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"Student Chu Ge, hahahaha, I heard Tiger say with a downcast face, you rejected the Red Helmets and are ready to join the military? Oh, this is really the best choice in your life, it's so good!"

In the rest area of ​​the dining room of the very medical center, Guan Shanzhong, the major of the reconnaissance unit, hugged Chu Ge, his eyes sparkled with excitement, "Originally, it should be those beautiful ladies from the conscription office who came to talk to you about this, but I Thinking about it, we are so familiar, and you saved my life, of course I want to hear the good news with my own ears! As for the heroic ladies and sisters at the conscription office, don't worry, wait until you join the military, I will personally take you to fellowship!"

Chu Ge was silent. After watching Guan Shanzhong who was ecstatic for a long time, he said cautiously: "Well, Major Guan, did you hear it wrong, or brother Hu said it wrong? I rejected the Red Helmets, but I didn't say that I must join The military."

"What?"

Guan Shanzhong was dumbfounded, and the shocking energy burst forth, "What do you mean, you rejected the Red Helmets, and you want to reject the military? There is no reason. Look at your performance in the chemical plant and deep in the jungle. Will you be brave? The perfect combination of fearlessness and stealth is simply a natural special soldier! I believe you have also felt the passion between life and death, don't you want to reject your instinct?

"Or, are you worried about your treatment? Come and see the contract and training plan I brought. The military will definitely invest a lot of resources to train you and make you the best soldier, no matter if you pass me or pass 'Colonel' Ning Lie, there is hope!

"What, attacking the Celestial Organization? That's exactly the duty of our military. I assure you, if one day, we want to go straight to the home of the Celestial Organization, you will definitely have the opportunity to blow up those bastards with your own hands!

"Oh, oh, the Extraordinary Association has a temporary mission for you to handle the 'Little Palace Master'? This is no problem. The cooperation between the military and the Extraordinary Association is already very close. Many of the Extraordinary agents are veterans. Just like the old Captain Cao you are most familiar with, he was originally from the Earth Army, but now he is a consultant of the Extraordinary Association. We are a family, so you can handle the 'Little Palace Master' and receive training from the strongest soldiers at the same time. We will provide you with the most powerful technical and equipment support!"

Guan Shanzhong pushed a thick stack of contracts and training plans towards Chu Ge.

Chu Ge smiled wryly,

Push these materials away.

"Major Guan, you misunderstood me. I believe that you and the military will never treat me badly, but if what I care about is the treatment and training plan, there is no need to reject the Red Helmets."

Chu Ge hesitated for a long time, his eyes gradually became firm, and he said softly, "I only have two questions. If you can represent the military and give an answer that I can agree with, then no matter what the conditions are, I am willing to join the Earth Army."

"You ask." Guan Shanzhong's eyes lit up, and he said quickly.

"The first question, I want to know, in the war between the earth and the world of cultivating immortals and the world of phantoms, whether we are the one who is being invaded and is defending our home and country, or the one who is sharpening his sword and preparing to take the initiative to invade. If the world of cultivating immortals There is no plan to invade the earth on a large scale with the Fantasy Demon Realm, will the earth army take the initiative to provoke the flames of war, go to other worlds to conquer, colonize, burn, kill and loot, and destroy the other side's civilization?" Chu Ge asked with piercing eyes.

The smile on Guan Shanzhong's face disappeared inch by inch.

The temperament has also changed from frivolous and oily to serious and deep.

It was like confronting the colonel that day in the night rain at the chemical plant.

"It seems that you have really thought a lot these days." Guan Shanzhong scratched his head in distress.

"It's a bit too much, but I can't think of an answer. Uncle Cao asked me to walk more, see more, do more practical things, and think less about illusory problems, but I think this problem can't be ignored-I want to join Is it a team to defend the country, or an invading army?" Chu Ge looked at Guan Shanzhong seriously.

Guan Shanzhong became extremely serious about adding obstacles, pondered for a moment, and asked, "Chu Ge, have you ever thought about conquering other worlds?"

"Of course I have thought about it, the stars and the sea, conquering other worlds, driving a mighty and majestic war machine to gallop across other worlds, knocking down all those mountain gates, altars, and statues of gods and demons, the sky and the earth, I am the only one... I'm afraid there is no boy who hasn't thought about these things, right?"

Chu Ge said, "However, on the real battlefield, when we are actively aggressing, if an innocent little girl from another world appears in front of my excavator's crawler and stretches out her immature hands to stop me, can I Unswervingly crush her into a pulp? I don't know, maybe, if I really do this, I will become crazier than 'Colonel' Ning Lie."

"Yeah, after serving in the army for so many years, my biggest experience is that real wars are really different from the so-called wars that have been glorified in movies, novels, and video games."

Guan Shanzhong said with a wry smile, "Now there are many people on the Internet who are yelling, 'Go to another world, kill them so that blood flows into rivers, heads roll, and grind every person from another world into a pulp', hehe, these people are not Know what they're talking about, and don't know what 'rivers of blood' means, throw them into a real battlefield, see your companions and even your own intestines being punched out, and see burning enemies rushing towards them , vainly trying to die together, I am afraid that in three seconds, the shit will be fucked, and the pain will flow."

"So, you don't agree with us launching an unjust war of aggression?" Chu Ge asked.

Guan Shan laughed again.

"Little guy, I was the same as you when I was young. I liked to use 'justice' and 'evil' to define many things. Only when I grew up did I realize that good and evil are black and white, and I can't speak clearly in a few words, and I am even more unqualified. Judge the so-called justice."

Guan Shanzhong thought for a while, and said bluntly, "That's right, from the standpoint of personal emotion, I don't want the earth's army to start an unjust war of aggression, and I don't want the army I am loyal to to become a place of burning, killing, looting, and doing all kinds of evil. Invading army.

"It's not just that I don't want to, all the comrades around me, and even most of the generals in the Eastern Hemisphere don't want to."

"That's great!"

Chu Ge was overjoyed, and immediately froze, "Eastern Hemisphere?"

"Listen, student Chu Ge, let's not discuss good and evil, but only the temperament of the army. The temperament of most of the troops throughout the ages can be divided into 'farming type' and 'nomadic type'."

Guan Shanzhong explained, "The army, which probably originated from a huge farming empire, will tend to shrink and restrain itself after completing the expansion of the elite area suitable for farming-because the outside world is a vast ocean other than rolling yellow sand, otherwise It is technically difficult to open the Gobi and rain forests, and there is no need to invade outwards.

"Over time, this kind of farming army has been instilled with the belief of 'defending the country', tending to be passive defensive, and rarely have the desire to take the initiative to attack.

"And the army from nomadic civilization—whether it is grassland nomads in the Middle Ages or modern sea nomads, has been full of desires for invasion, conquest, colonization, and trade since the first day of its birth. It is their continuous expansion. Instinct, because they do not have a core farming area that they must stick to, and colonization and trade are their 'lifelines'.

"So, an army full of nomadic temperament is destined to be a more aggressive army. In a nomadic-commercial civilization, 'aggressive' itself is not a bad word. Not aggressive is the worst things.

"Agricultural temperament and nomadic temperament, which is higher and which is lower, which is better? It is difficult to say that there is a correct answer.

"As the successors of the ancient eastern country, we may be naturally biased towards farming, and believe that 'defending the family and the country' is the only justice, and the word 'aggression' is not pleasant to the ears.

"But you also have to admit that it was precisely because of the aggressiveness of the nomadic civilizations in the Western Hemisphere hundreds of years ago that it completely changed the entire human civilization. Today, our basic necessities, our science and technology, our society and The economic system, and even our governing institutions, are deeply imprinted with the Western Hemisphere.

"Looking back at the dark history hundreds of years ago, we often sigh, if the old big empire had less agrarian temperament and more aggressive nomadic civilization, maybe we could catch up and participate in the global war earlier. In the competition of modernization and great colonization, instead of being reduced to a fish at the mercy of others.

"Today, we have once again reached the crossroads of history, and we have come to the choice between 'passive defense, stick to our homeland' and 'actively enterprising, and constantly open up the outside world'. No one wants to see the tragedy of the ancient eastern country repeat itself, right?"

What Guan Shanzhong said was something that Chu Ge had never thought of.

He listened intently and thought deeply.

"I don't know whether it is luck or misfortune. Today's Earth Army is far from a completely unified army, because we are the armies of various countries in the Eastern Hemisphere and Western Hemisphere. In the absence of large-scale wars, they are peacefully integrated. Many units It still retains its own establishment and unique temperament.”

Guan Shan said, "In general, the Earth Army originating from the Eastern Hemisphere retains more agrarian temperament and is unwilling to start a war lightly. The strategic proposition is based on local defense; the Earth Army originating from the Western Hemisphere retains more nomadic temperament and is more aggressive Strong, and want to expand the "glory of the earth" to the world of cultivating immortals and the world of phantoms.

"These two forces are still balancing each other and seeing each other in the Supreme Council and the General Staff Headquarters. It's not me, a little major, who can know what the specific result will be!"

This is true.

Chu Ge now has a much broader vision than a few months ago, knowing that the Lingshan City he lives in is not the whole world.

Although the East is the dominant force of the Earth Alliance, many forces in the West are also gradually recovering, profoundly affecting the future development direction of the Alliance and even the entire Earth civilization.

Farming and nomadism, defense and conquest, these two temperaments are mixed together, which is the whole picture of the alliance.

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