Chapter 108: Let's contribute our own strength to the Jing City Base's response...
"These idiots are still making trouble at this time!" Kong Zhongcheng couldn't help but curse.
Wan Xueying's face was gloomy. "Isn't this exactly what Kobashi Ichiro wanted? Let us fall into civil strife, and he can reap the benefits."
Zhou Qin said coldly: "Perhaps, among these people marching are people like Kobashi Ichiro, otherwise the people would not be so excited. Even before the end of the world, protests like marching were not popular in our Xia country. As long as foreign countries will organize such protest activities at any time."
Kong Zhongcheng gritted his teeth and said, "Boss, what should we do? Should we arrest these people and put them to trial?"
"No." Zhou Qin said directly: "If that's the case, we'll fall right into the trap of R Base. Ichiro Kobashi would like us to suppress them by force."
"We will just have to watch those spies from Country R and other countries do whatever they want right under our noses, and we can't do anything!" Kong Zhongcheng was angry.
Faced with such a thing, everyone was furious, except Gu Jinsheng, who had a calm face with no expression on his face, as if he had not felt any anger from beginning to end. He really had a kind of mechanical calmness like a robot. In fact, except for Ji An, it seemed that no one and no thing could stir up Gu Jinsheng's emotions.
Gu Jinsheng stood up and said, "Go out and take a look."
Kong Zhongcheng, Wan Xueying and Zhou Qin followed Gu Jinsheng out. They didn't know why. Gu Jinsheng didn't have any special emotions, but they inexplicably felt that the people who were marching today might not end well.
"Commander-in-Chief Gu, come out!" A sharp-eyed psychic in the parade was the first to spot Gu Jinsheng and the others, and shouted in the team, "And deputy commanders Kong Zhongcheng, Wan Xueying, and Zhou Qin are all out!"
"Where is he? Why can't I see him?" Zhao Tong stretched his neck to look towards the command center, and finally saw the tall figure of Gu Jinsheng vaguely. Zhao Tong narrowed his eyes slightly and immediately tapped a few times on the terminal on his wrist.
His companions saw him and asked, "Zhao Tong, what are you doing?"
Zhao Tong didn't care at all, as if he was doing something normal. Instead, the person who asked this question was very strange. Zhao Tong casually said, "Live broadcast."
When the people around Zhao Tong heard his answer, they all came over and said, "Don't broadcast it live. This is an internal matter of our Beijing base. Don't broadcast it online at this critical moment."
Another companion also said: "R base is waiting to see our base make a fool of itself. If we broadcast these things live on the Internet, it will only make Kobashi Ichiro more rampant. He might even take this opportunity to ask for more outrageous conditions from us."
Someone else said, "The purpose of our demonstration is just to rescue our compatriots, not to make things difficult for the base. As long as Commander Gu is willing to take the people back, even if we really want to exchange core technology for hostages, we can't let the R base know and help boost Kobashi Ichiro's prestige. Otherwise, Kobashi Ichiro will continue to use such tactics next time."
Zhao Tong didn't care. He ignored everyone's opinions and turned on the terminal. A light screen appeared in the air, broadcasting the civil unrest and conflicts in their Jing City base to the entire network.
Zhao Tong said as a matter of course: "What you said makes sense, but have you ever thought that what we are doing is also a disguised form of coercion? If Gu Jinsheng gets angry, will he do something to us? What if he directly uses force to suppress us?"
"Everyone knows that Gu Jinsheng's Thunder Dragon is extremely powerful. It can spit out a few thunder balls at random and wipe us out."
Zhao Tong put his face in front of the light curtain and asked, "Can you see me? If you can, please say yes in the live broadcast room. We are in the Jingshi base here, I am Zhao Tong, and I believe everyone knows about the recent uproar on the Internet about the exchange of hostages. We are marching now to get an explanation from the base. Those who want to see the follow-up, please follow the anchor. Our live broadcast room will continue to follow up on this matter until it is over and Gu Jinsheng rescues the hostages."
The eyes of several people around Zhao Tong began to look at Zhao Tong with something strange in them, but Zhao Tong didn't care at all and continued to do as he pleased.
Sometimes humans are really imitative animals. Many people didn't have the idea of live streaming before, or they did, but thought it was not a good idea, so they didn't do it. Now that they see Zhao Tong live streaming, they open their own terminals and start live streaming on the Internet.
The network that the terminal is connected to is not the previous domestic network, but the external network, or the global network.
There are already many people paying attention to this war without gunpowder between Country R and Jing City Base. As soon as someone starts a live broadcast at Jing City Base, a large number of netizens who are willing to watch the fun will rush into the live broadcast room.
A large number of messages began to flash across the light screen at a rapid speed. The light screen was very large, and there was someone broadcasting live at every distance, so almost everyone in the parade team could see the content of the live broadcast room.
"Finally I saw the follow-up to the Jing City Base incident!"
"Did they march? I thought the residents of the Jing City base were too spineless to even dare to march!"
"If this happened at our base, there would have been a parade long ago, the command center would have been smashed in minutes, and the commander-in-chief would have been overthrown!"
"I really don't know what the Jing City Base is hesitating about. That's human lives. Tens of thousands of lives, aren't they more important than a few cold technologies?"
"Besides, it's just a trivial technology. It's not impossible to figure it out if we give R Base some more time. Why hesitate?"
"Those technologies should have been made public. Humanity has reached this point, facing a crisis for the entire race. We should have worked together. I don't know what the Jing City Base is thinking. Why are they still monopolizing technology at this time?"
"The commander of the Jingshi base should be replaced. Gu Jinsheng is a selfish person."
"Although Ichiro Kobashi is not a good guy, he said one thing that is very true, that is, if Gu Jinsheng's family members were among them, Gu Jinsheng would definitely not hesitate at all and would immediately use technology to replace them!"
"I heard that Gu Jinsheng has a mistress, and he values that mistress very much. When he suffered a great disaster in the Los Angeles base, he did not forget to have a romantic relationship with that mistress, and took her with him wherever he went. I suggested that if Gu Jinsheng disagreed, you should arrest his mistress and keep her safe. Gu Jinsheng agreed immediately."
"Gu Jinsheng is selfish. He wants to use this disaster to help himself realize his ambitions. He wants to reunify the Xia Kingdom, and maybe even fantasizes about unifying humanity!"
Of course, there were also rational netizens who spoke up for Gu Jinsheng and the Jingshi Base and opposed Gu Jinsheng's use of core technologies to exchange for hostages, but they were quickly drowned out by more opposing remarks.
In the end, even the entire light screen was filled with unified remarks.
"Gu Jinsheng is the sinner of all mankind!"
"Gu Jinsheng is the sinner of all mankind!"
"Gu Jinsheng is the sinner of all mankind!"
"Gu Jinsheng, hand over the nutrients, treatment cabin, space storage props, mental scanner, and holographic technology!"
"Gu Jinsheng, hand over the nutrients, treatment cabin, space storage props, mental scanner, and holographic technology!"
"Gu Jinsheng, hand over the nutrients, treatment cabin, space storage props, mental scanner, and holographic technology!"
In the end, this matter is no longer about whether Gu Jinsheng uses core technology to exchange for hostages, but that if Gu Jinsheng does not hand over those core technologies, he will be a sinner to all mankind!
It seemed that if Gu Jinsheng did not hand over these technologies, the entire human race would become extinct because of the lack of these technologies!
Ichiro Kobashi, DeWitt, and Charles, who were watching this incident outside the live broadcast room, were grinning from ear to ear.
Charles laughed as he looked at the messages filling the screen. "Those two idiots, DeWitt and Kobashi Ichiro, finally did the right thing. They should have sent some spies to infiltrate Xia Country and disrupt them from within."
Seeing Charles happy, the assistant dared to say a few words, carefully observing Charles's expression and flattering him: "The Xia people have always been the most united, especially when encountering foreign enemies, they would like to sacrifice themselves to save the entire tribe.
Now we take advantage of the Xia people's characteristics and use their own people to defeat them, and they will start chaos from within!"
Charles laughed and said, "This is what the Xia people said in their military strategy: use your spear to attack your shield!"
Ichiro Kobashi of R Base laughed at the overwhelming comments and said, "The spy did a great job. When I get all the core technologies, I will personally ask for credit from Commander Charles on his behalf and have the navy cheer us on. We will definitely suppress those objections."
The marchers in the Jingshi base who were originally hesitant saw that the terminal screen was full of comments supporting them and praising their courage. Their originally hesitant hearts suddenly became firm, and they had the illusion that what they were doing was supported by the whole of mankind.
"Commander-in-Chief Gu Jinsheng, the purpose of our march this time is for the hostages stranded in Country R. Please agree to R's request as soon as possible and exchange the hostages back." Zhao Tong looked at the number of people in the live broadcast room growing wildly, squeezed to the front and said to Gu Jinsheng.
Gu Jinsheng glanced at the middle-aged man in front of him. He looked ordinary, nothing special, but one could not tell whether a person was a spy based on his appearance.
Gu Jinsheng asked: "Who are you to ask me for this, asking for the Jing City base?"
Perhaps not expecting Gu Jinsheng to answer like this, Zhao Tong choked for a moment before saying, "I am a resident of the Jingshi Base, and we have this right."
“Yes, it is our right.”
Wan Xueying glanced at Gu Jinsheng, then walked out and said, "We are also discussing this matter internally in meetings. Things are not as simple as you believe."
Zhou Qin also said: "First of all, how can you ensure that R Base will release the hostages after obtaining the technology? Don't we Xia people know what kind of character R Base has? Have you forgotten all that bloody history just because the end of the world is coming?"
Thinking of the numerous crimes that Country R had committed against Country Xia, everyone fell silent for a moment.
The marchers were silent, but the netizens on the Internet were not silent. They became more active because of Gu Jinsheng's words, and messages flashed by one after another.
The crimes committed by Country R will never be forgiven in the hearts of the Xia people. As a Xia person, Zhao Tong didn't know how to respond. He accidentally glanced at the barrage and saw the messages on the screen. He instantly felt that what the netizens said made sense, so he replied according to the messages on the screen: "No matter what Country R did in the past, it is all in the past, or it has nothing to do with this incident. What the R base wants now is the core technology. As long as the core technology is given to Country R, our hostages can be released."
Wan Xueying looked at Zhao Tong coldly, "We just said it, how can you be sure that Base R will release them?"
"Why won't they release you? What R base wants this time is just those core technologies. As long as you hand over the technology, and R country makes sure the technology is real after experiments, they will release you." Zhao Tong said naively.
Wan Xueying used up all her restraint in her life not to roll her eyes at Zhao Tong in front of the whole world. At this moment, Wan Xueying really wanted to gouge open Zhao Tong's head to see if it was filled with tofu pudding.
Zhao Tong didn't think there was anything wrong with his words. Faced with the speechlessness of Wan Xueying and others, he thought he had won a great victory and grasped the truth.
He continued, “Commander Li Mo has already used the core technology of the mental scanner to exchange for his family members in the R base, and Mr. Kobashi Ichiro has promised him that he will release them as long as the experiment is successful.
In order to show his sincerity, Mr. Kobashi Ichiro even took Commander Li Mo's parents out of prison and moved them to a better environment. Isn't this enough to show his sincerity?"
Wan Xueying really felt that she was talking to a mentally retarded person. Is this how she could express her sincerity?
Once someone brings up the issue, can't they be kept back in custody and not released until the experiment is successful? What if the experiment never succeeds?
Wan Xueying said, "Who is the organizer of the march? You can come out and talk to us individually. So many of you gathered here, it has affected the normal work of the command center."
Zhao Tong immediately said, "Do you want to send all of us away, coerce and bribe the organizer, and then regard this matter as over?"
Wan Xueying clenched her fists. Zhou Qin was afraid that Wan Xueying could not bear it any longer, so he quickly took over and asked, "Are there so many of you here that it has affected the normal work of the headquarters?"
Zhao Tong said, "Isn't the headquarters' existence to serve us, the residents of the base? Now our families are being held in Base R and facing the threat of death at any time. What else can you do? Shouldn't you solve our problems first?"
Zhou Qin could no longer bear it and said directly: "When those people didn't know whether they were alive or dead, didn't the Jingshi base still operate? If it operates, it needs work. The Jingshi base will not be destroyed immediately without them. There are many other things to do."
Zhao Tong stared with wide eyes and said, "What do you mean by that? Do you just not want to take care of the hostages stranded at R base?"
"Is it just like what Commander Ichiro Kobashi said? Because there are no family members among the hostages, you are not in a hurry and don't even care about the life and death of the hostages!"
Zhou Qin had the best temper among the commanders, and the veins on his forehead were jumping at this moment.
Zhao Tong was really tactless. He seemed to be unable to see that the commanders were enduring him, and continued to read the comments on the Internet fearlessly. "Just like what the netizens said, we are now in the end times, and all mankind is facing a crisis. So we should work together to resist natural disasters and win a future for all mankind.
You clearly have such advanced technology in your hands that can change the future of mankind, but you are unwilling to give it to us. What is your intention?"
"Many hands make light work. This is something that even old farmers who have never been to school know. Country M has the most cutting-edge scientific research in the world. As long as you are willing to share your technology with other countries, those countries with higher scientific levels will surely be able to decipher more technologies that are useful to human development based on these basic technologies."
“Even if R doesn’t put forward such conditions, the Beijing base should voluntarily share technology.”
These were all messages on the Internet. Zhao Tong just read them out one by one without thinking at all.
Gu Jinsheng asked directly: "Are you a human in zombie disguise?"
"Ah?" Zhao Tong didn't know why Gu Jinsheng suddenly asked this. "Commander-in-Chief Gu was speechless after being questioned by me, so he wanted to accuse me of a crime and arrest me?"
Wan Xueying said, "Boss, you are just stating that your mind is empty."
Zhao Tongqi's chest was bullied, and he said angrily: "What I said is not right. Everyone in our Jingshi base knows that Commander Gu Jinsheng has a sweetheart. Just like Mr. Kobashi Ichiro said, if your sweetheart is among the hostages, I believe Commander Gu will use technology to exchange him without thinking...ah!"
Wan Xueying and others knew that things were going to get bad when Zhao Tong mentioned Ji An. As expected, before Zhao Tong finished his story, Gu Jinsheng used his supernatural power to slap Zhao Tong hard in the face, knocking out several of his teeth.
Wan Xueying and others had wanted to beat Zhao Tong for a long time, but they did not do so due to various considerations.
Wan Xueying looked at the frightened protesters and the screen that was frantically posting comments that were unfavorable to the base, and she was worried, "Boss?"
Gu Jinsheng released the Thunder Dragon and ordered the psychics behind him, "Catch them all!"
"What?"
No one in the live broadcast room, including the people participating in the parade, expected things to turn out like this. They were all stunned for a moment. Ichiro Kobashi, who was watching the live broadcast, asked, "Is Gu Jinsheng crazy?"
Ichiro Kobashi was not the only one who felt this way. Wan Xueying asked, "Boss, isn't this inappropriate?"
Gu Jinsheng stood in front of everyone and said coldly: "All the benefits that the Beijing base can provide to residents can be provided. At this time in the end of the world, the external network is now connected. You can see if there is a second base with such good welfare benefits as the Beijing base.
But the Jingshi Base treated you like this, how can you treat the Jingshi Base? Now the Jingshi Base is in trouble, and is being troubled by Country R. You don’t want to share the burden for the base, and you have joined forces with the R base to force your own base. "
Gu Jinsheng looked at all the people marching and said, "Today I will tell everyone that the Jingshi base will give the same treatment as it should. We will accept the suggestions of the residents, but we will never be threatened by anyone!"
"Get started!"
At Gu Jinsheng's command, the thunder dragon that had been hovering in the sky with bloodshot eyes rushed forward. The psychics in the command center saw that Gu Jinsheng was serious and not trying to scare people, so they also rushed forward.
The marchers were just a bunch of vagrants and were no match for the command center's well-trained psychics, and they were all quickly brought under control.
Even after being arrested, Zhao Tong still shouted, "What have we done wrong? We just want to find a way out for those stranded people. Why are you arresting us?"
"Based on the fact that every word you said was biased towards Country R, I have a reasonable suspicion that you are Country R's spy."
Zhao Tong was anxious, "I'm not, you just want to accuse me of treason."
"There's no need to accuse you of your behavior; it speaks for itself." Wan Xueying said.
"Take them all away." Gu Jinsheng waved his hand, and all the marchers were taken away. There was a river of blood at the entrance of the command department, and soon the cleaning staff came out to clean up.
The internet was in an uproar, with everyone discussing Gu Jinsheng's behavior.
Wan Xueying looked at the message and said worriedly, "Boss, the trend on the Internet right now is not favorable to us?"
"Have the navy been eliminated?" Gu Jinsheng asked.
"It's over, and it's already guiding public opinion." Zhou Qin said.
Zhou Qin thought that if Zhao Tong hadn't kept his mouth shut, those protesters probably wouldn't have ended up like this.
Gu Jinsheng seemed to see what Zhou Qin was thinking, and said calmly: "It's not because of Xiao An. Even if they didn't mention Xiao An, I would have decided to deal with it that way. Sometimes the base can't just give in. It has to be tough when it's time. Once those who can't distinguish right from wrong or are muddied by the water realize that this kind of coercive method is effective, they will use the same method next time. Are we going to be coerced every time?"
Wan Xueying and the others were all silent. In fact, they all knew in their hearts that the people participating in the march were not ordinary people in the base. Most of them were family members of the hostages, spies from Country R, and a few brainless people who could not distinguish right from wrong and just followed the crowd.
If we let these people go this time, there will definitely be a next time. From now on, there will be protesters taking to the streets at every turn, and no matter what policies the base wants to implement, people with ulterior motives will use this method to prevent them from implementing them.
Gu Jinsheng is really a good commander. When all the commanders-in-chief only care about themselves, Gu Jinsheng has already begun to consider the people's livelihood in the base.
As soon as the base made a little money, the welfare benefits of the Beijing base began to be implemented, including nutritional supplements at a few dollars a tube, free treatment cabins, and an orphanage, etc.
Gu Jinsheng said: "Carefully interrogate the leader to see if he is a spy from Country R?"
"He should be the one." Zhou Qin said, "Otherwise he wouldn't say those things. But even if what we said was true, the residents wouldn't believe it and would think we were deliberately framing him."
Gu Jinsheng said: "If it is, detain him first, and deal with him after everything is resolved. If it is not, let those who are willing to admit their mistakes record the video and put it online, but keep the archives. For the others who are still stubborn, send them to Country R.
Don’t they want to help those hostages? Then go and rescue them yourself!”
Zhou Qin said: "Okay, we will do it right away."
In just one night, the Internet was already in a bloody storm. Those fierce remarks seemed to be able to reach the Beijing base in no time, but in fact, more people were begging others for help to rescue their troubled family members.
Most of the marchers immediately recorded videos admitting that they had been misled and reiterated what Zhao Tong and others had said when they found them, such as that the law does not hold everyone responsible.
Another group of people confessed that they were neither relatives of the hostages stranded in other countries, nor did they simply want to help the hostages, but they wanted to gain popularity and become Internet celebrities through live streaming.
These people's truthful confessions were posted online without any censorship.
Those internet trolls were shouting that it was Gu Jinsheng who forced them to say that. Gu Jinsheng didn't explain at all and let them talk whatever they wanted.
Zhou Qin reported: "Boss, the interrogation revealed that Zhao Tong is not a spy from the R base. He is from our Jing City base and has no connection with those spies."
The driver said in disbelief: "No way, didn't they interrogate him? He's not a spy, but how come he's more active than those spies in R Base? He looks more like a spy!"
"He simply wants to be famous and become an internet celebrity." Zhou Qin was also speechless about the interrogation result.
"What to do, Boss?"
"Is Zhao Tong willing to record a video?" Gu Jinsheng asked.
"I don't want to." Zhou Qin said helplessly: "Zhao Tong still seems to think that you, Boss, just want to scare them and don't dare to do anything to him. He wants to deny it so that he can have something to say when he gets out and continue to be an internet celebrity. Now his live broadcast is not turned off."
"Send them all to R Base. If you want to contribute to rescuing the hostages, then do your part!"
The spiritual base took advantage of the cover of night to transport those who refused to admit their mistakes to the R base. At first, these people didn't know where they were going. When they landed in a strange place, they began to panic, "What is this place?"
The casual staff turned on the live broadcast and broadcast to Zhao Tong and others, "These are all superpowers who are worried about the safety of the hostages. They are willing to do their part for the hostages stranded in other countries, so our Commander Gu is willing to fulfill their wishes and send the people to R Base. Then I wish you good luck!"
"Let's go quickly. The fighter jets from Country R have spotted us and are coming here soon."
The staff immediately got back on the plane, and the plane from the Beijing base flew far away.
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