How Am I Still Alive?
Chapter 1982: 1976: A Great Leap Forward

Chapter 1982: Chapter 1976: A Great Leap Forward

Reform, especially at the grassroots level, is unlikely to show results in the short term.,

Not to mention ten days or half a month, seeing significant achievements within three years is considered fast… In fact, many reforms, especially those transforming the logic of education, social welfare, and job positions, are criticized more by contemporaries who cannot discern good from bad, and it requires the rational evaluation by the participants’ descendants.

Deep-rooted reforms naturally touch fundamentals and reputation, affecting the interests and habits of many people. It’s quite normal for them to curse, as they are unlikely to trade their “sacrifices” for a revival ten or a hundred years down the line… To be frank, even if they see or guess it…

“Why should we sacrifice?!”

“Yeah, we are already set in our ways, our lives are stable, why must we adapt to a new environment again?”

When it doesn’t involve themselves, they make every argument, but when it does involve them… even if it’s just the little toe, they naturally go ballistic in an instant.

Lu Ping’an faced enormous societal pressure as he began to push forward the reforms… to be precise, he withdrew from the reform leadership group and became the honorary scapegoat, constantly enduring reputational and even physical assaults.

It’s worth mentioning that when someone threw a bottle of mineral water at the panda, the “cat lovers” on the internet tracked down their ancestors for 18 generations, and now, even those expressing discontent would circumvent him.

In a way, Lu Ping’an’s “set up a target” tactic has succeeded, the hatred level is maxed out… Currently, no one can directly target Lu Ping’an, the leader, more targeting towards the “panda-man reformists who abandoned the military for politics,” yet due to the subtle identity of the panda-man, the lethality subtly appeared to be insufficient.

“The panda just wants everyone to have a better life, what’s wrong with that?”

Inexplicably, just by appearance and race, Xue En became a celebrity.

“Uh, is this really not our water army? Nor the result of our guidance?”

“No no no, we really haven’t done anything… According to the plan, he was just pushed out to be scolded, why stop the emotional outpour?”

Although the development was very subtle, Lu Ping’an steadily pushed forward according to plan.

“According to the plan, start producing ‘results’, let our media and social media all become active!”

The natural outcomes of reform require extensive accumulation, whether in terms of time or failed individuals, are its mature “nourishment”…. People often only see the bright and large fruit on the paper but won’t care about the “fertilizer” stacking up over years below the roots.

“I’ve been graduated for two and a half years, and now my annual income is about 20 million… no no no, I’m not any pride son of the heavens, I am just an ordinary person from the countryside, I didn’t even attend a top university.”

False results don’t mean they are lies, perhaps they are merely “facts” that have always been covered up.

Everyone knows how high the income of the extraordinary is, but doesn’t know exactly how high…. The use of credit-coins is actually a deliberate blur of their earnings, “XX million tokens” and “XX million Eastern Country’s coins” give ordinary people completely different feelings.

Most people have no chance to know the value of tokens, nor understand how much “cost” these extraordinary people need to pay, merely emphasizing income would cause internal imbalance in the country.

In the previous era, the “high likelihood of death for professionals” was the threshold of this industry and also the psychological balance cornerstone for ordinary people – “What he fought for with his life is normal.”

But now, becoming a professional doesn’t require life-risk, yet it still yields enormous profits.

Of course, this isn’t the norm for professionals, and interviewees on the television constantly emphasize the past risks they endured… But compared to the 1 out of 2 life-threatening tests, such avoidable risks really are nothing.

Through the nurture and trials of war, the thirst for power and the thirst for peace appear simultaneously in this complex era, becoming an extraordinary does not require life tests, and for the first time, it is publicly exposed to the world……

“Such behavior is simply like covering up petty theft, and directly bombing an entire street…”

Lu Ping’an has kicked open the gate of the extraordinary era, some things don’t weigh on the scale… without publicity, no one cares, but once broadcast a few times, naturally, they become the focus.

The powers of the “Trading Land” in the extraordinary world are no secret, many ordinary people even know, especially as the military has vaguely reached full extraordinariness… But now, it is truly known by everyone, in an extremely high-profile way of publicity.

Some things are rumors, limited to the information known by some people, and being officially designated among the populace or even mainstream due to advertising bombing are two entirely different matters.

The former is the path for a portion of people, the latter vaguely points to the entirety… and Lu Ping’an even thoughtfully attaches more enticing era dividends to this system.

Of course, this publicity is still limited to the media within the special zone.

But in this new era of the internet being king, some transmissions exceeded expectations, some messages inevitably leaked out.

“Will Wanjing intervene?”

“Will Lu Ping’an be punished?”

The hopeful did not get any response, it seems everything is assumed to happen by default.

And this time, Lu Ping’an is not guessing, he knows the answer… In the current era, universal extraordinariness is a matter of time, such a degree of a “leak” even if Lu himself didn’t do it, Wanjing would have, too.

Lu Ping’an acted swiftly, he knows the Easters’ habits, “The victorious should not be blamed”, “You blocking my way to make money is my mortal enemy.”…. Whatever road you talk about, nothing is more convincing than introducing a few “people’s millionaires”.

The next wave of publicity came even faster.

“In the past era, after we worked hard to study for so many years, graduating at the second tier was considered pretty good, and this stage was actually quite unstable… But under the new training mechanism, the excellent among us can reach the third or fourth tier, which means under normal circumstances, not only won’t we have a short life, but will even live longer than ordinary people!”

Wealth, happiness, success, and longevity are always humans’ instinctive pursuits.

Professionals were a group of people with money to earn but nowhere to spend due to a short lifespan, a common perception among past people… In the past, this was indeed the reality, professionals unable to advance were just waiting for death.

Now, as advancement across the entire world becomes easier, and on Lu Ping’an’s side, lacking even a tenth of the past’s difficulty, “longevity” has instead become an advantage.

But these things need publicity to let unrelated people know.

Since it’s already set as an era of universal extraordinariness, Lu Ping’an naturally won’t stop halfway… The special zone was like that originally, information control was still effective, some top big shots even gave conceptual limitations.

“We, have become guinea pigs?”

“To put it nicely… reform pioneers.”

Perhaps, the first substantial meaning Eastern Country’s nationwide extraordinariness area was born here.

Everyone is waiting for change, waiting for the day when the answer appears.

As for Lu Ping’an? He is also busy, busy cooking…

“The completeness of the life system, the premise of life survival and evolution—eating….”

He seems to be getting little by little supplemented in this process as well.

In the special zone, on the courtyard land, every individual, becomes his “part”.

Perhaps, to realize his world’s reason simultaneously with the universal extraordinariness.