Plane Pass

Chapter 44: 2.01 Chapter: Plane Access

Pandora Plane, March. Wei Keng, an individual assigned to watch duty on the lighthouse, was gazing at the sea with a Meat Cat in his arms.

Wei Keng's hopeful gaze was like that of a CEO who, seeking to experience hardship, ended up staying in the mountains for half a year and now squats by the kiln entrance, desperately waiting for a car every day.

Wei Keng believed this was his "pure heart's sincere hope for return," completely unaware that his demeanor was causing the Tiger Teeth of his Observer to bite his lips until they were almost crooked! Space Bubble Bai Linglu: "Useless, utterly useless. Hmph, I must have misjudged you."

No ship had yet appeared on the sea. Wei Keng shooed the cat from the windowsill onto the roof and began recording his Work Log for the day while opening his system.

The system, after the conclusion of the current mission, revealed a series of information that allowed Wei Keng to know for the first time that his individual memories from before his death had been preserved. If he had learned this immediately after his self-inflicted death, it would have been cause for great joy. However, now, it felt somewhat mundane. After experiencing these three years, the surviving him had already grasped the thoughts of his deceased self, and he felt no guilt about the things he had done in the past two years when facing his past self.

He could face the future without any burden.

Wei Keng: "After I return, will all my thoughts and memories merge together again?"

System: "Yes. During the merging process, some of your memories might not be compatible and could be lost, but they will all be recorded in the system. Your consciousness will be one hundred percent condensed into a single entity during the merging process."

Regarding this memory incompatibility, Wei Keng pondered carefully, examining every part of his consciousness. He confirmed that he didn't seem to have much self-repulsion; all parts of himself had no objections to the re-merging. Some minor points might cause hesitation, but Wei Keng acknowledged that there were no factual answers yet, and it could be temporarily classified as unknown.

Wei Keng took a deep breath, spread his arms towards the distant sun, and performed a stretching exercise: "There shouldn't be any problems. By the way, Observer, thank you. This cooperation was pleasant."

A few seconds later, the Observer behind the system responded: "May I ask, are you willing to save this point in time?"

In Wei Keng's view: a Time-Space Icon was marked. This Time-Space Icon indicated multiple Timeline Expansion Models, and the origin point of all timelines, the time after Wei Keng's departure, was highlighted.

Wei Keng: "Save?"

System: "You can set a benchmark for your next transmigration."

Wei Keng: "I'm not coming back, absolutely not."

System: "This plane is still rated as a High-Risk Plane, and for you, most of the threats have been dealt with. If you save this plane, and you return to this plane in the future, it can still be counted towards your high-risk plane exploration missions. Your potential will soon break through the Civilian Rank, and as a Scholar and Minister, you will need some high-risk plane mission counts as necessary experience."

Hearing this, Wei Keng thought for a moment and then asked: "Um, after the war is over, can I change my job?"

At this point in the conversation, Bai Linglu inside the Space Bubble sat up, feeling that he had grasped the direction, and began to input rapidly.

System: "Except for severe injuries, Transmigrators must obey the job system. As for you? According to the latest consciousness assessment, your individual is very healthy. Oh, I wish you eternal health."

Then, as if feeling the threat was insufficient, it directly displayed the Transmigrator Deserter Penalty Notice: If you do not follow the transmigration mission orders, then your Medical Insurance and Social Security will all be gone. Current medical insurance includes Regeneration Surgery. After brain memory regeneration, memory will be lost, so Social Security includes Social Re-education. That, Wei Keng's Otaku Room for two hundred yuan a month, is not something to be taken for granted.

Wei Keng's expression was a little complicated. After hesitating, he continued to inquire: As a Transmigrator's rank increases, is going to High-Risk Planes necessary?

The Wandu Search Engine quickly provided the answer: Active Time-Space Shuttlers must abide by organizational regulations and cannot violate the military orders issued by the Supreme Time-Space Planning Department for any Reason.

[Wei Keng did not know that the Supreme Time-Space Planning Department generally does not issue mandatory military orders. It only does so during special periods and in special regions, after failing to educate certain Transmigrators, will they resort to mandatory measures. Wei Keng has so far behaved like a model of honesty. The Time-Space Administration Bureau above would not enforce mandatory measures on Wei Keng just because he is currently thinking of slacking off. -- Furthermore, Bai Linglu is just a minor clerk below and does not have the authority to issue mandatory orders to Wei Keng.]

But Wei Keng was truly intimidated now, feeling that perhaps he should have some experience in High-Risk Planes. In case he was ever in trouble, he could then exclaim, "I have made contributions for XX, I have shed blood for exploration, I want to see XX," and so on.

Two standard time units passed.

Bai Linglu, having obtained satisfactory results and some delegated permissions from Wei Keng, immediately drafted a Right of Appeal! She sent it back along the Gravity Well.

Within the Time-Space Shuttle Legal System, when an Exploration Team in a High-Risk Plane, consisting of a Transmigrator and a Supervisor, jointly declares insistence on certain fundamental rights, then after their explored space is requisitioned, certain principles must not be violated during the requisition process.

Bai Linglu, Lawyer Bai, was not a bumpkin like Wei Keng. She could flexibly utilize the law.

Now, for Wei Keng's return to the Pandora Plane, she reserved Explanatory Clauses that granted him authority no less than other "highest-level" Exploration Teams.

Over at the Gravity Well, the High Ministers of the Time-Space Administration Bureau, who were preparing to receive the Pandora Plane's delegation, saw the supplementary regulations initiated by the system. After a Silent Laughter, they could only make concessions.

Speaking of this lawsuit, the High Ministers of the Time-Space Administration Bureau could continue to pursue it.

Many of Wei Keng's defaults were not very clear, some were vague. And if Wei Keng agreed to completely transfer the Pandora Plane, Bai Linglu hadn't clearly stated what compensation he would receive in other planes.

However, there was no need! They were all family.

Bai Linglu was a relative's child from their Supervisor's family. She had a strong personality, and now that she was being forced by the higher-ups to give up a plane's application rights, it felt a bit unfair. It was good to retain basic rights in this plane; there was no need to go too far.

As for Wei Keng, he was the Descendant of a former teammate of the High Ministers in the Transmigrator team. His personality was very honest, but he was too honest. He just wanted to lie flat. If he were allowed to choose freely according to his personality, after completing his three mandatory missions as a Civilian Rank in this Campaign, he might just want to go back to the Main World and sleep. Therefore, some pressure needed to be applied.

So, everything was proceeding as hoped.

In another plane, Hainan, Lingao Port.

Luo Hongxing watched the waves of weapons and equipment, as well as industrial facilities, being loaded onto the ship labeled Yuanhua 834.

As a newly promoted employee of the Foreign Trade Department this year, he had secured a major deal for Northern Industries: a bullet production line, a set of steel smelting equipment with a domestic obsolete output of 100,000 tons, a seawater purification device, and chemical catalysts and Raw Materials, to aid Central Asia Persia.

President Nixon was seventy-five years old this year. His current term had already exceeded four terms, which was comparable to Roosevelt in history, and he seemed likely to continue to be re-elected.

At this moment, the Black and White Television was extensively promoting the friendship across the Other Side of the Ocean. Yes, it was quite friendly. Luo Hongxing folded the newspaper in his hand. The date was the eighteenth year before the end of the Second Millennium. Banners like "Accelerate Construction xx" and "Development is xxx" hung on the port.

This was another Timeline, a Historical Line that deviated somewhat from the Main World of the same period.

The Northern Red Bear was very calm. Upon realizing that the Central Asian region could not be contested, it abandoned its useless Output to this area! Thus, there were no "imperial graveyard" mountain skirmishes. Instead, it focused its forces on the East Prussia front. This strategic Contract, while seemingly relaxing the hard pressure on the Free World, also forced the Free World to absorb the world's Bad Assets.

Commercial Private Rules were a process of inheritance and development in the course of Human Civilization. This process required vigilance against further historical developments that could eliminate them, and also constant prevention against the "Infection" from feudal backward regions that could cause operational wear and tear on the Commercial Private Rules system.

The former was now easy to guard against, as the Red Theory did not yet occupy the current Core Civilization Area.

Besides the East, there were many historical lessons to be learned. Even with a sudden leap to the modern industrial civilization era, there were still deficiencies in production management, and Science and Education remained backward.

But the latter was difficult to prevent, because the Illness in the Viscera...

Just as vows can't withstand the corrosion of sugar-coated cannonballs, financial transactions ultimately can't resist the temptation of feudal privilege.

After the financial magnates of the capital world established direct commercial relationships with the global military strongmen and feudal families, it was inevitable that circles that overstepped market rules would form. This overstepping ultimately led to the dulling of global governance by commercial private rules, preventing the maintenance of a unified market!

Feudal governance is quite problematic! Whether in the Southern Peninsula of Asia, Latin America, or Western Asia, it has been proven that these regions, lacking thorough reconstruction of their civilization systems, suffer from low ruling group governance capabilities. Investment in grassroots culture and education and infrastructure is very weak, leading to excessively high human costs, transportation costs, and production costs.

The strategic contraction of the Bear in this plane was almost a stroke of genius. All traditional markets in Europe and the New Continent fell into crisis after a slight update to the first round of the electronic industry.

In the historical control group of the main world, After the Axis was defeated, global commerce and private entities, in order to solve the crisis, continuously transferred industries to regions with cheap labor and then digested the markets in these regions to complete asset anchoring. Thus, first came Western Europe, then the Japanese Archipelago, followed by the Four Little Dragons of East Asia, and then the third wave, the Eastern Continent. There are clear cyclical patterns in this: after the investment boom, there is the harvesting of financial bubbles, from Japan and South Korea to the Four Little Dragons, without exception.

By the time of the third wave in the Eastern Continent, due to the financial non-opening of the region, international commerce and private entities continuously invested in local infrastructure, pouring money into what global financial rating agencies defined as "excess capacity." Despite criticism from "economists" in the South, they insisted on maintaining the public employment rate.

This prevented international commerce and private entities from flowing out once they entered, or rather, any outflow was through the Eastern silver storage system for external investment. International capital could not be further invested in cheaper places like Southeast Asia and South Asia.

When this game of drumming and passing flowers could no longer be played, all that was left was to constantly engage in small moves, attempting to create chaos, while continuously packaging white elephants! Trying to forcibly push creditworthiness from Eastern Asia to Southern Asia and Indochina.

And on this timeline, the first round of industrial transfer was not even completed!

When the Marshall Plan began, the Northern Bear concentrated its forces. In the west, it amassed heavy armored clusters and continuously conducted nuclear weapon experiments. In the east, there were four Minsk Aircraft Carrier Battle Groups.

After General Mike Five Stars returned home, puffing on his pipe, the sailors twice blockaded the shipping lanes of the Northeast Asian Archipelago. This military blockade directly crippled the Japanese economy, making it similar to the "Northern Peninsula of the Main World."

As humanity landed on the moon, the Red Navy clashed directly with Great Britain in the Great Ocean, and a Typhoon Nuclear Submarine immediately sank a British Frigate. Afterward, they adopted a tough stance with nuclear tests, and then, the Ireland Free Front blew up the London Trading Center.

What is capital? Capital is credit, credit that can be immediately exchanged for various market raw materials. But this credit must be repaid.

Without returns, commerce and private entities would not invest. When elite zones like Europe and Japan from the Main World Cold War era could no longer support the Lighthouse Empire's industrial transfer, nor expand markets to fill the gap in financial crises, the credit of commerce and private entities collapsed prematurely.

So, this is the difference in strategy between the Bear of the Main World and the Bear of this plane!

The Bear of the Main World wanted to contend for world hegemony with the Bald Eagle! By controlling energy production sites, it wanted to bet on a bicycle becoming a motorcycle. As a result, it continuously poured large amounts of aid and military forces into the central regions of the World Island. However, the rise of Jewish Restoration struck the reformists in the region, allowing the royal families to barely survive. The adventure in the Afghanistan Region also resulted in a complete loss.

The Bear of this plane line, however, clearly recognized that its national strength was insufficient for a full-scale global competition with the Bald Eagle.

Since it couldn't mine itself, it harassed the Bald Eagle's mining farmers in the North Atlantic and North Pacific (Great Island Nation) areas. Frequent appearances of fleets increased logistics costs in these regions, preventing these second-tier vassal states from having a "middle-class" life and from being able to embellish the "prosperity and advancement" within the Free World.

Oh, the Bald Eagle also has a mining area. However, mining this area might eventually lead to the same fate as John Bull and Gallus Gallus decades ago. But the global cold war between the major camps has continued until both sides have reached their limits. Is there only one country in the world with governance capabilities and the potential to form a vast market?

Following a conflict on the North Asian Border, the Bald Eagle's decision-makers, struggling with strategic confrontation, keenly seized an opportunity.

Politically, they abandoned a series of proxies on the Western Pacific Island Chain almost overnight and made huge compromises.

The decision-makers at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, after receiving the commitment from the Central Alliance not to build a nuclear submarine base on the east coast of Nambo Island and signing a naval agreement not to develop large aircraft carrier strike groups, withdrew Fleet Seven, which had been positioned on the edge of the Asian Continent, to fully guard against the Red Navy's fleet. The Great Unification Mission was completed.

And the United States gained immense rewards as well.

Seventy years ago, because it finally obtained new markets through technology transfer, it alleviated the immense pressure within its internal factions.

This has to be mentioned about the Main World Timeline. International capital needs to shift and maneuver to survive, even by flowing capital to low labor cost regions to fill "debt." During the Third Industrial Revolution, because the Rhine and Neon markets were enough for Lighthouse Finance to survive, and other countries could breathe and develop industrialization, "industrial technology" was scarce internationally.

But on this plane's historical line, after the Nuclear Missile Crisis, these areas with small depth were always within the range of fighter jets and warships, belonging to High-Risk Areas. At this time, what the world lacked was market! And markets are often in the hands of sovereign states with governance capabilities and self-defense capabilities.

This plane, because the strategy was correct, finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Compared to the Main World Timeline after the Second Millennium, where Lighthouse Country "only Apple and other High-Tech Companies could earn high profits from the East, while other Interest Groups were furious and could only curse C for stealing xx," a ridiculous scene.

On this plane's East Asia Continent, imported cars do not have brands like Volkswagen or Mercedes-Benz. High-Precision Machinery and Power Generation Equipment are from American Enterprises that were originally eliminated through internal competition. Even East Asian TV, Washing Machines, and Home Appliance Factories, industries funded by Kabushiki Kaisha in the Main World, were all supported by American Capital, which obtained the Agency Right.

Of course, the problems in this world are still there.

Beep~~

The ship's whistle sounded melodiously. In the sea breeze, Luo Hongxing took a counterfeit windproof lighter with a Z trademark from his pocket, lit a cigarette, and took a deep puff, exhaling.

He opened his system and made his final report: "I am now in Doomsday Time and Space, preparing to set sail and pick someone up~"