Free Web NovelThe person looking for White is excitedly discussing with him how he should stand up and speak about the unfair treatment he suffered, and how to gain more sympathy from others, while Chen Xin and the heads of various major project teams are in a meeting room, watching the live broadcast by Xi Yao.
These heads of major project teams are not all scientists from Flame Country. Although most are from Flame Country, there are still several experts from various European countries and a few from Lucia.
In this base, with monitoring probes scattered everywhere and the electronic identity card on everyone, Xi Yao can monitor everyone's every move.
Although this is, in a sense, an infringement of personal privacy, or to put it in a more "free" way, an infringement of human rights.
But considering the highly important and confidential research projects underway at the base, all countries agreed from the start to have artificial intelligence monitor everyone.
This point is known by the heads of various major project teams and some important experts, and having surveillance in the laboratory is not particularly unusual, so no one objected.
Looking at the screen of the live broadcast, an expert also from Europe took off his glasses, squeezed his nose bridge helplessly, and sighed, "What are these people thinking? At this time, they're still thinking about jockeying for power and profit?!" freёwebnovel.com
The expert's tone revealed deep sadness. As a true scientist, he clearly understands why countries are investing so much resources and energy to advance the Southern Celestial Gate project, and he understands the situation humanity is facing now.
It can be said that if humanity does not unite sincerely, Flame Country and Lucia's fate is uncertain, but European countries are surely doomed.
Now, European countries can continue to maintain the European Defense Line and have the energy to improve people's living conditions largely because of Flame Country's assistance.
Therefore, it is completely reasonable for the Southern Celestial Gate project to be led by Flame Country, with Flame Country holding the authority because that's just how the situation is.
Even if European countries unite with Lucia included, they still can't compare with Flame Country in terms of strength.
If Flame Country didn't need European countries to fend off alien invasions, they could completely ignore Europe, letting it fend for itself.
Precisely because of this, European countries are not interested in competing for authority with Flame Country, let alone the fact that for the entire Southern Celestial Gate project Flame Country primarily needs these European researchers to work, not to offer opinions.
Therefore, after Chen Xin convened the heads of various major project teams to watch the live broadcast of how these people plotted privately, everyone's attitude was very unified.
"These guys! How many of them are there? If they don't want to work properly, let's just send them all back to Europe!" A somewhat volatile expert from Lucia proposed a once-and-for-all approach.
His proposal received quite a lot of support. These experts are genuine scientists who detest abandoning genuine academic research and work to focus exclusively on petty scheming.
However, some people suggested relatively softer approaches: "I think we shouldn't adopt such drastic measures. Many people are just incited; those can be treated leniently. But those at the forefront should be handled more severely. Now research in various projects is at a critical juncture, and if suddenly a large batch of people is sent away, it will impact the research progress."
Upon hearing this, others nodded in agreement.
After all, each of them is responsible for a major project, and they know that manpower is tight now and the project progress is at a crucial time. If suddenly a lot of people go missing, or there's sudden panic, it would indeed affect project progress.
"Chen, what do you think of this matter?" an expert from Lucia asked Chen Xin.
As the overall head of the Southern Celestial Gate project, Chen Xin certainly has the final decision-making power over the fate of these individuals.
So everyone's gaze turned to Chen Xin, waiting for his decision.
However, unexpectedly, Chen Xin just rubbed his chin and said, "Let them make a fuss; deal with it when the situation escalates."
"Academician Chen, this will affect the project progress," an expert from Flame Country reminded Chen Xin.
Chen Xin nodded, not denying the fact, but he still spoke up, "Because of the previous incident with White, some people are dissatisfied, and this has already affected the project progress."
Following Chen Xin's words, Xi Yao also appropriately projected various statistics, showing everyone in the meeting room the specific impacted progress.
"These people are disgruntled; it's already affecting the project progress. Instead of letting them bottle it up, or us directly handling it and suppressing the hidden dangers, it's better to let them air it out, vent some emotions, expose hidden issues, and then solve them once and for all." Chen Xin remained indifferent, but his method was quite cold: "I don't like to leave aftermath; if we're going to handle it, let's be straightforward, uproot the problematic individuals, and clean them up in one go, so others can work more comfortably."
After hearing Chen Xin say this, although everyone felt that doing so would interfere with the project progress, considering that leaving hidden dangers would indeed be unwise, after a discussion, they all supported Chen Xin's decision.
Meanwhile, White and the other two, monitored by Xi Yao, had already discussed their plan. They planned to find a lunchtime to have White recount his unfair treatment in the canteen, then have others who had been secretly coordinated beforehand stir up trouble and incite others, followed by presenting their demands and threatening to strike, negotiating to make Flame Country agree to their demands.
Overall, these people planned very methodically, and if Chen Xin hadn't discovered this matter beforehand, their plan indeed had a high chance of...failure. ƒreeωebnovel.ƈom
Because these people got one crucial point wrong, which is that it's not Flame Country begging them to work.
If they refuse to work, Chen Xin can entirely send them back to Europe and replace them with a batch of people willing to work.
In fact, the whole Southern Celestial Gate project could be completed by Chen Xin without the need for European countries' involvement if it weren't for integrating various countries' technology and resources.
As for these Europeans, they might indeed cause trouble, but clearly, as soon as they cause trouble, Chen Xin can capture them all, then load them onto the Land Ship and send them back to Europe.
