"Hey! You've been visiting for ten minutes... Do you want me to hold a lamp for you?
I knew you were here for a visit, but those who didn’t know thought you were here for a house inspection..."
Meng Lang finally couldn't help but said helplessly.
Hearing this, Gao Yuan, who was "visiting" carefully in the living room, stopped and looked slightly disappointed.
"How should I put it? The place you live in is... unexpectedly ordinary."
"What if?"
"I thought there would be all kinds of weird high-tech equipment hidden, or some weird biological specimens... Are you sure there are no secret passages here?"
Meng Lang couldn't help but rolled his eyes.
Co-author: You think of me as Batman, right?
"You have watched too many movies... On the 11th floor, where can I go to build a secret passage for you? If you use an electric drill, the neighbors above and below dare to disturb people's phone calls..."
"Yeah...that's true."
Meng Lang pointed to the chair opposite. "Sit down, there's nothing to entertain you. How about some fruit?"
Gao Yuan glanced at the fruit plate on the living room table, which contained several apples.
Hmm...pyramid shape, an extremely standard equilateral triangle...
She had felt that something was not quite right since just now, but now she realized that although the furnishings in this room were ordinary, they seemed a bit too "neat"...
"Can't you tell, you still have obsessive-compulsive disorder?" Her face looked a little strange.
"Uh...I'm not. As for why the room turned out like this, of course there are some other reasons..."
Xiaoyu has been reading a lot recently, and she tidies up the room every time before leaving. As a result, the style of the room in 1102 has gradually become closer to that of 1103...
"Oh~ Is this also a kind of self-disguise, just like you like history but there is no history book on the bookshelf?" Gao Yuan nodded and suddenly asked with a smile.
rash:"……"
"Ahem! That's almost it! You know, in our line of work, people can see through it at a glance, and it's necessary to hide your own preferences.
So if one day in the future you find that I am inconsistent or even have a personality conflict, don’t be surprised, this is all routine practice.”
Meng Lang gave Gao Yuan the vaccination seriously.
Gao Yuan did not hear the "implication" of Meng Lang's words, and looked up at the background wall behind Meng Lang.
There is a letter hanging on it and three photo frames.
The poem on the left is "Linjiang Fairy". The poem is good, but the characters are a bit ugly.
And the painting in the photo frame on the right looks like some kind of sci-fi style composite art photo...
"Yeah! A combination of Chinese and Western, a mix of traditional classics and futuristic fantasy.
The poems on the left are so heroic, but the paintings on the right are all sad and lonely...
I don't know if there is a conflict in personality, but at least your taste in decorating the room is quite conflicting."
"Uh...hehe..."
Meng Lang twitched the corner of his mouth.
I would like to be optimistic and positive, but the journey of life is full of bad news...
When the wind takes advantage of its strength, it flies high into the sky...
It's easy to say, but look at me after I broke off the line and rushed out of the earth.
Either die alone on the moon, or be buried on Mars by a super storm...
The ending is so miserable.
This time, instead of dying in a foreign land, I was cremated on the spot...
He raised his head and looked at the third photo frame he had just hung up yesterday.
In the photo frame was a new photo. On the ground were various strange-shaped mechanical remains, and in the sky were countless meteors and fire showers. The two were separated by a huge crack on the ground.
If you observe carefully, you will find that the gray sky and the rain of fire are extremely similar to the background of the cover of a book in the study...
The close-up view of this photo shows a somewhat blurry figure with white hair, looking up to the sky at the apocalyptic scene in front of him.
That back view, indescribable helplessness and desolation...
Looking at these three different life endings, Meng Lang had mixed feelings in his heart.
The previous two failed experiences of escaping from the earth seemed to have made the brothers avoid this roundabout strategy to save the country.
At least since "Braveheart", there has been no more "escape party".
Coupled with the "good news" coming from the frontal battlefield, he had the illusion that "I can fight back", which caused him to lose the last chance to leave the earth in this episode...
He has been thinking since yesterday that if he chose to invest massive resources in colonizing Mars from the beginning, he might be able to survive in the universe for a while longer.
In fact, after learning about the tragic situation of Little Broken Ball, he seriously considered the "escape route".
If you can't fight, just run away, that's not shabby!
For example, in the book "Braveheart", he changed his strategy midway and prepared to reach Mars because he had no hope of victory.
But until 2043, he had only built three Mars immigration ships, and the immigrant population was barely over 500.
If the scale is too small, the fault tolerance rate will be low.
Just like a candle in the wind, a sudden small storm can easily severely damage or even wipe out this remaining branch of humanity.
So even if you want to run away, just a small survival base is not enough!
Before the small broken ball breaks apart in 2063, building a Martian immigrant city with a population of at least one million may be able to truly continue the fire of civilization...
However, no matter how fast Wanwu Holdings develops, the total amount of resources it can mobilize is limited.
He has been playing "matryoshka" until today, and he has tried his best to be able to fight head-on with the Night Demons.
If too much energy is invested in colonizing Mars, it will inevitably slow down the development of the earth...
Not to mention that the Night Demon Tribe will take action in 2043. The main base is struggling to hold on. Do you still want to secretly open a branch base?
If you play a StarCraft game, you will know that even if you are evenly matched, if you double-open, there is a high probability that you will be taken away by the opponent!
Well... at least for now, betting on both ends and opening two lines is an extremely risky behavior.
And once you make up your mind to become an "escape party", it almost means giving up the vast majority of the population on the earth...
Countless old people, children... tens of billions of tragic casualties...
Making such a decision is undoubtedly extremely painful and difficult.
Even if he really makes up his mind, the real problem for the "fugitive faction" is actually the question of "who leaves and who stays".
If one thing is not handled well, it may turn from fleeing to rout.
For the sake of the few escape spots, even without the Night Demons taking action, humans will beat their own brains out...
After glancing at Gao Yuan, he hesitated for a moment and finally spoke.
"I know you have always been curious about us, but I want to tell you that the truth is often crueler than lies.
The closer to the truth, the more painful people tend to be.
"The problem is... than knowing too little, knowing half is more painful, right?"
Africa Z vaccine.
Intelligent AI that leads the entire world.
There are also various advanced technologies emerging one after another...
Outsiders may not have such deep feelings, but as the specific executor who coordinates the overall situation, Gao Yuan is already involved.
She understood better than anyone what kind of magical "being" Meng Lang was.
He is like a blind box, and the ultimate truth of the world may be hidden inside...
Now you tell her not to be curious about brother, is it possible?
"Well……"
Meng Lang was a little embarrassed.
Indeed, Gao Yuan joined the gang by herself. She knew she had a big secret, but she just didn't tell you what the secret was.
It does seem a bit untrue...
"Ahem!" He coughed dryly to hide his embarrassment, and then pointed to several picture frames on the wall.
"Look at these photos, what can you read in them?"
"Huh?" Gao Yuan looked confused.
Except that the composition is more clever and the artistic conception is more profound, it seems to be no different from those ordinary computer-generated photos.
But since Meng Lang said so, she naturally wouldn't think it was pointless.
Could it be that there are some secrets hidden in these paintings?
He looked at the three paintings very carefully.
"Well... although I can't see anything, judging from the atmosphere the author wants to create, it seems... quite sad?"
Haha! Congratulations, you saw the key core at a glance!
“You asked me before why I rushed to launch ‘Ark Shares’, then do you know why I named it ‘Ark’?”
Meng Lang suddenly asked another seemingly unrelated question.
Gao Yuan was startled, and then her eyes suddenly opened wide...
"You mean..."
"Well... I'm just assuming the worst."
Gao Yuan: "..."
The Ark...the Ark...is really like this...
There was silence for a long time.
"...How long do we have?"
"Estimating from the latest data... 45 years."
Uh... accurate to the year.
Are “estimates” still so accurate?
However, when Gao Yuan heard that it would still be such a long time, her heart that had just raised in her throat finally relaxed again.
45 years later, I am now in my seventies and eighties.
It seems...it's not unacceptable?
Seeing the other person's huge sigh of relief, Meng Lang seemed to see what the other person was thinking, and felt quite unbalanced in his heart.
Yes, for ordinary people like Gao Yuan, it may be just an episode at the end of her life. In this life, she can at least live in peace and happiness and die in sorrow.
But for me, almost every day is the end of the world...
The pressure of survival that needs to be faced at this moment is completely different from Gao Yuan's.
Didn’t you see in the photo that your hair turned completely white before you turned 70?
My whole life... is full of worries!
"There is still so much time, so we may not be able to make a comeback, right?" Gao Yuan asked doubtfully.
"Of course there is a chance, but after...well...some kind of high-tech calculation simulation, if we follow the steps, our current winning rate is not high."
Gao Yuan did not show any depressed expression after hearing this, but instead became more interested.
At her core, she is a person who is obsessed with challenges...
"So you tell me this to let me know that we can't just go by the steps?"
clever!
Meng Lang admired it in his heart.
"To us, the Xu Group is just an insignificant enemy. No matter how you deal with them, I will not interfere.
If necessary, we can even send out an 'elevator' to get rid of it once and for all..."
"Wait! Who is the 'elevator'?"
"Well...the organization's gold medal killer."
Gao Yuan: "..."
"This is not the point. The point is that we cannot limit our sights to Su City, or even to this three-thirds of an acre of land in China.
The current situation is that even if we try to bring in the entire country of China, we may not be able to do what we want.
So we need to change our strategy a little, look at the world, and develop a global layout!"
"Global layout?"
"Yeah!" Meng Lang nodded, then took out a piece of information and handed it over.
Gao Yuan opened the information with a puzzled look on her face...
"Iwasaki Hideyoshi?"
The document is clearly the resume of a Fuso man. In the photo, Iwasaki Hideyoshi has a handsome face and smiles like a big boy next door.
It's just that the smile is like wearing a mask, which seems a bit hypocritical.
However, the more he continued to look down, the more surprised Gao Yuan's face became.
[Iwasaki Hideyoshi, male, 24 years old, from Fuso Kyoto, Mitsubishi Corporation, one of the fourth generation heirs of the Iwasaki family...]
After reading Iwasaki Hideyoshi's information, she raised her head in confusion.
"The global layout you are talking about...should you be referring to him?"
"No, it's the entire Mitsubishi Group behind him."
Gao Yuan: "..."
Hey, hey! Now we are barely able to rank among the top 50,000 in the world. You want to build a super conglomerate that can rank among the top 50 among the world's 500...
Our pace of globalization...isn't it a bit big?
"What are you going to do?"
"Of course we have to control him. As long as the benefits are sufficient, people's bottom line is actually very flexible."
"I understand the truth, but...do we have any benefits that can make him interested?" Gao Yuan was confused.
"There isn't one now, but that doesn't mean there won't be one in the future..."
"What's the meaning?"
"Have you seen Hamlet?"
"Uh...of course."
"Then you say... a prince who could have inherited a huge kingdom, but due to the machinations of his closest relatives, not only lost his throne, but was also hunted by people all over the world...
How desperate and helpless must that be?"
Gao Yuan: "???"
…
Escape from the earth is always the last resort, but if you want to change the final outcome, you must win quickly!
If the Night Demons can be eliminated in a short period of time, whether it is studying how to deal with the "seeds" underground or making every effort to immigrate to Mars, the operability will be much more flexible.
Instead of struggling to survive while facing the army of night demons.
Perhaps it was due to the small farmer mentality. In my previous life, I focused most of my development efforts on China.
I spent all my resources to build my own base camp, thinking that I could sit back and watch the changes in the world, and watch the clouds roll and relax.
However, it is clearly stated in "None Survived".
Even the floating rail guns that fill the earth's orbit, the guardian robots that cover the mountains and plains, and the unmanned seventh-generation fighter jets that cover the sky...
It has only managed to keep any axis of evil on earth out of the country.
Not enough! This is far from enough!
As we all know, if you want to defeat your opponents quickly in StarCraft, in addition to accelerating your own development... you can also choose to open a base!
If he wants to win quickly, he must have more resources at his disposal.
And most of the world's resources...are in the hands of a few big countries!
He may not be able to open a Mars sub-base yet.
But opening a Fuso branch base is practical!
In terms of modern industrial strength, apart from China, Germany and Fuso can barely keep up.
Germany is too far away, has an insufficient population, and is in the extremely complex political quagmire of Europa, making it difficult to control.
Fuso is different. The chaebol economy determines the control of this country, which is always in the hands of a few chaebol families.
Controlling it, even if it only causes it to fall into confusion, will not only weaken the restless people on the other side of the ocean, but also gain greater strategic space for China. It can be said that one stone kills two birds with one stone if it develops freely.
And in this episode of life, my brother provided me with an excellent entry point...
Iwasaki Hideyoshi!
This future "Hamlet"-style tragic figure has since ushered in a turning point in his destiny...
Meng Lang looked at the pretty face on the document, his eyes revealing a hint of meaning.
Now that "isolationism" has proven its limitations, then we...
I have no choice but to turn to "interventionism"...