Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Strings That Pull to the Extreme
"My name is Sean Brown and I am a legal employee of Nibro Biotech in China."
At 3:42 a.m. ET, a strange open letter was posted on an obscure account on a major social networking site — even before the CIA could react.
"My company has always been doing legal drug development and research on a global scale, but today my colleague Robert, a graduate of a prestigious university in China, was arrested while resting in a café, and for several hours we were under close surveillance and a ban on leaving the country. As for why he was arrested, the police in the capital did not give any form of answer to our questions and questions.
Most internet events have the same characteristic from the beginning, that is, the attention stagnates for a certain period of time until a certain turning point occurs.
It took almost an hour before a few well-known accounts that opposed the Huahe people and the power forwarded the open letter. And this o'clock is the active time on the other side of the ocean, and many netizens in the Far East and the Near East have personally commented on these accounts......
"Our goal is not excessive, what we hope is that Robert will be released. We spend most of our days together, even living in the same dorm. His arrest and our grounding have upset us all. We never imagined that this great civilization, which claims to be the most enlightened civilization in the Far East, would treat us like Gordonli.
The click-through rate grew in less than an hour at a non-wavering, linear rate. The major authoritative media began to wake up from the morning sun and publish news headlines approved by the CIA and the State Department overnight, and Pandora's box was completely opened and completely out of control.
Truth be told, though, those headlines are much more lenient than the tabloids and online media that follow. It is their most self-righteous influence that really causes irreparable consequences.
"China detains Chinese citizens without reason, and sources say it involves the study of immortality in another world" - Xinxiang Times
"Let Freedom Embrace Immortality" - Wall Street Journal
From the moment the headlines were published on the front page of the newspaper, the number of clicks on the letter, which had not been seen by newspaper editors and journalists who were good at chasing the wind, began to rise exponentially, with no looking back. On these online platforms, followers of the post will naturally be "proud" to add a link to the open letter in the comments section - because it will get a lot of likes, and that's it.
These newspapers naturally turned into a useful ammunition for the North American side in the tug-of-war in the imperial capital's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. But without smartphones and the Internet, the time in the room couldn't keep up with the rhythm outside. The real proliferation takes place on the flat and runaway web, not in print and television and in reality.
"I need to explain that we have never had the opportunity to access the so-called research materials, as we all know, their supercomputer center is in Tianjin, which is still far away from our Nibro Biotechnology headquarters in the imperial capital, and the imperial capital is not on the connection line between the portal and the supercomputer center at all, such a false accusation is completely unacceptable to us! There's a lot of people talking about it right now, and my colleagues and I are having a great time. I hope you guys"
At around seven o'clock EST, the publisher of the open letter made a second update, and the penultimate update. However, nowadays, almost everyone has focused on the keywords of "the study of the gods of the world" and "immortality". As for whether or not the employees of Nibro Biotech have stolen any secrets about this, probably no one cares anymore.
All people yearn for eternal life, but the vast majority ignore this:
For the sake of eternal life, they can even trample on the lives of others to move forward. Of course, the big chips are still watching from the wall, and the "smart guys" with the small chips are already tap-dancing on the stove in a hurry.
"Probably after the agreement between China and the United States is reached, the secret of immortality will be locked in a deeper trench. Will we still have time to incorporate into the North American Union and become the 51st state? Or should we go directly to 'Brexit and Asia' and become the sixth star of the Red Flag? Anonymous, 05/05 (water) 20:32
"I don't know, as they say, what kind of 'dirty Shiri-eye deal'. Ahh How could such a thing come to the fore? Do you really think that politicians are hopeless red deer? "Anonymous, 05/05 (water) 20:34
From the necessity of death, pushing a special, soup is not spicy to the Far East 2CH, FC2, and then to the same Chinese circle of what ghost island, PTT and the like, gratuitous speculation and various "analysis" with an attitude of entertainment to death, make this topic across the cultural circle and language world, completely boiling around the world-
Even the "New Europe", which occupies the Western European continent and connects several cities in Eastern Europe, has issued a statement on the official website of the large black, green and red color blocks that is more severe than the three fools:
"If Caalba insists on finding a path to a paradise that is not designated by the true pigs, then they will undoubtedly and eternally struggle in the flames of Hell and will never find the way to Paradise."
Although Adolphus Huxley's prophecy has come true on the continent - "mankind will destroy what it is obsessed with", the media still knead this dough that does not yet see human blood, for fear that it will not be big enough and not round enough.
The time crept through the tug-of-war and break of the talks to twelve o'clock in the noon of the North American Federal Eastern Time. There was finally some consensus in the meeting room, but the outside world still didn't know about it.
"We hope that you will try to make a decision before our regular State Department press conference." The consul general who had come to negotiate the North American Union with plenipotentiaries raised his hand and looked at his watch, "Two o'clock in the afternoon, there are still two hours. It is true that the situation has deviated somewhat from our prediction, but as long as this matter is completely rejected at the regular press conference, all the losses can be recovered. ”
The North American Federation is indeed betting on the regular press conference. As long as the spokesman gritted his teeth and didn't get out half a syllable, vetoed everything, insisted that it was a rumor, and then got the key in the hands of the poor Nibro Biotech employee, it was a random thing to even do with this person - provided his mouth was strong enough. If he didn't get it, he had to entrust the Chinese side to reward him for a few felonies, lock him up for ten or twenty years, and finally give him a "nowhere to go" fate after everyone forgot about it.
At that time, of course, the North American Federation will also "protest against the cracking" and "worry about the cracking", but that is just a play.
"I suggest we can have a bite to eat before we make a decision." The diplomat on the Chinese side got up first, and the meal was nothing more than a rhetoric -- he had to consult his superiors on this matter, and the diplomats of the North American Federation knew this.
"I hope you have good news." The diplomat of the North American Confederation also stood up and shook hands with his negotiator across the table, convinced that it was a win-win deal.
"This should be the last time we update the open letter."
While the Consul General of the North American Commonwealth was pinching the burger delivered by McDonald's Chicken and refueling it, a hidden cell phone was bypassing the gateway of the LTE signal and the GAE messenger service was spreading the final contents of the open letter in the office building rented by Nibro Biotech, which had been cut off from the internet and had its network equipment and surveillance confiscated.
"Nibro Biotech's network has been cut off, switches and network equipment, as well as almost all of everyone's mobile phones and computers, have been confiscated. Sean Brown is now under almost house arrest, and I'm able to post the latest news for reasons I can't make it public. ”
"Again, the content of Nibro Biotech's research does not include prohibited content in China, and it has nothing to do with other worlds. We're dedicated to microbial treatment in water bodies, and we've been expanding our business here for more than a decade, long before portals popped up. ”
As a subordinate cover enterprise of the CIA, Nibro Biotechnology is a relatively advanced category. Some companies are completely known to everyone in exchange for legal rights of way – such as Rapid Cargo (which is widely known for accepting one of the retired C-130s from China United Airlines), and Nibro is a biotech company that is truly clean and ecologically preventing.
As a result, CIA cover agents can go completely unnoticed by the average staff, even if they work with ordinary staff. But when almost all communications were cut off, it was not the CIA's cover staff who still had the ability to communicate freely, which could not but be said to be the choice of the Gate of the Stone of Destiny.
"Our homeland abandoned us just for the benefit of the portal? Could it be that one Robert can steal the most core Chinese top secrets? How is this possible? That's not something we're trying to solve! We hope to see Robert again, and then return home in peace, we admire the freedom and cooking of the North American Federation, but we can't even get the backing of the country? ”
This is where the open letter comes to an abrupt end. It was quickly translated into a variety of languages, adding fuel to an already heated discussion.
One of the bargaining chips of the North American Federation is naturally a fire extinguisher to calm the people, and the other is more important than the other, which is the guarantee not to intervene in the dispute over the southeastern islands. As for the safety of that little agent? The bigwigs never think about it.
However, this negotiating table is not the gambling table of Vegas or Macau, and the sovereignty, borders, futures, and technology above it are not static - under the influence of the Internet, the world's largest catalyst, the light and dark alternates, the situation has turned to one end that no one could have predicted.