Chapter 327 Vanished

Chapter 327 Vanished

Chapter 327 Vanished
Across the ocean.

Inside America's gold vault.

"What should we do now?" An anxious voice echoed in the office.

"What should we do?" The other voice was full of emptiness, and even had a hint of self-abandonment.

Huh! Cigar smoke slowly came out of one of the men's mouths. "Huh... The EU has agreed to continue storing the gold here. There are still about 137 tons of gold in Seris that have not been shipped back. But judging by their performance, they don't seem to be urging us to deliver the gold any more."

"Haha, they just don't want to die with us, otherwise why would they be so lenient." A blond old man sneered.

The middle-aged man smoking a cigar rubbed his temples and said, "The most urgent task now is to stabilize the gold that other forces want to withdraw as soon as possible, or find a way to deliver it. Otherwise, it will be difficult to conceal the inside story of our inventory shortage."

"Keep it steady? Can you tell me how to keep it steady?" the blond old man asked directly.

At this moment, a phone call came.

Ring bell…

The middle-aged man put the cigar on the ashtray and picked up the phone: "Hello, this is..."

"Okay, Rick, enough of the small talk."

The moment he heard the voice, the middle-aged man Rick knew who was on the other side: "Mr. Morgan, what's the matter?"

"I have discussed the issue of gold reserves with other families. You don't need to worry about it. In the next week, each family will input 2000 tons of gold into the vault, which is enough to deliver to other forces."

Hearing this news, Rick felt relieved: "Thank you Mr. Morgan for your help."

In fact, the reason why the Morgan family and other tycoons took action was not because they cared about America, but because they were now desperate.

As the world situation became clearer, America's major financial forces retreated from all over the world back to their North American base.

After all, these chaebol capital forces now have no way to parasitize on the new overlord, and can only continue to maintain the vital functions of the old host to prevent its sudden death.

Originally, if America was a bit more shameless, she could have easily denied the gold, but the current situation obviously did not allow them to do so.

Because if they don't unite with the European Union and Russia to form a North Atlantic Treaty Organization, the consequences will be very serious.

In order to maintain their core sphere of influence, the eight major North American financial groups, including the Morgan group, had to bleed heavily once and take out a small portion of the gold that they had secretly emptied from the North American vaults and return it to some regions.

As for the gold of Seres and the Asian Union, the eight major North American financial groups did not intend to continue to return the gold, but instead pledged their remaining industries in Asia to the Asian Union.

Anyway, it is difficult for these industries to survive within the territory of the Asian Union, so it is better to make use of them.

In the eyes of the Morgan tycoon and other forces, the value of gold is more important.

After all, with the collapse of the US dollar's credit in the international market, North America can only offer real gold and silver as collateral, otherwise no one will be willing to trade with America.

The amount of gold acquired by the Morgan group and other North American capital forces through various means was actually quite large, totaling no less than about 5000 tons.

Therefore, asking them to take out 2000 tons of gold to save the situation would only cause them some pain for a while, but in order to prevent the continued collapse of America's market and finance, they had no choice but to resort to this last resort.

...

Just now.

Deep in the Amazon rainforest of South America.

A major flood brought devastating disaster to more than a dozen small towns deep in the Amazon rainforest.

These include the two secret research bases that had previously been secretly researching parthenogenetic reproduction technology.

The rainfall in the Amazon rainforest this year is heavier than in previous years. This is mainly because the North Atlantic warm current system has become chaotic, causing abnormal accumulation of sea water temperatures in the South Atlantic near the equator, which in turn caused the evaporation rate in the nearby sea areas to soar. Finally, the amount of clouds entering the Amazon rainforest has increased a lot compared to previous years.

Some parts of the town did not anticipate the severe flooding and thought it would be just like in previous years, but were caught off guard by the sudden surge in water levels in a short period of time.

If only these two scientific research bases were destroyed by the flood, there would be nothing worthy of attention.

However, in the laboratory of one of the scientific research bases, some genetically modified Wolbachia have been developed and successfully parasitized the more common mosquitoes in the area.

Some of the storage boxes that stored these genetically modified Wolbachia-infected mosquitoes were washed away in the flood. Now some of the mosquitoes infected with genetically modified Wolbachia have begun to spread into the Amazon rainforest.

Through mosquito bites, these genetically modified Wolbachia can enter the bodies of primates, thereby interfering with human reproduction by becoming new organelles in primate cells.

However, the specific impact it may cause is still unknown at this time.

After all, the technology of that secret research institute is not mature. Perhaps it is the human immune system that kills the genetically modified Wolbachia, or it is possible that a clear parasitic relationship is formed. Even if the parasitism is successful, these genetically modified Wolbachia may not necessarily allow humans to enter a parthenogenetic reproduction state.

If Jiang Miao knew about this, he would probably just sigh that humans are indeed gifted in seeking death.

But it is too late to prevent the widespread spread of genetically modified Wolbachia.

The main reason is that this thing is transmitted through mosquitoes. With the current means available to humans, it is almost impossible to kill all the mosquitoes carrying genetically modified Wolbachia.

Even if Hailufeng's gene-targeted pheromone induction and expulsion technology is used, there is still no way to guarantee 100% eradication of infected mosquitoes that spread to the Amazon rainforest.

Although Hailufeng Company has completed the red fire ant eradication plan in China and completely eradicated the invasive red fire ants in South China, that is because red fire ants are an invasive species and they are not flying insects, making them easy to encircle and kill.

If you want to use the same method to deal with mosquitoes, the difficulty will increase by dozens of times. Moreover, in the Amazon rainforest, a pristine area with few human habitation, it is nothing short of a fantasy to kill the native mosquitoes there.

Unless Hailufeng Company's related technology is further improved and it can develop genetic toxins specifically targeting specific genes, it will be possible to exterminate mosquitoes carrying specific genes.

Killing mosquitoes is extremely difficult.

The main reason is that mosquitoes reproduce too quickly, which leads to their rapid evolution.

Perhaps just as we have developed a gene-targeted toxin, in just a few years the mosquitoes will have completed their genetic iteration and adapted to the gene toxin.

This kind of thing is not impossible.

You should know that many of the pesticides used by humans in agriculture will often cause some local insects to develop drug resistance after using them for a period of time.

...

Southern Yunnan, Gaoligong Mountains.

Jiang Miao and his group came here after leaving the vicinity of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain.

Gaoligong Mountain is part of the Hengduan Mountains and is also a natural geographical barrier that separates the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and the Jiangxinpo area.

However, in October last year, the natural barrier of Gaoligong Mountain was completely overcome.

A two-way tunnel starts from a small town on the Nujiang River Valley side, directly penetrates Gaoligong Mountain, and reaches the Jiangxinpo area on the Hongsawadi side.

Jiang Miao happened to pass by here, so he took a look at this new tunnel built with new technology at the tunnel entrance near the town.

Compared with the previous tunnel construction technology, the new technology adopts the integrated construction technology of the tunnel wall and applies multi-layer foam silicon materials. It not only improves the overall strength, but also is better than the old technology in terms of earthquake resistance, compression resistance, deformation resistance and crack resistance. In addition, there is another application of technology that is also of great help to tunnel construction.

This technology is the electromagnetic particle engine previously used in the second stage of the Bluestar 1 launch vehicle.

The reason why electromagnetic particle engines can be used in tunnel construction projects is that the principle of electromagnetic particle engines is actually a high-speed electromagnetic particle cannon.

Although the effect of this electromagnetic particle cannon is average in long-range attacks, its destructive power is very significant at close range.

Using sodium or silicon powder as the magazine of the electromagnetic particle cannon, with the support of a steady supply of electricity, the electromagnetic particle cannon can quickly destroy the structural integrity of the rock formation.

It only takes a few minutes of continuous bombardment, and even a rock wall made of granite will instantly turn into fluffy gravel similar to quicksand.

Combined with vacuum cleaners, water flushers and sand pumps, it is easy to excavate rock layers several hundred meters deep in a day.

This technology is very different from tunnel digging using a shield machine.

The difficulty of using a shield machine to expand the aperture of a tunnel depends on the size of the shield machine. Currently, the size of the shield machine has reached a bottleneck.

The tunnel aperture of the electromagnetic particle cannon can be easily expanded.

For example, the Gaoligong Mountain First Tunnel in front of us has a total of four parallel tunnels dug, and the diameter of each tunnel reaches 24 meters.

If traditional shield machines were used to dig four parallel tunnels of such length and size in a short period of time, it would definitely not have been possible to complete the entire line as of October last year.

It is precisely because of the application of various new technologies that the construction of the first tunnel in Gaoligong Mountain was so fast.

Jiang Miao stayed in this small town for one night.

The next day, it was dawn.

After washing up, Jiang Miao and his group continued to slowly move south along the Nujiang River Valley.

When he arrived at the port city near Hongsawadi, he saw that the streets on both sides were full of shops and businesses selling jadeite raw stones.

As for these jadeite raw stones, Jiang Miao accompanied his family to visit more than a dozen shops specializing in selling jadeite raw stones. He bought several better jadeite raw stones through identification panels and also bought some jadeite jewelry for his parents, Shuya and his daughter.

Just when he was returning to Chuncheng.

Jiang Haibo, who was in Southeast Asia during the Chinese New Year, suddenly received a call.

He was on a minibus and connected to a satellite phone.

"Hey, Haibo, what's going on?"

"Boss, Happy New Year. I have something to report to you. Is it convenient for you?"

"It's convenient, just tell me!" Jiang Miao glanced out the car window at Shuya and others who were eating.

"Sing Tao Island has recently invited our company to develop real estate because of the threat of rising sea levels in the future. I think this is profitable, but I can't make up my mind, so I want to ask the boss for his opinion."

"Sing Tao's real estate?" Jiang Miao immediately recalled the real estate information of Sing Tao. After a moment, he asked with some doubt: "How much land do they plan to grant us?"

Jiang Haibo stated some of Sing Tao's conditions: "If we are willing to invest, they agree to grant us 2000 mu of land at one time, but require us to complete the development within three years."

"Haha, within three years?" Jiang Miao immediately understood the other party's thoughts.

At this stage, Sing Tao Island is indeed facing a huge environmental crisis. If they cannot solve the land problem before the sea level rises, they will soon disappear under the waves.

If they introduce Hailufeng Company, they can tie Hailufeng Company to the local area and achieve the goal of sharing weal and woe.

After thinking for a while, Jiang Miao raised his lips slightly: "Promise them."

"Okay, I'll arrange this as soon as possible."

"Remember, hire more employees." Jiang Miao reminded.

"I understand." Jiang Haibo naturally understood the implication of Jiang Miao's words.

Hailufeng Company is not really harmless. For example, their investment in Mobei, in cooperation with other large state-owned enterprises, has drained away the local young and middle-aged labor force in a short period of time.

The small country of Sing Tao Island also could not withstand the labor siphoning of the Hailufeng Company.

Including the various regions in Southeast Asia, more than half of their young and middle-aged labor force has been sucked dry, and even if the locals want to do something small, they don't have the manpower to carry it out.

What's more, with the full advancement of economic penetration, it has become increasingly difficult for the local area to resist the influence of Seris.

"Boss, there is one more thing."

"Oh?"

"It's about Tianzhu."

"What happened in Tianzhu?"

"Some time ago, we cooperated with several companies to purchase the nuclear materials secretly held by several forces along the coast of Tianzhu and transported them back to China."

"That's it! Is it going well?"

"It went smoothly, but there was a little accident." Jiang Haibo said somewhat embarrassedly.

Jiang Miao asked with concern: "Accident? What accident?"

"There are dark forces secretly interfering with our purchase of nuclear materials. Although these transactions were successful, these dark forces have recently shifted their targets. They have concentrated their forces in the inland areas of Tianzhu and have once again detonated more than a dozen dirty bombs." Jiang Haibo's tone was filled with anger as he spoke.

"Haha, it seems these guys won't cry until they see the coffin." Jiang Miao's voice was filled with coldness, and then he asked:
"How did you do on the missions I sent you to West Asia and North Africa?"

"It has been done. Both Saudi Arabia and several other major West Asian oil-producing countries have agreed to expand production capacity and lower the international market price of oil and gas."

"Great, when can they complete the capacity adjustment?"

“It is expected to be completed in the next two to three months.”

"That's good. You continue to follow up on this matter. As long as you can squeeze the oil and gas revenue of North America and Russia, they will soon be thrown into disarray."

"We and several other overseas companies have completed their layout. This time we can definitely deal a heavy blow to the oil and gas industry in North America and Russia."

"That's it! Nothing else?"

"Nothing."

"Yeah." Jiang Miao hung up the phone, and then took the opportunity to make a few more calls to learn about the progress of the domestic layout of oil and gas, and only then did he feel relieved.

(End of this chapter)