People are in Type-Moon, but they practice science

Chapter 258 "Giant Enterprise" Plan

"Gray Snake? It's just part of the plan. The first step of the 'expansion' plan is not just to build a few advanced industries." Although Mobius is not directly responsible for external operations, she is not lacking in relevant knowledge. "(Einstein, Tesla) Those younger colleagues from the former Anti-Entropy Organization seem to have 'experience in building similar industries in North America'? However, it seems that what they advocate is not the direct control of the government's operating model, but the form of industrial cooperation."

"Oh, 'North American Anti-Entropy'. Strictly speaking, that was the foundation laid by their old friend (Nancy)," Aleister's voice continued to ring through the communicator, "but it doesn't sound consistent with the plan you finally submitted to me. Is this a direction you planned in the early stages?"

"Yes, the plans submitted by those juniors are really long and boring," said Mebius, who looked unbearable. She had had enough of the constraints from the higher-ups in the pre-civilization period, and these people were actually trying to compromise and negotiate with the government. "According to their plan, at least fifty years of energy in the next hundred years will be wasted on 'negotiations' with the local government and the lengthy 'procedures' model. Vivi and I can't accept it at all. - It was at that time that I proposed the idea of ​​releasing the 'Gray Snake'."

"I see. I understand what you're thinking," Aleister determined Mebius's opinion at the time just by looking at a gray snake. "You were thinking of replacing the government directly... No, you mean to let the artificial intelligence network replace the modern government system?"

"Well, obviously, it didn't pass. In the end, Vivi and I fought for it and retained the Grey Snake's revival plan. At the same time, we also set a bottom line for Grey Snake's actions according to their requirements." Mebius was completely straightforward in this regard. Of course, it might also be her trick of retreating to advance, so that the industrial cooperation plan that she could not accept at all was abolished.

Gray Snake's dispatch is a clue.

From the planning perspective, Gray Snake, as a collective consciousness android, is tasked with "providing support" and "removing obstacles" for the Global Academy City Cooperation Agency and its affiliated industries through multiple action entities.

Because as the industry of Academy City expands, the obstacles they face do not simply come from market competition (no one can compete with them), but from the government. For example, the government in many regions is just a layer of skin for some family businesses. If you cannot compete in the market, they will directly issue a decree to ban you from entering. At this time, the limitations of "no background" private enterprises are highlighted.

Therefore, if we do not engage in direct armed conflict, we will need some off-field means that are not so radical so that the doctors can accept them, but are efficient enough.

"So, the direction of your expansion plan is to implement a system that retains people as the main body, but still abolish the government through some kind of system. I see, this also coincides with your own early industrial planning. What I said is correct, right? This is the true face of your expansion plan."

Aleister spoke in a slow tone:

"——'Giant Enterprise' plan."

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Similar to Singapore, where Jackal first laid out its Shencheng Pharmaceutical business, Luzon is also a tropical country formed by numerous islands.

The environment of a small country like Luzon is quite special. Under the influence of the former Western colonizers, a similar "democracy" was formed here. Of course, this is just a layer of skin. Those in power are actually the game between generations of families. Because these families not only control political and economic resources, but also military resources.

They support their own representatives in their respective fields and divide up the interests of Luzon as if they were eating or drinking. The so-called listening to the opinions of the people is just a formality. Everything is just a means, an industry, and a way of life for them to accumulate wealth and collect interests.

In addition, there are many other means to restrain and exploit the people from aspects such as belief culture and familism society. The gap between the rich and the poor continues to widen, and all the beautiful national structure designs related to democracy have become "eternal visions."

"Alas, human existence is always like this, with nice names, saying one thing and doing another, and flexible moral bottom line, which always makes their survival more advantageous," said a man in a black hoodie with green lines on his clothes, holding an open black umbrella, although it was not raining.

This is a gray snake, one of those gray snakes.

He was staying in an alley in Quezon City at this time. Although it was already late at night, the heat in the air did not decrease at all. He could hear the screams of various insects in the grass everywhere, and feel the unique and never-fading summer of the tropics.

But the gray snake didn't feel the heat.

He was waiting for someone, waiting for a business deal to be completed.

Not long after, a woman who looked like a noble lady came out of the door on the other side of the house. After confirming the situation nearby, she walked towards the alley where the gray snake was.

She was surprised at Gray Snake's almost airtight outfit, but she just regarded it as the clothing required by an intelligence officer. She said, "Are you the one sent by the Cordillera Family?"

In Luzon, the highest level of family power belongs to the capital region. The Cordillera family is only a local power with an urgent need for upward development, and Mrs. Fernando's family is the top power.

"Yes, Signora Fernando."

"How to prove it?"

"1904, ma'am, this is the pre-set code, right? This is also my code name, please call me that."

Gray Snake said indifferently. The Cordillera Family was just a cover after all. It was originally fake information created by the Shencheng Group.

Mrs. Fernando seemed to trust him. She immediately told Gray Snake a few strings of numbers. "This is the account code of that guy. The evidence of his evil deeds in recent years is in this bearer 'safe'. However, according to the contract, this is only part of the reward paid by my Fernando family to your Cordillera family. You will have to rely on your family's ability to bring down that guy. I only want the assets."

"Don't worry, ma'am. Completing all business is our motto," Gray Snake said 'we' with a hint of meaning, which made Mrs. Fernando feel a little strange but confused. "But ma'am, you actually called your husband Mr. Fernando 'that guy' - the family conflict is so obvious that even an outsider like me can see it."

Gray Snake always hinted that Mrs. Fernando's behavior was just to betray her husband, the head of the family, to divide the property, but this kind of person has become accustomed to telling lies, and she has to use the implicit meaning of the words to express a meaning of "family discord".

Chapter 259 The Shadow of the Snake Will Eventually Spread Over the World

After a relatively peaceful but actually not harmonious exchange, Gray Snake continued:

"Ah, this damn weather is so hot. Madam, you'd better finish the deal quickly and go back to the house, otherwise your husband will be suspicious if you stay too long. You know, this 'Quezon City Vacation' is an opportunity you have finally come across."

According to Gray Snake's investigation, Mrs. Fernando did not covet her husband's property from the beginning. It should be since many years ago that she had various conflicts with her husband, and the result was that her husband came home less and less, and always stayed with his mistresses. So the wife felt a sense of crisis, a sense of crisis that her own status was not secure, so she tried every means to persuade and started this "vacation" with her husband with the intention of "reconciling".

However, Mrs. Fernando could do such a stupid thing as betraying her family, which shows that there is a reason why her husband hates her.

"Okay, the deal is done," Mrs. Fernando said. Although she was short-sighted, she was still smart. After discussing what she thought needed to be discussed, she prepared to leave.

"No, no, no, you misunderstood. This is the Cordillera deal. I think you have another business deal to discuss."

Gray Snake casually took out a contract from his bag.

"? What is this? We haven't talked about this before?" Mrs. Fernando began to have a bad feeling when she heard the unexpected content.

Gray Snake ignored him and spread out the document, revealing the logo inside - a triangle crossed by a crescent moon, with the words "Heliopolis Life Sciences" in English below.

"Shencheng Group?" Mrs. Fernando suddenly thought of many things. "A multinational company in Singapore?"

Shencheng Group is an incredible monster for any industry in Southeast Asia. It has grown rapidly at an incredible speed. Starting from medical technology, it has occupied a large share of the medical fields of various difficult and complicated diseases such as anti-cancer drugs, anti-rabies, and anti-AIDS with advanced drug products. The means are very simple, one is the radical cure, and the other is cheap.

At present, the world's pharmaceutical giants usually do not and do not want to develop radical cures for these diseases. First, the cost is too high, and second, the benefits are small - how can they make money if they cure the patient with radical cures? It is simply not easy to continue to reap the leeks of patients.

But the Shencheng Group publicly broke this "pharmaceutical deadlock."

Once the effectiveness of Shencheng Pharmaceutical's products was confirmed, it immediately suppressed all the pain relief drugs on the market. After all, no matter whether rich or poor, no one wants to be sick all their lives or die of illness before the age of old.

Pharmaceutical giants have also thought about generic drugs, but Shencheng Pharmaceuticals relied on the biotechnology obtained from Floran to specially formulate a super-complex macromolecular structure, which increased the cost of generic drugs of other peers by thousands of times. According to the head of the relevant R&D department of the industry giant Johnson Group, even if so much money is invested, it is still a question whether it can be imitated.

As a result, a large number of pharmaceutical groups began to shift to other routes. For example, the European Union and the United States did not grant access to Shencheng Pharmaceutical Products, and then some big-name companies took the lead in asking Shencheng for product agency rights. Companies that did not have so many chips or came later had to pay more to get the products. For example, they sold shares, production lines, product channels and other production factors of other industries.

As a result, Shencheng Pharmaceutical transformed itself and developed into a giant enterprise with diversified products, including medical and health care products, food, daily chemical manufacturing and processing, etc. - Shencheng Group in three years.

"Are you an employee of a multinational company? No, could it be that Cordillera and your Shencheng Group have joined forces to set up this conspiracy..." Mrs. Fernando's thinking was normal, but unfortunately not a single word was right.

"Ma'am, is this important? It's not important," Gray Snake spread his hands. "No matter what the reason is, the moment you decided to meet me, you were destined to complete this business with me."

"You seem very confident?" In Mrs. Fernando's impression, no matter how big Shencheng Pharmaceutical is, it is just a business group. It has influence in the market, but it is close to and distant from the government and has little connection with it. From this point of view, even if it has international influence in many fields, its local layout is not even as good as Samsung. What's more, Luzon has long been controlled by large and small families, and it is difficult for a pure business group to settle down.

Fernando tried to retreat without leaving any trace. She was ready to notify the nearby guards. The surrounding blocks had already been monitored by the family. After all, Quezon City was not the sphere of influence of Fernando or Cordillera, but the territory of a third party. The family had to be careful. As for the firearms they carried, it was impossible to bring them in, especially this alley, which was designated by Mrs. Fernando as the meeting place.

In other words, the so-called "1904" in front of us actually did not have any weapons on his body, including in his bag.

"Madam, you seem a little nervous? Don't get me wrong, I respect your 'personal will' very much," the black-clad Gray Snake said calmly. He took out a pen and spread out the contract, as if he was sure that the other party would sign it. "I will let you agree to this contract yourself. Of course, in order to have a 'sufficiently honest cooperation', you need to understand the following contract contents: First, all cooperation contents between Shencheng Group and Mr. Batty Fernando and his Fernando Group industries are agreed by both parties..."

Mrs. Fernando gradually became hesitant. She had thought that "1904" would resort to some military means, but nothing happened. He just read out the treaty and did not seem to care at all whether she would refuse or not.

'madman.'

After cursing inwardly, Mrs. Fernando planned to arrest this man and was thinking about bringing back the news that this Cordillera 1904 member was actually a spy of the Shencheng Group to the family to see if she could find out...

"Wait a minute."

Gray Snake's voice came from behind.

'Hasn't he performed enough? How can it be possible that whatever he says is true -'

pat.

Mrs. Fernando suddenly found that she could not move.

"Ma'am, please sign the contract."

Then, Mrs. Fernando found that her feet began to lose control and she walked back on her own.

No—what is this!?

But no sound came out of her mouth, and her hand reached out and caught Gray Snake's pen.

Chapter 260: South American parasitic fungi - "Coatl"

"Good, very good," Gray Snake watched Mrs. Fernando sign the contract with a calm face but a huge wave of emotion in her heart. He seemed to just praise Mrs. Fernando for her beautiful English cursive handwriting. "In this way, your deal with Shencheng Group is done - no, it's half done. After all, the next thing left is your husband's signature at the next formal meeting."

Gray Snake put away the contract and was about to walk back with the umbrella, but suddenly he remembered something and fell back.

"By the way, you have to continue playing your role as a 'good lady' in the future," Gray Snake said calmly, looking at Fernando's horrified and puzzled eyes, "But you must want to know what I did, right? Well, the Fernando family will be our Shencheng Group's deep cooperation partner in the future. As partners, to some extent, we still need to share what we have."

Then, Mrs. Fernando found that she seemed to be able to control her expression. After realizing her situation, she looked at the gray snake with fear, malice and confusion in her eyes.

She had never heard of a special person like Gray Snake - to be precise, there are still some curses such as black magic inherited in Southeast Asia. However, there is neither a developed magic civilization in Western Europe nor a special geographical environment like Shenzhou or Japan. The most active ones are still magicians.

What is a magician? They have no formal education in magic, are only half-baked in magic knowledge, and at most "have a set of magic tricks", and most of them use magic as a means of killing.

"You seem to think that I cast some kind of witchcraft or evil curse? But that's not the case. If you have really been in contact with that world, you should know that such means are not allowed to interfere with the surface world."

Gray Snake then took out a can of water from his bag. It looked like the drinking water that ordinary people use to replenish water. There was nothing special about it. "Did you see anything?"

He shook the water inside.

There was only confusion in Mrs. Fernando's eyes. She couldn't see anything. Perhaps it was some undetectable toxin?

"Fungus coatl, ma'am, please allow me to call them that," Gray Snake said with a reverent tone, as if this was the work of someone he admired, "although I prefer another translation: parasitic fungus species - 'snake' (coatl), a parasitic fungus species that uses 'brainwashing parasitism' - and in such a small jar of solution, there are more than hundreds of millions of them hidden."

Parasitoid?

Mrs. Fernando only caught this term, referring to something like a parasite?

"Oh, I must have forgotten that with your level of knowledge in biology, I'm afraid you can't infer our methods from this little information. However, due to confidentiality issues, I will not explain to you the secrets of our Shencheng Group. ... Let me give you an example. If you have friends who are familiar with biology, you must have heard of this kind of fungus in nature-"

"Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, it parasitizes ants, and the extent of its parasitism is even able to control the ants - when it enters the host's body, it will connect, communicate, and exchange nutrients by establishing short tubes with each other. Then, this fungus will infiltrate every part of the ant's body..."

Mrs. Fernando's heart gradually fell into panic. She began to guess something -

"…the hyphae cut off the nerves used by the brain to control the muscles and wrapped around every muscle of the ant, thus directly controlling the ant's muscles, truly turning the act of manipulating the ant into a 'puppet control game' - the most interesting thing to me is that the ant's 'mind' is almost intact, but it is losing control of its body. The brain issues commands, but the hands and feet do not obey..."

Although the principle of the bacteria in the city of gods was not explained, the gray snake had gradually explained the effect through examples. At this time, Mrs. Fernando wanted to faint if she could fall backwards, but she could no longer control herself and had to face reality.

Because Mrs. Fernando knew that the "ant" was herself. What would her life be like in the future? Would her husband and children also be infected with this fungus? They...

But Gray Snake seemed to remember something, "I almost forgot, before coming here to sign the contract, you and your husband were satisfied with the food and accommodation services of the private villa, right?——"

"I think you must not have noticed that just a few days ago, this private villa service provider changed another food supplier, Oasis," Gray Snake spit out a name, which happened to be the food industry under the Shencheng Group.

This put an end to Mrs. Fernando's last hope. If she ate anything here, she might fall into the trap of the City of God. Besides, she, her husband and her children had already lived here, so there was no chance of escape.

"Oh, you are too impatient. You care too much about your husband's wealth and not enough about his work. If you were more exposed to the latest news about the family, you would know that Oasis, a subsidiary of the Shencheng Group, is interested in entering Luzon. You should be careful if you rashly use the services of a foreign supplier."

Mrs. Fernando walked back slowly at a seemingly normal but actually controlled pace.

The gray snake said goodbye to her peacefully from a distance, as if the two of them were just having an ordinary conversation.

"Another deal is completed. Life is an ordinary yet wonderful thing." The gray snake seemed to be talking to the void.

But he seemed to have heard the answer.

"Yes - sometimes, I also want to take care of children in India like No. 17591, but we have different divisions of labor. We need to save the world -"

"No, No. 14622, you misunderstood. Look, I didn't do any killing. I just turned the evil in the world back to the right path."

"From now on, there will be one less family group that exploits the poor in this world. Mrs. Fernando will be a model lady who cares about her family, and her playboy son will no longer bully men and women and will turn over a new leaf. Mr. Batty Fernando will be an entrepreneur who loves the people. He will agree to the merger plan of Shencheng, provide the workers who are living on the edge of their jobs with adequate medical care, pensions, housing and other guarantees, pay the overdue wages, improve treatment, and adopt a more humane factory system..."

"You see, there's no need to kill, right?

'If a grain of wheat dies, it remains just a single grain of wheat; but if it falls into the ground, it produces countless seeds. '"

Chapter 261 Big Illya makes a grand appearance!

This world. An isolated iceberg castle in Germany.

This is the Einzbern family, the main family, Winter City. This is the magic workshop built by the disciples of the Third Law, and it has existed since the AD. Winter City is always covered with ice and snow, a scene of silver. The changes of the four seasons disappear here, and the silent winter continues here forever.

Einzbern is undoubtedly a family with a long heritage, but it is not a normal magic family. Because the reproduction of the third method failed, there are no Einzbern magicians in the castle. Only the artificial humans who inherited the magicians' will are left. This is an artificial life form that is purely the result of alchemy.

This kind of artificial human is pure, or mechanical. They only strive to reproduce the Third Law as a mission and task to realize the dream of their former masters. As for what the original masters wanted to accomplish with the Third Law, these artificial humans probably have never thought about it at all.

Because, after all, they are just beings created by the artificial intelligence of the Winter City's castle center. This artificial intelligence, called Golem Jubstacheit, created all the Einzbern androids. At the same time, it would also create a terminal model that could go out and act every once in a while, claiming to be the head of each generation of the Einzbern family, such as the current head Ahad.

There is no difference between a terminal and an artificial intelligence center, except that the terminal will be endowed with "necessary humanity" when it is running, so that it has similar words and deeds to humans, but its thinking logic remains unchanged.

The current logic is simply to win the Holy Grail War and reproduce their third method. Therefore, such a simple and direct logic is also easy to be exploited. For example, before the Fourth Holy Grail War, they were able to successfully dig out King Arthur's scabbard of Avalon from Cornwall, which was also left to them by Morgan le Fay on purpose.

However, due to "various coincidences of fate", the Holy Grail was destroyed and the Fourth War failed.

Now that the fifth Holy Grail War is approaching, Ahad's action should be to cultivate a "product" that is even better than the previous generation's Little Holy Grail Irisviel, Illyasviel, to participate in the next Holy Grail War as the strongest Master.

That's how it should be.