Rebirth 09: Synthetic Male God

Chapter 999: Gravel, Seawater, Wooden Stick
For Zhou Rui, the funeral procession has completely ended and been forgotten, but for many people, its impact has just begun.

Late at night, French observer Ophir finally completed his last day's report in an official written format.

For this reason, he didn't even drink a drop of wine at the dinner today, which didn't seem like a Frenchman at all.

But at this moment he still couldn't calm down, and always felt that something was missing.

It's the feeling that, under the tide of the times, you always want to do your best, even if it's the last bit of useless effort.

So, Ofill wrote a letter in a personal tone.

"Dear General Pierre J., I haven't greeted you for a long time. I am currently in Ryukyu. You should have known the reason and seen the corresponding report. But I still hope that you can take a look at this letter in your busy schedule."

Ophir's keyboard kept clicking, and for three hours the screen was filled with text.

He reorganized what he wanted to say about this funeral performance.

There is no complicated burial process or equipment description, only some conclusions and judgments.

But when I typed the last period, I still felt it was not enough.

So I walked out of the hotel alone, lit a cigarette, and headed towards the beach at three in the morning, wanting to relax.

As he was walking, he bumped into a figure head-on. He was also an observer, Moravi from Goose Country. The two had met at the dinner party that evening.

The relationship between Goose and Europe has always been bad, or it can be said that Goose is loyal to Europe and Europe is wary of Goose, so they haven't spoken to each other for so many days. However, when they met in this place at this time, Ophir still raised his hand and said hello.

Mauravi nodded silently, and the two passed each other.

But after a few meters, they stopped at the same time, turned around and said at the same time: "Let's talk?"

Then they smiled at each other and walked in the same direction.

Without asking about their well-being, Moravi said directly: "The power they showed this time exceeded our most exaggerated guesses. My boss emailed me every day asking if I drank too much vodka when writing reports."

Ophir: "I'm almost the same. I've been emphasizing over and over again that what I wrote is not exaggerated. Sea, land, air... No, to be precise, it's the four dimensions of 'sea, land, air, and space'. It's like we are in two different eras."

To be honest, they did not look down on China before they came. Anyone who still looks down on China in this era is either bad or stupid. But after coming here, the reality made all their previous assumptions seem "frivolous".

Moravi suddenly asked, "Which side do you think will have a better chance of winning if Z is used?"

Ophir was stunned. "With whom? France? We are not crazy yet."

Moravi shook his head: "Nature is great beauty."

Ophir pondered for a moment: "In terms of total volume, the United States' military is definitely larger, but if we don't attack each other's land and don't enter the 'H War', I can only say that the United States has no chance of winning in the western half of the Pacific."

Moravi suddenly said: "How about we try to deduce it?"

Ophir's eyes lit up. Deduction could be said to be a necessary skill for officers like them, especially those who would be sent out as observers.

Moravi had a strong knowledge of geography. He actually used a branch to draw a simple outline with the Pacific Ocean as the center on the beach. After discussion, Ophir was the Z side and Moravi was the M side.

The military configurations of most mainstream countries in the world are in their minds. Although not rigorous enough, they are well-founded.

Ophir held up the branch: "So who will start the fight first?"

"Of course it will be the United States, but it won't be itself."

Morawie pointed to the location of the Southeast Alliance and drew a big circle: "I guess it's an agent here."

"why?"

"Do you need to ask? Obviously agents are safer and can stop losses at any time."

"Secondly, a direct confrontation would bring too much pressure to the whole world. The United States is not a monolithic entity, not to mention the reaction of public opinion. If the two sides officially start fighting today, the people will be collectively terrified and collectively opposed."

"However, if there is one big and one small, the smaller one can be portrayed as the 'weak and bullied', and the internal voices can be unified. Using this as an excuse, more forces can be mobilized and many allies can be won over."

"All that needs to be done is to deliberately instigate the little guy to stir up the 'core interests' that the big guy cannot give up..."

At this point, Moravi couldn't help but think of the conflict between Ermao and Daye in the past two years.
Sigh, this is a conspiracy
Because there are loopholes in the rules, it is easy for a small country to be controlled by a very small number of people, who can then kidnap the entire country to commit crimes.
Because the media is controlled, small countries can be easily provoked to do things that are beyond their control.

Then, one by one, they became consumables, the country and its citizens together.
Ophir nodded: "Then I think it's here."

He pointed to the archipelago that represented the "Wow Fang".

"The weakest, yet the most ambitious. Have you read The Romance of the Three Kingdoms? There's a line in it that goes 'vicious but cowardly, ignoring life when seeing profit', which I think fits very well."

Moravi nodded: "Okay, let's take this as a starting point."

The two of them began an informal deduction using sand, sea water and branches.

Then do it again and again.

At first, it only revolved around the Pacific Ocean. Later, they felt that this was a major event that was bound to involve the whole world, so they completed the topographic map to cover almost the entire earth.

This happened seven times in a row.

The result is that if the Pacific Ocean is divided equally and not extended too much, Ophir won six times.

The only time that the M side represented by Moravi won was because Ophir changed his goal midway and made living a normal life his main goal, which resulted in too much energy being involved.

There is a faint bright line on the coastline, and the sun is about to rise.

Both of them are still unsatisfied
Until the third wave of people arrived on the beach.

Two figures, one tall and one fat, jogged past where Ophir and Moravi were.

Zhou Rui stopped curiously.

Che Qian was determined to lose weight, and his willpower was stronger than expected, so Zhou Rui took Che Qian for a morning run before the sun rose.

The effect was quite good. A few days of exercise was not enough to change Che Qian's body shape, but it did change his perseverance and endurance. Even though he was panting like a broken bellows, he did not stop.

He just kept muttering "Onii-chan" in his mouth, but I didn't know what the hell it was.

He had met both Offill and Moravi, but he could only name Offill, the French observer.

Zhou Rui looked at the two people and the clear world map on the beach. After thinking for a moment, he guessed what they were doing.

He said to Che Qian, who was panting like a dog behind him, "Take a ten-minute break. You are not allowed to sit down. Walk slowly in circles."

Che Qian didn't care about anything else. He nodded, put his hands on his waist and started to turn around. Zhou Rui came in front of Ophir and Moravi. "Are you deducing?"

Ophir smiled tiredly and awkwardly, feeling like he had been caught by the real culprit.

Zhou Rui stared at the beach for a few minutes. With his powerful analytical ability working, he actually restored in his mind most of the content of the two people's last deduction.

Xiao Ri Zi turned against his brother, the Universe Kingdom was flattened by his brother, and the Southeast Alliance surrendered.
Then there are two sides, one with the Western Pacific, East Asia and Central Asia as its sphere of influence.

A sphere of influence with the eastern Pacific, South America, and Europe.

The earth is almost divided into two, and there are only a few parts that are not within the range of either.

Zhou Rui laughed.
The level is still too low, and it is full of Western limitations and confrontational thinking.

In other words, Cold War mentality.

Ophir said nervously: "We just did it on a whim. We have no other intentions."

It was somewhat sensitive for two foreign observers to conduct simulations in someone else's territory late at night.

Zhou Rui shook his head. If people at this level could simulate changes in the world, then they were underestimating the world.

Zhou Rui glanced at Che Qian, who was still panting heavily. On a whim, he took the branch from Ophir and smoothed out several battlefields on the beach. Then he said:

Zhou Rui continued, "With the change of technological hegemony, the hollowed-out manufacturing industry of Country M will soon face an economic crisis. Economic crisis is an inevitable stage of the market economy, just like reincarnation, and this time it will come faster than before."

High-profit industries have almost been squeezed out by China. Chips, cars, and even artificial intelligence can no longer create business miracles. The upstream of the market is technology. Without water in the upstream, the downstream will starve.

"Plus, since they don't have an advantage in combat power, their main focus will be on financial harvesting. This method is safer and faster."

But the prosperity of finance ultimately needs industrial support, which is a natural law.

If having the US dollar means being strong, then at least one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council must have a cloth on his head.

However, in reality, the wealthy countries in the Middle East are just bottom-tier players in the international arena.

Ophir and Moravi looked at each other and were both amazed. On the beach in the early morning, they discussed the world situation with Master Zhou.
Zhou Rui pointed at the location of the "Southeast Alliance":

"Seeking an agent will take up our energy, but we will still do it. After all, the cost is very low. However, with the speed at which the balance of power between the two sides is changing, no one will be easily used as a gun, especially after this rehearsal."

"The various powers displayed in the rehearsal will gradually become normalized in everyone's field of vision, and will constantly adjust the sanity values ​​of various small countries."

"The only place where your mind might not be clear is here."

Zhou Rui pointed to the location of the Universe Kingdom.

"But it is a dead chess piece. It will be crushed by its own brothers in a few days."

"Then the situation that will be formed is that no matter how much the surrounding areas of a certain Eastern great country fan the flames, they will be suppressed to a very low level. It may even turn into an era of cold weapons, because taking action against these scum will only involve one's own energy."

"This is something that Western countries cannot understand. It comes from a unique understanding of the situation that comes from a civilization that has lasted for thousands of years."

Mauravi pressed, “What understanding?”

"War is not a means to gain profit."

Zhou Rui drew two circles in Europe and America.

"I don't know how your culture is classified, but in our classification, I belong to the agricultural civilization and you belong to the pirate civilization."

"All of these places have profited from colonization and plunder. As for China, the experience of the past thousands of years tells us that any prosperous era, a prosperous era that can benefit everyone, does not come from war, but from political stability and harmony among the people."

“Agricultural civilizations never pin their hopes of becoming powerful on external forces, such as colonizing or plundering others. We believe that becoming powerful is inevitable, and the way to do so lies in the land beneath our feet, not in some distant opponent worth plundering.”

As soon as these words were spoken, Ophir and Moravi suddenly felt an ancient, profound, simple and plain wisdom.

"So, we will focus all our energy on how to 'strengthen ourselves'. We don't need any allies to stand by our side, nor do we need other countries to flatter us like they flatter the United States."

"Superconductivity, nuclear fusion, quantum computers"

"Poverty alleviation, comprehensive construction of a small K society, and improvement of the quality of the people."

"There are so many things we can do. When one round is completed, another round will come. Just cultivating ourselves internally is enough to keep us busy for another 100 or 200 years."

Ophir hurriedly asked, "What about the end? What will happen in the end? The end of this deduction!"

Zhou Rui glanced at Ophir, took two steps forward, and jumped out of the "Earth Plane Map" that had already appeared very huge on the beach.

The deduction map popped up.

Ophir: “I don’t understand what you mean.”

Zhou Rui stuck the stick in his hand into the beach and said, "Tell me, if the earth is under your feet, where is the earth under my feet? Where is this beach?"

Ophir murmured, "Universe?"

Zhou Rui nodded: "Smart, civilization has entered a new era, why not raise your head and plan how to go further 7000 years? Ten thousand years? On this land of the earth, we have been the 'king' too many times, it can't be considered an achievement"

As Ophir watched Zhou Rui's graceful departure, a sense of epic romance arose spontaneously.

It made him intoxicated and dizzy as if he had drunk alcohol.

Zhou Rui walked further and further away. Compared to Moravi, who spoke less, he shook his head and shouted, "How can you ensure that this deduction will become a reality!"

Zhou Rui didn't even turn his head.

"No one can guarantee it, so just try your best."

“Who can guarantee that?”

"us."

Zhou Rui no longer lingered, and changed from walking slowly to jogging, calling out to the dizzy Che Qian: "Let's go, continue."

Che Qian took a deep breath and suppressed the burning sensation in his lungs.

With sweat all over my body and firm determination, I continued on my way.

(End of this chapter)