It took Tatsumi more than six hours to successfully clear the first level. Looking at the recommended completion time and the number of restarts given by the system, he felt a bit numb. He first summarized his game experience and the skills that need attention in every detail, then sent them to the TT forum and began to think.
While thinking, Schwi sent him an email containing a valuable gift: a mobile construction vehicle.
"This is a deposit. Your first strategy made Rick and me think you have potential. We will give you a base vehicle with different construction permissions based on your completion of the strategy."
"Thank you very much!!" Tatsumi replied excitedly. The constant restarts during the game had helped him gradually understand the worldview of this game and how powerful the base construction vehicle could be.
The deposit Schwi referred to was a Soviet base vehicle with only one technology, equivalent to the game's combat mode.
With the mobile construction vehicle, Tatsumi could put more ideas into practice. In the game, he knew that the mobile construction vehicle had many functions. In addition to building structures, it could even produce many things to a certain extent. After all, soldiers needed food and clothes, and it had the capability to build simple production workshops.
The mobile construction vehicle provided by Schwi did not unlock highly complex technology; so these basic resource functionalities were preserved.
What did this mean? It meant he was qualified for industrialization. Industrialization through mobile construction vehicles meant mass production of food and clothes, attracting people to join him through these basic necessities.
In this chaotic world, survival was difficult for many. Regardless of age or gender, many would work hard as long as they were given food. This meant he could meet the first condition: population.
This aligned with Yuri's teachings. According to Yuri, in such chaos, food could secure loyal subordinates. Children, in particular, were the easiest to cultivate. Many who suffered from a young age would remain loyal if given a little sweetness.
Now that Tatsumi had all the conditions, he could skip many preliminary steps and start the most critical one: recruiting population.
At this moment, he realized the true value of the mobile construction vehicle.
TT
Tatsumi: "Thank you very much!!"
Schwi: "This is just our investment and attempt. Our world needs more senior commanders."
In Rick and Schwi's world, with Schwi's help, human culture and technology were rapidly advancing. They couldn't match advanced races, but humans needed to be able to fight low-ranking races such as the beastmen.
They needed more advanced technology and more people to gain knowledge, to bring out the resources of the Red Alert world. The resources brought out by each person were limited. With more people, the plan to elevate humanity could definitely be completed.
Schwi: "Come on, stay alive, and come up with a strategy quickly."
Schwi might be the first person in the entire Internet cafe to urge for more updates for strategy guides, a Machine.
"I will!" Tatsumi responded.
After recovering, Tatsumi brought his childhood sweetheart and best friend to the base.
Looking at the huge and gorgeous base, Sayu was so shocked that she couldn't speak: "Tatsumi, was this brought by the gods?"
"Yes!" Tatsumi nodded vigorously and said, "I will take you to meet everyone in the future, but before that, I have a plan, a plan to overthrow this empire and build a country where everyone can have enough food. Are you willing to listen?"
It sounded crazy, but for those who had died once, going crazy with their best friend seemed like a good choice.
"Let's do it. I'm already fed up with this imperial capital. What emperor, what minister, all of them, go to hell."
Sayu didn't say much, just stretched out her fist and pointed it at Tatsumi.
They had left the village together to join the army in the imperial capital and make a name for themselves, but as soon as they left home, they were deceived by the nobles and almost killed.
They had experienced death, so why fear resistance? What's more, wasn't there a magical Tatsumi?
As for what Tatsumi had experienced, the two friends did not ask too much. They believed that Tatsumi would tell them when the time was right.
"What is the name of our organization?"
Sayu's question made Tatsumi feel torn. He had not learned much culture and couldn't think of a good name. When he thought of the games he played today, his eyes lit up: "How about Epsilon?"
"What a strange name..." Sayu did not understand the meaning of the name, but Ieyasu on the side said excitedly, "What a cool name, let's call it Epsilon."
So, in Tatsumi's world, Epsilon, which originally meant to go against ordinary people's consciousness, became an organization that resisted the empire and bring unity to all.
Tatsumi was young after all. Yuri often called him Proselyte in the game, and he felt a little brainwashed.
So he set the code name for the three of them as Proselytes. The first step of their task was very simple. Sayu would stay to control the textile factory and food processing factory built by the mobile construction vehicle, while Tatsumi and Ieyasu went to the imperial capital to win people over to their camp.
The two of them had already thought of the target to win over. It would be best if they were ordinary people who had been abused by the imperial nobles or were wandering, especially children. Tatsumi knew the feeling of hunger and didn't want to see hungry children.
The operation of the textile factory was very simple. All you had to do was get cotton or designated plant fibers to make very silky industrial clothing. Food was even simpler. You could throw in anything edible and mass-produce compressed food. Although it didn't taste good, it was filling.
You could even throw in non-toxic plants directly, and the compressed food processed by the machine could be eaten directly. The taste was no different from chewing leaves directly. But again, it could replenish energy and fill you up.
At the same time, Tatsumi also decided to write down everything he saw and heard in the imperial capital and consult his political commissar Yuri when he played Red Alert tomorrow.
He didn't fully understand what Epsilon was doing yet, but with Yuri's guidance, he knew what he wanted to do and what he could do.
The only shortcoming now was that there was no population. With more people, his side would develop faster.
But then Tatsumi suddenly thought of something. If it was just a few of them, it would be useless to try to attract people.
He decided to falsify their testimony and say that they were from the Epsilon branch and that the main force was gathering with the Revolutionary Army in the north. Although it borrowed the name of the Revolutionary Army, it would at least attract people. Otherwise, they might be considered liars.
"By the way, let's produce some food before going over. With supplies, they will believe us more."