Chapter 18 The History of Palother (Part 2)
Tom immediately laughed.
Immediately afterwards, he continued to speak, but it was just a straightforward one.
In addition to the "big explosion in the old industrial area", there have been two major events in Palower in recent years.
The first one was five years ago.
A mineral vein was accidentally discovered on the outskirts of Palother. It was a rare mineral used in precision instrument manufacturing and various engineering scenarios, and was worth a lot of money.
So, under the instruction of Jade Pharmaceuticals, the local coalition government began to invite bids——
After several rounds of bidding, the giant company [Southern Region Heavy Industry] had already obtained the right to develop and was planning to When the mine started to be built, another giant company [Time Series] suddenly stepped in.
While they put pressure on the local coalition government to postpone the announcement of the bidding results, they brazenly deployed a group of armed units and severely damaged the branch of Nanyu Heavy Industry in Paloser.
Due to various competitions and history in the past, these two giant companies have had a long-standing grudge. This is even just a simple revenge.
Of course, Southern Region Heavy Industries would not give up. It urgently mobilized a group of armed forces and transferred them to Paloser. Before they even officially entered the city, they fought a battle with the ambush troops of Time Sequence Pass on the wasteland.
Immediately after entering the city.
The two families started a formal exchange of fire, fighting from the suburbs to the city, and from the city to the suburbs. Streets were razed to the ground one after another. Various vicious network viruses proliferated and were released indiscriminately. Terrifying thermal weapons were easily incinerated. Buildings, batch after batch of drone swarms took off, bombing indiscriminately under the command of the intelligent control network, and even fully armed high-level psychics came in to fight——
In those days , except for the central hall of the ruling center and the Baimen District where the rich gather, the rest of the city frequently experiences network crashes, water and electricity outages, and various artillery shells fall from time to time, burning themselves, their homes, and their surroundings to ashes.
It is said.
Just said.
When Nanyu Heavy Industry was about to use a low-dose "gravitational collapse bomb" to directly seal the victory, Jade Pharmaceutical finally couldn't help it anymore and came forward to mediate.
The process of mediation is unknown.
In short, the final result was that Southern Territory Heavy Industry obtained the right to develop the mineral veins, and Chronology Pass took a large amount of attendance fees funded by the local coalition government and withdrew from Paloser, declaring the end of this "small company war".
When talking about this, Tom's tone was filled with fear.
Even he himself couldn't tell whether he was behaving like this deliberately to gain sympathy and show weakness, or whether it was really coming from fear in his heart.
“Corporate war.”
Song Shi pondered for a moment.
As a native of Palowe, Song Shi had experienced that same period as Tom, so Song Shi had this memory.
But at that time, the original person spent most of his time hiding in welfare homes and air-raid shelters, and never went out much - after all, he was only twelve or thirteen years old at that time, and there was no pressure from company employees to attend work, and he did not have to bear the rain of bullets on his head. Go to work and clock in.
Some more in-depth information, such as the "gravitational collapse bomb", he only learned about it from Tom now.
When the star itself cannot provide enough pressure to balance its own gravity, and thus cannot continue to maintain the original hydrostatic equilibrium, the gravity pulls the stellar material closer to each other and causes collapse.
When it collapses to the limit, there is a certain probability of forming a "black hole".
This is the principle of the "gravitational collapse bomb", which is equivalent to man-made a small black hole. Even if the black hole collapses in an instant, the destructive power is still terrifying before the gravity that swallows everything.
If a large dose of "gravitational collapse bomb" were to target a city, even Song Shi at the peak of his previous life would find it very difficult. It would be okay to run by himself, but he would certainly not be able to stop the collapse.
It was planned to use a weapon of the level of "gravitational collapse bomb". At that time, Southern Region Heavy Industry was afraid that it would be really angry. This thing was beyond the scope of "small company war". No wonder Jade Pharmaceutical did not sit still and hurriedly intervened to mediate.
If it is really used, I am afraid that the small half of Palother, except the middle hall and the white door area, will be affected. As for the people in it.
Maybe future plans can be postponed a little.
After you regain your strength, why not kill the director of Southern Heavy Industry first, and then go to the Vampusta Empire to become the elector of World War II?
Song Shi was thinking in his mind, but he knocked on the table: "So, what about one more thing?"
Based on the memory of the original person, Song Shi had some guesses as to what this incident was, but he still wanted to hear the information from Tom's perspective.
“Hmm”
Tom thought for a while and chose his words carefully:
“I don’t know, have you ever heard of the “Enlightened One”?”
“Of course I’ve heard of it.”
Song Shi laughed: "Who among us doesn't know about those guys who are trying to overthrow the "corporate order" all day long?"
"But the enlightened person you want to talk about."
“Do you mean “resistance organization” or “extreme armed terrorists”?”
Tom felt his heart stopped for a beat.
But then, before he could speak, Song Shi clapped his hands: "It's okay, just kidding, keep talking."
This is not funny at all.
Tom groaned inwardly.
He did not want to express his opinions casually and get involved in the fight between these two behemoths.
“A year ago, Emerald Pharmaceuticals severely damaged the power of Enlightenment in Paloser. At that time, the execution video of the arrest of Enlightenment was posted everywhere on the Internet. If you search it now, you should still find it. It can be found.”
After thinking about it, Tom added:
"I heard - I just heard that the security director of the local Jade Pharmaceuticals planned and carried out the severe damage operation personally."
"The security director was transferred from another place two years ago. Yes, the method is quite powerful, and it can be said to be famous in Paloser now.”
“Anyway, at least since last year, I haven’t heard much about the actions of the “Enlightened One” in Paloser. , maybe the rumored "heavy damage" may be true. "
Three incidents.
The explosion in the old industrial area thirteen years ago, the small company war five years ago, and the Emerald Pharmaceuticals one year ago severely damaged the local Enlightenment.
"Hmm"
Song Shi digested the information. He was not surprised by the failure of the "Enlightened One".
This is the largest resistance organization in the [Enterprise Alliance], dedicated to overthrowing the "corporate order". He had some contacts in his previous life and made a few friends.
Fourteen years after this point in the previous life, the Enlightened Ones broke into the Sky Tower data center of the giant company [Zero Degree Network] and seized control of the [Proposed Strong Artificial Intelligence·Textile Machine]. A shocking incident shocked the world. In the war, he even accepted the employment of the Enlightened Ones, participated in it personally, and teamed up to shoot down a space carrier of [Zero Degree Network].
--but.
Due to the actual gap in control of resources, the Enlightened Ones are at a disadvantage most of the time in the overall situation.
Faced with practical problems such as equipment, personnel recruitment, logistics systems, supply bases, etc., the former cannot compete with the enterprise alliance that has a huge scientific research and industrial system.
At the same time, there is another crucial key point, that is, enlightened people talk about certain ethics, while companies are not moral at all.
As for the strong.
There are indeed several masters among the Enlightened Ones, especially their previous generation leaders. No, at this point in time, they should still be the current leaders.
[Balance] Path, the psyker at the pinnacle of the fifth ring, the strongest among the anti-corporate forces, and the undisputed current leader of the Enlightened Ones.
——[Rebel]·Chacoro.
Although Song Shi didn't want to admit the gap, when he thought about what the other party had shown during the several meetings in his previous life, he could only say that Chakoluo fell at the peak of the fifth ring, while he was the fourth. Died in battle at the peak of the ring.
But in this life.
That's hard to say.
Put aside these memories and cast your sights back to the present——
The Enlightened One and the Emerald Pharmaceutical, the two forces stationed in Palocene, the last duel ended in the defeat of the former. .
In other words, does the company still have the upper hand in the current situation in Paloser?
Now that I have faced off with Emerald Pharmaceutical, or in other words, Emerald Pharmaceutical’s subordinate research institute, maybe I can get in touch with the Enlighteners of Paloser?
Even without the influence of those friends from his previous life, he still had a good impression of the Enlightened One.
——After all, you can’t go and stick to corporate alliances, right?
As a free bounty hunter, in the battle to capture the "Strong Artificial Intelligence Textile Machine", Song Shi's employment offer to the Enlightenment was a super friendly price, almost half sold and half given away - the latter He also knew how to reciprocate favors. After the battle, Chakoro came forward in person and personally gave him a very rare psychic skill suitable for Song Shi.
Thinking in his heart, Song Shiming's expression remained unchanged.
"I say Jack. My friend, that's all I know."
Tom tried his best to keep his voice soft and looked at the person in front of him: "I don't know, are you satisfied?"
"Look at what you said, friends should help each other, how can there be any satisfaction? Not satisfied?”
Hearing this, Song Shi laughed, but soon put away his smile.
"I judge your identity as a psyker for two reasons."
Song Shi raised two fingers and shook them: "The first is very simple, it's just intuition. The smell of consensus is too strong, I have had this feeling since you greeted me.”
"Straight, intuition? Taste?"
What the hell kind of explanation is this? !
Tom was stunned and couldn't help but wonder if this person was playing tricks on him.
"Intuition is intuition, or explain it in words you can accept. You can also replace "intuition" with "experience", but it is the same thing."
Song Shi was stunned. He spread his hands and said: "I can't help you with this, but I can give you some advice on the second reason."
".Second, what is the reason?"
"The consensus path is a spiritual path that goes deep into the spiritual world. Therefore, before the third ring, the "brain" is the absolute core. Mastering it at this stage Most of the psychic skills also use the brain as the basis for release. "
"Therefore, the psychic energy contained in the brain of a middle-to-lower psyker on the Consensus Path far exceeds that of others. location."
"This is determined by the actual situation."
"--"
At this moment, Song Shi is like a teacher who teaches step by step, patiently educating ignorant students on science.
"We are now a "substitute program". We are in the network domain, not in reality."
Song Shi pointed at himself and then at the other party, emphasizing:
"In this case, your spiritual energy release no longer needs to rely so much on the "brain" and can be more arbitrary."
"But due to habit problems, or path dependence, your spiritual energy is still The subconscious focus is on the head, even if there is only the "brain" in your imagination, it is too obvious."
——Actually, there was one sentence that Song Shi did not say.
Although psychic energy can also be detected in [Network Domain], the difficulty is obviously much higher than reality.
If it weren’t for the intuition and experience brought by the peak of the fourth ring in the previous life, how could an ordinary first-level psychic see this? Even if Tom uses psychic powers in person, he may not be able to tell.
But there is no need to tell the other party.
“Is that so?”
Tom murmured softly, as if in great shock.
He wanted to refute, but when he subconsciously used his psychic powers, he understood that the other party was right.
"Learn to use psychic powers as you wish within the network domain. It will reduce the possibility of identity exposure, and it will also be beneficial to your ability to control reality."
Looking at Tom who was lost in thought, Song Consciousness stood up.
Seeing this, Tom reacted and quickly stood up.
"This is a little trick, but it's up to you whether you use it or not."
After that, Song Shi pushed the door open and walked out, leaving only a somewhat confused Tom.
(End of this chapter)