California was a region that became independent in 2066. The country was completely controlled by capital and was nicknamed the "Golden Country of Blue Freedom". It was even nicknamed the "California Mega Corporation".
Rather than a country, it was more like a super business alliance.
They used all kinds of money, from RMB to US dollars to their own new banknotes. Any legal banknotes could be used here.
After the war, the depression and reconstruction caused capital to completely erode this region.
Every department in the country was controlled by one or more companies. The military was completely managed by arms dealers and security companies. They were responsible for all military orders, including national defense and weapons research and development.
The energy department was undoubtedly controlled by the group that produced electricity, and the land resources were planned by real estate companies.
In fact, the country's departments were divided in more detail. They were completely controlled by subsidiary companies. In the end, they formed a huge group, which was also the main body of the country.
Except for state taxes, nothing was owned by the state. Personal property was protected to the extreme.
And this kind of enterprise that had full authority to contract the state's public affairs was known as the state's business enterprise. There were a total of 142 of them, and they were responsible for 50 state departments, big and small.
The state's orders were their orders. The state's projects were their projects.
Of course, they could also distribute the state's orders to other non-state businessmen.
These tycoons used their shares in exchange for a large number of votes from the people. Almost all the people enjoyed the benefits of one or more state businessmen. But on the other hand, if the people suffered too much economic loss, they would also lose a lot of votes. Then, their power would be replaced by other companies.
This was a country that used money in exchange for votes.
Even the state bank was a private bank. In theory, the bank could print any pattern on the banknotes … as long as it passed the shareholders' meeting.
The most famous example of the power of capital was …
After the technology was made public, the old energy companies all transformed. For a time, there were several energy companies that used controllable nuclear fusion to produce electricity. They competed in the energy market and together, they controlled the country's energy.
Until Mobil made a shocking deal. They used 1.45 billion RMB to buy the "20" banknote pattern from the state bank for 30 years.
The state bank accepted the deal and launched the new 20 California banknote with the Mobil logo. It became the most cost-effective advertising case in history.
Mobil became an energy giant. It took 30 years for them to stand out and suppress other energy companies.
When Mobil made huge profits from the banknote advertising, companies of other denominations also bought the banknotes.
They were one yuan, five yuan, ten yuan, and fifty yuan respectively.
As for the hundred yuan, it had not been sold yet. It was said that the price had been raised to the sky, or it would be left there forever, never to be sold.
Now, with the addition of Mobil, the five gold companies had become the five most deep-rooted business giants in California. At the same time, they were also political giants.
One of the companies, Tiannuo, dominated the aerospace industry in Canada. It had many factories on the moon and as many as 20 spaceships flew between Earth and the moon every month.
August 3, 2098, the Heineken Beer transport ship was returning, only a few hundred kilometers away from the outer atmosphere.
This name came about because Tinnuo Corporation sold the naming rights of the transport spacecraft to Heineken Beer.
The surface of the spaceship was painted with an extremely eye-catching logo … and in other inconspicuous places, there were many sponsors' advertisements, making the entire spaceship look especially strange.
"Ah … There's a signal. What? Why has Slippery Toys' stock price dropped so much? "A curly-haired astronaut finally received a signal when the spaceship approached Earth.
Another elderly man shook his head and laughed. "I told you not to buy risky stocks in space. There's only a working channel on the moon. Look, it's been three days since the price hit the limit, and you only know now."
The curly-haired astronaut sighed, calculating how much money he had lost in this round of investment.
The elderly man smiled and turned on the external camera. He looked at the blue planet on the screen and said, "Look, Earth is so beautiful. Go travel if you have the money. Transportation is so convenient now."
The curly-haired astronaut also looked at Earth in a daze. Every time he came back, he would feel a sense of peace when he saw Earth.
Compared to the desolate and depressing moon, Earth was just too beautiful.
"Boom!" There was a sudden tremor in the cabin.
The radio receiver in the curly-haired astronaut's hand flew out and smashed into the cabin wall above his head, instantly shattering a few parts.
The parts were thrown around in the weightless cabin, ejecting everywhere.
The two hurriedly put on their helmets. Before they could clean up the mess, the entire spaceship began to flip because the Earth on the screen was rotating abnormally.
"What's going on? What did we hit? "
"According to the pressure, the port side was hit, but the impact was very light and did not tear the outer deck."
"Why didn't the radar give any warning?"
"Don't worry about it. Stabilize the spaceship immediately."
The two quickly checked the damage to the hull. Fortunately, there were no major problems. Using chemical rocket propulsion on the wings, they quickly stopped the rotation and readjusted the return trajectory.
"Turn on the left observation lens and see what it is!" The curly-haired astronaut said as he cleaned up the broken parts.
"I've been on this route for ten years without any problems! Which spaceship threw rubbish and left it stranded on the route? "The elderly man said angrily.
He didn't think it was a meteorite with such a light bump. It was probably some rubbish that had brushed against it.
But when he turned on the camera, there was a black object on the left rear. It seemed to be very big, but he couldn't see what it was. After it bumped into them, it quickly zoomed away.
"Play the video!"
Through the playback, they could see that a few minutes ago, nothing could be seen in the vast expanse of space. Only the sun was shining from behind.
Just as their spaceship was about to return, a black sphere with a diameter of about ten meters suddenly appeared out of nowhere and hit the "Heineken Beer" logo on the left side of their ship.
Because the spaceship was moving at high speed and suddenly brushed against it, it immediately spun out of control.
But this was only a small problem. The problem was what that black sphere was!
It was a pure black sphere without a trace of impurities. The electromagnetic waves couldn't tell what it was at all. Thermal detection was also completely blocked by the darkness.
"Oh my god, it really appeared out of thin air. Is it China's new spaceship?" The curly-haired astronaut said in horror.
"Keep an eye on it! I'll contact the ground immediately! "
The elderly man had been doing Earth and Moon transportation for ten years, but he had never experienced such a thing. Just as they were about to return, a pure black sphere without any external propulsion, light source, or signal instantly appeared beside the spaceship. It was simply terrifying.
Especially when the black sphere appeared at a slightly different position. They wouldn't have just brushed against it, they would have crashed into it.
At this speed, as long as it wasn't made of paper, the spaceship would be damaged or even torn apart.
"Promise! Promise! I'm Heineken! We've encountered an accident. An unknown object has appeared on the route! "
As he spoke, he sent the video back to the surface.
At the same time, the curly-haired astronaut suddenly shouted, "It's moving! It's moving! There's a high-energy reaction! "
Bursts of light suddenly appeared on the sides and back of the black sphere. The electromagnetic detection showed that it was a high-energy plasma energy impact. However, this impact didn't have any trajectory. It appeared directly on the surface of the black sphere.
The black sphere was thus pushed forward and accelerated towards them.
However, its speed wasn't very fast. It was probably slower than them, and it was always following behind the transport ship.
Moreover, its path was very strange. At times, it would deviate from their trajectory, and at other times, it would accelerate and rush back. In any case, it was hovering near the transport ship.
After the video was transmitted to the surface, Promise Corporation's navigation station was dumbfounded. The higher-ups first condemned China, then began to study the black sphere that was generally heading towards Earth.
"This is too strange. We can't see the reaction process at all. The energy also came out of thin air. What kind of propulsion is this?"
"We can't detect any reactants. This energy is directly generated. That's impossible. There has to be a device to make it, right? Could it be that we can't see the device? "
"It's impossible that it can't be detected at all. Is China's technology so advanced?"
"No, no, it's completely wrong! China doesn't admit to owning this flying object and asked us to release the video of the Heineken Beer. "
California wasn't the only country that was alarmed. All countries with aerospace development capabilities received the video back one after another.
No one admitted that this was their aircraft. This thing didn't look like a normal aircraft.
No engine, extremely low mass, and even no heat was detected.
"Could this be an alien spaceship?"
"Its propulsion method is too strange. On the surface, it looks like a traditional chemical rocket propulsion, but the form is completely different."
"Did you notice that the energy on its surface is directly blasted up? This means that there's equipment that we can't observe that's bombarding it with high energy."
Promise Corporation's higher-ups asked, "What does this mean?"
The scientist's face was almost squeezed together. He said with difficulty, "I don't know … Even heat can't be detected. I can only think of it as dark matter …"
Promise Corporation's higher-ups broke out in cold sweat. They said in a deep voice, "Did you try to establish contact?"
If it was just a black sphere, they could think of it as some kind of natural matter. However, this black sphere chased after the spaceship left and right. They could only think of it as being controlled by someone.
"We tried. I don't know if that black sphere received our electromagnetic waves. Anyway, we didn't receive any feedback," said the scientist.
The higher-ups' scalp was numb, but they didn't know what to do.
Not only him, all the weapons in the world were locked onto the thing that had entered the outer atmosphere. However, no one dared to 'fire a shot'.
Huaxia was in the near-Earth satellite orbit. All the cruising aircraft in the outer atmosphere had withdrawn. Only one was close to the black sphere.
The black sphere didn't react to this. It squeezed the air and whistled into the inner atmosphere.
Under close observation, it could be seen that it was a pure black sphere without any impurities.
After a few high-energy explosions on its surface and adjusting its orbit, it entered a state of free fall. It crashed into California like a meteorite without slowing down at all.
"It's coming toward us … It's doing it on purpose."
"It's not slowing down. Is it a weapon? A missile? "
"Should we intercept it?"
California's higher-ups discussed for a long time but didn't give the order to intercept it. After calculating that the landing point would be the sea outside Los Angeles, they finally chose to let it crash.
"Huff huff …"
Outside Los Angeles' Angel Beach, a black sphere fell rapidly from a distance and slanted into the sea.
It could be seen that there was only a small yacht in the area where it was about to hit. A woman seemed to be fishing in the sea.
At this time, there was no way to remind the woman. It was too late.
"May God bless her …" The higher-ups who observed this scene murmured. He was more concerned about what the black sphere was.
"Boom!" The black sphere crashed into the sea.
Huge waves instantly surged and spread in all directions. The small yacht was instantly overturned and submerged.
"Immediately send a ship to salvage it! Be careful! Connect the call and don't stop. "
"No … wait a minute, what is that?"
At the impact site, a white fog covered a one-kilometer radius. The fog rolled and formed a larger sphere. A hemispherical cloud cover appeared on the surface of the sea.
Before the spreading waves could reach the shore, they were covered by clouds and mist, blocking all of them.
Outside the cloud cover, the sea was calm. It seemed to be isolated from the outside world.
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