Chapter 554 Go
Despite the brutal behavior of Sapiens, the free world chose to swallow its anger.
But that doesn't mean they just let it go.
In order to prevent the expansion of the offshore scientific research platform of the Homo Sapiens Company, they also hurriedly mobilized ships, especially old-fashioned offshore drilling platforms, and placed them next to the offshore scientific research platform of the Homo Sapiens Company, and then used this as a base to start land reclamation.
The two sides were like playing Go, chasing and blocking each other in coastal waters of various places.
The Coral Construction Group, which was deliberately looking for trouble, also competed with the four major forces in production capacity and engineering strength on the shallow sea shelf.
In addition to several shipping lanes, both sides have built several offshore platforms off the coast of New York, and they are all close to each other. The distance between the two nearest platforms is less than 10 meters.
Anyway, it's the high seas, and anyone can set up an offshore platform here.
The huge platform deliberately named Outer New York Research Station has now expanded to an area of 12.3 square kilometers. It is like a huge fortress blocking the gate of New York Harbor, making the Hilltop City Council extremely frustrated.
At the New York Research Station.
Cortes, who had just got off work, was having a barbecue with several colleagues on a platform 100 meters above the sea.
Not far away, about 68 meters away on the sea, there is an offshore drilling platform, which is an old equipment that is close to being eliminated.
The dozen or so American soldiers stationed there were also eating, but the food there was much shabbyer.
After all, these drilling platforms were pulled here in a hurry, and some weapons had to be installed on them, which resulted in obviously insufficient .
Several American soldiers stood on a makeshift observation tower, holding binoculars and observing the situation on the opposite side from time to time.
In February, the temperature off the coast of New York was below zero, without the blessing of the North Atlantic Current.
The leaky lookout tower could not block the cold wind at all. Several soldiers had to wear heavy coats and shivered with cold.
"Fuck! Those bastards are eating barbecue."
"Come, have a drink." An older sergeant with a big beard handed a can of rum to the lookout.
The lookout hesitated: "It's not good to drink on duty, right?"
"What are you afraid of? Don't take it too seriously." The bearded sergeant didn't care. "Don't you know what's going on? The old man is having a good time with the girl, and we're just sitting here in the cold wind."
"..." The young lookout was silent for a moment, then took the can and took a sip of rum: "Huh...comfortable!"
"Come, have some beef jerky." The bearded man handed over another bag of beef jerky.
The two of them drank and ate meat on the observation deck.
On the opposite platform, Cortes and others who were grilling put a large box of synthetic steaks that had just been airlifted in on the big grill and sprinkled black pepper and salt on it.
I also cooked a big pot of cream of mushroom soup and grilled vegetables.
The aroma of barbecue wafts in the sea breeze.
The fragrance was also smelled on the US military drilling platform not far away.
"It smells so good! The Homo Sapiens company is really rich!" The lookout took a bite of the dry beef jerky.
The bearded man leaned against the window and spread his hands with a smile: "America has money too, but it's a pity that it's not ours. We can't use those coffee machines that cost tens of thousands of dollars each."
Suddenly the lookout looked around and whispered, "Kev, I heard that many people from Texas secretly ran to Aztec. Isn't your hometown in Texas?"
"What? Do you have any ideas?" The bearded man took the bottle and took a sip.
"Haha, brother, don't you have any ideas?" The lookout asked with a smile.
The bearded man did not deny it and took another sip of rum: "Many people who came from Central America before have left one after another. I feel there is no hope for the future of America."
The lookout felt the same way. He had witnessed with his own eyes the rapid expansion of the offshore platform of the Sapiens Company over the past few days.
With America's almost half-broken industrial chain at this time, if it were not for the Europa Union and Seris supplying some products, it would have collapsed long ago.
After all, there is too much water in the American economy.
After the crazy money printing, GDP barely recovered to the scale of 25 trillion US dollars last year.
It’s a pity that America’s GDP is just a look.
Even though the scale of industrial production in North America has increased significantly after the passage of the Industrial Revitalization Act, the Plastics Crisis, the Military-Industrial Restructuring Plan, and the Climate Response Plan, the proportion of domestic industry in GDP in America is only 18.3%.
The core of America is still the tertiary industry, with the service industry accounting for 67.5%.
This is an extremely distorted economic structure.
The industrial scale is less than 60% of Seris, let alone being comparable to Sapiens. After all, the industrial scale of Sapiens is about 24 times that of Seris and about 40 times that of America.
If you add up the entire free world, its industrial size is still less than one-tenth of that of Homo sapiens.
Doesn't the Hilltop Council know the importance of industry? They know it very well.
The problem is that America is already in a state of disarray. Financial services, medical services, legal services, and accounting services in the tertiary industry are core industries.
This is the real livelihood of the millions of canal workers.
There are more than 600,000 certified public accountants and more than 1.2 million registered lawyers in America, as well as a large number of financial practitioners. All of them are middle class or slightly wealthy.
These people are also the core components of the lackeys of the Hilltop City Council.
Even if the major families on the Hilltop City Council are determined to revitalize the industry, they can only make adjustments step by step.
The problem is that Sapiens Inc. and global cooling don’t give us time!
Ordinary people are extremely disappointed with the current situation in America.
Including ordinary soldiers of the US military, they are essentially a group of mercenaries. Mercenaries are okay when the wind is favorable, but once they encounter an unfavorable situation, it is easy to expose their nature of being a group of scattered sand.
The Bearded Man and the Lookout had no intention of fighting desperately with the Sapiens Company for America and the free world.
Now the two of them are thinking about how to retire early and then go to Central America to join the Homo Sapiens Company.
Seeing that the America was a broken ship that was already leaking, the shipowner was powerless, the senior executives were just sitting there doing nothing, and the middle management not only did not try to plug the leaks, but were desperately digging the ship and nailing down the wood.
As an ordinary sailor, what do you think?
And now there happens to be a nuclear-powered spaceship next door, and the owner of the other ship is offering very good recruitment conditions to ordinary sailors.
Is there any need to think about it?
Change jobs directly.
Even if I have to swim across holding on to a lifebuoy, it is better than waiting to die on this rotten ship America.
This is what the Bearded Man and the Lookout are thinking now.
It's just a few thousand dollars a month, why are you risking your life for it?
As the Sapiens Company pressed forward step by step and pushed its full-power branch to the Aztec region, many people within America had begun to get restless.
Especially in the states bordering the Aztecs, many people left their cars and houses behind and went to work for Homo sapiens companies.
The unusually extreme weather, coupled with the genetically modified corn allergy incident at the end of last year, forced many people to flee.
The people in the free world have lost their morale, and those millions of Celestial Dragons, plus their lackeys, are unable to stop ordinary people from changing their minds.
After all, it is really difficult to ask these guys to give up their wealth and superiority. The greed of human nature makes it impossible for them to spit out the meat they have eaten .
