Before making the purchase, Silas decided to take a look at the amount of system points he has and if it would be enough for the number of Pods he wants to purchase.
[Lottery Ticket(s): 155,078,900]
[System Point(s): 16,639,149,000==> 16,890,040,600(+)]
'.... 16.8 billion system points, huh? I don't think this would be enough,' Silas thought to himself.
Silas' plan was to purchase Pods for each of the military personnel in the Armed Forces but now that he thought about it, doing something like this isn't the best way to go about his plan on retraining the country's military.
If he's to go ahead with his plan and let each of them have a single Pod to themselves, then he would be undertaking a massive expenditure.
The country's Armed Forces has a total of 229, 000 military personnel, approximately 230,000. This is the combination of both the regular military personnel and the para-military.
For each of them to have a Pod to themselves, he would be spending more than 54 billion system points to achieve that. This is exactly one of the reason why Silas didn't feel that the system points he had were too much but rather they were too small.
Silas also had the thought of building a simulation room for them but that would take too much time to complete... or would it?
"Luna, if we are to focus all of the construction company's attention and resources on building a simulation room that can accommodate at least ten thousand to a hundred thousand people. How long would it take to complete it?"
{Two to three weeks should be enough but we currently can't have them take on another request or divert their attention to something else. The construction on the fusion power plant is at a crucial point now. Everything that has been achieved so far would be a waste if we are to pause work on it. The construction company is stretched thin as it is.}
Silas nodded in understanding when he heard this. It seems like he would still have buy the Pods as planned. What Luna said also brought something to his notice, he needs to employ more staffs for the construction company.
"Luna, start hiring more workers for the construction company. Put up a vacancy notice. After they have been employed, give them the needed orientation and have them start work on the simulation room," Silas said, giving Luna instructions.
After he was done with that short distraction, Silas turned his attention back to what he was doing. He decided to purchase a thousand Pods. This was the number he decided on after he gave it a good thought.
The whole school and it neighbourhood was shaken up. Everyone panicked and started looking to save themselves.
Those who had the means to started calling the relevant authorities.
The three young men, now armed men, menacingly walked into the classroom and shoot into the air again.
If the previous one was to announce their presence, then this was a warning from them telling everyone not to do anything stupid.
"Everyone, get down. We have our target. Don't do anything stupid or you will never live to see the consequences." One of armed said in a muffled voice from behind the mask on his face.
He looked at a corner of the classroom and started walking towards it. He got to the front of a desk where young boy was seated and grabbed him.
"Hey kid, someone would love to have a word with you."
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Immediately after the gunshots were heard, the security guards in charge of watching over Alex started running to his classroom. They also immediately informed Luna of the situation.
The security guards just came out of a corner when they heard the familiar voice of Alex screaming and three armed men in mask dragging him away.
"Stop right there and unhand that kid right now," One of them said as he pointed a gun at them and started walking slowly towards them.
The armed men who held Alex turned and looked at the security.
"Make me."
He didn't bother to wait as he started walking away.