Global Monopoly of Technology

Shencheng.

College student Lin Hai has been fiddling with restoring his azure mobile phone for the past two days. According to the relevant precautionary knowledge, his mobile phone has successfully escaped this disaster. He did not expect that microwave ovens can really effectively resist electromagnetic pulses. Of course, he also did Multiple other protections.

In these days, Lin Hai relied on his hand-made hand-cranked generator to manually crank it for a day and a half, and finally charged his azure phone by about 15%.

The unicorn arm is about to be practiced, and its efficiency is low, but it is better than nothing.

"Haha, it's done!"

After Lin Hai turned on the phone, he was overjoyed when he heard the familiar start-up ringtone. He swiped and clicked on the screen for a while to confirm that the phone could be used normally, but there was no signal or network.

After a while, Lin Hai turned on the video and started recording the video.

"Welcome to the 'Steam Age', today is November 21, 2021, what I'm going through right now makes me subconsciously think of a Hollywood movie, and the magic is that the time of this movie is a coincidence It's this year."

"Let's talk about the current situation. Today is two weeks after the solar storm, and the power has not been restored. No, there is already electricity, but it is only available in key places such as medical institutions. There is still no electricity in ordinary residential homes. Electricity."

"It is said that it will be difficult to restore the power supply level before the storm in the next one to three years. When the solar storm blows like this, all power lines have to be checked and replaced, and this work must be done nationwide. The scale of this project is unimaginable. I'm afraid that in a big first-tier city, I even doubt whether my house will be able to get electricity after a year, but the official said that the country's electricity recovery after a year can reach the level of the early 1990s."

"I heard that now as long as you go to work in food processing factories, electronics factories, water plants and other institutions, you can get some electricity for free, and mobile phone charging is allowed, but you can only bring one mobile phone. By the way, it's okay. Bring an extra power bank, and many people have applied for this power.”

"Now we are basically unemployed. These jobs that are usually unpopular are in short supply. You don't need to be surprised that a worker on the assembly line of an electronic component factory is a doctoral student."

"Emmm... This is an era without internet, no internet access, internet celebrities are all unemployed, courier guys and takeaway guys are all laid off, but without internet, there is no more junk news and all kinds of internet scolding, keyboard warriors too. No, it's barely good news."

"There is no shortage of food. Before the storm came, my country's official data had already disclosed that the current national grain reserves can probably support the consumption of food rations for the people of the country for three years.

The food crisis has not occurred, but it is basically impossible to eat big fish and meat like before, and there is no need to think about fresh food. "

"There is no internet, and entertainment is very monotonous, playing mahjong, fighting the landlord, killing the Three Kingdoms, etc., or looking up at the stars in a daze, but now there is no light pollution, the night sky in Shencheng is the most splendid I have ever seen, and it may be in the future. even more."

"Winter is here, and the temperature has dropped significantly. At this moment, I really envy my friends in the south. It's like spring all year round, and I don't worry about eating, fruit and seafood, and I don't worry about the lack of entertainment. The south is so cool."

"There is no internet, but now there is public broadcasting. Of course, if you have electricity, you can tune the frequency yourself, and you can also learn about outside information. I heard that there is chaos abroad now, and the beautiful country has died due to the secondary disaster of the storm and the man-made disaster. More than 800,000 people have died, and more than 1.3 million people have died worldwide."

"When I heard these shocking numbers, I would like to thank the motherland more sincerely. We are not living in a peaceful era, but we are just lucky to live in a peaceful country, and there are a group of people whose names you don't even know are carrying the burden for you. "

"The good news is that today's urban broadcast news said that on December 2, Star Arrow International will launch three consecutive rockets with one arrow and more stars on the same day, and nearly 800 small satellites will be sent into space. It can cover the two major industrial economic belts of the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta.”

"In other words, the city of Shen where I am located will be able to have the Internet in less than two weeks, Archbishop is mighty!"

"Look at this, light guide Li-Fi and wireless card, hehe."

"At the moment, all broadband is out of service, and optical fibers are all gone. In the next few years, don't count on them. If you want to quickly experience Internet surfing, you need to use a wireless network card. Now the price of Nima has increased twenty times, but you may not be able to buy it. You are as smart as me. I prepared two sets before the storm came, and I knew that I would prepare more and sell them now. I missed an opportunity to make a fortune, and my heart hurts."

"Lying toast~, the power is out so soon? Well, I will record it later. It seems that I need to find a class. I will go to a nearby canned food processing factory tomorrow to see if I can get in. Only when I enter the factory. In this way, precious energy can be obtained.”

After finishing the video diary recording, Lin Hai immediately went over his power bank and tested it to see if it still works.

...

On the same day, the North American Rust Belt.

The local temperature has turned cold, but today the city of St. Louis is full of people, with more than 100,000 people gathering in the local squares and roads.

The crowd is full of people, and the voices are full of people.

"Sir, Kevin Saron has been locked, do you want to kill him?"

"No one is allowed to do anything without my order. If he dies here, it will cause uncontrollable chaos. Kevin Saron can only die in an accident, not murder. Do you understand?"

"Yes, sir!"

At this moment, there are hundreds of thousands of low-level civilians gathered in St. Louis. If the people who eat melons in the country see the scene here, they will definitely be confused and call them experts.

The most striking thing about these gatherers is that almost all of them have two agricultural tools, a sickle and a hammer, which are like nails.

They crossed and held their scythes and hammers high, forming a symbol most hated among the elites of the Pretty Country.

Kevin Salon, the initiator of the rally.

At this moment, he was standing on a high platform at the scene, holding a traditional loudspeaker in his hand. After he pressed his gesture, the restlessness of the scene gradually calmed down, and everyone's eyes gradually focused on him.

At this highly anticipated moment, Kevin Saron said impassively, "Look at what's happening around you, and look at what you're experiencing, are you fed up?"

Before he finished speaking, the crowd suddenly responded, raising the sickle and hammer in their hands.

Kevin Salon pressed his hand again and said loudly: "More than ever, we need an ability that can deprive capitalists of making short-term decisions based on profits that are threatening us all the time. survival."

"I have ten questions on my mind. Have you ever asked these questions?"

"no.1: Why does the world around us seem so chaotic?"

"no.2: Why are there so many people in our community, millions of people dying because of the redwood plague and solar storm?"

"no.3: Why can't we control the disaster?"

"no.4: Why is our job lost?"

"no.5: Why are small businesses in our community disappearing?"

"no.6: Why do we have to find three jobs to survive?"

"no.7: Why is our health insurance so expensive?"

"no.8: Why can't we afford a college education?"

"no.9: Why doesn't Amazon pay taxes while we do?"

"no.10: Why is there so much hatred and dissatisfaction now?"

The ten questions once again aroused the excitement of the audience. Every question went straight to the bottom of the heart. Most of the people who gathered here were actually unable to go south. Most of the rich people in North America went to Mexico and other low-dimensional areas for vacation. Go, and at the moment have been enjoying the sun bathing comfortably on the Caribbean beach.

Kevin Saron is also getting better, and I saw him speak impassively again:

"Maybe you think the answers to these questions are much deeper than 'this is the truth', 'the authorities are the problem', 'those people are the problem'. Maybe you're still wondering, is there a better alternative than we have now? The current economic system in the U.S. doesn’t make everyone rich, it makes only a few richer.”

"Join us, unity is our slogan, and we will unite all industrial workers, low-wage workers, gig workers, unemployed, scientists, philosophers, free thinkers, health care workers, educators, and all walks of life in America People from all walks of life...we welcome women, or people from the black, Hispanic, LgBTQ community, and other oppressed communities to join.”

"We will work together to build a positive community without any discrimination, where all have a voice..."

Against the background of the solar storm, a cosmic natural disaster sweeping the world, Kevin Saron suddenly emerged at this time and gained a lot of support in a short period of time.

As a result, the already turbulent situation has become even more uncertain.

But then again, Kevin Saron has also done a lot of personnel work, actively organizing the local people at the bottom of society to deal with the coming winter. Otherwise, people living in high latitudes will probably freeze to death by thousands. million people.

What was happening on the North American side was also transmitted back to China through telegrams, and it also reached Luo Sheng's ears, and he also became interested in this person.

There is no doubt that the character Kevin Saron has become the focus of heated discussions for a while, and his influence is gradually expanding in Europe and the United States.

There is a kind of chaotic times that make heroes, the times create heroes, and the sky is the stance of macho men.

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