Technology: Breaking the Global Monopoly

Chapter 2435 Group Match

When the Moon Chaser started its return engine, the dust cloud rose again and turned into fleeting diamond stardust under the sunlight.

The command from the Kunlun Aerospace Command Center flashed on the quantum communication screen: "Wangshu Project, the first phase of return has started."

When the spacecraft left the moon's gravity well, bioengineering expert Tang Yi was watching the images on the big screen in the operating room.

In his gradually dilating pupils, the Moon-Chasing Starship loaded with materials and several Jiuzhou Star Sea staff members left this silver world full of craters.

He Zizhang, the head of the Daxia official team, looked at his colleagues' eyes and waited for a moment before saying in the voice channel: "There is a return plan to Blue Star every month, so don't feel anxious. If you need to return to Blue Star, just report to me and I will synchronize with Jiuzhou Xinghai Company, and then you can take the nearest spacecraft back to Blue Star.

Jiuzhou Xinghai Company will give us a certain number of places every month, and the company will provide the corresponding transportation costs, so don’t worry.”

After saying this, he boosted morale and said, "In the future, our Daxia Aerospace Group's spacecraft will also begin to land on the moon at a high frequency until the normal moon landing mission is realized, so everyone must do a good job in exploration and mapping. Our Moon City will become the first extraterrestrial city of mankind!"

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Officially selected engineers and scientists, including bioengineering expert Tang Yi, all believed the information said by the nominal captain.

And they had already learned similar information through channels they had access to, which is why they appeared here.

This is an unnamed alien city, and they are certainly willing to spend time and effort to design and build it.

Even in the foreseeable future, when our compatriots on the blue planet begin large-scale migration to the moon, their names will surely be recited by countless people and recorded in massive books.

It is very difficult for people to understand each other, but it is not that difficult to find a common interest.

Faith, desire for personal fulfillment, financial satisfaction…

In fact, in an essential sense, there is not much difference between the methods of selecting engineers and scientists by Daxia officials and the methods of selecting "pioneers" internally by Jiuzhou Technology. The only difference lies in the degree of screening of these people's personal information.

September.

When the new Moon Chaser made a safe return trip once again, the group matches of the Global Mech Challenge were packed with people watching from all over the world.

In this world torn apart by war and economy, every game of the Global Mech Challenge is like a surreal rainbow.

The desert country in the Middle East has transformed into a kaleidoscope of human civilization, and the mecha battle center even has artificial snow mountains and lakes.

The flags of various countries and painted faces intertwined in the audience seats constituted a living specimen of globalization, breaking down religious and secular prejudices.

This $1690 billion group stage event is the ultimate interpretation of the collective carnival across national borders, and also shows how fierce the competition for global capital and power is. Because no one expected that this desert country would spend a budget that can host the World Cup just for the group stage of the Global Mech Challenge.

In the mecha battle center of Africa, African drum beats pierce the silence of the night sky every day. Audiences from all over the world build a new civilized community in the dual space of virtual and reality. Jiuzhou Community and Jiuzhou Entertainment Platform generate more than 60 event-related tweets about the African Mecha Team every minute.

Even the uniforms worn by the players competing at the African Mech Battle Center were auctioned off for over one million Xia Yuan just after the group stage ended.

Of course, many people are speculating that these bosses who want the players' clothing may want to use these clothing to reverse-study Jiuzhou Technology's high-tech fabrics.

In terms of economic benefits, the group matches held in Africa are like a giant economic accelerator.

This has led to a surge of US$60 billion in tourism revenue, with the global gaming market's single-day betting volume for the African group stage reaching a peak of US$97 billion. The export volume of peripheral products from Yiwu, Daxia, has soared by 52% year-on-year.

In addition, seeing that Jiuzhou Technology is truly building a mecha ecological supply chain for the African Mecha Combat Center, many companies and organizations around the center have begun to invest in building branches and factories, hoping to gain the upper hand over others.

And most of them are members of the Jiuzhou Technology and Business Alliance...

During the group stage, the Global Mech Challenge quickly became an arena for the soft power of various countries.

Although Jiuzhou Technology has never said that the selection of mecha players is based on race, bloodline, potential or even degree of evolution, the proportion of players screened each year is too large, so many people have already assumed that players who can control mechas are all excellent people with excellent physical fitness.

When a player from the Saudi royal family defeated an Argentine sports elite, the wealthy royal family immediately announced a one-day holiday for the whole country and said that they would increase the cash reward of 3 million US dollars for the top three players in the Middle East group stage.

In the past era of sports competitions, sports brand companies such as Nike and Adidas spent hundreds of millions of dollars each year to compete for World Cup jersey sponsorship. The popular cryptocurrency platform at the time was able to spend $2 million to become an official partner of FIFA.

This business model has spawned a record high player price of 2.2 million euros in the transfer market, and top clubs are beginning to monopolize the game.

Now, the Global Mech Challenge, led by Jiuzhou Technology, does not have any official advertising sponsorship options, but only straightforward competitive pressure.

Some biologists and military experts even claim that the countries and regions that can train the best mecha players at this stage will have greater say in future global competition.

No official organization in any country or region can withstand such pressure.

Of course, under high pressure, there are also people who want to take advantage of the opportunity.

Almost every time the group matches are held at a mecha battle center outside of Daxia, there are unknown organizations that want to "intercept" the mechas.

Jiuzhou Technology's large transport aircraft even encountered radio calls from some unidentified fighter jets during the transportation process.

Jiuzhou Technology did not take direct action in response to these threats. Instead, local officials from Daxia and the Mecha Battle Center stepped in at the first opportunity to clear out this unpresentable garbage.