Chapter Twenty-Five: Old Stanley

In addition to the top of the military, the tycoons of the military industry, and the major mainstream media on the earth also sent representatives to participate in this meeting, from TV to newspapers to the Internet, how human beings should decide in the face of insects, this is a topic of concern to all mankind!

"Hello, please show your ID!" The guards at the side gate checked the badges and invitations of each reporter, and these reporters rushed in for the headline news, anxiously waiting to be checked.

"Miss Aichi, who is the focus of the East, right?" The guard looked at the work card and the invitation letter, and compared it to the woman in front of him: "You look more beautiful than the photo!" ”

Miss Aichi touched her cheek, "Oh, really? Thank you for the compliment...... Can I go in? ”

"Of course!" The guard nodded, and let the tall, beautiful, and dignified young female reporter into the auditorium.

After Miss Aichi walked into the auditorium, her eyes swept over the various tycoons in the venue, and quickly locked on to Bell, who was sitting in the main seat of the representative of the military industry, and took advantage of the fact that the venue was still relatively noisy, and gently walked over with her camera.

But before she could get closer, a hand was placed on her shoulder, and Aichi turned her head to see that it was a beautiful woman wearing glasses and a formal suit, holding a bunjiàn clip in one hand and a tight grip on her shoulder with the other, with a mysterious smile on her face.

"This young lady, the reporter's seat is in the back!"

Aichi smiled, "I know, but I have a few questions I would like to ask Mr. Bell......"

"I'm sorry, it's not time for reporters to ask questions, and our chairman has no intention of being interviewed!" The female secretary was still smiling, but her hands were already strained, her joints were a little white under pressure, and her neatly trimmed nails were inserted into Aichi's clothes.

"Oops...... You're hurting me! Aichi couldn't help screaming, reached out to grab the female secretary's hand, and said again and again, the female secretary let go of her hand and gave Aichi a look, and the beautiful female reporter returned to her seat in a huff.

The female secretary snorted coldly, turned her head and walked back to Bell, suddenly felt some stinging pain in the back of her hand, and looked down to see that there was a small crescent-shaped wound, judging by the size, it should have been scratched by the female reporter just now, but it was not strict, but it was just scratched some oily skin, and not even a drop of blood was shed.

"You can scratch me, and that woman's hands are pretty dark......," the female secretary muttered.

"What's wrong, Susan?" Bell notices her appearance and asks.

"Nothing ......" Mariana smiled slightly, today's meeting is very important, and you can't bother the boss with such trivialities.

Bell glanced at her, closed his eyes again, and waited quietly for the meeting to begin.

And Aichi, the female reporter who was driven away by Mariana, secretly reached under the seat, drew a small spatial crack with a stroke of her fingertips, and then put her finger in and shook it twice, then pulled it out again and sealed the spatial crack.

At the same time, in the small ship far above Klendasu, Ma Le, who was meditating with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes, opened the storage space, reached in, groped for a while, and then reached out, with a thin oil skin on his fingertips.

Ma Le smiled slightly and dialed the communication of the Persian cat.

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The meeting on the Earth side went smoothly, with the military expounding on the difficulties facing humanity today and citing the reasons for the defeat in the last battle. In the end, it was due to the terrifying evolution speed of the Zerg, and thinking of the previous human-worm combination experiment, the military also speculated that the bugs had also undergone a similar evolution, and humans no longer had any advantage in land battles.

Therefore, the military proposed to use strategic weapons of mass destruction to carry out carpet bombing of Klenda Suxing, and exterminate these bed bugs at any cost!

After this opinion was put forward, it immediately caused an uproar. As we all know, the war between humans and insects is not essentially a struggle to destroy each other, but a battle for living resources! The planet Klendasu is a very rare planet in the vast universe that can give birth to life, and its own significance is much more important to human beings than the destruction of insects. To put it simply, human beings want to kill all the insects, not because of the destruction of Buenos Aires, nor because of the hatred of 100,000 soldiers, the most fundamental reason is that human beings have taken a fancy to the planet at the feet of the insects!

It is true that with the current science and technology of mankind, it is not impossible to bomb the surface of the planet, even if the entire planet is blown up. But doing so is tantamount to killing chickens and taking eggs, and sacrificing the basics. Once the planet's biosphere is destroyed, even if the bugs are defeated, humanity will lose a valuable habitat.

As soon as the new marshal came to power, he put forward such a sensational plan, even within the military, not everyone supported it, and everyone talked about it for a while, and the faction in the military that did not support the trust in the marshal had begun to phrase that they were ready to overthrow this plan.

However, it was not these "reactionaries" who were the first to raise objections, but two representatives of the military-industrial complex, Bell and Stanley!

Needless to say, Bell has two technologies in his hands, power armor and insect warriors, and this Stanley, who is the chairman of Stanley Technology, is an old man in his seventies. Stanley Technology is mainly responsible for power armor-related technologies, but unlike the Bell Group, the main research direction of the Bell Group is the power system and military materials of power armor. The Stanley Technology company, on the other hand, is far ahead in electronics, artificial intelligence, and software.

Originally, when the Arachi Project had not yet taken shape, the Stanley Company and the Bell Group were the two major military enterprises in the Earth Federation, but as the secret of the Arachi Project unfolded, the Bell Group consumed a lot of money, and the research and development and operation of power armor were a little difficult, and they were once led by the Stanley Company. Although the results of the Arachi plan have now been exposed, in terms of power armor, the current leader is already Stanley Company.

In this kind of strategic decision-making meeting, in the vast majority of cases, the military puts forward opinions and discussions, and these cooperative enterprises are basically here to echo and support it. After all, in this world, the power of the military is supreme, and there is no reason for a few companies to touch the mold. What's more, no matter how the war is fought, there will be no shortage of weapons, they just sit on the ground and make money, no matter whether you buy weapons or smash them.

But this time, to everyone's surprise, the two giants in the military-industrial complex actually voiced opposition at the same time!

This situation was also a bit surprising to Bell and Stanley, who glanced at each other at the same time, but they didn't expect this old rival to make the same decision as themselves.

Bell raised his hand and motioned for Stanley to speak first, and the old man was not polite, and stood up with his head held high, his old body not trembling.

"Honorable marshals, generals, business colleagues and media representatives present. I, Miles 61 Stanley, am here today, not on behalf of the Stanley Company, nor as a businessman, but as a human being, an elderly human being who has lived seventy-six years and is full of children and grandchildren, standing here! ”

"I don't know what you're here for today. Are you planning to make a battle plan? Is it to vent the hatred of bugs? Or will the future of humanity be ruined? ”

As soon as this last sentence came out, doubts and discussions immediately sounded in the audience. But Old Man Stanley didn't seem to hear it, and continued to himself

"Today, the total human population has exceeded 20 billion, and the earth bears most of it. In order to make this huge population live comfortably, we developed Antarctica, built maritime cities, and built buildings higher and higher. We have even built colonies on Mars and the Moon, using powerful technology and civilization to transform those wild planets that are not suitable for us to live in into temporary residences! And I heard that the renovation project of Venus has also been put on the agenda, right? ”

"Amazing, amazing! Billions of years since the birth of the earth, no living thing has ever been able to use this planet to such an extent, and no living thing has ever been able to go out of the earth and establish colonies on other planets! We human beings, we have done it, we human beings, we deserve to be proud of it! ”

"However, do you know how many resources are needed to maintain the life support system of the Moon and Mars every day?"

"Let me tell you a number, people's diet and daily life are not mentioned for the time being, it is simply breathing and gravity, in order to allow human beings to have the most basic living conditions, maintain the composition of the atmosphere and the gravity system, it will consume 16 billion yuan every day! Every day! ”

"Of course, money is just a symbol of capital, and when it circulates, there will always be a day when it will be earned. The inhabitants of the Moon and Mars, each of whom has to pay thousands of dollars a year in the breath tax and gravity tax, can be used to maintain the balance of the fiscal balance and provide them with the guarantee of life. ”

"But did you know that the hole in capital can be plugged, and resources are not renewable! In order to maintain these systems, a lot of resources are consumed every day, and as these resources become less and less, rarer, and more expensive, the taxes will continue to rise, and one day, it will reach a point where people cannot afford it, and at that time, what are you going to do? Cut off the supply? Killing billions of people? You're worse than worms! ”

The last sentence, Mr. Stanley roared out, and the military personnel and news media present were silent for a while, all looking at the old giant silently.

"I'm old, I don't have long to live, I'm afraid I won't see that day......" Stanley sighed, "but you, you young, energetic, and future-ready people, that day is close at hand for you!" ”