Chapter 66: The True Death Game (3)
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The President of the Pacific island nation of Érau did not know why anyone would be interested in a small island with a life span of only 30 years, but that did not prevent him from selling the island through the National Assembly.
Experts have argued that due to the lack of control of greenhouse gas emissions, the global sea level rise trend is unlikely to be reversed in the past 100 years, so most of the islands with lower sea levels in the country will be submerged, and they have already bought land in the Americas to continue to live, negotiated with local countries, and are accepted to live there, and continue to enjoy the rights of independent states, of course, in fact, in the nature of dependence.
In this context, it is a matter of course to sell an uninhabited island without making much effort to investigate what the purpose of this person is. Such small countries can violate many international rules of the game in order to gain economic benefits, and of course this is nothing.
Ling Chen took out his previous cash savings, 30 million US dollars, equivalent to a quarter of the country's gross national income during its most prosperous years, to buy the island and obtain the right to live in the country.
In fact, buying private islands is a common thing in the world, but most people do it in convenient places, and don't go out of their way to buy remote islands, which are too expensive to build. It's just that Ling Chen has to do something unusual, of course, he has to choose some remote places.
This place is in the northeast of Australia, about 7,000 kilometers away, from the nearest Australian dock, it takes about ten days for ordinary giant ships to sail. The original name was very inconspicuous and difficult to remember, but after Ling Chen bought it, he exercised the right to name it and renamed it "Hope Island", which is popular and popular, but easy to remember.
Surrounded by a vast sea, inaccessible and inaccessible, and there are no commonly used shipping lanes nearby, if you want to transport a large number of supplies, you can only temporarily open up new shipping lanes.
But now it's the economy and society, pay enough economic costs, and some people rush to do strange things, as long as the risk is not great.
After Ling Chen entrusted the matter of opening up the waterway to an Australian waterway survey and design company, they quickly took over this kind of work without much difficulty with a large amount of money.
Then there is the recruitment of domestic construction teams, five times the construction budget of the same scale in China, and it is paid in cash, which of course attracts a large number of companies to bid, not to mention going to the Pacific Ocean, even if it is to go to the Antarctic construction, they are also flocking to it, this is the charm of money, it can break the natural gap between class and identity, make the ugly beautiful, and make the old young.
The bidding requirements given by Ling Chen made these construction companies feel very strange, and the other party did not simply want to build on the island, but put forward other requirements.
With the communication, they soon understood the intention of the tenderer, the tenderer is in accordance with the model of building a large floating island to build, in general, the tenderer hopes that after the completion of the artificial floating island, this artificial floating island can rise with the rise of sea level, and even after the installation of power drive, there is a certain ability to move, in order to avoid a huge sea disaster.
This requirement has never been precedented, but under the huge bidding budget leaked in the early stage, there are still many companies that have come up with their own design plans. Artificial floating islands have long been formed, but in terms of scale and performance, they are far from meeting the requirements of the current tenderer.
Of course, there are no such large-scale artificial floating islands yet, just because few people are willing to invest in construction, and now there are people who are willing to spend this money on such construction, and they will, of course, comply with the wishes of the bidders. Such large-scale artificial floating islands, similar to large drilling rigs, have also been financed by some Pacific countries to cope with sea level rise, but the investment is too large to exceed the financial burden of these countries, so it has not been unveiled for a long time.
With the first design fee coming in, the five companies with rich experience in floating island design were quickly selected to issue different design proposals.
Ling Chen chose two of them, synthesized their design plans, and prepared to build a multi-storey floating island, similar to a pagoda, fully considering the problems of stability and resistance to wind and waves, and also making good use of the sea and underwater space. This pagoda, each floor has different entertainment and living facilities, layer upon layer, will be more than nine floors. This floating island is also named "Pagoda Island".
The entire cost of "Pagoda Island" will be far more than ordinary artificial floating islands, and some Pacific countries have made a budget of 200 million US dollars for the construction of artificial floating islands, and Ling Chen has prepared 50 times as much as them.
The construction period of construction in this high investment, has been greatly compressed, the original need for more than 30 years of construction period, was compressed to ten years, this is of course the result of a large number of manpower and material input, after all, this kind of construction, can be carried out on a large scale, in addition to the work that must be done in the early stage, the work behind can be split into and carried out work.
The huge resources and manpower consumed here, in essence, Ling Chen is exchanged for the social value of a million unpaid high-intelligence labor force, because they have no entity and cannot engage in this kind of work, but can engage in higher value-added work, which is a kind of exchange of labor, each doing what he is good at, and then exchanging it with the results of production, reflecting it on the top, is the transaction of money.
This kind of construction is carried out in stages, and in the first year, a number of production and living facilities will be built on the small island "Hope Island" purchased by Ling Chen, including airports, docks, roads, etc.
The construction of the airport was the fastest, and after the raw materials were procured from Australia and transported in place, the construction was completed in just two months because it eliminated the complicated administrative processes in the country.
Of course, regular large airlines will not rashly open up such routes, which are dangerous and profitable.
Ling Chen contacted a private airline and paid them a huge amount of remuneration, he would have bought an airline by himself, but the investment was too much, and there was a problem with the cash flow of the director, the output value of the million unpaid labor force was huge, but they had only been running at full strength for two or three months, the time was too short, and the value of creating zào was not enough, plus the consumption of conversion, some of the funds that Ling Chen could use in his hands were still accumulated by him before.
These additional affairs, Ling Chen seemed to have occupied a lot of his energy for more than a month, but his actual focus was not here.
While he was busy with the construction of these bases, he was thinking about how to design the death game to determine the true spiritual potential of the 127 people, as well as their own unique spiritual traits.
According to the experience of later generations, he combined with the characteristics of human beings in this era to design some death games, which can ensure that the correct verification rate is more than eighty percent, of course, the accidental injury rate will also be very high. But those who can't pass it don't necessarily have no spiritual potential at all.
Although Ling Chen still had some regrets about this conclusion, compared to the situation in his previous life, which was completely natural selection, he could at least artificially control the choice, which would reduce a lot of waste. In the catastrophe of the previous life, many people with spiritual potential were eliminated because they did not have time to adapt and a lot of drag.
Ling Chen gave them such an opportunity, although for those who lost, it was to reduce their lifespan by 2o years, and after they knew the truth, they would definitely not choose to participate, but in this world, where are there things that people can choose completely freely, whether it is marriage, work, or even death, people are controlled by many constraints.