Dimensional Alliance

Therefore, even though he obtained the qualification of a reserve officer in college by virtue of his acting ability, in order to escape the war, after graduating from college, he completely ignored the recruitment of the army and directly joined an advertising company that could not see any future.

At that time, the European front was already in jeopardy, and the economic crisis caused by the fall of most of Europe had caused all industries in the beautiful country to wither except for the manufacturing industry. Not going on, joined the military media of the beautiful country.

In the words he once gave Admiral Brigham, he was by no means a war material, and he could not stand even a paper cut on his skin.

"Leave the hero's affairs to the hero. I'm just a coward. I just want to live." Cage's tone became a little hasty, and his face was a little shaken.

Cage thought that all the actions he had taken before were to keep himself alive, whether it was refusing to go to the battlefield, or continuously training and killing when he knew that his death could be reversed, or finally taking the initiative to contact the human coalition forces, It's all about keeping yourself alive.

Now that the human coalition has taken over the mess in this world, even if the sky falls, the "tall" human coalition will bear it. He has no reason to take the risk of going to the battlefield that may lead to his real death.

Therefore, Cage couldn't understand why he would take the initiative to ask to leave the safe human coalition laboratory and come to the Brittany battlefield that had just ended the battle.

Obviously, Dr. Siegfried has assured him that even if Cage really loses the ability to go back in time, the human coalition forces cannot get any valuable information from him. As long as he does not want to continue to participate in the war, the human coalition forces can also Transfer him to other, safer worlds.

Obviously, the fifteen time-retrospect experiences in the process of contacting the human coalition forces have made Cage clear enough that he is the target that the imitators would rather fight head-on with the human coalition forces and eradicate them, even if humans have already won the French landing battle. The imitators were driven out of Brittany, but the human coalition forces have not yet had time to clean up the battlefield thoroughly. No one can say whether the imitator units have been hiding underground since the beginning of the battle, just to wait for Kai odd appearance.

But Cage still came, and he was still wearing the exoskeleton modified by the human coalition forces, which could explode at any time.

"I'm just a coward." Cage took two steps back, and the single-person portal leading to the Human Alliance Laboratory was no more than ten meters behind him. With the performance of Chi You's exoskeleton, it only takes less than one hour Seconds, he can withdraw to another world that is absolutely safe.

However, the scene in front of him kept stimulating Cage's nerves, and the few steps he wanted to take stopped because of this beach full of corpses.

"I'm a coward who trembles with fear when I see blood." Cage closed his eyes, stopped looking at the blood-soaked beach, turned around, and took two consecutive steps towards the portal.

Now the distance between him and the portal is only the last three meters.

However, when Cage closed his eyes, what appeared in front of him was the scene where he found that his ability to rewind time had failed after he activated the self-destruct device, and finally died in pain in the flames.

The pungent burnt smell still hasn't dissipated from the beach, and when Cage smells it, the tragic end he imagined in his mind seems to become clearer.

"But……"

Cage trembled involuntarily, but the trembling of his body could not stop him from moving forward. He raised his leg...

But it is heading in a completely different direction from the portal.

Cage opened his eyes, and the soldiers around him were still busy. No one knew what kind of determination this man trembling in the exoskeleton just made.

He may succeed in bringing news back to the past, or he may lose his body in the next second, but no matter whether he succeeds or fails in the end, no matter whether his news can save more people, no one in the soldiers here will remember he.

Just like the more than 300 times of time regression, no matter how many times he repeats, no matter whether he can change the ending in the end, except for a small number of people, no one will know the sacrifice he made, let alone "William" · Cage" the name.

He will never be a hero.

"But."

William Cage whispered, and opened the self-explosion panel of Chi You's exoskeleton.

"Before I was a coward, I was a man first."

Cage's body stopped shaking, he took a breath, and then pressed down heavily...

……

……

Cage opened his eyes, and the soldiers around him were still busy, but he still clearly remembered the pain of being burned to ashes by the instant high temperature released by Chi You's exoskeleton a few seconds ago.

"Anchor point... updated?"

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Volume 993 Time War: Chapter 0960 Chapter [-] Color

0960

Jin Guangming has been looking like a walking dead for a long time.

Twenty minutes ago, Jin Guangming heard the reply "Please wait for our follow-up notice" No. 10 times today. He kept promoting himself at various recruitment sites all morning, making Jin Guangming feel that his throat was about to smoke. After taking a big gulp from the self-service drinking water point, he patted his face with his right hand dipped in water, covered his eyes, and sat down leaning against the watering table.

Jin Guangming has been out of work for almost three years. Two months before the aliens landed on the earth, Jin Guangming just gritted his teeth and bought a small apartment of 100 square meters in Linhai City, where every inch of land is expensive. After losing all of Jin Guangming's savings, when the aliens came, Jin Guangming not only had no savings, but also had a huge debt of more than [-] million yuan.

Although when Xia Guo confirmed that the battle with aliens would not end in the short term, he had already introduced a series of policies to protect people's livelihood. Among them, Xia Guo issued a document requesting that before the victory of the war, There is no reason to suspend the repayment, and there will be no interest or credit problems caused by default during this period.

And in the third and fourth years of the war, Xia Guo also reduced or exempted a large number of personal loans and increased financial assistance to the unemployed. This series of relief systems allowed Jin Guangming to survive after three years of unemployment, But also just alive.

What Jin Guangming does every day is to hold his resume that has become full of wrinkles due to repeated use, wander around various companies or job recruitment sites, and return to the relief point to receive rations after wasting his energy for a day, and then he is transformed into a Chase Spend a tough night in the Linhai City Gymnasium on the shop floor.

In order to accommodate more homeless people, except for the toilets, all indoor spaces including spectator stands and sports venues have been transformed into double-decker bunks, where people who know or don’t know live crowded together For countless days and nights, some people have even lived here for more than a year.

Although Xia Guo organized the residents in the relief site to clean up every day, and changed the bedding regularly every week, because there were thousands of people living in the gymnasium, all kinds of smells and noises often kept Jin Guangming awake at night.

At the same time that the financial industry in the beautiful country next door completely collapsed, many hot fields in Xiaguo, including real estate and the Internet, also entered a cold winter. Rents have continued to plummet over the years. Like Linhai City, a suburban city where house prices used to be at least five figures, and now the house prices in the downtown area have been cut to less than 2000 yuan, but there are still very few buyers.

The unemployment rate of more than one-fifth puts everyone in the Xia Kingdom at risk. Even though a small number of people still have relatively stable jobs and can afford houses with savings, the shadow of unemployment still makes them dare not do whatever they want. squander money.

The deteriorating economic situation has also reduced social benefits such as pensions and pensions to a terrible level. Two people can only maintain the normal expenses of a family of three for one month, and a slight accident may bankrupt a family.

As for those who do not own real estate and have lost their jobs, although the rent in each city has dropped to one or two hundred, two to three hundred, which is close to the level of "living for nothing", and Xia Guoguo... family... agency... Guan also A large number of public rental housing, low-rent housing, and single apartments with an annual rent of less than [-] yuan have been released, but they don’t know when they will find a job, and the anxiety of seeing the money in their hands dwindling day by day still makes many people prefer to go to relief sites I don't want to spend my limited money on renting a house if I squeeze in for one night.

Even some residents who own their own real estate—such as Jin Guangming, after losing their jobs, in order to save the expenses of three meals a day, dig out a little bit of electricity and water bills from their fingers so that they can last longer , in addition to occasionally going home to clean the body and change clothes, they will also move to live in relief sites.

As for whether doing so will waste social resources that are not considered abundant... If it is not forced to nowhere, who would be willing to squeeze into the Datong shop with thousands of people?

Some comforting news for the residents is that due to the compulsory intervention of the Xia Kingdom officials, there has not been a large-scale price increase of daily necessities such as rice, noodles, grains and oils. All agriculture-related materials, such as grain seeds, pesticides, and agricultural machinery, are directly provided by the state to farmers or contractors, and the central and local governments of Xia State will send inspection teams to the countryside at any time to ensure that no artificial damage to crops occurs Case.

In addition, in order to maximize social stability, the privatization process of education, medical care, transportation, transportation and other industries has also been stopped. Although all countries in the world have to tighten their belts due to consecutive years of fiscal deficits, relying on With the strength of the state..household..guan, the Xia country can at least guarantee the most basic health and education of the residents.

In the continuous war with imitators, the only occupations that can have a relatively stable income, such as workers, farmers, and doctors, have their social status significantly improved in a way that no one can imagine, especially skilled workers. Wage income and welfare subsidies even surpassed the middle and high-level managers of the factory for a time.

However, the improvement of workers' status does not mean that workers have a better life. For the production of low-end products - such as assembly lines that do not require much technology - it means that there are 20% more unemployed people and a few jobs where they earn money. Even sweeping the street has become the object of tens of thousands of people scrambling for it.

At the beginning, some unemployed elites and the so-called "middle class" may still be able to put on airs, but when the war lasts to the third and fourth years, the pressure of life will naturally make these people abandon all their reservations, and for the sake of A "repetitive labor with low added value" that they have never looked at in the past, and hundreds or thousands of people are crowded at the recruitment site.

Even though Xia Guo repeatedly issued orders not to deduct or reduce workers' treatment, and not to ask, force or hint workers to work overtime without pay, but in order to keep their jobs, a former financial elite can voluntarily and concentrate on stepping on for a day—meaning at least Twelve hours—a sewing machine without asking for any extras.

——And this time it was really voluntary.

But even so, every company—whether it is a state-owned enterprise or a private enterprise—has become extremely sensitive to the redundancy of personnel within its own company. What can be done by one person working overtime will never be handed over to two people. To maintain the operation of the production line, we will never recruit a fourth person.

Although Xia Guo repeatedly issued documents requiring companies to increase jobs, many companies either only added one or two minimum-wage jobs symbolically, or would rather bear Xia Guo’s fine than implement the order.

After all, before fulfilling more social responsibilities, the primary task of most companies is to survive.

Before losing his job, Jin Guangming worked in a studio that outsourced art to Internet companies. However, with the continuous retreat of human beings in the European battlefield, people's consumption demand on the Internet has been suppressed to a minimum, let alone where he works. Even those huge Internet companies are constantly laying off staff and transforming to survive in the short tail.

By the fourth year, there are only a handful of Internet companies that still exist in the world, and the scale of most of the "sideline businesses" of Internet companies that still exist has exceeded their main business when they were registered.

For example, one of the top Internet companies in Xiaguo originally survived by changing jobs and opening a pig farm, and because the European front line consumes a lot of canned pork every day, after this Internet company cut off 80.00% of its Internet business, the company The scale has recovered to a certain extent. Although it is not as good as it was before the war, the life of the employees is pretty good. Among other things, at least during the holidays, all kinds of pork products can be eaten to their fullest.

But Jin Guangming obviously did not have such luck.

In other words, he was able to survive until the end of the second year before losing his job, which is already luckier than many Internet colleagues.

The breakfast provided by the relief point is an unlimited number of porridge and two steamed buns, but there is no oil, water, and food that can't support Jin Guangming's physical exertion for too long.

Before noon, Jin Guangming's stomach began to protest with "snoring".

The food at the relief point at noon and at night is a mixture of meat and vegetables. Since meat supplies need to be supplied to the front line first, and the number of people who go to the relief point for "cooking meals" has reached 3000 people every day, the so-called meat dishes provided by the relief point are probably only available. It tastes like lard and oil stars, and only those who are very lucky can find a little minced meat in meat dishes.

Even if the food provided by the relief point is already very shabby, as long as he recalls the lunch provided by the relief point, Jin Guangming feels his saliva begins to secrete profusely.

But thinking that it would take two or three hours to walk back to the relief site from the recruitment venue, Jin Guangming stood up and took another big sip of water. The cold drinking water slid down Jin Guangming's esophagus into his stomach, which made Jin Guangming a little bit irritated. trembling.

Physical fatigue and psychological grievances all rushed into Jin Guangming's heart at this time, causing Jin Guangming's tears to swirl in his eyes, almost bursting out, but Jin Guangming scooped up cold water with both hands and poured it on his face. After rubbing it hard twice, he forced himself to smile, turned around and walked to the next recruitment booth.

But the result was no different.

No matter how many times he repeated it, when Jin Guangming finally squeezed through the crowd, handed his resume to the recruiters, and quickly sold himself to them in as simple and precise language as possible, all he got was "Thank you, maybe you are more suitable for others." position", "we will contact you later if we think it is appropriate", "please go back and wait for the notice", and based on Jin Guangming's job hunting experience, as long as he gets this kind of reply, the possibility of being contacted afterwards Basically zero.

In fact, more than [-]% of the companies that appeared in the recruitment venue did not need employees. Many of them just pretended that they needed to find someone to save face for the government of Xiaguo Linhai City. a booth.

As for the remaining less than [-]% of the companies that may need personnel, they also have an infinite number of talents to choose from. Unemployed people like Jin Guangming who are professional, inappropriate, and have no related jobs can be found everywhere in the entire recruitment venue. There is no competitive advantage at all.

By four o'clock in the afternoon, Jin Guangming had visited three venues, but none of the companies could give Jin Guangming an affirmative answer. There was one last venue left in front of Jin Guangming. If there was no job in this venue, Today will be another day of nothing.

In fact, at this time, Jin Guangming no longer had any hope of finding a job for himself, and Jin Guangming's legs were as heavy as lead because of the continuous walking all day long. He felt that his eyelids were fighting with his eyeballs, and they might be covered at any time down.

But Jin Guangming still walked to the water table, took up cold water and rubbed his face a few times, then dragged his body to the last venue.

then.

Jin Guangming was stunned.

The fourth venue was also crowded with people, but unlike the previous venues, where most of the companies just wrote down the company name and job posting in a very perfunctory manner, most of the companies in the fourth venue used very beautiful The panels include information about their company's introduction, job requirements, etc., and some companies' recruitment signs even use technology similar to holographic projection. In this world where all kinds of electronic products are extremely scarce, this completely subverts Jin Bright perception.

And the staff in those photo booths, although their faces were full of fatigue because of the whole day's reception, these people did not show any expressions of impatience. When job seekers consulted them, they would also Responding politely, it looks like a job fair before the fall of Europe.

Maybe it was Jin Guangming's psychological effect, maybe it was the red and yellow colors used on a large scale in the fourth venue, or maybe the positive attitude of the staff. In short, when Jin Guangming walked into the fourth recruitment venue, he felt like a From the black-backed TV in the 60s and [-]s of the last world, it suddenly came to the modern life full of colors.

Jin Guangming walked to the recruitment booth closest to the entrance of the venue. There were already many people around the booth, but as if they were worried about something, only a few people actually came forward to consult, unlike the crowded crowd in the previous few venues. The stark contrast formed by the scene.

But Jin Guangming soon knew why the surrounding applicants were in such a state.

"Daming Fifth Construction Group."

The released company profile says so.

"The Group's existing business includes the construction of bases on the seventh and eighth lunar surfaces, the maintenance of the airport on the NO. Key projects……"

Jin Guangming's head was full of question marks. If he was not in a job fair organized by Linhai City, and the information written on the recruitment board of Daming Fifth Construction Group was too horrifying, Jin Guangming would even think that he had encountered a scam. .cheat.

Volume VIII War of Time: Chapter 994 Chapter 0961 Color - Winter

0961

After recovering western France and driving the imitators out of Paris, the Allied Human Forces temporarily halted their advance.

Through the information of "Time Anchor Update" provided by William Cage, the human coalition forces can basically be sure that the imitator can go back to the limit of time will not exceed seven days, which allows the human coalition forces to be more calm when formulating a decisive battle plan.

After the imitators landed in London, the human coalition forces were actually planning to lead the imitators into a trap through a series of active failures. However, because the human coalition forces did not know the limit of the imitators' ability to trace back time, the formulation of this plan was not smooth. When the landing battle began, the human coalition staff did not even discuss the most basic operational outline.

After all, the battle time cannot be too long or too short. If the battle time is too long, the imitators may find loopholes in the defense lines of the United Nations Army and the human coalition forces, and their deployments will be disrupted. If the battle time is too short, the imitators will start at the human coalition After the counterattack, the relevant news was brought back to the past, causing the entire campaign to be wasted.

Now that the human coalition knows that the imitator's time retrospective limit should be between 5 and 7 days, the human coalition staff began to formulate a [-]-day counterattack plan.

According to the plan, the human coalition forces will implement the tactics of "large-scale stalemate and small-scale active retreat" in the first seven days. The coalition forces will launch a full-scale counter-offensive against the imitators. The western front will regain the entire territory of France, the eastern front will pass through Warsaw, and the rest will have a firm foothold on all European coastlines, striving to trap the imitators on the land of Western Europe in one breath.

If everything goes well, then the military operations in the first three days and the last four days are the key to the whole battle. Based on the fact that the imitator can go back seven days, the imitator can only see himself defeating the human coalition forces in the first three days and the subsequent two sides maintain a stalemate. The future, and from the fourth day, the imitator may realize that the human coalition forces are forming an encirclement circle against him.

Therefore, in the general direction, the human coalition will formulate three sets of tactics, which are to launch a counterattack against the imitators on the tenth day, the fifth day, and the third day, and these three must be executed in order. In this way, even if the imitation The alpha units of the attackers can only carry the news that the "Allied Humans will attack on the tenth day" back to the third or fifth day after the start of the campaign, when the Allied Humans have already completed the attack on the imitators.

As for William Cage, it is the final insurance of this plan. If the imitator "sees" the future arrangement of the human coalition forces and adjusts his own deployment according to the arrangement, William Cage needs to convey the relevant news to the Human coalition, inform the human coalition to launch a counterattack plan in advance, or cancel the entire battle.

However, how to retreat, when to retreat, and where to retreat are all things that need to be considered and deduced repeatedly. The staff of the human coalition army estimates that it will take [-] days at the earliest to ensure that the next battle will have enough damage to the imitators. probability.

Therefore, after regaining control over most of the western part of France, and deploying sufficient troops and anti-landing positions on the main coastline, all countries in this world can focus more on domestic warfare with the help of the human coalition forces. Restoration of people's livelihood.

Mobilizing some companies from around the world such as Ming Dynasty to go to various countries to recruit workers is just the most insignificant part of the people's livelihood recovery plan. A large number of infrastructure construction and upgrading plans, a large number of investment and expansion projects in light and heavy industries, a large number of low-interest or even interest-free loans, a large number of The raw material supply company that matches the foreign trade orders... Every aid plan proposed by the human coalition is the most urgently needed support in the world.

Of course, the immediate change in this world is of course the direct material assistance from the human coalition forces.

Commodities from the various worlds of the Human Alliance are speeding up to flow into various countries in this world. Even though the finances of many countries are on the verge of bankruptcy, the Human Alliance has to provide loans to these countries first, but for the Human Alliance, a star suitable for human The living planet itself is the greatest value. With the support of the human coalition, the empty shelves in all countries have been quickly filled. Before many people realized what happened, many goods, including electronic products, Commodities under control have once again appeared in people's field of vision.

Moscow.

When the imitator forces completely engulfed Poland, the atmosphere in Moscow became more and more tense, and as the battle lines were renewed and moved eastward every day, many Lucians couldn't help but have the idea of ​​fleeing the city.

However, unlike the Xia Kingdom, which can barely guarantee the basic life of the residents, after the war broke out, the supply of materials in Lucia's country became more and more tense.

Even though based on the consensus of the United Nations, Lucia's various basic daily necessities have not yet experienced an outrageous price increase, but all necessary supplies, including clothing, food, and spirits, have been implemented with a very strict rationing system. Each person can only use the corresponding coupons to buy supplies that are just enough for one person's life every day. Otherwise, they can only find ways to buy the tickets needed for [purchasing supplies] at a higher price from places like the black market.

This means that it is impossible for any ordinary person to save up all the supplies needed to leave Moscow before the end of this winter. For most civilians, staying in Moscow may still survive this winter, but if they leave the city , Might be frozen to death on the way.

As for those officials who may have the opportunity to gather enough supplies, since President Lucia is staying in Moscow to stabilize people's hearts, anyone who dares to leave the city without permission will be punished by the so-called To peel off a layer of skin for President Lucia of the 'Great Emperor'.

It is also impossible to leave the president quietly.

Unlike Xia Country, which is relatively rich in basic living materials, and Beautiful Country, objective conditions such as the long land, sparse population, and poor infrastructure have severely restricted Lucia's production capacity, enabling Lucia to produce and transport The supplies were far behind Lucia's consumption.

Even though Xia Country and Beautiful Country both provided a lot of assistance to Lucia, but Lucia's front line had to maintain the daily consumption of more than 100 million people, and the material assistance that the two countries could provide like Lucia's was simply a drop in the bucket.

Therefore, after Lucia decided to join the war, President Lucia directly mobilized the army to forcibly strip all the production materials of all oligarchs, rebuilt the KGB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and cleaned up the moths in Lucia as quickly as possible. The Lucia National Planning Commission, which had been abandoned for many years, was re-established. It used modern means to count and coordinate the production direction of each unit, and released Lucia's production potential as much as possible.

Aside from the fact that the color of the flag is a bit wrong, and the supreme power mechanism is completely wrong, Lucia can basically be regarded as going back six or seventy years, directly back to the period led by Comrade Iron and Steel.

If an official leaves Moscow privately at twelve noon, his whereabouts will be placed on President Lucia's desk before twelve twenty, even if President Lucia is dealing with mistakes On the issue of officials, they are much more "lenient" than Comrade Iron and Steel, but whoever dares to cause panic among the masses at this time will surely not be able to escape the fate of being sent to Siberia to dig potatoes.

During this period, the Lucia oligarchs, who were unwilling to hand over their wealth just like this, united in an attempt to overthrow President Lucia's policies, but in the absolutely correct era of "war against aliens", Under the flag, not only do the people of Lucia show no favors towards the behavior of the oligarchs, but even all the permanent..principal..regular...states in this world are firmly on the side of President Lucia.

The United Nations directly issued a warning to these oligarchs who tried to provoke the civil strife in Lucia, telling them that if they want to be an enemy of President Lucia, they are always enemies of the United Nations, so that these The forces opposing President Lucia were nipped in the bud without any disturbance.

But no matter what kind of high..pressure system Lucia implements, everyone in Moscow knows that Lucia has reached her limit. Not only ordinary people, but now even Lucia's state-owned military factories and agencies... The ..single..units were full of wailing.