Chapter 786: The flames of war (Part 3)

"Three weeks have passed since the two presidents simultaneously declared their legal authority over the United States of America."

"We can see that the aerospace carrier has caused great damage to the communication network of the Berry Country. The Internet continues to be loaded and broken, which has a certain impact on the global network."

"Since the war, the probability of various information equipment failing has increased several times year-on-year compared to before the war."

"Let's pay attention to the latest situation in the Berry Country: the aerospace carrier continues to patrol North America, and the UN Security Council said this is normal security work."

"Several UN member states said that this kind of armament has exceeded the power that the United Nations should have. Security Council member Alexander Pierce said that this is necessary to maintain world peace."

"Since the aerospace carrier entered North America, communications in the region have been silent for a long time, but we can see that communications are recovering:"

"Several states said that since the promulgation of President Ellis's new policy, the local GDP has soared, an increase of 10% to 25% from the previous month. The Berry Country is creating an industrial miracle."

"On the other hand, in New York and other places, the month-on-month growth rate broke a new low, breaking -2070 %. The economy of the former world financial center has experienced a super recession. The collapse of the financial system has swept the world, and a large number of investors have poured into the European market. "

"Today's European news: Latvia is rebuilding its capital, but we haven't seen anything so far."

"Several Nordic and Eastern European countries have reached an agreement recently. It seems that they seem to agree with President Ellis's statement: Lil Lee, Doctor Doom is completely destructive to a stable environment."

"They believe that the coup in Latvia will affect their border security. Some even believe that the coup has received support from the European Union and is an act of military expansion by the European Union."

"In short, several countries including Sokovia announced the establishment of the Eastern European Border Security Military Agreement, referred to as the Eastern Agreement."

"The Eastern Agreement stated that for the territorial security of each member state, they will take all measures to prevent Doctor Doom from threatening their border security."

"Including military means."

All kinds of news are popular. In this era when the Internet has collapsed, but has not yet completely collapsed, the once cheap network traffic and communication methods have gradually become expensive, and most people can only hear the words of the big media.

Even in Europe, the price of network traffic has risen more than five times compared with two years ago, and this number continues to rise.

In theory, things with high profits will attract investors to place heavy bets, but this time it won't work.

[Schultz: It's not that we don't want to restore communication. Our equipment will always have a rapid increase in failure rate after running for a period of time. The maintenance cost is too high. ]

Relying on the few communication lines, Speaker Schultz and Lille talked again.

It's impossible not to talk: Now the countries in the northeast are planning to unite to attack Latvia, and the attack will be fine, and they will also involve Europe.

However, before the formal conversation began, Lille first asked about the current network situation.

After getting this answer, Lille instinctively felt that something was wrong:

In the cyberpunk 21st century and the 20s, with the rapid development of AI technology, the growth rate of the operation and maintenance cost of network equipment continued to rise. The main reasons are as follows:

Social unrest, continued war, hardware and software are running at high load under open and covert battles, and the failure rate has greatly increased.

But in addition, the maturity of AI technology is also considered to be the main reason for the increase in network operation and maintenance costs: in the past reports of network monitoring, a large number of equipment abnormalities and major failures are often related to roaming AI.

According to a large number of reports from EU engineers

There must be something abnormal on the network, either Hydra is playing tricks, or the world may also have a dangerous critical body.

In just a few seconds, Lille scanned a large number of data reports.

[Lille: You need professionals to operate and maintain the network. ]

[Speaker Schulz: Your Atlas? I want to find professionals. These engineers who eat dry rice can't even find the problem. Alas, is this problem very difficult? ]

[Lille: Very difficult, even I need time to determine the problem. ]

This straightforward remark choked Speaker Schulz, but Lille quickly added:

[Lille: But if you are in a hurry, I can let Latveria help you with some engineers. ]

A country that has just transformed from a backward bulk medieval world to a monarchy helps the EU?

Schulz didn't say it, but Lille knew what he was thinking because he completely skipped the topic.

[Speaker Schulz: Let's talk about something else. The EU doesn't want to fight, especially now. You are a smart man, so I won't beat around the bush:]

[Speaker Schulz: The problems in the Berry Country have caused turmoil in the global economy. We can't miss this opportunity to get involved in a war with our northeastern neighbor. ]

In the cyberpunk world, the Berry Country also declined and even split, so Europe stood up and has been the boss until today.

In fact, no matter if it is the second position, when the boss is busy fighting and the position is vacant, driven by interests, they will rush to grab the position and then sit firmly in the position, instead of looking for someone to fight.

Such a simple problem can be thought out by everyone.

[Lille: It's a problem that everyone can see, but it's obvious that you must help us too. ]

[Speaker Schultz: Alas, a familiar smell. The situation changes like a nuclear reaction. It is impossible to control it. ]

Because everyone can understand it, the boss who is busy fighting will definitely find a way to let someone pull the second one to fight.

For example, the third one is a good choice. The bigger the gap between the third and the second one, the better, because the second one only wants to defend the status quo, but the third one will definitely fight hard, otherwise it will never be able to surpass the second one.

Then the third one will also think, if there is also someone to help him hold back the third one.

The earth is big, but also small. Once the war starts, no one can stay out of it. The so-called appeasement and prayer for peace are just words from politicians to comfort the people.

If there is a chance, everyone will definitely get involved. People with resources will try their best to use people without resources, and people without resources will try their best to use people to exchange resources.

If you want to get to the top, there is no other way.

[Speaker Schultz: We can provide you with weapons and munitions. But can your people really use these things? ]

[Speaker Schultz: Excuse me, they may not even be able to drive a tractor well. ]

[Lille: I don't want your ready-made weapons. I need industrial materials and machines. The more the better. ]

[Lille: To the outside world, you can claim that it is disaster relief and emergency construction materials. You can also tell your people that you are not warmongers. ]

[Lille: If you think it will affect your political career, you can broadcast the transportation situation live and broadcast the current situation in Latvia to the world. ]

Simple material aid is much easier to mobilize than direct military material aid.

And most of these things are excess capacity.

[Speaker Schultz: Are you sure you only want these? Although I don't seem to believe in you, I really don't want you to lose. ]

[Lille: The more the better, and faster. ]

[Speaker Schultz: The more the better. If this is the only request, it's easy to do. ]

[Speaker Schultz: You will get support, Your Majesty. ]