Chapter 429: Utilitarian Thoughts

The scientists Manlu and Trist, along with a few adventurers who had come with them, were sent to the edge of the sea where they had first approached the security of Octopus Island, and they found themselves in a labyrinth of sorts, always spinning around in circles.

It seems that there is an invisible barrier blocking them, so that they cannot leave smoothly.

These people thought that this should be the situation that the old king of Octopus Island had said, but Manlu swore that he had a way to leave, and these people could only count on Manlu after many failed attempts.

Manru didn't live up to expectations.

Under his command, without the help of navigation instruments and other malfunctioning electronic equipment, Manlu made the ship continue to accelerate under his command by calculating the latitude and longitude, coupled with the interference of magnetic field strength and gravity, and then successfully broke through the invisible barrier and left the sea in one fell swoop.

When the ship sailed out of the mysterious sea, the ship's electronic system returned to normal function, and the moment it was confirmed through the GPS positioning and navigation system that they had really left the uncharted sea and were able to call to get in touch with their families, everyone on board cheered.

This also means that their thrilling journey has come to an end for the time being.

But for the likes of Manlu and Trist, the journey was not easy.

They hadn't thought about the sensational effect that would be caused by the exposure of the light to the world, an island hidden in that sea area that has been inhabited by humans and isolated for hundreds of years.

And when they return to this peaceful modern age, they can't help but think that the island is so large, and the human beings on it have low living standards, backward scientific and technological levels, and sparse population. What kind of changes will occur once they come into contact with this modern and advanced civilization?

However, they even thought about what kind of attitude all the countries in the world would have after that octopus island was exposed to the whole world, and would they launch an invasion of that island whose armed forces were also extremely backward for the sake of their own national interests, or even seek to seize that large island?

Think about it. The outcome does not seem to be very unpredictable.

Lu Man was a pacifist, but he was very worried that the aggressive country of the United States would do something extremely unfavorable to the island and its poor people.

After all, if you want to calculate the latitude and longitude range of that sea area, that mysterious sea area is in the center of the Pacific island chain bordering the Naha Islands and Southeast Asian islands, and it is not very far from the Hawaiian Islands in the United States.

Its Pacific strategic deployment to the United States, for the island chain blockade line customized by China, that sea area has a vital strategic position, and at the same time, it can easily become a place with East Asia and South Asia. As well as the central hub of China's maritime trade, it also has a very important economic and strategic position.

It was precisely because of the sensitive location of the islands in that area that Manru worried that if they exposed the secret of a large island in this area, it would cause many changes that they could not have predicted.

So, Manlu discussed this issue privately with Trist.

Although Trist is a native of the United States and lives in California, he is also a pacifist, and after hearing Manlu's analysis, Trist felt that it was impossible to keep this matter secret. Because of the fact that there are many people who have experienced this incident and landed on that octopus island and left. It's not just the two of them.

What the other people on this boat will think, and whether they will disclose this news to the media or some countries as soon as possible, this is also something they can not predict and guarantee.

So after the two of them had discussed, Trist thought that they should first go and help the old king deliver the letter and fulfill their promise. As for the reaction of those countries to the letter, this is not something that Manlu and Trist could have predicted.

Thereupon. After two days.

When these people who had experienced the adventures of the uncharted sea came to shore in the United States of Hawaii, the group of people went their separate ways.

After Manlu and Trist disembarked, they simply called their families to say they were safe, and then they boarded a plane in Hawaii, where they planned to make their first stop in China.

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And just as Manlu and Trist were on a plane to China. The adventurers who returned with them also began their own plans to make a fortune.

The group was led by the Irishman Ketra, and after they got off the ship, they discussed a plan to hide the news of the uncharted sea and Octopus Island for the time being.

They plan to lease a freighter in Hawaii, and after several people partner up to set up a company quickly, they will take out all their savings and purchase materials in various places, and strive to make large-scale transactions with the island as soon as the news is known by the countries of the world and exposed by the media, in exchange for antique collectibles and gold that make them very hot there, or all kinds of mineral resources.

After several people finalized the plan and division of labor, Kaitra directly withdrew 10 million meters of gold from the bank as start-up capital, and several of them went their separate ways, and flew to various places to buy relatively cheap food and all kinds of materials, they naturally wanted to be the first to eat crabs and make a fortune.

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But unlike the adventurers like Ketra, the group of people who had traveled with them on the same boat had other ideas when they returned.

Like Zeldo, a young and powerful black man who had learned boxing, he was also a crew member on the ship, hired by Trist.

After the ship arrived in Hawaii, Trist, although he paid Zeldor twice as much as he was paid, was not satisfied with what he had experienced on Octopus Island.

It's just that he doesn't have the financial acumen to think about how to make a lot of money from the island's resources, but he has the news of the island, and he thinks that the media and newspapers will be very interested in this news.

After all, a large island hidden in the depths of the ocean and never discovered by humans is enough to cause a sensation and widespread attention to the whole of human beings, and Zeldo believes that those big newspapers and media will never spare money to buy this big news.

Thinking of this, Zeldo picked up the phone when he arrived in the city. called the newsroom of the New York Economic Times, which he usually likes to watch and thinks is quite well-known in the whole country.

It's just that Zeldo's call to the newspaper office didn't seem to go well, after all, this is not entertainment gossip news that can be made up, nor is it ordinary social news that can be visited at any time to collect evidence.

While the explosive and focused attention provided by Zeldo can also lead to a huge increase in newspaper sales. They need big news that brings profits.

However, this is different from other social news, this is a big news that will attract international attention, and his clue newspaper must ensure authenticity and seriousness, and it needs to personally visit and collect evidence, and can only publish it after obtaining first-hand real news clues, otherwise the newspaper will not dare to buy it rashly and publish it.

The larger the media and newspapers, the more cautious they are.

After Zeldo ran into a wall at the newspaper, he was paid handsomely, but he demanded that Zeldo bring their reporters there to get clues and first-hand news materials.

But Zeldo managed to close it from that seat for more than a hundred years. He returned safely on the island where the savages lived, but now he had to take the reporters of the newspaper to collect evidence, so he was unwilling to do so.

So Zeldo gave up the newspaper and went to the editorial office of another Wharton Post, which he thought was a media that was biased towards current political news, and must have been more interested in this kind of news.

To Zeldo's surprise, the media was very interested after hearing his brief account of the Izvestia. He also said that he wanted to interview him face-to-face and conduct a special interview with him. And the promised reward was also three times that of the previous one.

That's 300,000 meters of gold.

After making an appointment with the other party for the interview and meeting, Zeldo hung up the phone and looked very excited, so he ordered the most expensive coffee at the appointed place and sat down and waited.

It's just that after waiting for about two hours, Zeldo waited for two people who looked like reporters. They identified Zeldo as soon as they met him.

And after Zeldo's identity was confirmed, to Zelddo's surprise and surprise, what he was waiting for was not a news feature interview and a high honorarium, but a sudden attack and arrest.

Zeldo struggled violently to ask who the other party was and why he was attacking and capturing him.

And after the other party said the three words 'CIA'. Zeldo was completely stunned, did not dare to resist anymore, and was honestly taken away.

He still couldn't figure it out, he had only been off the ship for less than two or three hours, how did the CIA know this news so quickly?

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As the saying goes, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and the CIA is an intelligence organization and a very sensitive agency, and it is very easy for them to obtain some important information and clues.

It can be said that since Manru's group of people came out of that sea, in addition to scientists such as Manlu and Trist, people like the adventurers led by Ketra have the greedy idea of keeping the island a secret and eating crabs to make a lot of money.

Although Zeldo has different ideas from Ketra and others, his practice of selling news leads to news organizations is naturally for short-term self-interest.

Of course, these are all things that utilitarians are doing.

And among this group of people, there are also a few people who think differently from others, they love to perform, and they like to show their unique side on the Internet.

So what these people did was to use their mobile phones to surf the Internet, write a blog post about their adventures in that uncharted sea, and share it with their friends on the Internet.

Regardless of whether what they have experienced is true or not, when their friends see such a fun and interesting thing, they will naturally reply to the message.

And some people even directly reposted this blog post and shared it with more people.

As a result, these messages began to spread on the Internet, and because of the focus and interest, as well as various factors, these blog posts quickly attracted more people's attention.

Because of the mystery of that sea area, and the fact that there is a large island in that closed sea area, and there is a poor and backward feudal civilization country on top of the island, these contents may only seem novel and interesting to ordinary people.

However, for some important figures in politics, after seeing the content of these news, it stimulated their sensitive nerves, especially the people of the United States.

As a result, the CIA got the news for the first time, and at the same time, they also traced the identity information and information of Xia Manlu and other people, and also found out that they recently went to sea, mysteriously disappeared for 24 hours, and then reappeared in the GPS positioning query system of satellite ocean monitoring.

This was clearly an anomaly, and the CIA became vigilant and began to intensify its investigation into the incident.

Then they received a phone call from a media outlet mentioning that one of the people who had provided them with news was one of the main members of the adventure.

So the CIA quickly launched an operation and took the lead in the arrest of Zeldo.

Since then, the blog post published on the Internet has been forcibly deleted, not to mention, those who reprinted the blog post have also received warning messages, and at the same time, the person who actually published the blog post, and also experienced that overseas adventure, was secretly arrested by the military intelligence department.

However, the composition of Manlu's group is not all Chinese, for example, the adventurer Ketra is Irish, Dr. Manlu is English, and the others are from different places.

Because they organized a spontaneous expedition to the sea, they were all friends from all over the world, and after they returned, they went back to their own homes.

And after these people go back, they will naturally share their adventurous personal experiences with their relatives and friends, so that this news will not go away and become known to more and more people.

The people of the United States can control the network monitoring of their country and will delete relevant news in time, but this is a country that flaunts freedom of discussion, and they can block the news content of those mainstream websites and media, but they can't block the mouths of websites and media in other places.

After that, these news began to circulate again, and such news was also circulating on the Internet in various countries around the world, and the media that discovered these news quickly found the person concerned for an interview.

Therefore, when the news media in some countries pursued the breaking point of big events and big news, they tried their best to investigate and interview the relevant news about the octopus island that had experienced the adventure at that time and discovered the secluded Octopus Island for hundreds of years.

And as these media reported the news content related to the isolated island, many media also followed suit and began to report this major event, so that the news began to spread like the wind, quickly spread to the whole world, and at the same time brought huge waves and sensations to the whole world. (To be continued......)