Emerging from a wormhole beneath the Pacific Ocean and reaching the shores of any place in a day, making all coastal cities unsafe, many countries have had to move their industries from the coast to the interior.

This alone, the losses caused by the entire industrial migration, the increase in costs, and the funds spent will be calculated in trillions, even in peacetime, it will make many countries break their bones, not to mention that at the same time, it is necessary to start a war with the chrysanthemum beast.

While bearing these losses, countries have invested a lot of resources in the PPDC, and the results so far have been the result of the concerted efforts of the member countries at all costs.

However, almost five years have passed now, and the adjustment of the economic field, mecha hunters have appeared like dumplings, and the member states have also fought a world war.

It's as if each of the two world wars left a few countries at the heart of the war wrecked, and now the member states are not much worse, if not to that extent.

The economies of the member states are sluggish, and as far as Locke knows, unemployment continues to rise, and there are more and more people who are hungry and dissatisfied, and the situation in many countries is not very good.

To put it simply, all countries are frightened by the huge investment, especially now that the appearance of the chrysanthemum beast is becoming more and more frequent, and every time the armor hunter comes out, it represents a huge investment and possible loss.

In other words, most of the people in power who used to bet heavily on the hunter program were frightened, even if they still wanted to invest as much as before, for fear that if this continued, they themselves would be ousted.

At the same time, the existing mecha technology can already deal with the current strength of the chrysanthemum beast, and in the absence of a stronger chrysanthemum beast, there is no need to invest at any cost as before.

Because of this, just recently, the so-called Wall Faction has quietly emerged, and although this plan seems extremely ridiculous to the discerning person, it has received the support of some parties who have suffered from the interests of the Mecha Hunter Project.

It's like in the United States, most of the industrial chain related to mecha hunters has been involved in most of the Li Group, and even used these newly emerged technologies to create many supporting factories, and the money is not lost at all.

The Hunter Program is a high-end project, don't think about it for companies that don't have any scientific research strength, the profits are high, and the threshold is also extremely high, and the ordinary people and enterprises in many member countries can't benefit from the Mecha Hunter Program at all, but a large number of enterprises have suffered huge losses due to economic turmoil.

At this time, the frustrated people who could not intervene, as well as those whose interests were hurt by the economic turmoil, began to support the construction of the wall.

In fact, the investment in building the wall is not much less than continuing to build mecha hunters, but the technology content is low, and many enterprises and individuals can participate in a piece of the pie, and such a large project also needs to hire a large number of people, which has a great effect on solving the unemployment rate.

At the same time, in order to fool the people, the people are simple, and some scientists in power and with money behind them have come forward and said that the wall can block monsters below level 4, and we can live safely and happily within the wall.

The people are blindly obedient, especially when life is about to go on, it is very easy to be instigated, they no longer have much reason at this time, they just fantasize about living the old life.

The Wallists have not yet fully gained the upper hand, but they are growing rapidly, and at the same time, countries have begun to reduce their financial support for PPDC.

These Wall factions have banded together, and in terms of influence over the U.S. government, they have surpassed the Lee Group and its allies combined.

In such a situation, the hard top is unrealistic, and it just so happens that Locke has been prepared for this for a long time, taking advantage of this trend, he has negotiated with the other party and launched his own plan, intending to rely on the Li Group itself to continue to promote the mecha hunter project.

Of course, this requires huge investment, around the core industry of mecha hunters, there are many teams attached to this project, with a clear division of labor, and the capital cost, technical strength, labor cost, supporting factories, and industrial strength are all things that only a few large countries can afford.

In the past few years, in the mecha hunter project in the United States, the Li Group is the absolute leader, supporting factories in all aspects, in fact, the US government has helped to invest in the construction, and the Li Group has even earned a large amount of money.

Once the future wall faction is in motion, these factory projects will have no orders and will have to be finished on their own, but Locke has decided that after the Lee Group will make its own mecha hunters, naturally these factories will be used.

In the past five years, under the command of Locke, the Li Group has participated in the Mecha Hunter Program, relying on the money earned in the past few years, the Li Group will have the money to invest in the construction of its own base, and at the same time prepare to develop its own Hunter Mecha.

Of course, it is not enough to make money from the previous mecha hunter-related industries, because the consumption is too great, or it will not be long before the Li Group will be completely destroyed because of the consumption of funds.

In addition to the traditional military industry, the Li Group has also opened up a new track.

For example, after joining the healthcare industry, we have developed a deleted version of the gene optimization solution, which only needs to be used for one year in a row, and it can be permanently cured to prolong life and improve physical fitness.

The cut-off version of the Gene Enhancement Solution requires weekly injections and at least 10 years of continuous use to ensure permanent curing results.

At the same time, the price at which it is sold to the outside world is simply unaffordable for the ordinary middle class, and only those who are quite wealthy can afford it.

In addition, there are special drugs for the treatment of many terminal diseases such as cancer and AIDS, and seeing the cost of these drugs, compared to the selling price, even the most greedy people will feel that this is a money grab.

In addition, with a simple artificial intelligence mobile phone, it can easily help individuals manage all trivial matters, arrange everything in an orderly manner, and complete tedious tasks such as simple document processing.

There are also higher-end robot butlers, just like the robots in "Mechanical Public Enemy", not only robots that can be nannies and the like, but also specialized engineering robots, which are even more handy for completing high-risk engineering work.

In this way, even if the Wall Faction succeeds, it will inevitably end up working for Locke, and working hard is to earn a hard-earned money, and the real big head will naturally fall into Locke's hands.

In short, in the past few years, under Locke's arrangement, the Li Group has done a lot of various profitable businesses, so it can have enough confidence to support the current and future investment in the mecha hunter project.

After all, the United States can't be counted on in the short term, and it is too difficult to rely on a single group company to support the mecha hunter project, and Locke has to try his best to make up for it.

And this is just using the existing resources to further research and development, and the hunter mecha is not going to build too much, otherwise it will not be able to raise it.

R&D investment, mecha maintenance, labor costs, mecha maintenance, and new-generation construction, each of which is a dizzying massive expenditure, and dozens of member countries of the eight bases of PPDC are almost unable to afford it.

The Li Group really uses a large number of engineering robots, the base and various industries have a very high automatic rate, plus they control the entire industrial chain, and their own technology is mature, so they are ready to concentrate on building three or four main combat mecha in the next few years.

And why the Shaw Brothers have the resources to continue to manufacture mecha in the second movie is fundamentally because Huaxia's system is different, and they are willing to use the power of the country to support this development.

Even so, that is, the current Li Group is about the same, it is impossible to support the entire PPDC alone.

(End of chapter)