Homo sapiens.

The Tianlong people add up to only a few hundred thousand people, and if you add the dog legs, there are only a few million people at most.

This kind of people can't even fill one computer industry, let alone dozens of other large industries and thousands of subdivided industries.

To maintain an entire modern industrial chain, at least 3 million high-quality science and engineering populations are needed.

See clearly, it is 3 million high-quality science and engineering population, not 3 million migrant workers or 3 million liberal arts population.

Now the free world is pieced together, and the four major forces combined can barely maintain the operation of the entire industrial chain.

But if the population continues to decrease, the consequence will be the gradual collapse of the industrial chain.

Once the industrial chain collapses, they will have no power to fight Homo sapiens.

This is why Thomas and others are willing to cut meat for ordinary consumables. For Thomas and others, there is actually no difference between tens of trillions of dollars and trillions of dollars.

The limit of money exceeding [-] million is actually a number.

Everyone in the Morgan family, if they just eat, drink and have fun all day long, they can't spend hundreds of millions a year.

And the whole of America is actually owned by the City on a Hill Council.

If the money is gone, it can be earned again.

If America collapses, then the Morgan family, Rockefeller family, Mellon family and their ilk will definitely have no way to stay cool.

That's why these vampires are willing to bleed profusely.

Secret video conference.

After some wrangling, they finally reached an agreement.

In order to jointly build a nuclear power plant, the fourth-generation nuclear fission reactor technology based on thorium-based molten salt was first determined as the technical standard for the current new nuclear power plant.

The other is to strengthen cooperation in technology research and development of nuclear fusion power generation.

Besides.

Thomas also proposed to establish a strategic reserve system of bulk agricultural products in the free world to ensure that the four major forces can deal with possible large-scale natural disasters in the future.

If possible, find ways to support the marginal worlds in West Asia, South America, and Africa.

"Support the marginal world?" Caesar thought for a while, did he still object.

Thomas solemnly reminded: "Everyone, we can't give up those forces in the marginal world. If their manpower, market, and resources are obtained by Homo sapiens, then we will be even more passive."

Master Feng looked puzzled: "But our strategic food reserves don't have much. The population of the fringe world is about 25 billion, and we need a lot of food!"

Louis Comte did not immediately refuse, but asked: "What is the food gap in the marginal world?"

With the internal intelligence support of ABCD, Thomas is quite aware of the current international food supply and demand situation:

"The gap in Latin America is not big. The Aztecs need about 2000 million tons of grain. ABCD can sell a batch of grain in North America to them at a low price."

"The food gap in Africa is currently being filled by the cheap food from the Homo sapiens company. We can only get a part of the market in the Abd Wad region and the Transvaal region."

Thomas paused, took a sip of water, and continued: "The key now is the West Asia region. We must find a way to squeeze out a batch of about 3000 million tons of grain to ensure that this place will not be bought by Homo sapiens."

"3000 tons?"

Everyone argued again.

After all, 3000 million tons of grain is not a small amount. If it was in the past, the four major forces would have a way to produce this amount of grain.

Now they have to be cautious, for fear that if the inventory is not enough for internal use, the problem will be serious.

After all, the homeland is their base, and the importance of the marginal world must be less than that of their homeland.

After weighing the pros and cons, they managed to scrape together 3000 million tons of grain and must stabilize the entire West Asia.

When it comes to West Asia, Thomas raised another more difficult question: "Everyone, the Mediterranean-Dead Sea-Red Sea Canal project, I think it should be suspended."

"Pause?" Master Feng thought for a while, then nodded: "Yes, I agree."

None of the parties had much opinion on this proposal.

Because there is no way to stop now.

The sea level is falling. Now continue to dig the Mediterranean-Dead Sea-Red Sea Canal. Even if it can be completed in the next few years, once the sea level drops by more than 10 meters, the canal will be directly abolished.

In fact, not only this canal, but also the two canals in Central America, the Ottoman Strait, and the Strait of Gibraltar are at risk of becoming land.

Think of the canal breaks in Central America.

Everyone started discussing in whispers.

In the absence of a way to reverse global cooling, the paralysis of these maritime transportation hubs is very likely to become a reality.

In order to deal with this crisis, they can only think of ways to increase some land railway transportation lines, as well as oil and gas pipeline projects in West Asia.

In addition, Lucia's oil and gas pipeline also plans to expand its scale.

Under the double squeeze of the Sapiens company and the sudden climate change, the major forces finally dare not compare themselves, but try to solve these crises.

However, just as they were discussing how to solve the problem.

Another crisis is quietly approaching.

Chapter 523 The peak period

The changes on the earth seem to have nothing to do with the universe.

In fact, the earth's atmospheric activity is closely related to solar activity, especially the number of sunspots.

On the orbit of Venus, Homo sapiens has deployed 12 solar activity monitoring satellites.

At this time, a large number of sunspots have been detected on the surface of the sun.

The headquarters of the Space Division is located in Ceylon.

At this time, in the solar monitoring office of his subordinate, Huang Xiancai, the head of the office, looked at the latest monitoring report, with a serious expression on his face: "Has it reached the peak of solar activity again?"

Researcher Wu Sigong didn't pay too much attention: "14 years have passed since the last 11 years of solar activity peak, and solar activity takes 11 years as a cycle."

"Old Wu, what did the Institute of Meteorology find?"

Wu Sigong replied with a smile: "This year the sun radiates heat to the earth and increases, but this matter is mixed."

"The results of the climate simulation came out?" Huang Xiancai seemed to understand the situation of the Institute of Meteorology.

"Yes, it was just updated yesterday, and the temperature in the middle and low latitudes will be higher this year." Wu Sigong spread his hands.

"It seems that the situation is not optimistic!" Huang Xiancai had already thought of the problem.

It seems that the arrival of the peak of the solar cycle activity has led to an increase in the heat received by the sun from the sun, which can delay global cooling.

But in fact, the situation is not as simple as imagined.

For example, in the history of mankind, there have been a few decades of Little Ice Age. Obviously, during this Little Ice Age, there will definitely be a peak solar activity, but this did not cause the Little Ice Age to subside.

In addition, in the long geological period, there have also been ice ages that lasted hundreds of years, thousands of years, or even hundreds of millions of years.

Obviously, solar cycle activity is not the core factor that determines the appearance of ice ages.

Huang Xiancai used his authority to check the latest simulation results of the Climate Research Institute. After reading more than a dozen reports, he has only one adjective for the atmospheric climate activities in the next few years: extreme.

The tropics are hotter, and the frigid zones are colder, with alternating hot and cold in the middle, mixed with changes.

The Institute of Ocean Currents, which specializes in studying the North Atlantic warm current, also came to a conclusion that a sudden increase in temperature in a short period of time will lead to further confusion in a series of ocean currents such as the North Atlantic warm current.

Just when Huang Xiancai was thinking about how to report the recent sunspots.

A researcher hurried in: "Director, Researcher Wu, the solar flare erupted just now, and our T7 satellite in the orbit of Venus was seriously disturbed."

"Solar flare? What level?" Wu Sigong asked quickly.

"At least X2 level."

Huang Xiancai was surprised: "Have you notified other departments?"

"I will notify you as soon as possible."

"That's good." Huang Xian breathed a sigh of relief.

However, Wu Sigong's expression showed no signs of relaxation: "X-class solar flares erupted, which is a sign that solar activity has entered a peak period. There will definitely be no fewer flares in the next period of time."

"The satellites designed by the company are relatively solid, so the problem should not be serious. Many large satellites have artificial magnetic field systems that can resist the solar wind." Huang Xiancai is still very confident in the company's technology and products.

Wu Sigong shook his head: "I'm not worried about the company's satellites, I'm worried about those half buckets of water."

"Over there?" Hearing this, Huang Xiancai also came to his senses.

"Especially Musk's Starlink satellites, do you think those shoddy small communication satellites can withstand the dense solar wind?" Wu Sigong is not optimistic about Starlink satellites.

At this time, the entire headquarters of the Space Division became very busy.

This time, the solar storm emitted by the eruption of the solar flare happened to be facing the direction of the earth, and part of the light waves had already reached the earth-moon system.

Homo sapiens space station in mid-level orbit.

At this time, 36 superconducting magnetic field generators have been activated, and a large part of the electric energy inside the entire space station is supplied to the magnetic field generators.

Although it is not as strong as the earth's magnetic field, it is short and compact. After all, the radius of the Homo sapiens space station is only 500 meters.

Inside the core cabin of the space station.

The person in charge, Bai Muxi, looked at the feedback data from the 12 surrounding satellites, turned his head and said: "Gaoqiao, prepare to activate the spare communication module."

Takahashi Toru, the communication equipment manager, nodded: "Got it."

next second.

woo woo woo...

A shrill siren sounded throughout the interior of the space station.

The invisible solar storm, carrying a large number of helium-3 particles, high-energy neutrons and high-energy rays, arrived at the Homo sapiens space station one after another.

The charged particles are blocked by the magnetic field shield, and there is an obvious trajectory deviation.

The uncharged high-energy neutrons and high-energy rays drive straight in and directly hit the thick composite lead plate protective layer and radiation reflection layer of the space station.

Even with such a strong protection, there are still a small number of high-energy neutrons that can penetrate the protective layer and enter some cabins.

Fortunately, all the astronauts were wearing heavy spacesuits and bio-based armor at this time, and these high-energy neutrons did not affect the astronauts.

However, a small number of devices are still not immune.

Takahashi Toruichi quickly checked the operation of the communication modules and found that three of them had failed, so he immediately activated the spare communication module.

"Earth headquarters urgently announces, all institutions stationed in outer space, please report the current situation according to the prescribed procedures..."

As soon as the communication module returned to normal, they received a broadcast from Earth headquarters.

"Gaoqiao, reply to the headquarters according to the procedure." Bai Muxi ordered.

"OK."

Bai Muxi hurriedly led the others to conduct a comprehensive physical examination on the space station, first to determine the faulty module, and then to prepare for maintenance.

And the ground-linked new International Space Station in low-Earth orbit.

Although due to the protection of the earth's magnetic field, the intensity of the solar storm here is not one-tenth that of the Homo sapiens space station.

The problem is that the protection capability of the ground-linked space station is not one-tenth of that of the Homo sapiens space station.

After all, the rich Homo sapiens company can equip the space station with a thick lead plate composite layer, and the ground link is too cost-effective, so naturally it will not waste the payload on the lead plate.

Therefore, the ground-linked space station with insufficient defense was directly paralyzed by a quarter of the equipment by the solar storm.

Inside the ground-linked space station, eight astronauts were caught off guard by a sudden solar storm.

Especially the solar panel power supply module, in this solar storm, nearly half of the solar panels failed.

Zhang Ming, the captain of the Earth-linked space station, made a decisive decision: "Immediately report our situation to the Earth headquarters and ask them to quickly formulate an emergency plan."

The correspondent Owen didn't dare to neglect, and quickly started the communication equipment, and then his face changed:

"Damn it! The communication system is down..."

"Start the backup." Zhang Ming's palms were sweating.

Owen, who was buried in his work, was also sweating profusely on his forehead. After trying for a few minutes, he finally found a spare communication device that could be used.

He felt a little dry, and subconsciously licked his lips: "Hoo hoo... connected!"

Lianhe also responded quickly.