Do you want to send it? Because there is a bounty notice inside Base X. As long as whoever can be the first to discover the otherworldly energy signal, then they can be rewarded with 500,000 Eagle Yuan (personal income tax is at their own expense).

"Fred, the two of us are going to send it! 250,000 yuan per person!" Raymond jumped to his feet excitedly: "Hahahaha! I can change to a good car." BMW Z4 I'm coming!"

Raymond was excited, but Fred said coldly, "I found it alone." ”

"Huh?" Raymond stopped cheering in celebration.

"I said I found it alone. While I'm working hard, you're playing minesweeper. Don't look at me like that, I've just taken a video of you playing Minesweeper and passed it on to the personnel department. Fred said, "So, 500,000 is mine." And you're going to be fired for fishing!"

"You ......" Raymond never thought that Fred, who he thought was a good friend, would actually denounce himself for 250,000 eagle dollars.

"Fred, you'll get your retribution!"

Fred wiped the lenses of his black-rimmed glasses: "But I have at least half a million, and I still have a job." As for you, Mr. Raymond, you'd better go online and look for other jobs. ”

Raymond: .................. "FUCK, Son -of-a-bitch!"

Raymond is gone, very fast. Dr. Coleman didn't like him in the first place, because this guy gossiped around his back. I just haven't been able to find a suitable reason to fire him. And now that it's time to play minesweeping, it's the best excuse for dismissal, and you don't have to pay severance pay for such a dismissal.

Raymond packed his things that night, and early the next morning Raymond was bused to the nearest city. It is a small city called Star City, with a population of about 10,000 people. The city has three lively main thoroughfares. Every fifteenth year of the year, there will be a lot of people on the main road in the center of the street to set up stalls to sell things, and it is convenient to live here for shopping!

Raymond looked at the city and looked at the city's car schedules. There is only one long-distance bus to the big city a day. He could only whisper, "Fred, you slut." I curse you not to die well!"

"Congratulations Fred, you have made an outstanding contribution to our team over the course of a year. I did my best to discover the signals of the other world and prove that my research direction was not wrong. Fred, who was cursed by Raymond, is receiving the honor and cheers he deserves inside the base.

Standing in the largest conference room in the base, all the middle and high-level scientific research personnel and middle- and high-level military personnel were applauding and cheering for him.

Dr. Coleman handed Fred a check representing $500,000.

Dr. Coleman was relieved that he was really doomed if he didn't make a difference. Fortunately, there is no end to the road, and just when he already felt that he was going to be finished, Fred found a signal from the other world.

This saved me, and I finally didn't have to worry about my salary being cut. Whether it is the military or the chaebols, they learned the news for the first time, and everyone was very happy. So the award of half a million dollars came down quickly.

As the world's largest capitalist country, Eagle Country is relatively good at money, after all, 500,000 Eagle Yuan is not a lot.

And Fred is also experiencing the highlight of his life. Although it is said that 500,000 eagle dollars have to pay a lot of taxes, but they can also leave a lot, and they can finally buy a house in full. Ah, no, not in full. Because mortgages are tax deductible. You have to calculate which is more cost-effective, tax deduction or interest.

At noon on the day Raymond was sent away, representatives of the military and chaebol couldn't wait to come to the research room.

"Can you open the door to the otherworld?" said the representative of the chaebol, a man in a tailored suit, gold-rimmed glasses, and a standard Wall Street elite in London-accented English.

Fred didn't like this elitist style, and he guessed that this guy might have graduated from Harvard or Yale or Brown, and maybe went to study at London or King's. Stuff of pretentiousness. Fred despised it in his heart.

But Dr. Coleman did not dare to snub the elite from Wall Street. Because he knew that the one in front of him was the representative of the gold master's father.

That's right, Base X was indeed built by some pouting great. But that great man is now in prison Tu Ma Yinglong, and he can't manage the current X base.

Because now the military's enemy, Capitol Hill, is getting stronger and stronger, and the censorship is getting stricter. As a result, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the military to move money.

Many of these organizations are invested by large chaebols.

It seems inconceivable to the Chinese people on the other side of the ocean, why can such a national weapon allow private companies to participate in shares and even occupy a dominant position?

But this is not uncommon in the Eagle Country, where the state wants to do something, in most cases, it does not form a department to do it itself, but gives money and then outsources it to the enterprise.

Including the manufacture of aircraft, the production of weapons, the maintenance of nuclear warheads, the maintenance of aircraft carriers and nuclear submarines, and so on, all these things are done by private companies. There are also various consulting services, and sometimes even audit work is entrusted to private companies.

So it's not a big deal at all to have chaebols involved in such a big project. And the chaebol itself is the group that cares most about whether it can open up the other world.

Because as long as a slightly lower world is opened, such as a world where productivity is a hundred years behind the earth, or a low-martial world in those low-martial worlds, then capital and guns can make the Eagle Kingdom make a lot of money.

The representative of the chaebol, this Martin with gold-rimmed glasses, he couldn't wait to ask: "When can the door to the other world be opened?!"

"It's up to us to determine the energy of this otherworld. Judging by the energy that is currently overflowing, this world should be a lower world. Although he doesn't like the Wall Street elite, Fred says, "But we need more samples." Determine the energy level of that world. ”

"How long will it take?" Martin turned to look at Fred.

Fred calculated: "At least three months." ”

"Huh?!" Martin turned to look at Coleman, "Doctor, you told me I had a breakthrough and I just came here." It's going to take you three months to find out? I think you're wasting your time! There are 10 days left in January, and the new year's earnings are coming out. We don't have that much time to waste. ”

"Our shareholders are waiting for an uplifting piece of news so they don't protest. They don't think that the billions of yuan we invested last year were wasted. Do you understand?"

Martin has Martin's demands, capital is never something that anyone can easily control, and neither can capitalists. Because there are countless greedy hands under the capitalists pushing them forward. Huge capital has never been something that a single individual can control, and the huge capital is a terrible alienated monster to a certain extent, and only the power of the country can wrestle with this monster.

But what about when the power of the state and the alienated capital are on the same line?

The representative of the military, Miloch, took off his brigadier general's hat and played with it: "Doctor, in the new year, our supreme leader has been successfully re-elected. He needs good news to cement his position. He needed good news in his New Year's address that would be uplifting. ”

Brigadier Miloch doesn't need to say much, the pressure is enough.

Miloch doesn't know science, but he understands politics. Martin doesn't understand scientific research, but he understands capital. Coleman understands science, but he is trapped in capital (salary) and politics (position).

He knew that if he did not satisfy the representatives of capital and politics, then his capital and politics would be doomed.

So he and Fred whispered for a long time, and the two of them argued in a low voice for a long time, before Coleman looked up and said, "Gentlemen, we can try to open a small door, a very small one." Send a dozen advance team members in, let them explore the way first, and determine the world over there. ”

"If there's danger, we'll close the gates of the Otherworld. If it's safe, we can go on bigger expeditions. What do you think about the fact that we're going to hand over the results as well?" Dr. Coleman offered a compromise.

Martin and Miloch looked at each other, and it seemed that there was no better way to do it at the moment.

Only Fred, who had just received a reward of 500,000 Eagle Dollars, secretly said in his heart: Crazy! Dr. Coleman is crazy to secure his position. Didn't he know how terrible the uncertain world was? It looks like I'm going to take a leave of absence in the afternoon, and I'm definitely not going to come back! 500,000 Eagle dollars is enough for me to spend for a while.