May 20 is Ye Quan's 27th birthday, and he was once again picked up by the global media.

The reason is that the annual list of various richest people has been released again, and Ye Quan's wealth this year has more than tripled compared with last year, becoming the new richest Chinese and the richest man in Asia with 72 billion US dollars, and ranking fourth on the world's richest list.

And people are not surprised by this, this result was expected as early as last year when Ye Quan ascended to the throne of the richest man in the mainland.

According to this upward momentum, Ye Quan will undoubtedly become the new richest man in the world next year.

Although he did not show his face publicly, as the largest shareholder of the four major groups, Ye Quan also appeared on the list of the world's most powerful people for the first time, and ranked 11th.

This ranking is also a matter of course.

You must know that at this time, the four major groups have extended their tentacles to all aspects of human life, not just private enterprises.

Those Fortune 500 companies in the fields of banking, energy, real estate, insurance, Internet, and communications may be able to compete with the four major groups in terms of sales and market value, but they are beyond the reach of real appeal and influence.

Taken together, it has surpassed all enterprises and become the most influential enterprise group in the world.

If it weren't for Ye Quan's refusal to show up and his behavior being too low-key, many people even thought that Ye Quan could rank in the top four of the world's power list, second only to the heads of state of the three major powers.

Of course, there are also many people who think that Ye Quan, who is too young, is just a puppet with no power, otherwise it would be too much to say.

Guan Yong, Ye Zhong, Lingxi and Yu Jiajing, the heads of the four major groups. has also appeared on the world's most powerful list. They are ranked 18th, 28th, 53rd and 91st.

They have too many irreplaceable scientific and technological resources in their hands. They are the most cutting-edge technologies in various fields of this era, such as nuclear fusion, seawater desalination, super alloys, etc.

These technologies represent the four major groups that control the lifeblood of related industries, and even the governments of large countries have to look at their faces.

Therefore, the influence of the controllers of the four major blocs is in no way inferior to that of the head of a country.

Ye Guang relied on the dictatorship of the Hualong Kingdom and the super combat power of the Black Dragon Army to defeat the coalition army, ranking 6th on the power list.

George, chairman of the Genesis Group? Smith has also been in the thick of things over the years. The group is involved in more than 10 important industries such as finance, energy, intelligent technology, biology, medicine and materials, and all of them have made achievements, ranking 17th this time, one position higher than Guan Yong.

Of course, there is no specific measurement standard for the list of powerful people, and the ranking makes everyone look at it lively, or have a reference in mind, which is really not fair and just.

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On the 29th, a huge tragedy happened.

In the Atlantic Ocean, a large cruise ship of more than 100,000 tons carrying nearly 4,000 tourists and crew. While driving, he was suddenly attacked by a giant octopus monster.

At last. Under the attack of the sea monster, the cruise ship sank to the bottom of the sea with thousands of tourists and staff, and only more than 300 survivors survived, and the whole scene was horrific.

This is not an unexpected shipwreck on the Titanic, nor is it a 911 terrorist attack.

It was a bloody massacre of humanity by an unknown creature, and the whole process took less than 30 minutes, and the cruise ship sank before other ships could receive a distress signal.

As soon as the news spread, it immediately shocked the whole world, and almost everyone threw away what they were doing and began to pay attention to the progress of the incident.

In fact, as early as the beginning of the year, a trawler was attacked and sunk by a giant sea monster somewhere in the Pacific Ocean.

Due to the suddenness of the incident, the fishing boat sank extremely quickly, and the fisherman on board did not know the specific cause when he sent the distress signal.

No crew survived, the accident site was in the deep sea, and the people who carried out the search and rescue work thought that the ship was very likely to hit an iceberg and sank, so the countries did not care.

Only one Sky Eye satellite happened to monitor this sea area at that time, and recorded the scene at that time.

Since April and May, the number of sea monsters attacking ships has increased and has gradually become known to various countries.

According to the statistics of the International Maritime Organization of the United Nations, in the first half of this year, at least 40 large and small ships were wrecked in various sea areas due to attacks by unknown creatures.

When the octopus sea monster attacked the cruise ship, many terrifying images were filmed, and the video went viral on the Internet, causing even more panic to people around the world.

This giant sea monster resembles the deep-sea devil in the movie "Extreme Cold", with dozens of tentacles, each with a large mouth full of dense teeth at the top, which burrows into the walkway and cabin, devouring tourists everywhere.

When the monster attacked, only the tentacles were exposed to the sea, and the body was hidden under the boat, and according to the videos taken at the scene and the descriptions of the surviving tourists, marine life experts from various countries had different opinions, and no one could convince anyone.

Some say that the monster is an alien creature, some say that it is a prehistoric creature, and some believe that it is a mutated king squid or giant spear squid, or even a giant sea anemone.

There are even more discussions on the Internet, and there are various theories, but the most common one is "North Sea Monster".

Because this giant sea monster is too similar to the North Sea monster, it is huge, with tentacles nearly 300 meters long, and its weight is difficult to estimate, but at least more than 200 tons.

The North Sea Monster is a giant sea monster in Norse mythology, which is recorded to be at least 150 meters long, and usually lies on the bottom of the sea, occasionally surfacing to the surface.

Legend has it that when the North Sea Monster surfaced, some sailors would mistake its body for an island, and even climb the "island" and set up camp on it, only to be buried at the bottom of the ocean when it sank.

The North Sea Monster has huge tentacles and is infinitely powerful, allowing it to capture giant ships to the bottom of the sea.

In Norse mythology, the North Sea Monsters are calamity-like monsters that will surface when the end of the world comes.

With such a huge and terrifying monster, it is certain that the people will panic, and even more so the crew, fishermen and others who are begging for a living at sea, because once encountered, human beings have no power to resist.

Before this monster was gone, many people in the Atlantic coastal area did not dare to go to sea by boat.

The maritime transport industry and fishing industry in the Atlantic Ocean have been greatly affected by this.

Ocean transportation is the most economical mode of transportation, and international shipping is the most important mode of transportation in international trade, accounting for more than two-thirds of the total international trade volume.

For example, 87% of Xinhuaguo's international trade is transported by sea transport.

In today's globalization, once there is a crisis in international shipping, the import and export industries of various countries will be in trouble, and the Atlantic coastal countries are worried about this.

Other coastal countries are not easy, because there is already evidence that sea monsters have appeared in various seas and attacks, but they are not as terrifying and ferocious as the North Sea Monsters.

Lijianguo and several countries with strong naval forces in the European Union have sent warships and submarines to the area where the incident occurred to conduct a large-scale search, but half a month has passed and nothing has been found, and the octopus sea monster seems to come from hell.

Ye Quan was naturally also concerned about this matter, but beyond the deep sea realm of a hundred meters, the Skynet monitoring system could not do anything.

In order to deal with sea monsters, Ye Quan has begun to build a marine monitoring network, using deep-sea bases, mining submarines and marine aircraft to form a tightly distributed network, which is expected to monitor movements in all sea areas within two or three years.

In the past six months, the Crystal Palace base has searched the global sea area and successively captured three sea monsters identified as having alien genes.

The appearance of these three sea monsters is completely different from the black turtle lizard and the "North Sea Monster", all of them are strange, ugly and fierce, and it is difficult to describe.

But in terms of predatory ability, survival ability, etc., it is not weak at all, once it eats enough, the growth rate is extremely fast, and the fierce marine creatures such as sharks on the earth are simply weak compared to one.

The Crystal Palace base gathers many experts who have achieved success in the field of biology and conducts various researches in the hope of finding out the weaknesses of these sea monsters and how to eliminate them.

Ye Quan has his own research methods, and he has drawn two pieces of news from these alien sea monsters, one bad and one good.

The bad news is that he can't communicate or even control the sea monster with his abilities.

If the object is an earth creature, Ye Quan can communicate with animals and even plants, even if it is a ferocious beast, it will be as good as a cat in front of Ye Quan, but these are useless to the sea monster, and the information transmitted to Ye Quan by the other party is full of killing and tyranny, and there is hardly any reason at all.

The good news is that these strange beasts and monsters are extremely useful to Ye Quan.

Although their blood is corrosive and their flesh is poisonous, they are not edible at all, but they contain a lot of psionic energy.

Ye Quan tried to throw one of them into the psionic space to decompose it, and found that the psionic value obtained was more than a hundred times more than that of an animal of the same weight!

Of course, this refers to a living monster, and once it dies, there is not much psionic energy left. (To be continued......)