Chapter 31 PPDC
Don’t think that the training work of mecha pilots will be much easier without going to the sky. In fact, the training work of mecha pilots is not much easier than that of air force pilots, and it is even more complicated. After basic assessments such as basic physical fitness, you can be considered a student. You need to enter the Hunter Academy, which specializes in training pilots - it can be understood as the mecha version of the aviation school to conduct the most basic theoretical study.
Theoretical learning is boring and the most basic. If you don’t learn basic theoretical knowledge, you can only be a dark look on the mecha. Even if you go in, you don’t know what to do. You can’t even call the name of the cockpit button, let alone drive the mecha to fight.
During this period, these students were allowed to play computer simulation mecha games at most. Only after the Hunter Academy passed the initial theoretical training will the driver be allowed to enter the mecha simulator for live simulation driving.
This is somewhat similar to the Air Force flight simulator, which can simulate the actual driving situation to the greatest extent. Mecha models and data of various monsters are available. The overall cost of these simulated pilots is not much cheaper than the cost of a real mecha; use simulators to accumulate driving experience and cultivate the driver's basic operating capabilities.
Only when these conditions are met will the candidates become driver candidates. However, because the cost of mechas is too expensive and the number is limited, generally only after the new armor is offline and there is no designated driver, or if the driver of other armor dies, the candidates have a chance to play.
In the past, there was a special hunter school for one-stop training such as driver selection, training, and on-machine. However, after governments stopped hunter programs, the PPDC's capital chain could no longer be maintained, and the Hunter School closed down. The black general of the PPDC in the movie was the first batch of students of the Hunter School. Most of the drivers returned to the school to serve as instructors after retirement and trained newcomers.
The Hunter Academy went bankrupt, the skua mechas stopped production, and most of the logistics bases were closed, leaving only a few remaining mechas still lingering, huddling in the last base, Hong Kong, and carrying out the final struggle.
Under such complicated conditions, Zhang Yang wants to become a mecha pilot sounds like a fantasy.
"In the movie, there are only the last four mechas left at the Hong Kong base, among which Dangerous Wanderer is the hero, Storm Red is from China, Chernoelfa is from Russia, and Eureka Raiders belong to Australia. The most important thing is that these four mechas have drivers. Do you have to force me to kill a driver and force me to take the palace to take over?"
Zhang Yang was maliciously guessing that if the pilots of these mechas were killed by him, I wonder what the plot of the movie would turn out to be. The black general Pantcoster would probably be chasing him all over the world.
The male protagonist Beckett is the person he likes to the black general. He is protected by the protagonist's halo and is not so easy to die. Taking action will only cause immeasurable consequences, so this idea just flashed in Zhang Yang's head.
As for killing monsters, there is no other way to rely on mechas. Zhang Yang is not so stupid that he hits the monsters with bare hands. He is four or five meters high on his toe. Not to mention Zhang Yang, even if Megatron is here, it is just a matter of people slamming it. With a weight of nearly 2,000 tons, it will be turned into meat pie or iron discus if you kick it.
"The only four remaining mechas have masters. What should I do if I rule out killing the driver?"
Zhang Yang was struggling with this problem in his mind. It was not a matter of overnight success to become a mecha driver. Therefore, when he came to his senses, the truck had reached the location of the coastal base. Looking forward, the walls as high as 70 or 80 meters were magnificent. At the gap that had not yet been fully connected, countless workers were working, and sparks of electric welding could be seen everywhere.
As the truck entered the construction site and was led by the security team responsible for the inspection to the registration office, Zhang Yang saw the huge project more and more clearly. The coastal wall was as thick as ten meters and the height was 75 meters. The main structure was made of a large amount of steel and then poured with cement and gravel. There was also a buffer layer of up to fifteen meters thick inside the wall.
On the surface, such a powerful wall seemed to be able to stop the monster's attack. At this construction site alone, there were no less than 400 workers busy, with steel scattered everywhere on the ground. Zhang Yang got out of the car with Jeff, and followed the other people to the outside of a dilapidated factory building, and lined up in a long line.
A rusty iron plate was written with blue paint, and there was also a red paint under the big blue characters, "You can get a portion of food for free whether you accept it or not." Zhang Yang saw many men wearing tattered clothes lined up in a long queue, and it seemed that their life was not very good. There were probably many people who came for this free food.
Although people rebuilt San Francisco, the global economy has fallen into a stagnant stage when the monsters cause damage to humans. A large number of ordinary people on the coast have been unemployed because monsters can appear in the sea at any time and the sea water is contaminated by the blood of monsters. Few people dare to go out to sea to fish at great risk, and many ordinary people have fallen to their current level.
Zhang Yang was in front of several people, and in front of him was a white man with eyes, who looked like he was engaged in a civilian job. After asking a few questions, Zhang Yang then found out the other party's information.
"I was a college teacher before I was unemployed, in San Diego." The man in glasses wiped his eyes and sorted out a piece of ragged, hoping to be more decent, but his clothes were too torn to give up and smiled bitterly.
"San Diego? It's a bit far from San Francisco."
Zhang Yang nodded.
"I wake up and leave, and I go to sleep when I get tired. Every other construction site I go to have a meal, and I slowly walk here. Just last fall, a Level 3 monster attacked San Diego. My family, wife, parents, and daughter all died in that disaster and my house was gone."
"But since you are a university teacher, even if you are a senior intellectual, I remember that the government has pensions for senior intellectuals, right?"
Other workers came over curiously and asked in confusion.
"Privacy? My family is dead and their property is gone. According to federal law, the government should give me at least 20,000 US dollars in pension, but they were deducted by the politicians and finally compensated me only 1,200 US dollars. Haha, 1,200 US dollars, and it takes 500 US dollars to rent a house in San Diego! I had nothing before I could find a job, these damn politicians, vampires!"
"well!"
The man's words aroused the sympathy of people around him. Many of their families were killed in the attack of monsters. They were not a mob or a big boss. Their family died and their property was gone. The sudden blow made these people fall from ordinary people into homeless people, running around to find a job and survive in a breath.
"I sympathize with your experience, but we must survive. Since God has not let us die, we hope to survive on behalf of our family and use our efforts to fight back the monsters. This is to avenge them."
Zhang Yang patted the other person on the shoulder sympathetically and encouraged him.
"Thank you for your comfort, but unfortunately I am just a history teacher. I can't do anything about fighting monsters. I hate why I didn't learn machinery at the beginning, or it's good to sign up for the army."
"It's not only the mecha that can be used to fight monsters. Look, we are all looking for work here now. We work hard to build the wall, so we can protect more people."
Although he had no expectations for the coastal wall, Zhang Yang sympathized with this unlucky man. In the face of the blow that all his family members were killed, Zhang Yang did not dare to think that he could be much better than the other party.
"Maybe."
The man obviously had lost the courage to live, so he just looked up at the factory not far away. One of his most important purposes here was to have a meal.
The coastal walls are built on the roads around the Pacific Ocean. The United States, China, Russia, Canada, Australia, Mexico, etc., especially the west coast of the United States, were hit hardest by monsters. The US government smashed a lot of dollars and built the coastal walls in advance at a faster speed than other countries.
The coastal wall that stretches for tens of thousands of kilometers can be seen even when viewed from space, and can see a black curve, standing at the forefront of resisting monsters like a dam. Asia, Oceania, North America, and South America have such a black line.
In order to facilitate command and contact and prevent being destroyed by monsters at one time, there is a small construction site every 25 kilometers and a large supply station every 100 kilometers. Because the coastal wall has a huge demand for manpower, the construction site is always in a state of shortage of people. This provides a job for people displaced during the monster attack. Men can build walls, and women can participate in medical teams and logistics teams to ensure the supply of food and medicines.
Building walls naturally also provide jobs to solve the problem of refugees. Just like after the economic crisis swept the world in 2008, China invested hundreds of billions of yuan to build high-speed rail nationwide in order to drive the national economy. This is the same. Moreover, building high-speed rails also have extremely important strategic significance and can quickly transport troops to the war zone during wartime.
Chapter completed!