Chosen Evolution: I can load the protagonist template

Chapter 881 Energy Crisis, Wasteful EU

With the dissolution of the New Earth Federation, all nations have seemingly returned to the old era and adopted national titles corresponding to that era.

The struggles between nations will now be brought to the forefront, and with the addition of terrorists who have emerged since the Revolutionary Wars, as well as the ever-present alien monsters from different dimensions, the situation on Earth has become extremely tense. Many forces are seizing every opportunity to increase their national military strength, even resorting to diplomatic intimidation and other such actions.

Despite the chaos, Earth has indeed made great strides in its overall technological level over the past half-century by combining the strengths of many. Although it has not yet been able to travel across time and space to other dimensions, spatial transfer within a certain area is no longer a novelty. Similarly, interdimensional transfer and dimensional tremors are not new either.

Thanks to technological advancements in spatial transfer, different countries have varying levels of spatiotemporal fluctuation detection capabilities.

In a sense, the reason why MechWarrior Earth has reached this point is because of the frequent spacetime fluctuations that capture unlucky people from various dimensions. Therefore, whenever there is a "distortion of the dimensional boundary", it usually means that new unlucky people have appeared. Most of the time, they are enemies, and a few are humans.

In such situations, the nations on Earth would assign responsibilities according to their respective territories, and the nation experiencing the spacetime fluctuations would usually handle the situation.

If a power has sufficient national strength, abundant martial spirit, decent moral standards, and also enjoys opening blind boxes, it might not only establish relevant departments to handle such situations but also simultaneously dispatch a professional patrol team to eliminate enemies and rescue potential allies.

However, this situation was far too idealistic and gradually disappeared from the historical stage with the emergence of a specific crisis.

This leads to most major powers choosing to ignore non-war-level spacetime fluctuations when they detect them.

If the enemy is a potential ally, those with sufficient strength may find a way to survive and join a nearby force. If the enemy is an enemy, they can simply wait for them to attack.

So here's the question... what level of spacetime fluctuations were caused by the appearance of the Blazing Sun?

The answer is, war level.

Although there was only one Sunfire, and even though 99% of the combat vehicles on board were small flying saucers, the dimensional rifts were opened to an unprecedentedly large extent in order for its diameter, which was measured in kilometers, and its massive hull to pass through the space barrier. Naturally, this resulted in extremely violent spacetime fluctuations.

It can be said that all forces in the surrounding area that observed the phenomenon were on high alert.

On this basis, the spatial fluctuations of the Blazing Sun were superimposed on those of the Jelgard, which further amplified the panic of these forces... But almost in complete contradiction to the panic they showed, not a single force sent troops to investigate the source of the spacetime fluctuations!
There are two reasons.

First, there's the issue of where the Sunship will land after crossing the spacetime barrier. The location where the Sunship met the Giorgard is called "Amsterdam," which is theoretically within the territory of the Netherlands. As a small, insignificant power within the United States of America, they clearly dare not and cannot handle such a war-level spacetime fluctuation. At most, they would only dare to report it to their big brother, the Holy British Empire, immediately and see how they would handle it.
The second problem is a more real and fatal one: the "energy crisis" that hangs over the entire MechWar Y Earth faction.

Earth's technology is indeed advancing rapidly, but its technological path is clearly somewhat skewed. While it has surpassed Earth by leaps and bounds in areas like war machines and outer space colonization, it remains remarkably backward in energy. Oh, this backwardness refers to a lack of reserves of conventional, universal energy sources with no side effects. Higher-level energy sources certainly exist, but apart from a very few exceptional powers, no one dares to use these specialized energy sources lightly…

This is one of the main reasons why the patrol teams from various countries that used to appear sporadically have gradually disappeared. Apart from certain superpowers, no one can withstand this level of energy consumption, and there is no guarantee of any gains.

So until Cheng Tian swaggered across the airspace of European countries without a care in the world and moved to the Rojur refresh point in the Mediterranean region, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and other countries that had regained their secondary agency rights kept sulking at him, not daring to send even a single spaceship over.

These countries' methods of intimidation were quite primitive; they used neutral signal channels to broadcast messages in an attempt to verbally threaten Cheng. But Cheng was no match for them. He completely ignored them!
The overly extreme policy of ignoring the giant flying saucer only made European countries more wary of it. At the same time, no country dared to take the first step, for fear of directly disturbing the giant flying saucer and causing a real-life version of "The Great War of the Gods" to unfold in their territory.

Compared to these small countries, the terrorists actually have more backbone.

Take the first battle, which was just a trial run, for example. The source of those twenty Luminas was a terrorist organization called "Victory Anachy Liberation-X", abbreviated as "VAL-X".

When Cheng Tian accepted the job as the head of the scrap dealer, along with the demons that caused the dimensional tremors, Lumina, controlled by this group of terrorists, also appeared.

As an organization with very ambiguous claims and ideologies, the fact that they can continuously produce and consume these Lumina drones in large quantities suggests that the people behind them are quite intriguing.

However, in Cheng Tian's eyes, they were walking Heavenly Chosen Coins, the first step for Cheng Tian to start accumulating resources and snowballing his fortunes!
This is also the main reason why Cheng Tian chose to recruit "Roguer" as soon as possible, because he has a skill called "Scrap Merchant".

【Scrap Dealer: Lv1, Composite Skill. The scrap dealer, who calls himself "the luckiest person in the universe," possesses a natural sense of smell that not only allows him to effectively identify usable items from various mechanical wreckage, but also brings a certain degree of resource saving in battle.

Energy (EN) consumption is reduced by 5% for all weapons except "beam-type weapons".

After being identified by scrap dealers, the price of the machine wreckage increases by 5% upon recycling and dismantling.

As long as the scrap dealer is present, there's a small chance of finding usable "mech parts" when dismantling the wreckage.

[Additional comment: If Nen could be attached to bullets... cough cough, I've gone off-topic.]

(End of this chapter)