Not long after Liu Xuan left, the people who came to pick up Chu Yanran arrived.
There was a man and a woman, both with Asian faces, but there was no clear national symbol on the uniforms they wore, only a tree-like emblem that Chu Yanran had never seen before.
"Hello, Ms. Chu, my name is Yin Peng, and Minister Li arranged for me to pick you up." The man who spoke was the man who was short and looked quite friendly.
Chu Yanran didn't have much feelings for these strangers, so she nodded silently and followed them.
The mysterious base located deep in Lake Vostok is extremely large, which can be felt from the moment Chu Yanran takes the express train to the lounge.
However, this kind of hugeness did not shock Chu Yanran too much. After all, her memories of the days when she lived on Gaia were still there, so for her, even if there was a miniature dome city here, she would not feel it.
What's all the fuss about.
So Chu Yanran didn't say anything along the way. She looked forward, imagining what Li Shaoan would look like more than forty years later.
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"Please take a break. Minister Li is attending an important meeting, which is expected to end in an hour."
Chu Yanran nodded, and then found a place to sit down in the lounge. This hour should be enough for her to understand what happened to the earth in the past forty-six years.
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However, it would be a waste of time to look at it year by year from 2030 to 2076, so Chu Yanran’s first search keyword was a summary of major events in the past forty years.
After this keyword was formed, a special website actually appeared, and the title of the website was very clear, it was called "The world has been scarred in the past half century..."
Just by looking at the title, Chu Yanran already had a premonition that the world must have been extremely unstable during the past forty-six years. After all, the whole world was already in turmoil in the days before her memory faded.
After a little mental preparation, Chu Yanran opened this webpage, and then a series of records of major events poured into Chu Yanran's mind.
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January 9, 2035
"The riots in Paris, France, the Eiffel Tower was tilted fifteen degrees"
Since the conflict between the Yellow Vests and the French government further escalated in 2024, France has fallen into a precarious state. Although later, with the efforts of the French government, the overall situation in France has improved, the "Yellow Vests" have also changed from the unorganized past.
The phenomenon of sexual demonstrations has transformed into an "armed organization" with specific beliefs and leadership systems - the "New Paris Commune", and publicly stated that it has reached cooperation with the AOA, which the National Security Department has labeled as the source of extremist terrorism incitement, and will jointly work for the future of France.
Fight hard.
Although the move of the "New Paris Commune" [hereinafter referred to as npcr] has been unanimously condemned by the international community, there are more and more supporters of npcr in France. In addition, although the early npcr disclosed its cooperation with AOA
intention, but did not actually take any action that would endanger public security, such as armed riots or terrorist attacks, and the French government did not directly take armed suppression actions against the NPCR.
But when the time came to 2035, the frequency of npcr activities in France became increasingly frequent. This move quickly attracted the attention of the French government, and the National Security Department also reminded the French rulers that they should
Be wary of npcr.
But when the French government was truly aware of NPCR's intentions, NPCR supporters had already infiltrated into the French government and military, and triggered a major riot in the early morning of January 9, 2035.
The target of this armed riot was directly at the French government troops and relevant political figures. At the same time, the NPCR armed personnel also fired artillery shells at the Eiffel Tower during the riot, causing the Eiffel Tower to tilt fifteen degrees.
The riots in Paris, France, immediately attracted great attention from the international community. However, because the riots of the NPCR were well prepared, when the international community accused the NPCR of its atrocities, the NPCR had already occupied Paris, France, and Nice.
Marseille, Bordeaux and many other important cities.
At the same time, when the riots were coming to an end and the government troops were completely defeated, the NPCR also announced to the world that the action of the "New Paris Commune" was a democratic armed uprising, and France would be reborn under the guidance of the "New Paris Commune".
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After reading this report, Chu Yanran didn't have much impression. After all, as early as 2030, someone had already pointed out that NPCR would subvert the French regime. Now such an ending is expected.
It’s just that the ambiguous relationship between NPCR and AOA makes people wonder whether NPCR’s ability to infiltrate the French government and military in just over ten years is directly related to AOA?
Or... is AOA the driving force behind this armed uprising?
With this thought, Chu Yanran scrolled down to read the column explanation, but when she was about to read it, another red box suddenly popped up.
Chu Yanran was stunned for a moment, thinking that she had been intercepted by the system, but after taking a closer look, she discovered that what appeared in the red box was the same emblem as on Yin Peng's uniform before, with a text prompt below.
"You can enter the main core to further view the relevant investigation reports... Huh?!" Chu Yanran was startled, and then she was overjoyed. It seemed that although the National Security Department did not directly interfere in France's internal affairs, it still investigated this incident.
After confirming the selection, the red frame disappeared, and a detailed investigation report was presented in front of Chu Yanran.
Since there is too much content, only the main points are briefly explained below.
First of all... the npcr was able to overthrow the past French government so smoothly with the help of AOA, but the source of many huge amounts of unidentified financial support has not yet been identified.
Secondly, after the success of the armed uprising, the npcr did not change the members of the government. Instead, it removed the original government structure and let France enter a state of anarchy. However, at the same time, the npcr stopped and punished all illegal activities. This is strange.
After subsequent investigation, it was discovered that the real target of the npcr was not the French government, but the internal structure code between the National Security Department and the French government.
After obtaining the internal architecture code comparable to a nuclear bomb launch codebox, the central axis server established by the National Security Department somewhere in the Pacific Ocean encountered non-stop attacks from hundreds of millions of terminals in France. The entire attack process lasted for ten days, and was finally forced to shut down by the National Security Department.
Open the network and close the axis server to end.
In other words... the National Security Department failed...
But Chu Yanran also noticed that although the investigation report clearly stated that the central axis server of the National Security Department was shut down, it did not say
Was it shut down after the server was breached, or before it was breached?
There are so many intriguing things in it, and Chu Yanran feels that this investigation report still hides a lot of important information.
Therefore, after briefly browsing the report, Chu Yanran returned to the previous page and continued reading down.
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May 1, 2037
"Equalization of world wealth and collapse of financial markets"
Seeing such a title, Chu Yanran could roughly guess that there was nothing clear in the previous report...
However, after Chu Yanran read the entire report, she was still shocked by the "wealth" equalization incident that occurred in various major economic countries in the world...
After the success of the "New Paris Commune" uprising in 2035, extremists and anarchists around the world began to make moves. They all seemed to want to commit unjust acts under the banner of "democracy."
However, following the lessons learned from France, governments around the world began to be wary of domestic disturbances. Therefore, the "New Paris Commune" did not really lead to an uprising movement that spread around the world.
Especially China, in this regard, China seems to have automatically isolated these unstable factors. Both people's lives and social production are proceeding step by step without much impact. For the Chinese, the New Paris Commune
This move that shocked the world was just a conversation piece after dinner.
But who would have thought that on May 1, 2037, an email sent from China's Shanghai Guoyun Securities Trading Center to Wall Street would detonate the "super bomb" of "world wealth equalization"!
The relevant detailed record is that on May 1, 2037, which coincided with Labor Day, a computer located in Room F3907 on the 39th floor of the Guoyun Securities Trading Center Office Building in Shanghai, China, transmitted data to the Federal Reserve Bank Office Building on Wall Street in the United States.
A computer sent a "mysterious email" with no content.
When a Federal Reserve Bank employee opened the "mysterious email" without knowing the circumstances, an unprecedented mysterious computer virus spread rapidly.
According to a later investigation by the Department of National Security, the virus also appeared on a private computer in Zimbabwe around 1 p.m. on May 1.
But no one was aware of the existence of this virus at that time... Until the end of May 1, 2037, almost everyone in the world received a message on their mobile phones, the content was "From now on, silently
In a few dozen seconds, a world with equal wealth is coming!"
What happened after that is not clearly explained in this record.
But it can be summed up in one sentence, just like the title says... In 2037, when major economies are de-cash, wealth is suddenly equalized.
The balance on everyone's account is equalized in various currencies...
Some people were running around and working hard the night before, and suddenly became rich people... There are also people who were talking about business with people one second, and became ordinary people the next second...
After completing this super "equalization", financial systems around the world were all paralyzed, and blackouts broke out around the world.
Before most people had time to count their balances, the city went dark...