Chapter XXXI. PPDC
Don't think that the training work of mecha pilots will be much easier if they don't have to go to heaven, in fact, the training work of mecha pilots is not much easier than that of air force pilots, and even more complicated, after passing the basic physical assessment and other basic assessments, they can be regarded as trainees, and they need to enter the hunter academy that specializes in training pilots - it can be understood as the mecha version of the aviation school for the most basic theoretical study.
Theoretical learning is boring and the most basic, if you don't learn basic theoretical knowledge, you can only be a black eye for the mecha, even if you go in, you don't know what to do, and you can't even call the name of the cockpit button, let alone drive the mecha to fight.
During this period, the trainees are allowed to play computer simulator games at most, and only after the initial theoretical training of the Hunter Academy will the pilots be allowed to enter the mecha simulator for live driving.
This is somewhat similar to the flight simulator of the Air Force, which can simulate the actual driving situation to the maximum extent, the number of mecha models, and various monsters, and the overall cost of these simulators is not much cheaper than the cost of a real mecha; The simulator is used to accumulate driving experience and develop the driver's basic operating ability.
When these conditions are met, they will become a pilot candidate, but because the cost of the mecha is too expensive and the number is limited, generally only after the new armor is offline, there is no designated driver, or the driver of other armors dies, the candidate has a chance to play.
In the past, there were special hunter schools for the selection of drivers. Training, on-board and other one-stop training, but after the governments of various countries stopped the hunter program. The PPDC funding chain can no longer be maintained, and the hunter school is closed, and the black general of the PPDC in the movie is the first batch of cadets of the hunter school, and most of the drivers return to the school as instructors after retirement to train newcomers.
The Hunter Academy goes out of business, and the Skua mech ceases production. Most of the logistics bases were shut down, and only a few remaining mechs were still surviving, huddled in the last base, Hong Kong. The final struggle is being waged.
And under such complicated conditions, Zhang Yang's desire to become a mecha pilot sounds a bit like a fantasy.
"In the movie, there are only the last four mechs left in the Hong Kong base, among which the dangerous wanderer is the male protagonist. Storm Crimson is Chinese. Chernoalpha is Russian, the Eureka Raiders belong to Australia, and most importantly, these four mechs have pilots, do you have to force me to kill a certain driver to force the palace to take the position? ”
Zhang Yang maliciously guessed that if the pilots of these mecha were killed by himself, he didn't know what the plot of the movie would become, that black general Pantcoster. It is estimated that the whole world will hunt down and kill him.
The male protagonist Beckett is the person who the black general fancies, and he is protected by the protagonist's aura. It's not so easy to die, and rash action will only cause immeasurable consequences, so this thought only flashed in Zhang Yang's head.
As for killing monsters, there is no other way than relying on mechas, and Zhang Yang is not stupid enough to fight directly with his bare hands, one of his toes is four or five meters high, not to mention Zhang Yang, even if Megatron is here, it is just a matter of people stepping on a flat foot, nearly two thousand tons of weight, and if you step on it, you have to turn it into a meatloaf or discus.
"The only four remaining mechs have owners, so what should I do if I don't want to kill the pilot?"
Zhang Yang was struggling with this question in his head, it was not an overnight thing to become a mecha driver, so when he came back to his senses, the truck had already arrived at the location of the coastal base, and when he looked at it, the seventy or eighty meters high wall was magnificent, and there were countless workers working in the gap that had not yet been fully connected, and the sparks of electric welding could be seen everywhere.
As the truck entered the construction site and was led to the registration office by the security team in charge of vigilance, Zhang Yang saw more and more clearly this huge project, the coastal fence is 10 meters thick and 75 meters high, the main structure is made of a large amount of steel welded, and then poured with cement and stones, and there is a buffer layer up to 15 meters thick inside the wall.
On the surface, such a powerful wall does seem to be able to hold back the monster's attack, and there are no less than 400 workers busy at this construction site alone, and the ground is littered with steel, Zhang Yang followed Jeff out of the car, and followed the rest of the crowd to the outside of a dilapidated factory, forming a long line.
On a rusty iron plate, the words "Worker Recruitment Office" are written in blue paint, and there is a special note in red paint under the big blue letters, "Regardless of whether you are admitted or not, you can receive a free food voucher", Zhang Yang saw many men in tattered clothes lined up in a long line, and it seemed that the living conditions were not very good, and there were probably many people who came for this free food.
Although San Francisco was rebuilt, the global economy has fallen into a stagnation in all aspects of the destruction caused by monsters to humans, and a large number of ordinary people along the coast have lost their jobs, because monsters can appear in the sea at any time, and because the sea water is contaminated by the blood of monsters, very few people dare to risk great dangers to go out to sea to fish, and many ordinary people have fallen to the point where they are now.
Zhang Yang lined up in front of several people, and in front of him was a white man with eyes, who looked like he was engaged in clerical work.
"I was a college teacher before I lost my job, in San Diego." The man with glasses wiped his eyes and sorted out some tattered ones, hoping to be decent, but his clothes were too torn so he could only give up and laugh miserably.
"Santiago? It's a long way from San Francisco. ”
Zhang Yang nodded.
"When I wake up, I go, when I get tired, I go to sleep, every other construction site I go to have a meal, and I walk here slowly, just last fall, a third-level monster attacked San Diego, my family, wife, parents, daughter, all died in that disaster, and my house was gone."
"But since you are a university teacher, you are considered a high-level intellectual, and I remember that the government has a pension for high-level intellectuals, right?"
Other workers came over curiously and asked suspiciously.
"Pension? My family died, my property was gone, and according to federal law, the government should give me at least $20,000 in pensions, but the politicians withheld it and finally compensated me only $1,200, haha, $1,200, and it costs $500 to rent a house in San Diego! I have nothing before I can get a job, these damn politicians, vampires! ”
"Alas!"
The man's words aroused the sympathy of the people around him, many of whom had lost their families in the monster attack, they were not the rich or the big bosses, their families were dead, their possessions were nothing, and the sudden blow made these people fall from ordinary people to homeless people, running around hoping to find a job and survive.
"I sympathize with your experience, but we have to survive, since God didn't let us die, that is, he wants us to survive instead of our family, and use our efforts to defeat the monsters, which is to avenge them."
Zhang Yang patted the other party's shoulder sympathetically and encouraged the other party.
"Thank you for your comfort, it's a pity that I'm just a history teacher, and I can't do anything about fighting monsters, and I kind of hate why I didn't study mechanics in the first place, or it's not bad to sign up for the army."
"It's not that you have to turn on a mecha to fight monsters, you see, we're all looking for work here now, and we're working hard to build the wall, won't we be able to protect more people."
Although he didn't have any expectations for the coastal fence, Zhang Yang sympathized with this unlucky man, and in the face of the blow of all his family members being killed, Zhang Yang didn't dare to think that he could be much better than the other party.
"Maybe."
The man had obviously lost the courage to live, and only glanced up at the factory not far away, one of the most important purposes of his coming here was to have a meal.
Coastal walls have been built on the main roads around the Pacific Ocean, and the United States, China, Russia, Canada, Australia, Mexico, etc., especially the west coast of the United States, have been attacked by monsters the most, and the U.S. government has smashed a lot of dollars down, and built the coastal wall in advance faster than other countries.
The coastal fence that stretches for tens of thousands of kilometers, even if you look down from space, you can see a black curve, like a dam standing at the forefront of resisting monsters, Asia, Oceania, North America, South America, there is such a black line.
In order to facilitate command and communication, and prevent one-time destruction by monsters, there are small construction sites every 25 kilometers and large supply stations every 100 kilometers, because the coastal fence requires extremely large manpower, so the construction site is always in a state of shortage, which provides a job for the people displaced by the monster attack, men can go to build the wall, women can join the medical team and logistics team, and ensure the supply of food and medicine.
The construction of the wall naturally also has to provide jobs, solve the problem of displaced people, just like in 2008 after the economic crisis swept the world, in order to stimulate the national economy, China invested hundreds of billions of yuan to build high-speed rail in the country, which is also the meaning, and the construction of high-speed rail is also of extremely important strategic significance, which can quickly transport troops to the war zone in wartime.
It is precisely because of this that governments have formulated such an order, and a large number of workers are recruited at various construction sites, regardless of whether they are admitted or not, they can receive a free food with the registration form. (To be continued......)