Will the out-of-control servitor meet the cosmic cat?

The other party sneered.

"Otherwise, if it keeps saying that those organic organisms are important, it's just nonsense? It's too cheap to just say it without doing it."

As soon as these two sentences came out, the rebuttal that he just wanted to say was swallowed back into his mouth - if he wanted to refute something just now, he now has no idea what to say .

After a weak vibration from the direction of the fusion engine, the command room returned to its previous appearance, and everyone continued to study the star map as if nothing had happened.

In fact, they really feel like nothing happened.

After all, in their view, all the people here should have the same idea. Everyone came from the same place, and no one knows who.

More importantly, they also really believed from the bottom of their hearts that this kind of thinking is very normal. As a party with strong air defense, the Cat League should assign air defense to them who are weak in air defense-naturally, As it should be.

The only exception is that although he has the nationality of the British and French Commonwealth, he has been raised on Mars since he was a child, and was not filled in until the day before the war.

"This..."

The education he received from childhood made it impossible for him to accept the idea of ​​"I am weak but I am justified" and "others help me", not to mention, there is a faint familiarity in their words, which is even more important. It made him feel extremely uncomfortable.

"How could this be?"

he muttered to himself.

Fortunately, space operations are almost fully automatic, and the few parts that require manual intervention are all on the side of the CIC combat situation center. As long as there are no unexpected changes, they, the staff officers of the squadron headquarters, have nothing to do Otherwise, if he froze for so long, someone would definitely notice something was wrong.

"Is this the way of thinking in the Commonwealth of Britain and France now?"

He couldn't believe it.

Although he has heard of it, people on Jupiter and Saturn are relatively xenophobic, and their values ​​are not the same as the mainstream thoughts in the inner solar system.

But because he has been living on Mars, and the communication inconvenience caused by the ultra-high delay of the interstellar Internet, he has never communicated with the people there in a real sense, let alone how the people there view cats Alliance.

For a long time, most of the people around him he knew had the same view on the mainstream of the Cat League—not a reliable but not suspicious ally, who needed to be vigilant in diplomacy, but could still be trusted when fighting together.

It's normal, isn't it?

Although he himself is a little more friendly towards Maomeng and Hong, this does not prevent him from knowing what the current mainstream views in society are—so, he also subconsciously believes that the overall ideas there are also similar to theirs Yes, at most due to historical reasons, the suspicion is a little heavier and more repulsive.

After all, under the barrier of distance, it is really difficult to have any communication between the inner and outer solar systems. The distance of hundreds of millions of kilometers makes it difficult to maintain most trades. Apart from dumping goods and obtaining raw materials in the asteroid belt, the civil system has almost no Any interaction with the inner solar system is gone.

Moreover, the asteroid belt itself is not considered the inner solar system. It is more like a watershed between the inner solar system composed of water, gold, earth and fire and the outer solar system composed of civil systems. market".

Even if the influence of the thought of the civil system has been reflected in the asteroid belt, due to the closure of the asteroid belt itself, the inner solar system will only think that it is the "native" xenophobic trend of thought brought about by the long-term mowing of wool in the asteroid belt. It's not that the previous trend of thought in the Department of Civil Engineering is resurgent.

The result of this is that until today, when he really came into contact with the thought of the outer solar system, he did not discover it.

The situation seems to be different from what people in the inner solar system think.

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PS1: I don’t know if any readers can see what kind of development process the earth in this book is, and how the three wars were fought.

PS2: February, keep going!

Volume Two: The War Against Extinction: Chapter 150 Everything is for the Continuation of Humanity

In the rear, the human star field.

With the help of Crimson, the spy chief, the spy network that was once deeply rooted in human territory, collecting intelligence, misleading the public, and mobilizing conflicts, has been wiped out by the rapid response departments of various countries.

Many big Vs who once dominated the Internet and led the trend of public opinion suddenly disappeared overnight, and many speeches that many people thought were mainstream ideas were found to be "unit 01 trolls". People who suddenly realized it left behind a legend that "the extraterrestrial force 50w actually exists".

The problem seems to have been solved, no?

Many people think so.

As everyone knows, what can cause the most damage to the foundation of a civilization is often not the attack of external forces, but the internal problems of civilization itself.

The embankment of a thousand miles collapsed in the ant nest.

No matter how civilization develops, no matter how long time has passed, its core has never changed.

What it was 300 years ago will be the same 300 years from now, the only lesson humans can learn from history is that humans don't learn any lessons from history.

The vast majority of officers and soldiers fighting on the front lines, and even the vast majority of the people in the inner and outer solar systems did not realize that after a lapse of a hundred years, human civilization once again stopped and watched at the fork in the road of division and estrangement.

Are decision makers aware of this?

Maybe they are aware of it, or they may not be aware of it, but in any case, this is not something they can decide - because the reality is simply there, and it will not be shaken by anyone's will.

If you don't solve the problem, you will only be solved by the problem.

Although the war is not over yet, and even they are still at a disadvantage at the moment, this does not prevent everyone from starting to think about things after the war-this is not simply to start calculating each other without winning, on the contrary, this is actually An expression of responsibility to the people and the country.

After all, they have done everything possible to send all their power to the Gibraltar Fortress, and even Mars contributed all of his defense fleet, leaving no power to defend against other countries.

At this time, on Mars, there was not even a decent ship capable of firing guns. Except for some defense platforms that were too late to move, other defense platforms that could be moved had already been sent to the front line.

They have no more bargaining chips. In order to avoid the impact on the front line to the greatest extent, Wuchang also handed over all the command power to the expeditionary army itself. The rear will not interfere with the front line except for calculating support. The outcome of the war has nothing to do with them.

What they need to do now is to plan for the future of civilization.

This is modern human beings. Although they are still insidious and cunning, they are still calculating each other and fighting among themselves, but compared with them before, there is only one biggest change in human beings today.

They are responsible for their own people.

They will truly and wholeheartedly work hard to strengthen their own people, and will sincerely strive for the development of the country. Economic development is used to serve all the people rather than for personal pockets. Staying up late and working overtime is for the prosperity of civilization. And not for the owner's new villa.

Although from Hong's point of view, human civilization is really scornful, and they are either calculating her or on the way to calculate her every day, but this is precisely because they do not regard Hong and Maomeng as "one of their own".

For ordinary people who are "our own people", living in such a country is a happy and wonderful thing.

This is a civilization where everything is only for the benefit of its own people.

The biggest problem for mankind today is that among the five major countries that make up its civilization, none of them truly and completely regard each other as "one of their own".

Not even the Pan-Asian-Martian Alliance, which many Pan-Asian/Martians themselves consider to be their best buddy, has actually failed to do this.

When the economy is taking off and developing, these five people can link up with each other, make profits together, and "win-win" together-this is different from the past. It is not intense, on the contrary, it has formed a community of interests with a very good relationship, and it is important that everyone eats meat and soup together.

Although there are still frictions and contradictions, from the perspective of any human being in the 21st and 22nd centuries, today's human civilization can be called a beautiful heaven——

As long as it's not from the perspective of the asteroid belt.

Can the economy take off forever?Will the cake keep getting bigger forever?

Obviously, not so.

Although the war on the front line is not over yet, all countries have clearly realized one thing - once the war is won, the human civilization, which is the strongest driving force for development, will be lost.

The economy is bound to plummet.

Today's human civilization seems to be prosperous, but in fact there is a very serious problem hidden - with the current level of technology and unity, we want people in the five major countries that account for more than 95% of the human population to live happily without paying anything The price is almost impossible.

Just like any era in history, if someone has a peaceful life, it must mean that someone is moving forward with a heavy burden.

And this price is the asteroid belt.

Unlike the main planets that are occupied by permanent members and difficult to interfere, the asteroid belt is undoubtedly a perfect object of conflict transfer.

Economically, as the largest source of space minerals in all major human countries, the overall economic volume of the asteroid belt is very considerable, and all kinds of minerals produced every year are exported to the entire solar system; at the same time, because the asteroid belt is not habitable and the overall Scattered, so the demand for space cities and various materials is also huge.

Politically, the asteroid belt, as a scattered alliance, does not have a real speaker, nor does it have a strong enough armed force, so it is difficult to organize a strong enough resistance force to fight against the financial weapons of the big powers.

Obviously combined, the characteristics of the asteroid belt are already clearly visible - economically dependent on the export of huge amounts of cheap raw materials, politically dispersed and not united, technically there is an urgent need for high-tech products, and developmentally depends on astronomical levels huge infrastructure projects.

Anyone who knows economics knows how suitable such a place is as the "price" of a developed country.

It’s not that the asteroid belt has never fought, but they all failed—of course, Wuchang will not kill it all. After all, the purpose of each country is to pass on domestic conflicts and obtain the greatest overall benefits of human civilization at the smallest cost. If forced If they were too dead, they would directly crush the asteroids, and they would not be able to eat good fruit.

So, are these countries all so-called "bad guys"?

Still the same sentence, for the "outsiders" in the asteroid belt, the five major powers are proper evil forces, squeezing their blood and tears for their own benefit.

But for the "own people" in the five major countries, the countries have done their best - every cent of the money harvested from the asteroid belt is finally used in their countries and their people, not just for pretending into a private pocket.

Corruption is not without it, but under the strict management systems of various countries, its proportion is so small that it is close to negligible. Whether it is the decision-makers or the public, they can confidently say that for every minute they add, every hour they pay Taxes are paid for the common good of all.

Can you say that such a country is not good for your own people?

In addition, it is undeniable that although this kind of oppression of the asteroid belt is very inhuman, human beings really have no other better way.

Whether it is the level of technology, productivity, or the overall moral standard, they have not yet reached the level where they can develop efficiently and fight against the extinction of omnics under the premise of sharing weal and woe.

If you must treat everyone equally, it's okay if you succeed, but if you fail, it will definitely be a disaster.

They dare not take the risk.

100 years ago, when the New Five Standing Committees, which had just been established through blood and fire, sat at the table to discuss future countermeasures, they had struggled, opposed, and tried to find other better solutions, but in the end, they could only Choose this option.

5% of people suffer, 95% of people are happy.

Can you say that they are all heinous villains.

Obviously not.

There is no simple good or bad, everything is for the continuation of human civilization.

However, the blood in the asteroid belt is also limited. Back then, they didn't think about what to do if the war was really won. To look forward to the future that no one knows in a hundred years.

But for them today, this is no longer the distant future, this is a terrifying problem they are about to face.

Once the wheels of war have stopped, what should they do when military expenditure, which accounts for more than 90% of GDP, is a thing of the past?

For this war, the economic systems of various countries have been completely deformed. In order to survive for more than 100 years, they can only continue to invest more, more and more in the war machine.

For so many years, no country's military expenditure has fallen below 80% of the total GDP. Even in the past ten years, when human morality was at its most decadent, it never fell below 80%.

It can’t even be said that war is the pillar of today’s human economy, because the pillar, anyway, has a foundation and an upper layer, but for today’s human beings, the economy related to war is almost all of them.

What will they do once the war stops?

What about the shipyard built to fight the Extinct Omnics?

What should we do about the space city that exists to provide shipyards with huge mineral output, and the countless people living in the space city?

What about all the economy, jobs, etc. that exist for war?

Where should they go?

Was it a smooth transition?

This sentence is simple to say, but how difficult it is actually, how many people know it.

Some people may say, why worry about this, let’s think about it after the war is won—in fact, that’s what they have always thought, no matter how many problems there are, even if too many unbearable things have been borne on the crumbling foundation , but they still can only treat it as invisible, and continue to add a new handful of soil to this foundation.

After all, no matter how big the internal problem is, it can last until after the war before breaking out, but if the war is lost, everything will be just a castle in the air—they can only do this.

But now, after the news of the decisive battle broke out, they understood that there was no possibility of delaying it any longer.

This will be something that has to be faced.

An extremely cruel reality was before their eyes. A mere 30 billion people simply couldn't support such a stall that required at least tens of billions of people to support.

Once the tide of vigorous development recedes, everything that was originally covered by the sea will show its original shape-they are just a civilization that relies on the belief of life-and-death crisis and relies on the economy brought by the war industry to barely survive.

The economic plunge is just the most optimistic estimate. In fact, no one dares to tell the public. Their most reliable and true estimate of the post-war situation is——

Once the war stops, the human economy will collapse in a short time.

And unlike the financial crisis at the beginning of the 21st century, this time, there is no plump and weak Europe for them to divide their lives.

This is a cruel society. When the famine comes, the food that was barely enough to feed five people is now enough for two people, and these five people are unable to create enough food for more people. If it is you, you what to do?

Although there is not a fat Europe for them to divide, the underlying logic to solve the problem is still the same after all.

In the face of famine, someone has to fall.

In this way, other people can continue to live with the help of his flesh and blood.

If possible, what humans hope most is to make the Cat League the "price", and they have tried to do so before—if they hadn't chosen to send troops, the Cat League fleet would have been wiped out here, and they would have reaped the benefits , then five people can survive.

However, they gave up in the end, not only because of Crimson's persuasion, but it was only a secondary factor. If Wuchang was really determined to do this, no one could stop them.

More importantly, although they are villains and bad guys, each of them has countless blood and tears under their feet.

But they are still human after all.

If the entire human civilization has to pay the price for its own benefit, it would be completely putting the cart before the horse.

No matter how bad they are, their goal is to keep human civilization going.

And after that, the Cat League is no longer an option. They are too far away and their strength is too strong. Even if the five of them unite, they really don't have the confidence to make themselves the final winner. .

Once lost, it will be the same forever.