Homo sapiens.

Chapter 451 New Era ([-])

The first year of Xinghe.

6 month 2 day.

As soon as the North American stock market opened, it was red and hot.

However, this kind of redness is definitely not what Wall Street financial groups and all North American stockholders want to see.

Because European and American stock markets are green up and red down.

The Dow Jones index fell 7.3% as soon as the market opened, and the circuit breaker mechanism was triggered instantly.

Even Buffett, who is known as the stock god, suffered heavy losses at this time. Medical and pharmaceutical stocks, insurance stocks, education stocks, sports stocks, and cosmetics stocks led the decline, followed by daily chemical stocks, electrical appliances, automobile stocks, and real estate stocks. .

Except for military stocks and a few companies involved in biochips and space exploration, the stocks of companies in other industries are bright red.

In fact, it is not just the North American stock market that has plummeted, but the stock markets of major economies around the world are plummeting. During the economic crisis two years ago, the continuous plummet seems to have returned again.

And this time, even if there is another plastic crisis, there is no way to stimulate the rapid recovery of the global economy.

Town of Omaha.

Headquarters of Berkshire.

Buffett is in his chairman's office, listening to the reports of five analysts, with a trace of fatigue and unwillingness on his face.

On the other hand, Desaro, who is in charge of Berkshire's insurance business, reported solemnly: "Mr. Chairman, our company's insurance business may be greatly impacted."

In fact, it doesn't need to be said by Desaro, Buffett is also very clear about the current situation.

However, Buffett didn't pay much attention to this. Even though his wealth has dropped a lot in the past two years due to high taxes and the economic crisis, his worth is still more than $427 billion.

What he cares most about now is not how much money he can make, but how to survive.

Buffett, who was born in 1930, was 94 years old at this time, and he had prostate cancer. Although it was cured with money, it must have damaged some body functions.

In the past few years, he felt more and more powerless, and his body was getting worse day by day. The feeling that could be extinguished at any time made him very uncomfortable.

At the inauguration ceremony of Homo Sapiens yesterday, Buffett was very eager for the technology that Li Qingye mentioned could prolong life by 42%.

However, he found desperately that it was difficult for him to obtain what the ordinary employees of Homo sapiens had at their fingertips.

Unless he is willing to give up Berkshire and his wealth of $427 billion, and then go to Homo sapiens, he, the world's top three richest man, will not be able to buy that kind of life-extending symbiotic microorganisms.

In life, one cannot escape the four words of fame, wealth, power and sex.

For Buffett, these things have been enjoyed for most of his life, and now he can give up everything and become a retired employee of Homo sapiens, he can't do it.

He looked at Robert, the vice president: "Robert, I asked you to investigate the genetic biology company, how is the investigation going?"

"Mr. President, I have learned a little bit. Three gene bio companies are indeed developing drugs that can rejuvenate people." Robert took out a survey report from his briefcase.

Buffett took it and looked through it carefully.

The three biological companies are California's Aurora Genetics, Florida's Diga Biotech, and Britain's Windsor Pharmaceuticals.

"Windsor?" Buffett glanced at the company's shareholding structure, and immediately understood whose industry it was.

In fact, Aurora Gene and Dijia Bio are also behind large pharmaceutical groups such as Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer.

After all, life-prolonging drugs or technologies are definitely a sharp weapon for harvesting the rich, so how could the major pharmaceutical companies give up this field.

Buffett looked at the product development situation above, but his face showed a hint of disappointment.

These three companies have researched life-extending drugs or technologies in several directions, but none of them has high value.

Either the effect of prolonging life is not obvious, or the side effects are serious, and even directly eat back the human body, or the cost is extremely high, but the curative effect is impressively low.

He thought for a while, picked up the phone and dialed the chairman of Johnson & Johnson.

beep...

"Hi, Mr. Buffett, it's an honor to speak with you."

Buffett didn't exchange pleasantries, but cut straight to the point: "Anthony! Is that Tiga Biotech controlled by your company?"

"Dijia Bio?..." The other side of the phone seemed to be confirming something, and after a while: "Mr. Buffett is also interested in life extension technology?"

"Who isn't interested?"

"Tell Mr. Buffett the truth, the research results of Dijia Biotech are very mediocre, and can't reach the 42% life extension effect of Homo sapiens." Anthony explained with some helplessness.

If it was other investors, then Anthony would definitely fool the other party, but Buffett is different. His network is too strong, and Anthony does not want to offend this kind of old fox.

Hearing about Homo sapiens' life-extending technology, Buffett asked, "Anthony, do you know how that symbiotic microorganism prolongs life?"

"According to our researchers' guess, there is a high probability that it is some kind of artificial microorganism that can combine with organelles. As for what it is, no one knows now, because we have not obtained any samples."

"I think your company should be doing related research?" Buffett, who is mature and sophisticated, asked with certainty.

"...As expected of a stock god, our company has actually received a lot of special funding today, all of which require us to research life extension technology."

"Is the investment of 50 billion yuan enough?"

Anthony on the other side of the phone was also very shocked by Buffett's generosity: "Mr. Buffett, I can't promise to produce results within 10 years."

The implication is that if you die before the life extension technology is successful, they Johnson & Johnson will not be responsible.

"Don't worry, I know."

"OK, then I wish us a happy cooperation."

"Pleasant to work with."

Buffett hung up the phone. Although he did not join the City on the Hill Council, he still knew Thomas Morgan.

He knew that the major families of the council would definitely not be reconciled, and would definitely increase investment in research on biochips and life extension technologies.

As for subduing Homo sapiens, this is not the first choice of these rich people, unless they are forced to do so in the end.

Ordinary people can go to Homo sapiens company to work, but these rich and powerful families obviously will not give up everything easily.

It's more painful than killing them if you can't be a dragon.

For the plunge of global stock markets, although Wall Street financial groups are hurting, it will not hurt them.

After all, in financial games such as stocks and futures, no matter how you play, the dealer will make a steady profit without losing money, but the leeks for ordinary people will become more and more difficult to cut in the future.

Now the global pharmaceutical stocks are basically showing a polarized situation.

Some pharmaceutical companies that produce common drugs and medical equipment are basically falling and falling.

However, a small number of pharmaceutical companies that are related to life-prolonging technology bucked the market and rose.

At this time, after a night of discussions, the City on the Hill Council finally came up with a set of plans to deal with Homo sapiens.

Including completely prohibiting Homo sapiens companies from entering the market of free associations, and at the same time establishing an internal market exclusively for free associations, and at the same time cutting off most of the non-governmental external optical cables.

In other words, from now on, the civilian Internet within the free association will not be connected to other places.

Obviously, the Council of the City on a Hill made a forced choice.

In order to avoid being poached by Homo sapiens, they finally took out their housekeeping skills - unplugging the network cable.

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