At the signing ceremony of the peace agreement, Jiang Chen saw Aquino's comedic horse face. However, the puffy eye circles and whitened temples gave this face a somewhat tragic color.
Under the camera of reporters, Aquino stepped forward and held the hand of Santos, who was full of muscles.
Santos grinned at him, and he could only smile back with a smile that was uglier than crying.
Finally, the media's lens focused on the two hands of the peace agreement. The two signed their names on two peace agreements respectively, and announced the end of the civil war in front of people all over the world.
Outside the lens of the media, Reston and Jiang Chen, the real promoters of this peace negotiation, were watching this historic scene from a distance.
"I hope this is the last time." Reston stared into Jiang Chen's eyes, "You have touched our bottom line. Do you want to know what the vote rate was for the war option in Congress?"
"I don't want to know," Jiang Chen smiled and shook his head, "But you should also know my bottom line very well."
A pistol, no matter how many bullets it contains, is still a gun, even if it is held in the hands of a baby. Rather, the gun is more dangerous because it is in the hands of a baby. As long as the baby is not too greedy, both parties can still live in peace.
Reston took a deep look at Jiang Chen.
"Also, CIA agents will enter Mindanao to search for the missing F35 pilot Gordon. I hope your people can cooperate."
"You should tell Santos about this. He is the master of Mindanao. But I think if your people don't poke their heads around and look around, they won't be turned away." Jiang Chen said with a smile.
Of course, F35 pilot Jiang Chen ordered people to search, and the Moro Kingdom also sent investigators to search along the jungle foothills of Mindanao. After all, an American pilot is an important bargaining chip on the negotiation table. Unfortunately, neither Star Ring Trading nor the Moro Kingdom could find the whereabouts of this pilot.
Optimistically, the unlucky guy might have been blown into the crater of Mindanao by the wind.
Reston snorted, took out his lighter and lit his cigar. Then he got into the car that picked him up and drove away.
Jiang Chen stood at the ceremony for a while, looking up at the pair of fluttering olive branches on the United Nations flag, with a sarcastic smile on his lips.
He turned and walked away before the applause could break out.
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The war is over. The Moro Kingdom owes a total of US$1.25 billion to Star Ring Trading. To be honest, if it weren't for the excellent reason for starting the war, and the biological crisis in Cagayan City aroused his vigilance, he would have planned to drag on the war for a while longer. The more money the Moro Nation owes Star Ring Trade, the stronger Star Ring Trade's control over them becomes. The Moro Kingdom became more dependent on the new country.
Mindanao is originally the poorest southern region in the Philippines. It is absolutely impossible to directly pay US$1.25 billion in cash. This money can only be compensated with the local rich untapped mineral resources and fertile land. And these things are exactly what Jiang Chen wants most.
These resources and land are very important to the new country. Currently, most of the mineral resources and agricultural products of the new country and NAC in the last days are imported from Australia. Although the relationship between New Zealand and the kangaroos is good, relying too much on the American buddies is obviously not a good choice.
However, for now, Australia has not expressed any position on the situation in the Philippines. Obviously, they do not want to offend a new country with a promising economic future for the sake of the Philippines. The isolationism currently popular in Australia is no less than that in the United States in the early 1990s.
Since the peace agreement came into effect, Star Ring Trading withdrew its frigates deployed in the Sulu Sea. As well as more than a thousand Marines who landed in Mindanao, only 100 soldiers were left in Cagayan City to maintain local order with the Moro government forces.
Yes, they can no longer be called guerrillas. After the peace agreement came into effect, they have become a sovereign country recognized by the United Nations, and their army is naturally dubbed the government army.
Three days have passed since the peace agreement came into effect.
"There are currently more than 100,000 zombies entrenched in the eastern part of Cagayan City. Our plan is to use Scorpion tanks captured from the Philippines to form a tank battalion, recapture the five bridges on the Cagayan River, and then use barbed wire to raise the isolation zone. .Gradually regain the eastern area of Cagayan City... "
At this moment, standing next to Jiang Chen was Chen Zhitian, the commander of the 11th Brigade of the Moro Kingdom, who was discussing with Jiang Chen the issue of zombie disposal in Cagayan City.
"No need to go to such trouble." Jiang Chen shook his head.
Chen Zhitian turned his questioning eyes to Jiang Chen, waiting for his next words.
"T virus. Our scientists tentatively named these viruses this way. According to clinical trials, this virus has weak resistance to ultraviolet rays and a short survival time outside the body. As long as Cagayan City remains under lockdown, the possibility of the epidemic spreading is very high Low. As for those zombies... just wait until they starve to death."
"Starve to death?" Chen Zhitian looked at Jiang Chen in surprise.
"That's right." Jiang Chen nodded.
There is a fundamental difference between the zombies that broke out in Cagayan City and the zombies in the apocalypse. This difference is mainly reflected in the pathogenic mechanism. One is a viral infection and the other is a bacterial infection. Although the former destroys the human nervous system and immune system. But it did not solve the zombie's energy problem. The latter is a mutant species of purifying radiation bacteria. After parasitizing the host, it can enable the host to gain the ability to photosynthesize.
Any living thing will die if it doesn't eat.
Even zombies cannot escape this basic law of nature. Even if you leave these zombies alone, as long as they don't eat their own kind and persist for more than a month, they will turn into humans. At that time, we just need to prepare a few more incinerators to dispose of these dead bodies.
The only troublesome thing now is that because these zombies have lost their immune systems, their bodies are already showing signs of decay. If left unchecked, there is a risk of a plague outbreak in Cagayan City.
At present, doctors from the International Rescue Organization have entered the safe zone and begun to conduct physical examinations on the survivors in the safe zone. Among them are many researchers sent by international pharmaceutical companies. Everyone wants to be the first to figure out the secret of the virus and develop a vaccine to protect against it.
At Jiang Chen's suggestion, Santos pursued a completely different strategy from the Aquino administration and did not prevent these international relief organizations from entering Cagayan City. After all, Moro is currently extremely poor and unable to shoulder the task of epidemic control on its own.
At the same time, Future Biotechnology, a subsidiary of Future Human Group, held a press conference to announce that it will enter the medical field and dispatched a scientific research team to Cagayan City to participate in the research and development of T virus vaccine. However, Tao Ming, CEO of Future Human Biotechnology, also stated that Future Human Biotechnology’s researchers will carry out research and development work independently and will not engage in technical cooperation with international medical teams.
Jiang Chen has always planned to enter the medical field, but the T-virus epidemic has brought his plan forward.
The T-virus epidemic that shocked the world will be a perfect entry point. In the future, Human Biotechnology will take advantage of people's panic about the virus and instantly build its reputation in the medical field. At the same time, countries will no doubt be scrambling to pay for the vaccine in order to prevent the virus from breaking out in their own countries.
After the current researchers scanned the DNA information of the virus into data, Jiang Chen took him directly to the end of the world and handed it over to Lin Ling, who had nothing to do because of the heavy snow. According to Lin Ling, solving this virus should not be difficult.
In this way, the time soon arrived in mid-to-late January.
The virtual reality online game originally planned to be launched in early January was adjusted to the end of January due to the chairman's plane crash. Now it is almost time for the game to open its servers. There are currently close to 100 million Phantom Helmet users around the world, who are eagerly waiting for the launch of "God Level Continent".
But at this moment, a piece of news caught Jiang Chen's attention... (.)