Chapter 004: No Particular Thoughts

While Wang Bo was lamenting that the human high-ups had taken a wrong turn, Wei Hu sighed, pulling Wang Bo back to reality. He said slowly, 'Wang Bo, do you think our Jaegers will ever see battle again?'

'Well...' Wang Bo shook his head. 'I don't know.'

If Wonder Woman hadn't appeared, Wang Bo could guarantee that the Jaegers would one day return to the battlefield.

But the problem was, now that even Wonder Woman had shown up, Wang Bo really wasn't sure whether the Jaegers would still be of any use.

Moreover, besides Wonder Woman, Wang Bo himself had also come to this world.

Although he wasn't from this world, he couldn't stand by and watch the humans of this world be destroyed by the weapons created by the Precursors.

Therefore, Wang Bo would inevitably set foot on the battlefield himself.

What kind of upheaval that would cause in the human world, he didn't know either.

Whether the Jaegers could be deployed again was truly an unknown.

Hearing Wang Bo's answer, Wei Hu's gaze grew even more worried. 'So, does that mean I'll be out of a job soon?'

Wang Bo said, 'To be precise, we will.'

If the human high-ups really decided to shut down the Jaeger program, then Wang Bo would be one of the unemployed as well.

Wei Hu clicked his tongue, about to say something, when a voice came from afar.

'Little brother!'

Wei Hu looked up and immediately saw his older brother, Wei Xiang, walking toward him in the distance.

So Wei Hu gave Wang Bo an apologetic smile and quickly walked toward his brother. 'Brother, what do you need me for?'

'Something big has happened. Come with me!'

With that, Wei Xiang led his younger brother away in a hurry.

Soon after—to be precise, an hour later—Wang Bo saw a shocking piece of news on the base's big screen.

The United Nations had finally decided to terminate the Jaeger program.

The UN Secretary-General broadcast the news on television, and it spread across the world.

In one month, they would officially close the first Jaeger base—Anchorage.

For the record, there were eight Jaeger bases worldwide: Hong Kong, Lima, Anchorage, Vladivostok, Tokyo, Sydney, Los Angeles, and finally Panama City.

These cities were all on the Pacific coast.

Among them, Anchorage, which was about to be closed, was the largest city in Alaska, USA, located in south-central Alaska. It was the northernmost major city in the United States, with a population accounting for over 40% of the state.

Afterward, the UN would close the remaining bases one by one within two months.

At the same time, they would use the saved funds partly for research on human evolution and partly to accelerate the construction of the Anti-Kaiju Wall.

The so-called Anti-Kaiju Wall was essentially a massive wall built along the Pacific coast. The UN believed this wall could replace the Jaegers in protecting against kaiju invasions.

This plan had been initiated several years ago and was already under construction.

So far, several cities had built the Anti-Kaiju Wall. Whether it was effective, no one really knew, but the public had considerable confidence in it.

After all, it looked incredibly thick. Many people remained optimistic about it.

But only a few knew that the Anti-Kaiju Wall was actually a face-saving project; such a wall could never stop the kaiju.

The reason the UN spent massive funds on a face-saving project was to stabilize public sentiment.

After all, since the Jaegers had suffered consecutive defeats a few years ago, the lower levels of humanity had been severely shaken, with doomsday cults and kaiju-worshipping organizations springing up like mushrooms after rain.

Some believed the kaiju were gods, and that humans beating them was an offense to the gods. Now the gods were angry, so humans were naturally losing ground.

Others believed that humans had ruled the Earth for too long, grown arrogant, and recklessly damaged the environment, angering the Earth, which then sent kaiju to eliminate humanity.

It was humanity's retribution.

To stabilize public sentiment, the UN high-ups had no choice but to create such a face-saving project to calm people down and incidentally provide jobs for a large number of unemployed.

Of course, there was no shortage of political maneuvering among some politicians.

But regardless, the Anti-Kaiju Wall was finally built, and after years of construction, this project—so majestic that a single glance inspired awe—did stabilize many people's minds.

…

Regardless of the Anti-Kaiju Wall, as soon as the news of the UN's decision to terminate the Jaeger program broke, the whole world was in an uproar. At least the entire Hong Kong base descended into chaos.

Wang Bo saw a crowd of people gathered, watching the big screen hanging above the base. When the news was confirmed, the entire facility fell into disarray.

Some shouted in anger, some were at a loss, some cried, and some were in despair.

All kinds of human reactions, each different.

Soon, the head of the Hong Kong base rushed over, dispersed the crowd, and quelled what could have been a major riot, leaving no trace of chaos.

Wang Bo couldn't empathize with the complex emotions in people's hearts. After all, in his view, the closure of the Jaeger base didn't affect him in the slightest, since he wasn't really a Jaeger technician.

Nor was he someone who relied on this trade for a living.

He was just an outsider. He truly couldn't understand what feelings the people of this world had for this base.

'Wang Bo!'

Just as Wang Bo was heading back, a blonde, blue-eyed Western woman suddenly called out to him.

Wang Bo stopped and waited for her to catch up, then asked, 'What do you need, Rachel?'

This woman named Rachel, like Wang Bo, was a Jaeger technician.

She had a good relationship with the Wang Bo of this world.

The two were even somewhat flirtatious.

'You heard the news just now, right? What do you think?' Rachel walked up to Wang Bo and got straight to the point without ceremony. In her view, there was no need to be polite with Wang Bo.

'I have no particular thoughts,' Wang Bo said bluntly.

'No particular thoughts? Aren't you feeling at all disappointed?' Rachel asked incredulously.

The Hong Kong base was the earliest built and also the largest Jaeger base in the world. Construction began in 2013 and was completed in November 2015.

She knew that Wang Bo had started working there from that time.

Up until today, he had spent over a decade there.

Now that the base was about to close, Wang Bo said he had no particular thoughts. To Rachel, that was truly unbelievable.

Could it be that Wang Bo had too many thoughts and didn't want to show them, so he said he had no particular thoughts?

For a moment, Rachel couldn't help thinking that.