Dimensional Alliance

After Japan completely gave up confrontation with the human coalition forces, even if New Britain was unwilling, it could only give up its plan to return to the Western Pacific at this time. When New Britain took back all the influence of the Western Pacific to the country, it lost the support of New Britain Only then did many East Asian countries belatedly realize that their former suzerains had regained their dominance in East Asia.

With the softening of the East Asian countries, starting from the beginning of November, the Shanghai City Conference, which was already progressing rapidly, has once again accelerated. After all, except for the countries in East Asia and South Asia, almost the entire world is now in the human coalition or the human coalition'allies. Under the influence of the Eastern European and Western European countries under the control of the Lucia Federation or the Sardinian Empire, North and South America are completely the back garden of New Britain, and the Middle East and West Asia, which are worried about the gastrulation in the Caucasus region going south or east, dare not disobey According to the opinion of the human coalition, the only Nordic region that likes to make trouble for the human coalition is not on the invitation list for the Shanghai meeting.

So as each item of the agenda was quickly passed, some of the issues that had been approved and could be launched first were announced one by one, and depending on the specific content, they would be implemented one week to six months after the announcement.

Among them, the one that started first and has achieved initial results is the Eurasian Railway jointly led by the Human Alliance and the Lucia Federation.

From the day the Lucia Federation formally sent a delegation to the Human Alliance to discuss matters related to joining the Human Alliance, the Human Alliance has already begun to formally plan for the Asia-Europe Railway. To open up the connection between Asia and Europe, the preliminary plan of the human coalition is to expand and upgrade the three existing Eurasian land bridges, and complete the Eurasian high-speed railway and heavy-duty railway in the next three to four years. The construction task of the railway is to strive to be put into use before 2025.

With no worries and wrangling over funds and politics, the expansion task of construction from several directions at the same time can be said to be progressing rapidly. Almost in early December, the first Eurasian Land Bridge in Asia and Europe The expansion and upgrading tasks have been basically completed, and it was announced on the morning of December 24 that it has passed the inspection and can be opened to traffic.

The completion of the upgrade of the Eurasian Continental Bridge is undoubtedly excellent news for European countries that are about to fall into a food crisis. The platforms along the European railway line are still full of residents waiting for trains.

In the cold Novosibirsk, as a passenger train came into the station, the cold wind of minus ten degrees rolled up like a steel knife on the passengers, but even those who were exposed to the cold wind The cheeks were sore, but watching the progress of the train, the passengers who had already been waiting on the platform still smiled from the bottom of their hearts.

Most of these tourists are European or Lucian people, but there are also people of yellow race from Ming Dynasty or Dongying. However, in order to restore the economy and trade in the Eurasian world as soon as possible, under the call of the country, countless young people, engineers and entrepreneurs still embarked on the road to Lucia and Western Europe without hesitation.

After arriving at their destination, they will either 'help' Europeans build and maintain factories, or help Europeans complete basic livelihood facilities, and some teachers from Ming Dynasty will temporarily join European teaching institutions to help Europeans complete as soon as possible The revision of textbooks and major examination content makes it easier to learn the language, writing and history of the human coalition.

At the same time, in order to obtain the advanced technology of the human coalition, or to borrow the advanced research facilities of the human coalition, a large number of European students and scientists also took the train to Daming. Years of language and culture training, and after passing the human coalition's assessment and political review, they are qualified to enter the human coalition's schools or research institutions.

Ever since, in order to complete the assessment in the shortest possible time, on this train to Daming, the communication between passengers is almost all in Chinese, although many people's Chinese is not very standard, and sometimes they will I broke out in a cold sweat in the environment of minus [-] degrees because of my poor Chinese, but in order to complete the assessment of the culture class even one day earlier, the sweat and hard work I have put in now are worth it.

In fact, learning a foreign language is not as shameful to many European elites as people at the bottom of Europe think. After all, most of the European elites are capitalists or politician families, and these have received more complete and high-quality education. The social elites of the society naturally have a higher perspective than the bottom civilians.

Just like the Prime Minister of Japan, for the real elites in Europe, after realizing that the rise of the human alliance is unstoppable, and actively joining the new system of human companies can bring greater benefits to themselves and their families, let alone give up. It is superfluous to be ashamed to learn a new foreign language, even if we promote national legislation to list Chinese as the second or even the first official language, it is not unacceptable.

Under the influence of these elites, more and more low-level civilians have gradually realized the necessity of learning Chinese, and unlike other elite courses that require a lot of money, most of the foreign students and migrant workers of the Human Alliance in various countries around the world I am very happy to teach Chinese to my classmates, colleagues and neighbors in the community.

And as the exchanges between Asia and Europe became closer with the expansion of the Asia-Europe Railway, the Great Wall of the Internet that originally spanned between Daming and foreign countries finally announced its end of life. Daming and Lucia have already established a larger Great Wall of Internet outside of Europe, but for European people, it is no longer too difficult to learn the basic knowledge of Ming Dynasty including language, culture, history, etc. through the Internet things.

The problems of low optical fiber and uneven 4G network coverage in Europe have also been solved with the arrival of the human coalition's infrastructure team and telecom operators. Although there are still network signal problems in sparsely populated mountainous areas or villages, but in small and medium-sized towns Li is no different from the human coalition forces.

However, not all Europeans are happy to learn the language and culture of the human coalition. Unlike Japan and Lucia, where the extreme right has been purged and suppressed, among the participating countries of the new EU, in addition to the Sardinian Empire, the extreme right is also It was only temporarily suppressed, and it was not fundamentally hit.

And these ultra-nationalist and ultra-conservative Europeans are undoubtedly the vanguard against the expansion of the influence of the human coalition. As long as these people do not accept the thorough transformation of the human coalition for one day, then they will be a group of hidden dangers to the new European Union.

In the business class of this train, Berezov and Natasha sat face to face. However, the Petronovna family, who had obtained insider information about Lucia's transfer to the Far East in advance, made arrangements in the Far East before the Lucia Federation officially announced the transfer plan, so although the Petronovna family now The number and scale of the TV stations controlled by Na are much smaller than before the split, but their influence has not been hit too much, but has a tendency to rise to a higher level.

The Berezovs were not as lucky as the Petronovna family. The Useka Transportation Group, which originally relied on its monopoly position to control the wind and rain in the Lucia Federation, was split up because it bumped into the Lucia Federation and went to the Far East. The transfer resulted in heavy losses. After losing a large number of traffic and transportation lines, if the Useka Transportation Company after the split had not mastered the public transportation in several important Far Eastern cities including Novosibirsk City, it might not be out of line. Zoff can only live on the streets like Ivanov now.

And since it was Berezov who negotiated with Secretary Aljeev on behalf of the Commercial Joint Committee at the beginning, but the final result of the negotiation was that the Commercial Joint Committee was completely crushed into dust by the Lucia Federation. Rezov offended almost all members of the Commercial Joint Committee. Although most of these members have become symbols of history in the subsequent reforms of the Lucia Federation, the hostility of the remaining few still made Berezov Husband's life is very sad.

Therefore, the former oligarch of the Lucia Federation naturally followed the old path of the Petronovna family. After selling off all the capital forces involved in the Lucia Federation, he simply defected to the Lucia government...or Talk about the Far East Branch of the Human Alliance Army, and rely on the contracting of the Far East Branch’s road transportation business in Lucia’s country to survive.

However, with the gradual recovery of the Lucia Federation's industrial capabilities in the Far East, Berezov's behavior of taking refuge in the Far East branch immediately reaped a lot of benefits for Useka Transportation Company, and the construction of the Asia-Europe Railway once again made this branch The old fox sensed an opportunity, and together with a few "trading partners" who had secretly defected to the human coalition, took the opportunity to report to Shuntian City to see if there was any possibility of making Useka Transportation Company go further.

"This is really a magical scene... I never thought that I would have a day of sharing a vehicle with civilians," said Berezov, who looked extremely tired due to overwork, but he was still strong at this time. Pulling himself together, he looked out the window at the civilians who were getting on and off the bus in an orderly manner, and murmured.

"My grandfather told me countless times about the glory of the Lucia Federation before it disintegrated. He said that at that time, Lucia was a country where everyone was equal. Even the leaders of the country would eat the same food as ordinary people. In the same car, I didn’t believe it before, but I believe it now,” while speaking, Berezov couldn’t help shaking his head, “The Chinese people are indeed a miraculous nation, and it’s been less than half a year. It is no longer possible to tell which are civilians and which are elites from the way people walk, and I have lived for so many years, and I have never seen a country that gives everyone such confidence in an equal manner."

Even though Berezov can already be regarded as a comrade in the same trench as her in a sense, Natasha is still unwilling to have too much involvement with Berezov, she just tilted her head in noncommittal , choked: "But some people voted against whether to fully roll out the 12-year compulsory education proposed by the Huaxia people a while ago."

"That's just because I think it might be counterproductive to universalize education hastily," Berezov scratched his nose in embarrassment, "I have to say that Chinese people's control over knowledge is much looser than I imagined. It only takes a very small cost to borrow extremely precious books in the library, and except for the most cutting-edge and cutting-edge technology, civilians can find almost all the knowledge they want from the Internet, but I think That might not be a good thing."

"If only from the perspective of maintaining the rule, in addition to the necessary engineers and scientists, ordinary civilians only need to master the knowledge they should master. Otherwise, once their status matches the knowledge they have, it is very likely that Cause new turmoil." Berezov sighed softly, and tried to explain to Natasha, "It seems that before the disintegration of Lucia, Lucia had the highest basic education penetration rate in the world, and Before the outbreak of the Arab Spring, countries in the Middle East were trying their best to secularize the theocracy while promoting education and industrial construction. From these cases, it is not difficult to see that there must be a certain relationship between the popularity of education and dissatisfaction. I don’t want to see After the human alliance popularized education, it was bitten back."

"Really?" Natasha tilted her head and glanced at Berezov, "But Berezov, Chinese people have implemented compulsory education for nearly 100 years, but I only see that as Chinese people receive more and more education, Chinese people will become more and more united and more self-confident. I don't think blaming 'education' for political or economic failures can solve all problems, rather than controlling education to prevent people from rising Channels, it’s better to make the cake big enough for everyone to enjoy it like the Huaxia people, and there are still leftovers.”

"And those who want to use 'education' to control the people, I really can't think of any other reason than the exploiters who want to ride on the people's heads for the rest of their lives. If you really think so, then I think distance from the internal affairs It must not be too long before the Ministry talks to you."

Hearing Natasha's blatant threat, Berezov suddenly felt his back a little chilly, but since the train is still docked in Novosibirsk, it is very reasonable for some cold wind to pour into the compartment...

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Volume 256 The Radiance of the Sun: Chapter 0248 Chapter [-] Christmas Day

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There are not only expensive business class on this train. Small businessmen, passengers, students and other ordinary people are mostly sitting in the compartments of ordinary passengers on the train. In a soft sleeper box in the middle of the train, they are still dressed in old clothes. Aiden Pierce in the fur coat shook the newspaper he just bought from the platform, but his eyes were not on the newspaper, but he took out his mobile phone from time to time, paying attention to the unknown red dots displayed on the mobile phone.

"Relax, Aiden, we are no longer in Eastern Europe. You have to trust the law and order of the human coalition forces. It will never happen that you were shot black in Eastern Europe last time," said the black youth lying on the bunk opposite Aiden Pierce at this time Just turning over one by one, seeing Aiden's slightly anxious behavior, the young man wearing glasses pulled the quilt on his body and said with relief, "Before we left Eastern Europe, the human coalition forces have basically controlled the situation." The situation in Eastern Europe, except for the uncooperative Polly Federation surrounded by the new European Union and the Lucia Federation, the rest of Eastern Europe is already under the control of the human coalition forces—so even if we are still in Eastern Europe, we don’t need it at all. Worried about our personal safety."

"Of course I know, I'm just a little... excited." Pierce said and put the newspaper in his hand on the small dining table in the box, then picked up the phone again, looked at it anxiously, and kicked the phone back again in his pocket.

"Oh, yes, after all, you have saved enough points to exchange for the citizenship of the human alliance for your family." Seeing Pierce's movements, Max also sat up from the sleeper, pushed his glasses slightly, and stared at him curiously. Pierce's glasses, "This is obviously something to be happy about, why does it feel like you are not very happy?"

"No, I'm very happy," Pierce said, straightening his cuff impatiently, and then pinched his wrist a few times, his face still expressionless, and he didn't seem to have any further thoughts on answering Max's question.

"Oh, I get it, it's probably similar to the mentality of 'an old father who has been working hard for his family and hasn't come home for more than half a year is finally going back to the door, but he's afraid that his daughter won't know him before knocking on the door' ?” Max said with a slightly teasing expression, “But I think instead of worrying about whether your daughter will recognize you, you should think about how to pass the Chinese test. The newspaper said that if you fail the test three times in a row, The next time you apply to participate in the Chinese assessment, there must be an interval of at least two months - I remember that you failed the assessment last time, the last question about the meaning of several meanings is indeed a bit difficult, I also thought about it for more than 20 years Made it in minutes."

"No, I'm talking about my sister and her child," Pierce explained feebly, and then couldn't help but press the center of his eyebrows, and didn't answer Max's ridicule behind him directly.

However, Max's ridicule is indeed something that Pierce has been upset recently. It can even be said that Max is one of the sources of Pierce's upset.

Obviously, this companion of mine came to Daming almost at the same time as him, and after that, the two of them completed countless tasks together, but Max not only passed Daming’s intermediate Chinese test two months ago, he even Before boarding the train back to Ming Dynasty, he had already obtained a series of UAV control technology certifications in the Sardinian Empire, including ordinary UAVs, industrial UAVs, and engineering UAVs.

Now the drone operators in Daming are just the industry with the biggest gap. As long as they return to Daming to complete the work handover, they can speak Chinese fluently and can operate a variety of drones. Become a citizen of the Honorable Human Confederation with a higher income without hindrance.

On the other hand, Pierce, although generally speaking, Pierce's talent is obviously not weaker than Max's, but Pierce's talent distribution seems to be a little bit of a problem.

Pierce's talent seems to be all focused on combat and hacking techniques. Obviously, from the moment Pierce boarded the plane to Daming, he has seized almost all his spare time to learn and practice Chinese, but Pierce's Chinese talent But it can only be described as 'terrible'.Even though Pierce worked much harder than many people, until today, Pierce still can barely communicate with Chinese people in his not-so-proficient Chinese, as long as there is a little dialect in the Chinese of the communication partner , or if the other party speaks a little faster, it will be difficult for Pierce to understand what the other party wants to express.

Obviously Pierce's talent and proficiency in computer language is not weaker than Max's, but the square characters of the Chinese seem to be in conflict with him. No matter how hard he tries to learn Chinese, he only sees a large block of square characters , Pierce will feel a headache.

What makes Pierce even more troublesome is that, apart from the police and army belonging to the Human Alliance, Pierce's best fighting and hacking skills are absolutely illegal in the Human Alliance, where social security is more stable, especially with guns. As long as the incident occurred in the human coalition, it would be classified as a serious public security incident, which also made Pierce have to hand in all the controlled weapons on his body after entering the border of Ming Dynasty.

In addition to hacking and combat, Pierce has almost no skills that can support him in the human coalition. Although his other skills such as vehicle driving and mobile phone modification cannot be said to be useless, according to the information Pierce has learned, In the Human Alliance, many industries involved in these aspects belong to the lower class of society, which is difficult for Pierce, who wants to make his family live a safer and more comfortable life, to accept.

Of course, if Pierce is willing to continue working for the Human Alliance, then with the various abilities he has shown, he will definitely be favored by the military. The government of New Britain cannot be many times more reliable.

Originally, Pierce persuaded himself to cooperate with the human coalition's mission in order to allow his relatives to also obtain Ming nationality, but now that Pierce has accumulated enough points to transfer his family, Pierce is naturally reluctant to continue endlessly for the human coalition. service down.

But as long as he thinks that he will be able to reunite with his relatives soon after returning to the territory of the Human Alliance Army, and that he will face the problem of unemployment immediately after the cooperation relationship with the Human Alliance Army Government is dissolved, he would have dared to single-handedly infiltrate New Britain for the sake of his relatives Pierce from the aviation center showed a rare look of entanglement and self-blame.

If he had known that the commander-in-chief of New Britain would not hesitate to give the technology of heavy-loaded rockets to the human coalition forces in order to maintain domestic stability and support, then Pierce would not be concerned about whether he wanted to betray New Britain. Considering the matter for too long, the technology of heavy-lift rockets has depreciated by more than [-]%. If the technology of heavy-lift rockets does not depreciate, then Pierce will not only have enough points for his sister's family to immigrate to New Britain, but will even have a large amount of points left Come to exchange for a more fertile life in the future for the whole family.

While Pierce was worrying about the future, Max, who had stepped down from the upper bunk at some point, patted Pierce on the shoulder lightly: "Hey, my friend, relax, relax, passing the Chinese test is helpful for applying for immigration It's just a rumor on the Internet, and we didn't use the method of "application" to obtain the nationality of the human coalition. We helped the human coalition clean up a big mess in New Britain. We exchanged "points" with the human coalition. Nationality! So even if you haven’t passed the eighth level of professional Chinese, you don’t have to worry about the human alliance blocking your nationality application.”

"I know," Pierce certainly knew that his partner was comforting himself at this time, but this comfort still made Pierce's inner irritability dissipate a lot, but when Pierce saw the newspaper on the table again, the "Human Alliance Army" appeared in his eyes. The holidays are unified, and Christmas Day will no longer be included in the national holidays." This news made Pierce sigh again, "But if you can't master Chinese as soon as possible, how will you find a job in the human alliance in the future..."

"Are you looking for a job?" Pierce's emotion stunned Max for a moment, but then he showed a sincere smile, and his teeth, which were yellowish due to the long-time travel, were exposed from the cracks of his lips, which looked particularly special on his dark skin. Conspicuously, "If people like us really face the crisis of 'unemployment' one day, isn't that what we have always hoped for?"

"If one day the world no longer needs hackers to expose the dark side of society, no longer needs individuals to act as the most peaceful sanctioners, and people don't have to carry weapons to the streets to gain the power to protect themselves, this is no longer great. Is it right?"

"Well, it does seem like a good thing from this perspective."

While Pierce and Max were talking, the train that had reached the departure time started again after a burst of alarms. Suddenly, Pierce turned around and looked out the window.

Although snowflakes are still falling outside the Novosibirsk station, the faces of citizens from various countries getting on and off the platform do not show the slightest expression of pain caused by hunger and cold. Countless families are carrying large and small bags of luggage or souvenirs. Walk sequentially to the exit of the station.

Even though this year's Christmas Day is the last statutory holiday in the western world, Pierce can still see undisguised smiles on people's faces outside the window, and this smile is extremely difficult to see in the cities of New Britain.

Pierce's gaze gradually became deeper, as if he had penetrated the rich space of Sakyamuni, allowing Pierce to see Europe more than a month ago again.In the past month or so, Pierce and his partner have participated in the fierce online battle between the Human Alliance and the conservative forces in Eastern and Western Europe. Pierce, who has been fighting fires between Eastern and Western Europe, has seen countless In the world of the future, the civilians who starved to death due to hunger and cold, and froze to death in the inconspicuous corners of the streets have also witnessed countless times that the human coalition can even save a homeless person who can't see how much wealth and value it can create for society. He tried his best to save Han's life.

Similarly, although the textbooks compiled by the Human Alliance for Europe have not yet been officially published and distributed, Pierce and his predecessors have known the content of the textbooks compiled by the Human Alliance through countless surveillance cameras.

Although the human coalition has only completed the teaching materials from the first grade of elementary school to the graduation of junior high school, the syllabus was fully determined early.Through the teaching syllabus, Pierce was very surprised to find that not only did not see any of the "brainwashing" content that the Western world once advertised in all the teaching materials used in the 12-year compulsory education, but also the human coalition forces will use most of the The energy is put on the education of basic scientific research subjects such as logarithm, physics, chemistry, and biology.

But this does not mean that the Human Alliance regards Europeans as useful tools. On the contrary, in addition to strengthening the curriculum of mathematics, science, chemistry and biology, humans will also take many political courses that only elite schools in the Western world will learn. Put into the compulsory courses of junior high school and high school.

Not only that, according to the requirements of the Human Alliance, no matter whether it is a public civilian school or a private noble school, they must use the textbooks provided by the Human Alliance, which means that the Human Alliance will indeed, as they promised, will provide all society All classes of people are treated equally.

Obviously, the human coalition is not stingy with cultivating the independent thinking ability of the civilians under its rule, and at the same time letting them understand the essence of a country and how to operate and maintain the country, such as knowledge that 'seems' they will never use in their lifetime, but according to Pierce's I understand that the human coalition may still have deeper expectations for these civilians who have received compulsory education-if one day I do something wrong and I betray my ideals, then don’t hesitate, those of you who know how to identify deception, please rest assured Boldly overthrow us.

As an idealist who has succumbed to reality, although Pierce thinks that the human company's pace is too hasty, he has to admit that the human coalition is indeed completely different from other countries Pierce has seen.

This is a country of... hope and vitality.

"Boom-thump-thump-"

Just before Pierce was about to be moved by himself, a melodious bell sounded through the horn of the train, which meant that the time of this train officially entered the 25th, Christmas Day in the West.

"Christmas, this is really ironic." Pierce, who was interrupted, finally laughed as if he had figured out something, "The birth of Jesus Christ gave hope and direction to the confused people, and When the people at the bottom of the West once again fell into the darkness where they could not see the way forward, the human coalition brought light to the west again... It seems that the human coalition is even more idealistic than me, an idealist."

"I think the human coalition is very pragmatic. At least in terms of education, the human company has not completed the replacement of all textbooks at once, but plans to give priority to reforming the curriculum for primary, junior, and senior students after the start of the next school year. , and promote the new version of the curriculum year by year with the upgrade.” Max nodded after hearing Pierce talking to himself, and interjected, “But I think no matter how the human coalition advances their curriculum, if the human coalition does not carry out the new version as soon as possible If there is a round of propaganda, I feel that within at least two or three years, the Western world may not be able to have much favor for the human coalition."

"Why do you say that?"

"After all, the human alliance has canceled the Christmas holiday," Max shrugged half-jokingly, "would you be happy to let you take one less week off every month?"

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Volume 257 The Radiance of the Sun: Chapter 0249 Chapter [-] Change of Thought

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Before you know it, it has already arrived in January 2021, and the negotiations related to the Shanghai City Conference have entered the final stage at this time. The human coalition that presides over the meeting only needs to resolve some extremely controversial details in the end, and then it can basically announce the Shanghai City Conference. end of city meeting.

However, these detailed issues are precisely the most troublesome places for the human coalition forces at present. Even though the human coalition forces have repeatedly warned to pay attention to the time to control related issues, because most of the details involve the core interests of some participating countries, these extremely controversial issues It is often delayed until the deadline given by the human coalition forces to temporarily come up with a temporary countermeasure that is not very satisfactory to all parties.

And now the Shanghai City Conference is going to discuss these issues that were not very satisfactory to all parties. Although in order to minimize the interference caused by non-stakeholders, these highly controversial issues will only be discussed by the two parties involved in the dispute. Many or more parties and the human coalition as a mediator and intermediary are present, but it will still take a considerable amount of time to completely resolve all historical issues at once.

It is difficult to evaluate whether the time spent now is worthwhile. On the one hand, time-consuming and laborious mediation of disputes between these countries that are willing to join the human coalition can indeed win greater favor and prestige for the human coalition, but on the other hand, a large number of The time-consuming wrangling between individual countries will also make the Shanghai City Conference last at least one or two months before it can be completely concluded, which will inevitably have a certain degree of impact on the implementation of the human coalition plan.

However, in the long run, in order to reduce the waste of resources caused by internal fighting among human beings, taking this opportunity to clarify all the historical issues will definitely allow the human coalition to be formally established, reduce a large number of unnecessary internal conflicts, and let mankind The coalition forces can focus more on external wars and internal construction.

What's more, with the establishment of a more stable relationship between the Ming Dynasty, the Human Revolutionary League, Lucia (Far East Branch), the Sardinian Empire (European Branch) and Dongying (Pacific Branch), the confidence of the Human Alliance has also increased a lot. To hastily establish an alliance that is not very reliable, it is better to take this opportunity to eliminate these hidden dangers that may lead to the instability of the human coalition in the future before the formal establishment of the human coalition.

However, the change in the attitude of the human coalition forces towards the Shanghai City Conference is not good news for New Britain on the other side of the world. Reports from experts and think tanks.

However, the commander-in-chief is obviously tired of these same reports. Even though the director of the Intelligence Bureau is reporting the latest news from Daming, the commander-in-chief still looks out of the window through the head of the director. There are numerous snowflakes.

Affected by the contraction of international trade, New Britain's domestic economy in 2020 will be negative for the first time, and the most direct manifestation of economic regression is that people's income and living standards will inevitably drop a lot, and with the surge in unemployment, more and more People who have lost a lot of income have been reduced to the point where they have to let go of their dignity and rely on relief to survive.

The situation in other continents of New Britain is not very clear, but since December 2020, the snowfall in New London has been one after another. If this snowfall is in previous years, it will make many people in New Britain excited. Many people took to the streets to play around, but with more and more homeless people on the streets, I am afraid that many New Britons will not be able to survive this winter.

The commander-in-chief thought so, then raised his right hand to wipe the sweat dripping from his forehead, and then greeted the secretary to his side, reminding her to lower the temperature in her office a little bit—I don’t know which idiot turned the air conditioner The temperature is set at 28 degrees, and the leader is already sweating!

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The Luyang Joint Institute of Enteroviruses, like the Shanghai Conference, is also in full swing on an experiment that is also related to the fate of mankind.

A low, hoarse growl sounded continuously from the mouth of the black bear-like mutant on the test bench. On one side of the test bench was a large metal plate wrapped with countless coils. The arc leaking from the insulation pierced the air with a crackling sound.

Under the test bench, there are more dense and sophisticated circuits. Even though a large number of protective measures have been installed in these circuits, these circuits are still emitting bursts of burnt stench amidst the berserk energy.

"The No. 64 protection node has been broken down, and the temperature of the No. 72 amplifier is continuing to rise, 77 degrees, 79 degrees... The emergency cooling device has been activated... The temperature is still rising! [-] degrees, [-] degrees!"

"Damn it, what happened to the No. [-] protection node? This is the fifth time it has been penetrated!"

In the observation room separated from the laboratory by a wall, scientists from the human coalition are watching the progress of the experiment together with a mutant like a white wolf. There has been a lot of bad news coming out of sensors and monitoring platforms.

"Amplifier No. 20 has suffered from unknown interference, and its power has dropped to [-]%!"

"The temperature of the protection node is still rising! It's already 120 degrees!"

"The experiment failed. Terminate the experiment immediately." A human coalition general in charge of this experiment looked at the mutants struggling more and more, and immediately ordered loudly, "Turn off the amplifier! Start the safe escape procedure!"

While speaking, the admiral immediately walked to the console, smashed the protective cover of the stop program with a fist, and tapped the big red button without the slightest hesitation, but even though the emergency stop program had been activated, Ben The booster that should be turned off at this time has experienced a large increase in operating power uncontrollably. In just a few seconds, its operating power has reached 400%. With the increase in the power of the booster, the control The index on the screen that originally represented the 'shell' of the mutant's thinking dropped rapidly, and fell within the red line in the blink of an eye.

"Get out of the way!" At this time, it was too late to cut off the power supply urgently. Zheng Zhenghao, who was watching the progress of the experiment, yelled, and then smashed the protective barrier between the control room and the mutants with his claws. , regardless of the turbulent current in the laboratory, he rushed to the mutant with a sword step, and raised his claws to tear off all the pipelines connected to the mutant.

With the cutting of these pipelines, the terrible electric current immediately invaded the white wolf's body along the forelegs, but Zheng Zhenghao couldn't control the front paws that had been scorched black by the electric current at this time, and he swooped down and pressed the mutant on the ground. With a loud 'boom', several amplifiers around the test bench and the metal stone plate with a large number of coils exploded instantly, and the sharp metal pieces quickly landed on Zheng Zhenghao's body. Scratch a large area of ​​scars.

After the equipment in the laboratory exploded one after another, the emergency stop device that should have been activated more than ten seconds ago also came into effect belatedly, and the humming sound from the remaining equipment in the laboratory gradually stopped. down until completely gone.

As soon as the experimental equipment stopped working, the anxious staff immediately rushed to the experimental platform, but they ignored the experimental platform that had been blown into ruins, and carefully dragged the mutant away from Zheng Zhenghao's protection. After we got down, the tense atmosphere in the laboratory eased a little after connecting the relevant testing equipment to the mutant's body, confirming that all the degrees were correct, and lifting the mutant from the experiment to the placement site.

"How is your situation?" After confirming that the mutant is not in danger of life or thinking projection collapse, the admiral walked up to the huge wolf face, patted the bridge of his nose, and asked with concern.

"It's not good, it feels like being hit by two tank guns head-on, and it will take about ten minutes to fully recover," Zheng Zhenghao said, standing up from the ground with his limbs supported, shaking slightly As his body shook, a large number of scorched marks on his body were lifted into the surrounding air, and the general could see that Zheng Zhenghao's body had completely stopped the bleeding, and healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"This is already the seventh failure." After confirming that Zheng Zhenghao's condition was still normal, the admiral turned his gaze away from these wounds, and asked Zheng Zhenghao and other experimenters, "What is the first time?" Because the power of the thinking stripper is not enough to strip off the outer layer of thinking projection, the second time is because after the amplifier is installed, the amplifier will be burned due to the temperature rise in a very short time, so why the remaining five The second failure is due to the interference of the amplifier and the failure of the protection node? What is wrong here?"

"From the feedback data, the biggest problem at present is the inexplicable interference that will appear during the process of peeling off the thinking projection, and the problem of heating up due to unknown reasons during the peeling process," a scientist glanced at With a thick pile of information in his hand, he replied, "This is definitely not a problem with the protection node. Our latest protection node can already withstand a high voltage of 100 kV, and according to the monitoring data, the peak voltage is only 40 to 60 kV. , it is theoretically impossible to penetrate our protection node."

"No, our protection nodes can only guarantee 'insulation' on the physical level," Zheng Zhenghao, who had stood up completely at this time, also squeezed his huge head onto the scientist's information, sighed after watching for a few seconds , "Since thinking projection can determine whether a person's body will mutate, it means that thinking can also affect matter to a certain extent, so if I guess correctly, in the process of stripping off thinking projection, being The stripped thinking projection reconnected the protection nodes that should have been insulated, resulting in a phenomenon similar to the breakdown of the protection nodes. This was my negligence, and I will write a review report for the organization.”

“So what do we do next? Protect physically, but also protect mentally? Can we do that?”

"Not at the moment," another researcher shook his head, and continued, "At present, our monitoring of mind projections is all simulated through changes in pheromones. There is no way to observe directly, let alone block something that cannot be observed."

"Since there is no way to prevent the interference of thinking projections on the equipment, can we adopt measures with better protection performance? A 100-kV protection node cannot completely shield the interference. What about a 1000-kV protection node?" The general thought for a while and proposed He came up with an idea, "Or can we avoid the heating problem caused by the breakdown of the protection node by increasing the cooling efficiency? For example, install the entire device directly on the seabed?"

"You can try it, but the effect may not be great," Zheng Zhenghao sighed, "The peak voltage in this experiment itself did not exceed the theoretical limit voltage of the protection node, which means that the stripped thinking projection caused the protection node to fail. may be very large, but if this is the case, then simply adding protection nodes at the physical level is useless. However, increasing cooling efficiency is a possible effective method, but the only problem is that the cost will become very high , once it fails, the value of the lost equipment is likely to be several times the total price of so many losses."

"Is there a way for us to figure out what the mind projection is, and then find a way to solve the problem of protecting nodes from the non-material level?" A young researcher seriously asked.

"This is indeed a very good method, but our relevant research and understanding of thinking is too little. All our current achievements, including this set of thinking stripping devices, come from Zheng Zhenghao's oral complaints and The analysis and simulation of the stone pillars in the underground space and the composition of the monster liquid did not make any substantial breakthrough in theory."

Although they just suffered the failure of the seventh experiment, this group of researchers immediately adjusted their mentality and began to discuss the phenomenon and possibility of these failures. Suggestions were thrown out one by one, but most of them were will be discarded immediately, and with the analysis of these suggestions, one problem after another has been recorded one after another, and these problem points are precisely interrelated and interlocking, making it difficult for the scientists of the human coalition to find a solution. way.

"In other words, it is basically impossible to peel off the 'shell' of the monster's thinking projection through the current technology?" Although an admiral listening to the researcher's discussion kept frowning, he still After their discussion was over, they asked again, "If this is the case, why should we continue on this line of thinking?"