- Marshal Panticoster actually did not completely let down his guard against the mysterious person in front of him.

As the top leader of PPDC, a battle-hardened warrior, Panticoster has his own set of logic and values in his heart, and at the same time has an extremely strong will, otherwise he would not have been able to drag the sick body for so long in the face of an almost certain and desperate future.

Marshal Panticoster knew very well that there was no unprovoked help in the world, and that people who stretched out their hands to the plight of others and asked for nothing would basically only exist in comics...... And the perfect heroes like Superman, who are great and upright, and don't ask for anything in return, are only a few even in the comics.

However, in the more than ten years since he became the top person in charge of PPDC, he has also seen too many people's hearts and seen what kind of things that politicians can do for their own one-third of an acre. Not to mention anything else, the "Defense Wall Project" that abandoned the "Mecha Hunter" program and thus vigorously promoted it is the best interpretation of their stupidity.

People change, simple soldiers can't confront politicians on the battlefield without gunpowder, and the final end of the Vietnam War veterans in the beautiful country is the silent ridicule of the soldiers. What Marshal Panticoster could do was to try not to let his soldiers, his comrades, and everyone who rallied around him to fight unjustly, so that they would not be reduced to the most miserable end.

- Since entering the Broken Dome base, which is geographically located in the east, Marshal Panticoster has taken the initiative to investigate a lot of information in order to understand the staffing of his subordinates and to reconcile the relationship between various cultural differences. Corrupt officials are traitors, clean officials are more traitorous than corrupt officials, this is a line in a certain movie on Hong Kong Island, and the marshal thinks so.

So Marshal Panticos, who foresaw that politicians were the most unreliable, began his own layout a long time ago. He reacted after the United Nations cut the funding for mecha development for the first time, and in order to plan for the future and leave a way out for the future of the entire PPDC, Marshal Panticoster was even able to do the thing of leaving the corpse of the monster to the civil society organization on Hong Kong Island to deal with - and it turned out that his seemingly ridiculous decision became the key to the normal operation of PPDC today.

But that's all, limited funds have always been the biggest constraint on Marshal Panticoster, and private assistance can only maintain the general operation of the base. Even if the marshal could spend a lot of money to get a nuclear bomb from Lao Maozi's side through his own way to make up for a key part of his plan, he himself did not have the slightest grasp of this plan. After all, the failed operation of the PPDC a few years ago has proved that the success rate of the "nuclear wormhole" plan to completely blow up the rift with a nuclear bomb is extremely slim.

This time, the plan was at most a desperate fight before the end of the world, and not only Marshal Panticoster understood this, but also the top management of the PPDC, but they did not say anything, but continued to work hard for that faint hope...... As the marshal himself said, he was just an ordinary man, with a bunch of fools who were desperate for the future of humanity.

To live or to perish, there seems to be no choice.

Because generally speaking, a person who is dying of thirst will not care whether the person next to him gives him a cup of poison or honey...... Moreover, for Marshal Panticoste, as long as it comes from human help, it is completely sufficient.

After all, being saved by humans, even strangers who identify themselves as "human" and who don't know where they came from. It's also much better than giving up this planet and letting the monsters that only destroy turn human civilization into a scorched earth.

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As the Asian defense base on Hong Kong Island, and the only PPDC mecha base that is still in normal use today, the architectural style of the Shattered Dome is very similar to that of the eastern power, simple, efficient, and fast to build, with no superfluous paint or interior.

Perhaps the people who have been working here since the base was built haven't felt anything, but the employees who have recently moved from other bases are a little uncomfortable with this more oppressive style, and the oriental diet has also left them at a loss...... However, every PPDC member in the base understands that they have no choice, and that people who want to save the world have neither the time nor the mood to waste their time on such inconsequential things.

But from the second day, every member of the PPDC felt the changes taking place inside the base. A large number of materials have been moved into the base, and there are more supplies in one day than in the previous month, and the most intuitive thing is that the variety of food in the canteen in the base is obviously much richer, and food from all over the world appears on everyone's table, which can effectively meet everyone's needs. Even for those employees who need to work in a hurry, the canteen offers highly nutritious food that was previously only seen in movies, with only a small piece to maintain the energy needs of the day.

Secondly, the PPDC staff who have met Marshal Panticost feel that the marshal has changed greatly compared to before. On weekdays, the marshal's skin was always that unhealthy gray, but now his complexion was much better, and more than one person saw that the long-lost smile reappeared on the marshal's face, unlike the usual frowning look...... And this also brings more confidence to everyone.

The team of scientists at the PPDC, which has largely disbanded, has joined two new members, and their surnames are exactly the same as those of the country 2,000 years ago, namely "Chu" and "Qi". Although no one had heard of their names before, and no one had read their published papers or academic opinions, after a brief contact, the knowledge of the two had conquered the entire team of scientists, and their new idea of using mental power to control the mecha was even more exciting to everyone, including the mecha pilot.

No one knows what the new mech piloting will look like, but rumors such as "this is an epoch-making technology" and "a new way to control" are still spreading. And everyone knows that the Marshal has dragged the long-abandoned "Dangerous Wanderer" out of the mecha graveyard for reconstruction, so the selection of new mech pilots is ready to start.

Among the trainees of the Hunter Academy, several new members have been added. One of them, a Russian man as strong as a bear, Kampa Rovsky, is not only amazingly physical, but also invincible in the fighting course, can easily defeat the combination of more than a dozen elite cadets by himself, and at the same time is even more unbeatable in shooting training, even the official mecha pilot of "Chernoalpha" has come to see his training...... Even Alexis, who has guarded the Siberian defense circle for six years, bows to this rising star of the mecha hunter world.

- Just like Yang Yun said before, funds, weapons, materials, technology, and even mecha hunters are all available. For a while, the morale of the entire Shattered Dome Base was visibly raised by one level.

Things are moving in a good direction.

And now the Middle-earth team is about to start coming to this world for the first time three days later.

(End of chapter)