Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Great Project
Zhang Cheng: "What, the Anthropocene realm is about to be destroyed. So what are you waiting for, hurry up and contact me with the allies of the M78 Nebula. ”
Woman in Black: "I'm not kidding you. ”
Zhang Cheng: "I'm not joking with you, dear." You're trying to find a way to stop humanity from destroying it. ”
Woman in Black: "What we're doing now is this, summoning the nation's prophets, psychics, psychics, exorcists, and metaphysical masters to find a way to solve this incident."
With the current frequency of the appearance of the stink monster and the rate of population growth, the level of the U.S. Army can still support two years and five months in Lake Soldton, and if this matter is reported to the international community, the conventional military strength of the entire world can stop it for about five years. This is based on the current rate of growth in the frequency of Stink Monster attacks.
And that's not the worst-case scenario. ”
Zhang Cheng: "This is not the worst-case scenario, what is it?" ”
Woman in Black: "In fact, in the past five years, there have been at least fifty or more sporadic attacks by these stinky monsters against humans and domestic animals in various parts of the world. But the chief of staff of the U.S. Army colonel stationed at Soldton Lake said he could guarantee with the honor of a soldier that not a single stink had escaped from here in seven years.
In other words, it is very likely that this stinky monster can come to the Earth World Realm from other places. It's just that the conditions of Salton Lake may be better, and there are more frequent and more frequent visits. ”
Zhang Cheng: "So we're going to share the earth with this stinky monster?" To be honest, how dangerous is it for all of this stinky monster to run out? ”
Woman in Black: "It's not clear, scientists don't know how many of these creatures reproduce and what their habitat is. It can be seen that ordinary thermal weapons can kill this kind of stink monster in the same way that they kill beasts and humans. But at least it wasn't any less threatening to humanity than the Black Death in the Middle Ages, and it wasn't much less than the Spanish flu that ended World War I. ”
Zhang Cheng: "It's a pity that this creature doesn't have high-value fur, and its flesh and blood are also highly poisonous, right, otherwise, it would not be an invasive species, but a species that will be invaded." Do the five hooligans know about this? ”
"NATO members have a briefing, and China and Russia have had sporadic attacks within their own borders."
"Let me think about it."
Zhang Cheng thought for a while and felt that this could not be done by an individual. Too little information is now available: "Is this animal an amphibian crawling out of the water?" ”
Woman in Black: "This has already been analyzed. Although they have always crawled out of water, the stinking monster has a much heavier musculoskeletal structure than humans, and can only crawl underwater. That's why some people think that they are not terrestrial creatures.
Because there is a large stomach pouch, the lung capacity is not very large. Without air underwater, you can suffocate for a few minutes. There are two conditions that must be met in areas where they occur more frequently. Heavily polluted water sources, low altitudes.
After studying some of their habits, scientists submitted a proposal a year ago. Waters from the Pacific Ocean are pumped into Lake Salton in the form of an artificial canal. Change the current situation of the negative altitude and high water pollution of Salton Lake, but the project is too big, and it will take 130 kilometers to dig an artificial canal from the sea.
But this project is longer than the Panama Canal. It can't be done without five or six years, and what we can't afford to wait for now is time. So now I just did the mapping and surveying work and then stopped. ”
Zhang Cheng: "It takes five or six years to dig a small canal of more than 100 kilometers, and the people on it are stupid." No matter how you look at it, two years is a long time. ”
Woman in Black: "The local natural environment is mostly the wilderness of California, and there are not many excavation companies that are qualified and willing to do this work, and we also need to consider whether the workers are willing to do it, and whether the union will support them to strike......
Zhang Cheng: "Your mind is really different from our structure, what qualifications do you care about at this time, of course, it is to gather hundreds of thousands of workers, develop crowd tactics, and get the canal out first." ”
Woman in Black: "There aren't so many machines. It will take a year or two for the excavation machines for these hundreds of thousands of people to be built, and our original plan was to use 5,000 people, of whom 1,800 will be responsible for the excavation work, and the rest will provide them with logistics services. ”
"What kind of machinery is used. Have you ever heard of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal? It's all dug up by manpower. I'm talking about letting these people dig with manpower, with shovels. ”
The woman in black searched the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal on the Internet, and then exclaimed: "More than a thousand kilometers, how is this possible." 9 times the Suez Canal and 22 times the Panama Canal. ”
Zhang Cheng: "It's hard for me to confirm the authenticity of your Chinese ancestry right now, let me tell you this, without Chinese, the United States doesn't have any Western Railroad and the Panama Canal in Central America at all."
I figured it out that the Americans were never meant to do big things. Forget it, it's useless to say these things, anyway, the immigration bureau can't agree to transport 100,000 foreign laborers to dig the canal. ”
The woman in black muttered to herself: "Of course one hundred thousand is impossible. ”
The woman in black turned around and asked, "I heard that Chinese workers are the most hard-working, how far can they go?" ”
Zhang Cheng thought about the workers who renovated his home and said: "If you take care of the meal at noon, you don't have to pay overtime for working 12 hours a day." But drinking tea and smoking are the responsibility of the hired party. ”
The woman in black's jaw was about to fall to the ground: "I'm special! How much do you pay them? Don't unions care? ”
Zhang Cheng: "At the current exchange rate, it is about $20 a day, and even if it has risen in the past few years, the daily salary will not exceed $35." What's wrong? What's the matter with the union? They are voluntary, and this price is also set by them. ”
The woman in black asked, "What if, I mean, if I hire them to work in the U.S. at the minimum hourly wage in the U.S., so they can at least triple their earnings?" Will they come? ”
Zhang Cheng sighed: "Dear, it's impossible." Because they have land at home, they can only come out to look for work when the farm is not working, is it possible that they have to fly back to farm when the farm is busy? You think too much, unless you are willing to let them immigrate here. ”
Woman in Black: "How much land do you have to divide to attract workers?" Listen to me say that it is impossible to emigrate a million, however, it is still possible to emigrate tens of thousands. In this way, we only need talents who can drive excavators and buy tens of thousands of excavators from excavator factories in the world. Even during the period of waiting for the arrival of the excavator, train them to drive the excavator, and I still know this kind of thing when Chinese Americans learn things quickly. ”
"Five acres of land is definitely a very attractive amount." Five acres is 30 acres of land, which is naturally very attractive in a country where more than half of the population is agricultural.
Woman in Black: "If you want me to say, a few acres of land is not worth mechanized farming. ”
"In fact, they don't even have a few acres of land in the country, but they use mechanized farming all the same, and the answer is renting."
The woman in black gave a review: "Micro farm." I'll talk to the above about this, as long as I can get the canal right, it's nothing. ”
In the United States, the bigger the farm, the better, anyway, there are so many workers who work after mechanization, according to the Chinese language, a sheep is also herded, and a flock of sheep is also driven. Labor in the United States is expensive, and the operating cost of a relatively small farm is high, so the farm of more than 50 acres of leaves is not a small piece in China.
But in the U.S., farms with less than 200 acres are considered small, and even if your farm reaches 200 or 300 acres, it's only small and medium-sized farms. It is not bad to operate a small farm under great pressure and not lose money, and if you want to make money, you can only engage in special operations or grow high-value cash crops.
At this time, the woman in black opened a video in the second USB flash drive: "Show you something good." ”
The picture came out, and it was still a running stinky monster, but the stink monster was attracted to run by the bloody fresh flesh entrails tied to the armored car of the remote-controlled toy, until the stink monsters reached a thorn bush......
This kind of thorn Zhang Cheng is very familiar, if there is no accident, it is an improved product grown from the devil vine fruit sold to the woman in black last year.
The fate of the stink monster is naturally to be entangled by the devil vine and suck it alive, but the strange thing is that the toxin of the devil vine did not succeed in anesthetizing the stink monster, and the stink monster has been struggling to damage a lot of the devil vine vines before swallowing his breath. Fortunately, the devil's vine has always won by quantity, and when one is broken, two or three are entangled.
The Devil Vine also began to become half-dead after absorbing the poisonous flesh of the Stinky Monster, and eventually withered and died after leaving a thumb-sized fruit in the camera.
The woman in black said, "It is said that this is the fifth generation of devil vines cultivated by experts. However, the seeds left behind after absorbing the poisonous flesh of the stink monster were still too small to germinate. There are still disadvantages to this thing, that is, like you said, they can't walk, they are trap plants, they can only be planted and carefully cared for for a period of time, and then find a way to lure the prey over. However, this is already the only plant we've found that can damage the Stinkfish. (To be continued......)