Volume 10: Ancient Battleship Chapter 513 Lease Contract
"Hehe, don't worry about this, it will be available soon." Ye Yan said.
"Very soon?" Ke Lan asked doubtfully.
A complete hunting group needs four resources: personnel, equipment, gear and intelligence. Among them, the personnel issue is the most difficult to solve - if you set up a new training camp and train new people, it will take at least a year to complete the entire training process .
Those who have just graduated from the training camp can only be regarded as rookies among rookies. If they want to form a hunter team with decent strength, they must start from low-level ruins, accumulate exploration experience bit by bit, and improve their qualifications.
Even if there are experienced seniors leading the team, it will take at least three to five years for them to grow up. This is still a conservative estimate. If the team accidentally encounters an emergency and is wiped out, all the previous work will basically be in vain and they will have to start all over again.
Don't think that the probability of such things happening is low... In fact, every year there are several new hunting groups that fail in low-level ruins - no matter how to say it, the technological level of the Alpha civilization is so far ahead of humans that even the security measures in low-level ruins are deadly enough for humans.
If the Ye Group wants to establish a hunting group in a short period of time, it can only use two methods: spending money to poach talents and recruiting lone hunters. However, these two methods also have obvious disadvantages. First, the hunters who form a temporary team have not gone through the process of running-in, and their tacit understanding is generally very poor. In addition, if they encounter people with conflicting personalities, internal friction may arise. Second, no matter whether they are people poached from other hunting groups or "free men" found by headhunting companies, their identities and loyalty cannot be guaranteed. They may be spies planted by others... If they are business competitors, it is not difficult to deal with them. But if they are members of a heretical sect, it will be a big trouble.
"If you plan to recruit a group of hunters to form a hunting group, I'm afraid that won't work." Ke Lan continued, "That's too unreliable. This is not a final exam in school. You can't just cram a few nights before the exam and pass it."
"We know that it's too late to temporarily form a new hunting group." Ye Yan replied, "But the board of directors has come up with a more direct solution - do you think a complete 'Gray Bird' hunting group is qualified to participate in this exploration?"
"'Grey Bird' hunting group?" Ke Lan had certainly heard of this hunting group. The Grey Bird hunting group was a consortium-level hunting group affiliated to the Sera Consortium, and it had always been in the top three of the hunting group rankings... Ke Lan subconsciously took a look at the latest hunting group rankings, and the Grey Bird icon was surprisingly ranked second, three places higher than their "God Hunting Group" which had just made it into the top five.
As for the difference in points, the Grey Bird Hunting Group has ten times more than the God Hunting Group!
Of course, there is nothing that can be done about it - although the Hunting God Hunting Group is also a consortium-level hunting group, the only hunters who can be used are Ke Lan and his group, while the "Grey Bird" hunting group has nearly 400 registered hunters alone. Including logistics personnel and those trainees, handymen, intelligence officers, etc. who cannot obtain the title of official members due to the upper limit on the number of people, the entire hunting group has as many as 3,000 employees.
With so many people, they can carry out dozens of exploration missions at the same time. Even if they are exploring low-level ruins, the points they can get in the end will be considerable by accumulating them.
But what puzzled Ke Lan was that the owner of the "Gray Bird" hunting group, the "Sera Group", was not very big. Compared with giants like Ye's and Morgan, they could only be considered a third-rate group. However, "every profession has its own specialty". Although the Sera Group was not good at doing business, it was quite good at running a hunting group. There was a saying in the hunter circle that the revenue of the "Gray Bird" hunting group accounted for more than 80% of the total revenue of the entire Sera Group. As for the remaining 20%, it was basically related to exploring ruins and hunter training.
It can even be said that the Serra Consortium and the Serra Family have completely tied themselves to the high-risk but high-return business of ruins exploration. In many cases, the name "Serra Consortium" can even be equated with the "Grey Bird Hunting Group."
But now Ye Yan has thrown out the name of "Grey Bird Hunting Group", and said that it is an entire "complete" Grey Bird Hunting Group - it can't be that their Ye family has acquired the Grey Bird Hunting Group, right?
Ke Lan felt that even if the boss of the Sera Group sold out his wife and daughter, he would never sell out the Gray Bird Hunting Group.
Without the Gray Bird Hunting Group, what would be left of the Serra Consortium?
"Uh, you guys wouldn't have... acquired the Serra Group, right?" Ke Lan asked.
But to be honest, if there is a force that has the financial resources to take over the entire Sera Group, the Ye family is definitely one of them.
"That's not the case..." Ye Yan's fat face trembled slightly, "We just signed a lease agreement with the Sera Consortium and temporarily leased the Gray Bird Hunting Group... Anyway, they know that they can't compete with other forces with their own abilities, so they might as well take this opportunity to participate and get a share of the profits."
"Well... that's true, but if we send the entire Gray Bird Hunting Group, it would be too many people. We only need an elite team of about 20 people. Including the logistics personnel, it's best not to exceed 50 people... As for the personnel selection process, we must be very careful. If possible, it's best to investigate the background, identity, social circle, daily routine, behavior and hobbies of the candidates - remember, I would rather have a hunter with a clean background and average strength join the team, and you must not send me a guy with outstanding strength but unclear background."
Ke Lan paused, and emphasized again: "There is something I have to tell you. This battleship was almost...almost owned by the heretic sect. Do you understand what I mean?"
"Yes, of course I understand!" Ye Yan nodded hurriedly, "By the way, Brother Ke Lan, do you agree to this?"
"We have to find someone to cooperate with anyway. Instead of negotiating business with strangers, it's better to give it to our brothers, right?"
Ke Lan quietly brought the two sides closer together, and Ye Yan also tactfully agreed, "Right, right, good things should be kept within the family!"
"Well, you select the people first, and then place some of your own people in the Ye family, and then mix the two groups of people for a period of closed training. I have to wait until the repair work of Mukach is completed before returning to the Ark. When everything is almost settled, 'Yaguna Kotor' will be officially open for exploration. I calculated that this will take at least two to three months. This time should be enough for these gray bird people to run in with your people."
"What about other consortiums?" Ye Yan asked cautiously.
"I don't plan to let too many people into the battleship in the first batch. Our God Hunting Group, your Ye family's people, plus the military and research institute's people, are estimated to be more than 150 people. As for other consortiums, don't consider them for now." Ke Lan didn't even take the Security Bureau into consideration - anyway, the Security Bureau couldn't send out a few agents who had been relic hunters. These guys could just be responsible for maintaining the external order of the ruins. As for the in-depth exploration, it would be better to let professionals do it.
"So, apart from official agencies, we are the exclusive partner?" Ye Yan couldn't help but exult. The exclusive partner, and the first group of explorers to enter the warship, this title is really too valuable. He could even imagine the surprised and delighted expressions of the elders when he brought this news back to the board of directors.
In this kind of situation, as long as you can be one step ahead, you can basically be ahead step by step. Even if Ke Lan and his team cooperate with more financial groups in the future, the exploration and development progress of other financial groups will definitely not catch up with their group of "pioneers".
To put it bluntly, those who come late can only follow behind them and eat their farts.
Could it be that the Ye Group will reach a new peak under my leadership? Thinking of this, even Ye Yan, who usually doesn't care much about the internal affairs of the group, couldn't help but get excited...
Although he would feel sleepy involuntarily when he saw those complicated reports and design drawings, it did not mean that he had no ambition in his heart - especially Ye Yan, who had been suppressed by other outstanding brothers since childhood. He knew very well that the elders in his family had never had any expectations of him. It was precisely because of this that he gave up and gradually became a dandy young master who maxed out all the skill points for eating, drinking and having fun, but had no access to the core power of the family.
And now, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity is before him.
As long as he can seize this opportunity, no matter how bad the first twenty years of his life are, from this moment on, no one will look down on him anymore.
Ye Yan couldn't help but clench his fists, his nails digging into the fat flesh on his palms but he didn't feel any pain at all.
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Four days later, 150 kilometers southwest of the Ark.
The altitude was 9,600 meters, the weather was clear and the visibility was good.
The teardrop-shaped ancient warship "Aguna Tor" slowly stopped, and the three light circles on the tail of the ship began to expand and gradually merged together, forming a light film as thin as a cicada's wing, wrapping the entire warship.
This is an "anti-theft measure". Except for Ke Lan himself, anyone who attempts to enter the battleship will be blocked outside by this layer of light film. Although this layer of light film can be forcibly offset by an energy shield, the noise caused by doing so is enough to alarm the Ark 150 kilometers away, not to mention the fleet on round-the-clock alert around "Yaguna Kator".
After setting a series of "standby options", Ke Lan was the last one to leave the power room - he had just been teleported outside the battleship when a luxurious transport plane came up and opened the hatch in the air.
Stepping on the invisible "air steps" under his feet, Ke Lan walked towards the transport plane step by step, while looking around.
This is a brand new fleet. All the warships are new models that have just appeared within six months. The people who operate them are elite officers and soldiers selected from various fleets. Although the number of warships is not as much as those of the main fleets, this new fleet has never lost a single battle in the simulation exercises with several other fleets.
This fleet was named "Fleet Zero" and was specially formed to protect the "Aguna Tor". Although Ke Lan was not the commander of this fleet, as the captain of the "Aguna Tor" and the person in charge of the S-019 ruins, he could obtain temporary command of this fleet when special situations such as "No. 1", "No. 2", "No. 39" and "No. 45" occurred.
In addition, his personal authority level is the same as that of the commander of this fleet. He can go anywhere he wants on any warship in this fleet. There are no "restricted areas". No one, including the fleet commander, has the power to give him orders.
However, from another perspective, the commander of Fleet Zero is probably the commander with the least autonomy among the major fleets of the Ark. All his actions must be subject to the instructions of the Undead Crew. Rather than calling him a commander, it would be more appropriate to say that he is a tool used to pass messages.
Ke Lan finally walked into the cabin of the transport plane. The huge cabin was very empty, with only two beautiful girls in flight attendant uniforms standing on the left and right - Hound and others had left "Aguna Kotor" a day earlier, and this transport plane was specially arranged to pick him up.
Ke Lan glanced at the leather-cushioned chairs in the two rows on the left and right, then looked at the two tall and pretty stewardesses, and said, "There are so many seats, why are you still standing? It's a waste if you don't sit down."
The two stewardesses were startled at first , and then one of them said, "Mr. Ke Lan, we are here to provide you with a service. This is not appropriate."
"What's inappropriate? I just had a meal and I'm not thirsty. I don't need any service from you." Ke Lan sat down. "Aren't you tired standing like this all the time?"
“Not tired…”
Before a stewardess could finish her words, Ke Lan suddenly jumped up, knocked her to the ground, then pressed her chest with her knee, and pinched her tender cheek with the fingers and thumb of her right hand.
"Then aren't you tired of using the root of your tongue to send information to the outside world all the time?" Ke Lan reached into her mouth with his other hand, pulled hard, and pulled out a bloody back tooth.
This is a real tooth, but the inside of the tooth has been completely hollowed out and an extremely concealed communication device has been installed. Near the root of the tooth, there is a small touch-sensitive sensor that is imperceptible to the naked eye. Through subtle movements of the root of the tongue, complete sentences of information can be written and sent out.
The other flight attendant was completely stunned, leaning against the wall, not daring to move.
"Impose martial law on the entire fleet! No one is allowed to move!" Ke Lan turned around and shouted to the stewardess, "The effective range of her communication device is only 800 meters, so the person receiving the information must be on a nearby warship!"
