Blue and White Society

  Chapter 460 Black Ball

  The Republic of California is an area not long after independence in 2066. The country is completely controlled by capital. 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 any money, from RMB to US dollars to their own new banknotes, any legal banknotes can be used here.

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

  Every department in the country is controlled by one or more companies, and 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 the group that produces electricity, and the land resources are planned by the real estate company.

  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.

   Except for state taxes, nothing is state-owned, and personal property is protected to the extreme.

   And this kind of enterprise that has fully contracted the state's public affairs is called a state business. There are a total of 142 companies, each responsible for 50 large and small state departments.

  The country's order is their order, and the country's project is their project.

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

These chaebols 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 lot of votes at the same time. , and then the power is replaced by other enterprises.

  This is a stately country that uses money in exchange for votes.

  Even the National Bank is a private bank. In theory, the bank can print any pattern on the banknote...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 that used 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' company logo, achieving the best advertising deal in history.

  Mobil became an energy giant because of this, and it took thirty years to stand out and suppress other energy companies.

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

   are one yuan, five yuan, ten yuan, and 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 hang there forever and will not really 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" has dominated 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.

   Speaking of 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 picked up the signal when a curly-haired astronaut was in the spacecraft close to the earth.

  Another elderly person shook his head and laughed: "I told God not to buy risky stocks. There is only a work channel on the moon. You see, you didn't know until the limit fell for three days."

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

  The elderly 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 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 could feel 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 hands of the curly-haired astronaut came out suddenly and hit the bulkhead above his head, bursting out several parts immediately.

  Those parts were tossed in the weightless cabin, ejected everywhere.

  The two hurriedly put on their helmets, and before they had time to clean up the mess, the entire spaceship 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?"

   "Leave it alone, 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 readjusted the return trajectory.

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

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

   Such a slight bump, he didn't think it was a meteorite, but probably some **** touched it.

   But when I turned on 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 video!"

  It can be seen through 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 was moving at high speed and suddenly rubbed against 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.

   "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'll 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 to the voyage, a pure black spherical unit without any exposed thrusters, no light source, and no signal appears beside the spacecraft in an instant. , is simply terrifying.

  Especially when 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. It came out of nowhere and appeared directly on the surface of the black sphere.

  The black ball is thus propelled, accelerating 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?"

   "No reactants can be detected, these energies are directly generated, it is 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 totally wrong! Huaxia doesn't admit that it owns this flying object, and asked us to release the picture of the Heineken beer number."

   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 doesn't 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 on it."

  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, "Did you try 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.

   To this, the black ball did not respond at all, squeezing the air and whistling into the inner atmosphere.

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

  Several high-energy explosions on the surface, after adjusting the orbit, 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 on purpose."

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

   "Do you want to intercept?"

  Canadian high-level officials 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.

   "Hurrah..."

  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 officer who observed this scene murmured, he was more concerned about what the black ball was.

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

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

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

   "No...wait a minute, what's that?"

   At the impact site, a white mist covered a radius of one kilometer, and the cloud rolled to form a larger sphere, and a hemispherical cloud 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.

  Outside the cloud cover, the sea was calm, as if the inside and outside were isolated.

  …

   p.s: Sorry. It was originally planned to write something about the political system there, but after writing a chapter, I found something wrong and deleted it. In short, you can make up your mind about the world political situation over there.

  (end of this chapter)