Doctor, I'm really strong!

In December 1110 of Terra, another nation from the Punishing: Gray Raven world joined the Community's Dimensional Trade System: the Adil Business Alliance, imbued with Arabian and Egyptian influences. With this, the three major economic entities of the Punishing: Gray Raven world established cooperative relationships with the Community, and the Hanging Gardens were rapidly marginalized.

Regarding the Punishing: Gray Raven world, Liu Jiuli's attitude is to maintain normal interactions and wait for the right opportunity.

That area is also a post-apocalyptic wasteland environment, and it does not have the conditions to develop in a short period of time. Putting aside everything else, just cleaning up the infected is a huge project. Even if the Punishing Virus cannot infect the new generation of humans and constructs with antibodies, it can still survive and reproduce by relying on the human facilities it previously controlled, and has even begun to build a completely new social structure.

Who knows, once the humans over there begin to rebuild their civilization, they might first have to engage in a fierce battle with these guys. No one knows what the deepest Parmis virus has become; it could very well be a protracted war. At that point, let alone living, even survival will become incredibly stressful, and in the end, they'll still have to rely on the powerful support of the community to solve the problem.

The community's future plans include entering the Punishing: Gray Raven world and incorporating it into the community.

But who can predict the future? It's always good to have more contingency plans, especially since there's always the possibility that the enemy might act erratically.

For example, Kazimierz's recent erratic behavior has become quite serious.

Section 365: People Gradually Awakening

(Europe is pursuing full carbon neutrality, and I'm really curious to know if their electricity is environmentally friendly ╮(╯▽╰)╭)

Have you ever felt anxious?

Although I've done everything I was supposed to do, I still feel like something's missing, and I feel restless and anxious.

Kazimir, or more accurately, the entire free world, is gripped by this anxiety.

On January 1, 1111, a large-scale workers' uprising broke out in Rembiton. The Rembiton bourgeois government was overthrown by the workers' pickets. This event is known as the "January Revolution" or the "Great Rembiton Uprising".

The most terrifying thing is that there is no trace of a community in this matter.

The community certainly has its own organization within Rembiton, officially called the "Rembiton Workers' Community," but the uprising group is called the "Rembiton Workers' Federation," and this organization has no direct relationship with the community. If aiding with weapons counts as establishing a relationship, then the community did provide them, but that's about the extent of the connection.

Other labor movements, including armed uprisings, were carried out by the Rembitox Workers' Union itself, with the community playing a role more like a negligible angel investor.

The proletariat began to organize spontaneously and fight for their future.

From being driven to spontaneously starting a rebellion, and then to the success of that spontaneous uprising, the proletariat of Terra has accumulated ample experience in struggle.

This marks the transition of the proletarian struggle from its infancy to maturity.

However, we must also recognize that there are those who compromise in the struggle. Most struggles end in failure, but as long as they are willing to stand up and speak out, the world will surely change.

Beyond the spiritual elevation, the most important thing is that the proletariat gained a solid material foundation.

Remember anabolic antibodies? Starting in late 1108, the community began distributing anabolic antibody vaccines nationwide and providing them in large quantities to other countries, including Victoria and Colombia, which could not refuse the huge benefits brought by anabolic antibody vaccines.

Oripathy on Terra was quickly suppressed to unknown corners. The community has launched a call to "completely eradicate Oripathy" across the entire continent. In the future, assimilation antibody vaccines will become the standard antibody vaccine for newborns, allowing humanity to bid farewell to the suffering era of Oripathy.

The slogans were very inspiring, and then the countries of Terra realized they had been tricked.

Oripathy has disappeared, the infected people have disappeared, and the conflicts of the past have also disappeared. So what's left?

The answer is: class contradictions erupted in full force.

When infected people no longer need to worry about their tomorrow, about dying suddenly, or about the hostile stares of others, they become normal ordinary people and begin to seek their own rights, hoping for a better tomorrow. They stand up and speak out loud, and then they discover that there is a ceiling above their heads blocking their upward development.

In the past, the conflict between ordinary people and those infected meant they would look at each other more often. But now, they are all starting to look up and see things they hadn't paid attention to before.

At this moment, what would ordinary people think if a country called Community presented a bright future called Hope?

At the very least, they will know to leave and go to a more prosperous place to live.

Along with the spread of the community's assimilation antibody vaccine, the community's "common ideas" also spread. Countless pilgrims came to Steel Grid, and then, with new ideas and strength, returned to their former homeland to do something that no one had ever done before—liberation!

Faced with swords pointed at them, the blue camp, led by Colombia, panicked.

If these conflicts had erupted slowly, they would still have had a chance to do something. But the community's vaccine rollout was too fast, covering almost the entire Terra continent in less than three years. The new generation and those infected with the vaccine are now normal ordinary people. Since they are ordinary people, they should naturally fight for their rights as human beings.

What the community can give, why shouldn't you give it to us? We want to protest, we want to resist, we want to fight for it!

The United States once developed an anti-dragon-slaying technique, but that took time. Any plan takes time, and such countries are prone to collapse when faced with external pressure. Colombia is clearly still relatively inexperienced in this regard and cannot reach the level of the United States. The power of the community camp is far too great, which has directly led to them not knowing what to do now.

At times like these, they are filled with nothing but anxiety, just like the United States felt when the Soviet Union stole the first manned spaceflight. They felt like ants were crawling all over them.

What worries them even more is that the community has absolutely no patriarchal tendencies in dealing with diplomatic issues of similar countries.

Or perhaps they have no interest in making the other party completely subservient to them. If you succeed, that's your skill; if you're willing to join us, we welcome you; if you're not willing to join, we regret it. That's all. The rest is normal interaction between the two countries, as usual.

Therefore, the relationship between the Community and New Rembiton is very good. Business on both sides continues as usual, and Rembiton has sent many students to study in the Community. Although the Community does not control Rembiton, this open-mindedness itself represents a strong attraction. It is estimated that in a few decades, Rembiton will have to take the initiative to apply to join the Community.

In this strategic environment, it would be truly commendable if the pan-blue camp could maintain its rationality, but unfortunately, they cannot.

Anxious people want to do something to relieve their anxiety, so they thought of causing trouble, causing trouble in the direction of Kazimir.

Casimir certainly doesn't have the guts to launch an attack on the Community, but he certainly has the guts, and a great deal of guts, to use that as a pretext to demand benefits from Colombia.

After all, we're risking our lives, so what's wrong with you contributing some money?

So, is Kazimierz really that willing to be someone else's dog?

No, that's not it. The main reason is that Kazimierz is mostly populated by financial capitalists. After looking at the fates of their counterparts in the countries liberated by the community, they felt that if they surrendered, their fate might be quite tragic. Being hung from a lamppost would be so painful; they absolutely couldn't be hanged there.

After that, the Kazimierz Commercial Association changed its strategy. Not only did it become much more restrained, but it also took the initiative to contact the knights who were fighting abroad, using the simple and direct method of packing lists.

Look, I'm a capitalist, and you're a feudal lord. If the community attacks, I'll end up on a lamppost, and you'll end up on the guillotine. Both sides are going to die. Since we have no other choice, we can only unite. That way, the community will be more cautious and won't dare to attack easily.

Even a fool could tell that this was just self-comfort, but is there a better way?

Despite the mutual aversion between the two sides (mutual disgust between capitalism and feudalism), they could only reluctantly agree to the marriage in the face of the common street lamp ornaments and Louis XVI's pleasure table.

The Stomachless Alliance, controlled by the Commercial Federation, was responsible for intelligence gathering, while the War Knights were responsible for training troops. Columbia sent its latest technology to Casimir, partly to provide assistance and partly to collect data on new weapons.

For example, only those who have been on the battlefield know which aspects of the newly developed powered armor are effective and which are not. Let the knights of Casimir help find out the problems with these new equipment by risking their lives in border conflicts.

Colombia will be grateful to them, they might even erect a monument. And so the border conflict between Casimir and the Community came about.

Those soldiers who fought back were nothing but cannon fodder.

Section 366: In this business, you have to keep your word.

(New book ready (～￣▽￣)～)

Mechs have always been a popular topic, but the awkward reality is that tanks are more cost-effective than mechs when it comes to large-volume defensive vehicles, and even armored vehicles are more advanced than mechs.

What can be done with large mechs, armored vehicles can do at a lower cost. However, research on individual powered armor has never been relaxed, and various countries have shown great interest in it.

The reason is very simple: individual soldier armor, or powered armor, can effectively improve the combat capability of individual soldiers, especially their load-bearing capacity and movement speed. The difference between being able to carry 10 kilograms of supplies on an off-road trip and being able to carry a ton of supplies on a long march is like two different dimensions.

Powered armor for individual soldiers is an amplifier of individual strength, and the individual soldier is the most basic unit in human combat. If an individual increases combat power by 10%, after being amplified by the collective, this difference is enough to shatter the balance on the battlefield.

Therefore, the major countries of Terra have invested heavily in technology, funds, and talent in this area, but the Community has gone the furthest so far.

The main reason is that Liu Jiuli had an advantage in the early stages. Individual powered armor and exoskeleton technology were already quite mature in both Terra and Earth civilization, but they couldn't solve the problems of cost and energy. However, these were not problems for Liu Jiuli, as he directly used pure Originium as his energy source.

What does that mean? It's equivalent to each soldier's energy backpack being equivalent to half a Ford-class aircraft carrier.

The Omnipotent Factory directly mass-produces pure Originium, violently solving the problems of insufficient energy and unstable Originium. It also spares no expense in crafting high-quality products, which are then handed over to the Omnipotent Factory for mass production using basic particle recombination technology.

This is where the community's most bullying aspect lies: the things you can only meticulously craft in the lab can be mass-produced by players as soon as they get their hands on them, and then they overwhelm you with ten, a hundred, or even ten thousand times the quantity.

The situation was similar to Germany pushing in 100,000 Tiger tanks during the Battle of Kursk; how could the Soviet Union possibly win?

Actually, they could win if the German logistics team collectively rebelled, hahaha.

With ample experimental data, the Community's subsequent research became much easier. Coupled with its substantial investment of resources, other countries simply could not surpass the Community in this area.

The simplest example is that the community's flexible exoskeleton uses Originium Carbon, a mutated carbon crystal with extremely slow production efficiency. In every ton of Originium Carbon, the effective ingredient is less than 0.002 grams.

However, the community only needs to obtain a qualified Originium Carbon, and the Universal Factory can mass-produce it, then use it to produce power armor, and then replicate it to produce power armor, solving the mass production problem in no time.

Therefore, in many cases, even if the enemy captures the community's weapons, they are powerless to do anything about it.

Just like the difference between the accounts of poor players and whales in Tencent games, the latter's skills and talents are nothing new to you, but the same move can deal millions of damage to them, while you would consider it an extraordinary performance if you only get three digits.

The solution is to throw money at it, but even if Colombia poured all of its GDP into it, it wouldn't make a difference.

According to a leading expert in the relevant field in Colombia: We know how the Community's powered mechs are designed, and we can build them, but we can't afford to!

A desperate cry from the poor.

Since there's no other way but to work on basic materials, the only option is to focus on the cheapest options. The Community's power armor uses advanced composite materials, which are lightweight, offer good protection, and have excellent mobility. The Colombian side can only sacrifice mobility and weight, emphasizing defense and load capacity. As for endurance, it's fine for regular movement, but once war breaks out and the power armor starts to output power at high intensity, it will run out of power in no time.

To put it bluntly, this is still an immature experimental product, so we'll have to trouble the knights of Kazimierz to test it out.

So what were the results?

What else can you do? After saying so much, do you really expect to create miracles here? Reality isn't some idealistic GW script where you can either kill an evil god at best or lose to a Titanium-level enemy at worst. An AK47 can't penetrate an M1A2, no matter how many times you knock the barrel down and destroy it.

At the level of individual weapons, the community's power armor can effectively defend against weapons of the same level. If you want to use something bigger, their land-based ships are not just for show, and their reconnaissance aircraft in the sky are not blind. Moreover, their patrol teams are surrounded by radar stations and unmanned airship observation stations, etc., and they can even call in missiles when necessary. With this configuration, you think you can defy the heavens with just a few knights and squires? You must have a lot of imagination.

After the group of cannon fodder sent by Joyful Delivery, the next group was not so "brave".

The conquering knights of Kazimierz aren't fools. They wouldn't entrust the most dangerous tasks to their highest-ranking knights. The conquering knights have no shortage of squires, or apprentice knights. Now is your time to prove your loyalty. Put on this latest power armor from Colombia and go prove yourselves.

No sooner had these knights left than the knight announced that his squire had run away and stolen his state-of-the-art Columbia power armor, and that anyone who saw it should help him bring it back.

After all, everyone knows the community's vengeful nature. If they don't seriously shift the blame now, it will be too late once the community's air force drops the bombs.

So shouldn't the smartest thing to do be to avoid provoking the community?

That's true, but does Kazimir have a choice now? Whether it's for their own interests or some other random thing, as long as the ruling class of Kazimir is unwilling to join the community, they will inevitably resist to the death. No class will willingly withdraw from the stage of history.

Moreover, the immigrant cities on the border of the community have indeed brought enormous mental stress and financial losses to the conquering knights, because everyone has gone to the community, and their factories and fields cannot find qualified labor.

The community is like a massive population black hole, forever thirsting for people. Especially on the current continent of Terra, most people don't really have a concept of a nation. Nationalism is still a belief of the upper and middle classes and hasn't spread to the lower classes. What Liu Jiuli is doing now is to divert the foundation of the lower classes and make the ruling classes of other countries start to fight amongst themselves. Once they start fighting, these countries will most likely be in civil war. With the community eyeing them from the outside, civil war is like the Melozong riding in an open-top car on the street—they're all doomed.

These countries either have their ruling class sacrifice their own wealth for the lower classes, forcibly prevent population movement, or take a two-pronged approach. But no matter which approach they take, they cannot completely solve their internal problems. As long as the internal problems cannot be completely resolved, there will always be a time when they can no longer suppress the contradictions. Capitalist countries that cannot leech off external resources are the most likely to self-destruct.

The knights of Kazimierz wanted to create regional tensions through this method to prevent civilians from fleeing to the community, regardless of how many people might die in the process.

In this way, the conquering knights preserved their population, Columbia obtained the experimental data, and everyone had a bright future. This is called a win-win situation, with the ruling class winning twice.

As for those cannon fodder, who cares?

But cannon fodder aren't stupid either. If you're ruthless, then don't blame me for being unjust.

Aside from those whose family members were being held hostage and who had no other choice, any knight's squire who could have chosen to escape would have defected to the Communists on the spot, taking Colombia's latest technology with them and revealing everything they knew, making Casimir look foolish on the international stage.

The Knights of Conquest naturally responded with a triple denial: "I didn't, I didn't, don't talk nonsense."

But the community won't tolerate you. We already have the evidence. You've brought this upon yourself, so don't blame us for being ruthless.

Soon, the community came up with a solution to the border dispute.

The Kasimir government is largely to blame for this issue. Since they are unwilling to take responsibility, we will force them to do so with missiles.

If you attack our immigrants, we'll bomb your capital, specifically targeting wealthy areas and the homes of prominent businessmen, to see if your ruling class in Qazimir truly has the guts to fight to the death.