<h4>Chapter 591: Changing Main Cities</h4>
<strong>Trantor: </strong>As Studios <strong>Editor: </strong>As Studios
After informing them of his identity, the attitude of the Golden Gate guards became immensely respectful, and they were immediately allowed to proceed. With the Golden Gal Badge, he had a transcendent status in the eyes of the Godorans and could move almost unobstructed through the Garton Star System.
Countless yers swarmed to the portholes, taking in the grand appearance of the Base No.1.
The Base No.1 that had taken a whole year to build resembled a castle coated in alloys. Han Xiao was deeply aware that this was an era where looks mattered, so he had made the exterior especially beautiful, full of technological impressions.
If not for the fact that it would result in him being judged by the yers as narcissistic, he would even have liked to paint a portrait of himself on the castle walls.
The fleet sessfullynded in Base No.1. During its construction, Han Xiao’s blueprint had reserved a huge section of space to serve as a hangar, which would be more than enough to amodate sixty to seventy individual spaceships. Even thergest gship level spaceship had a personalized hangar for it.
The air vents sounded as the ships were depressurized. The doors of the cabins slid open, and tens of thousands of yers stepped into the hangar, curiously looking around. They were packed closely together, looking like a sea of bobbing heads.
At this point, Phillip’s voice sounded in the hangar area, cutting through the hubbub of noises as it was clearly transmitted into everybody’s ears.
“Wee to Base No.1, hum... I would like to ask the new mercenaries to open theirmunicators and manually ept the verification procedures, hum...”
As he spoke, themunicators of the yers suddenly rang all at once.
Frenzied Sword took his out, only to see that there had been new programs added to themunicator. After opening it, he found out that it was the mercenaries identity verification program for the ck Star Army. There were additional functions, such as searching for a particr area of the base, database query information, and so on...
Basically, it was a guide meant to simte an AI in certain ways.
This was a sub-program made by Han Xiao for Phillip. The yers would be able to find out about their own tasks and credits within the ck Star Army through this program. Since the yers were also free mercenaries, there had to be a separate ount for their umted credit, so it would be convenient for management and overall nning. This would also make it convenient for yers to check their current aplishments.
To enhance the sense of aplishment within the yers, there was a need to allow them to see that each task theypleted would be reflected real-time in the records of the ck Star Army. There would be no underhanded moves, and everything was transparent and open.
Because the yers obtained rewards through the [Operation Hodes – War Employment] mission, they had all bought their ownmunicators during their trip to the Godoran mother.
Because the market price for suchmunicators was dirt cheap, there was no way for Han Xiao to earn by being the middleman, so he did not even bother to dabble in this business.
Base No.1 had been built after Frenzied Sword, Hao Tian, King Admiral, and the rest left during the patch from Version 1.0 to 2.0, so they only received the subprogram at this point.
“So, this is the base of our ck Star Army. Pretty cool!”
“Strange, in thest version of your video, there wasn’t such a huge base!” Someone stared at Bun-Hit-Dog, causing thetter to quickly cover his face and leave.
“Heh, it must be the change in timeline along with the update in the version. It’s not the first time this type of thing has happened.”
Including Frenzied Sword and the others, this was the first time any yer had ever set foot on Base No.1—they were all excited.
The purpose of Base No.1 was to allow the yers to treat this ce as their Main City. With this faction camp, people would feel that their faction had influence and was reliable, generating a higher sense of belonging.
With the subprogram present, Han Xiao did not need to exin things personally any longer. He did not bother managing the yers, allowing them to move about as they wished.
Once upon a time, these yers’ main city had been on Aquamarine. However, they had now shifted to Base No.1, and thus, they needed to be familiar with the current main city to dispel their confusion.
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Back in his room, Han Xiao took some time off to clear his backlog of work, such as the applications for free mercenaries to join his group, as well as some new employment invitations.
After the ceremony where he showed his face, the amount of business cases showed an exponential surge. There were even cases that invited him, a mercenary, to be their endorser for an advertisement. They had to be crazy!
However, upon closer inspection, he realized that the other party was an armspany. That made more sense.
By recruiting the tens of thousands of yers, following word of mouth and his spike in poprity, Han Xiao thus decided to recruit as many free mercenaries as possible. Although the yers were good, they had a restriction—the version updates. As such, he had to n ahead.
To use yers to expand his ck Star Army, improve word of mouth to attract more free mercenaries. This also worked as a chain of interest.
The backlog of employment tasks was endless. Phillip sorted them ording to the difficulty, and the entireyout became clear at a nce.
The majority of the employment tasks would be provided to the yers themselves. Only a few high-paid, difficult, or high-levelled tasks would require his officers or even himself to be involved.
Due to the mercenary model of borrowing chickens to obtain eggs, the yers would be sent to different ces throughout the gxy to carry out their missions, which would allow them to explore the area. The ce where each mission was to bepleted would have their own events and plots, which could make up for theck of knowledge the ck Star Army had, as well as giving the yer some additional benefits.
Furthermore, the yers had just entered the interster region not too long ago and required a stable flow of activities to allow them to familiarize themselves with the environment, as well as a storyline that could guide their actions.
To this end, areas with rich NPC resources such as Sunil would have most of the functions that the yers need, including a storyline.
If the yers were seen as seeds, then the NPC resource areas would be the soil with fertilizer.
Sunil was the first pilot test that Han Xiao had prepared for the yers, and it was also time toplete his promise to Herlous.
Han Xiao looked deep in thought.
“From now on, the n will enter a new chapter.”
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“ck Star, were you looking for me?”
Herlous pushed open the door before entering the room.
Compared to the past him when he had just followed Han Xiao to be a mercenary, Herlous’ aura had be calmer and more stable. As a mercenary, they had no shortage of opportunities to fight, and Herlous’ strength was slowly increasing with each battle.
“Herlous, I promised that I would bring tens of thousands of Supers to solve the problem of the Sunils’ once and for all.” Han Xiao paused and smiled. “In the name of the ck Star Army, I’ll loan 200,000 mercenaries to you with the most basic remuneration. During this mission, they can be dispatched to Sunil.”
Herlous paused in shock before his face showed unbridled joy.
This was why he had followed ck Star and was also the reason he had believed in ck Star’s promise. The day hade!
At this moment, he was extremely touched and would dly pull out the knife for Han Xiao.
As for what he would pull the knife out for, even he had no idea.
Reluctantly holding back his excitement, Herlous spoke quickly. “I’ll inform my people immediately, allowing them to issue a formal invitation to hire the ck Star Army.”
“Sure, but I have an additional condition.” Han Xiao nodded.
“As long as it is within our capabilities, I’ll promise you.”
“It’s nothing too serious. I would just like to have permission to build an offshore base of ck Star Army on Sunil.” Han Xiao smiled harmlessly.
Each NPC resource area was a great ce to provide yers with benefits. So long as there was a sub-base established in the location, it would be indirectly counted as the ‘territory’ of ck Star himself.
“No problem,” Herlous straightforwardly replied before pausing a while and adding on, “This is good for us as well. The upper echelons will not reject your idea.”
Because of the award given by Godora, Han Xiao’s face was akin to a golden signboard. He estimated that if he went out to buy fruits from a stall, he would probably obtain a five percent discount.
After sending away the excited Herlous who was getting irritating, Han Xiao opened hismunicator and activated Phillip’s feedback interface.
All yers who had installed the subprograms were immediately shown as red dots and disyed on his map in real time. With Han Xiao’s expertise being in Virtual Technology, this was just simply surveince in disguise.
It was not that he could not be assured by having yers around, but he did not wish for them to mess up themselves.
Inside the map, the yers had spread to every corner of Base No.1, with the majority being clustered in the store area.
Seeing the situation, the corners of Han Xiao’s mouth curled up, showing a pleased smile.
“The old inventory finally has a pathway to go.”
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Base No.1 was divided into many different areas, with the store area sector allowing yers to obtain products from the existing inventory. After paying the required amount, Phillip would draw out the respective item from the warehouse. This whole process was automated.
At this moment, there was a long line of yers lining up in front of the stores.
Because the production of the assembly line had never stopped, it had resulted in a huge stock of equipment and machinery being stored. The machinery had all been carefully selected by Han Xiao and was very suitable for yers at this stage. It would be ideal for yers to rece their current equipment.
For the yers other than Frenzied Sword andpany that did not have the NCO ss armor, they had an even greater demand for more advanced equipment. As long as there was a demand, there would be a market. If there was no demand, he just had to create some!
Set after set of equipment was quickly sold, and the fully stocked warehouse was just like a beautiful love scammer, slowly sucking dry the yers’... wallets.
This turnover has caused the Enas in Han Xiao’s inventory to raise at a staggering rate. One million Enas? A mere fraction!
Although the equipment was all assembly line products, their quality was not low at all. Furthermore, because the equipment required a higher level of technical skill, the base price could not be set too low. Hence, even if the yers spent all their money, they simply did not have enough to rece all their current equipment.
This was especially so for the expensive full body armor, which gnawed on the stomachs of the yers like parasites.
The moment the yerscked money, the first thing that woulde to their mind would be toplete more tasks!
For this, the subprogram of Phillip showcased a dazzling list of eptable employment tasks.
Most of those missions had considerable rewards. ording to the procedures set by Han Xiao, Phillip exined that this was a benefit brought by the reputation and connections of the ck Star Army. Only mercenaries who had joined the ck Star Army could enjoy such a good employment task. If it was a free mercenary, they would probably have to risk their life for a meagre reward.
The reason Han Xiao had requested that Phillip emphasize this was to ingrain in the yers the benefits they could enjoy by being in the ck Star Army. Furthermore, being a growing faction, helping the ck Star Army in its missions would make it such that both parties benefitted.
“The rewards are plenty!”
“The best missions will definitely have a lot of people fighting over it. However, the failurepensation is also equally high.”
The majority of yers discovered the benefits of being a mercenary.
The most obvious thing was that the reward for these interster missions far exceeded that of the missions on Aquamarine. Furthermore, they were now free to choose their missions and had great freedom inpleting them, which made those yers who were frustrated over triggering mission enjoy this new process.
Each employment mission could have multiple people participating, although the maximum number would vary. yers that wished to ept a mission would first have to submit an application through the subprogram, and then Phillip would operate to ess their qualifications. If the yer met the requirements, the application would be approved. Only then could the yer be officially counted in the mission.
Because the requirements also included the difficulty of the employment missions, the difficult missions would definitely be more rewarding. Many yers wanted to grab the high-paying employment missions, but all their applications were rejected.
Phillip exined all this to the yers.
Han Xiao had set up a faction level system, to provide yers with a way to advance within the system. With the base level as 1-Star, the higher one’s level, the higher one’s authority and standing. That personal level was also used as an application standard for employment missions, which served as a gauge to the difficulty they could handle. yers had to firstplete enough low-difficulty tasks to raise their credibility points in order to be eligible for the more difficult tasks.
This was to protect their reputation. Han Xiao knew the yers too well—they loved to fool around. If every mission ended in failure, this would hurt the reputation of his faction, and all the glory obtained thus far would be lost. Thus, such a safeguard was needed.
In addition, Han Xiao also set up another system. yers could browse the employment list anywhere, but they had to return to the base to ept a mission.
The reasoning provided was that there was a need to verify the identity of the mercenary and to prevent theft of themunicator. In actual fact, it was to prevent yers from staying outside for an extended period of time, ensuring that they returned to the main city and cultivated their feelings... as well as to spend money.
If they did note back, how could he earn money from them?
On the other side, the yers whom had originally followed ck Star into space had mixed feelings.
“The way to ept missions has been changed...”
In Version 1.0, they had followed Han Xiao to perform various missions. However, they had now been given the right to freely choose the missions. The most intuitive feeling was that their faction’s strength was bing stronger and stronger.
At this moment, a new employment notice was ced on the subprogram’s employment list.
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Sunil Rescue Operation: Large Scale Employment Mission
Mission Introduction: Sunil is gued by catastrophes. With the suggestion of the ck Star Army Officer Herlous, ck Star has decided to issue a designated employment to the ck Star Army, recruiting arge number of mercenaries to solve their disasters once and for all.
Mission Requirements: Proceed to Sunil to solve the source of the disaster.
Number of recruits: 200,000
Remark: This is arge-scale mission. Completion of this task will raise the reputation of the ck Star Army. There will be increased benefits as well as a new base.
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“Wah, 200,000? That’s almost half of our total numbers!”
“This must be a big event.”
“Sunil? Catastrophe? Isn’t that the storyline that Bun-Hit-Dog posted on his channel? Turns out, there’s actually still a continuation.”
The majority of yers immediately felt curiosity.
The remuneration was not high. After all, the lives of the Sunils were not well off. They could not help but wish that every Ena they had could be split into five. Han Xiao had given them a preferential price, and thus, the other party was able to afford it. However, due to the fact that it was arge-scale employment, the experience reward was still sufficient.
Therge-scale employment of 200,000 yers was undoubtedly a main storyline in the eyes of the yers. Many of them wanted in on the ‘fun’, so gathering the required amount was not difficult at all.
Among the hundreds of thousands of yers, those who were casual yers numbered higher. Compared to the professional yers or yers belonging torge guilds, the adaptability of the casual yers was weaker.
The interster map was extremely broad, and upon seeing therge number of tasks as well as the high degree of freedom, the casual yers were thrown into confusion, not knowing what was good.
The employment task of the Sunils served as a way to ‘guide’ these yers.
Not sure what missions to take? Just follow the crowd and take up thisrge-scale employment. As long as there was a crowd, there would not be any problems.
Just in case, to ensure that the mission could attract a significant number of yers, Han Xiao also increased the faction favorability reward, and modified the mission description to emphasize it as a task that could help the faction to grow. This served as a form of motivation for the yers.
However, Han Xiao could be said to have been overly worried this time. Being awarded the medal from Godora had resulted in him getting sensationalized on the forum. The yers realized that Han Xiao was already a famed person shining within the universe.
The yers could be said to have watched Han Xiao grow along the way and had a sense of gratification to fight for the ck Star Army.
While the reward was not high, many of the yers would not mind participating in missions that would allow the ck Star Army to grow.
After so many years of his actions, Han Xiao had gradually imprinted himself on the yers’ hearts.