Chapter 1088: Chapter 39: Reporting to the New Unit Today
Frankly speaking, Nie Xiaoyun is indeed a very good woman to marry and bring home as a wife.
It’s just a pity that Wang Yunxiao already had someone.
Indeed, there are some men who are quite fickle.
But the vast majority of men are actually quite lazy.
They eat at a restaurant, find the noodles delicious, and can keep eating those noodles until the restaurant closes.
They go to a mall, find a store to buy a pair of trousers, and if they feel good wearing them, they’ll buy from that store for years on end.
They find it hassle-free to buy hardware on JD, so even if it costs a few hundred more, they won’t switch to Tmall.
Unless the store owner loses touch with reality and causes trouble unprovoked.
Once they give up, they truly give up.
When reporting to the new unit, Wang Yunxiao was still considering a question in his mind.
If he were just an ordinary person, without having fought in battles and earned those honors and treatments, would Nie Xiaoyun still treat him with the same attitude?
It’s hard to say.
His relationship with Li Mumu was genuinely built through little…conversations.
However, Nie Xiaoyun’s meticulous care always gave him a sense of a castle in the air, something hollow and insubstantial.
This made Wang Yunxiao feel unsettled.
Or you could say, perhaps a wild boar can’t digest fine flour.
The Equipment Department, like other buildings in the compound, had no obvious signs, only a designation of “Building 4.”
If it weren’t for Nie Xiaoyun giving him directions, he certainly wouldn’t have found the place himself.
Here, Wang Yunxiao met his new leader, Chief Hou Jiahua of the Equipment Department’s Special Service Section.
A middle-aged gentleman with a scholarly appearance, refined demeanor, clearly from an academic background, contrasting starkly with those at the Special Service Bureau whose hands were blood-stained.
“Comrade Wang, you’ve finally brought yourself to come to work.”
Director Hou smiled kindly, his speech imbued with yin and yang: “I heard you just got married and went on a honeymoon, didn’t you?”
Wang Yunxiao quickly explained: “You’ve misunderstood, we just got engaged. I had to handle some matters at my previous unit…”
“No worries, as long as you’re here. We’ve been waiting for you like waiting for stars in the sky.”
Director Hou smiled and said: “Back then, Old Zeng wanted to transfer you to the Special Forces to train new recruits, but I snatched you over here. Anyone can train soldiers, but Comrade Wang, your personal value lies beyond that. Can you tell me why, back in Lanton, you brought that robot back?”
Wang Yunxiao replied solemnly: “I didn’t think too much at the time, just felt that the robot they released had a lot of advanced technology I couldn’t comprehend. Even if we can’t master these technologies right away, we should at least understand them. We can’t assume the British are fools; they’ve just chosen a different path, but their real war potential is still frightening.”
“Exactly, your thinking is correct, and also the most valuable.”
Director Hou couldn’t help but sigh: “Although our Navy is considered a high-tech force, frankly speaking, frontline officers and soldiers tend to act impulsively rather than calmly. Few can think deeply during battle and have long-term strategic vision like you. This is why I insisted on taking you from the Marshal.”
“You’re over-praising me.”
“It’s the truth. Do you know the British’s recent movements?”
“I really don’t.”
“Over there in the United Kingdom, there have been two major factions internally, simply put, the Conservative and the Progressive.”
Director Hou explained: “Conservatives focus on the future, and you should understand this. To withstand the apocalypse, they’ve devoted national effort to build the Avalon Sanctuary. Although it’s not yet very strong, at least it can resist the harm from the Temporal Tide disturbances.”
“After all, there’s precedent. The last major tide threw Europe back seven hundred years in civilization, and many Continental European Great Powers were obliterated overnight, leaving only the Frank Empire occupying half of Europe.”
“But the long term is the long term, and the present is the present. Most people live in the present, without any sense of future peril. That’s why the Open Party emerged; they actually don’t oppose the Avalon Plan, but they don’t want to survive tucked away in the Sanctuary. They aim to do more during these calm days before the apocalypse.”
“Because of your actions, the Conservatives failed to respond reasonably in time, causing significant property loss. So now the Open Party has the upper hand, they’ve mobilized the fleet dormant at the docks to exploit the New Continent for resources…”
So is the blame being shifted to the Conservatives?
As someone who experienced it personally, Wang Yunxiao didn’t think their response was that unreasonable.
Just because you scored 700 on the college entrance exam, you can’t despise the examiners as incompetent, right?
Firstly, it was calculated with intent against carelessness.
After all, it’s not the cyberpunk era where the future is littered with surveillance cameras; the main brain of Avalon Sanctuary, the Mathematics Transgressor’s greatest advantage, namely, information superiority, wasn’t fully utilized.
No matter how much she calculates, she couldn’t have predicted the intimate connection between Li Mumu and Wang Yunxiao, nor Wang Yunxiao’s reckless return for it.
Secondly, was Wang Yunxiao’s direct taunting of the Mathematics Transgressor on site — “What do you know about war?”
Conservatism implies no progress.
Artificial intelligence needs a massive data accumulation to operate fully; hiding in a shell won’t gather any experience.
If she were over on Tianmen’s side, dealing with countless bizarre ideas daily, encountering all sorts of crazy ideas, she wouldn’t be surprised by Wang Yunxiao’s strategic intent.
Like someone as exceptional as Yang Jian, if placed a year ago, Wang Yunxiao would definitely feel immense pressure. But now it’s nothing; he doesn’t even need to arrest him personally, just make a call to resolve it.
Finally, there’s the matter of holding back.
Wang Yunxiao didn’t know what outsiders thought, but as someone who experienced it firsthand, he knew clearly that the Mathematics Transgressor held back the entire time.
No orders from above, no actions from her.
As locals might say, she’s an old hand, non-stick.
If she acted on her own initiative and worked hard, and then they turned around and doubted her being uncontrollable, what then?
To exert effort and then gain nothing, only to take the blame later, such a thing even artificial intelligence doesn’t want to do.
“What’s the matter with the New Continent?”
Wang Yunxiao wasn’t really concerned about those Continental factions far away. What truly piqued his curiosity was this New Continent.
From the moment he crossed over, newspapers talked about the President’s campaign against the New Continent’s Parrot Island and such.
At first, he thought it was referring to Australia; later he realized it wasn’t.
The New Continent emerged in the central Pacific Ocean as a piece of land that suddenly rose after the last major tide.