Chapter 237: In those days, we established a golden flag and established a great cause.
Xiang Shan couldn't help but open his eyes and returned to the time and space more than two hundred years later.
He was squeezing into an electric flatbed truck with two knights, Jardel and Kane. The flatbed truck was driving in a long and narrow tunnel. The tunnel was just wide enough to accommodate the flatbed truck. The walls of the tunnel were slightly curved. Every time they passed through,
After a certain distance, the arc will change slightly - this is to prevent enemies from entering the tunnel and then directly attacking with long-range weapons.
He pulled out a wire from Xiang Shan and connected it to the motor of the flatbed truck.
This tunnel has also been prepared by the Earth-Drilling Dragon.
After staying in the empty Green Forest Village for a few days, Kane left the place with Jardel and Xiang Shan. Wearing camouflage nets, they crawled all the way through the blocked area. Relying on his understanding of the surroundings,
As well as Xiangshan's outstanding internal strength, the group avoided all battles and broke out of the encirclement.
Afterwards, Kane led the two of them to an underground mining area operated by Earth-Drilling Dragon.
This was left behind by another group of earth-boring dragons decades ago.
By the way, this is a coal mine. Canada used to be a major coal exporter.
Although mining coal in the cyberpunk era sounds weird, there are a few earth-boring dragons who dig this mineral. After coal is liquefied into aviation kerosene, it becomes a fuel with a high calorific value and can even support ramjet engines.
Supersonic movement. Compared with liquid hydrogen, aviation kerosene is more stable, easier to store, and its output is better controlled.
This is still attractive to melee warriors.
For many people who do not have outstanding external skills, but choose to install vector injectors because of their own martial arts skills, aviation kerosene can also be regarded as a "reserve material".
Of course, the protectors will never use kerosene. This is not just because it is not very economical and easy to use. For the protectors, every piece of coal is a fossil material.
They would rather take a completely "environmentally friendly" approach, electrolyzing water to produce hydrogen from photovoltaic panels, or directly producing methanol and downstream chemical products through electricity synthesis.
In this tortuous underground alley, the three knights relaxed their nerves that had been tense for several days, and after retaining basic vigilance, let the subject of consciousness fall asleep.
Xiangshan naturally continued to read that memory.
The subject of this memory seems to be Lu Xuanyu. Lao Lu played a small role in Xiangshan's life. Lao Lu was considered his friend and served as a "private bodyguard" for a period of time [of course it also has greater "publicity significance"]
, but not as close as other friends.
But the 1940s and 1950s when he became friends with Xiangshan were the most important years in Xiangshan's life.
Many of Xiangshan's family and friends passed away during this period. He also lost important friends at this time.
At the same time, this was also an era of rapid technological advancement for mankind. Technological revolution has become a daily routine. The business of Superman Enterprises is also like flowers blooming and fire cooking oil. This R&D-oriented enterprise grew during this period.
For the monsters who can control the world.
The people who weaved the "Maze of Xiangshan's Memory" also tried their best to restore this period of time from multiple different perspectives.
The fragments given by the Six Dragons Sect to Protector Zhi Li Jiliu are from Lu Xuanyu's perspective, and what he saw and heard during that period as a pure warrior pursuing "technique" and "expression".
But this memory stimulated Xiangshan too much, causing Xiangshan's brain to "remember" more things. Another memory recorded by the Eighth Martial God emerged like this.
This feeling is very strange. To Xiang Shan, it is like observing himself with a mirror broken into countless pieces.
Among the memories just now, the part that does not belong to "Lu Xuanyu's perspective" is the legacy from the Eighth Martial God.
The main subject of the memory of the Eighth Martial God is Zhu Xinyu, but Xiangshan and Zhu Xinyu are not conjoined twins and will not stay together all the time. If you want to complete "Xiangshan's life" according to the timeline, things from other perspectives will inevitably be mixed in.
The clue is "time".
The conversation between him, Nia Guti, and Yawgmoth happened on the day Lu Xuanyu had the surgery.
He remembered this very clearly and could not forget it even if he wanted to.
And this conversation opened a new page in the times.
In the following years, humans burned hundreds of billions of dollars worth of resources, researching in the direction of "Plan C" proposed by Yawgmoth.
In 1985, the biological community launched the "Human Genome Project", which was considered an unprecedented and huge project in the field. The budget of this project was only a mere US$3 billion.
Even taking into account inflation from 1985 to 2045, Yawgmoth's "Plan C" still burned dozens of times as much money as the Human Genome Project.
The entire human race, countless countries, and countless scientific researchers are all affected by this huge project.
Then……
It actually worked.
Sometimes Xiang Shan finds it a bit unbelievable. Although "hundreds of billions of dollars" is unimaginable in itself, compared with this achievement, it seems a bit insignificant. Even on the day when Niya Goodi informed everyone that "it was a success", Xiang Shan also
There was a kind of astonishment like "What, it's over".
——Such an achievement only requires hundreds of billions of dollars...
Xiangshan held his head and suppressed the rushing emotions.
Even after living in this era without the concept of "economy" for several years, Xiangshan can still realize the horror of this number.
The United States, a superpower, invests only one to two hundred billion U.S. dollars a year in the field of scientific research—this is a profit shared by scholars across the country.
It is naturally not easy to get this money.
There were also many negotiations and struggles during this process.
At that time, Xiangshan gave full play to his ability as a manager and cut this large project into many small projects. Some of them were "traded" to establish deeper cooperative relationships with scientific researchers from all over the world. Among them, he could produce
The "Practical Technology" section is used to apply for national or public scientific research funds - especially research related to AIDS and cancer.
Among other things, Yawgmoth's plan requires the understanding of all the proto-oncogenes used by the human immune system. After studying this, it will fundamentally eliminate immune cells such as lymphoma and leukemia.
System-related cancers are on the ground, and there are even treatments for many other cancers - just do it again on the remaining proto-oncogenes in the same way that Yawgmoth has done it.
And HIV...the HIV that makes people talk about it with shame.
It's quite interesting to say. In fact, Yawgmoth's Plan A - "Accelerate HIV" is the simplest, least risky, and lowest R&D cost among the four plans. At least "Accelerate the course of HIV" does not require hundreds of billions of dollars.
investment in R&D.
During the course of Yawgmoth's "Plan C" research, HIV will become a disease that can be easily cured, and there is no need to be afraid at all.
But Yawgmoth designed Plan C initially because everyone was afraid of Plan A. [Yawgmoth was already designing Plan C before it was seized by the Security Council.]
A small number of people who are not suitable for Plan C due to objective reasons still choose Plan A.