July 6, 2118

Conference Room 15015, 15th Floor, UN Building (United_Nations) of the United Nations.

In the middle of the door to the conference room is a metal insignia that shines with the emblem of the United Nations.

(The official emblem of the United Nations is a map of the world as seen from the North Pole, surrounded by an olive branch ring.) The background color of the United Nations flag is light blue, and the pattern in the center is a white United Nations emblem. The olive branch symbolizes world peace and security, and the surrounding globe symbolizes the purpose of the United Nations and the preservation of unity. ）

The entrance, foyer, and hallway of the conference room were filled with uniformed security personnel. The security personnel are all human and do not use robots.

"I was called back from Miami Beach!" A security guard whispers to a colleague.

"On vacation, there is always time. There will always be a girl, too. Miami is not going to disappear from the face of the earth. The colleague reassured.

"Actually, you can use robots, so why not? I'm in Miami, you're in Boston, and we'll just be able to link over remotely. The complainer continued.

"I don't know, maybe you should really use robots, there are robots everywhere these days, but, this meeting, the leader said, it's very important, you can't trust robots, and you can't use stand-in robots." The colleague continued, with some helplessness in his tone, "I don't really like coming to New York either. ”

"I'm not afraid of robots, they're all pretty ......," the complainer laughed, "and I don't believe in robots, but stand-in robots, I think they're pretty easy to use, and they should be more reliable." ”

"Relatively reliable...... Well...... I remember, it was like a Chinese doctor named Tang Jingtao proposed, no matter where we are, we can't trust robots too much, and the number of stand-in robots and fully intelligent robots needs to be kept three-to-one, that is, a fully intelligent robot must be supervised by three human stand-ins, but I think stand-in robots are also unreliable, and there are ......"

"Come on, it looks like you really know it, you can't hear it from a girl from some university, right?" The complainant interrupted his colleague.

"You know Niu'er," the colleague was obviously a little unhappy, "your brain will let Niu's play sooner or later, think about it, the network of stand-in robots is also unreliable, what if there are hackers, otherwise, why do you have to use real people in this meeting?" Is this necessary? ”

"So......" the complainant said, spreading his hands, "my poor Miami Beach." ”

"You have to be glad that the robots are not completely reliable, otherwise, our jobs would be gone." Colleague education.

At this time, the head of the security team walked over with a straight face, and the two immediately stopped talking about any topics.

In Room 15015, there are also about 10 security personnel patrolling. There was no one else except these 10 or so. The conference room was empty. The rostrum was empty, and so was the rostrum.

There are not even chairs in conference room 15015, not on the podium, not under the rostrum. Originally, the places where the seats should have been installed were small projectors. Each projector is designed for a virtual participant to project an image of a virtual participant. This virtual conference room was originally intended to bring a new visual experience to all mankind in 2118, bringing new hopes, new aspirations, and a stronger confidence in science and prospects.

However, this set of equipment, in the end, it is said that due to cost problems, it was not able to be used, the project became an unfinished project, and the projector became a waste product. Some people say that the funds are polluted, others say that it is the big creditor of country A, country C, who has withdrawn its capital, and some people simply feel that these so-called "visual experiences" are simply flashy gimmicks that should have been bankrupt and abandoned long ago.

However, with a limited budget for the United Nations, these expensive projectors are now shielded from projection for the purpose of repurposing waste products, and then they are transformed into access nodes for quantum networks, similar to switches and routers.

The secret meeting of this meeting is networked through these nodes.

The job of the security personnel is to ensure the safety and normal operation of the thousands of nodes in the conference room. One of the security guards told a colleague that it might be a ghost conference room, which was unpleasant, and that he became sensitive to the sound of his own footsteps.

At 9 o'clock on July 6, in faraway Alaska, on Air Force One, the president of country A, as one of the "ghosts", connected to a virtual meeting. A list of heads of state and diplomats is displayed on the computer screen, and the avatars are moving, and it seems that everyone is already in place.

In a virtual meeting, people can't speak until the host gives them permission.

At 10 o'clock on July 6, the meeting officially began. The moderator of the meeting, UN Secretary-General Zor Rama, delivered opening remarks. Originally from South Africa, Zulrama is the second black Secretary-General of the United Nations, after Kofi Annan. Zulrama took office in 2116, and in 2117, the year that plagues and unknown creatures began to appear in country A.

Although the sudden appearance of plagues and unknown creatures has brought more unknowns to human society, most people still speculate that Zulrama may be the easiest job of any United Nations secretary general - country A has been stirring up disputes and wars around the world, and now, this "global hegemon" has finally died down.

As of July 2118, in terms of nuclear forces, 90% of the nuclear strike capabilities of country A have been transferred to the major countries of Kana and the silver countries. As agreed at the beginning, nuclear warheads must not fall into the hands of extremist and terrorist forces, a tiger with its teeth plucked. In terms of financial strength, the A dollar and the low exchange rate are linked to the British (silver) pound, and more than 50% of the monetary dividends have been transferred to the silver country, and every A dollar earned by the people of country A must be distributed to half of the people of the silver country.

As Zulrama spoke, Maddie Regan, the president of country A, looked at him silently, and he looked at him with deep meaning, a white president looking at a black secretary general.

At the last United Nations General Assembly, the diplomats of country A put forward a proposal to restore the nuclear forces of country A, but it was unanimously opposed by countries C, R, silver, and F, and the major powers believed that the current situation of country A was still not optimistic, and it was still impossible to guarantee the safety of the nuclear forces, and the diplomats of country A were at a loss for words, and the tragedy of the "Sven" in September 2117 was still vividly remembered, and 20,000 unjust souls were still groaning in the waves of the Pacific Ocean.

The representative of country A then put forward a new round of nuclear disarmament proposals, demanding that countries C, R, and F destroy the nuclear bombs. The purpose of this is to weaken the number of nuclear bombs of the other nuclear powers, and each country will reduce its nuclear forces, and then, to reach a new equilibrium with country A. Of course, this was also unanimously opposed. The reason is that if all the major powers reduce their nuclear forces, then the nuclear deterrence of small countries by large powers may cease to exist, the existing world order will be challenged, and there will be more wars.

How President Reagan wished that the Secretary-General of the United Nations would be white and not black. But he knew that this was just a naïve hope, and he didn't know when he actually hoped that the United Nations would favor country A.

On the podium of the 15015 conference room at Zullama Station, of course, this is a virtual image. There was no one standing in Room 15015, only the participants in the online meeting.

"In a way, we should be grateful for the current crisis, which has brought the international community closer ......together," he quickly finished his opening remarks, and then began to read out the content of the carbon finance conference - excluding the discussion of nuclear forces, the main content of the discussion is the reward and penalty of carbon emissions, carbon finance, that is, carbon emissions and money related matters.

Since the outbreak of the plague in 2117, the main assistance received by country A is based on international law based on carbon finance-related agreements, and since the outbreak of the plague, country A's carbon emissions have dropped from about 25% of the original global proportion to 9%, and the total proportion of the decline is 14%, so the United Nations has taken this as a reference to provide material assistance to country A in accordance with the "Kyoto Protocol" and the "Paris Agreement".

It's just material aid, and countries such as R, and F don't want to see the currency of country A out of recession. Therefore, all the content of the aid is not linked to the currency of country A, nor is it related to the national debt of country A.

And, since all aid is based on the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement, country A must return to these two agreements or it won't get aid – every grain of aid has a price.

Once country A violates the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement, it will not be able to continue to receive assistance. At this point, country A will have to be self-reliant.

"According to the statistics of the last six months," Zulrama said, "the carbon emissions of country A have rebounded from 9% to 20% ......"

Of course, these data are not of concern to the UN itself, this is the proposal of country R.

Of course, President Reagan knows what country R means, and it is true that country is one of the permanent members, so he can reject this proposal with one vote, but other countries can also use 10,000 other reasons not to assist country A in addition to the proposal.

As a veteran politician, Reagan knows that there is no point in winning a war of words at a conference these days.

After Zulrama has read out the proposal of country R, it is time for countries to vote. The votes of the vast number of small countries are of little significance, Reagan cares about the votes of countries R and C, and of course countries F and silver countries will oppose the reduction of aid to country A, and country R will definitely support their own proposals and will not slap themselves in the face.

Reagan is most concerned about the attitude of country C, now, country A's carbon emissions have risen from 9% to 20%, the data is undeniable, and country A's own satellite statistics are also the same result, so the data is now very unfavorable to country A, and country C is the country with the largest amount of aid to country A, what the country thinks, is very important.

When the results of the vote were counted, Zulrama announced that country C had voted against.

(What, a negative vote?) Reagan was surprised that, according to an analysis of historical voting records, generally speaking, country C abstained from voting on country R's proposal at most, and C and R are strategic partners, so country C will not openly oppose and offend country R at the UN level, but will support country A. Regan really wanted to stand up and thank the people of Country C immediately, but at the same time, he suspected that the people of Country C had taken the wrong medicine, or that they had pressed the wrong voting button.

(Unless, unless, there's a bigger plan behind it...... What have we overlooked? The presidents and diplomats of country A pondered.

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Before voting, in the training room, Sima Aya's superiors once again confirmed with her the information collected in country A......

"On vacation, there is always time. There will always be a girl, too. Miami is not going to disappear from the face of the earth. The colleague reassured.

(End of chapter)