Chapter 266 The Calm Before the Storm
22 years, March 3rd.
America.
Columbus, Georgia.
In a store selling wilderness survival equipment, the owner, Paul Columbus, is a typical Latin American. His family immigrated from Brazil last year.
He sat down at the counter and cleaned his revolver.
Suddenly the door was pushed open, and a dusty young man walked in: "Hello, Columbus, how are you doing recently?"
"Edward, aren't you going to Florida to look for treasure from a shipwreck?" Columbus put down his revolver and took out a bottle of beer from the refrigerator.
Edward yelled with a tired look on his face, "I want a Coke."
Columbus threw a bottle of Coke over.
[Urgent?]
Edward opened the bottle cap and took a sip: [The Hilltop City Council held a meeting at Mellon Manor in Orlando City at noon yesterday. There is urgent intelligence.]
"You still owe me $200, when will you pay me back? [First level? Or second level?]"
Edward scratched his head in embarrassment. "I didn't find the treasure from the shipwreck, but I recently found an Aztec treasure. [Level 1, America decided to launch a war against Honsavadi in May-June, and discussed a plan to divide the war.]"
"Haha, pay back the money! [Intelligence transfer.]" Columbus stretched out his hand.
Edward showed a trace of pain on his face, and then he took out a pocket watch from his pocket: "This watch is left with you. I will come to redeem it next month. Don't sell it. [The specific information is inside.]"
"It's just a small broken watch. Just this once." Columbus took the gold-plated pocket watch with disdain.
Edward took another sip of Coke: [By the way, I also found another piece of information during their conversation. Thomas Morgan seems to be doubting the boss's identity. He thinks the boss is a superhuman.]
Columbus, who was putting his gold-plated pocket watch into a drawer, used pheromones to ask, "How did he find out? "
[It seems that because the technology of Luzon and Hongsavadi is developing too fast, Thomas has become suspicious. Should we find an opportunity to kill him? ]
"Have you finished drinking? Then get out of here! [Don't make things complicated. If you kill him, the other members of the Morgan family are still here. It will be too obvious if you kill them all together.]" Columbus rolled his eyes.
Edward spread his hands: "OK, bye!"
Columbus was soon the only one left in the store. He did not act rashly but continued watching TV and drinking beer.
Due to the recent frequent activities of the Columbus Oaks, the FBI has increased its surveillance of Hispanics, especially recent immigrants like Columbus.
Even though he immigrated here through investment, the FBI still did not let down their guard and installed many eavesdropping devices in his shop and home.
As usual, it was five o'clock in the evening when Columbus closed the door and returned to his villa in the suburbs.
Back home in the suburbs.
As soon as he opened the door, he saw the meal prepared on the dining table.
After dinner, he took his wife Hannah into the bathroom, and after a simple and in-depth conversation, he quietly passed the data to Hannah.
After taking a shower, Hannah went to the glass greenhouse on the roof to check the vegetables and flowers, and also collected some honey.
Half an hour later.
Located in the mountains about 3 kilometers away from Columbus Villa.
Hidden in the crown of a towering tree is a huge beehive, and the temperature of the hive begins to show slight changes.
at the same time.
A satellite in low-Earth orbit at an altitude of 632 kilometers is over Georgia. The satellite belongs to the Honsavadi Space Strategy Department.
Currently, the Hongsavadi Space Strategy Department has a total of 16 artificial satellites, all of which were recently launched using the Longram cannon.
Among these satellites, 6 are communication satellites and 10 are magnetic field monitoring satellites.
Soon the satellite detected a "magnetic field signal point" near the city of Columbus and was feeding back magnetic field signals.
It took 5 minutes to complete the information transmission of the magnetic field signal.
…
Hongsavadi.
Base of Mount Benpa, Kachin State.
Chen Jianxiong appeared here in a hurry. He took the Phoenix passenger plane of Aoba Airlines this morning, flew from Colombo Airport in Ceylon to Mandalay Airport in Hongsavady, and then rushed to the Benpa Mountain Base without stopping.
Inside the base's confidential meeting room.
Chen Jianxiong handed over a storage headset: "Boss! This is an urgent report sent by the head of the North American region this morning."
Seeing Chen Jianxiong so anxious, Li Qingye guessed the importance of this information. He picked up the headphone storage device and inserted it into his ears.
After a while, he opened his eyes, smiled and shook his head: "The robbers finally couldn't bear it anymore."
Li Qingye had actually anticipated the arrival of this day. He knew the bandit gang in the Mountaintop City too well.
The new technologies that emerged in Hongsawadi and Luzon, as well as the gold standard and food production, all threatened their world hegemony.
After discovering that conventional means cannot be used to resolve the issues in Hongsawadi and Luzon, the bandits here will definitely resort to war.
"Boss, do we need to deter in advance?"
Li Qingye smiled and shook his head: "It's still early. Aren't they planning to charge us with a crime by the end of April? Then we will respond to them by the end of April."
"I understand." Chen Jianxiong nodded.
Li Qingye asked one more question: "How is things going in Java?"
"It's going very smoothly. We have controlled many areas." Chen Jianxiong answered as he took out a tablet and called up a holographic map.
From the map, we can see the control of Sapiens Company in various parts of Java. The darker the area, the stronger the control of Sapiens Company, while the green area means there is no control.
On the holographic map, South Borneo, Java, has been penetrated to 92%, and Sumatra has also reached 83%.
Western New Guinea followed closely behind, with 77% of the area under control.
Sulawesi is 57% and Rugu Islands is 52%.
The number on Java Island is relatively small, with only 28% of the area controlled, but about 47% of the population of Java Island is under control.
This so-called population control does not mean directly becoming a new human being or being recruited as an employee by a subsidiary of the Homo Sapiens Company.
Instead, they controlled villages, plantations, small companies and families through intelligence agents, converts and soldiers, thus forming a network of relationships.
"Speed up the layout of Java and make Java one of our members by the end of April. Is that ok?"
Chen Jianxiong immediately replied: "No problem, I guarantee to complete the task."
Li Qingye glanced at the holographic map and said, " Huh? East Timor is also under the control of the Field Affairs Department?"
"Yes, we convinced them just last month," Chen Jianxiong replied with a smile.
Li Qingye didn't say anything about this. After all, in such a small place, as long as the Intelligent Company was willing, the other party would not be able to resist at all.
After listening to Chen Jianxiong's report, Li Qingye did not continue to stay at the Benpa Mountain Base, but chose to fly back to Luzon.
He didn't take planes before because Boeing and Airbus planes had back doors. Now that he has his own planes, he naturally doesn't have to worry too much.
What's more, the Phoenix aircraft he took was a specially modified version. Even if an accident occurred, it could land safely on the nearby sea or land.
Therefore, Li Qingye returned to Luzon in a low-key manner on a private plane.
He needs to make some arrangements in advance for the next mutation to avoid being in a hurry when the time comes.
