Chapter 186: The cause of war (I)

Wang Biao stood at the top of the city and stared at Boris with a cold eagle-like gaze. He slowly moved his body joints, and crackling sounds of joints sounded from his strong and burly body. He had to adjust his physical condition to the best in the shortest time. From this seemingly friendly black man, he could clearly feel the huge energy as strong as nine stars.

Mutants can expand and expand the cells through fierce fighting through battles, thereby achieving the purpose of evolution. Wang Biao is no exception. He leads mercenaries to perform tasks in batches, so that his superpowers can be directly increased from two stars to three stars. Although there is still a star-level gap compared to Yang Hua, he is also a top-ranked expert when looking at Yinyue City and even the surrounding areas.

The quality of all things in this world is compared.

In the eyes of ordinary people, Wang Biao is a powerful lion. By the same token, looking at Boris getting closer and closer under the city wall, Wang Biao only felt that there was a terrible energy that was slowly crushing over, but he... was an ant that could not resist.

He did not use weapons like usual combat. When his personal strength reaches a certain level, the weapon naturally loses its due role. Every time an evolutionary person increases, his speed, strength, and thinking consciousness will multiply. Once this variable exceeds the parasitic level and reaches two, three, or even four stars with higher levels, the speed will exceed the limit that humans can observe with their naked eyes, and there is only a vague phantom. With a pistol bullet of 300ms, it is impossible to pose any threat to high-level parasites in melee combat. Even the speed of 800-1000ms for sniper rifles and heavy machine guns can only barely reach the theoretical speed balance.

"Everyone pays attention, focus on the largest truck. Without my orders, never fire-"

Wang Biao knew that he was not Boris' opponent, and even if he gathered all the military forces in Yinyue City, he might not be able to pose any threat to a nine-star parasitizer. Moreover, Cobert had already made it very clear in the radio telegraph - in addition to this gentle and gentle black man, there was another parasitizer with five-star power in this convoy belonging to the "Claws".

Five thousand soldiers can kill first-level parasites like themselves at will. However, when their strength suddenly expands and rises to the nine-star stage, the number advantage will disappear.

With the power of the two parasitics, it was enough to easily break through the encirclement, but they did not do so - obviously, there must be something in the heavily guarded heavy truck that they were worried about and had to protect them desperately...

"Deputy Commander, the other party asked to have a direct interview with you." A soldier standing next to him reminded.

Wang Biao, who had a gloomy face, nodded slowly, his eyes quickly shifted from Boris to the convoy further away, and said: "Repeat the order just now to each post and fire point, focusing on the truck. If necessary, you can break through the tires or give a moderate threatening warning. But don't attack without authorization, absolutely not-"

After saying that, Wang Biao handed over the command to another captain, turned around and rushed down the stairs, stood in front of the thick and huge steel city gate, watching it slowly pulled apart from both sides by thick and long hinges, revealing a gap that gradually became wider.

Boris and Wang Biao stood at both ends of the city gate. If the city wall could be demolished, it could be clearly seen that on the left and right sides of this artificial obstacle, the two men were preparing to deal with the imminent and unpredictable things in completely different ways.

As the metal hinge rubbed sharply, the thick door wall began to retract inward. The anxiety deep in Boris' eyes finally became soothing, while the expression on Wang Biao's face became more and more serious, and even... there was a kind of nearly solidified tension.

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Aphra's office is filled with pleasant greenery. Compared with those of the wilderness who struggle to survive in harsh environments, these crisp and slim plants are undoubtedly enjoying enviable favorable treatment. However, their weaknesses are equally obvious - without hard skin, sharp spikes, and strong underground roots. Once you leave this warm and spring-like room, no one will water or fertilize them regularly, they will either become a delicacy that mutant birds and beasts chew around, or quickly shrink and die under various attacks such as the sun, cold, wind and acid rain, etc., and turn into dust with rotten smells in the soil.

Of course, things on the surface can never be the basis for judging facts. The delicate appearance may be just to cover up the inner strong disguise. These plants may be astonishingly strong in resistance to radiation. They may be extremely poisonous. Just like Alfra, who is sitting behind the desk, dressed, spoken and acted casually, she is a gentle and kind middle-aged woman, but Lin Xiang did not dare to take it lightly at all. Instead, he focused all his attention and tried to find any possible hostility on the other party.

Lin Xiang did not make up false stories like in vulgar novels, which sounded thrilling, but actually could not withstand any scrutiny. Every word of his answer was experienced by himself. Although the resurrection from the dead gave people a very absurd feeling, combined with known information and various analytical data, Aphra had to admit that the young man sitting opposite him was actually unlikely to lie.

"You already know my story. In exchange, should you answer my question first and then continue the conversation between us?" Lin Xiang didn't want to give Alfra too much time to think. Although he is currently at a disadvantage, he still has to work hard to get some initiative.

Aphra's expression was stunned, and then a faint smile soon appeared: "Why, do you still want to know about "that person"?"

Lin Xiang nodded seriously: "But before this, I want to understand some other secrets that have been troubled for a long time."

"oh?"

Avra raised her eyebrows and said, "What are you referring to?"

"The real cause of nuclear war a century ago."

Lin Xiang's handsome face showed a little abnormal flush caused by excitement. He took a deep breath, and in a tone with a pleading, eager, but tried his best to suppress the speed of his speech: "Can you...please, please tell me."

Afura put her elbows on the table, supported her chin with her white fingers, and stared at Lin Xiang sitting opposite her. There were some things that could not be discovered in the depths of her black eyes, as if she was thinking, and it seemed that she was thinking about something that had been closed in the depths of her heart and was unwilling to associate, but she had to carefully uncover the surface seal, gently wiped away the thick dust left on the surface area and put it under the sun again.

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"Have you heard of the name "Monsanto"?" Aphra's voice was very soft.

Although the other party's words surprised him, Lin Xiang still nodded slowly.

Monsanto, the full name abbreviation "mon", is a multinational agricultural biotechnology company registered in the United States in the old era. The company was founded in 1901 and was named John Quinnie. The company was named after his wife's name Olga Monsanto. Their products are mainly genetically modified seeds. Among them, roundup is a world-renowned glyphosate herbicide.

"As early as 2006, the U.S. Congress passed a new bill, which mainly consists of allocating a large amount of funds to compensate farmers for growing fuel corn. You have the memories that have survived from the old era, and you should understand that energy is the biggest crisis of that era."

Lin Xiang was not in a hurry to find out the actual meaning of the opening remarks that had nothing to do with his question. He understood that since Alfra was willing to answer, it would definitely involve many secrets that he had never heard of and could not have imagined.

"According to naturalists and authoritative figures of that era, the carbon dioxide emitted by hundreds of millions of automobile engines distributed in countries around the world was the culprit of the melting of Arctic ice, urban floods and tsunamis. This statement actually has no scientific basis, it is just a subjective conclusion drawn by people through historical data. Coupled with the imminent energy crisis, extracting automobile fuel from corn and soybeans to replace gasoline became the most concerned project of the US government at that time. However, the actual situation was not what the media reported, but was a major measure for the government to find new energy and reduce environmental pollution. To put it bluntly, this is just a trick to re-dividing the distribution of interests under the guidance of increasingly high international oil prices, under the guise of scientific research, in order to transfer the energy and fiscal crisis, under the guise of scientific research."

"According to scientists' predictions, the oil on the earth was only enough to last for 20 to 25 years at most. Almost every country was conducting research projects on new alternative energy. Alcohol substitutes made from corn and sugarcane also appeared in large quantities, and France and Germany also carried out large-scale modification of automobile energy systems. Under the increasing market demand, agricultural groups in various countries began to have more say. The reason is simple - they have a huge amount of corn and soybeans in their hands, and these traditionally have been used as food for humans to fight hunger, and have also been given new and great roles in replacing oil." (See "Food Crisis")

"This is a transformation, replacing non-renewable resources with renewable resources. Humans once obtained food from the soil, and food can be converted into energy that controls the lifeline of the country. As the US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said in the 1970s - "If you control oil, then you control all countries. If you control food, then you control all people." In fact, this sentence should be added with a suffix - control the earth and control humans."

Lin Xiang frowned slightly, but he didn't say anything. These secrets from the old era seemed complicated, and he didn't know the reason and could not make a judgment easily. Compared to this hungry era that was simply for food and water, everything in the old era was full of dirty political atmosphere.

However, one thing is clear - disputes of interest always create conflicts, and when they intensify to a certain extent, the dispute will turn into war.

"Due to the limitation of technology and research progress, the efficiency of plant energy extraction at that time was very low. According to the data released in 2010, the number of cars in the world had exceeded 730 million, and the energy obtained by plant extraction alone could not be met at all. Of course, research on other new energy utilization projects such as electricity, solar energy, seawater decomposition technology, etc. is still continuing, but from the perspective of technological maturity and power generation, the prospect of plant energy is the most optimistic. However, this has also led to a new contradiction - crop output is first to ensure human food needs, but the development and utilization of energy has forcibly seized the share that should be edible. The processed and refined plants have been processed and refined.

The price of fuel is much higher than that of food, and the huge profits generated are enough to make people crazy. In order to obtain more raw materials, the energy agencies began to join forces with the agricultural group to make large purchases at higher prices. During that period, the international transaction prices of soybeans and corn doubled, and for the joint effect, wheat and rice also increased by 70%. Major grain-producing countries are desperately selling reserved grains in warehouses, thus exchanging huge profits. However, these foods did not become nutrients that maintain human survival, but became a new source of wealth for energy agencies to replace oil, and the government was very happy to see this situation. After all, plant energy is much cheaper than expensive oil."

Aphra's voice continues: "This situation is not good for every country. In addition to China, the United States, France, Britain and other major powers with advanced strength can benefit from it. For Africa, Australia, Bangladesh and other countries, this energy revolution is simply a terrible disaster. Due to the severe drought, they urgently need to import a large amount of food. However, the expensive price has caused a sharp drop in the purchase quantity. African countries that are unable to provide more funds can only allow more people to starve to death. Because of government intervention, few media have conducted comprehensive and detailed reports on these matters. People living in rich countries cannot consider more for their kind on the other side of the earth. What they see is simply a significant decline in the price of car fuel in gas stations."

"What is the connection between the energy crisis and the nuclear war that destroys the world? And where did the biochemical monsters before the outbreak of the nuclear war come from? What is the virus that can turn humans into immortal monsters?"

Hearing this, Lin Xiang couldn't help but ask. Aphra's words seemed to have nothing to do with the secrets he actually wanted to know. He couldn't wait to know something more detailed.

"Young man, be patient, I will soon talk about the issues you are interested in-"

Aphra smiled faintly and said, "Imagine if a piece of land could produce one ton of grain in that year, these foods could just meet the annual demand of 200 people. Because of energy issues, half of this ton of grain must be the raw material for producing plant fuel. There is only so much land in the world, that is, in the absence of new arable land to be used, in order to meet the energy demand of half of the people, the other half must be starved to death. This is a very terrible situation, and no national government wants to see this happen. Naturally, using biotechnology to increase crop yields has also become a new research topic for scientists from various countries."

"Crop yield is directly related to the nutrient absorption at the roots. In addition to pests and diseases and various unpredictable environmental factors, weeds in nature will plunder the soil fertility. To solve this problem, Monsanto began to secretly develop roundup ready soybeans as early as 1995. This soybean copied a gene from Agrobacterium and embedded it into the soybean genome with a gene gun so that this transgenic plant can withstand

The spraying of non-selective herbicide glyphosate. Rounda is the most famous herbicide in Monsanto's series of products. Glyphosate is an indispensable part of Rounda's herbicide. This thing can kill most of the plants known in the old era, including soybeans. Monsanto relies on the method of changing genes to force soybeans to adapt to glyphosate, and ultimately, it can kill weeds and preserve soybeans, so as to completely absorb soil fertility and achieve the goal of comprehensive increase in yield."

Lin Xiang sat quietly without continuing to ask questions. What Alfra said is actually not a secret. In the old days, almost all countries were conducting research on genetically modified species, and many agricultural sciences had experimental projects to use gene-change anti-chemical drugs. At that time, the market was filled with rice and flour bags with special signs of genetically modified species could be seen everywhere. High yield, green, and no harm to the human body, and almost became the unified propaganda slogan of all genetically modified food vendors in that era.
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