American Celestial Master

Chapter 279, Fuse
Often, the trigger for a war is something unexpected. Originally, the place that everyone was most concerned about as a possible trigger was the border area between West Virginia and Maryland, but perhaps because so many eyes were focused on this area, nothing happened there for a while, but something unexpected happened on the other side that no one had paid much attention to before.

This happened in Nevada, which is traditionally a swing state. For a long time, its governors have been members of the Elephant Party, but in recent presidential elections, the Donkey Party has won the upper hand. This state has a small population, about three million before the extraordinary tide appeared. After the extraordinary tide appeared, the state's economy led by the gambling industry suffered a huge blow, and there was a serious loss of population. In addition to deaths, a large number of people fled to the neighboring California. Now the remaining population is about one million.

Another change brought about by the loss of population is the significant change in the population ratio. Before the extraordinary tide, the standard white people in the United States (according to the one drop of blood principle) accounted for more than 50%, (of course, this proportion was higher earlier), but now, pure white people have almost run away. On the other hand, while the tertiary industry such as the gambling industry collapsed, Nevada's status as a mining base has risen, especially after shipping became expensive, many mines that were no longer worth mining due to cost reasons suddenly became valuable again. And this kind of demand also brought about the demand for blue-collar workers, and the result was naturally a large influx of Latino people from Mexico into Maryland.

The result is that in Nevada, the Latino population has quickly gained the upper hand. According to officially recognized figures, the Latino population now accounts for more than 50 percent, while the proportion of whites has dropped from more than 50 percent to a few percent.

However, according to figures from some "independent organizations," the percentage of Latino people in Nevada has exceeded 70 percent, while the percentage of white people has fallen below 10 percent. In Nevada today, the governor is still a member of the Democratic Party, but the people below him have changed. In a sense, this can be considered a case of hip-brain separation.

Nevada has the largest nuclear test base in the United States. Today, this base is used for the federal government's research on supernatural powers, in the hope of artificially mass-producing supernatural beings or controllable supernatural creatures.

The Federation paid great attention to this project at the beginning and allocated a lot of funds, but the progress was not satisfactory and there were a number of minor accidents. In addition, the Federation budget was limited and there were many other places where money was needed. In addition, according to the tradition of the Federation, the project itself was also planned to be completed first and then the budget would be used slowly. Many responsible persons focused their main energy on how to make a beautiful PPT and get more money from the Federation. As for the research progress, except for the artificial succubus project, they did not really care about the progress of other projects.

Because of the above reasons, the federal funding was reduced a lot later. However, the project is still there, and although the progress is limited, at least it is still running.

But political divisions changed everything. If nothing else, funding for this project, except for the most basic part of maintaining safety, was completely stopped.

If this part of the funding is really implemented, although it cannot change the overall failure of the plan, it can at least ensure that it is put into the coffin normally and does not cause the situation of corpse transformation. However, the more it gets to this point, the more anxious everyone is to get the last sum of money. As a result, the effective utilization rate of the last little money invested by the federation is much lower than before.

Of course, there would be problems if this was done. As a result, a batch of monsters in the test went out of control because the warning and defense systems failed (according to later investigations, some key equipment appeared on the black market; and some equipment that was supposed to be made of gold was turned into aluminum alloy gold-plated). According to the plan, these monsters should have been destroyed. However, because the relevant funds for destroying these monsters were not used correctly, some people directly adopted the incorrect method of locking the monsters in a secret room and waiting for them to die naturally in order to save money. In addition, the scope of destroying monsters was incorrectly expanded. In order to avoid the leakage of some "secrets", some people who participated in the plan were also classified as "monsters" and locked in a secret room, waiting for natural destruction.

Unfortunately, some of the equipment in the secret rooms where the monsters were imprisoned had problems. For example, the gold-plated items were usable, but they could not be used at high load for a long time. The mutant humans who were also locked up as monsters knew this (some of the equipment was even sold on the black market by themselves). As a result, these monsters naturally started a riot and rushed out directly from the nuclear test base.

Nevada had just experienced a major change in its population composition, which also affected its National Guard. The combat effectiveness of its National Guard was completely incomparable to that of wealthy states like New York. As for the federal army, at this time, the federation was divided, and the federal army was naturally in chaos.

So in the beginning, neither the National Guard nor the federal army responded appropriately to the incident in Nevada, but the monsters that escaped from the nuclear test base moved extremely quickly, and they quickly headed east into Utah. Then they were blocked by the Utah National Guard, and after severely damaging the Utah National Guard, these monsters turned southeast and entered New Mexico.

New Mexico is a blue state and a member of the Pacific Alliance. Although these monsters caused some casualties after entering western Mexico, their routes just avoided crowded areas. In addition, the National Guard of western Mexico and some federal troops that have pledged allegiance to the Donkey Party in the United States claimed that they were destroying these monsters, but it is not known whether they killed many monsters. However, they did shoot down several drones that flew across the border from neighboring Texas.

As for why the Texas drones flew over the border, it was of course to monitor the monsters. To put it more clearly, it was to see if New Mexico was colluding with the monsters, firing guns into the air, deliberately diverting trouble to Texas and bringing the monsters to Texas.

And according to the pictures taken by their drone before it was shot down, those guys in New Mexico didn't even shoot into the air. They basically maintained a non-aggression stance with the monsters and were actually escorting the monsters all the way.

The rednecks in Texas could not tolerate such things. In their view, the federal government of the Donkey Party created such harmful things, and as far as they know, these man-made monsters have a certain intelligence - that is, they really may be in collusion with those damn Donkey Party. So Texas responded quickly, they planned to "keep the enemy out of the country" and launch a preemptive strike.

(End of this chapter)