How Am I Still Alive?

"Ah, overtime, overtime, and overtime."

Lu Pingan thought he was cursed. He had just returned to his hometown and encountered one invitation after another that he could not refuse.

Of course, it was not that there was no good thing. Everything was fine in his hometown and his family was safe. This was the most reassuring reward for Lu Pingan.

But in fact, he actually knew the root of his busyness.

"Will the counterattack begin in half a year at most?"

"I heard it was three months before. But there are too many aspects involved, and we have to prepare logistics and update equipment. It may not be done within half a year."

"But, after three years, is the counterattack finally starting?"

Three years ago, the Battle of Sakurajima was a battle doomed to fail. Even if it was called the "Victory Retreat", it was difficult to conceal the reality that humans had lost most of the Pacific Ocean and the East Country had lost the first island chain defense line.

This is not anyone's fault, but when the plane opened up, the whole world was not prepared to face marine creatures and foreign tribes, especially the threat from the deep sea. Before this, the imaginary enemies of most human countries' armies were still various land creatures, and they lacked experience and technology in this area.

Although they lost this battle, they did gain time for domestic technological transformation, industrial transfer, and talent training.

In the past three years, it can be said that the entire East Country and even the entire human camp have been paying for the failure of that battle and the lack of human combat power in dealing with naval battles.

This is not a problem that can be solved in one go, so the defense line must be built first.

The coastal areas of the East Country have long been relocated, and various land defense lines and fortresses have been piled up into mountains. Behind them is the railway route surrounding the entire East Country. Obviously, for this defensive war, the East Country interrupted its original development route.

But in this world line, the East Country has become the world's first economy last year. The reason is quite simple and pure. Although the economic growth rate of the East Country has hit a record low in the past two years, the world's first economic power on the coastline has done even worse.

They have the world's longest coastline, but they are scattered into dozens of independent states, and have a serious tendency of "local autonomy".

Naturally, after the invaders were blocked from advancing eastward, they chose to go west, and also had a serious negative impact on Citibank.

It has become an international joke. Just learning from the East Country to build a defense line, walls and fortresses on the coastline, they quarreled internally.

Not to mention building a circle of transportation lines behind the defense line. Before they reached an agreement, malicious sea invaders had already landed. Now they have lost part of their territory, and the domestic economy has plummeted.

However, this is already the best batch among the countries in the world.

Even the East Country, the de facto first industrial country, was forced to enter strategic defense, not to mention the days of small and medium-sized countries in other states.

You know, ten years ago, when Lu Ping'an just came to this world, a third or fourth level in a small city could be called a strong man, and when the East Country underwent a rapid qualitative change after the Nirvana Plan, some European and American countries did not change much, and most of their areas were still not garrisoned by strong men.

Strong countries may still have colonies outside the world as a backing, while weak countries are the worst off this time, and even several countries have been directly removed from the list.

".This time UT (the new United Nations after the reform still uses a nickname), should be able to work."

When disaster strikes, all countries basically need external support, so international joint organizations and multinational organizations will be very popular.

During the Battle of Sakurajima, Lu Ping'an heard that UT was going to be reorganized, but he also heard that it would take at least half a year.

"The reorganization has been going on for almost a year. Forget it, don't count on it too much."

Now the reorganization has been successful, to be precise, it has been reorganized four or five times, but it still has little effect.

After all, when all countries are threatened, although they all have the need to seek help from the outside world, the joint mechanism itself does not have enough power when all countries are in the strategic defense stage, and it is too unrealistic to support other countries, and UT itself has no military strength.

"Will we still use UT's banner for this counterattack? It's meaningless except for the name."

"The name is very important. UT's headquarters is now in Dongguo. We need it to have higher authority."

The news that Lu Ping'an got from various channels confirmed that the nominal leader of this counterattack was not Dongguo, but the Military Committee under UT. In fact, this has been going on for several years. If it is used as a name, the troops of other countries can be dispatched (whether they listen or not is another matter).

"Do they expect other countries to cooperate? I can understand that if they also launch a counterattack, they can contain a certain degree of troops. After all, many of their territories have been colonized, but uh, it's not very useful."

The siphoning effect of talents is quite ruthless, especially during the war, when small countries are weaker and strong countries are stronger. It may not be morally justifiable to leave the dangerous motherland for safety, but human nature has experienced too much.

The foreign and foreign talents in Dongguo have been growing, but those small countries are declining at a high speed. People left, the defense line was loose, and the remaining strong people went on with gritted teeth, and then died again. The defense line was weaker, and the remaining people had to bear more.

Some small countries can still keep a certain amount of territory, perhaps only because the foreign colonies on the side regard them as future granaries. Many small island countries have actually been eaten up.

"UT is a signboard after all. As long as we win this battle with this signboard, we will have a lot of say after the war. As for the others, at least we can unite the foreigners in our country. They are actually the most hurt."

"Yes, it is indeed a bit awkward to let them fight under the flag of the East Country. The flag of the United Nations is much easier to accept."

Naturally, Lu Ping'an thought of Siberia, especially when he was on the train to there and chatting with his friends.

The seeds planted before have bloomed, and the potatoes planted in Siberia in the cold winter have bloomed. Uh, although it is a bit hellish, the people of Sakurajima are doing well there now.

After all, the newly built city still has a large number of military industries, which require sufficient labor. As long as there is work and income, life will naturally get better and better.

"Tsk, let's go to the north. Isn't there a Sakurajima army there? They're annoying." Lu Ping'an complained. He would rather go on the field himself than those Sakurajima soldiers.

The Sakurajima people have a new home, but it's only been three years, and they can't forget their hometown. To be precise, their radicalism and thirst for war are a headache for the commander.

After experiencing despair, those who can survive have basically left their hometown, tribesmen and families behind. There are many mental illnesses, and hysteria is nothing. The self-destructive mentality and atonement charge are the most headaches. Lu Ping'an really doesn't want to command those legions that charge with long live at every turn.

In fact, since Lu Ping'an was one of the commanders of that battle, he inevitably had some dealings with those outsiders, but they were not very pleasant.

Either they are too flattering, always calling us Dongguo, or they are fanatics who fight back to their homeland at any time.

"I heard that they seem to be divided internally, some are against war and some are for war, uh, I don't like them either, after all, they have lost their homeland now. They say they are against war, but they just want to completely abandon their homeland and even actively integrate into other countries. There are many high-quality cannon fodder among the radicals, but they are a bit too fanatical, and there are too many people with a self-destructive mentality."

A legion needs brave people, but not too many people who want to die, especially many of them basically hold the mentality of "I will die to be worthy of my family/tribes", often they either die in vain or their mentality collapses and flees to disrupt the battlefield.

And now Lu Ping'an pays so much attention to them because he has received another commission that he cannot refuse, going on a business trip to the northern region of Dongguo.

However, seeing their new city in the Siberian snowfield, Lu Ping'an always feels that it will be demolished by the big monster jumping out of the deep sea in a few seconds.

"New Tokyo, uh, need to take pictures as soon as possible, it feels like a city that will be demolished by monsters sooner or later."