"… We promise to build a new Statue of Liberty torch for the UA people to commemorate the denuclearization of North America and the hard-won peace." Standing on the lawn in front of the Rainbow House, facing reporters from all over the world, Zhang Yaping cleared his throat and read.
Just a day ago, the delegation of Xin negotiated with the UA.
To be precise, it was not a negotiation, but an order. From the standpoint of the victorious country, no matter what request was made, the defeated country had no right to refuse.
The first request made by Xin was to ban all nuclear weapons reserves, nuclear equipment production plants, and even harmless nuclear power plants in North America, which completely abolished the nuclear production capacity of the UA. And as the victim of a nuclear war, Xin had the reason and the right to do so.
Even if Xin did not make the request, the members of the Earth Defense Alliance would make this request. After all, the power of the UA President in war was too great. Mike Pence violated the Constitution and launched nuclear weapons without a declaration, which had already touched the fragile nerves of most nuclear-armed countries.
With the help of Hua and Russia, although there was a lot of opposition from the European Union, it did not amount to much.
As compensation for the ban of nuclear power plants, Xin would bear most of the costs of the UA's connection to the global grid, and at the same time, give a certain discount to North America's electricity prices for the next ten years. However, compared to the benefits of Celestial Trade from the "North American Grid Access", this price was only a fraction.
As the world's second largest electricity consumer, if the electricity market was unreservedly opened, it was conservatively estimated that the annual revenue from North America alone would be enough to match the total revenue of the global grid in 2020.
There was sparse applause in the audience. Although it was good news, everyone's face was tense.
Especially Mike Pence, who was standing next to Zhang Yaping, even his clapping hands were moving at a steady pace. He had been ridiculed by the media these days, and these voices of ridicule came from both domestic and foreign countries.
People seemed to be venting their anger on him.
Whether it was the UA or the foreigners who suffered losses because of the UA's defeat.
Just when Mike Pence began to feel bored by the show, an assistant trotted to Mike Pence and whispered a few words in his ear.
"Mr. President, yesterday in California …"
Slightly taken aback, Mike Pence's expression suddenly tensed up.
"Trump? Isn't that guy dead? "
"He doesn't seem to be dead. It is said that an admiral serving in the Pacific Fleet came back with him. At that time, they were driving a Mustang P51 from the last century and landed on a wheat field … "the assistant said quickly.
"How many people know about this?" Mike Pence was alarmed.
"I don't know yet … but according to that guy's personality, he should be on Twitter by now …"
Mike Pence's face turned green in an instant.
Noticing the change in Mike Pence's face next to him, Zhang Yaping smiled slightly and spoke politely.
"What's the matter? Mr. Mike Pence. "
"No … a little." He quickly changed his words halfway, but his face remained calm. Mike Pence continued with a blank expression, "I have something to deal with, can I leave first?"
"Of course." Zhang Yaping made an inviting gesture.
Looking at Mike Pence's back, a meaningful smile appeared on Zhang Yaping's face. He waved his hand gently and whispered in a voice that only he could hear.
"Bon voyage, Mr. Mike Pence."
…
"Ask John Corning to come see me immediately, and ask him to bring the FBA agents who are still available. Also, be careful, don't attract the attention of Celestial Trade. " On the way to the car, Mike Pence said to the assistant next to him in a hurry, "I don't care what method he uses, I ask him to freeze his social media account before that idiot gets his phone."
"I'll go now …"
Watching the assistant walk to another car, Mike Pence took a deep breath, nodded to the bodyguard who opened the door for him, and got into the Lincoln next to him.
Soon, his assistant called John Corning, but there was only a continuous busy tone on the other end of the phone, and he couldn't get through. In desperation, he had to call Corning's assistant, but he learned that Corning didn't go to the FBA headquarters building at all today.
From the tone of the voice on the other end of the phone, the President's assistant vaguely felt something was wrong.
Neither Mike Pence nor his assistant knew at this moment that all the remedial measures were too late. A storm had begun to spread along the tentacles of the Internet to all sectors of the UA society …
It was a piece of news pushed by Future Group that completely ignited this storm.
Long before Trump arrived in California, this news had been prepared.
When they learned from this news that Trump was not dead, the first reaction of most UA people was to open their phones and look at the calendar. It was not until they confirmed that today was not April Fool's Day that they logged onto Twitter with a strange expression and found the familiar profile picture.
Sure enough, Twitter, which had stopped updating for a long time, updated a new tweet.
[… Thank you FBA, thank you Mr. Mike Pence, thank you Boeing, and all 'sponsors' for giving me a small vacation in your busy schedule. Let me see what you've been up to while I was gone.]
When the Mustang P51 piloted by Trump landed in California, with the help of a California farmer, Trump immediately contacted the local media. At the same time, he personally called Twitter's headquarters to appeal and lift the temporary suspension of his social media account due to his disappearance.
Immediately afterward, the first thing he did when he got the smartphone was to tweet and attach a photo with the Mustang P51 as the background … and his golden hair that was blown into a bird's nest.
Less than five minutes after this tweet was sent, it received thousands of replies and hundreds of thousands of likes.
Most of the replies were quite concise.
There were only two or three words, or only a few question marks …
California, Silicon Valley, south of San Francisco. In the office building of an Internet company, Adam Bast was sitting at his desk and reading the newspaper. California, located on the West Coast, was not baptized by the flames of war, and the employees of the company were working normally.
At this moment, the phone on the table suddenly rang.
When he heard the familiar alarm, Adam Bast almost reflexively bounced up from the boss chair, grabbed the phone on the table, pressed his thumb on the unlock button, and opened Twitter.
This alarm was specially set for a certain someone.
As a former member of the [Anti-Trump Alliance], Adam Bast always waited for every new tweet from Trump. The entrepreneur from Austin, the founder of the Fansided website, took the trouble to set up a special reminder function for Trump's Twitter.
As soon as Trump tweeted, his phone would immediately receive a reminder. Because he did not set up a reminder for anyone other than Trump, it was difficult for him to miss any tweet from the president. Sometimes he would even prepare a series of tweets for different topics in advance, copy and paste, and press the send button immediately.
After seeing Trump's tweet, Bast fell into a rare silence.
Faced with the president who "came back from the dead", he did not curse this time. He just sent a series of ellipses to express his shock and disbelief.
Because he really didn't know what to say at this time.
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