Eh? Do you also want to try the iron fist of the humanoid girl?

A technician said, "Okay, preload completed."

"Wow!" Carl shouted excitedly, "How is the model accuracy? Can it reach the expected 70%?"

"I'm sorry, the accuracy is still not ideal."

A neurobiologist said with disappointment:

"I still believe that we should first improve the accuracy of local brain function areas and then verify whether the current ideas are feasible."

"Damn it, that would just bring us back to our traditional path."

Professor Karl Wilhelm Hartmann was unwilling to accept this, but this was the reality before him.

“But then we wouldn’t really understand the workings of the human brain.”

Because the brain is a complex network organized and connected by multiple different functional areas, the hierarchical, multi-scale, highly connected, multi-central hub network topology determines the brain's task-related and spontaneous activities.

If they divide the research into regions, they will not be able to gain insight into the brain's cognitive mechanisms by exploring the aggregation and divergence of the brain's structural connections, functional connections, and effective connections. Subsequent research and exploration into advanced intelligence such as intuition, insight, emergence, and creativity will be difficult to carry out.

Chapter 3 European Military Integration

"...How was your first day in Berlin?" said the voice on the other end of the line.

Raphael sat sideways by the window, overlooking the city scenery on both sides of the Spree River.

The river originates from the northern foot of the Lausitz Mountains in the southeast, flows northward through wide swamps, forms many lakes, and merges into the Havel River in the Berlin area.

Raphael propped his cheek with his hand to dispel the river information that popped up in his mind, and replied lazily:

"It was boring, whether it was the welcoming party or the concert later... It's not that the concert was disappointing, but after seeing some of the things, I couldn't help but feel uncomfortable."

“They are refugees.”

Those people are pitiful.

Although most of them were in their early 20s and their clothes looked pretty good, they were just not suitable for the season. Many of them didn't have shoes, and their feet were red, swollen and black from the cold, and some were even oozing pus.

Some said in halting English, “I’m sick.”

It is obvious that the early arrival of winter continues to damage their health.

Most of these people carried ordinary photos of their families - children, wives, parents.

What surprised Raphael was that the guys in the exchange group who often spoke dirty words did not make dirty jokes as usual.

Some people looked at the photos and shook their heads.

There is nothing we can do about it, this is a global disaster. Some people said, "I hope we can do something for them, even if it's just giving them some food."

But someone immediately reminded us: "We are not here to do charity."

"..."

Raphael turned off the emotion module and said coldly and mechanically:

"After that, winter came earlier than ever before in Europe, and the temperature dropped even lower... The investigation into the explosion at the Shinobuyama ruins has not yielded any results yet, right?"

"No, that is a restricted area for life."

General Harry rubbed his brows. It's not that the US military didn't try. They found the lunar test prototype from the moon landing plan decades ago from the warehouse, repaired it and put it into the city of Fukushima.

Unfortunately, the rover only lasted two minutes. No matter how hard the remote control operators tried, they could not save it from going offline.

"……Oh."

The day after arriving in Berlin, Raphael came to the conclusion that coming to Germany from the United States was just like jumping from one quagmire to another.

It's a bit sloppy, but the external appearance of the city is almost the same.

Raphael hung up the phone, turned on the TV and started paying attention to the news.

It's snowing heavily outside now. If you don't watch the news, the only way to get information is the Internet.

Honestly speaking, although there is a lot of information on the Internet, most of that information has been fabricated countless times by busybodies and conspirators, and the original information has long been distorted into what they need.

Although there are many active users in community forums and social software, their speeches are mostly filled with extreme personal emotions, and those places are the place to vent trash emotions.

It is truly an amazing ability for Feiniao to pick out valid and reliable instant messages from the garbage dump.

"...The permission to go out hasn't been issued yet?" Lingyin pulled a chair over and sat down.

"No."

"It is said that protests and demonstrations have become more frequent, affecting the normal operation of the city... Simply put, it is unsafe."

"Why is it unsafe?" Raphael asked puzzledly.

How can we hold a parade when there is so much snow outside? This is Berlin, the capital of Germany, not France, which has an old revolutionary base next door.

To be honest, the French are the real deal. They will take to the streets to protest when they are not satisfied.

It is hard to imagine that Germany, a country with a conservative and old-fashioned atmosphere, would hold demonstrations on such a snowy day.

"The demands of these people seem quite normal," Fei Niao tilted his head, "They are against low-condition immigration, against accepting refugees, and they also want to dismantle the European Union."

The essence of dismantling the European Union is to restore the currency, and after restoring the original currency, devaluation operations can be carried out.

Only in this way can these EU countries restore their competitiveness and then there will be hope for industrial revitalization.

Germany exports its excess industrial capacity to all its allies and even the world through the European Union.

This is a problem that has had to be faced since the Second Industrial Revolution. Either choose Hitler and become fascist, or split into East and West Germany. The smart Germans chose to win over France to establish the European Union, thereby promoting European integration.

Now, due to the impact of extreme weather, production efficiency has declined, resulting in a decrease in industrial shipments, but it still occupies nearly half of the market within the EU, and the rest is sold overseas.

Through this kind of union with other European countries, it can lower its own currency, and then increase the purchasing power of goods in other countries by exporting euros to other European allies.

This is the survival strategy Germany has chosen over the past few decades.

The protest groups that are constantly emerging outside and calling for the breakup of the European Union are essentially trying to undermine Germany's modern roots.

The second is the rise of anti-immigration sentiment.

Berlin is full of poplar-skinned immigrant Christians, who work the lowest-level jobs in the city.

These jobs, and their output, mean almost nothing to Germany.

They gather in big cities, which drives down local labor costs, which is equivalent to lowering local people's income levels and indirectly affects local people's living standards.

Then, because of the EU’s policies, its currency is particularly strong and its exports are uncompetitive, so all industries are moving abroad.

The problem is that the Mt. Nobuo explosion in Japan in 2030 made it impossible for this kind of globalization to continue.

No matter who is in power and leading the policy, they cannot resist the trend of the decline of globalization.

However, no matter how much ordinary people object, such low-end population immigration will never stop.

Because they actually need these people to engage in low-end labor industries that local people are unwilling to do but that must be done.

The locals are unwilling to do it because they can still survive. This is the so-called high social welfare, and they also enjoy sufficiently favorable labor protection to enable them to work with ease.

The secular society, which should have been unified, gradually became divided because of such divisions, which naturally lowered the living standards of the local people.

A nation or a country has a large enough social membership to form a complete system of social division of labor and cooperation, so it is a solid community of interests.

At the same time, for them, foreigners have few common interests with them, and there is little need for division of labor, cooperation and collaboration. Instead, the conflict of interests that there is no room for two tigers in one mountain dominates.

"These marches are nothing but a cover," Raphael found the news she was looking for. She flipped over her iPad and showed the headlines to Fei Niao and Ling Yin. "German and French representatives jointly proposed the implementation of the EU Military Integration Act. Today, October 10th..."

Chapter 4 Signs of Reconciliation

According to the Integration Act, Germany and France will take the lead in fundamentally breaking up their original organization, establishing a Franco-German military alliance, and achieving Franco-German military integration.

Once this step shows initial results, we will then move on to promoting EU military integration.

In the past, Germany and France actively promoted the EU's own coalition system. In fact, they wanted to kick the United States out and start a new one outside of NATO against the backdrop of the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact and the reduction of military pressure in the East to almost nothing. A more far-reaching idea was to make the EU another pole outside of the United States.

The idea is beautiful, but the reality is very ugly.

After Putin came to power, Russia quickly reorganized its military and sent a strong and clear attitude to the outside world through the Georgian War:

Moscow has both the power and the will to reestablish the Tsarist sphere of influence.

So, do Germany and France have the ability and willingness to help Eastern Europe resist Russia?

We can see this from the choices made in Eastern Europe - even if Paris and Berlin said yes, no one in Eastern Europe would believe it - in comparison, Washington's aircraft carrier fleet looks more solid.

Therefore, the embarrassment of "EU military integration" at that time lay in this: the defense needs of other EU countries - especially those with greater defense pressure - and those of Germany and France did not overlap as much as those of NATO.

Since NATO is more popular, the plan of Germany and France to set up a new organization will naturally die in the womb.

In addition, the existence of NATO means not only the unification of European military forces, but also that North American forces can be relied upon, and even that the United States can play a leading role in it.

For Europe during the Cold War and even up to now, there is naturally no need for European military integration.

Military affairs are a matter of life and death for a country. There will be no substantial progress until political integration has reached a sufficient level.

Specifically speaking, military integration is not just about merging the armies of various countries and naming it the European Forces.

How to allocate personnel, how to allocate military funds, how to establish command authority and chain of command, how to determine military strategy, etc., these are all very thorny issues.

This is just a purely "military" problem that needs to be faced and solved, the more important one is "political".

For example, if a war really breaks out, how can Eastern European countries trust the command of the commanders of other countries? After all, they are not their own children, so there is no need to worry about consumption.

For example, how to coordinate the security demands of Germany, France and the three Baltic countries?

This is the core of the problem. If political integration cannot be achieved, military integration will be an illusory castle in the air.

The current situation is different from the past.

Although there are still US troops stationed throughout Europe, most of their attention is focused on their homeland and Eastern Europe.

In the early stages of the disaster, Americans were actually doing quite well, except for the pollution along the Pacific coast.

The western to central inland areas would not be affected too much, as long as the collapsed fluid storage lattices washed ashore by the ocean currents were handled strictly and carefully.

The problem happened to occur at the processing plant of the collapsed fluid storage lattice. The illegal operations of these processors directly led to several violent explosions, turning Utah into an uninhabited area and affecting several surrounding states.

It is true that the Americans' disaster is the Europeans' opportunity.

The Ukrainian war crisis, the war crisis among the five Eastern European countries, the second rise of Russia and Burma, the impact of refugees from West Asia and North Africa, and the provocation of terrorism have further highlighted the EU's weakness and internal discord.

Britain's departure from the European Union and the failure of Italy's constitutional referendum have made Germany and France feel the shadow of the Cold War again.

While Raphael was sitting in the warm room provided by the hotel, absorbing the reserve knowledge needed for the exchange visit, many Nordic countries accepted the invitation of the new Soviet Union to negotiate the Barents Sea Air Defense Identification Zone.

According to RT Russia, the meeting went quite smoothly.

In response to this incident, as most people expected, the United States dispatched an aircraft carrier strike group from the Atlantic Fleet to the North Atlantic for military exercises.

Many unscrupulous media kept talking about the war and the imminent arrival of World War III. Raphael wanted to twist off the heads of these stupid experts.

If a war really breaks out, who would openly turn on the maritime identification signal and announce the GPS coordinates of the exercise area?

Perhaps the core knowledge of these journalists is to wish for a peaceful and peaceful world, she thought.

It is quite ironic that the first good news after the New Year actually came from the new Soviet Union - the Siberia lifeline project was completed and land transportation in the Far East was restored.

Not only that, the industrial areas along the railway that were affected by the collapse radiation have also come back to life due to the full deployment of general industrial robots.

In early April, Norway announced that it would import the "ALR-4" series of general-purpose industrial robots through Finland to meet the needs of its own industrial upgrading.

The news was immediately interpreted as an attempt to thaw relations between Norway and the new Soviet Union.

In fact, this is not wrong. The new Soviet Union's military power was too strong. Even if it lost Ukraine, it successfully split the eastern region and plunged the original western region into endless chaos.

This is like having a tank gun pointed at your head, asking you whether you want to live as a dog or die as a human.

Obviously, Norway has simply given up.

A few years ago, a weak Russia was able to beat the coalition forces of the five Eastern European countries into a state of disarray, and it was also able to defeat the Ukrainian army that took the opportunity to launch a sneak attack from the north.

The new Soviet Union, which has now crawled out of the war, has learned the ways of fighting in "modern warfare" and knows how to play to their original advantages.

This is very scary.

Germany and France are not without excuses for pursuing military integration. Today, NATO's command system is in a mess, and the Americans are obstructing it. If the new Soviet Union really wants to push all the way down, it is questionable how long this thing can last.

At the same time, Germany and France were conducting intensive military exchanges and preparing to form a coalition force.