In the regiment commander"s office, the ten team leaders were discussing with their vice-captains about the various new arrangements they had to commence.

Ling Lan sat in her office and looked at the physical const.i.tution reports of the members of Evil Wind that Li Shiyu sent her. She flipped through every page of the report, and her frown kept getting keeping after each consecutive page.

"So bad?" She didn"t expect their physical const.i.tutions to that poor. She at least expected three people with good physical const.i.tutions, as they were all hailed from a mecha team on the battlefield after all.

"Their physical const.i.tutions were normal, to begin with. They were able to reach this state because they had achieved breakthroughs through life-or-death situations. This method, although quite economically friendly, was quite exhausting to one"s body to its limit, making it more brittle in each process. Yet, there are no military doctors here to nurse back their health. I feel it was a miracle that they had managed to survive until now." Li Shiyu pondered for a moment. The body const.i.tution of the members of Evil Wind suddenly gave him new inspirations for some "interesting" new concoction.

"Can you patch it back?" Ling Lan looked up and asked. She couldn"t bear to let these good soldiers leave the army before with a body full of injuries.

Li Shiyu shrugged. "As long as they could resist the torment of the restorative agents." People with poorer health would experience greater pain when using his restorative agents. This was why a portion of the mecha operators from Evil Wind felt like dying when they were injected with the agent.

The agents that Li Shiyu injected to the people from the Evil Wind Mecha Team were not some form of torture agent. It was the restorative agent. When he received the data his boss gave him regarding the members of the Evil Wind Mecha Team (Little Four laughed: this is my work.), he noticed that they all made an advancement in the battlefield. From there, he suspected that there was a problem with their bodies. Hence, he decided to use the restorative agent instead of other agents. Reality proved that the effects of the restorative agent were exceptionally good. The members of the Evil Wind Mecha Team got tormented until they wanted to commit suicide. They all thought that they were harmed by the 250 Ace Mecha Clan.

"That"s good. It"s time to teach these people a lesson too." Ling Lan knew that the people from Evil Wind were loyal to the Federation. However, they came from the gra.s.s-roots units so their discipline was bad. They liked to act on their own accords and didn"t listen to commands. This was something Ling Lan couldn"t accept. She hoped that her team members would execute every order given without fail.

Ling Lan closed the file and put Li Shiyu in charge of dealing with the members of Evil Wind. At that moment, Lin Zhong-qing walked into her office with a stern face.

"Regiment commander!" Lin Zhong-qing placed his hands on the office table. "I need people!"

"Why?" Ling Lan raised her eyebrows.

"With our current manpower, we are unable to handle the influx of people from the Evil WInd." Lin Zhong-qing went berserk. His deputies didn"t give him any choice. If not, he would have tried to handle everything himself and not asked Ling Lan for help.

Lin Zhong-qing"s words caused Ling Lan to remember the plight of the logisticians in her 250 Ace Mecha Clan. The 300 people she got from He Xuyang were working beyond their fullest capabilities. Now, with another 200 mecha operators from Evil Wind, the logisticians were unable to serve everyone.

Ling Lan knocked on the table and started pondering. This was an important problem that needed to be solved immediately.

The team leaders saw this and lowered down their voice. They were afraid of interrupting their regiment commander.

"Why do we need logisticians?" Ling Lan asked herself.

"This is so that the mecha operators can focus on mecha piloting. That way, they are able to release their full potential. The Federation had a series of services for mecha operators. There are two kinds of logisticians in general. The first kind is the lifestyle logisticians. The other kind id the mecha logisticians. Lifestyle logisticians only appear in mecha clans and other higher-level teams. They serviced the entire mecha clan. Mecha logisticians also appear in mecha clans and higher-level teams only. They are in charge of many things but most of them are mecha engineers. The mecha engineers are distributed base on the level of the mecha operators. A normal mecha operator will have one mecha engineer servicing three of them. A special-cla.s.s operator will have one mecha engineer to himself. An ace mecha master will have two mecha engineers servicing him. As the mecha operator"s level gets higher, he will enjoy better service…" Little Four repeated the information he stored in his database. "Lower mechas are easy to handle. Hence, one mecha engineer is enough for three lower mechas. The higher the level of the mecha, the more sophisticated it gets. Thus, more people are needed to service it."

"Only mecha clans will have logisticians? Then what about those mecha teams or smaller battle teams? How did they solve such matters?" The Evil Wind Mecha Team had no logisticians. They would go to the cafeteria to fetch some food to eat and go to the logistics department at the base to take their clothes and other resources personally. This was why Lin Zhong-qing was so frustrated when the Evil Wind Mecha entered their mecha clan only had mecha clan. They had no could logisticians he could use.

"Some of them belong to a mecha clan so they will use the logisticians of the mecha clan. Those that didn"t belong to various bases or ground units. The bases and ground units will be doing logistics services." As expected of the knowledgeable Little Four. He could answer all the tricky questions due to her being a younger brother of his Boss. "Of course, there is another worse method. Have them rely on their own!"

"Rely on their own." Ling Lan smiled. The members of Evil Wind were not here to be saved by them. After they survived the effects of Li Shiyu"s restorative agents and her brutal training, she would send those that still had energy left in them to the logistics department.

"Reply on their own?" Lin Zhong-qing frowned when he heard Ling Lan"s words. "Is his Boss asking them to solve their problems from now on themselves? If they could do that, he wouldn"t have come to look for his Boss."

"Yes, ask the people from Evil Wind to rely on themselves. Zhong-qing, train the people from Evil Wind and let them learn the skills of a logistician," Ling Lan replied calmly.

"So that was what his Boss meant." Lin Zhong-qing relaxed. He smiled. "Does this mean that they would have 200 more logisticians?" However, soon, he stopped smiling. He knew that the people from Evil Wind couldn"t be used instantly. From what Li Shiyu said, they would need some time before they could be reined in completely. What would they do during this time? With the current manpower, he was unable to handle an additional 200 people"s worth of daily necessities.

"What do we do during this period of time?" Lin Zhong-qing looked at Ling Lan pitifully. He hoped that his boss could think of a better plan for him.

"Didn"t I say the answer already? Rely on their own!" Ling Lan looked at Lin Zhong-qing helplessly. "This young man used this pitiful look to soften my heart. What a bad boy."

"Rely on their own?" Lin Zhong-qing"s expression got bitter. His boss was asking him to rely on himself.

Ling Lan couldn"t bear to see Lin Zhong-qing like that so she added, "The people that can help you are all here." She looked at the ten team leaders and signaled for Lin Zhong-qing to look for them.

Lin Zhong-qing looked at the ten team leaders. Even if he pulled all of them along, it would not solve the problem… wait!

Lin Zhong-qing suddenly thought of what Ling Lan did to the people from Evil Wind. A thought flashed past his mind, and he finally understood what Ling Lan meant.

Lin Zhong-qing smiled. Their department could finally be the boss for once.