"A few days ago, a Category 5 hurricane has damaged more than 420,000 homes and left more than 50,000 people homeless."

Inside the television, the tragic aftermath of the hurricane that had just dissipated was played.

"According to statistics, more than 2,000 people were missing and nearly 800 were killed in the four days that the hurricane passed through the hurricane."

"Governor Fredo has announced a series of post-disaster recovery plans."

"The latest polls show that Fredo's approval rating has risen rather than fallen after the disaster, reaching an unprecedented 32 percent."

Fredo, a tall man, walked up to the TV with a smile on his face.

Gloomily, he watched the news about himself on the TV.

"Our media is still very fair, and my great image is perfectly displayed."

As a politician, it is far more important to be in the news media than to focus on reconstruction.

If he wants to continue to climb upward, he must make more voters aware of himself.

So that in the future elections, cast their own sacred vote.

"Sir, the BBC's interview investigation may be somewhat unfavorable to us."

Fredo's secretary showed him a video of a street interview.

In the video, it is still the underworld filter used by the BBC all year round.

People can't help but feel that this place is now living in dire straits.

Of course, they're not wrong.

Today, most people in California live in more than half a meter of water.

A large amount of land that was once extremely arid has been soaked up with water.

Directly turned into a large swamp.

When people enter it, they can fall directly into it.

It's hard to get out.

The sinking mechanism of the swamp is similar to that of quicksand.

The more you struggle, the faster you sink.

If you want to slow down the sinking, you can only stand still.

After the hurricane passed, more than two palms of people died in the mud swamp.

There is even a fierce red neck, directly chopping or sawing off his legs, and then crawling out of the mire covered in blood.

They could have barely saved a life, but because of the damage to the road, the medical emergency force was insufficient.

Fell on excessive blood loss.

"I really don't know what our government has done in the midst of this disaster."

The interviewee, whose face was wrapped in a camouflage-colored bandana, shouted angrily:

"They didn't do anything when we were shivering in the midst of the hurricane."

"It's just a proclamation that we're hiding in our homes."

"My mother, who managed to survive the hurricane, died of acute fever after the hurricane."

"Where's our ambulance! Where are our medical helicopters! ”

The BBC barely gave any guidance on the issue, just a little bit of editing and filtering.

Let the whole film, from beginning to end, reveal the feeling that the local people are living in dire straits, while the local government has done nothing and is irresponsible.

Although this feeling is actually correct.

However, it still aroused Fredo's disgust, and if this film leaked out.

I don't know how much I will lower my support rate.

Originally, Fredo also wanted to make a good name for himself after the disaster.

This will win a certain number of votes for re-election in a few years' time, as well as in a general election further afield.

You know, it's less than two years before the election!

"Is there a way to make their interviews disappear?" Fredo said to his secretary with a frown.

Fredo was a journalist before he became governor, and he was originally the editor-in-chief of a newspaper.

Naturally, we know that there are many different ways to make an interview disappear from the public's attention.

But the identity of the other party is to make some ordinary methods not so easy to use.

As the world's largest news outlet, the BBC has an unimaginable global reach.

Although the leak of the remarks three years ago made the BBC suffer a lot of doubts for a while.

But the majority of the public still trusts the news reported by the BBC.

These are the credibility that the BBC has built up for itself over the past 80 years.

"The BBC has already booked you to have dinner tonight, and I think you should be able to continue talking about it then."

The secretary said politely.

As part of a vast bureaucracy, he knew exactly what Fredo needed at this time.

Unlike elected officials like Fredo, secretaries are standing civil servants.

Civil servants like him are the cornerstone of the entire system of government.

When Fredo heard this, he was overjoyed.

Although he had encountered similar things before, he still had very little contact with news outlets with huge influence such as the BBC.

If this matter can be solved perfectly, maybe he will be able to use the influence of the BBC to increase his support rating again.

Just when Fredo was preparing for his evening dinner with the BBC.

An extremely important meeting is being held thousands of miles away.

"The theme of our meeting this time is, should we continue to develop microwave weather intervention technology?"

Zhang Xingyang sat at the main seat of the long conference table and said expressionlessly.

The power of the weather weapon this time really shocked everyone who knew about it.

They created a Category 5 hurricane with more than 10 billion tons of TNT energy just by remotely controlling it from 10 million miles away.

And over the next few days, it brought unbelievable economic damage and casualties to the landing site.

Although such a thing, in the report submitted by Zhang Xingyang afterwards, it was called an uncontrollable disaster caused by technical problems.

But anyone can see the enormous military power of this technology.

The only problem now is that there is a high probability that the super typhoon will get out of control.

It's as if they have a powerful nuclear bomb, but they don't have a very reliable way to detonate it.

If you choose to detonate this nuclear bomb, no one knows if it will blow itself up.

However, the power of the nuclear bomb still makes everyone greedy.

This is also the most tangled part of this matter.

"I think what happened to California is a wake-up call that we have to be cautious about this technology."

A researcher who had been involved in meteorological experiments stood up and said.

"If this technology is used with impunity, there is a high probability that it will have unimaginable consequences for ourselves."

The spread of technology is terrifying.

This can be seen in some local conflicts.

The development of electronic technology and unmanned aerial vehicle technology has brought about a great change in the situation of warfare.

Even civilian armed forces are able to disassemble enough electronic devices from civilian equipment.

Used to assemble its own unmanned attack aircraft.

This is due to the development of various civil electronics and civilian drones in the past few decades.

"We're not going to use microwave weather devices on a large scale, we're going to continue to develop this technology."

If there are researchers who oppose development, there will naturally be those who agree.

"I believe that thanks to our efforts, we will be able to develop microwave devices that can perfectly control the weather."

"Technology doesn't kill people, it's always us who can kill people."

As soon as these words came out, everyone present changed their faces, only Zhang Xingyang still had an expression that could not see his emotions.

"Ahem!" The old chief coughed slightly.

Let everyone's eyes be focused on themselves.

"Even if we pass the resolution to continue developing this technology, we are not trying to use it as a weapon, but to stop those super typhoons that could cause us harm."

As a country with a long coastline, typhoons hit it every summer and autumn.

The direct economic losses caused by typhoons every year range from tens of billions to hundreds of billions!

As for the economic losses caused by secondary disasters caused by typhoons, I am afraid that they are in the trillions!

If we can use technical means, all the typhoons that may make landfall on us will be intercepted above the open sea.

So whether it's from the perspective of protecting people's lives, or from an economic point of view.

It's a very good deal.

Even if it costs tens of millions of kilowatt hours of electricity, it will not hesitate.

After the electricity is consumed, it can be regenerated by the sun.

However, roads and buildings damaged by typhoons will take a long time to rebuild.

And those who were killed by the typhoon will never come back.

"The old man is right, we develop technology from the perspective of people's livelihood, not weapons."

The researcher, who agreed to continue the development of microwave meteorological weapons, instantly lit up his eyes and followed the old chief's words.

"If we can stop all the typhoons on the surface of the sea, then how many casualties and economic losses can we reduce!"

Before the opponents could finish listening, they directly slapped the case and said angrily: "The atmosphere is a very complex chaotic system, and our interference is very likely to cause even more serious negative impacts!" ”

"What should we do if we create 10 super typhoons with even more destructive power in order to stop one typhoon?"

The complexity of the earth's atmospheric environment far exceeds the simulation and computing power of all computers.

Even the stellar-level supercomputing, which was built around the sun in later generations and used the sun's radiation to rotate all the time, could not fully simulate the state of the earth's atmosphere at all times.

At that time, human beings with hearts higher than the sky once launched an experiment that is extremely incredible to this day.

When the study was launched, trillions of tiny probes on the Earth's surface would detect numerous amounts of data.

It is transmitted to the second starport around the Earth, and then transmitted to the supercomputer of stars near the Sun through optical communication.

Stellar supercomputing begins to activate more than 10 computing units to the power of 22.

In an instant, an Earth with an atmosphere exactly like the real Earth was regenerated in the virtual space.

According to the researchers' estimates, the simulation will ensure that the Earth's atmosphere in virtual space will be milder to the real Earth for at least a year.

As a result, after only forty-five days, there was a dramatic change.

On the real planet, a new embryo of a typhoon has appeared near the equator.

In the virtual earth, this typhoon embryo does not exist.

Subsequent analysis concluded that it was the activity of organisms on Earth that led to the creation of typhoon embryos that did not exist in this simulation.

Even stellar-level supercomputing cannot simulate the movement of trillions of creatures on the earth in real time.

These organisms have different effects on the atmosphere from moment to moment.

Quantitative change leads to qualitative change.

When the error accumulates long enough, a typhoon embryo is born that should not exist.

Thinking of this, Zhang Xingyang, who had been expressionless in the conference room, finally had a slight change on his face.

There were not many people in the conference room, and everyone could easily see the change in Zhang Xingyang's face.

In fact, Zhang Xingyang sat in the main seat and served as the host of this meeting.

It's just to not show your own attitude tendencies.

Because Zhang Xingyang is actually the core person of the entire technology development.

Once he spoke, it meant that there was no room for argument on both sides.

People often say that you need to take care of the big picture.

But in this matter, Zhang Xingyang himself is the overall situation.

He does not contribute, and it will be difficult for others to complete the in-depth integration and development of microwave meteorological weapons.

When the opposition saw the change in his face, they were all overjoyed.

thought that such a consequence shocked Zhang Xingyang.

Then the likelihood of preventing the technology from continuing to develop increases dramatically.

The opposition is well aware that the probability of victory for their side is very low.

Because in this technology, the person who made a strong effort was Zhang Xingyang, who was sitting in the main seat.

As a researcher, no one wants the technology they have worked so hard to develop to be mothballed.

No further studies can be conducted for the time that followed.

"According to you, your daily fart can affect the atmospheric system, so shouldn't you fart?!"

The member of the consent faction sat in a chair and said in a crude tone.

"Let's just don't do anything, otherwise the cause of the typhoon will be attributed to us!"

Although this man's words were a bit unpleasant, most of the people present were in agreement.

On the road of scientific research, the most taboo is actually to waste food due to choking.

The most important thing to do is to summarize and find out the cause of the problem after it occurs.

Seeing that in the conference room, the conflict of ideas between the two sides is about to evolve into a physical conflict.

Zhang Xingyang finally stood up, got up and said:

"Microwave directed energy weapons are an important direction for the development of weapons in the future, and we cannot give up."

"Especially now that we have achieved a certain technological advantage, we can't just let it go."

Afterwards, Zhang Xingyang looked at the opposition, which was obviously in a weak position, and said:

"Of course, we can't conduct weapons experiments at will, and the main reason for the accident in this weapon experiment is that there is no adequate investigation of the local situation."

"In the future experiments, we must do a good job of investigation before proceeding!"

Although Zhang Xingyang barely maintained the face of the opposition, he actually stood on the position of continuing to develop microwave meteorological weapons. (End of chapter)