CIATB Chapter 1588 New Era
Chapter 1588 New Era
Chapter 1588 New Era
The summer of 2005 was destined to be listed as an important turning point in this world.
This year, the destruction of the great nation of Oss also revealed to all mankind the threats that the world is facing. Just a few years ago, even in enlightened countries, they still adopted a semi-open and semi-hidden attitude towards supernatural powers and external threats.
I don't care if you spread it privately, and I even allow the existence of various small and medium-sized communication groups. But if the official television or radio broadcasts it for publicity, it is prohibited.
This kind of self-contradictory attitude of pretending to be blind while being a jerk also reflects the hesitant mentality of the entire human society towards the extraordinary.
".The situation shouldn't deteriorate that quickly. It will probably take at least another ten years."
"It was like this five years ago. Maybe we can still maintain it in ten years."
When things get bad, humans subconsciously reject the possibility of further deterioration.
Conservatism is not the monopoly of a certain country, but the instinct of people to refuse to face the worst future. Even if many people know that everything will be worse, when the countdown is not clear, most people will not lift the window paper.
“Perhaps, during my term/lifetime, things won’t get that bad.”
From this we can see how difficult it is to make a decision like the Nirvana Plan, which breaks all the old order, and how rare it is in this era.
In the past, conservatives have always dominated the mainstream because they can maintain the status quo, and the stable benefits brought by "order" are their greatest voice.
"If it's fully disclosed, it will cause social unrest. What will we do if the crime rate skyrockets and the economy collapses?"
"The chance of becoming a superhuman is too low. Social equality will be gone. When equality for all becomes a joke, who knows what will happen?"
"Are you sure that human reason is reliable? Are you sure that after those people learn the truth, they will not take the initiative to join the foreign evil gods?"
Too many reasons, too many excuses and what they say is true.
As a result, even today, five or six years after the Eastern Country used its institutional advantages to forcibly implement the Nirvana Plan, there are still a large number of countries that are still pretending that peace is the norm. Even though most of the people in these countries already know the truth clearly, they still pretend that nothing has happened because they don't want their lives to be changed.
The increasing number of supernatural crimes, sacrifices to evil gods, capital flight, and social unrest seem to prove how much uncertainty "full disclosure of the supernatural" will bring. The managers of capital and society probably hate turbulence and uncertainty the most.
Do they know that this is a forced cover-up? One day, everything will be unable to be covered up, and the old order will collapse due to deception and concealment.
They are just gambling, gambling that they can delay as long as possible, gambling that the bomb will not explode during their term.
"They lost the bet. Now, in most countries, only those with internet, the top ten hot searches are all about supernatural, Oss battlefield, and foreign invaders. And in at least half of the countries, the top three hot searches are "failure of the great counterattack" or "XX quasi-god died in battle." Well, that's not the case with Citibank. Their top three are "Eastern Country dragged down the great counterattack," "Eastern Country stole Citibank's shipbuilding technology," and "Eastern Country's influence expanded in Southeast Asia, and it is suspected to be the biggest beneficiary of the war."
Seeing that Citibank maintained the same spirit as always regardless of the timeline, Lu Ping'an felt inexplicably relieved.
The Eastern Country was the first country to fully lift the ban on supernatural knowledge, but it was able to maintain stability in the tide, relying more on "tradition."
The Nirvana Plan was a gamble, but it seemed to have been won. A large amount of strategic resources, powerful people, and resources from the outside world were incorporated into the East Country system. The development in just five or six years was equivalent to that in the past thirty years. Of course, the hidden dangers it brought also exceeded those in the past thirty years.
But this time, when the plane war broke out directly on the local soil beyond everyone's plan, it dealt a severe blow to the "conservatives" and "secret keepers" of various countries. Their conservatism and secret keeping proved to be stupid, and they lost all their chips.
Therefore, Citibank on the other side of the sea could only use hysterical and forced news manipulation to forcibly shift the blame. Due to some reasons that everyone understands, their X-series drugs were sold at the lowest price of one million Citibank dollars. Various pharmaceutical companies and arms companies made a fortune and planned to make it a long-term business.
This half-hidden state, this advertising strategy of using celebrities to promote the "superman drug", makes them quite satisfied with the profit return rate.
But the reality will never be distorted by how much you can earn. Even if you can deceive some people temporarily, the pain of being bitten back by the lies will be doubled.
Citibank has creatively turned the supernatural profession into a business, and the big forces that control resources and development space have established the order. They who have control over the resources can really arrange the lives of supernatural people clearly, including the entertainment industry, mercenaries, company bodyguards, etc. In short, you must choose a force to join.
Those businesses centered around "superheroes" have indeed made huge profits and sold well, but they have also become advertisements for "selling the extraordinary."
As for real capitalists, they never work hard to provide the best quality products possible. If they want to sell the goods in their hands at the highest possible price, how to turn short-term business into long-term business that the audience cannot leave, the maximum profit is their only pursuit.
So, what should we do? It's very simple and straightforward: monopolize, differentiate, and try to increase the unit price among different consumers.
Raise the entry threshold. You may make more money by selling one than by selling a thousand. So, just sell one.
Of course, there are similar ones in the black market, but the awakening rate is about 30% and the inefficiency is about 10%. Who is willing to try it?
The X potion from the East has only been around in recent years, but it has actually become a best-seller on the black market. However, the quantity is quite limited. After those goods crossed the sea, the success rate of the junk potion on the black market has somehow increased to 50%.
And now, with the hammer of the foreign invaders, order began to collapse.
"On the front lines of a battlefield, you can't lie."
Especially among those quasi-gods who died in battle, there was also an "American hero" who was crazily promoted by the media and enterprises. He was called "Little Superman" and became the "Dead Superman", and the photo of his mutilated body with his eyes open after death directly became a wildly spread Internet virus.
After the crazy spread of "fear" and "panic", what followed was the anger from the bottom of the heart. When the first arms store selling X agent was looted, it didn't even make the news.
Meanwhile, Dongguo's X drug has long been available through formal channels. Anyone can buy it at a reasonable price as long as they provide proof of identity and use it on the spot. With the introduction of the latest technology, its price has even dropped to several thousand yuan.
Of course, the actual cost exceeded 30,000, but it was subsidized by the government. After the Nirvana Plan, the Eastern Country officials were eager for more extraordinary people to be born.
The people of Sakurajima who were hit by the "black ship" in the "New Black Ship Incident" used a relatively appropriate metaphor.
The whole world was awakened by this foreign "black ship".
On the other hand, in the war of public opinion, Citibank's practice of shifting the blame did not get any advantage. A large amount of evidence was released at the same time. When the "Nirvana Plan" was not yet called this name, the East Country had a resolution to involve other countries in the effort, but it was rejected every time.
The two sides are still blaming each other as usual, and at least they are in the upper hand in the war of public opinion in their own countries, just like before. But everyone knows that the news is deceiving themselves, and the times can no longer be turned back.
“The era of universal transcendence may be just around the corner.”
This time, the East Country is already ahead, and Lu Ping'an's "New Forest Land" seems destined to become an important strategic fulcrum.