Great Power Technology

A week later, in a luxury apartment in New York.

Bruce's eyes were bloodshot. He raised his head from the table and looked at Sid, who was sitting across from him with an equally tired face.

"There can be no mistake. Judging from the information we have, the other party is definitely serious."

"The 'end of the world' they call is not a joke - we can't judge whether the end of the world is true or false for the time being, but one thing is for sure: the Chinese take it seriously."

"Sid, tell me, what should we do?"

Sid nodded heavily, then shook his head again. After thinking for a long time, he spoke:

"Congress should have received the news and even made preliminary conclusions, but our judgment must still be passed on to Congress. If they ultimately make a decision not to accept it, then we have to find a way to change this decision."

"Everything we do is just reasoning. There is actually no strong evidence to support the proposition of the end of the world - unless they reproduce a quantum interference in front of everyone."

"But I very much doubt whether these Chinese people will do this - you see what is written in the report, every observation will lead to a quantum collapse, their opportunities are obviously limited, and they will never waste it on this kind of thing for them On meaningless things.”

"Besides, they already said at the meeting that they don't need allies!"

"This is very detrimental to us. We are not allies. How can the gentlemen in Congress believe them?"

"Bruce, I think this is the problem you have to solve. I'm just a physicist, and I'm really not good at this kind of game."

Bruce nodded slightly and replied:

"I know, I know yes, we have to convince them, but before that, we have to find a way to find out what Congress thinks about this matter."

As he spoke, he directly picked up his cell phone, found the name of a senior congressional official from his address book, and dialed it directly.

At this moment, Sid finally saw the connections of his old friend. In just two hours, the two of them had collected more than 20 opinions. When they put together all the opinions of these decision-makers, one A fact that shocked them appeared before their eyes.

Just as Bruce envisioned, Congress determined the authenticity of the "doomsday" through the most rational judgment.

However, they do not plan to cooperate with China. Instead, they plan to launch a comprehensive offensive to regain Ugly Country's global dominance when China devotes a lot of resources to two giant projects specifically designed for the end of the world!

Whether viewed from Bruce's perspective as a sociologist, businessman, or financial practitioner, or from Sid's perspective as a purely theoretical scholar, such a strategy is foolish.

"These idiots! What time has it been and they are still thinking about fighting for hegemony!"

"Is there any point in fighting for hegemony?! Since the end is right in front of us, why are we fighting for first place? Do we want to die more honorably than our opponents?!"

Bruce cursed and walked around in the study, his already gray hair was scrunched up into a ball. At this time, he looked like an Impressionist painter who had fallen into madness.

"This is our Congress. What can we do? We elected it ourselves."

"I didn't vote for this idiot on the stage! Sid, we must stop them, we must find a way to gain China's support - no, the important thing is not their support, but 'no confrontation'!"

Having said this, Bruce suddenly paused for a second, and then asked:

"Sid, can I trust you?"

"You can trust me. You know me."

"No, Sid, that's not what I'm talking about."

Bruce's expression was extremely serious. He grabbed Sid's shoulders and squeezed them hard, exposing all the veins in his arms.

"What I'm saying is, can I trust you on this matter?"

"Can you stand up for our principles, can you put our survival first?"

Sid was stunned for a moment and replied subconsciously:

"Of course, survival is the first priority - even those in Congress, they are doing it for a better survival, aren't they?"

"No, no, you still don't understand!"

Bruce threw away his hand slightly manically, walked around the sofa twice, and then continued:

"The point is not survival, the point is us! Us!"

"I'm not talking about the 'us' that you and I, and other ordinary people living in this era, I'm talking about the 'us' that starts from now and goes to the infinite future!"

"Don't you understand the thoughts of those lords in Congress? They don't believe in heaven! They have no intention of caring about the life and death of future generations! They are just doing it for themselves!"

"Yes, yes, this is their motivation. Their average age is only 40 years old. In the next twenty years, they will continue to drink, continue to enjoy, and continue to indulge in women. Therefore, they must only focus on themselves. The benefit of a generation!”

"Sid, I want you to promise that you will never only focus on your own interests! You have no descendants and no worries. No, just a promise is useless. You must give me a reason that is enough to convince me."

Hearing this, Sid frowned tightly. He vaguely sensed that Bruce seemed to be doing something big. This big thing should be enough to change or destroy Congress's strategy, but he had no idea what it was.

Is he planning to make this "doomsday" information public?

But this is not enough to change the high-level strategy.

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At most, it will only cause them some trouble. The reason why China is unwilling to make it public at this time is just because they want to make the launch of the two projects smoother. As time goes by, their people will naturally know this information.

However, other than that, what other ways does Bruce have to influence high-level decisions?

No matter how wide his connections and energy are, in the face of such a major strategy, his right to speak is actually extremely limited - or, in other words, almost only the right to make suggestions.

In this case, the power of the individual is almost negligible.

Sid was still hesitating, but Bruce beside him spoke eagerly again:

"Tell me the answer! Our time is limited!"

Sid breathed a long sigh of relief and replied:

"Bruce, I have no way to give you such a guarantee. I can only tell you that I am a rational person. If you don't believe me, you can exclude me from your plan now!"

Bruce looked into Sid's eyes, and after a long time, he nodded dejectedly.

"Yes, you can't give me such a guarantee. Likewise, I shouldn't drag you into the water."

"That's it for now. I will find a way to convince Congress."

"I have to find a way to make them realize that cooperation is the only way out."

"But why do you believe this so much? How do you know China's strategy is right?"

Sid interrupted Bruce's soliloquy.

In fact, in his opinion, although Congress's strategy is indeed very stupid, is China's strategy necessarily right?

Is it enough to spend all the resources and manpower on large-scale construction and land development like they did to change the final outcome?

It was hard for him to believe this.

Then, Bruce gave him a completely different answer.

"Sid, you are mistaken. I don't know whether China's strategy is correct or not - maybe their strategy is also stupid."

"But I know that it is absolutely right to choose maximum cooperation from now on!"

"I don't care at all what we end up doing against so-called adjacent-dimensional invasions - that's what you physicists need to do."

"I am a sociologist. What I want to do is eliminate unnecessary confrontations. What I want to do is unite the entire human world!"

"It's not just our country, there are many more countries"

"What are you going to do?"

Sid shuddered involuntarily, and he finally realized the danger of the decision Bruce made in a very short period of time.

"You don't have to worry about what I do. In short, this will definitely be a betrayal."

"Betrayal? For China? Is it worth it?"

Bruce shook his head and replied:

"No, I'm not doing it for China. I don't care about their life or death."

"I do it for ourselves - so that we can live in the right way."

"Maybe it will be a big purge but it will be worth it."

After that, Bruce turned and left the apartment. At the last moment when he closed the door, he turned back to Sid and said:

"Sid, my friend, you must remember this."

"Motive! There is a source of motivation for the development of everything! Finding this source of motivation and finding ways to eliminate it or replace it is the key to solving the problem!"

Sid nodded heavily, and then his sight was cut off by the slowly closing elevator door.

This day was the last time the two met for a long time.

They embarked on completely different paths for the same goal.

Two days later, a mysterious person anonymously disclosed to the media news about the "invasion of adjacent dimensions" and the "coming of the end."

Also announced were China's Beacon Plan and Tongtianhe Plan in response to this crisis.

While everyone was examining these two plans with mixed emotions, a more explosive news was made public:

The Ugly Kingdom will take advantage of China's opportunity to use all its resources to deal with the crisis and launch an all-out attack on China in all areas, thereby trying to regain the dominance of the world.

This plan was ironically named "The Last Wish" by the mysterious man. As the leader of the plan, the Healy Organization's member list, strategies and a large number of technical documents were all made public.

From this starting point, a large-scale decryption movement spread across the world began to ferment.