Chapter 460 Black Ball

The Republic of California is a region that became independent not long ago in 2066. The country is completely controlled by capital and is nicknamed the Blue Freedom Golden Country, and even nicknamed the "California Giant Enterprise".

Rather than being a country, it is better to say that it is a super business alliance.

They use all kinds of money, from RMB to US dollars to their own new banknotes. Any legal banknotes can be used here.

The depression and reconstruction after the war completely eroded this area with capital.

Every department in the country is controlled by one or more companies. The military is completely managed by arms dealers and security companies, and undertakes all military orders including national defense and weapons research and development.

The Ministry of Energy is undoubtedly controlled by the group that produces electricity, and land resources are planned by real estate companies.

In fact, the division of national departments is more detailed, and it is completely contracted by subsidiaries. In the end, the whole constitutes a huge group, which is also a national entity.

Except for national taxes, nothing is state-owned, and personal property is protected to the extreme.

And this kind of enterprise that fully contracts national public affairs is called a state-owned enterprise. There are a total of 142 companies, each of which is responsible for 50 national departments of varying sizes.

The state's orders are their orders, and the state's projects are their projects.

Of course, they can also apportion the state's orders to other non-state-owned enterprises.

These chaebols have exchanged a large number of votes from the people of the country with equity. Almost all the people enjoy the dividends of one or more state-owned enterprises. But on the other hand, if the people suffer too much economic loss, they will also lose a large number of votes, and then their power will be replaced by other enterprises.

This is a country that openly exchanges money for votes.

Even the national bank is a private bank. In theory, the bank can print any pattern on the banknotes... as long as it passes the shareholders' meeting.

The most famous example of demonstrating the power of capital is...

After the technology was made public, all the old energy companies transformed. At one time, there were several energy companies that used controlled nuclear fusion to produce electricity, competing in the energy market, and they jointly controlled the national energy.

Until the "Mobil" company made a shocking deal and bought the "20 yuan" banknote pattern from the national bank for 1.45 billion RMB for 30 years.

The National Bank accepted the deal and launched a new California banknote with the Mobil logo printed on it, creating the most cost-effective advertising case in history.

Mobil became an energy giant, and it took thirty years to stand out and suppress other energy companies.

While Mobil made huge profits from banknote advertising, other denominations of banknotes were also bought by other companies.

They were one dollar, five dollars, ten dollars, and fifty dollars.

As for the one hundred dollar, it is not sold yet. It is said that the price has been hyped up, or it will never be sold.

Now, with Mobil, the five major "golden dollar companies" have become the five most deeply rooted business giants in California, and also political giants.

One of the companies, called "Tino", dominates the Canadian aerospace field, has several factories on the moon, and has as many as twenty spacecrafts traveling between the earth and the moon every month.

On August 3, 2098, the Heineken transport ship was returning, only a few hundred kilometers away from the outer atmosphere.

The reason for this name is that Tiannuo sold the naming rights of the transport spacecraft to Heineken.

The surface of the spacecraft was painted with an extremely eye-catching large trademark... and in other inconspicuous places, there were also many sponsors' advertisements, making the entire spacecraft look particularly strange.

"Ah... there is a signal, what? The stock price of 'Slippery Toys' has fallen so much?" A curly-haired astronaut finally received a signal on a radio when the spacecraft approached the earth.

Another elderly man shook his head and laughed: "I told you not to buy risky stocks in heaven. There are only working channels on the moon. Look, you only know that it has been three days since the limit down."

The curly-haired astronaut sighed and calculated how much money he had lost in this wave of investment.

The elderly smiled, turned on the camera outside the cabin, looked at the blue planet on the screen, and said: "Look, how beautiful the earth is, if you have money, go out and travel, now the transportation is so convenient."

The curly-haired astronaut also stared at the earth blankly. Every time he came back, he could feel a sense of peace in his heart when he saw the earth.

Compared with the desolate and depressing moon that makes people crazy, the earth is really beautiful.

"Boom!" The cabin suddenly trembled.

The radio receiver in the curly-haired astronaut's hand suddenly flew out of his hand and hit the cabin wall above his head, and several parts exploded immediately.

Those parts flew in the weightless cabin and ejected everywhere.

The two hurriedly put on their helmets, and before they had time to clean up the mess, they saw the entire spacecraft began to flip over, because the earth on the camera was rotating abnormally.

"What's going on? What did we hit?"

"According to the pressure, the left side was hit, but the collision was very minor and did not tear the outer deck."

"Why didn't the radar give any warning?"

"Don't worry about it for now, stabilize the spacecraft immediately."

The two quickly checked the damage to the hull. Fortunately, it was not serious. Through the side chemical rocket propulsion, they quickly curbed the rotation and readjusted the return orbit.

"Open the left observation mirror and see what it is!" The curly-haired astronaut said while picking up the broken parts.

"I have been traveling this route for ten years without any problems! Whose spaceship threw garbage and left it on the route?" the elder said angrily.

He did not think it was a meteorite for such a slight bump, but probably some garbage that hit it.

But when he turned on the camera, he saw a black object behind him on the left. It seemed very large and he could not see what it was. After bumping them, it quickly zoomed away.

"Play the video!"

Through the playback, it can be seen that a few minutes ago, nothing could be seen in the vast space, only the sun was shining from behind.

Just as their spaceship was returning, a black sphere with a diameter of about ten meters suddenly appeared and descended from the air, hitting the big 'Heineken Beer' logo on their port side.

Because the spaceship was moving at high speed and suddenly hit it, it immediately spun out of control.

But this is just a small problem. The problem is what the black ball is!

It is a pure black sphere without a trace of impurities. Electromagnetic waves cannot tell what it is at all, and thermal detection is completely blocked by darkness.

"Oh my God, it really appeared out of thin air, a new Chinese spaceship?" the curly-haired astronaut said in horror.

"Keep an eye on it! I'll contact the ground immediately!"

The elder had been transporting the Earth and the Moon for ten years, but he had never experienced such a thing. Just as he was about to return, a pure black spherical unit without any exposed thrusters, any light source, or any signal suddenly appeared next to the spaceship, which was simply terrifying.

Especially if the position of the black ball was slightly off, they would not have hit it, but would have hit it.

At this speed, as long as it was not made of paper, the spaceship would be damaged or even torn.

"Tiannuo! Tiannuo! This is the Heineken! We encountered a return accident, and an unidentified object appeared on the route!"

As he spoke, he transmitted the video back to the surface.

At the same time, the curly-haired astronaut suddenly shouted: "It moved! It moved! There is a high-energy reaction!"

I saw bursts of light suddenly appear on the side and back of the black sphere. Electromagnetic detection showed that it was a high-energy plasma energy impact, but this impact did not have any trajectory. I don't know where it came from, and it appeared directly on the surface of the black ball.

The black ball was propelled and accelerated to chase them.

However, the speed was not very fast, about a little slower than them, and it was always behind the transport ship.

And the path was very strange, sometimes the orbit deviated away from them, and sometimes it rushed back with acceleration, anyway, it was hanging around this transport ship.

After the images here were transmitted to the surface, the navigation station of Tiannuo Company was confused. The senior management first condemned China, and then began to study this black ball that was generally heading towards the earth.

"It's too strange, there is no reaction process at all, and the energy is also exploded out of thin air. What kind of propulsion is this?"

"No reactants can be detected. This energy is directly generated. It's impossible. There must be a device to make it? Can't we see that device?"

"It's impossible that it can't be detected at all. China's technology is so much ahead?"

"No, no, it's totally wrong! China does not admit that it owns this flying object and requires us to disclose the images of the Heineken beer."

Not only California was alarmed, but all countries with aerospace development capabilities have received feedback images one after another.

No one admitted that this was their aircraft, and this thing didn't look like a normal aircraft.

There was no engine, the mass was extremely low, and even no heat could be detected.

"Is this an alien spaceship?"

"Its propulsion method is too weird. On the surface, it looks like traditional chemical rocket propulsion, but the form is completely different."

"Did you notice that the energy on its surface was directly exploded, which means that there are devices that we can't observe that are bombarding it with high energy."

Tiannuo's senior executives asked: "What does this mean?"

The scientist's facial features were almost squeezed together, and he said with difficulty: "I don't know... I can't even detect heat, I can only think it's dark matter..."

Tiannuo's senior executives were sweating coldly, and said in a deep voice: "Have you tried to establish contact?"

If it was just a black ball, they could think it was some kind of natural substance, but this black ball was swaying left and right near the spacecraft, and it could only be considered artificially controlled.

"We tried it, and I don't know if the black ball received our electromagnetic waves. Anyway, we didn't have any feedback." The scientist said.

The senior executive's scalp was numb, but he didn't know what to do.

Not only him, but all the weapons of all countries in the world have locked onto the thing that has entered the outer atmosphere, but no one dares to "fire a shot".

China's cruise aircraft in the near-Earth satellite orbit and the outer atmosphere have all evacuated, and only one has approached the black ball.

In response, the black ball did not react at all, squeezing the air and whistling into the inner atmosphere.

Under close observation, it can be seen that it is a pure black sphere without any color.

After several high-energy explosions on the surface and adjusting the orbit, it has now completely entered a free fall state, crashing into California like a meteorite without any deceleration.

"It's coming towards us... It's intentional."

"It doesn't even slow down. Is this a weapon? A missile?"

"Should we intercept it?"

Canadian senior officials discussed for a long time, but did not issue an interception order. When they calculated that the landing point would be the sea outside Los Angeles, they finally chose to let it hit.

"Whoosh..."

Outside Angel Beach in Los Angeles, a black sphere fell rapidly from a distance and slanted into the sea.

It can be seen that there is only a small yacht in the sea area that is about to hit, and a woman seems to be fishing in the sea.

At this time, it is impossible to remind the woman, and it is too late to remind her.

"May God bless her..." The senior executive who observed this scene murmured, and he was more concerned about what the black ball was.

"Boom!" The black ball slammed into the sea.

The huge waves were instantly lifted up and spread around, and the small yacht was instantly overturned and submerged.

"Send a ship to salvage immediately! Be careful! Don't stop the call."

"No... wait a minute, what is that?"

I saw that the collision site was covered with a white mist within a radius of one kilometer, and the clouds rolled to form a larger sphere, and a hemispherical cloud cover appeared above the sea.

The spreading waves were covered by clouds before they could reach the shore, and they were all blocked.

Outside the cloud, the sea was calm, as if the inside and outside were isolated.

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P.S.: Sorry. I originally planned to write about the political system there, but after writing one chapter, I found that it was not right, so I deleted it. Anyway, you can imagine the political situation in the world there.