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This is why Lao Xia focused more on teaching them the theoretical aspects rather than providing hands-on instruction in practical skills. He believed these people were the future professors and teachers, the apostles responsible for spreading this knowledge.

Therefore, what they need to do is to pass on this theoretical knowledge to the next generation of middle-aged people as quickly and as much as possible.

Those people will become the next generation of professors, who will further digest this knowledge, then solidify their foundation through practical application, and master a range of details and techniques.

At the same time, we can explore new directions and questions in new fields, and then pass these on to the next generation of young people. Only then can a complete academic cycle be formed.

Some are responsible for passing on the torch, some for questioning, and some for pioneering; the torch is passed on from generation to generation, endlessly.

Instead of Lao Xia leading one batch of curious children and then having another batch of the exact same curious children, doing the same repetitive cycle.

"I'll talk to the college..." The professor rubbed his head. Old Xia's words made sense; what was needed most right now were people with teaching abilities.

It's not people with research capabilities who need to disseminate this knowledge, because the pioneering work is indeed still in its early stages.

The college said, "Isn't it a bit too early for those new students to learn these things? Their foundation is still too weak."

Every professor felt that this requirement was a bit too frivolous, and that it would seriously affect their study and research time.

"Everyone, I understand your thirst for knowledge and truth, but..." The doctor had a headache because being honest was really hurtful, "Do you think you can create anything in your lifetime? I mean, for Lao Xia, have you reached the standard where you can independently start your own research projects?"

These words were extremely hurtful, and almost every professor looked displeased. It was as if they were being questioned about their academic level and their spirit of inquiry, and any scholar with even a little academic pride and ambition would find it hard to tolerate.

However, on the other hand, their basic qualities as scholars and students also forced them to admit that what the PhD said was the truth.

"Almost. Let go when you should. Every generation has its own tasks. Some things should be left to the next generation. Even if you have confidence, perseverance, or even the luck, even if you have enough time, you should leave some unknowns for the next generation, rather than giving them a known but boring world."

These words touched everyone slightly. As scholars who were once at the forefront of Terra, they knew this feeling best. All the areas they could explore while they were alive were known, while the unknown areas were hidden on the other side, unattainable. Studying all their lives, they were still patching things up in a small circle. Nothing could make a true scholar more anxious and troubled than this.

"Okay, we'll slow down a bit from now on and try to mentor as many young people as possible."

The professors looked visibly dejected. They stood before the door of truth, beyond which lay an infinite unknown world, but old age and declining strength prevented them from opening it. They could only pass the opportunity on to future generations…

"Moreover, Lao Xia is not the most outstanding scholar in their civilization. He is just an ordinary university graduate, even if he is one of the better ones."

But this only means you've grasped the basics; you're not yet qualified to explore the unknown on your own. Do you understand what that means?

"This means that if things continue like this, if Terra encounters an unknown civilization, we won't even have students to learn their cutting-edge knowledge!"

This was something Lao Xia hadn't expected, but it was a terrifying thing that the Doctor realized immediately, because to the Star Alliance, Lao Xia was just an apprentice and student who had mastered less than half of the known domains.

If Terra were to encounter such a civilization, it would mean that Terra wouldn't even have the capacity to gather scholars to learn the other's cutting-edge knowledge. If this group of old professors were to die and the next generation of young people weren't brought up in time, then the difference between the two civilizations would be no different from that between primitive and modern people, and they wouldn't even have the opportunity to learn from each other.

The doctor finally understood why Lao Xia said that a civilization without industrialization can only be considered primitive, or even a social wild animal.

Because you can't even learn and imitate, just like monkeys and apes can learn many simple mechanical operations from humans, but they can't even learn the basics of modern knowledge.

Therefore, even though they live in groups and have social characteristics, and under the influence of humans, they might even use guns and tools, they are still just a group of ignorant animals, and no one cares about them.

Industrialized civilization means having systematic knowledge of mathematics, physics, and chemistry, having schools, and having widespread education. They can at least understand the most basic knowledge and pass it down from generation to generation through education. If one generation can't do it, then ten generations will.

The pace of research and exploration by advanced civilizations slows down, and the deeper one delves into the truth, the slower the progress becomes. This creates an opportunity for those who come later to catch up, or at least to learn and imitate.

Therefore, for interstellar civilizations, only industrialized races can be considered civilized intelligent races.

Otherwise, they are just animals, even animals that can make and use tools, like chimpanzees, are still just animals.

Only civilizations that have entered the information and electronic age and begun to explore the stars can be considered relatively equal modern civilizations.

Only a civilization at this level can understand another's society, cognition, and understanding of the universe.

"Fortunately, we still have time, it's not too late," the doctor said. "As long as we start on the road, it's never too late to start."

Terra is now barely a civilization between industrialization and information technology. With the added benefits of the early inhabitants' technology, they can at least learn from Xia, imitate him, and even imitate him quite well.

"We understand now. We were indeed too... presumptuous." After a little thought, the meaning of these words became clear. They originally thought that Lao Xia was already at the top level, and that if they were just a little faster, they could reach the same height and expand outwards.

Now it seems that even if they reach or surpass Lao Xia's level, they may only be reaching the bottom line of the Star Alliance's "pioneering work," which is research work.

"Moreover, this is only in terms of biological and ecological theory. There is also the aspect of physics, which Lao Xia cannot help you with. Without this support, even your mentor himself would not be able to complete the most basic experimental operation learning in the last few years of his studies here."

This is also the doctor's biggest headache. He feels that what is needed now is a whole team of Star Alliance technical assistance experts. At the beginning, Lao Xia's knowledge can be said to be comprehensive.

However, once a certain limit is reached, there are many things that he only knows how to do but not why, because they are beyond his scope.

However, his own field also needs the support of achievements from other fields. Currently, Kazdel's agricultural and biological research relies entirely on the Covenant research and production equipment brought by Xia. However, the equipment can break down, and once it does, no one in the entire Terra can repair it.

The tunneling needle alone, which precisely locates gene base pairs and accurately cuts and moves the phosphorus, nitrogen, carbon, and hydrogen atoms within them, is difficult to manufacture and install, let alone the accompanying atomic-level scanning and detection equipment.

"If you haven't reached the level of unification, then go to sleep." These were Old Xia's exact words regarding the gene scanning equipment that replicated the Tree of Life. "I know what the Grand Unification Equation is, and I also know part of the proof process, but that's a different matter from you having mastered this level of physics knowledge and having that ability."

Now the PhD student also knows the solution to this equation, and after knowing it, his feelings are the same as Lao Xia's. He knows the answer, but he doesn't know the process, and the extension of this process is the means to apply this final answer.

However, compared to those civilizations that may never know the answers from the beginning to the end, perhaps Terra is... lucky?

"A collider with a diameter of at least one light-year, or, to be slightly more precise, a deflection collider with a diameter of five light-years, would use stars as the particle source and thirty-four surrounding stars as acceleration nodes. It would use the gravity of the stars and receivers and secondary accelerators set up in the orbit of the stars to accelerate the particles. Then, it would cycle in this way until it reached ultra-high-energy particles that were infinitely close to the speed of light. At that point, it would be possible to observe deeper fundamental particle phenomena such as gravitons..."

“The former is an almost impossible project, while the latter… you would need at least forty Generation Arks just to set up these devices, colonize the surrounding star systems, and still maintain considerable cohesion and dominance to do this.” This was Old Xia’s answer to the Doctor’s question about the Terrans’ understanding of the possibility of the reverse warp engine.

"Generally speaking, no civilization in the universe can complete this project alone within its own life cycle. All advanced civilizations that have mastered faster-than-light technology have completed this project by building upon the remains of more than one civilization."

The doctor began, "What makes us think we can accomplish such a great feat in just one generation?"

"Therefore, please make sure to sacrifice some time and opportunities to spread this hard-won basic knowledge as widely as possible."

Compared to the scholars, or even entire civilizations, who spend their entire lives waiting for a suitable solar eruption to obtain this source of colliding particles, this sacrifice seems insignificant.

"We understand, but is the gap really that big?"

"It's even bigger than that," the doctor sighed. "Their cutting-edge research uses high-energy graviton beams generated by two supernova explosions to collide, thus simulating the singularity state at the birth of the universe. In other words, a single study takes two hundred years and involves exploding two suns; we don't even have the right to be bystanders."

Of course, the main reason it takes two hundred years is to wait for the right sun and the right time. This is only because of the difficulty reduction effect of the ancestral equipment. For other dominant civilizations, it is normal for a single research project to take thousands of years and dozens of generations to complete.

As a result, students from the College of Agriculture and even other colleges that they felt had nothing to do with suddenly found that the difficulty and content of their studies had become incredibly challenging.

Of course, the difficulty is not something that can be overcome overnight. However, for students who are not very talented or have a good attitude towards learning, it is truly a case of "the world changes completely with the slightest change in attitude."

Moreover, the difficulty of teaching in basic schools at all levels is increasing rapidly in order to increase the base for learning at the next level. Under such circumstances, the phenomenon of child labor and wasting precious youth by going home to help in factories and rural areas becomes particularly glaring.

The "Compulsory Education Act" was the first compulsory law in the Republic of Kazdel, requiring all children and adolescents aged five to 15 to attend established, enclosed schools for education.

To this end, even all grassroots resources were mobilized. For ordinary rural families, this was an order that seemed somewhat unreasonable. It wasn't that they couldn't understand the importance of their child having a bright future; it was just that they were more concerned about the reduced income caused by the loss of a future breadwinner.

Sometimes, the needs of a civilization and a collective are mutually exclusive with the needs of an individual, and some people will gladly endure such sacrifices as a foundation for the future.

But not everyone can tolerate it—after all, the call for "not the rise of great powers, but the dignity of ordinary people" has never disappeared, has it?

Chapter Six: The Ursus Offensive

Chapter Six

On the Sami border, the Ursus 12th Army entered full-speed advance after receiving orders.

In just a few days, they entered eastern Sami territory and joined forces with the Eighth Army Group that had entered earlier. The combined strength of the two armies, based on the scale and state of previous wars, was enough to annihilate a small country.

In the Ussah War, the Sami actually played no real role; their significance lay in buying time for Colombia to mobilize more troops. The Sami served as a barrier separating Colombia and Ussah. Therefore, Colombians would do anything to protect the Sami, even at the cost of their own wealth.

In particular, the area between northern Colombia and southern Sami is almost entirely open plains with no natural defenses.

Once Colombia borders Ursus, it will inevitably have to maintain a formidable standing army for an extended period to guard against any potential southward expansion by Ursus.

The same situation applies to Lungmen and Kazimierz. As for Letania, it is because of the Kjerag Mountains that it has sufficient defense capabilities even though it borders Ursus.

The reason why Longmen is not worried is that Ursus is adjacent to Da Yan. If they dare to go south, Da Yan might dare to go west and cut off the invading forces' retreat, and vice versa.

The worst off is Qazimir, who are an example of those who had to maintain a large standing army, which severely hampered Qazimir's reforms and economic situation.

Especially when it is necessary to maintain a knight legion in order to defend against Ursus, it is difficult to eliminate those backward knight lords.

The problem is that individual strength and the old-fashioned elite armies are gradually being replaced by professional armies and various advanced equipment. In the Kazdel Civil War, the Southern Noble Alliance had already shown the world the old-style army. No matter how elite or how many strong soldiers there are, it is difficult to fight against professional armies on the battlefield.

The only saving grace is that the vast majority of Ursus's troops are also old-style armies, and the number of new troops is pitiful. As long as they have even a shred of rationality, they will not fight on two fronts.

However, Colombia is different. As a country controlled by two major arms companies and other large enterprises, they may lack patriotism, honor, discipline and morale, but they are not lacking in professionalism and technology - after all, for arms dealers, not having a war is a nightmare.

It's like how everyone looks down on the pampered soldiers of the Americans, but no one wants to encounter American soldiers on the battlefield, because just because they are pampered soldiers doesn't mean they can't fight!

The first Colombian Guards Division (equivalent to an infantry division) has arrived at the Sami capital defense line. Compared to the Ursus Assault Division, which still largely relies on trucks and animal power, their equipment is clearly much better, and they are equipped with a considerable number of light armored vehicles.

The Thunderhammer II Guardian Fighting Vehicle is a new vehicle improved with data and information obtained during the Kazdel Civil War. It can carry 8 infantrymen and 2 crew members and is equipped with a vehicle-mounted flamethrower. It is a good helper for quickly breaking through the defense line and launching guard units for close combat.

Sentinels are units responsible for close-quarters combat. In the past, Terra, they were equipped with melee weapons or simple rapid-casting devices to quickly break through the battlefield and approach and annihilate units in trenches.

The vanguard carries the lightest weapons to maximize mobility, allowing them to board the bridge and seize the bridgehead as quickly as possible, thus preparing for the deployment and advance of subsequent troops.

In the new era of warfare, the definitions of these two types of soldiers are also quietly changing. Due to the influence of the Kazdel Civil War, the former began to transform into normal mechanized infantry, while the latter transformed into professional reconnaissance soldiers.

The meanings of the military unit names in Terra are quite different from their literal meanings. For example, special forces soldiers are not all-around super soldiers, but refer to specialized technical units, such as engineers, fire brigades, chemical defense troops, and even cultural troupes.

Sniper units are not those that snipe important enemy targets from a long distance, but rather refer to long-range combat units that carry long-range weapons. However, the definition of sniper operators is now starting to get closer to that of real snipers.

There's not much to say about support and medical roles. The former refers to warlock units that master non-combat spells, providing a certain level of medical, delaying, and hindering support. The latter refers to medics. As for heavy armor, it has changed the least in the new era.

They were initially defined as operators who wore exoskeletons or heavy armor, providing intermediate defensive and propulsion capabilities on the battlefield. So, replacing the exoskeleton with a tank doesn't seem like a problem.

A single Guards Division was far from enough to deal with the number and scale of the enemy Sami was facing, while more Colombian troops were still gathering, changing equipment, and arriving with the transport fleet.

Now, Sami must rely on a Colombian Guards Division and his remaining three divisions to withstand the offensive pressure from four Ursus Vanguard Divisions.

The Ursus Eighth Army consists of two vanguard corps and one regular corps.

In other words, because of Sami's small territory, only a maximum of four divisions could be deployed on the main battlefield.

But this means they can take turns at any time, dragging the Sami and Colombians to their deaths here.

On an ordinary Thursday, after joining up with the 12th Army that had arrived from the rear, Ursus launched a full-scale offensive. They crossed the mountain barrier in eastern Sami and rushed directly into the Sami Basin, engaging in firefights with the Sami army troops stationed there.

"Whoosh—" One of the artillery forerunners could not withstand the continuous spell attacks and fell from the sky with a strange cry, then turned into a fireball that exploded on the ground.

However, more Artillery Forerunners, under the cover of spell drones, crossed the ridge to guide the attack for Ursus' mortar units and warlocks.

The new era of warfare brought the Sami forces to the brink of collapse in less than an hour.

For the Sami, their understanding of warfare was still stuck in the era of shield guards covering war sorcerers' attacks and Ursus's siege crossbowmen directly boarding and attacking cities. The Sami's sniper units were mostly equipped with pulley bows and ordinary combat crossbows, making them utterly powerless in the face of such battles.

This mobile town, comprised of dozens of super-large vehicles, was immediately subjected to intense artillery bombardment, with dozens of artillery pieces recklessly unleashing their firepower to find targets.

Before the Ursus Vanguard Force could even be seen, a Sami regiment-level unit stationed here was almost completely routed, and their reinforcements were intercepted by the Ursus Vanguard Force's assault troops.

A bombing drone carrying grenades swept over the paralyzed town structure, dropping a frozen bomb into the side commercial corridor. The shops facing the street had long been converted into firing ports and equipped with large crossbows, but these old-fashioned weapons were of no use and were taken out by the bombing drone, with nearly two-thirds of them destroyed.

The biggest inspiration that the Ursus military gained from the Kazdel civil war was the overwhelming use of drone air raids to clear the way.

Colombia, on the other hand, was interested in the combat capabilities of the later manned aircraft and the precision attack capabilities of the suicide drones.

After all, Columbia couldn't use thousands of infected as simple-trained warlocks to operate drones like Ursus did, or even torture them into keeping them linked while allowing the drones to launch suicide attacks.