Homo sapiens.

The west coast of North America is very important now, because this is the 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 Homo sapiens deliberately misled him?Or did the big earthquake happen in Japan?

As long as Homo sapiens does not provide the exact time and place for a day, America will be afraid for a day.

Victor, holding the analysis report, quickly headed to Seattle to secretly meet with local Thomas Morgan.

Inside a safe house in an underground bunker.

"Big earthquake?" Thomas frowned: "Is the situation true?"

Victor shook his head: "I don't know either. After all, we don't have earthquake prediction technology, but Homo sapiens should not deceive us."

Putting down the documents in his hand, Thomas had a headache.

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

The real headache for him now is whether to sell the Gilbert Islands and Ellis Islands to Homo sapiens, and then obtain accurate information about earthquakes.

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

Just doing it, is it worth it.

Although the combined land area of ​​these two archipelagos is less than 1000 square kilometers, their maritime exclusive economic zone is nearly 500 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, there will be an island chain between North America and Oceania.

For the Homo sapiens company, after obtaining the two islands, the company can basically move unimpeded between Southeast Asia and South America.

Thomas hurriedly convened the City on the Hill Council to hold a video conference with other directors.

After hearing the news, all the directors also talked a lot.

"Thomas, what's your idea?" James Rockefeller asked, biting his cigar.

Thomas shared some of his thoughts: "If we don't agree to Homo sapiens now, they will definitely not cooperate with us in the future. For earthquakes, we don't have early warning technology at all. It will be very troublesome in the future."

"But promise them that our power in the Pacific will be divided into two, which is too dangerous." DuPont reminded.

Thomas continued: "I know, so we have to find a way to negotiate with Homo Sapiens to demilitarize these two islands, while retaining our freedom of navigation, and Homo Sapiens to provide long-term seismic services .”

"Is that so?"

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

After all, Homo Sapien's earthquake prediction service is indeed very powerful, and they can get long-term earthquake prediction services through it, so they are not too bad.

After a heated discussion.

The City on a Hill council finally made a decision.

Chapter 495 Trading

On the same day, Victor communicated with Wu Wei again through the hotline.

"It seems that you have made a decision."

"Those two islands can be leased to you, but the premise must be for commercial use." Victor directly stated the conditions.

Wu Wei smiled and asked back: "Are you joking?"

But Victor does not intend to back down: "We already know the location of the earthquake, at worst, California will be shut down for a few months, and you will get nothing by then."

"Oh? This is your confidence? Then just be happy." Wu Wei was also unmoved, as if you were all right.

However, the more he behaved like this, the more uncertain Victor felt.

If Wu Wei became angry, he would be more sure that the earthquake was in the Cascadia fault zone near California.

"If this is the case, then we don't need to talk, there is no need to waste everyone's time." Wu Wei hung up the phone directly.

Falk!Victor's hands trembled slightly, obviously he was in a hurry.

Although the City on the Hill council doesn't care how many people die in California, California, as the core semiconductor industrial area in North America, with so many ports, and the Third Fleet, it is difficult for the City on the Hill council to give up.

Originally, the comprehensive strength of the free association was weaker than Homo sapiens. If it is weakened now, it will be even more difficult in the future.

Victor hurriedly contacted director Thomas Morgan.

more than three hours later.

Victor called the hotline again.

But this time Wu Wei didn't answer the phone.

As a last resort, Victor could only call Wu Wei through the channel of the Europa Consortium.

"Mr. Wu Wei, those two islands can be sold, and you will have full rights to dispose of them. We only ask that you can retain the right to navigate freely."

"Really? It's really surprising!" Wu Wei still didn't agree, but deliberately pretended that he didn't hear it, and began to talk about him.

Victor on the other side of the phone looked very ugly.

With a low voice, he interrupted Wu Wei's conversation, and hurriedly asked: "Mr. Wu Wei, please give me an accurate answer on whether to cooperate or not."

"It's not impossible to cooperate, it's just that the sincerity is not enough!"

"Please don't push your company too far, this is already our bottom line." Victor gritted his teeth.

"Oh? So you still have a bottom line? This is the first time I've heard of it. In fact, my request is very simple. Our company wants the complete Gilbert Islands."

The complete Gilbert Islands?

Victor realized in an instant that there are four islands directly owned by America, the Phoenix Islands and the Line Islands affiliated to the Gilbert Islands.

"This is impossible……"

"Impossible? I've made it very clear from the beginning, to buy the Gilbert Islands, not Gilbert?"

hateful!Victor knew that he was stunned by the other party's word game, and at the same time, he was too anxious to examine those words carefully.

You know, Gilbert and the Gilbert Islands are two concepts.

Although internationally, Gilbert is often used to refer to the entire archipelago, this is actually inaccurate because the entire Gilbert Islands includes Gilbert, as well as the four islands directly held by America.

And Wu Wei said at the beginning that the Gilbert Islands actually include Howland Island, Baker Island, Kingman Reef, and Jarvis Island in America.

Victor had no choice but to announce the suspension of negotiations again, and he went to report to Thomas Morgan again.

And Thomas Morgan, who ran to the "South Hunt" in Texas, was furious in the safe house, scolding Homo sapiens for its greed.

But he still had to endure it, and held a small meeting with other directors of the City on the Hill Council again.

After some debate, they still chose to compromise in the face of the safety of the four small islands and California.

Tired Victor called Wu Wei again and again.

"We agreed, it is the complete Gilbert Islands, but there is a subsidiary condition, we must listen to the company to provide earthquake prediction services for the free association for 30 years."

Wu Wei sneered and said, "Mr. Victor, do you think I'm a fool? Those few broken islands are not worth 30 years of earthquake prediction services, let alone the entire free association."

The two began to bargain.

In the end, America only got its own 10-year earthquake prediction service.

As for the other members of the free association, then ask for blessings!America would not sacrifice herself for them.

After reaching a verbal agreement, Wu Wei said with a smile: "Tomorrow our company will announce the detailed information about the earthquake."

"Why don't you just give it to us?" Victor frowned.

"What's the difference?" Wu Wei asked back.

Huh, what's the difference?The difference is huge.

If it is given directly, then America can operate in the dark, and then downplay the sale of the Gilbert Islands.

And if it is publicly announced by the Homo sapiens company, then the sale of the Gilbert Islands must not be hidden.

But with people under the roof, Victor can only suffer from this dark loss.

second morning.

It was just dawn in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

The Homo sapiens airship arrived at the Gilbert Islands and Ellis Islands to receive these small islands.

The Liberty Alliance Army stationed on the island could only suppress their anger and helplessness, pack their bags silently, and head to the base in Kangaroo Country or New Zeland in despair.

After completing the work of harvesting the island.

After receiving the instructions, Di Ting Company announced to the world that a major earthquake of magnitude 1 to 21 would occur on the Cascadia fault zone between January 24 and 9.1.

Not only announced the detailed location and time, but also gave a Pacific coast tsunami warning level.

其中东瀛沿海为5～7米大浪，檀香山群岛为17～20米大浪、吕宋群岛沿海为4～5米大浪。

The whole world was shocked when they received this warning announcement.

On the one hand, they were shocked by the occurrence of a major earthquake.

On the other hand, it is surprising why Homo sapiens issued an early warning to America.

After all, if this kind of thing is secretly concealed, the California coast of America will definitely be completely finished.

This makes many people puzzled.

But soon he no longer wondered.

Because Homo sapiens later announced that it has purchased the full operating rights of the Gilbert Islands and Ellice Islands through commercial cooperation, and will soon establish a branch in the Central Pacific.

Seeing this news, everyone suddenly realized.

Also business cooperation channels?Your Homo sapiens company is lying to ghosts!

Anyone with no problems in their heads can easily connect the sale of the island with the earthquake prediction service. Obviously, this is the PY deal between Homo sapiens and America.

Of course, now America has no time to compare blindly on the Internet.

Because the time is only about 17 days, if the Homo sapiens company's prediction is not accurate and the earthquake is ahead of schedule, it will be over.

A state of emergency has been declared throughout coastal California.

Many people who have cars have already driven the whole family to the eastern inland.

The nuclear power plant was shut down in an emergency, the nuclear fuel was treated in an emergency, the chemical plant was shut down quickly, and the chemical warehouse was properly disposed of.

In order to minimize losses, America's actions this time were more efficient than ever.

Those who can be evacuated should be evacuated as soon as possible, those who can be moved away, and those who cannot be moved should also be urgently reinforced and harmlessly disposed of.

Time passed day by day.

Chapter 496 The Aftermath of the Earthquake

Galaxy 2, February 1nd.

14:37 p.m. ET.

The calm coastal area of ​​California was suddenly shaken.

In an instant, the Golden Gate Bridge, the sanctuary of the soul of San Francisco, was distorted by the terrible earthquake waves on both sides of the piers, and tore the steel cables and deck of the bridge.

A surveillance airship produced by America itself recorded all this truthfully.

The old high-rise buildings collapsed in an instant, and the ground was densely covered with cracks of different sizes. The largest crack stretched for more than ten kilometers in length and tens of meters in width.

But it's not over yet.

Because the area where the earthquake occurred was actually on the seabed about 33 kilometers northwest of San Francisco.

A rock formation with a length of about 157 kilometers and a width of about 24 kilometers was faulted, causing a large amount of seawater to fill the faulted area in an instant.

Water levels off San Francisco's coast are rapidly dropping, exposing large swaths of the coastal seabed.

A few sea fish that had no time to escape were still jumping around in the mud.

However, less than a few minutes.

The terrifying tsunami with a height of more than 52 meters quickly washed over the entire coast of California, and the coast of San Francisco was naturally not immune.

at the same time.