It's just now; it's lunchtime. Everyone is gathered at home or in the cafeteria, preparing for lunch and a break.
After all, there are more than 24 hours of daylight each day, and no one can stay outside all day, so you can take advantage of the lunch break to get a few hours of rest.
Chen Daniu and his friends were squatting under the eaves of the house, holding their rice bowls and preparing for a delicious meal.
The reason they were squatting outside was mainly because they could no longer tolerate the pressure from their wives.
Every woman wants to rent a nice house, but only after having three or more children can she leave this awful place.
Everyone knows the environment in the building. Seeing that everyone seems to not care at all, we can't really do anything about it. Who wants to do something in the middle of the night and have the neighbors hear everything?
But what can they do? They are penniless and have no skills or abilities. How can they afford to live in a big house? Unless they can easily produce a few seeds that can improve everyone's living conditions, like Lu Yuan can, they can easily move to bigger and bigger houses step by step.
Or head to the battlefield. The battlefield is a very good place, but now the ferocity of the Blue Star people has spread to everyone's ears. They have good weapons and equipment, and possess a large number of heavy weapons.
In addition, four-fifths of the Earth's surface has already been occupied by the Blue Star people.
The remaining one-fifth of the area consists largely of deserts and similar regions.
How could they not be worried about surviving on Earth, living a precarious existence in a place where people gather, and constantly facing attacks from Earthlings?
Going to the battlefield is indeed a great opportunity to get rich quickly, but whether you can come back from the battlefield is a very big question.
Modern warfare is unlike the wars before the apocalypse, where tens of thousands of bullets could be fired in a single battle and only a few people could die.
The battlefield is different now. In wars here, many people may die before you even fire a single shot. Long marches can consume many lives.
They lacked resources and nutrition, and their physical condition was not good enough. When their vehicles ran out of gas, they had to get off and walk or walk along the coast. However, the boats moved very slowly, so it was better to walk instead.
Therefore, the troop deployment tasks within the army have always lagged behind the unpredictable and ever-changing battlefield conditions on the front lines.
The casualty rate is soaring. It's become very common for a force of 20,000 to be reduced to only 2,000 after less than half an hour of fighting on the front lines.
Therefore, people would rather live a life of hardship in this place than go to the battlefield.
Unless a firm order is issued from above, mandating the recruitment of soldiers, then no one can escape. Those who go to the battlefield can only pray that they don't die on the way or at the hands of the Earthlings, or that they can at least have a head-on confrontation with the Earthlings and kill one or two of them—that would be their only wish.
What makes modern warfare different from past wars is that modern warfare generally doesn't involve direct, head-on confrontations with guns, except in skirmishes.
Modern warfare is more about both sides capturing strategic points and then deploying their long-range weapons to bombard strategic locations on the other side.
This is the most common method, but this kind of attrition warfare depletes the survivors' resources extremely quickly. They need a lot of manpower to search for resources in various extremely harsh environments such as mines, caves, and pits to build weapons.
However, these places are generally so poor that the death rate can even exceed that on the battlefield, so hardly anyone is willing to go there in order to obtain these materials.
The military had to increase their rewards, and those who went down into the mines would enjoy the same conditions as those who went to the battlefield. However, the mortality rate for those who went down into the mines was extremely high, which is why not many people are willing to work in the mines now.
Then Lu Yuan's voice came through the microphone.
"Brothers, fellow countrymen, I am Lin Hao!"
Upon hearing Lu Yuan's words, almost everyone subconsciously put down their chopsticks and work, and looked up at the loudspeaker closest to them.
"I believe everyone has heard about the Blue Star people's attack on this place, so I won't go into details. The danger we face now is that the Blue Star army has landed, and we don't have much time left. We must now take up our guns and prepare to fight the enemy!"
As soon as Lu Yuan finished speaking, everyone in the tenement building and on the ground floor immediately erupted into chaos.
Who said they wanted to go to the battlefield? They didn't want to go to the battlefield. Everyone knew what going to the battlefield meant—it was a matter of losing their heads. The reason they survived was because they escaped all kinds of military service and went down into the mines. Although they didn't eat well, dressed poorly, and lived in extremely rudimentary conditions, they survived.
Someone immediately spat on the ground.
"What kind of person is he? He sends us to the battlefield just like that. If he's really willing to let anyone go, then let them go. I'm not going!"
"Exactly, exactly! If I wanted to go to the battlefield, I would have gone years ago. Who would still be here now!"
"Going to the battlefield means certain death, like cannon fodder. What's the point? The Earthlings still managed to invade!"
"That's right, preserving our own lives is the most important thing. We can't defeat the half-blue planet people!"
Almost everyone expressed their opposition. Chen Daniu, holding his bowl and chopsticks, looked around at the people and felt somewhat uncomfortable.
He used to be a volunteer for Earth's ecology and has been living on his own ever since.
He feels that being alive until now is a gift from God.
But now that the Earthlings have arrived and want to be their own gods, he certainly won't agree to that.
Of course he wanted to go to the battlefield, but he had a loving wife and two children at home.
If they have another child, they can move into a bigger house.
But now that the Earthlings have arrived and are about to destroy their home, it seems they no longer have a chance.
Next, they might be driven into the desert, their hometowns will be occupied, and their tenement buildings will be destroyed. The desert is not a place for humans to live.
The oxygen there is thin and the ultraviolet radiation is extremely strong. If you stay inside for less than a minute, your skin will be injured and peel off.
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