Chapter 145 Helpless
"Yesterday, the director of the European Space Agency, Joseph, was killed in Paris by two Arabs"

When the media focused on whether the Nobel Prize was fair, the news of Joseph's murder only occupied a small space in the news, and only a few media reported it.

One can even see that the media is deliberately ignoring this news.

On the contrary, it was widely reported in China.

A Chinese student was working nearby that day. She witnessed the shooting and posted a video on TikTok:

"Oh my God, friends, do you know what I just went through? Today, I was supposed to go to UNESCO for an interview because I applied for an internship there. Because I arrived early, they opened at 9 a.m., and my interview time was 9:30.

I arrived around 8:00. UNESCO was not even open at this time.

So I found a small street restaurant nearby called Soufflé and ordered a cup of coffee, planning to drink it and then slowly walk over. Then I sat there drinking coffee while looking at my iPad and reading some interview experience posts on Facebook about interns in UN-related organizations.

First, I heard the roar of a motorcycle from behind me, and then there were several gunshots in succession. I was scared to death and quickly found a place to hide.

After the shooting stopped and I waited for the police to arrive, I went out and saw that the outside of a restaurant called Colonel Lee's behind me was cordoned off. An old white man was shot and was probably dead.

It's too chaotic in a foreign country. You should know that this is not a chaotic place like Porte de Saint-Ouen, but near UNESCO.

On the side where the shooting took place are UNESCO and the European Space Agency, and on the other side of the street are French military-related institutions. The residences in this area are all owned by the rich and powerful, and it is a typical place where old money lives.

Europe is truly horrible. A shooting like this happened in broad daylight in such a central area of ​​Paris.

I hadn't reacted yet and was shaking all over. If the motorcycle had moved back a hundred meters, I would have been the one shot.

Because there were only two people drinking coffee outside, besides me and that old white man, I didn’t want to intern at UNESCO even if I got an internship offer. ”

The number of views of this Tik Tok video was not high after it was released. The blogger mainly shared her daily life in France. Her number of fans is generally around 10,000. She is in the transition stage from an amateur to a blogger with a certain influence.

After posting it, it received only over a hundred likes and a dozen comments, most of which were from her real-life friends asking her to be careful.

After she posted her second Tik Tok that night:
"Oh my god, I just got the news of the explosion. I watched the news when I got home tonight. The old man who was shot dead behind me this morning turned out to be the director of the European Space Agency. He was shot twice by someone on a motorcycle on the side of the road and died. The risk factor is too high.

After watching the news, I recalled that the two men had a very clear purpose, and they went straight for the old man without wasting any time, just like cold-blooded killers."

This Douyin video went viral immediately after it was posted, as netizens who saw it commented:

"Is this a conspiracy? The European Space Agency just signed a big contract with Light Armor Aerospace, and then the director was killed. Could it be that America is warning Europe to be honest?"

"Fuck, this is an obvious threat, just like Beixi, if you don't obey, I will use blood and violence to tell you the consequences of your disobedience."

"America is too overbearing, even to its allies."

"It was definitely done by the Americans. With this kind of tactics and this kind of action, not only did the European Space Agency sign an order with Light Armor Aerospace, but NASA not only lost its current order, but also lost their subsequent orders after Light Armor Aerospace transferred its reusable rocket technology to a French company. It would be strange if they didn't kill them."

Due to the large number of comments, the blogger’s Douyin video was quickly pushed to more netizens through Douyin’s streaming mechanism, and the number of views exceeded five million in one night.

The number of comments is frightening.

Other self-media bloggers who cover current affairs have discussed this matter. On social media, as long as you are interested in current affairs information, you can find related discussions.

You can never make your audience hear the information you want them to hear. This is why Americans are eager to know the algorithm logic of Tik Tok. Economic benefits are only a small aspect.

After Frank and Wolf in Cologne received the news, Wolf looked particularly sad. The media attributed the responsibility to the refugee problem, saying that they caused this tragedy, but Wolf and Frank obviously would not believe it.

"This is a tragedy, and NASA is expressing their dissatisfaction with human lives.

The European Space Agency's subsequent orders have not yet been given to the French commercial space company. They chose to take action at this time to warn Paris that if you don't give me the order, more terrible things will happen in the future.

Right now the media is all about Wright Chen, and no one cares about the news that Joseph was killed by refugees. As for writing a conspiracy theory report linking the European Space Agency, NASA, SpaceX, and Wright Chen together, it will be blocked by American Internet companies such as FB, Google, and Microsoft.

News can only be circulated on local forums.

Politicians in Paris and Brussels only know how to condemn and protest. When asked what evidence they have that we are involved in this incident, they dare not refute a single word. "Frank seemed particularly indignant.

Ulf also looked sad, but he was not as excited as Frank: "The situation is stronger than us, there is really nothing we can do.

Frank talked about his experiences during this period, because he was a participant in the first two communications with Light Armor Aerospace, including later, with the efforts of Joseph, he bypassed Brussels and signed an agreement directly with Light Armor Aerospace.

Brussels believes that Frank has made great efforts in this regard.

Frank asked: "Could it be Brussels who did this?"

After he raised the question, he denied it himself: "It's unlikely. These people don't have the guts to do that."

Wulf comforted him: "Be careful, you might be the next target."

Frank smiled bitterly and said, "It probably won't work. I was just informed in Paris that I will be the next director of the European Space Agency.

How can I, the director of the astronaut center, be the director of Paris?" Wolf was a little surprised: "This is Paris expressing their attitude and dissatisfaction with this matter.

You asked me to listen, but I refused. The next director will still have his own ideas and will still prioritize the interests of Europe.

Of course there are great dangers involved, so you have to be careful.

Sometimes compromise is necessary.”

Wolfe felt sad when he thought that the last time he met Joseph was actually his last. He didn't want to see Frank suffer the same fate, so he tried to persuade him.

Frank thought about it, then shook his head firmly and said, "I will compromise, but I will prioritize the interests of Europe, not America.

Europe is Europe for Europeans.”

At the signing ceremony between Guangjia Aerospace and the European Space Agency, the representative of the European Space Agency was not Joseph, but Joseph was also present. After the signing ceremony, he had a brief chat with Lin Jia and expressed his envy of the rapid development of China's aerospace industry.

Therefore, after seeing the news of Joseph's murder, Lin Jia still felt very emotional. Every individual may be crushed in the general trend of bipolar confrontation.

"Yuanguang, although you are far away in Mianyang, you still have to pay attention to your safety and be careful when going out at night." Lin Jia gave Chen Yuanguang a general description of the situation on the phone and then advised.

Chen Yuanguang on the other end of the phone was shocked. Could it be that a person of the level of the European Space Agency could be assassinated so easily?

"I understand. I agreed to come to Mianyang because I was afraid of accidents. I know your concerns."

For a moment, Chen Yuanguang felt a surge in his sense of crisis.

It is obviously unreliable to pin your hopes for life on others. What if China fails to defend itself? You only have one life.

Because Chen Yuanguang believed that Paris's defenses were equally tight, and both sides of Lovendal Avenue were core areas, and the security measures here were enough to knock someone down with two gunshots in broad daylight in the morning.

As a former mystery novelist who wrote Past Events in Kuala Lumpur, Chen Yuanguang was very clear that in order to complete the murder plan so easily and clearly, he must have been extremely clear about Joseph's movements. There must be a traitor in the European Space Agency.

So, wouldn't there be a traitor in Light Armor Aerospace and Light Armor Technology? Even inside China?

Maybe shooting wouldn't work, but what about poisoning? Chen Yuanguang felt that he still had to find a way to improve his survivability.

The only way to improve your ability to survive is to look for it in the future.

Chen Yuanguang thought that he could rely on the overwhelming advantage created by technology to ensure his personal safety.

Unfortunately, what he could find out about future technology was more or less limited, and it was obviously impossible to replicate it in modern time and space in a short period of time.

Take AI as an example. General-purpose AI requires the development of quantum computer technology. Even with room-temperature superconductivity, quantum computers still cannot meet the requirements of general-purpose AI under the existing room-temperature superconducting materials.

To improve the computing power of quantum computers, higher requirements are placed on some of the materials, which cannot be produced by modern space-time technology at all.

If computing power cannot be improved exponentially, it means that information security cannot be fully guaranteed, and you will not be able to have unfettered access to information channels.

Chen Yuanguang originally wanted to rely on artificial intelligence to capture any information on the Internet that might pose a substantial threat to him, then summarize it for analysis and judgment, and pick out the plans to be taken for real-time display.

In this way, combined with real-life security measures, survivability can be greatly improved.

He carefully studied this solution in the future time and space and found that the fundamental limitation was computing power, which could not be realized.

When he was at the University of Malaya, devoting himself to his own safety, Chen Yonglin came to him and said, "Yuanguang, the old ancestor will wake up soon. If you want to know the truth about your father's death, you can come back with me and report this to him and see what the old ancestor says.

The ancestor will wake up the day after tomorrow, and he will only be awake for ten days."

Chen Yuanguang focuses his main energy on the real time and space, but that does not mean he will not come to the future time and space. The confirmation of some issues and the consultation of some cutting-edge theoretical materials are all carried out in the future time and space. Four years have passed in the real time and space, and one and a half years have also passed in the future time and space.

After Chen Yuanguang heard this, he asked, "Go back to the ancestral home?"

Chen Yuanguang recalled from his memory the Chen family's ancestral home, which was located in the core area of ​​Kuala Lumpur, where the Petronas Twin Towers were originally located. The Petronas Twin Towers were bombed during World War III and are now a park.

Chen Yonglin said: "Yes, the ancestral home."

Chen Yuanguang was very interested in this, whether it was the Chen family's ancestral home or the so-called ancestor Chen Dingsong.

In his opinion, it contains a lot of valuable information.

Chen Yuanguang nodded: "Okay."

No one in Chen Yuanguang has forgotten the death of Chen Yongqi, but in his opinion, Chen Yonglin would definitely not harm him, whether from the image of the other party in his memory or the fact that the other party actually sent him safely to the University of Malaya.

Chen Yonglin heard Chen Yuanguang agree and nodded on the holographic screen: "I will pick you up at 8:30 tomorrow morning."

　There should be some in the evening, and some of the pits ahead will be filled.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)