What will a planet that has just been invaded by a powerful alien civilization and whose defenses were destroyed with almost no resistance do after suddenly receiving sufficient financial and technical support?
The answer, of course, is to use all our strength to develop the military.
Under the huge security anxiety, numerous developed countries that previously relied on the financial industry, service industry and a few high-tech value-added industries to support their economies have begun to rapidly transform into the heavy industries they abandoned.
Even if they cannot directly develop in all aspects like the three most dominant countries in the People's Federation, they must at least undertake part of the supporting industries, obtain enough benefits from this drastic change, and ensure that they do not
will be reduced to the point of being dispensable.
Various huge projects that sound exaggerated are being launched one after another.
Whether it is the establishment of an orbital defense ring and spaceport around the earth, or the complete fortressization of the moon proposed by some scientists and military theory experts, ordinary people feel strongly that it is unreal.
It's as if the ambition and desire to explore the universe that dominated the world's two poles during the Cold War have suddenly returned.
But this time it's no longer competition within humanity, but unity and cooperation against threats from outer space.
After all, if we encounter a similar alien invasion next time, only those countries with important space industry capabilities will receive the greatest degree of protection.
In contrast, small countries with little sense of existence will disappear if they are gone.
This is just like if there is some unrest in a developed country and dozens or even a dozen people are killed, it will become a big news that causes an international sensation, and even the heads of governments of many countries need to come forward to express condolences.
But for poor and weak countries with frequent wars and no sense of existence, even if warlords and terrorists massacre hundreds or thousands of people in villages and towns, there may not even be rolling subtitles in the news.
If everyone has only one life and death, then naturally there will be no equality in a country composed of people.
Therefore, if you don’t want to become a victim, you can only sharpen your head and squeeze towards the upper reaches of the People’s Federation system. The closer to the upper level, the safer it is.
And those backward areas that have no industrial foundation at all and whose people have less than a few prenatal education graduates per capita have naturally become victims of this cruel knockout competition.
The top executives of the People's Federation pretended to allocate a large amount of cheap or even free food to them as compensation, and deliberately "raised pigs" in these extremely poor and backward areas, allowing local gangs and various criminal industries to flourish, and eventually became a universe similar to Warhammer.
A lawless place at the bottom of the hive world of the human empire.
By creating an environment, the residents of the area have to become shameless evil people in order to survive, and then continuously provide evil souls as currency.
Of course, as a way to win over the local ruling class, the Awami League provides legitimacy to the corrupt rule of these guys. Even if they are overthrown by bottom-up riots, they can take their wealth and family to a safe developed country to spend the rest of their lives.
As a saying goes, despicability is the passport of the despicable, and nobility is the epitaph of the noble.
If you want to be a conscientious person in a place full of villains, the price will most likely be the death of your family and your wife.
Whether you want to be a good person or a bad person often does not depend on yourself, but on the surrounding environment.
Just as Zuo Si expected, advanced technology and huge resources have not allowed the living standards of ordinary people to significantly improve on the earth in this universe. Instead, social problems have become increasingly serious, including militarism and polarization.
A small group of people began to become richer and richer, and held more and more power in their hands. However, more people were eliminated because they were unable to adapt to the leap-forward technological upgrades and could not find a decent job at all.
For example, middle-aged people who were still enjoying high salaries in Internet companies were mercilessly fired simply because they were unable to learn new programming languages.
What's even more terrible is that the development of artificial intelligence and fully automated mechanization has made many industries no longer need humans as a labor force.
Even many service industries can use drones and bionic machines to replace original people. Hundreds of millions of manual workers are discarded by capital like waste products and garbage.
The terrifying wave of unemployment has swept through countless countries like a mountain and a tsunami, and unemployed people wandering aimlessly can be seen everywhere on the streets.
In order to prevent these guys from causing trouble, the government has introduced policies to provide the most basic food, housing and medical security for free. At the same time, it has gone to great lengths to produce hallucinogenic addictive drugs without too many side effects for them to take, and to anesthetize them through various cheap electronic entertainment.
its spirit.
And as long as you are willing to have children, you can receive a pretty good subsidy.
Many idle couples even use it as a way to make a living.
Many large cities have begun to vaguely develop towards a cyberpunk style.
Facts have proven that without matching social systems and ideological progress, overly advanced technology will not only bring no benefits to ordinary people, but will instead become a terrible disaster.
Of course, the above situations are still in their infancy. Although they have caused concern among some sociologists who still have some conscience, they are soon drowned in the massive amount of explosive information.
After all, compared with the dazzling new technologies reported on the news every day, as well as the warlords, terrorists, Avengers and various superheroes who have obtained Chitauri weapons and equipment, boring social discussions are simply not enough.
Aroused too many people's interest and attention.
Especially after the government provided food, housing and medical security, many ordinary people who had suffered setbacks and lost their ideals chose to lie down and immersed themselves in the world of drugs and virtual networks, unable to extricate themselves.
Through this extremely low-cost method, the People's Federation has successfully resolved the violent social unrest that may be caused by mass unemployment, while also invisibly accelerating the differentiation of social classes.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Of course, none of the above has anything to do with Coulson.
Because since the establishment of the special response team, he has been so busy that he sleeps less than four hours a day, and almost all of his already thin hair has almost fallen out.
It is necessary to complete the commission of the Supreme Master Ancient One, to send those who have lived in Kama Taj home for a long time one by one, and then resettle them properly, and at the same time to put out fires around the world.
In particular, the hacker group calling itself "Rising Tide" somehow managed to take photos of several of them, and then published them on the Internet to compare with previous news.
As a result, their identities were exposed and they were frequently harassed, making it impossible for them to return to normal life.
Coulson was filled with disgust from the bottom of his heart for these bastards who invaded other people's privacy under the banner of so-called "freedom". He used the power of SHIELD to capture many people, and without saying a word, he performed a powerful memory recovery technique.
At the beginning, each of these guys acted quite tough, shouting about human rights, freedom of speech, and the need to see a lawyer, but within half an hour they all honestly explained everything they knew.
How arrogant they seemed before, now they are so cowardly, some even become incontinent, huddled in the corner of the cell with bruises and swollen faces, like frightened birds trembling uncontrollably.
joke!
Due to the long-term lack of sleep and the need to deal with too many things, Coulson is no longer the good old guy he usually is, but has become extremely irritable and irritable.
And he has no time to play word games with these selfish ghosts who engage in performance art.
What's more, according to the results of SHIELD's investigation, the Rising Tide organization's butt is not clean at all.
Maybe there are indeed many young people there who have invested a lot of time and energy for their naive ideals, but the senior executives who have control are secretly collecting dirty money.
However, because this organization also adopts a decentralized structure similar to the Harper Alliance, it is almost impossible to catch them all.
Even most members of the Rising Tide Organization don't know who the "comrades" sitting in front of the electronic screen fighting alongside them are and where they are at the moment.
"How about we ask who posted those photos on the Internet? Is anyone following us?"
Staring at the young man in the temporary detention room who was wearing only a pair of shorts and his face was covered with blood and was crying and begging for mercy, Colson, who had serious dark circles under his eyes, asked the question he was most concerned about.
"Sorry, sir, this guy is just an insignificant pawn like those before him. He doesn't know anything at all. He is just attracted by the slogans of the Rising Tide Organization."
Grant Ward wiped the blood on his fist and gave the answer with a helpless look.
This really cannot be blamed on his incompetence, or on SHIELD's incompetent network investigation and tracking capabilities. It is really because the Rising Tide organization has too many people.
Globally, it is conservatively estimated that there are at least hundreds of thousands of people, with more than 140,000 in North America alone.
When delivering information, they would go online at the same time at the agreed time, and then disappear collectively after delivering the information, which caused huge difficulties in the investigation and arrest work.
After all, maybe SHIELD can track and locate these targets at the same time, but if they want to catch them, they have to send out field agents.
Since all secrecy involving magic and supernatural powers is at least Level 6, the FBI and police must not be involved.
But the problem is that they don't have that many people at all, so naturally they can only randomly pick a few lucky people to try their luck.
So far, they have arrested more than a hundred people who were suspected of spreading the virus, but without exception, they were unable to answer any question.
Of course, the most important thing is that as the adopted son of the leader of Hydra, Grant Ward's real mission has never been to assist Coulson, but to keep an eye on the opponent and continuously send out intelligence.
As Alexander Pierce's plan to seize power officially enters the countdown, a huge web hidden in the shadows has been opened.
SHIELD, which has long been infiltrated into a sieve, is the hardest hit area, with more than half of its functional departments under the surveillance and control of Hydra.
"Damn it! Are we going to arrest them one by one like this? What if they find that fewer members of the organization are hiding?" Colson complained as he rubbed his swollen forehead.
Although he had long known that what he was accepting might be a difficult mess to deal with, he never expected that it would be so difficult to deal with.
Not to mention the man behind the pursuit of lost antimatter and the sale of energy weapons and Tao Gang armor on the black market, even the seemingly simple installation work has such huge flaws.
At this moment, Coulson finally realized how remarkable it was that Nick Fury, whom he had often complained about before, could sustain himself without any major problems for such a long time.
Just when Grant Ward was about to explain a few words, a voice suddenly came from the aircraft's internal communication equipment.
"Sir, the Rising Tide Organization has begun to collectively deliver information online again. Do you want to listen?"
"certainly!"
Colson answered in the affirmative without hesitation.
The next second...
A processed electronic synthesized sound began to reverberate throughout the aircraft.
The reason why this thing is called an aircraft instead of an airplane is mainly because its appearance is not similar to a traditional airplane at all, and it is not limited to flying in the atmosphere, but can also be used as a landing module or shuttle to travel to and from outer space.
To be continued...