"Click"
The door opened.
Zhou Zhenguo looked up from his desk.
He glanced at Lu Xunzhou who had walked in and asked:
"Didn't you go check on the remaining two teams?"
"Hmm." Lu Xunzhou closed the door and walked in, still somewhat dazed.
"Then why did you come back?" Zhou Zhenguo asked.
After a moment's hesitation, Lu Xunzhou said, "I just spoke with Captain Shen to see if he'd be interested in transferring to our military system!"
"Hmm? You went to pull him away?" Zhou Zhenguo became interested and asked, "What did that kid Shen Heng say?"
The other two officers also looked over.
Seeing the expectant looks on their faces, Lu Xunzhou hesitated for a moment before giving a brief account of the conversation.
As the last, discouraging remark fell, the command center fell silent.
The two officers looked somewhat taken aback.
They had considered the possibility of rejection, but guessed it might be because the other party was attached to the Supervision Bureau, worried about not adapting to the new system, or simply didn't want to move.
I never imagined it would be for this reason.
"It's not conducive to unity..." an officer murmured, repeating the words as if he were savoring their meaning.
Another officer opened his mouth, as if to say something, but then felt that whatever he said would be inappropriate.
Zhou Zhenguo didn't say anything, but leaned back in his chair, his gaze fixed on a certain spot, his face expressionless.
The command room was quiet for a while.
"Alright," Zhou Zhenguo said, his voice lower than usual, "Hurry up and go, you still need to take charge over there."
Lu Xunzhou looked at the leader, hesitated for a moment, then nodded, turned and walked out.
Turning his gaze back, Zhou Zhenguo glanced at the other two officers.
"You all can go out first!"
The two officers exchanged a glance, then stood up and left.
"It's detrimental to unity, it's detrimental to unity..."
Whispers echoed in the command room.
Zhou Zhenguo leaned back in his chair, his fingers tapping lightly on the table.
He recalled his younger days when he had just been transferred to work in a government office. Once, during a field investigation, he overheard two departments arguing heatedly over a small amount of resources.
He felt something was wrong at the time, but couldn't quite put his finger on it.
When I went back and asked the old commander, he only said one sentence:
"If you're a farmer, do you take care of your neighbor's land?"
He didn't quite understand it at the time, but after seeing more of it, he gradually came to understand.
Once a person enters a system, they tend to treat that system as their own, protecting their own people and striving for their own interests, which gradually becomes instinctive.
It's not that this is wrong; after all, people always need a place to belong, a place to stand.
But if all you see is belonging, and you only see your own little corner of the world, then your perspective is narrow.
Factional strife and clan feuds arose from this.
Of course, this isn't necessarily all bad; it can help maintain a balanced management approach.
But are we needed now?
Zhou Zhenguo leaned back in his chair, and before his eyes appeared the overwhelming tide of beasts and the corpse of the Seventh Tier Calamity Beast he had visited once before. His breathing became heavier.
"Compared to all these things, the most important thing right now is unity..."
Thinking of this, Zhou Zhenguo sat up straight.
Although he hadn't considered any system divisions when he wanted to bring Shen Heng into the military system, he simply didn't want the kid's talent to be wasted, and he believed that he could do just as well in their army.
However, it must be said that although he hadn't thought about any system division, the very act of thinking about it already separated the military system from the Supervision Bureau system.
Add to that Lu Xunzhou's actions just now.
If they're like this, then everyone else is too.
In the eyes of most soldiers, they are probably not the same kind of people as the members of the Supervision Bureau.
Zhou Zhenguo took a piece of paper from the side and began to write on it.
After a moment, he glanced at the title at the top of the paper and then set it aside with satisfaction.
He then turned his attention back to the paper in front of him.
The writing is somewhat messy, but you can still vaguely make out that it starts from a point and draws three arrows outwards, with some information noted next to each arrow.
Zhou Zhenguo picked up his pen and continued adding to the paper, the information gradually becoming more and more dense.
Suddenly, as if remembering something, he spoke while still in a writing posture:
" Tianshu!"
"Yes!" an electronic voice sounded from the side.
"Send a copy of the report's title to that kid Shen Heng!" Zhou Zhenguo pulled the paper he had just written on forward.
"Okay!" the electronic voice replied.
Then, a beam of light swept across the paper.
Faintly visible on the paper is only one line of text:
Report on the Necessity and Recommendations Regarding the Reorganization of the Supervision Bureau and the Military
Shen Heng walked along the streets of Bedrock City at a moderate pace.
Soldiers or inspectors would occasionally pass by and greet him, and he would nod in response, but he would not stop and continue walking forward.
The conversation we just had was still echoing in my mind.
"Transferring to the military system... the potential rewards might be greater than staying in the Supervision Bureau."
Shen Heng lowered his eyes, looking at the stone path beneath his feet.
It's not surprising that they've been divided into two systems, since they were originally two separate systems.
only...
He nodded again in response to one of the soldiers.
Shen Heng then carefully observed the expressions and tones of the people who greeted him along the way.
The members of the Supervision Bureau were relatively relaxed, and most of them had smiles on their faces; the ordinary soldiers also greeted them, but with more respect, and their expressions were more serious.
Previously, Shen Heng thought it was just because they weren't familiar with each other.
But now that I think about it, perhaps it was more because the other person felt there was a barrier between us based on our social status?
How significant is this barrier?
To be honest, it can be big or small, and even positive.
If it's small, it's almost negligible.
If the problem is large, it could lead to inefficiencies, reduced efficiency, and even competition for resources in the future.
In a positive sense, seeing other systems being very strong motivates people within one's own system to intensify their training.
However, overall, the negative aspects probably outweigh the positive ones.
So, is it possible to solve this?
Shen Heng was lost in thought, his eyes unfocused.
It's unlikely that this division can be completely resolved, but there are ways to eliminate the gap between the Supervision Bureau and the military system.
A complete solution is impossible because this division stems from human instinct.
Just like when you're given a piece of candy, you'd give it to yourself or someone you're closest to first.
There's nothing wrong with that; everyone would do the same!
But it is precisely because of this that everyone will have distinctions of closeness and distance in their hearts.
The analogy is that you take yourself as the center and branch out into different systems.
This system is not limited to the Supervision Bureau and the military, but also includes classes, branches of service, and even potential Erosion Zone in the future.
However, compared to these, the current division between the Supervision Bureau and the military system is even more stringent...
It's not really that serious, it's just that some signs have already appeared.
If this trend continues, it will become more serious than other classifications.