The base had been short of researchers for more than just a day or two. These days, with every faction scrambling for market share and developing its Tech Tree, their research personnel were all but being torn in half and forced to work as two people. The Main Base was no exception!
Although Lord Xi Ye had delegated access to the Tech Tree, that did not mean the Main Base Research Institute had nothing to do. On the contrary, delegating access to the Tech Tree had increased the players' enthusiasm for research, making the Main Base Research Institute even busier.
As the central research institute, it had to fully absorb and integrate every faction's newly developed research results, conduct studies on the most cutting-edge technologies, and develop comprehensive products for external sale, ensuring the Main Base's ability to generate outside revenue. Although it had not yet begun exporting products, it had to establish this operating model in advance.
The same applied to the military. It had to combine the strengths of all the players and maintain its lead in the highest-level military technology.
Previously, there had been no real concept of this. Everything had relied on the developer players' own research, which was not only mediocre in efficiency but also lacked planning. Now, however, so many factions were providing data on their latest research every day, causing the workload of the Main Research Institute to surge overnight. Yu Nv Wu Gua had already complained several times that they were short-handed and asked Xi Ye to recruit more people!
As it happened, Li Gou Dan's fabricated story had made Xi Ye decide on the spur of the moment to speed up cooperation with the Central China authorities, resulting in this large-scale Technical Soldier test!
And once Yu Nv Wu Gua heard