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Chapter 421 Civilized Trade
Dongli country.

Alvin was sitting in a military vehicle wearing cold-resistant clothing, looking out the window quietly.

The convoy that this military vehicle was in stretched for more than one kilometer.

This is the retreating convoy from Hanlai Base.

The convoy was heading towards a port eighty kilometers away.

Although the Federal Air Force dispatched a batch of transport planes for evacuation, the large force of more than 100,000 people and the large amount of supplies could only be transported by sea.

Alvin is a reporter for CDA, one of the three major media outlets in the Federation. Something big happened in Dongli Country, and his boss sent him here to report the situation.

Who knew that just one day after he got off the plane, he would witness the federal garrison's full-scale retreat.

At this time.

A slogan hanging on the surface of a building beside the road caught his eye.

Alvin was fluent in Dongli, so he understood the meaning of the slogan: "Federation scum, get out of Dongli!"

"Crack!"

He quickly grabbed his phone and took a picture.

Alvin put down his phone and suddenly got an idea: "This seems like a good start."

He picked up the tablet and typed a line of words: "An epic rout."

As a media worker, this report is his job to complete.

Alvin's ten fingers danced flexibly, and the words flowed down like water: "On the way to Guangdong Port, I saw this insulting slogan, which mercilessly mocked the Federation's disastrous defeat on this land.

"At the same time, at Guangren Port, the second largest port in Dongli, a mechanic from Daxia was landing in a tense and orderly manner.

"The social networks of Dongli were filled with warm welcomes to the Daxia army, and the people of Dongli called the arrival of the Daxia army the 'coming of the power of justice'.

"The 'rising in the east and setting in the west', which has been repeated countless times by many media, was presented to me in this extremely vivid way."

Irwin thought for a while and continued writing: “But I understand the excitement of the Dongli people very well, because the vanguard of Daxia has rescued more than 1800 survivors from Guangren City.

"Instead of rescuing a single survivor, the federal army brazenly shot and killed several civilians..."

He thought about it and deleted the above two paragraphs.

Since my boss would definitely not approve of what I wrote, I might as well be more conscientious and delete it.

Alvin changed his pen style and started writing about what his superiors liked to read.

“Ordinary people don’t know that Jin Yonghao, the temporary leader who took advantage of this incident to come to power, unscrupulously sold out his country’s interests in order to repay Daxia’s strong support.

“For example, Kim Young-ho made Daeha the second official language and ordered all schools to make Daeha a compulsory course.

“Three years later, if Dongli’s high school students fail to pass the Xiayu Level 4 exam, they will not be able to obtain a graduation certificate.

“As we all know, once a group abandons its language and culture, it is only a matter of time before the group disappears completely.

“So this is undoubtedly the most complete betrayal of tens of millions of Dongli people.

“For example, Jin Yonghao signed another agreement with Daxia to sell Dongli’s power companies to Daxia at a low price, which was equivalent to handing over the lifeline of energy to Daxia.

"Daxia is like a terrifying evil dragon, greedily grabbing all benefits."

The statement that "Daxia is an evil dragon" has almost become a consensus in the media in the Western Hemisphere.

To this statement, Alvin added the adjective "extremely horrifying".

The reporter deliberately only told part of the information and concealed other key information.

That is - Daxia will be responsible for the comprehensive transformation of Dongli's power transmission network.

Because relying solely on Toray's own strength, it may not be possible to complete the renovation project within five years.

If we let Daxia do it, half a year will be enough and the transformation cost will be lower.

As long as the transformation is completed, there will never be another tragedy like the one in Guangren City where millions of people froze to death in Dongli.

Daxia has invested a large amount of money in the early stage and will obtain endless profits in the future.

It's a win-win.

Therefore, most Toray people do not oppose this transaction.

Alvin wrote for a while, then ran out of ideas, so he put the tablet away.

after an hour.

The convoy entered the port.

Alvin jumped out of the military vehicle and prepared to board the ship with his ID.

Before he reached the berth, he suddenly heard a considerable noise coming from the crowd ahead.

Alvin immediately realized that something had happened at the port.

Soon.

He got a shocking news.

General Maas, the supreme commander of the Hanley base, boarded the icebreaker of the evacuation fleet. While standing on the bow smoking, he was attacked by a monster.

Witnesses nearby saw with their own eyes that two translucent tentacles suddenly emerged from outside the boat, tightly wrapped around General Mas, and dragged him into the icy water.

Alvin felt a chill down his spine.

He remembered biologists saying that due to the impact of the cold wave, a large amount of sea surface was frozen, causing severe lack of oxygen in the sea water.

Coupled with the global low temperature, more than 99% of marine life died. This was the sixth mass extinction event on the Blue Planet.

Why do mutant monsters appear in the sea?

This world is too dangerous!

Alvin muttered again, "Today is truly a day of shame for the Federation!"

More than 100,000 garrison troops were forced to evacuate Dongli State, and the highest commander of the garrison was killed by monsters in full view of everyone.

What a shame!

He suddenly didn't want to take the boat ride anymore because he didn't know if there were anything more terrifying in the sea.

What if a super-giant monster suddenly appears and can even overturn a warship? Wouldn’t this journey be dangerous?
But he had no choice.

After all, Alvin is just a reporter, not a big shot, so the army cannot arrange a plane specifically for him.

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

An extremely dull sound came from underwater.

Alvin was startled.

He soon learned that the Federal Navy was dropping depth charges to deal with the underwater monsters.

This made him feel a little more at ease.

Alvin understood the principle of depth charges. He felt that monsters were made of flesh and blood and would be unlikely to withstand the water pressure generated by the explosion of depth charges.

five minutes later.

The muffled thunder stopped and boarding work resumed.

Alvin pulled his suitcase and moved slowly forward among the long line of soldiers.

He walked a few steps and suddenly heard a soldier in front of him shout "Wow!" "Guys, there is some super important news from Daxia."

Someone immediately asked, "What's the news?"

Alvin pricked up his ears and listened to the soldier's words.

"Daxia officials have announced that a trade team sent by the Iron Fist Civilization will arrive in the capital of Daxia tomorrow to discuss trade matters between the two civilizations.

"The Daxia people also said that the Iron Fist civilization has a population of up to 340 billion, and the Iron Fist world has many more rare resources than the current Canglan Star."

Alvin couldn't believe it.

When Gabamda showed up before, the Federation conducted a special investigation into the matter.

The investigation results showed that this Iron Fist man had accidentally drifted to the Canglan civilization and had lost contact with the Iron Fist civilization, so trade between civilizations was not so easy.

Could it be that the Daxia people found the exploration team sent by the Iron Fist Civilization in the Black Sand Sea so quickly?

Alvin quickly searched on his phone and confirmed what the soldier said.

This is the official news released by Daxia National Television and is unlikely to be a false rumor.

Alvin cursed under his breath: "Shit!"

Having been in the media industry for so many years, he is well-informed and fully understands how shocking the news is.

To put it in an analogy, this can definitely be regarded as the second "discovery of a new continent during the Age of Exploration."

Moreover, the weight of this "new continent" far exceeds that of Beijingzhou and Nanjingzhou discovered hundreds of years ago.

It's a whole new world!

There is also a powerful civilization with countless good things!
Alvin thought of a serious problem: "If the Federation is excluded from this civilized trade, I am afraid that the Federation will decline at a faster rate."

Although Daxia's strength has surpassed that of the Federation, the Federation has accumulated considerable wealth over the past hundred years and will have no problem supporting itself for another few decades.

But once the civilized trade officially begins, the Federation will be unable to participate in it, and I am afraid that the Federation will not be able to support it for even ten years.

Is Daxia willing to allow the Federation to participate?

The answer is obvious - don’t even think about it!
Alvin took out his cell phone and quickly opened a stock app.

He took a quick look and frowned, "It is indeed the case." He saw that all major federal stock indexes had begun to fall in unison, and this was just the beginning.

The sense of smell of capital has always been extremely sensitive, and many professionals in the financial industry also realized that this was unprecedented bad news for the federation.

Alvin checked the share price of the Pioneer Alliance again - 428 summer yuan.

He remembered clearly that the stock price was still 362 Xia Yuan in the morning.

In other words, after the news of the civilization trade came out, the stock price of the Pioneer Alliance soared by more than 60 summer yuan in a short period of time.

The increase is as high as 18%!

It is foreseeable that the share price of the Pioneering Alliance will continue to soar, because Daxia has clearly stated before that the Pioneering Alliance is one of the important entities in future civilized trade.

Alvin couldn't help but sigh.

The Federation is about to lose the title of "Canglan Star Financial Center", and Daxia's Tianhai City will surely become the new financial center.

This incident will have disastrous consequences.

Because it will inevitably seriously affect the status of the Jamaican dollar as a "world currency".

Alvin knew without even looking that the exchange rate of the Jamaican dollar against the Xia dollar would plummet.

Someone in the crowd seemed to have some financial knowledge and whispered, "Horishet! The exchange rate of the Jameini dollar against the Xia dollar has fallen."

Someone immediately asked, "How much has it fallen?"

The soldier replied: "Yesterday it was 1:3.8, that is, 1 Canadian dollar could be exchanged for 3.8 Xia dollars. Now it has fallen to 1:3.6. This speed is too scary. It seems that the trend is still falling."

These soldiers only saw the superficial phenomenon of "falling exchange rate", but Alvin knew its essence.

That is - debt.

Over the past half century, the Federation has relied on its status as the world's currency to over-issue astronomical amounts of money.

To put it bluntly, this means using worthless waste paper in exchange for resources or goods that other countries have worked hard to mine or produce.

All the over-issued money eventually became federal debt.

In fact, after the arrival of the era of natural disasters, with the strong rise of Daxia, the foundation of the Jameini dollar as the world currency has gradually been shaken.

But finance has very strong inertia, and it is not so easy for the Xia yuan to replace the Gamenian dollar.

Today, civilized trade is like a heavy blow, accelerating the process of collapse.

The rapid decline in exchange rates is a clear proof of this.

Alvin whispered, "It's over! The crisis is really coming!"

Before the disaster era, the federal debt was $36 trillion.

Although federal officials are aware of the danger and have cut a lot of debt in the past two years, the total amount is still 34 trillion, which is still an astronomical figure.

If such a huge amount of debt is hit by a sell-off, what situation will the federation face?
Alvin couldn't imagine it.

He could only hope that the federal top brass could come up with a solution.

Not long after.

It was his turn to board the ship.

Alvin was carrying a heavy suitcase and had just stepped onto the boarding ladder with his right foot when he suddenly heard a strange sound.

"Woo~"

He felt a sudden pain in his head and lost consciousness instantly.

The soldiers nearby saw something flash in the air.

A white spike appeared on the reporter's forehead and he fell to the ground.

There was immediate chaos at the dock.

Half an hour passed.

The expert's appraisal results are out.

The white spikes that killed Alvin turned out to be something similar to a squid called a cuttlebone.

Considering the tentacles that killed General Mas before, it is not difficult to infer that some cephalopod in the ocean has undergone a terrible mutation.

The frost crisis has not yet passed, and the threat from the ocean has begun to emerge.

*
Just two hours after Daxia announced "civilized trade".

At this time, the exchange rate of the Jamaican dollar to the Xia yuan had already fallen to 1:3.2.

The depreciation rate exceeded 15% in a short period of time, which has never happened in the -year history of the Kameni Federation.

This shows how serious the crisis facing the Jamenian Federation is this time.

The Federation's Grand Commander suddenly announced that within a month, a World Gate would be built within the Federation to begin developing the resources of the original world.

Once the news was announced, the world was shocked.

The rate of decline of major federal stock indices has significantly slowed down, and there are even signs of stabilization.

The exchange rate of the Canadian dollar is also no longer falling wildly.

The other side of Canglan Star.

The capital of Daxia.

An emergency meeting was held.

Gongsun Minghe personally presided over the meeting.

Yang Fan's two clones, as well as the rulers in various places in Daxia, participated in the meeting through black technology holographic imaging.

The place where Mr. Ghost is located is the World Gate of Oriental City.

Mr. Ling Ya's current location is an endless expanse of ice.

The wind howled, sweeping across the ice surface with a large amount of snow and dust.

The conference system can display coordinate information, and everyone noticed that the coordinates of Mr. Ling Ya were exactly the sea area near Dongli Country.

Since the Tower of Babel system is in use, there is also a strong enough network signal there.

Yang Fan noticed the looks of the crowd and explained, "When the Gameni garrison was evacuated, the supreme commander was killed by a mutant sea monster, so I came here to investigate."

But now was not the time to go into detail, so he just mentioned it briefly.

Gongsun Minghe looked around and said, "Now that everyone is here, let's get started."

He said directly: "The Gamenians said they wanted to build a world gate. Is this true or false?"

All the participants' eyes were instantly fixed on Mr. Ghost and Mr. Crow.

In this conference room, only Yang Fan’s two clones were capable of answering this question.

Yang Fanxian said through Mr. Ghost: "I have said before that the Gameni Federation has colluded with the Qingyang Demon Clan of the Original World. This is a very powerful race. They are definitely capable of building the World Gate."

He then controlled Mr. Ling Ya and said, "The Gameni are building an altar to help a strong man from the Qingyang tribe to come, so building a world gate may not be impossible."

Mr. Ghost immediately added: "There are many space cracks in Beijingzhou where the Jameni Federation is located. With a little modification, it can become a world gate.

"Although it is not as stable as the World Gate in the Eastern City, it will be interrupted when encountering a large spatial disturbance, and the materials that can be handled are also limited, but it should be no problem for normal use."

There was an immediate commotion in the conference room.

Because from Daxia's perspective, the fact that the Gamenians really built the World Gate was definitely bad news.

Gongsun Minghe's expression changed slightly: "Can we stop this?"

Mr. Ling Ya came forward to explain: “The most fundamental problem is not with the Gameni people, but with the Qingyang Demon Clan in the original world.

"As long as the Qingyang Demon Clan is willing, no matter what Ghost and I do, we will not be able to prevent this world gate from being built."

Mr. Ghost pointed out the key point in one sentence: "The Qingyang Demon Clan is a race with ancient gods and countless powerful people.

"Currently, there is only one knight-level Qingyang demon who has noticed the Canglan civilization. If we continue to thwart the knights' plots, it is very likely to attract more terrifying Qingyang warriors."

Gongsun Minghe understood this: "I understand."

The Blue Sheep Knight is not the Iron Fist Knight. The former is a strong man with a backstage. If it realizes that the Blue Man has the ability to fight against the Knight, it will definitely try to find help.

If a powerful person of the Venerable level is attracted, the Canglan civilization will face a devastating disaster.

One participant couldn't help but raise a hypothesis: "If we kill the people in the Gameni Federation who have a relationship with the Qingyang Demon Clan, can we cut off the evil hand that the demons are reaching out to us?"

Yang Fan replied through Mr. Ling Ya: “The Jamani people held many blood sacrifice ceremonies according to the method taught by the demon Wanshan, and each blood sacrifice ceremony would spread many soul imprints.

“As long as the soul imprint exists, we cannot sever this connection. Unfortunately, Ghost and I have not done enough research on the soul realm.

"So we have no idea how many people carry the Soul Mark. I strongly suspect that the Soul Mark has spread to many countries, not just the Jamenian Federation."

The meeting room was a little quiet and everyone looked unhappy.

Because if that's the case, wouldn't the Canglan civilization never be able to get rid of the Qingyang demon clan?
Yang Fan said through Mr. Ghost: "At this stage, Canglan Star has not yet fully descended, and it is not easy for the top masters of the Qingyang Demon Clan to come here.

"Sooner or later, we will be able to clean up the soul imprints spread by the Qingyang Demon Clan and completely eliminate this threat."

He paused and smiled, "Although we can't stop the Gamenians from building the World Gate, it doesn't mean we can't sabotage it.

"It's not entirely a bad thing for the Green Sheep Knight to interfere with Canglan Star. Perhaps we can even gain some spoils from them."

The "Qingyang Book" he obtained from killing the demon Wanshan last time greatly improved his strength.

Gongsun Minghe nodded: "Then we should fight against the enemy with our own army and block the flood with earth."

(End of this chapter)