"Exams are about to start, and there aren't just no reference materials—even the questions and scope of the exam haven't been announced?"
When Lu PingAn first heard it, he thought someone was pulling his leg. But after hearing the explanation, he realized it actually made perfect sense.
Explorer Qualification was a newly established matter to begin with. Only a few months had passed since the First Batch of assessments, so it did seem a little early to launch a second round of testing.
And even if they did, they would face the question of whether to lower the difficulty.
Lower the standards? What would the people from the First Batch who had worked so hard to earn their licenses think? What about those failures from the First Batch who had not earned one? And if lowering the standards reduced the quality of personnel, who would bear the responsibility?
The standards had only just been set. Revising them casually was not a good thing. As the core of an Exploration Team, and as its person in charge and captain, Explorers should maintain high standards at all times.
This was the core of the entire Nirvana Plan. They could not lower the standards casually, but with the bar for basic qualifications set so high, what were they supposed to do if the front lines lacked people?
".Compared to other countries' exploration efforts, our individual combat strength has the advantage, but our actual efficiency does not. With modern technology unable to function, human resources are too important. They even have plenty of ordinary people helping them."
Since they could not know the questions or the content of the exam, they might as well trace things back and consider what kind of talent the people organizing the exam truly needed.
".No, it won't follow