Osborne Megacorp

The Mesopotamians are the earliest known people to use written words to record their thoughts and literature, so they are called the "cradle of human civilization."

But in this world, the development of Mesopotamia is inseparable from a group of aliens. They are the Eternals.

These Eternals used their abilities and knowledge to interfere in human history. For example, the earliest bronzes here were made of stone by the Eternals.

They have played an important role in the development of human history - at least they think so. Not only that, but they also got into a quarrel over this matter. Some people thought they shouldn't do it, and the other part thought I could do it if I wanted to.

And their original mission actually has nothing to do with interfering with human development - to promote the birth of new members of the Celestial Group.

These groups of gods will complete their growth as the intelligent population of the earth reaches a certain number, and then break out from the interior of the planet, with the accompanying consequences being the destruction of the earth.

In order to increase the number of members, they searched for planets with intelligent life throughout the universe, and planted the prototype members of the Celestial Group inside the earth's core. In order to ensure that the top intelligent creatures on the planet can grow normally and are not threatened by top predators, they also Did one thing:

The mutants, the scavengers that can prey on apex predators, were released.

The mutants eventually turned into another group of predators, threatening the development of mankind, so the Celestials created a group of Eternals similar to intelligent creatures to clean up the mutants...

This operation had to make Harry sigh at the peculiar brain circuitry of the Celestials.

In short, this is the Eternals and their purpose of coming to Earth, but these Eternals have somewhat excessive self-awareness, especially one of them, the fat man.

And now this Ms. Ajak, she is the leader of the Earth Eternity Group. She does not want mankind to become extinct, so she has been working to help mankind develop interstellar colonization technology - with administrative help, not technical support.

But on the other hand, she had to ensure that the God's Appearance mission was completed, so her real idea was to transport a group of people before extinction, but most of them would still die in the God's Appearance.

If you think about it carefully, this approach is similar to "Noah's Ark" in the Bible. I don't know what role the Eternals played in this legend.

Seeing that the lady was defeated, Peter continued:

"...I wonder if you still remember the Mauritania branch?"

The Mauritania branch now refers to the large development area that Osborne bought in Africa a few years ago and developed a large development area. This new city standing on the African continent is now the heart of Africa.

The land area purchased by Osborne exceeds 200 million square kilometers. The central grid server is located in Mauritania, West Africa. Therefore, urban clusters are spread from east to west. However, due to the developed infrastructure and decentralized services, ultra-high-density cities have not been formed.

When the Osborne Group first moved in a few years ago, it was called the "Mauritanian Safe Zone" because the warlords did not dare to take action here.

With the expansion of the branch, most of the warlords who were obsessed with war and unwilling to cooperate have been eliminated in the name of peacekeeping. Now there are only rulers on the African continent who prefer to do business, and religious fanatics have been swept into history by bullets. in the garbage heap.

Without believers, these "faiths" themselves are nothing more than meaningless symbols.

In the past, warlords have been exterminating silent civilians, but now they can only disappear in a wave of silence.

Today, it is called "Mauritania's Promised Land" because there are no more wars.

The substantial increase in the birth rate has not led to a shortage of per capita resources. On the contrary, these manpower will fill more labor gaps and turn no-man's land into a paradise.

Tens of thousands of kilometers of roads connect these countries together. Large areas of single-family houses form settlements. Giant machines are working on vast farms. This is Africa now.

"These plants are a mixture of earth plants and alien plants. After adding heterogeneous genes, these plants have better adaptability and higher yields, and their solar energy conversion rate is far higher than that of normal grass plants.

So food supply is not a problem at all. As for shelter... As you have seen, this cannot be a problem either. "

200万平米拿出20%的耕地，再扣掉10%的基础设施占地，也还剩下140万平方千米的建筑面积，按每人一间100平米的独栋房屋计算也还能支持100亿人住呢。

Of course, the actual construction cannot be 100 square meters per person - that is too small, and the total population of Africa does not exceed 13 billion, and the Mauritania Development Zone is only a part of Africa.

In fact, there are still many such areas to be developed, including Siberia, Mesopotamia, Northern Europe...

However, the natural environment in those areas is not so good.

Ajak replied: "But judging from the current growth rate, this is already close to exponential growth. No one knows when the next resource shortage will come. How many Mauritania are there for human development?"

"So I'm going to come up with this plan--" Peter played the next part.

A few words were clearly written on it: "Green Sahara".

Peter's idea was simple, the lands were there, why not turn them into habitable areas instead of crowding them into cities?

Seeing this title, everyone present was a little unimpressed: Greening the Sahara?It seems that the media will have another joke to play tomorrow - will Mr. Parker have to install an elevator on Mount Everest next?Or make a hole?

But Peter did not give up. In his research, this plan was feasible:

First, it has been demonstrated that large-scale wind and solar power stations can alter the heat and humidity of surrounding areas.

"Large-scale solar panels will reduce surface sunlight reflection, reduce surface albedo, enhance updrafts, and increase precipitation; wind power plants will increase evaporation efficiency from the perspective of mixing cold and warm air, promoting increased precipitation and plant growth." .”

Ajak said: "But how to grow plants in the Sahara? According to your estimate, it will take one or two hundred years to complete the entire greening process."

Peter's mention of the Sahara gave her hope of victory - greening is not impossible, but time and cost are the key.

In fact, even if the Sahara is not moved, if we wait tens of thousands of years and the earth's axis tilts, the Sahara may turn green on its own.

In this regard, Peter gave a more detailed plan.

"We can first use sand adhesive to bind the soil, plant grass blocks to fix the sand, and artificially speed up the entire positive feedback system..."

There are all methods. After calculation, the only thing that limits the speed of greening is "investment". If there is enough investment, it may take less than a few years to achieve initial results.

"But this seems to be a very expensive project. What benefit does it have for investors?"

Faced with this question, Peter paused: This project is undoubtedly a money-attracting beast, and the word "large-scale" is not written in vain.

Not to mention investors, even a normal country would not plunge into it.

To be honest, it is not expensive to just search for a scientific research ship and put people on it for space exploration, but it is a bit time-consuming.

But what if thousands of lives are filled in?As long as a livable planet is found, mankind will make a lot of money.

For Ajak and a group of executives, these people naturally cannot take their turn - they still have to coordinate the overall situation.

At most, it is possible that your child may have fallen into the trap due to lax discipline, and you can just persuade him to come back.

But Peter is not born a second generation. He just remembers his parents whom he has never met and his not-so-good teenage years.

If it was just to sacrifice himself, he would not hesitate, but now he was talking about other people, and he didn't want to have such children in the future.

That kind of development would be too cruel for him.

Peter's silence made everyone present shake their heads secretly - developing the Sahara?It’s true that newborn calves are not afraid of tigers.

Seeing this scene, Harry shook his head secretly.

"Ahem," Harry turned on the light. "Mr. Parker's humanistic spirit is humbling, and his unbridled fantasy is eye-opening."

Everyone turned their attention here, and when they saw that he was the spokesperson, there was a lot of discussion at the scene.

It sounds like the sentence pattern behind this statement should be "but". Everyone knows that when you want to restrain, you should advance first.

Peter became even more depressed when he saw this: If Harry vetoed this plan, who else would care about it?

But Harry was not here to veto him, his loud voice resounded throughout the conference room:

"The Osborne Group has always liked to turn fantasy into reality. If the money is not used for this, what is the point of the money?

I voted for this project. "

There was an uproar in the conference room, and the expression on Aijak's face was a little stiff: She was just about to gain the upper hand and let humans seize the time to run away, but was vetoed by Osborn with a vote?

Seeing the constipation-like expression on his opponent's face, Hareton felt relieved:

Do you really think it’s a god?Humanity can't survive without you?

It's too self-aware.