Blue and White Society Chapter 449: Black ball

The Republic of California is a region not long since it became independent in 2066. The country is completely controlled by capital, and it is nicknamed the Blue Free El Dorado, and even the "California Giant Enterprise".

It is not so much a country as it is a super business alliance.

They use anything, from RMB to US dollars to their own new notes, any legal banknotes can be used here.

The depression and reconstruction after the war made capital completely erode this area.

Every department in the country is controlled by one or more companies. The military is completely managed by arms dealers and security companies, which undertake all military orders including national defense and weapons research and development.

The Ministry of Energy is undoubtedly controlled by groups that produce electricity, while land resources are planned by real estate companies.

In fact, the division of national departments is more detailed. It is completely contracted by each subsidiary company, and finally forms a huge group as a whole, which is also a national entity.

With the exception of state taxes, nothing is state-owned, and personal property is protected to the extreme.

There are 142 such enterprises that have fully contracted the state's public affairs, and they are called Guoshang.

The order of the country is their order, and the project of the country is their project.

Of course, they can also distribute the state orders to other non-state-owned enterprises.

These chaebols have exchanged their shares for a large number of votes from the people of the whole country. Almost all the people enjoy the dividends of one or more national businessmen, but in turn, if the people suffer too much economic loss, they will also lose A large number of votes, and then power is replaced by other enterprises.

This is a stately country that exchanges money for votes.

Even the National Bank is a private bank. In theory, the bank can print any pattern on the banknotes... as long as it passes the shareholders meeting.

One of the most famous examples of the power of capital is...

After the technology was made public, all the old energy companies were transformed. At that time, there were several energy companies using controllable nuclear fusion to produce electricity, competing for the energy market, and they jointly controlled the national energy.

Until the "Mobil" company made an astonishing transaction, buying the "20 yuan" banknote pattern from the National Bank for 30 years with 1.45 billion RMB.

National Bank accepted the deal and introduced the new twenty-denomination California bill bearing the 'Mobil' logo, making for the best advertising deal ever.

As a result, Mobil became an energy giant, and it took thirty years to stand out and suppress other energy companies.

When the Mobil Company made huge profits from banknote advertisements, companies of other denominations also bought "banknote naming" one after another.

One yuan, five yuan, ten yuan, fifty yuan respectively.

As for the one hundred yuan, it has not been sold yet. It is said that the price has been inflated to the sky, or it will be hung there forever and will not be sold.

Now, with the addition of Mobil, the five 'golden dollar companies' have become the five most entrenched business giants in California, as well as political giants.

One of the companies named "Tiannuo" dominates the aerospace industry in Canada. It has many factories on the moon, and as many as 20 spaceships travel between the earth and the moon every month.

On August 3, 2098, the transport ship "Heineken Beer" was returning home, only a few hundred kilometers away from the outer atmosphere.

The reason for mentioning this name is also because Tennuo Company sold the naming rights of the transport spaceship to 'Heineken Beer'.

The surface of the spaceship is painted with an extremely eye-catching large trademark... and in other inconspicuous places, there are also many sponsor advertisements, making the entire spaceship look particularly strange.

"Ah... there is a signal, what? The stock price of 'Slippery Toys' has fallen so much?" A radio receiver finally received the signal when a curly-haired astronaut was approaching the earth.

Another elderly person shook his head and smiled, "I told God not to buy risky stocks. There is only a work channel on the moon. You see, you won't know until it's been down for three days."

The curly-haired astronaut sighed, thinking about how much money he had lost in this investment.

The old man smiled, turned on the camera outside the cabin, looked at the blue planet on the screen, and said, "Look, how beautiful the earth is. If you have the money, go out and travel. The transportation is so convenient now."

The curly-haired astronaut also stared blankly at the earth. Every time he came back, he felt a sense of peace when he saw the earth.

Compared to the desolate and depressing moon, the earth is so beautiful.

"Boom!" There was a sudden tremor in the cabin.

The radio receiver in the curly-haired astronaut's hand came out suddenly and hit the bulkhead above his head, bursting out several parts immediately.

Those parts are thrown in the weightless cabin, catapulting everywhere.

The two hurriedly put on their helmets, and before they had time to clean up the mess, the entire spacecraft began to flip, because the earth on the camera was rotating abnormally.

"What happened? What did we hit?"

"According to the pressure, the impact was on the port side, but the impact was minor and did not tear the outer deck."

"Why is there no warning on the radar?"

"Don't worry about it, stabilize the spaceship immediately."

The two quickly checked the damage to the hull, but fortunately there was no serious problem. Propelled by chemical rockets on the flanks, they quickly contained the rotation and re-adjusted the return trajectory.

"Open the left viewing mirror and see what it is!" said the curly-haired astronaut while packing up the broken parts.

"I have walked this channel for ten years without any problems! Which spaceship threw garbage and stayed on the channel?" the elder gasped.

With such a slight bump, he didn't think it was a meteorite, but it was probably rubbed by some rubbish.

But when I opened the camera, there was a black thing in the rear left, which seemed huge, and I couldn't see what it was. After bumping into them, they quickly zoomed out.

"Play the video!"

It can be seen from the playback that a few minutes ago, nothing could be seen in the vast space, only the sun shining from behind.

Just as their spaceship was returning home, a black sphere with a diameter of about ten meters suddenly appeared, descended out of thin air, and hit the big "Heineken Beer" logo on their port side.

Because the spaceship moved at high speed and suddenly touched it, it immediately spun out of control.

But this is just a small problem, the problem is what is that black ball!

A pure black sphere, without any impurities, and the electromagnetic waves can't tell what it is, and the thermal detection is completely covered by pitch black.

"Oh my God, it really appeared out of thin air, China's new spaceship?" the curly-haired astronaut said in horror.

"You stare at it! I will contact the ground immediately!"

The elder has been running the earth-moon transportation for ten years, but he has never experienced such a thing. Seeing that he is about to return, a pure black spherical unit without any exposed thrusters, no light source, and no signal appears instantly. Next to the spaceship, it's just scary.

Especially where the black ball appeared a little bit off, they didn't miss it, but hit it.

At this speed, as long as it is not paper, the spaceship will be damaged, and may even be torn.

"Tino! Tenno! This is Heineken Beer! We encountered a return accident, and an unknown object appeared on the channel!"

As he spoke, he transmitted the video back to the surface.

At the same time, the curly-haired astronaut suddenly shouted: "It moved! It moved! There is a high-energy response!"

I saw bursts of bright light suddenly appearing on the side and back of the black sphere. Electromagnetic detection showed that it was a high-energy plasma energy impact, but this impact did not have any trajectory. Surface appears.

The black ball is thus propelled and accelerates towards them.

But the speed is not very fast, it is probably slower than them, and it is always attached to the rear of the transport ship.

And the path is very strange, sometimes the track deviates away from them, and sometimes it accelerates and rushes back, anyway, it is dangling near the transport ship.

After the picture here was transmitted to the surface, the navigation station of Tiannuo Company was stunned. The high-level executives first condemned Huaxia, and then began to study the black ball that was generally heading towards the earth.

"It's so strange, I didn't see the reaction process at all, and the energy was also blasted out of thin air. What kind of propeller is this?"

"I can't detect any reactants, these energies are directly generated, it's impossible, there must be a device to make it? Don't we see that device?"

"It's impossible to be completely undetectable, Huaxia's technology is so much ahead?"

"No, no, it's not right at all! Huaxia does not admit that it owns this flying object, and asks us to release the picture of the Heineken beer."

Not only the country of California was alarmed, but all countries with aerospace development capabilities have received the returned images one after another.

No one admits that this is their flying machine, and this thing does not look like a normal flying machine.

No engine, extremely low mass, not even detectable heat.

"Is this an alien spacecraft?"

"Its propulsion method is too weird. On the surface, it looks like a traditional chemical rocket propulsion, but the form is completely different."

"Did you find out that the energy on its surface was directly bombarded, which means that there are equipment that we cannot observe to create high-energy bombardment."

Tino executives asked: "What does this mean?"

The scientist's facial features were almost crowded together, and he said with difficulty: "I don't know... I can't even detect the heat, I can only think it's dark matter..."

Tiannuo's high-level executives broke out in cold sweat, and said in a deep voice, "Have you tried to establish contact?"

If it's just a black ball, they can think it is some kind of natural substance, but this black ball chasing around the spacecraft can only be considered as man-made.

"We tried it. I don't know if the black ball has received our electromagnetic waves. Anyway, we don't have any feedback." The scientist said.

The senior executive's scalp was numb, but he didn't know what to do.

Not only him, the weapons of all countries in the world have locked on the thing that has entered the outer atmosphere, but no one dares to 'shoot'.

Huaxia is in a low-earth satellite orbit, and all cruise planes in the outer atmosphere have been evacuated, and only one has approached the black ball.

In response, the black ball did not respond at all, and squeezed the air into the inner atmosphere with a howl.

Under close observation, it can be seen clearly that it is a pure black sphere without any noise.

After several high-energy explosions on the surface, after adjusting the orbit, it completely entered a state of free fall at this time, crashing into California without slowing down like a meteorite.

"It's coming towards us...it's intentional."

"It doesn't slow down, is this a weapon? A missile?"

"Do you want to block?"

The high-level Canadians discussed for a long time, but did not issue an interception order. When they calculated that the landing point would be in the sea outside Los Angeles, they finally chose to let it hit.

"Hoo hoo..."

Outside of Angel Beach in Los Angeles, a black sphere fell rapidly from a distance, slanting towards the sea.

It can be seen that there is only one small yacht in the sea area about to hit, and a woman seems to be fishing at sea.

At this time, there is no way to remind that woman, and it is too late to remind.

"May God bless her..." The high-level executive who observed this scene murmured, he was more concerned about what the black ball was.

"Boom!" The black ball crashed into the sea.

In an instant, huge waves rose up and spread in all directions, and the small yacht was overturned and submerged in an instant.

"Send a boat to salvage immediately! Be careful! Don't stop connecting calls."

"No...wait a minute, what's that?"

On the impact site, a white mist covered a radius of one kilometer, and the cloud and mist rolled to form a larger sphere, and a hemispherical cloud and mist cover appeared above the sea.

Before the spreading waves had time to reach the shore, they were covered by clouds and mist, blocking them all.

Besides the cloud cover, the sea is calm, as if the inside and outside are isolated.

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