Wasteland Border Inspector - Chapter 905

Chapter 905: Chapter 292: Increased Rewards, Special Dual Superpowers!

Bet?

Wang Rui squinted his eyes, his gaze firmly locked onto Cheng Ye, attempting to capture more information from his expression and eyes.

But to his disappointment, the young man before him continued to smile, his expression inscrutable, revealing nothing of his depths.

Especially in comparison to his straightforward and bold father, although their facial features were similar by about sixty percent, their personalities were completely different, and after a pause in the gaze, there wasn’t the slightest similarity.

“What do you want to bet on?” Wang Rui lifted his hands from under the table to the tabletop, rolling up his sleeves, “Personally, I have no interest in betting, but I am curious, since you dare to say such things, do you have chips that can tempt me?”

“Commander Wang, since I have brought it up, I naturally have the confidence.”

Cheng Ye also placed his hands flat on the table, leaning slightly forward, “But before that, shouldn’t we reveal some of our cards?”

“I’m very curious, what is the proportion of active combat personnel in the Heavy Machinery Faction?”

“Thirty percent.”

Wang Rui’s expression remained unchanged, adding, “Our tactical system requires more logistic personnel to provide support, so the proportion of combat personnel is about twenty percent lower than other corps factions. But our task completion rate and infection source sweep rate have always been above the passing line, without a single mistake.”

“Thirty percent… so that means the immediate combat force is roughly 3,300 people?” Cheng Ye murmured as he converted.

Wang Rui did not speak, only nodding slightly, but internally he couldn’t help but feel a heaviness.

The number isn’t an absolute disadvantage for the Heavy Machinery Faction, but due to the elite soldier system, it can somewhat reduce casualty rates.

However, at the critical moment of choosing a Satellite City to station, the number is an undeniable shortcoming.

As Cheng Ye said, in the current competition for all stationing slots, the industrial area and buffer zone, the Heavy Machinery Faction indeed finds it hard to have another chance.

The industrial area requires top-notch combat capability teams for protection, and the factions leading the point rankings in previous years have long been decided.

The buffer zone had potential competition, but the entangled interests have become increasingly complex, and the competition between the major factions has moved from the open to the covert, far simpler than imagined.

In the remaining Satellite Cities, Satellite City No. 1 is also designated as the station for the elite reserves of the Blood Dragon and Cross Corps.

Thus, the Heavy Machinery Faction can only truly compete for these 24 newly built Satellite Cities, and subsequent expansion quotas.

To prevent malignant competition from erupting when Satellite Cities contact military corps factions, the upper echelons specifically stipulated that each Satellite City can only choose one compatible military corps faction to station.

But in terms of personnel limits, there is no strict restriction, only indicating that it should not exceed two thousand people.

“I’m curious, if in the end, the number of troops the Satellite Cities can accommodate can’t fully absorb the restructured corps’ number, what will be done with the excess portion?” Cheng Ye continued to inquire, his gaze always fixed on Wang Rui’s face.

Wang Rui’s heart grew heavier, and he said solemnly, “Either retire or transition, returning to ordinary civilian status.”

Just like the Pioneer Corps’ arrangement back then?

“If I want to recruit those retired personnel, wouldn’t it be unrestricted by the two-thousand-person limit?”

“Theoretically feasible.”

Wang Rui’s expression didn’t waver, “But you must understand, there are clear requirements for the number of registered troops in each Satellite City, not to exceed two thousand. If you recruit additional retired personnel and engage them as unregistered militia in the winter sweep operations, during the final mission score calculations, there will be a quantitative reduction based on the excess number, and the main city’s funding will decrease correspondingly. It’s not to say that if your Dapo Town accommodates all eleven thousand people, you’ll receive corresponding support resources.”

Is that so?

Cheng Ye’s last bit of doubt completely dissipated.

In this Wasteland Era, where Extraordinary Power concentrates on individuals, the elders who oversee decision-making in Happiness City aren’t worried about Satellite Cities becoming too powerful.

This wave of corps restructuring not only aims to streamline institutions and remove bloatedness, strategically implementing a rigorous elite system.

For Satellite Cities, it’s also a key step in perfecting their developmental framework and filling in the last shortfall.

While the open restriction of only two thousand registered personnel per Satellite City isn’t to forbid them from recruiting more, it is to prevent the Satellite City from neglecting basic infrastructure and engaging in blind, disorderly expansion, causing the main city to intervene and clean up the mess, leading to internal chaos.

But if a Satellite City wants to go a step further and proactively recruit more personnel to bolster its strength, it actually won’t face a rigid restriction.

In other words, the better a Satellite City develops, even if it fortifies with over ten thousand or several tens of thousands of troops, Happiness City won’t just overlook it but may even offer extra rewards.

Of course, the core premise is to “develop well,” not to blindly increase troop numbers.

“Understood!”

Cheng Ye leaned back slightly, leaning against the chair, removing his hands from the table, “I wonder how much Commander Wang knows about me?”

“Core Inspector at the Inspection Station, certified researcher at the institute…”

Wang Rui paused and then shook his head, “These identities don’t hold much practical use for us, but Dapo Town’s private properties and the news of Inspector Cheng soon taking office as the station chief at Yueye Inspection Station next year have drawn our attention.”

“Seems Commander Wang has done quite a bit of homework on me.”

Cheng Ye paused slightly before changing his tone, “Three days from now, if the Heavy Machinery Faction is still interested, why not come to my Dapo Town for a detailed discussion, at which time I’ll present a specific betting plan.”