Volume IV, Chapter 19, The Giant Pet (I), December 2117

On Air Force One, meetings are one after another, and here has become an assembly line of meetings, but fortunately, Duke has long been accustomed to this kind of life. After dinner, there was another meeting, but the president and others slept soundly for two hours before the meeting, thanks to the mental health of the participants.

Duke was in a bit of a trance before going to bed, and when he put on the sleeper blindfold, he suddenly felt that he had become a mobile phone, and the sleeper was a fast charger, and he felt a wave of nausea, but he quickly fell asleep.

The end of sleep meeting, the meeting begins, this is the 918th meeting after the protozoan outbreak and the 87th meeting after the Cerberus attack on the raccoon.

In view of the research results obtained in the current experiments, the biological characteristics of protozoa and cerberus show obvious traces of human intervention:

The peculiar infectious properties of protozoa can cause genetic mutations in human fundus cells; The lifespan of Cerberus is obviously artificially modified, and its growth and aging process obviously does not conform to the laws of nature, and they don't even need food!

At meetings 918-87, the leaders of country A deduced that the civilization that made Cerberus was far more technologically advanced than the human civilization of Tran, because although humans were able to scan and sequence the genes of Tran organisms, they had also established a huge gene pool, including human beings, and had reached a certain level of genetic modification of plants...... However, in the past 100 years, there has been no breakthrough in the genetic modification of animals.

Duke remembers that historically, between 2052 and 2077, the military of country A once restarted research to strengthen human muscles, bones and hearts, hoping to create a super soldier through cloning and genetic engineering, but in the end, it was either mentally retarded or epilepsy, or short-lived ghosts - all freaks.

The physical functions of the Cerberus are stable, robust, and dwarfed by human genetic technology.

Of course, it is somewhat one-sided to infer the advanced degree of "unknown civilization" from the ability to modify animals, that is, the level of genetic engineering, and there is still a lack of sufficient evidence, so at the meeting, some people proposed that the conclusion should be drawn after the giant bats have been captured and studied in vivo, which seems more rigorous.

However, after a short period of discussion, the President of State A believes that there is no need to wait for further research to corroborate it.

"Unknown civilizations have cast their shadows on the land of country A, and our real enemies are no longer these wild dogs (cerberus) and vultures (giant bats)." At the meeting, the president said, "We have to follow their shadow and find themselves." ”

The president didn't mention much about the protozoa at the meeting, and Duke knew that in the president's heart, this account was still on his head, that is, in the president's heart, he still believed that the protozoa were created by Duke, and the biological and chemical weapon characteristics of the protozoa were developed by humans. Duke naturally wants to deduct the sin of the protozoa on the head of the "unknown civilization", but now, a large part of the documents in the "anthill" are still being restored and declassified, and Duke can't come up with sufficient evidence to push off the protozoa's mess - fortunately, the infectious characteristics of the protozoa have been identified, and the "protective glasses" are also in mass production. It is also the reason why the president did not mention the protozoa too much.

"Judging from the latest economic data, the impact of protozoa on domestic productivity has been restored, and the NGDP has returned from negative to positive values, and the productivity recovery value is now close to 2.5% in country C and 5% in country silver......" the deputy secretary of state said.

As for the content of the deputy secretary of state's speech, Duke naturally disagreed, this is the usual good news and not bad news: country A is in a state of war, if another terrorist lights a nuclear bomb tomorrow, or attacks a residential settlement or city with biological and chemical weapons, the NGDP indicator will immediately fall back to negative value, and in this stormy day, whether the NGDP is positive or negative cannot even be explained by bullshit.

Duke believes that the president's attention is now on Cerberus and the "unknown civilization." Think about it, on the battlefields of Raccoon and Las Vegas, the number of sorties of Cerberus is above 100,000, especially in the battlefield of Las Vegas, the number of sorties of Cerberus even reached 150,000 to 200,000.

(That's 200,000 wolves!) Duke pondered, (If it is 200,000 sheep, it is naturally easy for a shepherd to manage, but in human history, there has never been such a profession as a "wolf herder", right?) More than 10 years of general career and experience told Duke that in the history of human beings on Tran, no government has been able to manage such a large number of "wolves", which is why the number of individuals in the "wolf pack" will not exceed 50, and the wolves in the "wolf pack", once they reach a certain number, there will be multiple "wolf kings", and then, the "wolf pack" will split - what is even more puzzling is that at present, the satellite data has not found the wolf king, whether on the battlefield of raccoon or Las Vegas, There is one Cerberus that looks more special, the so-called "Wolf King".

If it is said that among the 100,000 "wolves", there are 5,000 wolf kings, and the 5,000 wolf kings are dispatched by 500 kings of kings, then, when the hellhounds are moving and entering the wolves, there should be a situation of attacking in groups, and the "troops" led by each wolf king will be clearly distinguished in the attack, and it will be impossible to have such a large-scale and highly consistent mobile operation as the "black torrent".

In addition, it also maintains close cooperation with giant bats to raid the population.

In the underground laboratory of the University of Nevada, scientists did not find any advanced intelligence in Cerberus, and the scientists also used the intelligence level of "wolves" to assess the intelligence level of Cerberus in the report.

Therefore, Duke has always been interested in how the "unknown civilization" really exists, then how they can communicate with 100,000 "wolves" and maintain control over them, so that they are as obedient as little sheep.

(Could it be that these beasts, like our troops, have unified battlefield communications?) Thinking of this, Duke touched his chin, believing that what he had in mind, the president and others must have thought of it.

At Air Force One, meeting 918-87 was about an hour and a half, and General Hagel raised questions and conjectures about the "Black Torrent" communications system, just as Duke had thought.

General Hagel believed that it was impossible for Cerberus to convey messages through smells and secretions, because this way of transmitting information was too slow. It is obviously impossible to dispatch 100,000 Cerberus in real time, using "shouting", that is, sound wave information or ultrasonic information, which requires huge energy to support the propagation of sound waves...... At present, the only information transmission methods known to humans on Telan that can uniformly dispatch 100,000 individuals are electromagnetic waves, neutrinos, and gravitational waves.

Neutrino and gravitational wave technologies are currently not yet available and are only in the primary research stage. If the "unknown civilization" uses neutrinos and gravitational waves, the current technical precision of human beings cannot capture and detect at all, and even if it can be detected, there is no way to crack and interfere with it.

So, for practical reasons, General Hagel can only infer that Cerberus communicates with the "unknown civilization" via electromagnetic waves.

However, at the meeting, another scientific advisor believed that if the "unknown civilization" is more advanced than the humans on Tranid, then it is possible that they will not use electromagnetic waves to communicate so as not to be detected and interfered with by humans.

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Duke gradually felt that at the 918-87 meeting, everyone no longer deliberately avoided the conjecture of "unknown civilization", but at the same time, the topic was not heavy - if the "unknown civilization" really existed, then this would be the first time in the history of the Tran human race to communicate with another civilization, whether it was for the people of country A or for the whole world, this is an important historical event, which is exciting.

However, in everyone's eyes, Duke could not see the slightest excitement, all he could see was numbness, tiredness and suffocation, for these people, the real world has become a dull number in various reports, and now, their whole world, is left with the cramped cabin of Air Force One.

Duke often recalls the first time he entered Air Force One, when he thought the cabin was quite spacious.