Super Dimension Technology Era

The storm outside did not affect the inside of the shelter. In the simple room, the land gave humans a sense of security that the ocean could not bring.

Yamanaka Gin spread out a bag of emergency food. The contents were very simple, including 2 pieces of compressed biscuits, 1 pack of vitamin drink granules, 1 self-heating curry mashed potato, 1 pack of bean paste, 1 energy bar, and 2 plum candies. .

Light yellow vitamin punch, and then waiting for the curry mashed potatoes to heat up, while he gnawed on compressed biscuits.

"Captain Mishima, is this a military base of China?"

Mishima thought for a while and replied: "Maybe!"

"Gin, you believe it now!" Muto Dai said while eating mashed potatoes.

Yamanaka Gin was both excited and sad: "It's so cool, but it's a pity that the Self-Defense Forces cannot equip it..."

Mishima, who was immersed in eating, trembled slightly and then returned to normal. In fact, he was not as calm inside as he appeared.

He once served on a destroyer of the Japanese Self-Defense Force. After retiring in 2003, he joined the Ganggu Co., Ltd. where the Sapphire Princess was located.

Around 2000, China at that time was still lagging behind the world, but now it is completely different.

In just a few decades, Japan has become a world-class power. Japan also experienced a period of rapid development.

Unfortunately, with the signing of the Plaza Accord, Japan lost twenty years. The semiconductor industry was snatched away by Korea and the United States, and the electrical appliance industry was squeezed by the rising star China.

The situation has become even more pessimistic in recent years. China's comprehensive strengthening of semiconductors has overwhelmed Japan's remaining semiconductor equipment and raw materials.

Moreover, the overall rise of Huaguo Semiconductors has brought about another effect, that is, Huaguo's electrical appliance industry is also following the upgrading. Japanese electrical appliances, which could have captured some high-end product markets, have become more difficult.

Another pillar industry, automobiles, is also facing strong competition from Chinese electric vehicles.

Judging from the comparison of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2014, the first place is still the world's hegemon, the United States, with 16.3 trillion U.S. dollars, the second place is China's 12.3 trillion U.S. dollars, and the third place is Japan's 5.8 trillion U.S. dollars. Trillions of dollars.

It seems that the United States is still strong. In fact, the economic growth of the United States last year was 0.2%, while Japan's direct negative growth was 2.4%.

China has benefited from the rise of its four pillar industries: semiconductors, virtual worlds, terahertz communications, and high-energy batteries and electric vehicles. Its economic growth rate last year reached 19.7%.

Coupled with the rapid growth in 2012 and 2013, the economic scale has grown by a compound rate of 43% in three years. It is estimated that it can still maintain a growth of more than 10% this year.

This is the result of the United States' desperate suppression. If it had not suppressed it, it is estimated that it would have become the world's largest economy around 2018.

Captain Mishima lamented in his heart that the world was changing too fast, and Japan was a country that lived in a crack, so it was really difficult.

Today, his worldview has been greatly impacted, and the impression that the United States has been invincible has once again been shaken.

After hastily eating curry potatoes, Mishima lay on the bed, but could not calm down the throbbing in his heart for a long time.

Depressed, he put on his shirt and walked toward the corridor alone without waking up the others.

In the dim corridor, it was already dead of night. Walking in the long passage, the patter of rain hit the glass window.

Through the glass window, the exoskeleton armored warrior with the red indicator light flashing was still patrolling unswervingly.

He took out a box of cigarettes from his trouser pocket. It was a box of Captain's made in Japan. There were only two remaining cigarettes in it.

The flame of the lighter lit one of the cigarettes, and he took a strong puff. The strong tobacco smell was mixed with a hint of tea bitterness.

call! As the cigarette was exhaled from his lungs, there was a slight aftertaste similar to that of tea. He just quietly looked at the exoskeleton armored patrol outside the window while puffing on the cigarette.

As the last bit of tobacco burned out, an endless loneliness surged into his heart. Mishima seemed to be a lonely ghost, and his whole person suddenly felt lost.

Suddenly, he walked towards the afternoon sales warehouse in a strange way. He walked aimlessly along the way until he saw the two temporary phone booths.

"Can I use the Internet at the phone booth?"

The salesperson who was busy counting supplies pointed at the large screen beside her without raising her head: "There is an English operation guide on it."

"Hi! Ariado!" Mishima bowed slightly, then turned his head and watched the big screen carefully.

He read it very carefully, even more carefully than when he was taking the college entrance examination. Mishima seemed not to want to give up any words, and he was reading the Chinese version.

Huh? Can I connect to a virtual network?

Opening the temporary phone booth, there was indeed an iron bed inside, with a glass cabinet beside it, somewhat similar to a vending machine.

After inserting 50 US dollars into the coin slot, a box automatically popped out of the cabinet with a pair of brainwave glasses inside.

Mishima took the brainwave glasses, walked to the bed and lay down, put on the brainwave glasses, and then his vision went dark. In the chaos, he entered a whole new world.

However, since he entered the Nanke Dream World as a tourist, he could only move in designated areas, and many functions were also restricted.

After lingering for more than three hours, he unknowingly arrived at a virtual library.

[Library of Truth]

Gently pushing the door open, the library was empty, as if in a stand-alone world, with rows of books displayed on the shelves.

Suddenly Mishima stopped in front of a bookshelf.

These books were rare banned books in Japan. He even saw a Japanese version of Selected Works of Mao Zedong. He pulled the books out of the bookshelf and summoned a set of tables and chairs.

As he flipped through the pages, most of the night had passed before he knew it. Mishima stayed up all night, just reading quietly.

Mishima didn't wake up from his contemplation until his brainwave glasses automatically reminded him that he only had ten minutes left to go online.

After waking up, he took a deep look at the red star on the cover, as if he wanted to engrave it deep in his heart.

Click offline.

He opened his eyes and returned to the real world again, but he felt like a new life, and all the doubts in the past suddenly became clear.

"Maybe this is my mission." Mishima whispered to himself.

He stood up and moved around, returned the brainwave glasses, and after paying $50 back, he returned to the shelter.

When Muto and Yamanaka Gin asked where they went last night, Mishima evaded the matter by saying that he had experienced a virtual world once, and then confused the matter.

As for the spark burning in his heart, Mishima has no plans to tell others for the time being. There are too few like-minded people in Japan.

However, he has already planned to buy a terahertz mobile phone. The terahertz mobile phone is on the high seas and can directly log into the Chinese Internet.

Typhoon Whale finally left the waters of the Nansha Islands completely at noon on June 27 and headed towards Qiongzhou in the north.

After eating several meals of emergency food, the crew and passengers couldn't wait to return to the Sapphire Princess and go through the relevant procedures.

The Sapphire Princess blew its whistle to pay tribute to Huayang Reef, and then headed to Siam according to the established route.

The news that China was equipped with exoskeleton armor also spread like wildfire around the world with the departure of the Sapphire Princess.

All of a sudden, relevant institutions around the world received news about the exoskeleton armor.

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