Chapter 22 Chapter 122 Extending the Stationing Time

Chapter 22 1.22 Extending the stationing time

When the Pandora era began, the life on Earth began to revel, while human civilization was declining step by step.

Radio communications had lost their effectiveness, and traditional cable telegraph railways were repeatedly destroyed. In the first few hundred years, cities relied on jeeps to communicate. However, cars require a complete industrial system to maintain.

When cars lost their industrial maintenance, fifty years later, cities could only rely on "dragon horses", which were large-sized, load-bearing animals with horse and cattle genes, to exchange materials and information.

And each city could not maintain too advanced education due to the gap in production and communication.

In the past hundred years, cities have regressed from nine years of compulsory education to three years of literacy education, and finally to one year of literacy, resulting in cities maintaining a technical style of the black iron steam age.

In fact, universal education is not absolutely impossible under this productivity. At least before the 1970s and 1980s, universal literacy was forced to be promoted. At that time, the vast rural areas of East Asia were still in the state of cattle-plowing productivity. It's just that the defeatism brought about by the decline of mankind after the Pandora era has made mankind lose the morale to move forward. Without morale, no one will work hard.

Universal education! This is a strategy of giving from the upper class to the lower class. If social development is deduced according to self-interest, this strategy cannot be sustained.

When in a capitalist society, the voice of applying for education funds in parliament is obviously weak. Military expenditures, capital market economy, which one does not have a large number of people running and shouting? And the parliament masters are not trained in public basic education, and cutting public education funds can make the class more stable.

At the same time, among the groups that currently enjoy the rights of compulsory education, young people overestimate their role in society. They will call for environmental protection, social fairness and freedom, but they will not call for more homework.

As for the beginning of the Pandora era, how did the nine-year compulsory education gradually become like this?

When all efforts to stop the Pandora field from eroding human civilization failed, the remaining humans began to get used to lingering on like this. The first generation of intellectuals preferred to keep their teams alive rather than listen to some voices nagging about inheriting the flames and restoring glory, so the distribution of social status unintentionally ignored teaching and educating people.

When the era of the first generation of intellectuals came to an end, the second generation was unwilling to obey the distribution to "teach and educate people for ten years". The highest ruling class was forced by the reality of insufficient manpower and changed to six years of compulsory education. Even at this time, some "wise men" would appear, who believed that current production did not require such a high level of knowledge, as long as literacy was enough. For example, when buying vegetables on the street, there was no need to understand complex mathematics, physics and chemistry. Isn't this useless?

However, the society has relaxed education, but it does not mean that everyone will relax with you to engage in healthy competition. Society will never lack people in class competition. After the second generation of intellectuals in the Pandora era implemented six years of compulsory education, society was substantially stratified.

Social management requires tables and classifications, and quickly finds the most scarce resources in statistics to fill them.

In terms of industrial technology, the maintenance of steam engines and the dissection and connection of biological structures require knowledge of solid geometry. ——High-tech positions require knowledge instilled in systematic education.

When such problems arise, do the human city-states in various regions make up for them after discovering them? No, there is no compensation. The way of man is to take away what is not enough to give to what is more. Everything accelerates this process!

When the class that possesses knowledge overlaps with the upper class, then the aristocratic class will not contribute to grassroots education, which is difficult, has little fame and fortune, and betrays its own class.

Furthermore, eighty years after the Pandora era, almost all city-states resolutely gave up the great education of the old civilization era.

Civilization is like this. Once you give up progress, you will retreat significantly. Not to mention the city-state economies in the Pandora era, even the earth in the 21st century, the first-order developed countries at that time also made such mistakes in education. As a result, a head was opened, and the dominoes were behind.

Even if there were some politicians who had the idea of ​​reversing all this during this process of degeneration, the decision was made with heavy shackles.

Shackle 1: "On the surface: academic freedom in schools, secretly: the government allocates funds to the education sector but is not supervised by the government."

Shackle 2: "Every teacher is politically correct and does not interfere with students, but the academic clique controls teachers to make the same voice, and then completes the group kneading among a generation of intellectuals."

Finally, when education degenerates, anesthetics are used for temporary comfort.

This "anesthetic" is for example: "Students in my society are innovative geniuses who learn by themselves under open education, and students in other societies who are strictly assessed are nerds, lacking innovation ability, and all copying our ideas."

In order to make this self-paralysis more effective. And cite the examples of Edison's self-study and Gates's voluntary dropout from college midway to prove it.

If a social group lacks education, then ignorance, pride, and complacency will evolve in culture!

This is the case in Ji'an City. When the explorers in black and gray ran back, they reported this "mysterious", "new" and "weird" human gene community to the upper level.

The decision-makers in Ji'an City rushed to make a decision without further investigation!

The seven or eight think tanks of Zeng Longmu rushed to make a decision.

When they handed over the decision plan, they might have the following mentality: Investigation? Inference after careful investigation for a few days and getting a lot of information is a mediocre hindsight. Only by judging (guessing) the results based on the small amount of information now can we show that we are smarter than ordinary people!

In fact, they can't investigate! Investigation requires a lot of manpower, and observation should be made from multiple perspectives as much as possible, and then everyone should tacitly and humbly regard their own opinions as part of the entire investigation.

When making the common conclusion, there should be no "personal ability" mentality, and it is not allowed to force their own investigation to be the main focus and set other people's opinions as auxiliary.

In short, the think tanks in Ji'an City who have no civilian education performed at the same level as the think tanks of a certain country in the 1920s of the 21st century.

Their inferences and conclusions about the appearance of Wei Keng are as follows.

Inference 1: This is a community born mainly from human genes. The birth of this community may be a coincidence caused by the human gene radiation from multiple cities including Ji'an City, or it may be a branch of the fusion population in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River in the north that moved south.

Inference 2: The current strength of this community is very weak. No large biological beasts that can compete with the beastmaster have been found. Most individuals only hold guns and other equipment.

Inference 3: The community is in a state of confusion, so it has put forward a request that it does not want to contact us within six months. It may be in the process of further dispersion.

Conclusion: Ji'an City must send forces as soon as possible to control, even destroy, and replace its core before it is further strengthened.

With this, the rest of the words of these small experts in the county are not very nutritious.

It was nothing more than "There are many beastmasters in our city-state now, and the newly debugged mechanical war beasts are powerful. Now we can try them out and show our strength internally and externally."

In the office of Ji'an City, Zeng Longmu finished listening to the report and turned his eyes to the two young men. The man was still reading the information, while the woman next to him pulled the kumquats on the potted plants. She asked Zeng Longmu: "Uncle, when will your kumquats ripen?"

Zeng Longmu: "You, move less, and they will ripen faster." Then he turned to the man next to him.

Zeng Longmu: "Fang Hong, I want you to carry out this task this time."

Fang Hong nodded.

Zeng Longmu looked at the two and said: "When you come back, this pot of kumquats will be sent to you."

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A month later, that is, the 78th day after Wei Keng came to this plane, someone, well, some more than a thousand people counted the days on their fingers and calculated that they had more than 20 days to go back.

The big iron gate of Ji'an City creaked open with the sound of the steam engine starting up on the tower.

A convoy of twenty carriages filed out of the city gate, with metal embossings of "Ji'an" on the carriages, which looked like traditional Chinese characters.

The traction animals were heavy draft horses weighing two tons, no, these dragon horses with mixed genes, with hot air coming out of their nasal cavities, dragging vehicles with fine steel chassis and metal suspension rubber tires, slowly passing over the rock arch bridge on the moat lake in front of the city gate.

Because the vitality of various creatures under the radiation of life is quite tenacious, resin liquid such as rubber can still be obtained.

The carriage is surrounded by a steel shell, of course it is impossible to achieve all-round defense against machine guns like a tank, but the steel shell near the window is thicker, so people can hide in the steel shield at the window and drive a heavy machine gun to shoot around.

And at the back of this convoy are three war beasts wearing metal armor. These creatures and mechanical stitched monsters put their front bodies on carts and move forward half-relying on wheeled vehicles. These are the mechanical war beasts of the beastmasters.

These mechanical war beasts weighing more than five tons have eel-like electric cells in their bodies, which are used to drive the machinery in the chest and forearms to open in battle. However, this drive is not that long-lasting, and can only support 20 minutes of intense combat.

And there is a culture tank in a metal box in its carriage, in which microorganisms are replicating and emitting life radiation, and these life activities are controlled by mechanical war beasts, and the war beasts can extract energy from them. It's like wireless charging.

The convoy went westward, making a unique sound of metal. And at the beginning of all this, it was spotted by a reconnaissance team sent by Wei Keng.

It can be said that Ji'an City's actions in the last ten days after his crossing almost ended reminded Wei Keng of the time-limited tasks in the game, and something always happened at the end.

Regarding the details of the return, Wei Keng asked about the relevant processes of the system.

At the beginning of the return, all the self-individuals gathered again at the point where they first landed, and the whole process lasted for half a day. In other words, it is impossible to evacuate from here and then evacuate to another place. At present, these uninvited guests must be stopped.

Blocking can be divided into two types: verbal blocking and armed blocking.

Verbal blocking means arguing with reason through negotiation, and armed blocking means armed suppression. Wei Keng has not thought about verbal blocking. But when the other party is armed with military weapons, trying to block verbal blocking is as naive as "asking the League of Nations to mediate on September 18th".

But armed blocking is problematic. Wei Keng has clearly seen that there are heavy machine guns in the team that came this time, which he cannot solve.

Submachine guns and heavy machine guns are not the same concept. The effective range of the former is only 150 meters, which cannot be used as the tactical core of the squad, while the latter can suppress any action of the opponent's infantry within a range of 500 to 1,000 meters. It can be said that the heavy machine gun is the core of firepower.

As for the crossbow, the previous one was bullying monsters in a semi-jungle environment. If it was on a regular battlefield, the requirement of standing to shoot would be enough to be fatal.

Relying on organizational strength and willpower to defeat the opponent? Wei Keng: I am an average person, and my willpower is unreliable.

Moreover, the opponent is a local. If you want to rely on the perfect terrain to give a complete annihilation, you have to let the opponent's intelligence drop to a certain level. If the war plan is preset to be perfect from the beginning, there are precedents in history!

The naval idiots in the Pacific War set up combat plans and always pursued perfection. They expected that the American devils would definitely be deceived by their own strategies, and then fall into the trap, and finally the imperial army won a great victory.

War is a very serious issue. After a baptism, the Wei Keng group will never rely on one or two possible favorable conditions when dealing with war.

…

Wei Keng felt that the current conditions were uncertain and he had to seek help from the system.

In the face of Wei Keng's active dialogue, Bai Linglu responded very smoothly. He first expressed his concern for Wei Keng's current crisis. Then he believed that Wei Keng could solve the problem and was willing to help as much as possible. Then he analyzed the current threat situation. This threat was only short-term, and as long as it was successfully overcome, different results would be achieved.

Finally, a regulation on system assistance was elaborated: "Related weapons support can be provided immediately, but the corresponding material support requires a longer time for the shuttle return channel to arrive."

In short: After receiving the assistance, you must stay in the area for a longer time, no, stay for a longer period of time.

Faced with such an answer, Wei Keng grinded his back teeth and asked, "How long will it be delayed?"

Bai Linglu: The mass of the transported materials is calibrated to one-third of your weight as a unit scalar. You are now 1523 people, and the unit scalar is 45.3344 tons. Completing the transportation of a unit scalar will extend the arrival time of the channel by 100 days. The exchange must be more than one scalar and less than three scalars.

After a certain degree of intense discussion, Wei Keng and his group, well, if Wei Keng were a person, this kind of discussion would be self-hesitation.

The key point of the discussion among Wei Keng and his group was whether to be prudent and careful in exchanging one scalar, or to leave a little more room to exchange three scalars.

If Wei Keng had not split into multiple parts, facing such self-hesitation, he would choose to flip a coin, or slap himself a few times to see how many times it would hurt.

But now, a comparison is made to see which opinion is more common in their group.

Five minutes later.

Wei Keng's communication group gave Bai Linglu a unified solution: "Exchange three scalars." This is the limit that can be exchanged.

Bai Linglu was a little surprised by Wei Keng's sudden generosity.

However, now all members of the Wei Keng group have made a generous choice. The logic behind it is: if the war is about to begin, then we must burn our boats and burn our bridges. The purchase of military supplies must be guaranteed as much as possible, and we must never learn from the Qing Dynasty's hesitant performance in purchasing ships before the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895.

After determining the total amount of supplies, then we can place orders.

Wei Keng Communication 11: "Ten rounds of that single-soldier nuclear bomb, that is, the nuclear rocket launcher with a 50-ton equivalent during the Cold War. Well, I know how to use it. Dig trenches and put on protective clothing. Oh, and give me two more motorcycles. Oh, don't worry about me. No one here has signed up to launch it. I'll do it."

As for the launch of nuclear rockets, Wei Keng has no shortage of volunteers. Wei Kengs: This kind of tough equipment should be launched once in a lifetime.

However, Bai Linglu quickly denied Wei Kengs' crazy idea.

Bai Linglu explained sincerely: Heavy element atoms cannot be stable when shuttling. If you can find enough artificial elements in this plane for calibration, you can launch this equipment.

Bai Linglu said these words in a very polite tone. Wei Keng, who was short-sighted, always felt that the tone of the young lady at the end seemed to mock the word "poor".

Wei Keng, who was poor and short-sighted, had no way to refute it, and could only sigh in his heart.

A few minutes later

Wei Keng began to carefully check the list of materials he could accept for transmission. These are some relatively common items that I have thought of these days.

Wei Keng Communication 34 said to Bai Linglu: "It seems that you have already made a plan."

Bai Linglu: "You have encountered difficulties in the plane development. As an inspector, I should share your worries."