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

0329 The Beginning and End of the War

"Can you please stop mining gold? Otherwise, you can give me the entire stockpile and I will store all the gold ingots there. The price of gold has not risen since the last time I sold so much. Besides, I have been threatened by several other big guys. If I dare to sell gold again, they will send people to eat up my small restaurant. So I really can't store any more!"

"No! It's not that the crew is focused on gold mining, but in the rich asteroids they collected, gold always exists in the form of associated minerals. There is gold in copper and silver mines, gold in zinc mines, and even in the mining of some rare metals, gold can become a by-product. We didn't expect that the gold content in this asteroid belt could be so high!"

In fact, when UEG learned that two mining ships had extracted 4300 million tons of gold in one month, they began to hesitate whether gold should become the future benchmark currency. It is said that gold is rare, but who has ever seen a rare metal with a monthly output of tens of millions of tons?

In comparison, platinum production is less than 1/30 of gold, and rhenium and osmium combined are less than 1/200 of gold.

Of course, it may not be that rhenium and osmium are rarer, but the mining ship has not yet found an asteroid rich in these two metal resources. Once found...

"Then I don't dare to sell blindly! If the purchase price drops again, I'm afraid those big guys will come and shoot me into the asteroid belt to be an artificial celestial body. During this period, they kept complaining about the unfairness of the main control. Why is there such a large asteroid belt next to my native world?"

"Then what?" Zhou Zhezhi asked in a low voice.

"Then I deliberately angered them and told them that there was a larger and richer Kuiper Belt outside the solar system that I could squander. Several big guys were almost pissed off by me, so now I have been downgraded from a capable younger brother to a jerk deputy minister who abuses his power for personal gain."

“Puff! You guys…”

"Shh!" Zhou Zhezhi's teacher asked the two to be quiet, "The groundbreaking ceremony is about to begin, and we are now..."

"But I'm the representative of the UNSC Space Fleet under the UEG. I know it, so there's no need to emphasize it."

After saying that, Boss Cheng took out a large box of bottled iced juice from the combat warehouse, which he had just bought on the street in Libreville, the capital of Gabon, and distributed it to the heads of state and dignitaries of major countries who were attending the groundbreaking ceremony for the space elevator.

The President of Gabon saw that the juice that the Marshal distributed to everyone was actually produced in Gabon. He wanted to thank the boss for his support for the local economy of Gabon. But before he could thank him, he heard the boss muttering while distributing juice:

"The juice was bought locally in Gabon. Don't blame me if you get sick from it."

That's just fucking true!

The President of Gabon took a deep breath and reflected silently: "Gabon's international influence is still not enough, and the brand credibility of its products is not high enough. We still need to continue to work hard to win everyone's respect and trust!"

However, despite all the efforts, we still need to hold tight to the thighs. The President of Gabon is even ready to write "always support UEG" into the constitution and stick to it for 500 years!

After thinking about it, the President of Gabon unscrewed the bottle cap and took a big sip of the juice.

After distributing the juice, Boss Cheng began to mutter, "Drink as much as you can. In a few decades, let alone the juice, it's not certain whether the fruit trees can survive."

After hearing Boss Cheng's mumbling, many heads of state could not help but sigh sadly.

In fact, in any country, the staged photo shoot of the groundbreaking ceremony is more effective than the actual effect of the ceremony itself. After all, even if hundreds of people gather together to shovel the soil, it is not as effective as a large excavator in three to five minutes. So everyone basically just puts on a show and shows off a few times in front of the camera.

But before the photo session was over, the security personnel at the scene suddenly took a posture of preparing for a major attack. Then gunshots rang out, and the dignitaries of various countries were escorted by the security personnel to take shelter in the fortifications.

Zhou Zhezhi and his teacher were both civilians, and Boss Cheng doubted whether they could hold the gun steady or hit the target in a 10-meter pistol rapid-fire. So Zhou Zhezhi and his teacher did not try to be brave, and took the initiative to go to the shelter. Boss Cheng called Sweet Cheese, who had been "lurking" nearby to play with stray cats, and took out the MA5B rifle from the combat warehouse, and together with other combatants, covered the dignitaries to take shelter.

As for why the groundbreaking ceremony was attacked by militants and the intelligence agencies of major countries did not even receive any attack alerts, those who understand will naturally understand.

The purpose of the armed men's attack here is also very simple. They believe that the newly established UEG is just a new economic colonial company that has united to squeeze and exploit the Third World under the background of the decline of economic globalization.

The so-called space elevator in Gabon is just a cover for their full-scale invasion of Africa. In order to no longer be enslaved, they have to take up arms and resist.

But...

Only a small number of the attackers held this view. Another group of attackers believed that the space elevator was actually some kind of evil witchcraft ritual altar, and once the "white people" completed the construction of the huge witchcraft altar, the altar would slowly absorb the vitality of all people and animals from the African land.

Don't worry about why they can come up with such an outrageous idea and have such a wide market of believers. Since Europeans and Americans can have 5G antennas in their masks, an evil witchcraft altar that sucks the lives of Africans is not unacceptable.

Sometimes you have to admit that the cultural and customary differences between human groups are greater than the species differences between humans and dogs.

If you spread a rumor in a mining province that a mine had a flooding accident and hundreds of miners were trapped underground, many people would probably believe it. This is because everyone understands that although such major accidents are not common, they still happen occasionally. This is not only a safety issue, but also a probabilistic event.

If you spread a rumor in Northeast China that a manager of a steel mill was beaten to death by workers because he was too arrogant, many people would believe it. After all, similar incidents of parachuted general managers being beaten to death by workers have happened before. It can only be said that supervisors who sit on the heads of workers and shit are the easiest to be beaten to shit.

If you spread a rumor in the southern end of Guangdong Province that a tobacco company caught fire and that the general manager's relatives within three generations were all killed in the fire, even if the masses knew that it must be a rumor, from a simple emotional perspective, the masses would sincerely hope that this rumor would become a reality as soon as possible, and sincerely hope that the number of dead would expand from three generations to nine generations and five generations. What the masses are looking forward to is a big news of a group of people being wiped out.

You see, this is the difference in culture and customs.

As for the last group of people who came to attack the groundbreaking ceremony...

Their thoughts are quite simple, they just want to join in the fun and see if they can "pick up" some useful and valuable things to supplement their family income.

Then, because of the excellent matching mechanism in the African region, the attackers withdrew from the battle area without looking back the moment they encountered the strong firepower of the UEG.

It is hard to imagine that in a surprise attack where the attackers were completely unprepared, the number of attackers shot in the back was several times more than those shot in the front!

When Boss Cheng arrived at the battlefield, he only saw a few corpses. As for the enemies, they had already run away.

"Where are the people? Where are the attackers?"

“They all ran away.”

"They all ran away?" Boss Cheng said in shock, "Isn't my speed not fast enough? It took me less than 5 minutes from covering them to entering the shelter to rushing over here."

A former UN blue helmet (peacekeeping force) lieutenant colonel, after saluting, whispered to his boss: "Your Excellency Marshal, this is the magical Afrika!"

Boss Cheng even suspected that this attack was deliberately arranged by UEG for everyone to see, just like when the mustache came up with the "canned goods" in order to annex Poland.

But it turns out that the boss did wrongly accuse the "good guy" and the attack really had nothing to do with UEG. UEG was also very angry because the whole attack gave the outside world the feeling that it was a self-directed and self-acted torture trick by UEG.

Even the attackers did not expect that a failed raid would turn into a perfect plan to throw mud. Now all the countries that openly oppose the Mountain Moving Plan or the Space Elevator, or secretly oppose the UEG, have more reason to believe that the so-called solar crisis is just a cover for the UEG to deceive people.

UEG was very angry and said: "Since you have already acknowledged my ugly true face, I don't need to pretend to be a gentleman anymore."

A week later, UEG's ground forces assembled in Gabon, ready to pick on the weak points around Gabon. After all, the organization that was provoked and then smeared was called UEG. If such a thing could not make UEG take real action, then the whole world would only think that UEG was in a critical condition that dared not to show its true colors!

However, whether the UEG ground forces advance 150 kilometers or 200 kilometers a day, it has little to do with the boss. Because the boss not only returned to Birch Forest City, but also followed Hanzo with Loki to sign the armistice agreement.

That's right, the Ninja World War that had been going on for two or three years finally came to an end. But what Boss Makoto didn't know was that because of the appearance of this big troublemaker, the Second Ninja World War was far less tragic than the war without his interference.

Because of the existence of the boss, Konoha and Sunagakure were on guard against the Rain Country. So although the two countries fought many times, they never escalated to the level of life and death. For example, the couple who followed the Kazekage of Sunagakure to the armistice agreement were a pair of puppet masters who were supposed to die at the hands of Konoha White Fang.

However, the two major ninja villages have fought life-and-death battles with the Hidden Mist Village. It is no exaggeration to say that if the Wind Country and the Fire Country dared to form an alliance, the Water Country would have been destroyed by the joint forces of the two countries long ago.

However, although the Water Kingdom has not been destroyed, it is not much different from being disbanded.

"What? The Kaguya clan of the Land of Water rebelled against their country and want to stay in the Land of Rain?"

0330 The Future Is Going Away

At first, Boss Cheng did not want to accept the Kaguya clan. Even if Boss Cheng no longer cared about the Ninja World War, after the trouble caused by the Land of Water, Boss Cheng had to take the initiative to learn about the information of the Hidden Mist Village.

Then he learned from Hanzo and Orochimaru that there was a ninja family in the Hidden Mist Village who suffered from a hereditary mental illness - the Kaguya clan.

This is not an exaggeration in the legend, but the bloodline limit of this clan has the problem of eroding people's sanity. Any clan member who has the potential to awaken the bloodline limit may deteriorate into a militant with mania or schizophrenia.

"But I don't understand." The boss asked, "If you are all militants, why do you want to defect to a small place like Dawn Town where there is no war to fight?"

"Because the leader of the Kaguya clan doesn't want to fight. He believes that if the Kaguya clan continues to be so warlike, they will sooner or later be wiped out in the torrent of the Ninja World War." Hanzo told his boss: "If the leader of the Kaguya clan had not taken the initiative to surrender to Konoha's relatives and restrained the warlike clan members, I'm afraid that their clan would have been captured by Orochimaru as research material."

"Is it so strange? The leader of a warlike tribe is actually not warlike?"

Hanzo explained: "Because this clan leader is not a bloodline ninja, he has a clear mind. And because he once opposed Kirigakure's plan to send troops to provoke us, he has been excluded and suppressed by Kirigakure in the past year. This also laid the groundwork for their entire clan to rebel."

"Based on the clan rules passed down by the Kaguya clan, they may not be very strong, but they are definitely very rational. As long as they don't awaken their bloodline limits, the people in this clan are quite normal. This is also the fundamental reason why their clan has been able to continue to this day." said Orochimaru, who came to attend the armistice signing ceremony.

Then, Boss Cheng uploaded the information about the Kaguya clan provided by Hanzo back to the project team. Since the project team could not understand the report at all, they packed all the information and sent it to the medical department. After seeing the report, the medical department gathered a team and rushed to Dawn Town.

They had already learned from Nawase that this world had a genetic gene called Kekkei Genkai. And the novice Wood Release that Nawase showed could be considered the rarest dominant gene in the Thousand Hands bloodline.

But now, the medical department suddenly found out that a ninja family group called the Kaguya clan had a higher than 40% chance of awakening their bloodline limits! How could these guys who just like to study the human body suppress their burning desire to explore?

As the "first person in genetic research in the Land of Fire", Orochimaru suddenly felt a sense of "like-mindedness" when he helped to receive the visiting delegation from the Medical Department! Of course, the person in charge of this visit from the Medical Department also said, "Our Medical Department needs talents like you."

The meeting between the two can be summed up in one sentence: "It's a pity that we didn't meet earlier."

Later, the medical department learned that the Kaguya clan was not the only ninja group that had defected to the Hidden Mist and joined the Land of Rain. A bloodline ninja group called the Mizunotsuki clan also followed the Kaguya clan.

However, the Mizunotsuki clan is not large, unlike the large clan of Kaguya, which has nearly 70 ninjas and more than 500 ordinary clan members. Instead, it is a small clan with only more than 10 ninjas and more than 100 ordinary clan members.

The reason why they followed the Hyuga clan was not only because of the in-law relationship between the middle-level members of the two families, but also because the clan leaders of the two families were opposed to sending troops to provoke the Rain Country, so they were excluded together.

"Ice shield? Is it so energy-efficient?" Boss Cheng said with deep emotion, "It's a shame not to use this talent in cold chain transportation."

Then, as the mayor, Loki, after a very pretentious warning, allowed the two families to swear allegiance to Dawn Town and immediately allocated housing to the two families.

Anyway, too many houses have been built in Poxiao Town, and there are nearly 80 vacant buildings. If we calculate based on the current "quarterly sales of commercial housing", it will take at least 60 months to clear the "commercial housing inventory" in Poxiao Town.

60 months! Five years! Rounding it off means that the property cannot be sold. The entire real estate industry in Poxiao Town has collapsed.

But there is no way around it. After all, the predecessor of Dawn Town was a refugee camp for war refugees. And as the intensity of the Ninja World War continues to decrease, it is impossible for more and more war refugees to appear. And the fewer war refugees, the less attractive Dawn Town, which focuses on "stable life", is.

Then, the town's real estate industry collapsed.

If Boss Makoto hadn't led Hanzo to do some "big jobs" and extended the life of the Rain Country's finances a few times, I'm afraid the finances of the Rain Country and the Hidden Rain would have collapsed long ago.

After all, Hanzo’s shares in the real estate industry in Dawn Town are not just dry shares. He has also invested a lot of real money in the construction of Dawn Town.

Then I suffered heavy losses.

Fortunately, the boss is rich and powerful and Hanzo's surname is not Xu, otherwise this mess would have fallen on the shoulders of all the citizens of the Rain Country.

However, the boss has full confidence in Dawn Town. He firmly believes that with the continuous construction of the Rain Country Logistics Center, Dawn Town will definitely be upgraded to Dawn City in the near future, and even develop into a logistics port similar to Wuhan.

Moreover, now that the armistice agreement has been signed, the negotiation team from the Kingdom of Sand will come to Dawn Town in the near future to negotiate on cooperation on railways and water resources allocation between the Rain and Wind Countries.

Yes, the Kingdom of Wind decided to cooperate with the Kingdom of Rain, using the abundant rainfall in the Kingdom of Rain to help the Kingdom of Wind solve the problem of fresh water shortage. After all, since the Kingdom of Rain embraced the big leg of Boss Cheng, the country is no longer short of money. Even if there is no "financial subsidy" forced by the boss to Hanzo, the few "big jobs" done by Hanzo and the boss are enough for the Kingdom of Rain to squander for several years.

So, Hanzo planned to use the money to build infrastructure. This is not to demolish the old and build the new, but there are no infrastructure projects that serve the people in the Land of Rain. In particular, the drainage system in the country is basically shaped by nature. Rainwater flows wherever it goes, and if it can't flow out, it will only cause flooding.

Therefore, Hanzo decided to launch a "rainwater diversion project" in China. To put it simply, it means building various flood storage ponds and dredging ditches. The excess rainwater is gathered together and used as much as possible, such as the construction of dams and hydropower stations mentioned by Boss Cheng.

The water that cannot be used will be "donated" to water-scarce countries.

The Land of Rivers could no longer be "donated", after all, the source of several large rivers in the Land of Rivers was on the plateau of the Land of Rains. If Hanzo "donated" the excess rainwater to these large rivers, the Land of Rivers would have to be renamed the Land of Swamps - the "swamp" of swamps.

In addition, the altitude of Taki Country is similar to that of Kawan Country. Moreover, the country is named "Taki". Just from the name, you can tell that they are not short of water at all.

Although the Land of Earth has the word "earth" in its name, it actually has no shortage of water. The Tsuchikage is a good leader who gets things done. Since the construction of the ninja village, various water conservancy projects have never stopped.

The Fire Kingdom has a pure monsoon climate, and there is no shortage of water in the three seasons other than winter. Therefore, the only country that can "donate" water to the Rain Kingdom is the Wind Kingdom, which has a desert climate.

Then, when the Daimyo and Kazekage of the Kingdom of Wind received the invitation of "Are you short of water? Let's build a canal together", the Kazekage immediately sent a negotiation delegation to discuss with Hanzo how to build the canal into the Kingdom of Wind and how to charge for water resources.

Then the negotiator under Hanzo questioned the representative of the Wind Country: "We, the Rain Country, gave you water, but you want to ask us for money? Do you have any shame?"

Only then did the representatives of the Wind Country realize that Hanzo had no intention of collecting water money from the Wind Country. The reason why the people of the Wind Country were invited to negotiate was to ask if they could share the funds for building the reservoir and dam.

After all, dams and reservoirs can not only generate electricity, but also play an important role in allocating water in the canal. The Rain Country needs electricity, and the Wind Country needs water. It is reasonable to let the Wind Country share the construction costs of dams and reservoirs.

What's more, there are many earth escape masters in the Wind Country. How can we not make good use of talents like these who specialize in civil engineering?

However, Hanzo is by no means generous and selfless. The price for the Wind Country to obtain fresh water resources for free is to allow the Rain Country to build a railway into the hinterland of the Wind Country, and even near the Sand Village.

At first, the Wind Country delegation, who did not know what a "railway" was, thought it was a powerful war machine. But when they saw the railway from Dawn Town to Rain Hidden Village under construction, as well as the accompanying electric locomotive, they realized that this thing was really a powerful war machine!

When there is no war, this kind of road built with steel can speed up the transportation connection within the Kingdom of Wind. But once the war breaks out again, the country that occupies the locomotive and railway can carry a large number of troops deep into the hinterland of a country.

If the Rain Country builds railways into the hinterlands of several other major countries, then future wars may very likely change from the current border confrontation to a fight for railways and areas along the lines. At that time, it will really become "whoever controls the railways can control the direction of the war."

Fortunately, Hanzo has no ambition to conquer the ninja world, the hotel owner's energy is not in this world, and the super-shadow-level mayor of Dawn Town spends his days handling official business and going to the theater in Dawn Town to watch movies and plays.

"Agree!" The second-generation Kazekage Shamon, who had a broad vision, gave the order decisively.

But Shamon didn't know that it was his "yes" that made the Wind Country have an unbreakable ally. But what he couldn't guess was that because of his "yes" now, he not only successfully resolved the future Third Ninja World War, but also helped the Ninja World take the most critical step towards "UEG"!

In a cave, Madara, who had not appeared in more than 200 chapters, suddenly shuddered. He simply felt that the future of the ninja world that Black Zetsu had described for him would never come true.

0331 Let go of the desire to help others and respect their fate

Time flies, and it is already the end of 2025.

The restaurant was closed as usual, and this year's Christmas barbecue was a great success. Although the barbecue lacked king crabs, the popular garlic butter crabs were not absent at this year's barbecue because the Costa del Sol was open again.

It was really well received, because all the people from the Guardian Coordination Department came to the Sunshine Coast to participate in the barbecue party. Even Raizo, who rarely showed up, came to participate in this "team building" activity with the most people since the establishment of the department. And these people came with the mentality of eating the big boss, and the department didn't even give the boss a penny of subsidy.

Later, all the employees in the technical and medical departments who had no work assignments after hearing the news also came over. And those employees who could not leave their posts could only rely on the temporary transmission channel built by the technical department to enjoy the feast.

And there are many more people who agreed to come to the year-end barbecue party, including locals from Eorzea, the Avengers world, Teyvat, and the Ninja World. Boss Cheng calculated and calculated that a party could gather nearly a thousand people!

Fortunately, the boss's family is wealthy enough, and he prepared more than 2000 kilograms of beef, more than 1000 kilograms of mutton, more than 500 kilograms of pork belly, and more than 2000 kilograms of various fresh seafood for this barbecue party. The boss's account did not even reduce a seven-digit amount.

But...