Chapter 5

The discussion about growing vegetables has touched the hearts of countless Chinese people. Netizens are eager to get involved and express their opinions. They are almost fighting over a possibility that cannot be verified for the time being.

Most people agree with one point of view:

If you can’t even grow vegetables, what’s the point of exploring another world?

As the discussion becomes more and more heated, more and more people are paying attention to the live broadcast of the drone's first flight.

In addition to growing vegetables, most people's focus is still on intelligent creatures in other worlds.

People's attitude towards unknown intelligent races is both curious and fearful.

But the drone flew forward for a while and still found no signs of any living creature.

The photographer sighed and was about to say that they had to return because of the lack of endurance, but suddenly his eyes swept across a picture captured by the drone camera, and the words he was about to say were stuck in his throat.

——It was a white skeleton wearing a black robe standing on the yellow sand dunes.

There was a huge, winding crack in the middle of its frontal bone. If it were in any hospital or specimen museum on Earth, even someone who knew nothing about medicine would be able to see at a glance that this was definitely a fatal injury.

However, two clusters of dark blue fire were burning in the skeleton's empty eye sockets, like a ghost returning from hell. It was moving towards the north of the campus at an extremely slow pace with a hunched back.

"What the hell is this!?"

The photographer's face was pale, half because of fear and half because of the distraction that led to the operational error. The drone in the air almost lost its balance.

Fortunately, he reacted quickly and used his superb skills to pull it up to a certain height again. But before everyone could breathe a sigh of relief, the man in black robe in the distance had already noticed the movement coming from high in the sky.

He suddenly raised his head and looked straight towards the camera.

Under the high-powered telescope of the drone, the surveillance screen clearly showed the world the pair of empty eye sockets burning with ghostly blue fire and the hideous white skull face under the black robe.

It stayed there for a few seconds, as if it felt threatened, and suddenly became furious.

“%￥#@*&…”

The skeleton let out a terrifying low resonant sound from deep in its chest, raised its right hand, which had completely turned to bones, and pointed its two slender fingers in the direction of the drone:

“——Bang!!!”

Gu Liang's breath was choked.

After a loud explosion, the drone screen went completely black.

“…………”

After the drone crashed, the live broadcast image in the sky did not change for a long time.

Inside the Strategy Bureau, the subordinate took a deep breath and asked in a trembling voice:

"Director Lu...do we need to hold an emergency meeting?"

"nonsense!"

After dozens of seconds of silence, Lu Lang suddenly came back to his senses, slammed his fist on the table, and roared with bloodshot eyes: "What are you still dawdling about here? Call all the experts from the weapons transportation team and the analysis and countermeasures team! Immediately!!!"

If there are tens of thousands or even hundreds of millions of skeletons with this kind of power in the other world, then Mobei University of Technology will be doomed! All of humanity will be doomed too!

Intelligence personnel from other countries were also furious.

A scene similar to that in the hall of the Strategy Bureau was simultaneously played out in the confidential intelligence agencies of countless countries. Never before had the tense atmosphere of doomsday weighed so heavily on everyone's heart.

All conflicts of interest, frictions and contradictions must be put aside at this moment!

Because there is only one common and vital issue facing mankind now:

Survive!

No one spoke for a long time on the playground of Mobei University of Technology.

The crashed drone was like a heavy cloud, hanging over everyone's heart.

Gu Liang pursed his lips and glanced at Principal Zong beside him.

Zong Qinyuan had an ugly expression on his face. He was staring at the blood-red pop-up window on the black screen indicating that the drone had lost contact, as if he wanted to see through it with his eyes.

"Principal Zong," the photographer asked tremblingly. Even at this moment, his hand holding the remote control was still shaking slightly, "Should we... continue flying?"

There are quite a few drones on campus, and this one is just for civilian use, so even if it breaks down, the loss won’t be too great.

But the scene just now was too much of a blow to them.

The malicious natives of another world, the strange power system, the shadow of the impending global war...

All of this can instantly make people lose the courage to explore the new world.

——Facts have proved that human civilization, which is still in a state of confusion, is not at all prepared for a full-scale war.

Zong Qinyuan was silent for a long time before he said in a hoarse voice:

"Let's wait for a while before we alert the enemy."

Judging from the information collected so far, the location of the campus after crossing is an uninhabited area. The radius of more than ten kilometers around the base is all yellow sand. There is plenty of sunshine, but the temperature is strangely not high.

I have to say, this is good news for them.

"Principal Zong, how many supplies do we have left in school?"

Gu Liangyi suddenly asked.

The country's idea has always been to first try to improve the overall strength of the human base, and then arrange personnel to go out and explore the other world after ensuring their own safety.

"If there are no supplies, the four canteens on campus can only last for another week at most." Zong Qinyuan thought for a moment and replied, "There is no need to worry about the water source for the time being. The school has an internal circulation water purification system. Even if there is no natural precipitation, it will not be a problem to supply all the teachers and students in the school for a month."

There is a huge inner lake on the campus of Mobei University of Technology, covering an area of ​​more than 500 hectares, and the deepest point is even more than 20 meters.

When the campus traveled through time, the entire lake was connected to the complex underground water system of the other world.

After testing, it was found that the water here is drinkable for humans, and the water quality is better than before, which has solved the school's urgent water problem.

"The one you mentioned to me this morning, which was the proposal to replace campus card spending with a credit system," Gu Liangyi asked tentatively, "are you going to implement it next?"

In the face of the crisis, a leader in the school proposed that in order to mobilize the enthusiasm of every member of the school, credits should no longer be solely linked to grades, but should be closely related to everyone's daily food, clothing, housing and transportation.

The methods and ways of earning credits are also very different from before.

The main reason is that although the Earth will provide weapons assistance, the school still put the plan of making homemade weapons on the agenda after a meeting and discussion.

Even if an automated production line can complete most of the steps, human labor is still needed to assemble some necessary links.

To put it simply, it means that students can go to college while working in a factory as screwdrivers.

When hearing Zong Qinyuan's story, Gu Liangyi couldn't help but think with some black humor that when this batch of students can't find a job in the future, at worst they can go directly to the factory with a few years of work experience and get free food and accommodation.

Oh, the premise is that they can all live to see graduation day.

At that time, many school leaders thought that this plan was feasible and should be promoted as soon as possible, but Zong Qinyuan has always adhered to the concept of returning the campus to the campus since he took office as the principal.

He did not want to turn the university into a place that pursues utilitarianism like society.

That's why Gu Liangyi asked whether Zong Qinyuan changed his mind because of what happened just now.

Zong Qinyuan thought for a moment and shook his head.

"I think it is not advisable to fully implement the credit system, because we currently do not have enough positions to provide to most people. What is worrying is not the lack of jobs but the inequality of the jobs. Students' ideas are often the purest. At present, their trust in the school is the most important thing..."

He was halfway through his speech when he suddenly realized something.

Looking at Gu Liangyi who was slightly relieved, Zong Qinyuan raised his eyebrows and said, "Okay, after all this time, you are just trying to test my attitude in a roundabout way? Don't you trust me so much?"

After being told this by the principal in person, Gu Liangyi stared at the ground, his ears turning red.

"I also heard some rumors from my classmates... Principal Zong happened to mention this matter again this morning, so I asked a few questions by the way. Please don't mind."

Zong Qinyuan seemed not to notice his embarrassment. He just smiled with interest and asked, "What do you think of this method?"

"I think..."

Gu Liang paused and said carefully: "After we have almost figured out the situation here, you may try to implement this plan locally."

"It's similar to what I thought. Let's discuss it later." Zong Qinyuan nodded.

"But there is one more urgent matter at the moment."

He said seriously, "The government wants us to form a campus patrol team as soon as possible. Gu Liang, could you please discuss with the student union and determine the member list and patrol shift time as soon as possible?"

"I will ask the instructors to provide special training for the patrol team members, but before that, I hope you can decide the specific members of the team yourself."

The purpose of Zong Qinyuan's saying this was actually to increase Gu Liangyi's voice among students and cultivate his confidence and leadership skills.

The experts on Earth have already considered the worst-case scenario in which the school is in danger in the future and the faculty and staff alone are no longer sufficient to resist foreign enemies, and student self-government organizations must be relied upon to maintain order.

When faced with desperate situations, they need to raise a banner among students.

——And Gu Liangyi’s existence represents hope.

Gu Liangyi was a little hesitant, as he was not very good at dealing with people.

But seeing the high hopes and eager anticipation in Principal Zong's eyes, he still gritted his teeth and agreed:

"Okay, I'll discuss this with the student union later."

Zong Qinyuan patted his shoulder. He seemed to like using this gesture to encourage his juniors:

"Okay, I've delayed your entire morning class today, so don't miss the next professional class. By the way, don't tell other students what you just saw, and don't take it too seriously."

After a pause, he added:

"We have the entire Earth as our backing."

After Gu Liang left, a school leader couldn't help but say, "Isn't this kid a little too thoughtful? Is he afraid that we'll put too much pressure on other students?"

Zong Qinyuan folded his arms and laughed: "Yes."

“When I was planning to study for a doctorate, my advisor specifically asked me if I could drink,” the school leader also laughed. “Unfortunately, I was too stubborn at the time and shook my head and said no. Fortunately, my advisor finally accepted me, otherwise I would have no books to read.”

"So I just observed for most of the day. Do you know what I think Gu Liangyi's biggest problem is?"

Everyone was curious and asked what he was talking about. He said seriously, "This kid has both high EQ and IQ, but it's not enough to just make achievements in the professional field. In modern research, academic ability is of course the most important, but eloquence is also very important! From the establishment of research funding projects to recruiting graduate students and doctoral students to do experiments, which one does not require eloquence?"

"Gu Liangyi is just too honest! Just now, when you asked him, Principal Zong, he actually admitted that he was testing the waters. He is not a fool at all! How can this be possible?"

Zong Qinyuan's mouth twitched.

"How dare you say that to others?"

He recalled the time when he had just graduated and was so drunk by his senior sister that he crawled around under the table and cried loudly. He couldn't help but sigh, "If you hadn't been fooled by your senior sister at the dinner table, would you have agreed to stay in school in a fit of anger? Otherwise, you would have been at home with your wife and children by now."

"Uh, well... you know, your sister-in-law is from Qilu..."

Seeing that he looked embarrassed, everyone burst into laughter.

It is not just the students who are forced to separate from their families, but also this group of middle-aged people who are the backbone of their families.

However, there are eight out of ten things in life that are not as we wish, just like this drone test flight. At worst, we can just deal with it.

Moda has gone through ups and downs in the past 150 years. Isn't this the way every leadership team has gone through?

"Let's go to the meeting." Zong Qinyuan patted his back and said with a smile.

At least he was still young, he thought to himself.

So, classmate Gu Liang, don’t worry.

Even though the situation is not optimistic, it is far from the time to pass the baton to the next generation.