Chapter 10 Mission Statement

What are the most dangerous environments? It’s not an apocalypse with monsters all over the place, nor is it a horror movie with a few monsters popping up at every turn, nor is it one or two super villains running out to wreak havoc in an unorganized and undisciplined way.

But the battlefield.

Your enemies are human beings just like you. They are all soldiers whose profession is to kill people.

The Meat Grinder of Verdun, one million casualties in ten months.

In modern battlefields, a 7.62 full-power bullet can take away a life if it directly hits the torso. A large-caliber solid artillery shell can see the god of death. No matter how powerful the body is, those multi-ton machines driven by internal combustion engines can count. He looked so weak in front of all the steel.

That is a weapon produced by the human species in order to develop mutual killing to the extreme.

A real meat grinder.

Steam and Steel is known as the Lord's Meat Grinder. The first scene puts the participants into a meat grinding battlefield where half a million people die in a month. The pass rate is only 5%. There is a special automatic machine that appeared in the steam era. There are machine troops, there are also musketeers who have not been eliminated, and there are even mages who summon golems, it is such a hodgepodge.

To use a familiar saying, the entire northwest of Shanxi has been reduced to a pot of porridge!

Since you can't die in the dungeon anyway, many people simply go to the advanced level to experience the environment and get tickets to watch a somatosensory movie.

For those who are commanders, it is very helpful to be able to experience the tactical style of the next era in advance in the dungeon and learn the tactical styles of other eras.

This is not all. According to the forum survey, only 90% of the lords have participated in the mission statement, and only 60% of the lords have successfully passed even one mission.

Even if they become lords, most people can only live peacefully in their own one-third of an acre.

Some people deliberately stay stuck in the times and do not advance, and do not awaken the people's wisdom, so they enjoy emperor-like treatment.

You can't die if you don't die, but you can't adjust your perception to nothing after entering.

Death, broken arms and legs, all pain will be truly reflected on the lord.

You can bring troops in, but the system will not reduce the difficulty for you. On the contrary, the difficulty is linked to how many people you bring in and who you bring in.

The system was really obsessed with his thoughts.

Ji Lin plans to take Chang Heng and Zhong Shan in for a long experience.

In previous lives, not many people were keen on bringing their affairs officers and generals into dungeons to let them grow, and dungeons were precisely the place where these heroic characters could grow the fastest. They were afraid that if these heroes grew too fast, it would backfire on them. .

They will indeed bite back, but this won't happen if the lord is a little more humane.

As for Ji Lin, he doesn't have any skills in controlling people, and that's not his specialty. The brutal skills of controlling rat-men are too inappropriate to be used on humans.

He was 100% sure that he could get the breastplate musketeer back inside.

After all, this dungeon is only open to people from the colonial era and below... Even in the steam era, you can't participate. After the lords get used to the firepower battlefield, they can't go back to get exclusive technology and technology. Countless high-quality copy assignments are like this, which is regrettable.

It seems that throwing them into an unfamiliar environment specifically forces the lord to grow.

The experience and technology you have gained are the most proud things for human beings.

Ji Lin chose the mission statement.

As for what he said before about the bad effects of getting super-era troops in advance, in short, you would be stupid not to choose them!

With hope before him, it would be a pity not to reach out and grab it.

‘For this promotion, the lord has chosen: Classical Era (Technology), Bloodline Purification (I), Mission Book: Steam and Steel’

'The settlement is completed. Your original spearmen have been automatically upgraded to pikemen. Your original spearmen have been replaced by pikemen. This population supply is 25% of the current upper limit and will arrive within 1-3 days. Please Prepare to receive. ’

‘The territory has been expanded, this time to the coast, and a new wave of creatures has been released. ’

coastal! Ji Lin's eyes lit up!

The coast is a perfect terrain, providing a large amount of food production, and can also cultivate special seafood. Seafood is not cheap in the market. The most popular blue lobster can be sold for 10 gold each, which is another piece of resource gold. The mine is waiting for him.

Ji Lin clicked on his lord interface and started viewing again.

【Lord】: Ji Lin

[Territorial Race]; Human

[Lord Talent]:

Vision, Fire Extinguisher, Defender of Plans, Battlefield Maneuver (Master)

[Building]: Town center.

【Army】：100

[Territorial population]; 200/1600 (population capacity)

[Territorial Building]: Town center, primary residence x10

[Territory Characteristics]: None

[Territory]: plain x1, floodplain x1, swamp x1, coast x1

The introduction of the town center in the Dark Ages has changed. The large houses built automatically under the light and rain have revealed their taller figures, expanding from two-story buildings to the height of three-story buildings. The stone exterior walls are smoother and rounder. It is also paired with some wooden extensions of Chinese architecture.

【Town Center (Classical Era)】

[Era Improvement]: Food: 2400, Stone: 960, Wood: 960, Gold Ore: 320, Iron Ore: 320

【characteristic】:

Center: Villagers living around this building gain stability.

Administrative Office: You can assign an administrative officer to handle matters in the territory to increase output.

[Introduction]: A city operation center.

The resources required for the era upgrade have been reduced by 20%, and the current town center barely deserves the name of the town center. The previous population limit of 400 people was just a larger village. The town center also has more affairs officers to work in to provide bonus effects.

These are things that were not available in the Dark Ages.

The bonus of the era system must wait until the population of the territory exceeds 6,000, that is, the third era, before you can choose to determine your own system, so he said that the civilization of the third era is the civilization that really began to change drastically.

And the third era... the most interesting things will just begin.

The territory will evolve towards a real small civilization.

And the affairs officer... everyone will be given a common-looking affairs officer at the beginning. His affairs officer is Chongshan. Now Chongshan's level is completely not what he wants, only the lowest level of a manager. You must take him to the dungeon to learn, or let him grind in the territory to become an affairs officer.

The main focus is a long-term development.

Occasionally, there will be people in the market who sell hero units and arms, and sell population.

Except for yourself and your territory, you can sell almost anything in the market.

Don't think that he is developing peacefully now. Other territories may not be as lucky as him. If the lord wants to show his command ability and become a micro-manipulation master, he will be doomed. Although the generals and affairs officers sent in are stupid, they can definitely surpass 80% of the lords.

This is not a lie, but there are even many players staying in the city during the most critical ten days at the beginning.

The faster the improvement, the greater the advantage. The production capacity bonus brought by the improvement of the era is exponentially improved. "Civilization Forever" squeezes the process of thousands or even tens of thousands of years together.

This also leads to the snowball of each point of advantage to widen the gap in the end.

The normal replacement of the times follows the historical cycle law, the productivity explodes, the population explodes, and the population explodes. After the population explodes, it will approach the dangerous critical line of food. When a natural disaster occurs, there is no food to eat in the land. The population that has expanded out of the explosion will fall into a state of famine, the hungry people will revolt, and an era will fall into decline.

Then the curve will reach a balance again, with productivity increasing, population decreasing, and production relations changing.

Of course, this is just a very, very simple explanation.

The reality is thousands of times more complicated than this.

Speaking of this, this is where the trap of the system lies.

After the Dark Ages and before the Industrial Age, even if you develop to the extreme, a normal civilization cannot support its full population without special resources, even if it relies on rivers. Relying on rivers will greatly reduce the difficulty of obtaining food. Except for Ji Lin, who can touch the floodplain at the beginning, others have to be very lucky to encounter rivers, at most streams and lakes.

The collection in the wild will eventually dry up, and the advancement outward into the wild will be frustrated without the improvement of the times. Relying on the slow growth of cultivated land, food can hardly bear so many suddenly increased populations. Some lords like luxury customs, which is even more doomed.

In the middle period, a lot of lords fell into the food supply trap. It was really miserable to watch them operate at that time, and the whole forum was wailing.

The system will not help you replenish the loss of population. Either go to the market to buy population, or wait for the people's livelihood children!

The system is full of evil intentions.