Although faced with the arrogant behavior of Homo sapiens Corporation, the free world chose to swallow its anger.
But that doesn't mean they just let it go.
In order to block the expansion of Homo sapiens' offshore scientific research platform, they also hurriedly mobilized ships, especially old-fashioned offshore drilling platforms, and placed them next to Homo sapiens' offshore scientific research platform, and then used this as a basis to start reclamation and land reclamation.
The two sides were chasing each other in the coastal waters of various places just like playing Go.
The Coral Construction Group, which is deliberately looking for trouble, also competes with the four major forces for production capacity and engineering strength on the shallow sea shelf.
Off the coast of New York, in addition to a few waterways, several offshore platforms have been built by both sides, and they are all close together. The distance between the two nearest platforms is less than 10 meters.
It’s all on the high seas anyway, and anyone can set up an offshore platform here.
On the huge platform intentionally named Outer New York Scientific Research Station, the area has now expanded to 12.3 square kilometers. It is like a huge fortress blocking the gate of New York Harbor, which makes the Council of the City on the Hill extremely frustrated.
On the outer New York scientific research station.
Cortes, who had just gotten off work, was having a barbecue with a few colleagues next to a platform 100 meters above the sea.
Not far away, about 68 meters away, there is an offshore drilling platform parked on the sea. This is an old piece of equipment that is close to being obsolete.
A dozen American soldiers stationed above were also eating, but it was too shabby over there.
After all, these drilling platforms were pulled over in a hurry, and some weapons had to be installed on them, which caused the space above to be obviously insufficient.
Several U.S. soldiers stood on the temporarily converted observation deck, holding binoculars and observing the situation on the opposite side from time to time.
In February, the sea off New York lost the blessing of the North Atlantic warm current, and the temperature was below freezing.
The observation tower, which was leaking from all directions, could not block the cold wind at all. Several soldiers had to wear heavy coats and were shivering from the cold.
"Fuck! Those bastards are eating barbecue."
"Here, have a drink." An older, bearded sergeant handed a tin can of rum to the watchman.
The lookout hesitated: "It's not good to drink on duty, isn't it?"
"What are you afraid of? Don't take it too seriously." The bearded sergeant didn't care: "Don't you know what the situation is now? The old man is holding the little girl and enjoying himself. Let's blow the cold wind here."
"..." The young lookout was silent for a moment, then took the tin can and took a sip of rum: "Huh... feel good!"
"Here, eat some beef jerky." The bearded man handed over another pack of beef jerky.
The two of them were drinking and eating meat on the observation deck.
On the opposite platform, Cortez and others were having a barbecue. They also placed a large box of synthetic steaks that had just been flown in on the large barbecue grill and sprinkled them with black pepper and salt.
I also cooked a big pot of cream of mushroom soup, grilled vegetables and the like.
The aroma of barbecue wafts in the sea breeze.
The aroma was also smelled on the US military drilling platform not far away.
"It smells so good! Homo sapiens company is so rich!" The watchman took a bite of the dry beef jerky.
The bearded man leaned against the window and spread his hands with a smile: "America also has money, but it's a pity that it's not ours. We can't use those coffee machines that cost tens of thousands of dollars each."
Suddenly the lookout hand looked around, and then whispered: "Kev, I heard that there are many people from Texas sneaking over to Aztec. Isn't your hometown in Texas?"
"What? Do you have any ideas?" The bearded man took the bottle and took a sip.
"Haha, brother, don't you have any ideas?" the observer asked with a half-smile.
The bearded man did not deny it and took another sip of rum: "Many people who came from Central America have left one after another. I feel that America's future is hopeless."
Watchman felt the same way. He had watched with his own eyes the rapid expansion of Homo Sapien Company's offshore platform in the past few days.
With America's nearly half-broken industrial chain at this time, if the Europa Consortium and Seris hadn't supplied some of its products, it would have collapsed long ago.
After all, America's economy has too much water.
After crazy money printing, GDP barely recovered to US$25 trillion last year.
It's a pity, just look at America's GDP.
Even though the Industrial Revitalization Act, the Plastics Crisis, the Military Industrial Reorganization Plan, and the Climate Response Plan have increased the scale of industrial production in North America, America's local industry only accounts for 18.3% of GDP.
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The core of America is the tertiary industry, with the service industry accounting for 67.5%.
This is an extremely deformed economic structure.
The industrial scale is less than 60% of Seris, let alone comparable to that of Homo Sapiens Company. After all, the industrial scale of Homo Sapien Company is about 24 times that of Seris and about 40 times that of America.
Adding up the entire free world, its industrial scale is still less than one-tenth of the Homo sapiens companies.
Don't the Council of the City on a Hill know the importance of industry? They know it all.
The problem is that America has been deeply troubled internally. Financial services, medical services, lawyer services, and accounting services in the tertiary industry are the core industries.
This truly depends on the food and clothing of millions of workers.
America has more than 600,000 certified public accountants, more than 1.2 million registered lawyers, and a large number of financial practitioners. These people are all middle class and small-rich people.
And these people are also the core components of the dog-legged subgroup of the City on the Hill Council.
Even if the major families in the Council of the City on the Hill are determined to revitalize industry, they can only adjust slowly step by step.
The problem is that Homo sapiens companies and global cooling do not give time!
Ordinary people are already extremely disappointed with America's current situation.
Including the ordinary soldiers of the US military, they are essentially a group of mercenaries. Mercenaries can fight with favorable winds, but once they encounter headwinds, they will easily be exposed as a mess.
Bearded Man and Watchman have no intention of fighting the Homo Sapiens Company for America and the free world.
Now the two of them are thinking about how to retire early and then go to Central America to join the Homo sapiens company.
Seeing that America is a broken ship and already leaking water, the shipowner is helpless, and the senior management is idle. The middle management not only has no way to plug the leaks, but is desperately trying to dig out the ship and nail the wood.
As an ordinary sailor, what do you think?
Moreover, there happens to be a nuclear-powered spaceship next door, and the other shipowner also offers very good recruitment conditions for ordinary sailors.
No need to think about it?
Jump directly.
Even if you just swim over with a lifebuoy in your arms, it's better than waiting to die in America, a rotten ship.
That's what Big Beard and Lookout Hand think now.
Just a few thousand dollars a month, why are you working so hard?
As the Homo sapiens company pressed forward step by step and pushed its full-power branch to the Aztec region, many people within America began to get ready to take action.
Especially in the states bordering the Aztecs, there are many people who abandoned their cars and houses and went to work for Homo sapiens companies.
Unusually extreme weather, coupled with the genetically modified corn allergy incident at the end of last year, forced many people to run away.
The hearts of the people in the free world are scattered, and the millions of Dracos, plus their henchmen, cannot stop the change of ordinary people's minds.
After all, it is really difficult for these guys to give up their wealth and superiority. The greed of human nature means that they are destined to be unable to spit out the meat they eat.
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