Chapter 1,432 "Weather Forecast"

The news suddenly spread.

There was no warning at all.

Although this was something that had been decided, it still caught the Boston consortium by surprise. According to the research of the Kennedy campaign team, there is no need to deliberately add a halo to him at this time, nor does he need to be credited with taking the astronauts home.

As long as a signal is sent to the American people that the relationship between New Zealand and the United States is moving from tension to relaxation, then voters will definitely seriously consider the differences between the two candidates in their Pacific policies and ultimately make the right choice.

However, both Lodge and John F. Kennedy were caught off guard by the media reports.

First, an unknown small newspaper reported the news that the astronauts stranded on the Mars colony were about to embark on their return journey.

Immediately afterwards, another local newspaper in Washington, D.C., published a photo of candidate John F. Kennedy's first visit to the New Zealand embassy, ​​using wordplay to make people think about President Kennedy's contacts with New Zealand diplomats and even his contacts with New Zealand diplomats. The illusion of secrecy.

On the surface, this seems to be a spontaneous effort by the left-wing media to build momentum for their preferred candidate, giving John F. Kennedy the credit for the return of the astronauts.

However, with an editorial published in the current affairs section of the "Washington Post" and quoting part of the content of these two "little-known" newspapers, the whole "assist" completely changed -

“Diplomatic Overtures or Election Interference? Those astronauts who were used as bargaining chips》

It's obvious that someone is trying to skew public opinion.

The political leanings of the American newspaper industry are generally left-leaning, and it is impossible for the Washington Post to spontaneously speak for Trump. Then there is only one possibility left, and that is that Morgan or the Rockefeller consortium are making small moves behind the scenes.

While Lodge and Kennedy were busy trying to counteract the negative impact of this report, Jiang Chen, who was far away on the other side of the Pacific, was inspecting a special project on Anga Island, accompanied by Zhang Yaping.

A cave four people wide, located in a corner of the central extinct volcano.

The entrance to the cave is surrounded by barbed wire, and a military sentry is posted at the entrance. A few years ago, this place was used as an arsenal for the Star Ring trade, used to transfer the BM-21 rockets and other large quantities of arms purchased by Jiang Chen from Russia. Later, after NAC relied on existing resources to independently develop the "Fireball-1" with more powerful performance and wider uses, this warehouse was left idle.

Today, this warehouse was taken out again.

The barbed wire fence of the military post was temporarily removed, and construction vehicles were parked at the entrance of the cave to widen and expand the entire cave.

"What is this?" Zhang Yaping looked at Jiang Chen and asked after looking at the busy construction site.

"Say something that might scare you." Jiang Chen said with a grin.

"You dragged me here from the Presidential Palace just to get away with me?" Zhang Yaping said helplessly, "To be honest, no matter what you bring out now, I won't be surprised at all. "

"Really?" Jiang Chen smiled mysteriously and extended his right hand to the sky, "What if I said that I can control the weather?"

Zhang Yaping was stunned after hearing Jiang Chen's words.

He opened his mouth and asked in an uncertain tone.

"What?"

"Manipulate the weather." Jiang Chen repeated it. After a moment of pause, he added with a smile, "In short, you can understand the project happening here as that we are building a weather weapon. By the way, I Going to call it weather forecast.”

By the end of the visit, Jiang Chen noticed that the president's jaw seemed to have never been closed since the moment it fell.

I obviously promised not to be surprised...

Researchers at Camp 27 are reverse engineering the equipment at the West Coast Weather Monitoring Center. Some of the equipment that has been analyzed has been copied using an industrial-grade 3D printer and brought to the present world by Jiang Chen.

The role of this strategic weapon in the last days is far inferior to that in this world. The first time he saw that weapon, Jiang Chen decided that he must build one in this world. At present, the reverse engineering has not even reached 20%, but this does not prevent him from starting the first phase of the project first.

The structure of a weather weapon is mainly divided into two parts. The first part is the launch end, which is used for climate interference and is often distributed in a scattered manner. The second part is the control end. The central calculator completes the calculation of meteorological information and controls the transmitter to perform climate intervention.

The West Coast Weather Monitoring Center that Jiang Chen saw in post-apocalyptic North America was the control end of North American weather weapons. Through the core supercomputer, the transmission towers distributed along the west coast are controlled to guide the climate in the direction desired by the operator.

Although the land area of ​​the new country is not large, the distance span between the sub-islands is astonishingly large. Jiang Chen randomly selected six uninhabited islands from the real estate under his name as the deployment locations for the transmitting towers.

As for the remaining transmission towers, artificial islands can also be used to solve the problem.

After finishing their inspection of the construction site, Jiang Chen returned to the Presidential Palace with Zhang Yaping. As soon as he sat down and drank a few sips of tea, a call came on his watch.

And it was a long-distance call, from Boston...

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"The return plan is on hold. There are problems with the route and temporary adjustments are needed... Forget it, you can come up with a reliable reason to inform those astronauts." After leaving the Presidential Palace of the New Republic, he got into the car parked at the door. Jiang Chen said While talking on the phone with Kerwin who was in Halo City, he made a gesture to Ayesha to drive home.

"There's something going on in North America, and I just received the news from Bernice."

"Well, it's the same here. That old guy Rocky told me." Jiang Chen leaned on the passenger seat and curled his mouth helplessly, "Who would have thought? He has always been regarded as leaning towards the left. The Washington Post would jump out at this juncture to help the Republicans."

"Could he be threatened?" Ayesha asked.

"It should be said that they must have been threatened," Jiang Chen said with a smile. "The only thing I'm curious about now is how the American media got the news and learned that we plan to send those astronauts home in the near future. ?”

Unlike someone who leaked secrets, the informal communication between the Mars colony and the Earth will now undergo strict manual review. Information that constitutes a leak, or is uncertain whether it constitutes a leak, will be intercepted directly.

"What should we do now?" Ayesha tilted her head slightly and looked at Jiang Chen and asked.

"We? We can't do anything now. Taking rash actions will only cause chaos for our allies," Jiang Chen smiled and shook his head, "But there is one thing we can do a little help with, although they should have already started to do it. .”

After all, their opponents were Morgan and Rockefeller, and with the strength of the Boston consortium, they were still a little weak after all.

For safety reasons, Jiang Chen planned to take out insurance.

"Go give Bernice a task and ask her to immediately find the editor-in-chief of the editorial published in the Washington Post." After a pause, Jiang Chen continued, "Try to do your best before he disappears from the world."