Chapter 1,223 The Discovery of Seventy-One Mineral Points

Star Ring City, Space Command Center, it is now 12 noon, employee break time. Sound of nature

The man wearing the uniform of a Starring Trading employee put the fries dipped in ketchup into his mouth, while sliding his oily fingers on the holographic screen, he clicked on a well-known game podcaster who played God Level Continent. live broadcast room.

This neuro-connected VR online game has become popular all over the world since its launch. Relying on the incredible function of intelligent real-time calculation, it has firmly captured the hearts of players with endless plots and possibilities. It has always been 100% With a terrifying market share of 95, it dominates the large-scale VR online game market.

Gris is no exception. Before becoming an employee of Star Circle Trading, he was a loyal fan of the God-level Continent. Whenever he takes a lunch break, he will open a few fixed live broadcast rooms, throw snacks into his mouth, and watch the masters do the legendary "only task".

The live broadcast was reaching its exciting point. As the broadcaster named Shadow Demon completed the plot of his only mission and was about to fight the boss battle, the communication headset he left on the table suddenly flashed a red light.

Looking at the flashing red light, Gris was slightly stunned.

Although he was very reluctant to give up, he still reluctantly turned off the holographic screen, put his feet down on the table, reached out and grabbed the headset on the table and put it on his head.

Such is the nature of his work.

Because the communication resources between Earth and Mars are precious, he must sit at his desk and be on call even during breaks. The real rest time is only after get off work, when a shift intern will take over his work.

He cleared his throat, wiped away the oil in his mouth, and pressed the connect button skillfully.

"...This is the aerospace command center, liaison officer 011 is at your service."

There was a burst of noise on the other end of the communication, which soon became clear.

"...This is the 071 project team. We found... something special underground. We don't know how to describe our shock at this moment."

Something special?

Gris was stunned for a moment, not daring to neglect, and immediately grabbed the ballpoint pen from the table and placed it on the notepad.

"Okay, Project 071 Team, the Space Command Center has received your message. Can you describe it in detail? What exactly did you find?"

“It’s a very wide underground space with no underground water.

There's no ice either... it's hollow and the shell is metal. After using up about five drill bits, we drilled through its shell. Inside we detected some metal objects that didn't look natural, but we couldn't tell what they were. "

Leaning next to the Mars rover, Wang Qiang contacted the Star Ring City Space Command Center through the Mars Communication Base Station, while looking at the screen of the instrument in his hand, his face filled with solemnity.

Standing next to him were four Marines wearing aerospace-style exoskeletons. What they held in their hands was the new individual weapon of the Star Ring Commercial Space Force-Gauss Rifle. At this moment, the four Marines were standing near the drilling platform, waiting.

Seeing Wang Qiang hang up the phone, Captain Hong Zewei, who was standing next to him, immediately stepped forward and asked.

"What did the ground command center say?"

"They let us keep drilling and then drop drones down there."

"Directly launch the drone? What if a monster comes out of it?" Hong Zewei said with a bitter smile, "Or maybe it's a Gundam or something..."

"Then we must be the extras who died at the beginning of the movie," Wang Qiang shrugged, put his arm on the Mars rover, and looked at the direction of the drilling with a complicated expression, "Or we were Columbus who discovered the New World."

"You are the captain, you make the decision."

…

January 1, 2020.

After spending a leisurely three-month vacation at the end of the world, Jiang Chen returned to Coro Island on New Year's Day.

The campaign for the new country's general election is in full swing. In the streets and alleys of several major cities such as Koro City, Penglai City, and Anga City, the holographic screens floating next to the maglev highway are flashing advertisements for Futureman Group products. President Zhang Yaping’s campaign manifesto.

Under such a propaganda campaign, candidates from other parties have almost become foils.

In fact, even without these propaganda campaigns, the possibility of Zhang Yaping losing the election is almost zero. The past four years have been a period of rapid development for New Zealand. The total GDP created in these four years has even exceeded the total GDP of this island country in the past few centuries.

Many people watched helplessly as this country, a small island with sugar cane, fishery, and coconut as its pillars, turned into a "cosmic power" with the support of the Future People Group, and sat on the throne of the "Leader" of the Earth Defense Alliance. .

I don’t know how many people are beating their chests, clasping their foreheads and sighing, lamenting the loss of such an incredibly powerful company.

Also stirring up the international situation is an election on the other side of the Pacific. Although the new country has made epic achievements in many fields, and the center of gravity of the world has begun to tilt from the Eastern Pacific to the Western Pacific, for now, the world's The crossroads is still Times Square in New York, not the space elevator leading to the future of mankind.

Compared with the smooth general election in New Zealand, the U.S. election was full of dramatic changes.

A dark horse broke out from the crowd. Trump, who held high the banner of racism, used his "Twitter empire" to fight his way out, unexpectedly obtained the qualification for the party's candidate nomination, and unexpectedly became the A popular candidate in the March general election preselection.

While the Republican Party is quarreling over candidates on this issue, the Democratic Party is already ablaze with swords and swords.

Negative news about Hillary suddenly broke out on the Internet, and she was tired of trying to excuse issues such as receiving foreign funds, private emails, etc.

Kerry suddenly resigned as secretary of state, breaking his original vow not to run for office, saying he would lead the United States and the Democratic Party to the "right path" and targeting Hillary Clinton.

John F. Kennedy suddenly emerged. After a public campaign speech, he transformed from an unknown congressman to a nationally famous candidate. His support rate increased by leaps and bounds, just like the black-faced dark horse back then...

The three parties attacked each other and fought fiercely for the March general election preliminaries. Due to the mediocre quality of the candidates in this term of the Republican Party, and even because of a certain person who made a lot of jokes, many people have even joked that this term of president will be decided in the March primaries.

Underneath the glamorous appearance, there is a bloodier and more brutal confrontation between capital.

Behind Kerry is Daniel Morgan, behind Hillary is the Rockefeller Group, and the Kennedy family itself is a member of the Boston Group, a community of interests. Although the influence of the Boston Group is not as powerful as that of the two giants on Wall Street, this time they But they found a powerful foreign aid-Future Group.

Before facing more distant crises, the problems of human civilization itself seem to be more urgent.

Amidst this turbulent undercurrent, this blue planet ushered in the first day of the twenties of the twenty-first century...