Chapter 594 Back Then, We Fought Hard and Established Great Achievements by Setting up the Divine Flag.

Xiangshan couldn't help but opened his eyes and returned to the time and space more than two hundred years later.

He was crowded on an electric flatbed with two knights, Jardel and Kane. The flatbed truck drives in a long and narrow tunnel. The tunnel is just wide enough to accommodate the flatbed truck. The walls of the tunnel are slightly curved. Every time a certain distance passes, this arc will change slightly - this is to prevent enemies from entering the tunnel and then directly attacking with long-range weapons.

He pulled out a wire from Xiang Shan and connected it to the motor of the flatbed truck.

This tunnel has also been prepared by the Earth-Drilling Dragon.

After staying in the empty Green Forest Village for a few days, Kane left the place with Jardel and Xiang Shan, wearing camouflage nets, crawling all the way through the blocked area. Relying on his understanding of the surroundings and Xiangshan's outstanding internal skills, the group avoided all battles and broke out of the encirclement.

Afterwards, Kane led the two of them to an underground mining area operated by Earth-Drilling Dragon.

This was left behind by another group of earth-burrowing dragons decades ago.

By the way, this is a coal mine. Canada was once a major coal exporter.

While mining for coal in the age of cyberpunk may sound strange, there are a few burrowers who dig up the mineral. After coal is liquefied into aviation kerosene, it becomes a fuel with a high calorific value that can even support the supersonic movement of ramjet engines. Compared with liquid hydrogen, aviation kerosene is more stable, easier to store, and its output is better controlled.

This is still attractive to melee warriors.

For many people who do not have outstanding external skills, but choose to install vector injectors because of their own martial arts skills, aviation kerosene can also be regarded as a "reserve material".

Of course, asylum seekers would never use kerosene. This is not just because it is not very economical and easy to use. To the protectors, every piece of coal is fossil material.

They would rather take a completely "environmentally friendly" approach, electrolyzing water from photovoltaic panels to produce hydrogen, or directly producing methanol and downstream chemical products through electricity synthesis.

In this winding underground alleyway, the three knights relaxed their nerves that had been tense for several days. After retaining basic vigilance, they let the subject of consciousness fall asleep.

Xiangshan naturally continued to read that memory.

The theme of this memory seems to be Lu Xuanyu. Lao Lu did not play a large role in Xiangshan's life. Lao Lu is considered his friend, and he also worked as a "private bodyguard" for a period of time [of course it has greater "publicity significance"], but the relationship is not as close as other friends.

But the 1940s and 1950s when he became friends with Xiangshan were the most important years in Xiangshan's life.

Many of Xiangshan's generation of relatives and friends died during this period. He also lost important friends at this time.

At the same time, this is also an era of rapid technological advancement for mankind. Technological revolution has become a daily occurrence. The business of Superman Enterprise is also like flowers blooming on brocade and fire cooking oil. This research and development company grew into a monster capable of controlling the world during this period.

The people who weaved the "Maze of Xiangshan's Memory" also tried their best to restore this period of time from multiple different perspectives.

The fragments given by the Six Dragons Sect to Protector Zhi Li Jiliu are from Lu Xuanyu's perspective, and what he saw and heard during that period as a pure warrior pursuing "technique" and "expression".

But this memory stimulated Xiangshan too much, causing Xiangshan's brain to "remember" more things. Another memory recorded by the Eighth Martial God emerged like this.

This feeling is amazing. To Xiang Shan, it was like looking at himself with a mirror broken into countless pieces.

Among the memories just now, the part that does not belong to "Lu Xuanyu's perspective" is the legacy from the eighth Martial God.

The main subject of the memory of the Eighth Martial God is Zhu Xinyu, but Xiangshan and Zhu Xinyu are not conjoined giant twins and will not stay together all the time. If you want to complete "Mukayama's life" according to the timeline, you will inevitably mix in things from other perspectives.

The clue is "time".

The conversation between him, Nia Guti, and Yawgmoth happened on the day Lu Xuanyu had the operation.

He remembered this very clearly and could not forget it even if he wanted to.

And this conversation opened a new page in the times.

In the following years, humans burned hundreds of billions of dollars worth of resources, researching in the direction of "Plan C" proposed by Yawgmoth.

In 1985, the biological community launched the "Human Genome Project", which was considered an unprecedented and huge project in the field. The budget for this plan is only a mere three billion US dollars.

Even taking into account inflation from 1985 to 2045, Yawgmoth's "Plan C" still burned dozens of times as much money as the Human Genome Project.

The entire human race, countless countries, and countless scientific researchers are all affected by this huge plan.

Then……

It actually worked.

Sometimes Xiangshan feels a little incredible. Although "hundreds of billions of dollars" is unimaginable in itself, compared with this achievement, it seems a bit insignificant. Even on the day when Nia Guti informed everyone that it was "successful", Xiangshan was still in shock, "What, it's over".

——Such an achievement only requires hundreds of billions of dollars...

Xiangshan held his head to suppress the rushing emotions.

Even after staying in this era without the concept of "economy" for several years, Xiangshan can still realize the horror of this number.

The United States, a superpower, invests only one to two hundred billion U.S. dollars a year in the field of scientific research—this is a profit shared by scholars across the country.

It is naturally not easy to get this money.

There also went through a lot of negotiations and a lot of struggles.

Back then, Xiangshan gave full play to his ability as a manager and cut this large project into many small projects, some of which were "traded" to establish deeper cooperative relationships with scientific researchers around the world. The part that can produce "practical technology" is used to apply for national or public scientific research funds - especially research related to AIDS and cancer.

Among other things, Yawgmoth's plan requires understanding all the proto-oncogenes used by the human immune system. After thoroughly researching this point, we have fundamentally eliminated immune system-related cancers such as lymphoma and leukemia, and even treatments for many other cancers have emerged - using the method that Yawgmoth has completed once before. Just do it again on the proto-oncogene.

And HIV...an HIV that makes people talk about it with shame.

It's quite interesting to say. In fact, Yawgmoth's Plan A - "Accelerating HIV" is the simplest, least risky, and lowest R&D cost among the four plans. At least "accelerating the course of HIV" does not require R&D investment of hundreds of billions of dollars.

During the course of Yawgmoth's "Plan C" research, HIV will become a disease that can be easily cured, and there is no need to be afraid at all.

But Yawgmoth designed Plan C initially because everyone was afraid of Plan A. [Before being seized by the Security Council, Yawgmoth was already designing Plan C. 】

A small number of people who are not suitable for Plan C due to objective reasons still choose Plan A.

That conversation probably has the status of "long and middle pair" in the development history of Superman Enterprise, so the title of the chapter was originally intended to use the couplet from the Wuhou Temple in Chengdu, "Two expressions reward three visits" and so on. However, the second half of the couplet is "a pair of strong friends", which is not suitable for Xiangshan and the others. (However, this couplet is quite impressive. Emperor Zhaolie and Marquis Wu are indeed a rare match between monarch and minister in history.)