Journey of the Fate Destroying Emperor novel Chapter 1404

All the leaders appeared, but everyone had a somber look on their faces. With one look, everyone could guess what the others had experienced and gave a sympathizing look.

"Let’s start by sharing data," one of the leaders said, and everyone agreed. The meeting immediately started with these leaders reviewing the battle experience of all the bases. Although there were a few outliers where one squad was enough for one cultivator (one pilot single-handle killed a cultivator), the overall result was the same for more than two million bases.

Du Cong was not the only one who decided to use numbers to eliminate the enemy, so all these leaders realized the bleak future awaiting them. Wang Wei trained them to be compassionate and look out for their fellow compatriots, but now, they had the burden of sending these young people to their death.

"There is some good news," said Leader Lang Xi from Base #23456.

"What did you find?" The others knew Lang Xi was excellent at data analysis.

"Have you noticed that the bases with primary research on puppetry suffered fewer casualties? Lang Xi pointed out.

"Of course, since they did not have to send their pilots," someone sneered.

"And what does that tell you?" Lang Xi said, rolling his eyes at this man’s jealousy. Doesn’t he know we are all in this together?

"Our focus should be building puppets," Du Cong said. "With more puppets, we can reduce the amount of pilots that die."

"We can probably replace all 3-C pilots with puppets," commented another user. 3-C pilots are the group that suffered the most significant casualties.

"That sounds like a good approach."

"Don’t forget that the price of building one puppet is more expensive than building a 3-C armor and training a 3-C pilot."

"We can always research ways to reduce the price. Our people’s lives are more important."

"Fair, but what do we do with the 3-C pilots and lower?"

"We increase their resources to ensure they become 4-B and higher pilots," someone suggested. "Those who cannot be promoted can be turned into teachers if they have the talent." As of now, puppets cannot completely replace pilots for many reasons, including costs, cultural acceptance, and, more importantly, higher-level puppets require souls and cannot be easily manufactured.

"Do we need to vote?" someone asked.

"No need since we all agreed."

"Let’s do it to make it more formal."

"But who will supervise this election? The Great Guardian is not here."

"We should probably elect a representative to lead these meetings."

"Do we do it now?"

"If so, I want to be the leader."

"Me too."

"I don’t trust your judgment, so I want to be the leader."

"What did you say?"

"Don’t think I don’t remember how bad your grades were when we trained under the Great Guardian."

"You! That was the past."

"Enough," someone yelled. "We can ask the guardian to hold elections, but for now, we still are discussing important matters."

"Yes, let’s get back to the main topic. Lang Xi, did you discover anything else from the data?"