Will the kemonomimi encounter Alien Ranch Story?

In a desperate world, this cheap way of escaping will be sought after by everyone. Conversely, this behavior will drain the limited consumer power, making the world's economy seem less hopeless. As long as it doesn't seem so hopeless, capitalists will still invest a little bit with the mentality of making money, pulling the world back a little bit from the brink of doom.

Of course, for a train already hurtling towards the cliff, lightly applying the brakes would be useless; it would only delay their demise in the valley, and what Xia Lin and Kazdel needed was time.

"So you've decided on the script?"

"No, but the Godfather has already gone to find people. As I just said, Syracuse is also an art capital, and it has no shortage of artists, including screenwriters."

“But novels and screenplays are not…” Swire stopped talking because Old Xia took out a stack of Lungmen dollars. She immediately understood that for those poor, unknown playwrights, this was enough to make them put in enough effort.

"And starting with the best isn't a good thing." Because it only gives the audience the impression that their debut was their peak, and that they'll decline afterward.

Moreover, Lao Xia and the doctor are both experienced people who understand that once the Great Depression begins, even those big shots will have no choice but to go into business.

Among them are always those brimming with talent but unfulfilled, and others with progressive ideas; their works, by their very nature, serve as publicity for Xia Lin and his group.

It just requires investment money, and is money a problem for harvesters like Xia Lin during the Great Depression?

Answer: No.

[Fun fact: Besides a few tycoons, Marx and Engels were among those who successfully made money in the stock market and escaped unscathed during the economic crisis... hilariously...]

Why is Japan's ACG industry declining? Look at the big shots who were forced into this industry back then; now they're just a bunch of useless people.

In Japan's early ACG industry, graduates from ordinary prestigious universities were the regular troops, while the giants who graduated from the University of Tokyo but had to engage in these "lowly" professions due to their participation in the Zenkyoku War were the pillars that supported Japan's ACG industry at that time.

Now, it's clear that the bigwigs of Syracuse and Ursus will soon have to turn to this business due to the economic crisis. This will ensure that the TV station's programs continue to grow, and once it attracts enough viewers, it can naturally serve as its propaganda and public opinion platform.

"And what about the actors?" Nowadays, the performances are mostly exaggerated, and physical movements and performing arts are two different things.

Because opera or theatrical performances require sufficiently exaggerated and large-scale physical movements for the audience to see them.

Facial expression management is not as important, but in a movie, every expression will be magnified.

Terra does have a film industry, but due to technological limitations, many special effects and disguise techniques are missing, although the existence of Originium Arts allows some special effects to be filmed entirely on location.

Even so, Terra's films still seem to have not completely broken away from the perspective of drama and opera, and still contain a lot of exaggerated physical performances. The dialogue and tone are also strange, much like the difference between Japanese dramas and American dramas. Japanese dramas are like this, liking to emphasize the key points and core parts through exaggerated physical movements and exaggerated tones.

"I don't think you even understand performing arts. I'm not questioning you, but I feel that if you understand even this, aren't you knowing too much?"

“I don’t understand, but that kid on the moon does!” Johnny certainly doesn’t understand performing arts either, but he’s seen plenty of it.

When your eye is discerning enough, even if you can't explain why, you can still say that something won't work, and you can always try and fail.

Chapter 43 A Day in the Life of a Doctor

Chapter 43

Rhodes Island. The Doctor looked at the mountain of documents in front of him and shook his head. Kazdel was a place in dire need of rebuilding. Although it was a small place, and much of it had been converted into farms, there was much more to do than just agricultural production.

For example, the relocation and consolidation of villages and towns to facilitate production and relocation can minimize the possibility of clan and feudal local forces dominating the market. It is important to understand that people's thoughts are uncontrollable, and everyone has different degrees of closeness and distance. This is not a problem.

However, if not addressed in time, new small groups bound by blood ties and hometown will soon form and occupy the grassroots level.

While it is said that outside of a party, there is no party, and imperial ideology prevails; within a party, there are all sorts of strange and unusual things, it should not become such an inefficient, or even feudal, faction. Moreover, concentrating the population is more conducive to population growth and centralized production in industrialization.

This task requires a significant amount of time and effort from PhDs, and it would actually be much more complicated if it weren't for the presence of skilled grassroots staff trained by the Integrative Movement.

Moreover, these tasks must be completed at this time because these talents have only just settled down and have not yet fully taken root. Furthermore, under military-style management and in a state of war preparedness, no one would dare to rebel or think they could take a leap of faith.

If we don't address this now, and wait until there's complete peace, when all the relationships are deeply entrenched, it could easily incite a popular uprising. At that point, suppressing it won't work, and not suppressing it won't work either. Compromise would be a slow poison.

Every little bit of saving now will accumulate into interest that will be impossible to repay in the future. Therefore, the doctor would rather postpone the attack slightly than not secure the rear, making it a solid fortress before using it as a template to crush the enemy along the front line.

To put it bluntly, if you don't go with him, you go with Theresis. Even if there are stubborn kids, in the end they will have to follow the sun. Even if the Ark is repaired, it can't take all the people of Terra away. Someone will always be left behind.

After finishing a day's work, only one thing remained: the formation of an intelligence force for external operations. Judging from the results of previous black operations, these former mercenaries would be a rotten apple if incorporated into the regular army. It was impossible to expect them to learn discipline and regular army combat habits in a short period of time.

So, organizing them into a separate unit focused on small-scale infiltration, reconnaissance, and special operations is not a problem, since these guys are experts at doing this kind of sneaky stuff.

To take action against these mercenary groups, they needed the support of two people: Mudrock and W. Most of these mercenaries were recruited by them.

Relatively speaking, the people on the mudstone side are closer to the regular army and easier to deal with, while W's gang of petty thieves are a bit tricky.

"Knock knock!" The doctor knocked on the door, and a sweet voice that was both unfamiliar and familiar came from inside, "Who is it!" Then the door opened.

Her silver hair had grown a little longer, and she wore a casual sweater, black tights, and a very simple casual skirt. Her silver hair was braided and hung down in front of her chest.

Her expression and appearance both suggest that she is an ordinary girl next door with a slightly married woman vibe.

"Woo—" A small head peeked out from behind, looking timidly at the Doctor. The whole scene was silent. "Uh... W?" "Bang!" The door was slammed shut.

A dozen minutes later, the Sarkaz girl, now dressed in mercenary attire, emerged with a murderous look on her face. "If you dare tell anyone what happened just now, I'll blow your manhood to pieces, understand?"

"It's nothing, I don't care about that. I have something serious to discuss with you." It was about forming a professional, long-term special operations team, and W seemed quite interested in that.

After all, his former subordinates and friends do feel like they can't find their place in this new group.

After visiting the newly formed Guards, everyone felt that with their limited skills, they could only manage to overpower a squad of weaklings. Against a platoon, they would face a very difficult situation. At the company level and above, they would flee in terror. As for battalion-level units, how long they could survive depended on the preheating time of the thermoelectric guns in the battalion's artillery company.

As for maintaining order, they're not as good as the Yeti Squad, and besides, they're not exactly reliable targets for surveillance, so the Ministry of Internal Affairs would never have a chance to assign them any work.

However, becoming an ordinary farmer or an ice miner felt like a waste of all their skills and experience. Apart from a few who genuinely didn't intend to continue in this line of work and were preparing to retire, most mercenaries were somewhat lost and unsure of what to do next.

Their previous black operations proved that they still had a role to play, and their past experience in doing dirty work was a perfect fit for these tasks.

W and the doctor exchanged general opinions on the matter of forming a special forces unit, and then argued about the details for a while.

Overall, the work is progressing relatively smoothly. The main disagreements are on the number of personnel and their compensation, as well as the need to place "supervisors" or political officers.

"By the way, children shouldn't be kept at home all day. There are schools here, and playing and learning with peers is also a form of growth."

"I'll consider it..."

The doctor shrugged and said nothing. This guy was a fanatical supporter, no different from those fanatics.

And speaking of fanatics, those Laterans are really daring, sanctioning all companies involved in Titan Industries' weapons technology, including Rhodes Island and the Xia Group.

However, on the other hand, the Laterans who occupied the Holy Mountain were a highly self-sufficient, self-sustaining nation, so they were naturally not afraid of offending anyone.

Even if you wanted to retaliate against them, you wouldn't find any goods you could sanction. Fortunately, there weren't many Lateran technicians and believers here to begin with, and even those casual believers were reassigned from key positions by the Doctor.

"Let's go check out the military factory..." They're tinkering with something new over there. With the founding of the new Kazdel and the smooth development of enterprises in Lungmen, Master Ke isn't the only technical engineer here.

Moreover, the logistics department has already warned that if any more watchmakers are sent to them, they will go on strike.

Furthermore, the logistics department praised the designer of the MA12 rifle, believing that there would be many more designers and craftsmen who understood the needs of the logistics department and frontline soldiers, and that watchmakers should be eliminated altogether.

However, Mr. Ke himself was not ostracized by the logistics department because although the things he made were difficult to repair, he could repair them in batches, which reduced a lot of trouble for the logistics department.

Moreover, although the production tools designed by the Ke Shifu were of the watchmaker level, the precision and accuracy required for manufacturing the tools themselves were not a major problem.

What was placed on the workbench was no longer the chassis of a Titan, but something much bigger: the chassis of a land assault ship. As a high-quality land warship chassis produced by Victoria with a length of 61.7 meters, it could bear a weight of about 400-600 tons.

Using the technology of the ancients and an electromagnetic suspension system, the chassis, which heavily relied on Originium devices and was controlled by sorcerers, was improved to its current state, directly causing Mr. Sesa's hairline to recede by about 2 centimeters.

If it weren't for Lao Xia providing some advanced agricultural machinery technology, he might have gone bald.

The one that will be installed is an even larger Originium railgun, which is said to have been made by Master Nian from the military factory. It has a 203mm rail opening, a rail width of 360mm and a height of 400mm, making it a behemoth with a 45-times caliber.

It almost completely occupies the chassis of the land-based ship. With the addition of mechanical elevators and ammunition feeders, this behemoth requires at least a platoon to operate. It is surrounded by welded steel railings, and in front is a driver's cab. This is the newly developed "prototype self-propelled artillery".

With a range of up to 46 kilometers, this thing can spray airburst grenades at the enemy at a rate of one every two minutes. Terra really has this technology. When using wet explosives, it can become an airburst incendiary grenade, which can turn an area with a radius of about 260 meters into a burning sea of ​​fire in one go.

It is very useful for blocking infantry groups, but its drawback is that it cannot perform barrage attacks.

Because the burning cloud is greatly affected by wind, for safety, soldiers must be at least 600-800 meters away from the point of impact of the artillery fire to be safe.

Considering the accuracy of artillery fire, soldiers actually need to be at least 3-5 kilometers away from the target to ensure their safety and prevent incendiary bombs from burning their own troops to the ground.

On the adjacent workbench were light combat vehicles converted from agricultural tractor chassis, designed to fill the gap between the Titans and armed off-road vehicles—an inspiration drawn from Raytheon Industries' equipment. Of course, the captured Ms. Croggs also proved invaluable.

The reason for using a code name is simple: how could she dare to reveal her real name? Wasn't she afraid that Theresis or her former boss would kill her whole family?

In a sense, this is why Terrans give themselves code names when they join a company.

In this early era of brutal competition, if they didn't use code names to conceal their true identities, did they really think those nobles and businessmen wouldn't engage in the same behavior as DuPont?

Because of the impurities in Originium, pure chemical gunpowder is simply unusable. It's not practical to have an entire cleanroom as complicated as chip manufacturing to produce gunpowder. This stuff is purely consumable. If concentrated artillery were used, it could fire one or two million shells in a week. That production efficiency is simply not enough to fill a gap on the battlefield.

Ultimately, the weapons used for these light armored vehicles did not use Originium railguns. This was mainly because Master Nian stated that the factory's production capacity was already at full capacity. The six 203mm heavy cannons and twelve 170mm heavy cannons ordered by the Imperial Guard alone would be enough for them to work until next spring to complete the delivery.

Even smaller caliber Originium railguns couldn't meet the needs of Titan tanks; newly produced Titan tanks now use volcano cannons, which don't require high precision in manufacturing.

Of course, the volcano cannon's ability to burn Originium fuel is another story—the ammunition of an entire ammunition trailer is enough for it to burn for two or three minutes.

Fortunately, Xia and his group, who controlled two major Originium mines, didn't have to worry too much about Originium fuel. Putting aside the volcanic mining sites on the snowfield, they had also started drilling deep wells to refine Originium in Kazdel.

The Guyuan Rock Group is mostly located in mountainous and desert areas. It resembles igneous rock and requires a vertical mine shaft to be dug down. The deeper you go, the higher the content of Originium becomes.

However, not all Originium is worth mining. Those bluish-black Originium crystals are worthless; they are formed from the sedimentation of exhausted Originium particles and will turn into new Originium minerals over time.

What is valuable are the discolored Originium rocks surrounding these bluish-black Originium crystals. Due to the principle of interpenetration of material particles, the Originium crystals gradually transform into these yellowish-brown, hexagonal rock columns.

Then the entire material is cut and extracted, and after complex refining and processing, it is finally made into pure Originium or synthetic jade material. On the Kazdel side, the output of Originium minerals is still quite considerable.

It just can't compare to the efficiency of ore extraction from lava in Ursus. After all, here you still need to drill wells, go down into the wells, and chisel rocks, wearing thick work clothes, for fear that the shattered Originium crystals will pierce your body and turn you into an infected person. But at the volcanic mine, you drive into the lava river, and those solidified dark red rock pipes are the minerals.

The small armored vehicle codenamed "Ranger" uses a variety of weapons, including grenade launchers for dealing with infantry and vehicle-mounted parallel machine guns modified from MA12s, with most of the vehicle space used for transporting troops and supplies.

There are also types equipped with thermoplastic cannons for anti-armor attacks, which is the most common type. The thermoplastic cannon is configured with a grenade launcher. Finally, there is a light artillery system.

Using the same tracked chassis, the weapon is a prototype electrothermal cannon, made with wet parts from Razer and Franka. It can ionize industrial ketone compounds containing Originium ore powder in an extremely short time, turning them into high-temperature, high-pressure ion gas that propels the cannonball into the barrel, whether it is a direct or indirect shot.

The only problem is that, to this day, the factory has not solved the airtightness issue. Simply put, it is difficult to achieve an airtight seal between the heating chamber and the acceleration chamber, which leads to a significant drop in gas efficiency, almost failing to meet the design specifications.

This was purely due to manufacturing technology issues, and the doctor was there specifically to solve these problems. However, after spending an afternoon at the military factory, the doctor still hadn't figured it out.

If I had to point out the problems, there are many. From the precision of the tools to the skill of the workers, there are issues with the materials and technology. The electric heating agent used as the primer is not as good as Xia Lin's.

However, the propellant used in firearms cannot be mixed with that used in artillery, and Terra's industrial purification technology is substandard, resulting in problems with residue removal during cleaning.

In short, an afternoon passed without solving a single problem; instead, a whole notebook was filled with new ones. "And if this thing can't be mass-produced, we'll have a hard time gaining enough mobile forces on the front lines, after all..."

After all, the Titan's reliability is too low. It's okay as a frontal assault force; no one can withstand being crushed by this thing weighing hundreds of tons. But it's a bit difficult to make back-and-forth attacks and block the enemy's armored forces from breaking through.

Thermomelased cannons are indeed powerful anti-armor weapons, but their range and power decay are problems.

Moreover, the ammunition for the molten cannon comes from Talulah's wet components, and the ammunition production scale cannot be increased. If it is actually used, the ammunition may be used up very quickly.

"I'll think of a solution. If all else fails, I'll try a different approach or work on improving the ammunition."

The doctor also felt a headache coming on. He was not a military industry expert, nor even a manufacturing technology expert. He could not connect to the industrial reconstruction matrix of the Sailboat constellation, otherwise these problems would be easy to solve.

After leaving the military factory, we walked along the newly repaired road for a while and arrived at the newly merged town, which was brightly lit.

In this early winter, tower heating systems ensure the town's productivity and basic economic vitality.