Will the kemonomimi encounter Alien Ranch Story?

"By the way, why is your air conditioner called a 'leaf-cooling machine'?"

"Shh! The boss usually doesn't come over at night, but he might suddenly come to check up on us. He'll get angry if he hears you say that." The sentry from the Yeti Squad gestured for him to be quiet.

"Huh? What does that have to do with anything?"

"In short, this is top secret. You'd better not ask what it is. As long as it works, that's fine."

The violence didn't pursue the matter further because what the other party said made sense and was usable, so there was no need to ask too many questions.

Except for those with good marksmanship, Lao Xia ordered the Yetis to hand over all their rifles in exchange for newly produced MA12 assault rifles.

The Snow Rabbit rifle will simply be used as a high-powered sniper rifle to further refine its accuracy and aiming, for use by squad snipers and marksmen. The rest of the team should not waste the currently scarce wet ammunition.

The MA12's pointed steel ammunition is cheaper than the turret's firing tube, so they can make it however they want. Because it doesn't use superconducting materials, it can't be fired using the gun's own power source; the power source is the metal hydrogen battery in the power armor.

Due to the dangers and manufacturing difficulties of metallic hydrogen, Xia Lin replaced it with a heavier Originium battery that generates less power—though not by much, about an hour less at full load.

The electric heating fuel has also been replaced with the new synthetic fuel that the Covenant has updated two generations ago, and a small amount of Originium dust has been added. In electric heating mode, it will trigger an Originium energy release reaction, further increasing its power.

Only in this way can Lao Xia afford the training expenses for the newly recruited farm security personnel. If these guys are trained with tower guns, at a cost of 50 LMD per gun, they can cost Lao Xia 100,000 LMD a day. Each person needs to be equipped with ammunition for one combat mission, which costs more than 10,000 LMD. How can he afford that?

Not to mention that as a wet component, the tower tube relies entirely on the rate of cell division and reproduction of biological cells, which cannot be fast at all, which is also a limitation of the wet component industry.

When you only have one machine, you have this efficiency. Whether you have a hundred machines, the efficiency per machine remains the same.

Instead of the exponential self-increase expansion of normal industry, the speed of single-unit production increases with the scale effect.

The current metal bullets don't matter. About 200 tons were produced at once and piled up there for training. With tons of bullets feeding them, the marksmanship of these newly trained Sarkaz youths will probably improve significantly.

[PS]

Sarkaz Youth Infantry:

Attack B, Defense C, Magic Resistance A, Health B, Attack Speed: Extremely Fast, Attack Range: 3 tiles, Movement Speed: Medium;

characteristic:

Full-speed fire: The attack interval is shortened to 0.1 seconds. After 30 attacks, the character begins to move and reload, and then stops attacking for 2.5 seconds.

Tactical Action: During the reload and movement phase, defense changes to A, and movement speed is reduced by 50% for 1.5 seconds [the first 1.5 seconds of which is at half speed].

Sarkaz Youth Guards:

Attack: A, Defense: A, Magic Resistance: A, Health: A, Attack Speed: Slow, Attack Range: 1 tile, Movement Speed: Fast;

characteristic:

Shield Protection: After taking damage, reduces movement speed by 20% and increases physical damage resistance by 30% (excluding magic damage)...

Impact Shotgun: The first shot stuns high-ground units for 2.5 seconds and deals double damage to low-ground units.

Defensive Formation: Provides a 50% bonus to the defense of nearby friendly units.

Razer Assault Guard:

Health: 2324, Defense: 256, Attack: 425, Magic Resistance: 10, Deployment Cost: 18, Block: 2, Attack Interval: 1.5;

characteristic:

It can block two enemies.

talent:

Impact Deflection: Grants stun immunity to allied operators within two tiles, while the user takes an additional 20% (10%) damage.

Resistance coating: Increases resistance by 20 (+3);

skill:

Charged Shield Bash:

攻击充能，技力4（3），对目标造成1.5秒眩晕，并提高下一击伤害20%（35%/50%）；

Shotgun bombardment:

Attack Charge, Skill Points 15, deals 150% (185%/200%) damage to all enemies within 3 squares, and knocks back enemies of medium weight. Enemies that cannot be knocked back are stunned for 3 seconds.

Chapter Two: Tracy's Meyer Economics Classroom

Chapter two

Satie Oasis, Aretosha Landship, Production Module, "Glug glug—"

The silver-gray liquid nanoworms tumble and charge inside the hive. The biggest problem with nanoscale micromechanics is how to conduct and obtain energy, while the Covenant's industrial production facilities choose external power supply.

The power supply chamber is essentially a large microwave oven that converts electrical energy into microwaves, which then power the liquid nanobots. Once powered, the nanobots move along the single-molecule permeable tubes to the printing port, where they read the particle blueprint and cut, assemble, and decompose the material.

The feed inlet is circular, resembling a sieve with numerous holes. The raw material rods enter the processing chamber through these holes with a "sizzle!"

A laser quickly cuts through a polymer rod, which falls into the roughing groove below under gravity and is rapidly covered in silver-gray.

High-strength polymers are broken down into long-chain molecules and then reassembled into even stronger polymer fiber components. Soon, a polymer fiber stock and handguard fall into the assembly platform and are gripped by a robotic arm.

Similarly, the micromechanical construction is assembled and fitted together, with a metal gun barrel, which is composed of a large number of conductive eutectic long chains, inserted into it at the microscopic level.

Next is the high-precision titanium-aluminum alloy receiver and loading mechanism with nano-cutting, and finally the coil, firing chamber, electric loading device, and grip and trigger with power supply contacts.

On average, it takes only 1 minute and 20 seconds to produce a batch of firearms, and the machining error of each part is between 2 and 5 nanometers. The ballistic dispersion is under ideal vacuum conditions, and the difference in ballistic data between each firearm is less than the major axis of a single cell.

However, due to limitations on the number of micromachines and the size of the machining tank, a maximum of 20 firearms can be manufactured per batch.

If you factor in the losses from the beehives and the technical costs, the cost of each MA12 rifle is enough to buy a reinforced company of general-purpose combat drones, which could then be used to bombard the enemy's territory overnight with real railguns and grenade launchers.

The production efficiency is appalling, especially if it were a professional production line with furnaces and other processes instead of this extravagant approach.

Basically, the conveyor belt can be fully loaded and transported out, and the weapons and ammunition to arm the entire Sarkaz nation can be produced in just a few days.

Understanding that these equipment items, though seemingly mass-produced and inexpensive, actually come with incredibly high technological costs, the White Rabbit gathered the determined and physically fit teenagers recommended by the training camp and decided to revise the training plan, placing firearms maintenance education before all other training.

On the contrary, she didn't need to worry about the veterans of the Yeti Squad, because the maintenance of the original White Rabbit precision rifle was more complicated. Wet parts are not as durable as ammunition that can still fire after being stored for half a century. Too high or too low a temperature can cause the turret to malfunction and the gun to misfire.

一排排经过质检测试的MA12步枪改进型就摆在桌子上，夏凛给他们取名为MA12A1型，意思是「陆战队突击步枪12型Apha-1」。

In reality, he couldn't modify the particle blueprint, he didn't have a workbench for modifying particle blueprints, and he hadn't learned the ability to program micromachines.

The so-called improved version has no changes to the gun itself; it's just that some restrictions were added manually after it was manufactured.

For example, the fire control mechanism was changed from single-shot/fully automatic to single-shot/triple-shot. Since the original peripherals could not be produced without blueprints, only DIY, unconventional peripherals could be produced.

For example, if there is no recoil damping enhancer, add a vertical grip; if there is no advanced tactical electro-optical sight, a regular white light scope will do; if there is no dedicated silencing device (which uses reverse vibration waves to neutralize air vibration waves and greatly reduce gun noise), then use a conventional suppressor with subsonic ammunition.

That's the advantage of electromagnetic weapons: you can switch between supersonic anti-personnel missiles and subsonic silenced missiles with a single click.

If ordinary subsonic bullets are not enough, they can even be reduced to semisonic arrows that make only a slight sound even without a silencer, roughly equivalent to a low-speed crossbow bolt, for silent close-range kills.

However, what was presented to the new recruits was a sample standard rifle with no peripherals whatsoever, only a mechanical sight.

“I will only do it once, and then other people will teach you how to disassemble and maintain it step by step. If you can’t learn it, go back to where you came from.”

Petrenko picked up the rifle from the table, held it upright in front of him, and addressed the new recruits whose faces were filled with confusion and a hint of resistance.

The Sarkaz don't really like using guns. They require Originium Arts, and the ammunition is expensive. Ordinary ammunition isn't very powerful either. In their folklore, those who use guns and explosive weapons are cowardly women, just like the Vayvans of Sargon who didn't inherit any of their ancestors' bravery.

Sarkaz should crush their enemies to dust with greatswords, spells, and heavy hammers; crossbows enhanced with Originium Arts are barely acceptable.

However, the fact that they were given guns was a huge disappointment to the young men who had thought they would be selected as guard cavalrymen, riding tall horses and wielding those cool guns.

Disappointment aside, the farm guard's salary is one thing, but if he were sent back to the training camp and transferred to a regular labor camp to wait for assignment on a regular construction site, not only would his parents break his legs if he went back, but according to Sarkaz tradition, he would never be able to hold his head up in front of his brothers again.

Sarkaz customs and perceptions are difficult to change in a short time. They still believe that being selected for the guard is akin to being a member of the samurai class. For ordinary Sarkaz who were originally either slaves or commoners, it's like a child getting into university in the 80s—a great honor.

Being sent back is like being expelled from a top university in the 1980s; it takes real mental fortitude for parents not to jump off buildings.

As for not being good at their major, even if they weren't good at their major, they were still "university students"! Just like today, a samurai who uses a gun is still a middle-class person who possesses military power.

The training camp should actually be called a vocational training school, but due to the Sarkaz customs and their unruly nature, it is called that.

Therefore, the system is closer to military training, with very strict management and learning plans.

Otherwise, given their naturally carefree personalities, using them as future construction workers would likely cause countless problems.

The new recruits recommended by the training camp generally had considerable basic skills, and when faced with Petrenko's disassembly demonstration and the hands-on instruction from the other Yetis, everyone learned with great focus.

The Pillar Assault Rifle, fully loaded, weighs nearly 7 kilograms. It is designed for soldiers wearing exoskeletons and can be loaded with 75 rounds of 7mm steel-tipped bullets. In fully automatic mode, it has a rate of fire of 850 rounds per minute. Even for the Sarkaz, who are among the strongest in Terran, it is a bit too heavy and difficult to control.

In single-shot mode, these recruits performed reasonably well, but in triple-shot mode...

Basically, the last two shots all missed the target, which caused Vasily, who was in charge of teaching them to shoot, to lose clumps of hair recently and get very anxious. As for the problems caused by the difference between guns and muskets, such as the "golden finger" problem, it was even more heartbreaking.

Fortunately, there was an ample supply of training ammunition. With the abundant ammunition, these recruits gradually improved, from half of them missing the target at the beginning to now being able to basically meet the minimum training standards. As for other tactical and physical training, they were progressing more smoothly than shooting training.

Basic training passed quickly, and the first batch of 300 Sarkaz youth riflemen finally graduated from basic training camp amidst the complicated gazes of a group of Yeti instructors.

Behind them are 20 unfortunate souls who died during training, 19 of whom died from fatal mistakes such as using cheat codes. This served as a bloody lesson for others, and presumably the second batch of recruits will be much more obedient than this one.

While they were completing their basic training, the beehives were also producing simplified combat protective gear for the infantry.

The cost is that the volume of the micromechanical liquid visibly decreases by one-third. When it is consumed to about one-fifth of its original volume, the number of assembly units is insufficient to complete the entire honeycomb process, meaning that the nano-honeycomb is completely scrapped.

Designed two centuries ago, the protective gear lacks a neural link system but contains numerous tactical assistance programs and electronic devices. These devices were completely dismantled by Lao Xia after they were manufactured. Rather than wasting them on these noobs, he decided to use them to modify the engineering exoskeletons and power armor he already had.

However, some basic auxiliary tactical systems were retained for these recruits. The new recruits then discovered that they needed to undergo even more training and learning before donning these imposing and magnificent armors.

It is precisely because the training and learning costs for human soldiers are increasing that everyone in the Earth era is considering the idea of ​​unmanned armies.

"Boom!" In one corner of the training ground, the adobe brick wall collapsed with a crash, and a boy wearing khaki desert camouflage armor lay among the bricks, dizzy and disoriented.

"See? How many times have I told you? Be gentle, control your strength. The motion sensor is very sensitive. Don't use your habits to exert force. You just need to give it a prompt, and the machine will do the rest for you!" The power equipment instructor shouted hoarsely at the group of rookies in front of him.

"Next!"

"boom!"

"Next!"

"Dangdang!"

"Next……"

As the recruits trained and the second spring gradually arrived in Kazdel, a landship was hurrying along. It was the Quiron, a landship secretly controlled by Theresis and manufactured in the Victoria Factory. It was now the only force in his hands that was completely loyal to him.

The exhausted regent sank deep into his chair, closing his eyes and feigning sleep. These past few months had been filled with treks, negotiations, arguments, and even duels and small-scale wars. His resources and manpower were dwindling, but all he had gained were empty promises and a group of allies with ulterior motives.

However, regardless of the circumstances, Theresis still enjoyed a certain level of popularity and prestige in North Kazdel. With the landship under his command and his loyal guards, even if the chieftains outwardly complied, they would at least listen to him instead of simply kicking this down-on-his-luck fellow out.

"Your Highness, Your Highness!?"