Doctor, I'm really strong!

The community even considered the knights' squires whose families were being held hostage, and openly challenged the Kazimierz authorities: "If you dare to kill those hostages, I dare to exterminate your entire family. You don't believe me? Try me."

Initially, Casimir was certainly making a fuss, and Victoria and Colombia issued a joint statement saying that such an attack on another country's territory was hegemonic and an absolutely unacceptable humanitarian disaster.

Then the capital of Kasimir was hit by three missiles, killing the president, vice president and their families on the spot, and three bankers and their families. The scene was quite tragic.

Colombia and Victoria lodged strong protests and condemnations, and then... nothing.

Do you really expect them to fight the Community to the death for Kazimierz? Look at the million-strong army on the border and the more than 50,000 land-based naval forces. Even if Victoria were to mass-produce steam knights now, they still couldn't defeat them.

Then came the Community's decapitation campaign against the stubborn ruling class of Qazimir. Once the Community's Ministry of Internal Affairs set its sights on you, no matter if you were a high-ranking official or a wealthy merchant, you would all die. And they would make sure you died as miserably as they wanted you to.

When you're in the game, you have to keep your word. If you say you'll kill your whole family, then your whole family has to go, including the rats and cockroaches in your house.

After realizing that the community could attack at any time, Kasimir immediately suspended its cooperation with Colombia, abided by the law on the border, and resolutely refused to cross the line. Their cooperation was so exemplary that they deserved a medal for moral excellence.

"That's just cheap." Liu Jiuli said with a face full of disdain.

Seeing that his plan was about to fail, Colombia decided to resort to a dirty trick.

Section 367: Of the same ilk

(How about calling the new book Shenzhou? (～￣▽￣)～)

Students with a little knowledge of history know the story of "the strategy of exhausting Qin," which uses the Zheng Guo Canal as bait to allow the state of Han to enjoy ten years of peace before quickly becoming the first sacrifice for Qin to unify the six kingdoms.

Looking back at what Han did, people laughed at them for courting disaster. But from the perspective of people at that time, it was a miracle that a small country like Han could survive for ten years when it was powerless to resist either way. After all, whenever Qin went out to attack the six eastern states, it would most likely pass through Han, and then it would be like hunting rabbits with grass—attacking them along the way.

The weak have no choice in desperate situations. Although the western nations of Terra are not yet at their wits' end, it is clear to everyone that if the community is determined to conquer the whole world, even if other countries are united, they can only barely manage a 50/50 split.

This is still based on the premise that the Western countries are united and determined. In reality, this was already demonstrated when Qin unified the six states. Even Su Qin, who held the seals of the prime ministers of the six states, did not manage to unite the six states to destroy Qin.

With more people involved, the voices within the group become more diverse, and history, in most cases, will still choose the stronger one.

If you can't win a direct confrontation, then resort to underhanded tactics.

Colombia happens to have extensive experience in this area, and with the life manipulation technology they obtained from Dr. Dotole, they decided to go all out.

Your community likes immigrants, so we'll push a bunch of infected refugees onto your border.

If the community doesn't take action, it will be a humanitarian disaster. If the community does take action, it will risk a large-scale spread of infectious diseases. Even if everything goes smoothly, it will take the community a considerable amount of time to absorb these people. As long as Colombia continues to create wars in neighboring countries, the community will not be idle and will naturally have no spare capacity to continue westward.

To put it simply, it's about using ordinary people to create a buffer zone against the virus, slowing down the community's westward advance.

As for those powerful and wealthy people, of course they need to prepare vaccines in advance. Better to die for your friends than for yourselves; that's the way of life.

Dr. Tottore had no objection to Columbia's insane actions. "You yourselves don't care how many of your compatriots die, why should I, an outsider, care? Trading your lives for the experimental data I need is a win-win situation no matter how you look at it."

The relevant work began quickly. To ensure success, the initial testing was conducted in Winterland. The Community's intelligence personnel were unable to infiltrate Teyvat at that time. Therefore, the Community's intelligence personnel only obtained some intelligence about "Project Champion" when the project entered the implementation phase.

The reason it's called the Champions Project is because Colombia believes that the virus they cultivated is the champion among viruses.

The Nurgle's Delight Virus, huh? Where did this Chaos Champion come from?

The finished product of Project Champion was named "Blacklight," meaning "dawn in the darkness." It was then rolled out on a large scale in the Colombian border region under the name of "Colombia's latest Oripathy vaccine." These areas were mostly slums or areas where migrants lived. The locals were then deported by Colombian authorities on the grounds of "harboring communists."

Most of these people went to Casimir, while the rest went to Shelag, Minos, Polivar, and Sami, but the country where the epidemic first broke out on a large scale was Victoria.

Victoria and Colombia are separated by three countries and are not geographically adjacent, so why did the official suffer the first misfortune?

This matter is related to Theresis.

Starting in February 1108 in Terra, the Sarkaz under the Regent began to immigrate to the Commonwealth in large numbers, causing the number of Sarkaz in Victoria to plummet and creating a mercenary shortage in many places, with mercenary prices soaring.

The fact that the Commonwealth doesn't need mercenaries doesn't mean other countries don't. Especially for the nobles of Victoria, mercenaries are very useful front men. Now that the Sarkaz have withdrawn, other mercenaries will naturally fill this niche.

As a result, many mercenary groups with average strength saw an opportunity and began to expand their business lines. This required manpower, but mercenaries are not easy to find, and qualified mercenaries are even rarer. In order to make themselves appear to have a large number of people in a short period of time, these mercenary groups absorbed a lot of refugees and vagrants who looked physically good, especially those who were forced to wander in other countries after being expelled from Colombia. They were not only cheap, but also plentiful and plentiful.

As a paramilitary organization, mercenary groups have a very high personnel density. Even if they use new recruits as cannon fodder, they still have to give them the most basic military training first. Then these recruit training camps become huge incubators for viruses.

Furthermore, the "Blacklight Virus" developed by Colombia has an incubation period of more than six months. Even if the disease develops after six months, the initial symptoms are similar to those of a cold. At this time, the patient still has considerable mobility. During this period, the virus is most contagious. A week later, the virus will break out and instantly kill the person.

However, the virus is not fatal. At most, it leaves patients with many long-term effects, making them unable to work for extended periods, engage in heavy physical labor, or concentrate on thinking. They are still alive and require government support. Its disgusting nature is comparable to the butterfly mines the Americans dropped in Vietnam—crippling but not killing, increasing pressure on the enemy's rear.

It has to be said that this virus strain perfectly meets Colombia's needs. If I can't beat you in strength, then I'll beat you in rottenness. Building is difficult, but causing destruction is very easy.

In December of Terra 1111, the Blacklight virus began to break out on a large scale. Because the mortality rate was very low, no country took it seriously. Only the Community immediately began to study the Blacklight virus.

By this time, the community had received relevant intelligence and confirmed that this was a biological attack from Colombia.

"It might have been useful three years ago, but now it's a joke."

Liu Jiuli was not worried at all about the rampage of the Blacklight virus, because the community's medical nanorobots were completed.

No matter how powerful the virus developed by Colombia is, it is still just a virus. But nanorobots are cells with brains. Through functional programming, they can replace any type of cell in the human body. Moreover, a year ago, researchers in the community had already successfully established a human whitelist database.

With the template, these nanorobots only need to follow the instructions and can ignore the blood-brain barrier. Anything not on the whitelist, even a single protein, will be broken down and expelled from the body.

To effectively improve the working efficiency of nanorobots, researchers in the community have developed a symbiont. Before entering and activating the human body, this symbiont looks similar to saline solution. It can enter the human body through injection, similar to a vaccine, and then proliferate near the major organs of the human body, creating a unique defense network inside the body. It can not only resist bacteria and viruses, but also repair human damage.

Furthermore, it could become a biological brain-computer interface for humans in the future, a biological antenna that can directly connect to the internet wirelessly to create virtual reality without the need for intubation, and is a precursor technology to Cyberpunk 2077.

While Cyberpunk 2077 required the use of tubes, this game goes straight to unlimited interconnectivity.

Although the Blacklight virus is cunning, the righteous are always one step ahead of the wicked. No matter how these viruses mutate, they will be eliminated because they do not conform to the human body's whitelist. Even if they disguise themselves, the characteristics of viruses make it impossible for them to act as obediently as normal somatic cells and normal gut flora. As soon as they appear, nanobots will immediately come to their door like the Cheka of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on a mission to deliver warmth and kill them without mercy!

This is equivalent to setting up a 1984 absolute monitoring network inside the human body. The dynamics of every cell, every bacterium, and every virus are under absolute monitoring, and any behavior that deviates even slightly will be ruthlessly eliminated.

Please call us the Nano Military Police!

However, this also means that benign mutations in the human body will be eliminated, since the mutated parts are not on the whitelist.

But you should know that the probability of a mutation being beneficial is extremely low. In a time when humans can gradually change or even customize their own bodies, such a low-probability event is not worth looking forward to at all. Isn't it better to have a safe, controllable mutation that has passed official and serious benign mutation approval? You can mutate however you want without any side effects. Isn't that much better than the roulette wheel of nature?

It was precisely because of this cutting-edge technology that the Blacklight virus was stopped at the border of the community.

Then the community began to reveal the truth it possessed, and at the same time launched a vaccine that could prevent the Blacklight virus.

Liu Jiuli may not understand Colombia well, but he understands America. As the heir to America's spirit of "who's worse," Colombia will definitely be so jealous when it finds that the Community is fine that it will split its plasmosphere and then throw mud at the US.

The method is very simple: we are all infected by the virus, but you are fine, so you must have developed this virus.

In response to this envious mentality, the community immediately declared a state of emergency to the world upon discovering the Blacklight virus and began implementing strict testing and quarantine measures. At the same time, news media around the world began to exert their influence, and all the accusations were directed at Colombia. Now that there is solid evidence, they are determined to destroy Colombia.

Originally, Colombia had prepared a process for smearing Colombia and had multiple contingency plans, but unexpectedly, just as the Blacklight virus began to spread, the community grasped part of the truth and then began to hurl insults at Colombia internationally, directly causing Colombia to crash.

Wait, isn't this my script? Why did you speak first?

Because I anticipated your prediction.

Back then, the US made baseless accusations without knowing the truth, but now that the community has pictures and the truth, of course they should condemn Colombia in the public sphere. What's more, this whole affair was caused by the Colombian government and capital acting inhumanely, even taking the lives of their own people into account. So, who do you think is more infuriating?

Compared to the United States, which controls the world's mouthpiece, Colombia is clearly much less experienced in this regard, while the Community is obviously much tougher on this issue.

When dealing with a country like Colombia, you can't be soft. You have to be ready to fight to the death at any time, and occasionally create some life-threatening situations for them. Then you will understand what weakness and compromise mean.

Imperialism is a paper tiger; they all bully the weak and fear the strong.

The enraged Colombian government naturally had to retaliate. They also had many propaganda companies, and they absolutely could not lose this war of words. Even if the things the Community presented were true, they would never admit them and would continue to slander the Community. They were determined to throw this mudslinging water back at them, even if it meant throwing a tantrum.

CBS has mastered the dark filter of BBC and CNN without any instruction, and its various fabrications and Photoshop skills are superb. In their writing, the community is almost living like in Resident Evil 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, with unclaimed cell phones everywhere and numb, zombie-like people all over the place. The misery is enough to fill a book called "Les Misérables".

Unfortunately, the photo didn't cause a ripple within the community, because the community had long since stopped using cell phones. Now everyone uses virtual projection and cloud-based internet technology, and the size of personal terminals has been compressed to only one-tenth the size of a fingernail. Their appearance can be customized into anything, such as rings, watches, necklaces, badges, belts, etc., and they can even be directly implanted into the body for use. They can be controlled with a single click of brainwaves and used however they want.

So where did you get this phone? We've long since phased out this kind of outdated product.

Although such propaganda has no impact on the community, other countries are unaware of the true situation and may be misled to some extent. Therefore, such unscrupulous news media must be dealt with severely and thoroughly corrected, both mentally and physically.

That night, a gust of east wind fell from the sky, and the Columbia Broadcasting Station building was razed to the ground on the spot.

Section 368: Time to Speed ​​Up

(Suddenly realized that having too many ideas is also a problem ╮(╯▽╰)╭)

At the press conference, the community spokesperson smiled and said to the reporters present, "If they have no conscience, we will tell them what happens to those who have no conscience."

The fate of CBS shocked everyone; no one expected that the community would actually resort to violence at the slightest disagreement.

But you have to admit, the criticism of the weapons was so effective that no country dared to report on it again.

There are certainly rumors, but official channels are always incredibly honest.

Colombia launched a resolute counterattack, a counterattack that went beyond mere physical retaliation.

On the one hand, they simply couldn't win the war, and on the other hand, Colombia's internal economic crisis was about to become uncontrollable.

The Blacklight virus successfully completed all its missions beyond the plan, further expanding the Community's advantages. It crippled the medical systems and funeral businesses of all countries except the Community, allowing the Community to make a fortune simply by exporting medical supplies and funeral items. On the contrary, the situation in countries that had already begun to experience economic crises became increasingly turbulent.

Factories shut down, people lost their jobs, funds dried up, and the stock market plummeted. Centered on Colombia, the economic situation in the entire Western Terra was spiraling out of control. Before that, there was the commodity shock from the Community and the rampant exploitation by financial capital. If there is a debuff to the economy, then the countries of Western Terra have now stepped into every pitfall imaginable.

Things have come to this point, and the Colombian government is devastated. We've all worked so hard, so why is it that the community is the one who ultimately benefits? Are you guys from another world even on our side?

"We are unbreakable steel allies."

Doctor D'Ortole said this with a sincere expression.

That's just what he said; he didn't really think that way.

Moreover, it's not fair to blame the virus providers for being ineffective. The samples provided by Dr. Dotole were definitely fine, and Colombia's development team went all out. The problem was that the community's epidemic prevention level was beyond standard. The Blacklight virus's champion project was like an ant trying to shake a tree, or a mantis trying to stop a chariot. If we're talking about responsibility, the implementers are the ones who should be most responsible. There's no reason to hold researchers responsible when a plan goes wrong. It's clearly yourselves who were incompetent.

However, cooperation must continue; in the short term, the Fools do not have the ability to accomplish anything significant.

After dismissing the Colombian bureaucrats, Dotore shook his head helplessly.

Capable allies are hard to control, and easy-to-control allies are incapable. Countries like the Community will only become obstacles for the Winter Kingdom to enter Terra. But a country like Columbia is a complete mess... to be honest, if it weren't for needing an ally to cover for them, Dotore would have preferred the country to perish as soon as possible.

While Dotole may have been even more ruthless, he prioritized maximizing profits. Even when it came to cannibalism, he distinguished between indiscriminate consumption and deliberate, selective eating. Colombia's method of cannibalism was barbaric and primitive, wasting vast amounts of resources in the wrong places. A tiny minority possessed the majority of the resources, preventing other individuals from effectively utilizing them for growth. In a laboratory, this would result in stunted specimens, an intolerable waste.

The same experiment yielded vastly different results for individuals with and without knowledge—a truth even a child could understand, yet the rulers of Colombia deliberately ignored it.

Even in the Kingdom of Winter, there are bankers. Pantalone, the wealthy ninth seat of the Fools, firmly believes that only Mora linked to resources has value, and only Mora that can be exchanged for things is useful Mora; otherwise, it is just dead skin shed by some dragon-like creature.

Colombia, a country that has been constantly on the move due to natural disasters, surprisingly has its core competitiveness in finance and real estate.

When the steel torrent of the community comes crashing down, do they intend to use financial leverage to crush the enemy's army?

The financial system on the other side of the community is strictly controlled under the national planned economy system. It is an institution that uses resources to mobilize funds. It can only make money slightly more than the bank interest rate, so a large amount of funds have entered the real economy.

It's not impossible to make money from the community and then go abroad to play the financial game, but you must first ensure that your money can escape the community's financial monitoring system. As things stand, no one has succeeded yet, and the subsequent punishments are extremely cruel. Hundreds of such warriors have already been sent to a place called Sun Prison for rehabilitation.

For some reason, when Dotole heard this sunny name, he felt a chill run from the soles of his feet to the top of his head.

It's the middle of summer, so why are my hands and feet so cold and I'm shivering all over? It's so strange.

"Since you don't have much time left anyway, savor the last moments of peace."