was also the cheap best friend of his cheap father's cheap body.
"I'm fine. You saved my life and the lives of my friends. I won't mention this favor, but right now, what's more important is that we need to figure out what happened. What should we do? How should we survive?"
The fat dad's words are quite like three soul-searching questions.
Zhang Yang was even more surprised as he looked at the information reflected on the Doomsday Village Building Order.
"Find high-level talents. The target is already in your recruitment sequence. You have the following options——"
"A: Recruit him as a technical captain to advance his skills as a technical worker."
"B: Recruit them as administrative personnel (i.e. heroic units)."
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"Huh?"
Zhang Yang thought about it and chose B. Although he was in urgent need of a technical captain, he was more aware that the Doomsday Fortress and his fantasy village were fundamentally different.
Different management models can make a world of difference.
If he still uses the method of the fantasy village and does everything himself, then the ending of his Doomsday Fortress is predictable.
"Uncle, I'm building a doomsday base, and I need someone like you to take charge of it for me. So, you don't need to ask me what to do, but you should ask yourself how to deal with such a large amount of wealth we have now. But I must say that so far, we have only obtained 50 large trucks."
After Zhang Yang finished speaking, the fat old man looked at him for a long time, then ran away without saying a word.
"Uh, Brother Yang, is my father crazy?" The fat man was very surprised.
"Stop talking nonsense. The thinking mode of engineers cannot be measured by a poor student like you."
Zhang Yang looked mysterious.
Fat guy: (╬▔皿▔)凸
(End of this chapter)
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