Son of the Stars

Chapter 35 Ghost

The coalition government may lack experience in many aspects—for example, they are not very good at raising a group of "voters" who only need to vote through welfare means, and they are not good at controlling the direction of public opinion to make the entire system more suitable for the stability of the coalition government.

The coalition government looks more like a bunch of idiots than previous national governments.They don't like to do simple things that may get a lot of support in a short time.

The coalition government was formed at the time of human life and death, and the memory of "emergency response" and "saving civilization" is etched in their bones.This government is extremely unpleasant. They will always do things like screening, training, evacuation and even isolation in a sudden convulsion.

Anyway, it doesn't matter if ordinary people don't like it, as long as you remember to cooperate with the government's call to complete the corresponding work, live a good life and pay taxes in full.

It is precisely because of this "background marker" that general screening of more than 20 billion people has at least a certain degree of "feasibility".But even the most optimistic government staff cannot guarantee that the "general screening" can be fully realized - there are always some people in this world who will refuse to cooperate for various reasons or reasons.

Moreover, the coalition government still has doubts about carrying out "general blood screening".Blood drawing is an invasive test, and many adults are afraid of it, and their cooperation with this test is bound to be lower than the general screening of "online answer questionnaire".

What's more, blood drawing...the level of general screening personnel it requires is also different.Answering questionnaires online, which doesn't even require AI, just a normal web push.But blood draws require at least specially trained nursing staff, a place that is safe enough to conduct blood draws, and specialized facilities for handling medical waste.

Objective difficulties are one factor, while genuine hesitation by the Coalition Government is a second.

In the past two months, the random explosions in various regions have driven the entire public opinion into a frenzy."Experts" who are outside the mainstream research field put forward various "analyses" on the explosion.From alien invasions, to dark matter collisions, from the coalition government's illegal weapons experiments to the annihilation of space instability caused by high-energy physics experiments.

All kinds of weird rumors are circulating in various media, and the social atmosphere is relatively tense.Now, after the explosion of the No. [-] ship of the Mars manned program, the sudden blood test will inevitably lead to further confusion and panic.

Moreover, this general screening does not seem to be particularly urgent now.The coalition government has counted the bombings so far, counting the two "suspected" bombings, there are only nine.And among the nine bombings, eight occurred in the first two weeks.

The frequency of explosions has dropped significantly—is it still necessary to carry out general screening?
The coalition government is making extremely serious and headache-inducing trade-offs over whether to carry out universal screening.Lu Chen, the culprit who caused this trade-off, was eating a buffet on a luxury cruise ship in the ice sea of ​​the North Atlantic.

"I've seen it..." Yang Weimin sat next to Lu Chen with a plate, and said in a low voice, "The guest rooms on several floors upstairs and downstairs are all empty, and even the crew members are AI robots—except for us on this ship. , I'm afraid there are not many survivors."

Lu Chen glanced at Yang Weimin in confusion, and after completing the whole set of "chewing-swallowing" movements for ten seconds, he asked back, "Is there any problem? Isn't this the selling point of this boat? "

The super cruise ship Royal Coast Laurel with a displacement of 27 tons is famous for its unparalleled automation and unprecedented privacy.A supertanker of the same size often needs at least 150 crew members to provide adequate services for passengers.The Laurel, on the other hand, used a large number of AI robots as a breakthrough, and the crew of the whole ship was reduced to only [-] people.

And among the 150 people, there are 120 cast and crew members—only [-] crew members are needed to completely control this giant ship.

This 68-meter-high super cruise ship is now on the icy North Atlantic Ocean, which is completely unsuitable for vacation sailing. The cold sea wind threw the waves of the Atlantic Ocean onto the bow, and then was smashed to pieces.

Lu Chen and the others who were eating in the restaurant were all in a low mood - especially Mu Zhiran, who was very dissatisfied with the committee's arrangement.

The thirteen academicians of the committee unanimously agreed that an independent high-level team should be formed to live in the Mount Argentario base.They will use the same equipment to analyze and test the remaining samples of Jeanne—the biological samples left by Jeanne have basically been exhausted, but... After the explosion of the No. [-] boat of the Mars manned landing plan, the earth suddenly There is an extra batch of samples available for research.

The "culprit" who killed 22 people and created a batch of corpses farthest from the earth is a 37-year-old male astronaut.

The social relationship between him and the first eight bombers is still under investigation, but the Comprehensive Investigation Bureau has given a judgment of "preliminary determination that there has been no physical contact".The 37-year-old male astronaut may be humanity's best chance for the first time to determine that quantum entanglement can be harnessed by quantum release syndrome.

Yes, explosion disease finally has a proper term - Quanrum Energy Release Syndrome, Quanrum Energy Release Syndrome (QERS).

However, such an important opportunity and such a valuable discovery should be left to the "high-level verification experimental group" designated by the committee.Even in order to prevent mutual interference, Lu Chen and others had to be transferred to the Laurel... This is simply unacceptable.

Thinking of this, Dr. Mu Zhiran became even more angry. She snatched the hand-caught lamb chops she ordered from the AI ​​robot, and then ate a whole piece of peeled garlic, bite after bite of the lamb.

Director Li Xiaohui looked at Mu Zhiran, who was eating meat, and then at the fried rice in front of her.

Then she said to the AI ​​assistant on the table, "Please give me a hand-caught lamb chop without garlic—and, send a box of chewing gum to Dr. Lu's table."

Lu Chen and the others lived on the 20-ton cruise ship.After living on the boat for three days, everyone basically entered a strange state of a little anxiety and doing nothing.

Director Li Xiaohui, as the director of the National Mental Health Center, has not lost her basic skills in discovering and mediating abnormal psychological emotions.It is Li Xiaohui's job to find some fun for everyone on the boat every day, and to mediate the depression of being transferred from work.

However, Academician Tang Qinglong seemed very relaxed.He doesn't seem to worry at all about whether the so-called "high-level verification team" can complete the verification, and he doesn't care that his work achievements may be stolen.

Academician Tang, who usually works and lives very simply, is now wearing a swimsuit, taking a bath in the hot tub outside the restaurant while drinking hot rice wine with shredded ginger, rock sugar and red dates.

In the sub-zero outdoor environment, running in a hot bath and drinking hot rice wine in the howling wind and snowflakes, Tang Qinglong's face quickly turned red.

He held up his wine glass and extended an invitation to Lu Chen, "You keep staring at fried noodles, what's the use of that stuff? Come and drink with me!"

Seeing that Lu Chen seemed a little hesitant, Tang Qinglong quickly stepped up his persuasion, "Wine is a good thing for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis. If you don't drink alcohol during rest, how can you do research?"

Mu Zhiran, who was eating mutton chops, stood up, walked to the bathtub in three steps at a time, stuffed a piece of raw garlic full of mutton fat into his teacher's mouth, and walked back without looking back. at the table.

Lu Chen heard his girlfriend's dissatisfied murmur very clearly, "As soon as I leave the laboratory, I will become an old drunkard!"

After such a commotion, the atmosphere in the restaurant became a lot more relaxed. At this moment, Watanabe walked into the room quickly and said to everyone, "An hour ago, two explosions occurred—a pair of twins. Two cities 4000 and [-] kilometers away from each other exploded in the same second."

(End of this chapter)