"Classmate Chu Ge, hahahaha, I heard the tiger say with a dejected face, you refuse the Red Helmets and are ready to join the military? Oh, it's the best choice of your life, it's great! ”

In the dining hall rest area of the extraordinary medical center, Guan Shanzhong, a major of the reconnaissance unit, hugged Chu Ge with his eyes, and his eyes were so excited that stars flashed, "Originally, it should have been those very beautiful young ladies from the recruitment department who came to talk to you about this, but when I thought about it, we are so familiar with each other, and you saved my life again, of course I want to hear this good news with my own ears!" As for the heroic young ladies in the recruitment office, don't worry, when you join the military, I will personally take you to the friendship! ”

Chu Ge was silent, looked at the ecstatic Guan Shanzhong for a long time, and said cautiously: "That, Major Guan, did you hear it wrong, or did Brother Hu say it wrong, I rejected the Red Helmets, but I didn't say that I had to join the military." ”

"What?"

Guan Shan was dumbfounded, and his shocked energy "whirred" straight up, "What do you mean, you rejected the Red Helmets, and you still want to refuse the military?" There's no reason why, look at your performance in the chemical plant and deep in the jungle, with just the right combination of bravery and stealing chickens and dogs, you are simply a natural special forces! I'm sure you also feel the passion between life and death, do you want to reject your instincts?

"Or are you worried about treatment? Come on, look at the contract and training plan I brought, the military will definitely invest a lot of resources to train you, build you into the best soldier, whether you surpass me or surpass the 'colonel' Ning Lie, there is hope!

"What, to fight the Celestial Organization? That's exactly what our military does, and I promise you, if one day we're going to smash the lair of the Celestial Organization, you'll have the opportunity to blow all that mess up with your own hands!

"Oh oh oh, the Extraordinary Association has a temporary mission, let you get what 'little palace master'? This is no problem, the cooperation between the military and the extraordinary association is originally very close, and many very agents are veterans, just like the old captain Cao you are most familiar with, originally the Earth Army, and now the consultant of the very association, everyone is a family, it can completely allow you to get the 'little palace master' while receiving the training of the strongest soldiers, and the military will provide you with the most powerful technical and equipment support! ”

Guan Shanzhong pushed a thick stack of contracts and training plans towards Chu Ge.

Chu Ge smiled bitterly and pushed the information away.

"Major Guan, you misunderstood, I believe that you and the military will never treat me badly, but if I care about the treatment and training plan, there is no need to refuse the Red Helmets."

Chu Ge hesitated for a long time, his eyes gradually became firm, and he said softly, "I only have two questions, if you can represent the military and give an answer that I can agree with, then, no matter what the conditions, I am willing to join the Earth Army." ”

"You ask." Guan Shanzhong's eyes lit up and he said quickly.

"First question, I want to know, in the war between the earth and the immortal cultivation world and the illusion world, are we the one who is being invaded and defending the country, or the one who is sharpening the knife and preparing to take the initiative to invade, if the immortal cultivation world and the illusion world do not have a plan to invade the earth on a large scale, will the earth army take the initiative to provoke a war, kill to the other world to conquer, colonize, burn and loot, and destroy the other party's civilization?" Chu Ge asked with blazing eyes.

The smile on Guan Shanzhong's face disappeared inch by inch.

The temperament also changed from frivolous and oily to serious and deep.

It's like confronting the colonel in the night rain at a chemical plant.

"It seems that these days, you really think about it a lot." Guan Shanzhong scratched his head with some distress.

"It's a bit much, but I can't think of an answer, Uncle Cao asked me to walk more, see more, do more practical things, and think less about illusory questions, but I think that this question can't help but not think - what I want to join is it a team to defend the country or an invading army?" Chu Ge looked at Guan Shanzhong very seriously.

Guan Shanzhong's blockage also became extremely serious, he pondered for a moment, and asked, "Chu Ge, have you thought about conquering the other world?" ”

"Of course, I have thought about it, the sea of stars, conquering the other world, driving the mighty and majestic war machine to gallop across the other world, and knocking over those mountain gates, altars, and statues of gods and demons to the ground, heaven and earth, and so on...... I'm afraid there's no boy who hasn't thought about these things, right? ”

Chu Ge said, "However, on the real battlefield, when we take the initiative to invade, if an innocent little girl from another world appears in front of the track of my excavator, stretching out her immature hands to stop me from advancing, can I crush her into meat without wavering?" I don't know, maybe, if I do this, I will become even crazier than 'Colonel' Ning Lie. ”

"Yes, after being a soldier for so many years, my biggest experience is that real war is so different from the glorified so-called wars in movies and video games."

Guan Shanzhong smiled bitterly, "Now there are many people on the Internet who are yelling, 'Kill to the other world, kill the blood like a river, roll people's heads, and crush everyone from the other world into a pulp', hehe, these people don't know what they are talking about, and they don't know what 'blood flows' means, throw them on the real battlefield, see their companions and even their own intestines being beaten out, see the burning enemy pounce on them, in vain and try to die together, I'm afraid that they will fart and urine in three seconds, and cry in pain." ”

"So, you don't approve of us starting an unjust war of aggression?" Chu Ge asked.

Guan Shan laughed again.

"Little guy, when I was young, like you, I liked to use 'justice' and 'evil' to define many things, and when I grew up, I realized that good and evil are black and white, where can be said clearly in a few words, and I am even less qualified to adjudicate the so-called justice."

Guan Shan thought about it again and said briskly, "That's right, from the standpoint of personal feelings, I don't want the Earth Army to launch an unjust war of aggression, and I don't want the army I am loyal to to become an invading army that burns, kills, loots, and does all kinds of evil."

"Not only do I not want to, but all my comrades around me, and even most of the generals in the Eastern Hemisphere, don't want to."

"That's great!"

Chu Ge was overjoyed in his heart, and was immediately stunned, "Eastern Hemisphere? ”

"Listen, classmate Chu Ge, let's not discuss good and evil, only the temperament of the army, the temperament of most armies throughout the ages can be divided into 'farming' and 'nomadic'."

Guan Shanzhong explained, "The army, which probably originated from a large farming empire, will tend to shrink and introvert after completing the expansion of the elite areas suitable for farming - because the outside world is a vast ocean except for rolling yellow sand, or the Gobi and rainforest, which are technically difficult to develop, there is no need to invade outward."

"Over time, such an agrarian army has been injected with the belief of 'defending the homeland and defending the country', preferring passive defense, and rarely has the desire to take the initiative.

"And the armies from the nomadic civilization - whether it is the steppe nomadism in the Middle Ages or the sea nomadism in modern times, from the first day of their birth, they are full of the desire to invade, conquer, colonize, and trade, and it is their instinct to constantly expand outward, because they do not have a core agricultural area that must be fixed, colonization and trade are their 'lifeline'.

"So, an army full of nomadic temperament is destined to be more aggressive, and in a nomadic-commercial civilization, 'aggressiveness' itself is not a bad word, and not being aggressive is the worst thing.

"Agrarian temperament and nomadic temperament, which is higher and which is lower, which is superior and which is inferior? It's hard to say that there is one right answer.

"As the inheritors of the ancient kingdoms of the East, we may naturally prefer the temperament of farming, believing that 'protecting the family and defending the country' is the only justice, and the word 'aggression' is not pleasant to hear.

"But you also have to admit that it is precisely because of the aggressiveness of those nomadic civilizations in the Western Hemisphere hundreds of years ago that the entire human civilization has been completely changed, and today, our food, clothing, housing and transportation, our science and technology, our social and economic systems, and even our ruling institutions have been deeply branded with the Western Hemisphere.

"Looking back on the dark history of hundreds of years ago, we often sigh that if the old empire of the year could have been a little less agrarian and more aggressive of nomadic civilization, perhaps we could catch up and participate in the competition of global discoveries and colonizations earlier, instead of being reduced to fish and meat to be slaughtered.

"Today, we have once again come to the crossroads of history, and have come to the choice of 'passive defense, sticking to the homeland' and 'actively forging ahead, and constantly opening up the outside world'.

Guan Shanzhong's words were something Chu Ge had never thought of.

He listened attentively and thought deeply.

"I don't know whether it's lucky or unlucky, today's Earth Army is far from being a completely unified army, because we are the armies of various countries in the Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere, and in the absence of large-scale wars, they are peacefully united, and many units still retain their own structures and unique temperaments."

"Generally speaking, the Earth Army, which originated from the Eastern Hemisphere, retains more of an agrarian temperament and is unwilling to start a war lightly, and its strategic proposition is based on local defense; The Earth Army, which originated from the Western Hemisphere, retains more nomadic temperament and is more aggressive, and wants to expand the 'glory of the earth' to the Immortal Cultivation Realm and the Illusion Realm.

"These two forces are still balanced and tug-of-war in the Supreme Council and the General Staff, and what the specific result will be, it's not my little major who can know!"

That's right.

Now Chu Ge's horizons are much broader than a few months ago, and he knows that the Lingshan City he lives in is not the whole world.

Although the East is the leading force of the Earth Alliance, many forces in the West are gradually recovering, profoundly affecting the future development direction of the Alliance and even the entire Earth civilization.

Agrarian and nomadic, defending and conquering, these two temperaments are mixed together to be the whole picture of the Union.