16.7 Contemporary Military
August 1, 541 Apocalypse Calendar.
Yanghe College, Institute of Energetic Organizations.
In class, the forty-year-old instructor on the stage had an obvious military atmosphere. His waist was straight, and his eyes scanned the classroom like an eagle.
There were a total of eight test benches in the entire classroom under the stage, and a student between the ages of seventeen and twenty sat quietly in front of the test bench wearing rubber gloves and goggles, while the eleven-year-old Chi Bai was out of place in the classroom, but he also sat in the corner.
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In the world's contemporary education system, the junior high school → the middle of the country → different kinds of professional science academies. This classroom is the equivalent of a university science hall.
On Earth, young students need to pass the public college entrance examination to enter university early.
And here, the young students of this school, if they want to enter the professional academy in advance, they also have to take the school examination. After all, exams are the most convenient way to select talents.
Blazing White began to submit applications last year and spent a winter break reading books and doing questions.
Two months ago, eight test courses, including "Advanced Mathematics", "Advanced Organic Chemistry" and "Biological Experimental Operation", were passed. After submitting a deposit of 30,000 yuan, I was qualified to attend this school. In addition to this course, Blazing White also applied for a course of 'man-equipped machinery manufacturing' and recently passed.
Needless to say, it's been four lifetimes, and although there is a lot of forgetfulness in rebirth, I still understand how to learn this study.
This passed two adult professional exams in a row, and Blazing White has some fame in junior high school. There are even some gunman groups on Blazing's personal page, asking Blazing if they are interested in joining.
In this life, well, there are no three oil bottles in the previous life. Blazing White has more time to plan for its own growth.
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Back in class, the name of this tutor is called Wear Zuxin.
In 530 of the Apocalypse, he served in the top group of the 398 Coast Guard, and retired in 534 of the Apocalypse. He participated in 17 xeno-extermination wars on the eastern seaboard, three of which were wounded. A proper template for the king of soldiers, and now he is invited by the academy with a high salary.
His lecturing style has a strong military style.
The voice is subdued and frustrated, and when the eyes meet the eyes of others, the students in the audience feel like they have been hit by a hammer.
He did not allow his students to look away while he was lecturing.
When students are asked to take notes, he taps directly on the blackboard and says a time.
All students must immediately bow their heads to record, and when the time is up, they must knock on the blackboard again, and all students must immediately look up and continue to listen to his lecture.
If someone violates, the first warning, the second whipping, and the third order to leave the class.
commented in blazing words: "There is a bit of a battlefield atmosphere in his class, and you must not be distracted." ”
And he taught a course on coastal biome habits and biological characteristics. Judging from the photographs and the schematic drawings he made, he must have had a lot of decomposition of these creatures.
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Wear ancestral letters: "Six hundred years ago, the extraterrestrial meteorite caused inexplicable changes in those ancient creatures in the ocean, and they became social. Then in the 102nd year of the Apocalypse Calendar, the 252nd year of the Apocalypse Calendar, and the 402nd year of the Apocalypse Calendar, the stars outside the sky came respectively.
With each arrival, there is a large number of mutations in the biome.
In the year 666 of the Electric Calendar, it descended on the sea on the east side of our eastern continent.
The year 102 was the year that descended on the Godsfall Mountains.
The year 252 advent point is in the desert south of the Mediterranean Sea on the western continent.
In 402 it descended on the ice field.
Among them, the advent in 402 gave birth to the vampire, which was hidden in human society for 20 years, and after being exposed, it instigated war, and Xunyuan launched a crackdown, directly causing nearly a million deaths and tens of millions of people becoming war refugees. ”
A large number of photos of the war appeared on the screen, blue and white camouflage tanks, fully mechanized infantry, walking on the ruins, while dark red tumors all over their bodies, refugees of the blood-sucking race as blood slaves, forced to line up by soldiers with guns.
It seems to sense the incandidly curious gaze.
"At that time, the soldiers of the patrol signed a confidentiality agreement and did not disclose the treatment of the civilians with the blood epidemic, but later generations recorded that most of the civilians with the blood epidemic were not effectively treated, and the number of casualties far exceeded the official announcement of the patrol yuan. ”
With that, he bared his white teeth and grinned a penetrating smile, and the class was silent.
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The anatomy class began.
The material is thawed xenomorph corpses. Students who took these classes for the first time formed teams on their own and dissected the sour internal organs of demonic creatures, and there were more or less adverse reactions. After shirking each other, a person was selected, and when this person started, he did everything hastily, coped with the class task and left the class in a hurry.
Blazing White, on the other hand, holds a scalpel, as if disassembling mechanical parts, follows the connective tissue, removes the internal organs of demonic creatures one by one, and then neatly stacks them on a plate.
After Blazing White finished doing it, he said to his teammates on the side that the muscle nodes and body distribution listed in the data one by one. Have classmates who are much older than you take notes.
Wear Zuxin looked at the students who had left the classroom, with a mocking look on his face, but with a hint of appreciation for Blazing White's careful and bold appearance.
After carefully looking at the operation of Blazing White, he took out the scoring notebook, and under the eyes of the students on the side, he gave Blazing White a full score of credits.
However, he looked at the students on the same team as Blazing White, and a playful smile appeared on his face.
Each of these students on the same team as Blazing White is older than Blazing White, but they let Blazing White, who is a head shorter than them, operate the knife, just like the scene of "big brother and big sister giving snacks to younger brother", which is quite funny on this dissecting table.
But in the end, Wear Zuxin still put pen to paper in the eyes of these students, and still gave them a good score.
But then the instructor, a former soldier, announced the rules of the lab: "The next autopsy, the team will form their own team." ”
As soon as the voice of the ancestor letter fell, the surrounding students were stunned, and then realized something, and looked around the laboratory, looking for excellent team members, and when they were looking for excellent team members, they set their eyes on the blazing white blood vessels that were being peeled off on the fourth test bench.
Seeing blood and mucus in the human eye, and feeling discomfort is a physiological phenomenon.
At the moment, the white-cut flesh is stained with blood and the face is as usual, not the 'cold-blooded' and 'psychological cruelty' as speculated by the people in the class.
Instead, Blazing White activated the energy observation perspective early. When the perspective is covered by the kinetic lines of the finger movements, the gore gradually loses notice.
In the blazing white perspective, the situation of the corpse in front of you is a three-dimensional image.
And the amphibian xenomorph of this aquatic creature in front of him looks completely different from humans, but—
[Biological evolution is like the industrial standard, the genus and species of the Phylum Compendium, two species have the same physiological structure, and they have inherited the same physiological structure]
The vertebral nerve layout is the standard for spreading along the central axis of the spine, and the arthropod nerve is the standard for the symmetrical network.
For example, between mammals and birds, there is an alveolar respiration and an air sac system. And mammals evolved myoglobin to better store oxygen, so bats have wings, but they are standard mammals.
Another example is the human hearing system, which has been reduced to a delicate balanced oscillation system in the long evolutionary process of reducing a few bones to sense the vibrations of sound.
At present, the structure of the marine xenomorph auditory organs on the dissecting table is the same as that of humans, and the rest of the nervous system is the same as that of primates.
- This xenomorph is actually a human, a mutant human.
Thirty minutes later, the electric bell rang.
Wear Zuxin: "Class is over, this classmate, if you want to know more about demonic creatures, the books on the eighteenth line of the fourth row on the third floor of the library are useful to you." ”
Hearing the mentor beside him speak to himself, Blazing raised his head: "Mentor, will the demonic creature use tools now?" ”
"The newspapers say they are an unintelligent species, but in reality, they use firearms, and if they can, they try to make them, albeit crudely. ”
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A few hours later.
Library.
Blazing White took the library card with the signature of the ancestral letter, and came to the 'bronze' level of the library to inquire about the xenomorph materials of the past six hundred years.
After reading for a full two hours, Blazing White rubbed his somewhat sour eyes and gained a better understanding of the current situation in the world.
Six hundred years ago, after large-scale wars between the East and the West, the world was generally peaceful.
Both the East and the West have achieved complete military control over their regions, and no one can commit troops across thousands of miles to win against the forces on the other side of the world.
There has been a shift in the direction of military development. Large army operations have become a thing of the past, and have gradually shifted to dealing with regional skirmishes. The main thing is to control the situation in these areas.
This is the mobile base designed by Qingjun Knot at the end of the electrical calendar, which gradually became mainstream after the Apocalypse calendar. The fundamental reason for this is that it meets the needs of the overall peaceful environment of the world.
In the eastern continent, along the coast, in the central plain, it is undoubtedly a contemporary prosperous area.
But the northern ice sheets, the western mountains, some rainforests in Southeast Asia, these sub-developed zones, and the sub-developed zones where the mutants are entrenched.
The military of the Republic of Chikawa now undertakes the military task of sending mechanical bases to exercise long-term and effective control over these areas and prevent the core and prosperous economic areas from being affected. - Similar to the Central Dynasty anti-nomadism.
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The country's military development must be paid for by interest groups.
In the contemporary Dharma Lineage Continent, there is no military plundering of each other, nor is there any defense against the military plundering of the other side, such as those offensive weapons that are too advanced, and various interest groups will not pay for them if they think they are unnecessary.
For example, in the early 21st century, the European Union, which was attached to the US imperialists, did not live too comfortably, and basically abandoned large warships and the Continental Army. Why do you want to maintain the Continental Army by only maintaining the interference ability of beating African children and kicking weak chickens in the Middle East, airdropping dozens of all-terrain vehicles to abuse African chiefs for thousands of kilometers, and interfering in the political situation of African parliaments?
In East Asia, on the other hand, because of the threat, the domestic interest groups of all parties have recognized military investment, warships, and airplanes, which constitute a monster house.
In the Apocalypse Calendar, if it weren't for the existence of Xunyuan in the north of Qianchuan, the existence of the Hella Group in the east of the Great Heman Federation in the Western Continent. I'm afraid that the two ends of the East and West Continents will be completely civil.
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But now.
In Chi Bai's view, although the military has not developed offensive armaments, it can by no means be said to be poor. At least fifty percent of the country's finances are maintained militarily.
Four hundred years ago, when the mobile base first came out, the military said that it would be able to reduce the pressure on border defense and greatly reduce the economic pressure. But after a few hundred years, this cost may be reduced, but vested interests are by no means just a concession. Congress has been allocating money to mobile bases for hundreds of years.
Because once xenomorphs infiltrate prosperous areas on a large scale, there is a risk that xenomorphs will create riots, causing losses of tens of billions. As for the military, it is already holding itself hostage.
If the army at the end of the electric calendar was full of gamblers, there were a large number of Ma Lu who were ready to cause accidents all the time for the sake of meritorious service. And now the military of the Apocalypse Calendar is a nest of civil servants who eat benefits for wages and salaries.
What do civil servants think? - Try to have low risk, high benefits, and high returns.
Now this group of soldiers in Qianchuan is like this, which makes Blazing White cry and laugh. They're already playing a little too far.
Now the military maintains a military presence in the surrounding area, and the base commanders, in addition to regular high-intensity surprise strike operations. In peacetime, low-intensity patrol operations are outsourced to mercenary companies.
By the way, the national military patrol subsidy they applied for was still based on their own standards, and the patrol task was outsourced.
It's like applying for a national project, then outsourcing the dirty work and then settling the bill to get the state grant.
This reminds Chi Bai that in the 21st century, the US military shouted "absolutely no withdrawal from the Middle East" on the surface, which seemed belligerent, but behind the scenes, it made Blackwater's business flourish.
[In the first half of the 21st century, for the US military, this low-risk copy of the Middle East is a good project to let the people above mix up the merits and give the people below money and green cards, and the news control makes the media have to praise it every day with a unified voice. On the other hand, on the East Asian side, there are high-intensity patrols every day, and there may be various mistakes. Admirals accept sponsored tours from 'friendly businessmen' and are exposed to scandals by the media staring at them. 】
Of course, the filthiness of the Qianchuan military is well known to everyone in the political and business circles.
You don't see that 90 percent of the people's public opinion about the military is corrupt, and the remaining 10 percent are arrogant and unreasonable. This atmosphere of public opinion is the same as the accusations against chengguan at the beginning of the 21st century on the earth.
Of course, there are interest groups behind the public opinion of Qianchuan, and the military's constant demand for money and self-respect with bandits have made all walks of life unable to scold their mothers in public opinion. But in fact, those forces with a high enough level will still put their hot faces in the face of the military's various overlord clauses.
For example, most of the sources of those spell organs on the rivers and lakes came from the military. The military makes a lot of money in this area.
Incandescent White: Yang and the Academy spend a lot of money every year to acquire xenomorph living bodies collected by the military. If he is not connected with the rivers and lakes, his name and characters can be read upside down.
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Blazing White walked out of the library and returned to the Spirit Vein Construct Building.
In the training ground, Blazing White meticulously carried out the fixing technique, drop by drop of sweat fell from his cheeks, holding the bar ring in his hand, spinning four times, sweat scattered with the volley.
Blazing White whispered in his heart: "The place that can solve the problem now is not the rivers and lakes." ”