The news suddenly spread.
Without the slightest warning.
Although this was already decided, it still caught the B City Consortium off guard. According to the research of the Kennedy campaign team, there was no need to deliberately add a halo around him at this time, and there was no need to give credit to him for bringing these astronauts home.
As long as a signal was released to the UA people that the relationship between Xin and the UA was moving from tension to relaxation, then the voters would seriously consider the differences between the two candidates on Pacific policy and finally make the right choice.
However, the media reports caught both Loki and Kennedy off guard.
First, an unknown small newspaper reported that the astronauts stranded in the Mars colony were about to embark on their return journey.
Immediately afterward, another local newspaper in the Capital published photos of candidate John F. Kennedy's first visit to the Xin Embassy and used word games to give people the illusion that President Kennedy had close contacts with Xin diplomats.
On the surface, this seemed to be the leftist media spontaneously creating momentum for their candidate and giving credit to Kennedy for the return of the astronauts.
However, with the Washington Post's editorial in the current affairs section, as well as the quotations from these two "unknown" newspapers, the entire "assist" completely changed the flavor of the whole "assist" —
"Diplomacy or interference in the election? Those Astronauts Used as Bargaining Chips. "
Obviously, someone was trying to distort the direction of public opinion.
The political orientation of the UA newspaper industry was generally left-leaning, and it was impossible for the Washington Post to speak for Trump. Then there was only one possibility left, that was, Morgan or the Rockefeller Consortium was playing tricks behind the scenes.
Just as Loki and Kennedy were busy dealing with the negative impact of this report, Jiang Chen, on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, was accompanied by Zhang Yaping to inspect a special project on Ange Island.
A cave with a width of four people was located in the corner of the central extinct volcano.
The entrance of the cave was surrounded by barbed wire, and a military sentry post was deployed at the entrance. A few years ago, this place was used as an arsenal for Celestial Trade, used to transfer the BM-21 rockets and other large quantities of arms purchased from Russia. Later, NAC relied on the resources of the modern world to independently develop the more powerful and versatile "Fireball-1", and the warehouse was left idle.
Today, this warehouse was taken out again.
The barbed wire of the military sentry post was temporarily dismantled, and construction vehicles were parked at the entrance of the cave, widening and renovating the entire cave.
"What is this?" Zhang Yaping looked at the busy construction site and asked Jiang Chen.
"Something that might shock you if I tell you." Jiang Chen grinned.
"You dragged me here from the Pavilion Lord Manor just to keep me in suspense?" Zhang Yaping said helplessly, "To be honest, I won't be surprised no matter what you take out now."
"Really?" Jiang Chen smiled mysteriously and extended his right hand to the sky. "What if I say I can control the weather?"
Hearing Jiang Chen's words, Zhang Yaping was stunned.
Opening his mouth, he asked in an uncertain tone.
"What?"
"Weather manipulation." Jiang Chen repeated, paused for a moment, then added with a smile, "In short, you can understand the project taking place here as we are building a weather weapon. By the way, I plan to call it Weather Forecast. "
Until the end of the visit, Jiang Chen noticed that the president's jaw didn't seem to close from the moment it dropped.
He said he wouldn't be surprised …
Researchers at Camp 27 were reverse engineering the equipment at the West Coast Meteorological Monitoring Center. Some of the equipment that had been analyzed had been copied through an industrial-grade 3D printer and brought to the modern world.
The role of this strategic weapon in the apocalypse was far less than it was in the modern world. At the first sight of the weapon, Jiang Chen decided that he must build one in the modern world. Now the reverse engineering was not even 20% complete, but this did not prevent him from starting the first phase of the project.
The structure of the weather weapon was mainly divided into two parts. The first part was the launch terminal, used for climate interference, and the distribution was often more scattered. The second part was the control terminal. The central calculator completed the calculation of weather information and controlled the launch terminal to perform climate interference.
The West Coast Meteorological Monitoring Center Jiang Chen saw in North America in the apocalypse was the control terminal of North America's weather weapon. Through the supercomputer at the core, it controlled the launch towers distributed along the West Coast and guided the climate in the desired direction.
Although the land area of Xin was not large, the distance between the sub-islands was astonishingly large. Jiang Chen randomly selected six uninhabited islands from the real estate under his name as the deployment location of the launch towers.
As for the remaining launch towers, it could be solved by artificial islands.
After the inspection of the construction site, Jiang Chen returned to the Presidential Palace with Zhang Yaping. He just sat down and drank a few sips of tea before he received a call.
And it was a long-distance call from B City …
…
"The return plan is suspended. There is a problem with the route and it needs to be temporarily adjusted … Forget it, make up a reasonable reason to inform the astronauts." After leaving the Presidential Palace, Jiang Chen sat in the car parked in front of the door. While talking to Calvin on the phone in Celestial City, he gestured for Ayesha to drive home.
"There is a situation in North America. I just received the news from Bernice."
"Mhmm, it's the same here. Loki told me." Jiang Chen leaned against the passenger seat and smiled helplessly. "Who would have thought? The Washington Post, which has always been regarded as biased to the left, would jump out at this critical juncture and help the Republicans. "
"Could it be that they were threatened?" Ayesha asked.
"It should be said that they were definitely threatened," Jiang Chen said with a smile. "I'm only curious about one thing now. That is, how did the UA media get the news that we plan to send those astronauts home in the near future?"
It didn't seem like someone leaked the secret. Now the informal channels of communication between the Mars colony and Earth were subject to strict manual review. Information that constituted a leak, or information that was not determined to constitute a leak, would be directly intercepted.
"What should we do now?" Ayesha tilted her head slightly and looked at Jiang Chen.
"We? We can't do anything now. Acting rashly will only cause trouble for our allies, "Jiang Chen shook his head with a smile. Jiang Chen shook his head with a smile. "But there is one thing we can help with, although they should have already started."
After all, the opponents were Morgan and Rockefeller. With the strength of the B City Consortium, they were still a bit weak.
For the sake of safety, Jiang Chen planned to add some insurance.
"Go and give Bernice a task. Let her immediately find the editor-in-chief of the editorial published in the Washington Post." After a pause, Jiang Chen continued, "Try to do it before he disappears."
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