Homo sapiens

America.

Inside the Pentagon in California.

Victor looked a little weird at this time, but he still agreed to communicate on the phone.

After answering the exclusive hotline call.

Wu Wei's laughing voice rang out from the microphone: "Mr. Victor, are you okay?"

"Stop talking nonsense, what do you want to say?" Victor said without politeness.

"It really makes me sad that Mr. Victor treats his friends like this! I originally wanted to tell you a very important piece of information, but it seems it's not necessary now." Wu Wei said in a distressed tone.

Victor still looked indifferent: "Haha, if you have anything to say, just say it, otherwise I will hang up the phone."

"Okay! It seems you don't need this news. Knowing this news can at least save you hundreds of billions of losses. I'm hanging up the phone."

Victor was startled and didn't care about showing off. He quickly asked: "Wait a minute! What are the conditions?"

"Conditions? We are old friends. Negotiating terms would hurt our feelings, so why don't we just forget it!" Wu Wei replied casually.

Fake squid! Victor secretly scolded Wu Wei for being shameless, but he still suppressed his anger: "Say it! For friends, America will not let you suffer."

"Oh? Are you sure?"

"I'm sure, as long as your conditions are right, we can consider it."

"Then let me tell you straight. Our company is currently developing island tourism projects. You have many islands in the Pacific. Our company wants to buy a few small islands."

Victor was silent.

"Our company wants to buy the Gilbert Islands and Ellis Islands. The price is absolutely fair. How about 500 gold dollars per island?"

"Mr. Wu Wei, this joke is not funny at all." Victor replied in a low voice.

"Are you sure you don't want to sell it? After passing this village, there is no such store." Wu Wei reminded with a smile.

Victor fell silent again, thinking about Wu Wei's words and the meaning behind them.

After all, there was no reason for Homo Sapiens to call the hotline for no reason, and there was no reason to entertain him. Obviously, there must be a reason behind this incident.

But what exactly is going on?

Hundreds of billions of losses?

What could cause hundreds of billions of losses?

Wait! Victor suddenly had a guess in his mind, could it be... He asked in a low voice: "Is it an earthquake?"

"What? What is Mr. Victor talking about? I don't seem to understand." Wu Wei said questions in a positive tone.

And Victor also heard the answer at this time.

That is, the Homo sapiens company already knows that a major earthquake is about to occur in America or the Free Federation, but the other party refuses to tell America the specific information.

"Let's change the conditions! It's impossible to sell those two islands to you."

Wu Wei reminded calmly: "Why bother, those two islands will definitely be destroyed this time anyway. If you sell them to our company, you will make a lot of money."

Hearing this, Victor's expression became more solemn.

Apparently he heard the implication of Wu Wei's words, that is, in this earthquake, both the Gilbert Islands and the Ellis Islands were severely affected.

The only possibility he could think of now was that a major earthquake triggered a super tsunami that submerged the two islands.

This information made Victor even more restless.

"Since Mr. Victor is not interested in selling those two islands, I won't bother you. If you change your mind, you can call my hotline at any time, but you'd better hurry up!"

After saying that, Wu Wei hung up the phone directly.

Since he needed time to think and report the matter to the Council of the City on the Hill, Victor did not linger on the phone.

He quickly clarified his thoughts and quickly consulted experts from the earthquake monitoring department.

Although Wu Wei provided very few clues, he still analyzed the area where earthquakes may occur.

Based on the information that the Gilbert Islands and Ellice Islands were submerged, he deduced that the earthquake occurred along the west coast of North America.

According to seismic experts, there are two fault zones on the west coast of North America, namely the Aleutian fault zone in Alaska and the Cascadia fault zone near California.

Given the information that hundreds of billions of potential losses were possible, he ruled out the uninhabited Aleutian Fault Zone.

Therefore, the earthquake is most likely to occur in the Cascadia Fault Zone near California.

But knowing this news is not of much use.

The reason is that there is no precise time and place. We can’t let everyone in California and Washington State leave the coast for a few months, right?

The west coast of North America is very important now, because it is the current core trade channel between North America and Northeast Asia, and there is definitely no way to interrupt it for a few months.

What's more, what if the Homo sapiens company deliberately misled him? Or did the big earthquake happen in Japan?

As long as the Homo sapiens company does not provide accurate time and location for a day, America will have to worry about it for a day.

With the analysis report in hand, Victor quickly went to Seattle and secretly met with Thomas Morgan there.

Inside a safe house in an underground bunker.

"Big earthquake?" Thomas frowned: "Is this true?"

Victor shook his head: "I don't know, after all, we don't have earthquake prediction technology, but the Homo sapiens company shouldn't deceive us."

Thomas put down the documents in his hand and had a headache.

It wasn't that the earthquake was a headache. After all, even if he knew about this kind of thing in advance, it would be difficult to completely avoid the loss.

The thing that really troubles him now is whether to sell the Gilbert Islands and Ellis Islands to the Homo Sapiens Company and obtain accurate information about earthquakes.

Although the two islands are members of the Free Association, their core rights are firmly controlled by America.

Just do it, is it worth it?

Although the combined land area of ​​these two archipelagoes is less than 1,000 square kilometers, their maritime exclusive economic zone is nearly 5 million square kilometers.

Moreover, these two islands are the transportation hub islands connecting North America to Oceania.

Once the two islands are sold to Homo sapiens companies, there will be an island chain between North America and Oceania.

For the Homo sapiens company, after acquiring the two archipelagos, the company will have basically unimpeded access between Southeast Asia and South America.

Thomas quickly summoned the City on the Hill Council to hold a video conference with other directors.

After hearing the news, all the directors also started talking about it.

"Thomas, what do you think?" James Rockefeller asked, chomping on his cigar.

Thomas expressed some of his thoughts: "If we don't agree to the Homo sapiens company now, they will definitely not come to us for cooperation in the future. We don't have early warning technology for earthquakes at all, and it will be very troublesome in the future."

"But promise them that our power in the Pacific will be split into two. This is too dangerous." Dupont reminded.

Thomas continued: "I know, so we must find a way to negotiate with Homo sapiens to demilitarize these two islands, while retaining our freedom of navigation rights, and in addition to requiring long-term seismic services from Homo sapiens. .”

"Is that so?"

"If that's the case, it's not unacceptable."

After all, Homo sapiens company's earthquake prediction service is indeed very powerful. If they can obtain long-term earthquake prediction services, then they are not too much at a loss.

After some heated discussion.

The City on the Hill council finally made a decision.

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