Machine Wars : Full Metal Storm

Guangling City, Conference Hall of Municipal Building.

"I disagree!"

Guangling City Education Minister Lu Cheng shook his head and said: "Students should give top priority to their studies. In recent years, due to the impact of natural disasters, the theory that 'study is useless' has already emerged."

"If the visualization technique is popularized at this time, how many students will still focus on studying."

"When everyone learns visualization techniques and no one learns cultural knowledge, how will our technological culture be passed on?"

"I admit that visualization is indeed important, but to protect this city or even save the world, is visualization alone enough?"

On the other side of the table, Wu Shimo, the security minister who originally held the winning ticket but could not sit on the throne of the city lord, picked up the cup, took a sip of tea, and nodded.

"I also agree with Minister Lu's point of view, and as a practitioner of visualization, I would like to add some of my own opinions."

"In the practice of visualization, it is easy to get started but difficult to improve, and it becomes more difficult as you get to the later stages."

"What's the difficulty?"

"First, it's hard to find exercises. Even if you make enough contributions and can get the exercises you want, it's hard to say whether the exercises you get are suitable for you."

"The second is the issue of cultivation resources. Basic, basic, and even advanced cultivation resources are not bad."

"But when it comes to Tongxuan, Kaibian, and even higher realms later on."

"Resources for cultivation are decreasing at a geometric level."

"Based on the current number of practitioners, there are more monks than rice. Once the visualization technique becomes more popular, the gap in cultivation resources will only become larger and larger."

"Then I can imagine that in order to get more cultivation resources, some people may take risks, or even do something harmful to nature."

Yang Zhen, director of the Construction Bureau, said calmly: "Visualization is a treasure of ancient civilization and a common wealth that belongs to all mankind. It should not be owned and controlled by a small group of people. This is not conducive to the development of human civilization."

"Especially after the opening of the Jamfu space and the outbreak of the behemoth natural disaster, mankind has formed a community of destiny."

"Everyone should be in the same boat and help each other, instead of setting barriers and seeking privileges."

"Besides, even if they weren't popular, things like "Building Yuan Jue" and some more common elementary skills would have been lost on the streets long ago."

"Not to mention the dungeons, there are also many survivors practicing on the surface."

"City Lord Di's current approach is nothing more than conforming to public opinion. Since it doesn't make much difference whether he or she is promoted, why not just do it and implement it directly among the people?"

Information Minister Fang Yao smiled and said: "I support Lao Yang's view."

"Of course, I think what the ministers said is reasonable."

"However, I think no matter how difficult the problem is, there is a solution."

"It's like Minister Lu's concern that students won't focus on studying. That's simple."

"City Lord Di also said that although it will be popularized, there will be some conditions."

"In this case, wouldn't bundling academic performance and visualization skills or cultivation resources together solve the problem?"

"In fact, the Mecha Academy does the same thing, and it already has a mature system. When the time comes, the Ministry of Education will refer to this system and determine what kind of results it has achieved before teaching visualization techniques or providing training resources."

"In this way, students will not only have to pay attention to their academic performance, but it will even ignite their enthusiasm for learning."

Each minister or director expressed his own opinion and there was a lot of discussion.

Some people are in favor and some are against it.

Di Zheng, who was sitting at the top, looked much better than before. It seemed that he had recovered a lot from the injuries sustained in the battle in the forbidden area.

He was calm and calm, waiting until everyone had expressed their opinions, discussed with each other and even had a confrontation.

He pressed down his hands to signal everyone to be quiet, and then spoke.

"Everyone, Mr. Di strongly advocates the popularization of visualization techniques. He did not make such a decision on a whim or for political achievements."

Di Zheng looked at the members of the listening corps and nodded slightly.

On a large screen behind him, a chart appeared with a lot of data on it.

The most obvious is a curve graph.

Di Zheng said: "Everyone, please take a look, this is the data collected by the Ground Monitoring Department in the past year."

"It can be seen intuitively from the curve chart that the Yanfu space has become more and more active in the past year."

"Especially in early September, the opening of the Yanfu space reached the highest value that could be recorded after the natural disaster!"

"In addition, over the past year, the activities of giant beasts have become more and more frequent."

"This year, our dungeon has dealt with more behemoth incidents than in the past few years combined."

"I have an intuition that perhaps a disaster similar to the 'behemoth disaster' or even greater than that is brewing, and it may happen in the near future."

The conference hall was silent.

Even officials like Lu Cheng and Wu Shimo who opposed the popularization of visualization techniques are now silent.

Because data doesn't lie.

Looking at that thrilling curve, no one can relax.

Di Zheng said in a deep voice: "Of course I understand Minister Lu and Minister Wu's concerns."

"But I'm more worried about how much time is left for humanity?"

"Is it a century? Or fifty years? Or ten years? Or even less?"

"Everyone, maybe we can't worry so much and we can't worry about such long-term things."

"We should focus on now."

"Promote visualization techniques and try to find outstanding talents. Otherwise, it won't be long before the Corps will be faced with a situation of having mechas but no pilots."

"Just this year."

"We have sacrificed 26 mecha masters in total."

"Everyone, according to statistics from the Corps last year, there were only about 70 mecha divisions in service."

"Now that we have lost one-third of our manpower, it is difficult to ensure a sufficient number of mecha masters by relying solely on supplements from the mecha academy."

"So as Minister Fang said, will there be difficulties in implementing visualization techniques? Yes, but we must find ways to overcome them instead of shelving them just because there are difficulties."

Basically, after these words and the cold data, no one in the conference room objected to this policy anymore.

Next, Di Zheng discussed various details with them. Just as the meeting was about to end, Liang Jian suddenly walked in with a solemn expression.

I don't know what he said in Di Zheng's ear, but everyone saw that Di Zheng's expression suddenly changed.

Then, Di Zheng stood up and said solemnly: "Changping City is asking us for help."

"They discovered the spectral signal of an overlord-level behemoth, and the signal has been moving. Judging from the road map deduced by the computer, there is an 89% chance that this signal will pass through Changping City."

"Now Changping City has issued a level one alert and is asking for help from our city, as well as Qingyang, Pingyao, Yanshi and other cities."

The conference room fell silent.

Then everyone stood up with solemn expressions.