Chapter 464 Change
——Marshal Pantecost actually did not completely let down his guard against the mysterious man in front of him.
As the top leader of PPDC and a battle-hardened warrior, Pantecost has his own set of logic and values in his heart, and he also has a very firm will. Otherwise, he would not have been able to drag his sick body to persist for such a long time under the almost certain desperate future.
Marshal Pantecost knows very well that there is no help without reason in the world. People who extend their hands to others' plight without asking for anything basically only exist in comics... and perfect heroes like Superman who are great, glorious, and unrequited are only a minority even in comics.
However, in the more than ten years since he became the top leader of PPDC, he has also seen too many human hearts and what those politicians can do for their own little piece of land. Apart from anything else, abandoning the "Mech Hunter" plan and vigorously promoting the "Defense Wall Plan" is the best interpretation of their stupidity.
People change. Simple soldiers cannot fight politicians on a battlefield without gunpowder. The end result of the Vietnam War veterans in the United States was the silent ridicule of the soldiers. What Marshal Pantecost can do is to try his best to prevent his soldiers, his comrades, and everyone who fights around him from being treated unfairly and from falling into the most tragic end.
——Since entering the Broken Dome Base, which is located in the east, Marshal Pantecost has taken the initiative to investigate a lot of information in order to understand the personnel configuration of his subordinates and coordinate the relationship between cultural differences. Corrupt officials are treacherous, and honest officials are more treacherous than corrupt officials. This is a line in a movie in Hong Kong Island, and the marshal deeply agrees with it.
So Marshal Pantecost, who foresaw that politicians were the most unreliable, started his own layout a long time ago. He responded after the United Nations cut the funding for mecha development for the first time. For future planning and to leave a way out for the future of the entire PPDC, Marshal Pantecost was even able to hand over the corpse of the monster to the civil organizations in Hong Kong Island for processing - and the facts proved that his seemingly absurd decision has become the key to the normal operation of PPDC today.
But that's all. Limited funds have always been the biggest shackle that restricts Marshal Pantecost. Private assistance can only maintain the general operation of the base. Even if the marshal can get a nuclear bomb from the old Russians through his own channels and spend a lot of money to make up for the key link of his plan, he himself has no confidence in this plan. After all, the failed operation of PPDC several years ago has proved that the success rate of the "nuclear attack wormhole" plan to completely blow up the rift with a nuclear bomb is extremely slim.
This plan is at most a desperate struggle before the end of the world. Not only Marshal Pantikost understands this, but the top leaders of PPDC also understand it, but they did not speak it out, but continued to work hard for that glimmer of hope... Just as the marshal himself said, he is just an ordinary person, leading a group of fools who are fighting for the future of mankind.
Survival or extinction, there seems to be no choice.
Because generally speaking, people who are about to die of thirst will not care whether the person next to them hands him a cup of poison or honey water... Moreover, for Marshal Pantikost, as long as it comes from human help, it is completely enough.
After all, being saved by humans, even strangers who identify themselves as "humans" and come from nowhere. It is much better than handing over this planet and letting those monsters who can only destroy turn human civilization into a scorched earth.
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As the Asian defense base of Hong Kong Island, and the only PPDC mecha base still in normal use, the architectural style of Broken Dome is very much like that oriental country, simple, efficient, and built quickly, without any extra paint or interior decoration.
Perhaps the staff who have been working here since the base was built have not felt anything, but the staff who have recently transferred from other bases are slightly uncomfortable with this more depressing style, and the oriental diet also makes them at a loss... However, every PPDC member in the base understands that they have no choice, and in order to save the world, there is no time or mood to waste time on such insignificant things.
But starting from the second day, every member of PPDC felt the changes in the base. A large amount of supplies were moved into the base, and the supplies in one day were more than in the previous month. The most intuitive thing is that the food in the canteen in the base is obviously much richer, and food from all over the world has appeared on everyone's table, which can effectively meet everyone's needs. Even for those employees who need to work quickly, the cafeteria also provides high-nutrition food that was only seen in movies before. Only a small piece is needed to maintain the energy needs within a day.
Secondly, the PPDC staff who have seen Marshal Pantikost feel that the marshal has changed greatly compared to before. On weekdays, the marshal's skin is always that unhealthy gray, but now his complexion is much better, and more than one person has seen that, unlike the frowning look on weekdays, the long-lost smile has reappeared on the marshal's face... and this has also brought more confidence to everyone.
The PPDC team of scientists, which had been basically disbanded, has two new members, and their surnames are exactly the same as the countries two thousand years ago, "Chu" and "Qi". Although no one had heard of their names before, and no one had read their published papers or academic views, after a brief contact, the knowledge of the two conquered the entire team of scientists. At the same time, the new idea they proposed to use mental power to control mechas has excited everyone, including mecha pilots.
Although no one knows what the new mecha driving method is like, rumors such as "this is an epoch-making technology" and "a new way of control" are still spreading. And everyone knows that the marshal has dragged the long-abandoned "Dangerous Wanderer" out of the mecha graveyard for transformation, so the selection of new mecha pilots is ready to go.
Among the students of the Hunter Academy, several new members have joined. One of them is a Russian man who is as strong as a bear, Kampa-Rovsky. He not only has an amazing physique, but also has no rivals in the combat course. He can easily defeat more than ten elite students alone. At the same time, he is even more outstanding in shooting training. Even the official mecha pilot of "Cherno Alpha" has watched his training once... Even Alexis, who has guarded the Siberian defense circle for six years, is inferior to this rising star in the mecha hunter world.
——As Yang Yun said before, funds, weapons, materials, technology, and even mecha hunters are all available. For a time, the morale of the entire Broken Dome Base was visibly improved by a level.
Things are developing in a good direction.
And now the Zhongzhou team is about to start the first collective meeting three days after arriving in this world.