It's none of my business. I'm just a lunch box seller.

"Come on!" Commander Amei said with a smile, "Although today is not a formal meeting, it is too informal to joke about such things!"

"But this device is really used to connect the earth and another world." After that, the boss asked the highest and most powerful people in the store: "The Masala chicken without a pedicle and stewed potatoes are ready. Who wants some?"

The national leader, the unusually sober successor to the British Empire, raised his left hand to indicate that he wanted to have a taste.

"You're the first one to order food, so I'll give you a chicken drumstick."

The national leader put his hands together and said "thank you" to his boss in the native language. He was very polite and courteous. He was not at all like the Asian leader who had been so crazy before the world situation changed drastically and ordered politicians to throw dirty water on his boss and the UNSC.

Therefore, as a leader of a major country, it is really important to be clear-headed. Knowing when to do something is the most basic political quality.

Just like now, since the former top three members were willing to bring the leader of the European Union and him, the successor, to participate in this obviously important but informal meeting, it was enough to prove that they respected you. And respect is mutual, so the once polite ascetic appeared at the dinner table again.

The reason why Harakami Sanjo was willing and hoped that the "ascetic" would come to participate in this informal meeting was that the population of the subcontinent was so large that it was about to explode!

Before today, Asia's population was indeed a headache. After all, as the solar crisis approached, the problem of food production reduction was bound to become more serious. Under such circumstances, East Asia and South Asia had completely become a dangerous time bomb.

If a big problem occurs here, it will be the same as the problem for the whole human race. If one problem is not handled properly, then the whole human race will be finished along with East Asia and South Asia.

However, with the arrival of today, especially with the holding of this informal meeting, the population in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Asia that has nowhere to go will become a huge resource advantage. After all, if we want to make that world the last refuge and granary on Earth...

"It would take at least 10 billion people to keep that planet running!"

"One billion!" The bigwigs present couldn't help but exclaimed.

"Yes, 10 billion! 10 billion people who are willing to endure hardships and work in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, fishery and other related professions!"

Boss Cheng told them: "It is a planet similar to Earth, with similar size, gravity, air pressure and atmospheric composition. The only difference is that the land on that planet accounts for about 35.3% of the total area of ​​the planet. That means there is an extra land area the size of Europe compared to here."

"But unfortunately, the land of that planet has been completely desertified." A staff officer in charge of the apocalyptic world at the UNSC Supreme General Staff continued to introduce to the group of dignitaries: "It's not that humans didn't exist in that world, but they did exist, but they all perished at the latest 5 years ago.

The most important reason for their demise was not only the complete desertification of the land, but also the fact that when they lost their laboratory cultivation technology, the crop seeds they stored had already lost their ability to germinate. "

Although the lives of people in another world had nothing to do with these big shots, when they learned that another human civilization had actually gone down the "road of self-destruction" that only existed in science fiction works, they couldn't help but sigh in their hearts.

"Is it possible?" The person in charge of the European Federation, which cannot even guarantee the most basic food security, immediately asked: "Is there really a way to cultivate the desertified land?"

Then the boss got the looks from the other big bosses, as if he was a fool. I guess the "Oyster Daddy Oil" girl from a few years ago really fooled these idiots.

Even the great commander of Amei knows about the achievements of UNSC in desert greening and sand fixation. Even the TV station of Ximmm often makes sarcastic remarks about the achievements of UNSC in sand control.

However, no matter how successful the UNSC is in combating desertification, it cannot avoid the biggest problem of soil desertification: water retention and fertility. The former determines whether crops can survive, while the latter determines whether crops can grow well.

As for the overly professional questions and answers, without agricultural experts, the UNSC leaders could not guarantee the accuracy of the answers. At this time, most of the agricultural experts had gone to the apocalyptic world to do experiments and had no time to deal with them.

Fortunately, the staff came up with another method that could fundamentally solve the problem of land desertification - the Garden of Eden Creator.

"Did you find that thing?" asked the boss.

But the staff officer told the boss: "We found one, a defective product that the Eastern Brotherhood helped find at the Shelter-Tec Corporation in the wasteland of Washington. He said that this GECK has no radiation removal module and no crop seeds, but fortunately the soil improvement module is still there and can be used."

"Have you completed the technical crack?" the boss asked again.

"No." The staff officer said helplessly: "In fact, we don't even understand the principle of how it improves the soil and restores soil fertility and microbial flora."

"Do you need my help?"

"Yes!" the staff officer said decisively: "Take her away and find a way to crack her technical principles!"

"But you should know that even if you understand the technical principles, you will not be able to obtain the manufacturing method."

"But if we can figure out the principles of her technology, we will benefit a lot. At least we won't be in a situation like now where a group of top scientists can only stare at each other with nothing to do."

Ami's commander-in-chief suddenly interrupted at this time and asked his boss, "Excuse me, did you just mention the words 'wasteland' and 'Washington'? Do these two words together have any special meaning?"

At this time, the staff officer realized that he had accidentally said an extra word. But this word had to be said, because the next step of the UNSC in the wasteland was to explore all the headquarters of the Shelter Corporation or the shelters belonging to the Shelter-Tech Corporation.

The UNSC believes that they will be able to find information related to the Eden Creator, or even production technology or production lines, in these places.

0285 Quite impressive

Ami's commander-in-chief eventually learned of the existence of the wasteland.

But this man is also a calm and realistic person. When he saw Boston with his own eyes, which was full of ruins, nuclear radiation, and mutant creatures, he asked his boss not to provide anyone with information about the wasteland world in the future.

"This place is even more despairing than our Earth!"

But what really makes people despair is human greed!

In the eyes of Ami's new commander-in-chief, a world with nothing is far safer than a world with things but not much. Because the former can make people understand that in such a place, they can only struggle. But the latter can arouse people's instinct to rob, and cause Ami to waste time and national strength in such a place.

This great commander knows the nature of his people very well - if they can get something by robbing, they will never be willing to organize production. The only difference is whether the means and process of robbing are civilized or bloody, but no matter which means, it cannot change the nature of "robbing".

One more thing to add: all the senior executives of Amei this term were born in the Year of the Rabbit. Every one of them is a staunch supporter and promoter of the Mountain Moving Project!

After all, the commander-in-chief did not think that a hundred years after his death, his descendants would be able to pay the "handling fee" of 3000 million US dollars per person to board the ship.

Besides, the commander-in-chief didn't understand. It was the end of the world, and he had to spend 3000 million pieces of waste paper to buy a boat ticket. What could these 3000 million pieces of green waste paper prove? Did they prove that before boarding the ship, these people had a good ability to exploit others?

The world is about to end, who the hell can you still exploit?

As for the so-called digital life...

Damn it! Once the power supply system fails, all of humanity will perish, right?

Then, the great leader and a group of ambitious people who hoped to take the earth with them formed the top management of this Amei.

Soon after, these people boarded the UNSC Pelican and set off from the 6th-floor airport to the experimental field a hundred kilometers away, where they stood by the ridge and played with sand.

However, in their eyes, what they hold in their hands is not just a handful of ordinary desertified soil, but the last power and dignity of mankind!

"It can really be grown in the open air!" exclaimed the leader of the European Federation.

But Mr. Mo, who is relatively knowledgeable about agriculture (and was successfully re-elected), asked the most useful but also the most useless question: "What is the cost?"

"For food crops, the investment per hectare is $473.3 per quarter. For vegetables, the same investment is $557.4 per hectare."

Mo Laoxian frowned and sighed, "But the cost is still too high."

"Yes, it's too high." The agricultural expert in charge of reception replied: "And whether the planting area is 10,000 hectares or 10 million hectares, with the current level of technology, this is the lowest cost we can afford."

“That’s why we are working so hard to find the manufacturing technology for the Eden Creator.” The staff officer explained that if they could have the Eden Creator, the cost of planting would no longer be a problem.

As soon as the staff officer finished speaking, a drizzle of rain began to fall from the top of the clouds. However, no one thought this was a bad omen, on the contrary. After all, this rain was brought by atmospheric circulation, not artificially. Everyone believed that this drizzle represented that the planet was about to regain vitality.

After returning to the boss's restaurant, the location of the "cross-border transmission hub" was brought back to the table. However, the decision-makers or the general leaders did not argue over the location of the cross-border transmission hub.

Because the project team and the technical department also understand human nature, they had already decided to build multiple connection points for this hub long before they decided to give Cornerstone World No. 27 and β-027 a cross-border transmission hub.

To put it simply, multiple entrances and exits are set up on Earth 27, and multiple entrances and exits are also set up on β-027. However, because it involves multiple exits against multiple exits, and this system is quite delicate. Although it can prevent space-time shocks, it cannot prevent earthquakes.

Therefore, the cross-border transmission hub has very high requirements for the crustal stability of the site. Looking around the world, it seems that only the area where the ancient continental core is located can meet this requirement.

(Explanation: The ancient continental core is a craton, which refers to a long-term stable tectonic unit on the continental crust, that is, a relatively stable part of the continental crust that has not been affected by orogenic movement for a long time and has only been deformed by continental movement.)

It just so happened that the UNSC had carried out a lot of geological surveys in the past two years in order to build the underground city. The ancient land core happened to be the focus of the geological survey team. Combined with the survey and site selection experience of the wasteland world more than 200 years earlier than this, it took less than 1 day for the Supreme Staff Headquarters to give a reliable answer.

The best place to set up a UNSC site is in the Tarim Basin, because the ancient land core there is not only stable, but also old enough. If a connection point entrance and exit is set up on the Tarim ancient land core, then this one entrance and exit alone can cover most of West Asia, the Middle East, and East Asia.

It just so happens that there is a huge ancient land core area on the Deccan Plateau of the subcontinent, and building a connection point entrance and exit here can also provide services to the South Asia and Southeast Asia regions.

But in the vast European region, it is a bit ridiculous. Because in the vast Western and Southern European regions, there are no relatively reliable ancient continental cores. And the ancient continental cores that are old enough are called Volga-Ural ancient continental cores and Ukrainian ancient continental cores.

This is so embarrassing!

What does "You ignored me before, but now you can't afford me" mean?

Although Norway and Finland also have ancient land cores, building connection points and exits in such places is purely a gimmick! After all, the sea level will rise eventually. Northern Europe is so close to the North Pole, how can it be flooded?

Then, Da Mao, Er Mao and San Mao suddenly tasted the good news from the delivery room - the joy of becoming fathers for the first time.

Da Mao, Er Mao and San Mao: "Come on, call daddy!"

Europa League: "Dad, Dad!"

So, when all the continents completed the site selection and entrusted the plan drafted by UEG to the UNSC to hand it over to the boss, the boss discovered that these guys did not favor one over the other at all!

There are three connection points in Asia, located in the Tarim Basin, Deccan Plateau and Greater Khingan Range. The connection point located in Greater Khingan Range is jointly managed by UNSC and Great Mao, while the two connection points in Deccan Plateau and Tarim Basin are open to all of Asia.

The only entrance and exit in Europe suitable for building a connection point is the Ukrainian plain, which is shared by the entire Maozi family and their "filial sons and grandchildren."

There are also two connection points in Africa, one of which is located in Algeria and the other is located in Gabon, which is clinging to UEG. Originally, UEG only wanted to build a space elevator on the ancient continental core where Gabon is located, but Gabon was clinging too tightly, and South Africa, another candidate, was in civil unrest.

There is no way, God help Gabon.

North America also has two connection points, located on the ancient land cores on the east and west coasts.

The only special case is South America, because all the ancient cores of this continent are located in Brazil. When the senior officials of Bahia State, which was selected to build the connection point, learned that UEG was going to carry out a "technical invasion" on the land of their autonomous state, these guys with shit in their brains decided to ask for a huge sum of money from UEG to transfer the land.

After Boss Cheng told UEG that the plan was reasonable and approved, 300 tons of gold were shipped from New York to Bahia, Brazil. Then, when the masters of Bahia received the gold but hesitated to sign the Land Transfer Agreement, the "people" of Bahia revolted.

Two hours later, the UEG, which had not yet been formally established but had already begun to play a role, commissioned the former gangster to send troops to Bahia on the grounds of "a possible humanitarian crisis in Bahia."

The South American people are really strong in fighting power. The former gangster took a full nine hours to quell this "rebellion launched by Bahia state officials against innocent people."

This insignificant "little rebellion" was not even reported by mainstream media such as Heehee Kick Wei, Suck Hum or Knock News Agency. The only ones who reported it were the old gentlemen who thought they were "abandoned by the mainstream international community."

But the death was caused by the old gentlemen themselves. After all, at the end of last month, they had just broken the olive branch offered to them by the European Union.

As the saying goes, when your car hits a wall, you know to turn; when the stock price goes up, you know to buy; when you make a mistake and are sentenced, you know to repent; when snot flows into your mouth, you start to shake it off.

Do you feel now that you have been abandoned by the international community and isolated by your European brothers?

late!

At the same time, 10 engineering experts and construction workers from all over the world poured into Hualin City and passed through the big iron gate of Cheng Laoban School and headed for the end world numbered β-027. They will complete the foundation construction of the main building of the connection point entrance and exit in the next 10 months, and complete the construction of the main protective cover of the connection point entrance and exit by 2028.

"Will it take a long time? That's good, okay!" Boss Cheng explained to Zhou Zhezhi, "At first, before I got the blueprint, I didn't understand why the main control wanted to come up with such a complicated system. But as soon as I got the blueprint, I understood, because this thing is exactly the same as the one that connects to the other world outside the main entrance of the competitive world! Except for setting up multiple entrances and exits on our side, the two systems are exactly the same!"

"Very powerful?"

Boss Cheng nodded and answered with great confidence: "Very impressive!"

0286 This joke is not fun

"What the hell? NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and ESA (European Space Agency) have both joined the mountain-moving project? Are these two agencies reliable?"

"Your No. 2 mining ship has the most astronauts from these two space agencies. Do you think it's reliable?" Zhou Zhezhi added, "Besides, they were unreliable before because they wanted money. But if they are unreliable now, it will be fatal!"

"Wow, Xiao Zhou! You said bad words!"

Zhou Zhe was speechless for a while.

In fact, what really makes Aramco and Europa's space agency reliable is the more than 6 billion tons of metals that UNSC dug up in June. Don't think that this amount of metal is not much, in fact, this is the more than 900 billion tons that belong to UEG after Boss Cheng recovered his share from the main controller!

Doesn’t it seem a lot more special all of a sudden?

还只是1号矿船在半实习半工作的状态下挖出来的。属于UEG的2号矿船也已经进入挖矿实操阶段。当时间进入8月以后，两艘矿船恐怕将功率全开。每个月的金属产量都会是6月产量的3倍以上。

However, the 6 billion tons of finished metals in June are enough for humans to squander for at least three years at this stage. If the UEG does not find a way to improve the metal processing capacity of human society, in less than three years, the earth will have too much metal accumulated, which will affect the lives of ordinary people.

"Since the June results were shipped back last week, the member states have been discussing how to waste metal. Also this week, experts and leaders from several major space agencies came together to hold a joint meeting to discuss improvements to the Mountain Moving Plan."

"Do you want to revise the plan?" the boss asked with a smile.

“Yes, when we were formulating the plan to move the mountains, not to mention your mining ship, even you were nowhere to be seen. But now you have appeared, and the earth’s mineral crisis has changed from a mineral shortage crisis to a production shortage crisis.

NASA experts pointed this out, saying that before they had interstellar mining capabilities, they would run as fast as they could. But now that they can dig in space, they should naturally try to be safe.

"So what do you think?"

Zhou Zhezhi smiled and told his boss, "We think what the NASA experts said makes sense! Sometimes you have to admire the background of these veteran aerospace powers. The results they calculated are similar to those of ESA astronomers! They speculate that the expansion limit of the sun before completing the first helium flash should be..."

"Between the orbits of the Earth and Venus." Boss Cheng continued Zhou's words, "But because of the existence of variables, this limit may be on the side close to Venus, or it may expand to the vicinity of the Earth's orbit."

"But how do you know this?" Zhou asked doubtfully, "Could it be that the master controller has already calculated..."

"What's the master control? The two big space agencies are borrowing computing power from my 550a! They caused my network to be stuck for several days, causing Denise and Biaoge to lose the team battle!"

Zhou Zhe was in the dark.

However, what NASA and ESA experts said is correct. The first helium flash of the sun will not explode suddenly. Instead, it will transition from a main sequence star (the current sun) to a red giant at a relatively slow expansion rate. But unfortunately, as of 2025, the sun has entered the transition period from a main sequence star to a red giant.

But it is this "slow expansion" that forces the "Move the Mountain Project" to speed up! Because astronomers have calculated that when the volume of the sun expands to 20 times its current size, the strong sunlight and radiation will be enough to bake anything on Earth.

如果20倍体积的太阳做不到，她还会膨胀到30倍、60倍、100倍、1000倍，直至第一次氦闪的膨胀极限——1300倍！

"So scholars and experts have concluded that the Earth must set sail by 2058 at the latest and reach the Kuiper Belt by 2078, so that the Earth can maintain an absolutely safe distance from the Sun and ensure that there are enough mineral resources to assist human development of technology."

"That is to say, the new mountain-moving plan will not allow the Earth to fly out of the solar system directly, but to stay outside the orbit of Neptune. Then, while the Sun enters the stable period of the red giant branch, it will use the mineral resources in the Kuiper Belt to climb the technology tree. And it can also replenish the dissipated atmospheric components by decomposing asteroids. When it has climbed high enough to complete the jump with the entire planet, it will run away without hesitation, right?"

"Hahaha, good fellow!" Zhou Zhe laughed loudly, "I can only say that you are worthy of being like this! You even guessed such a confidential plan..."