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Chapter 926 Tradeoffs (44)

White House.

the office of the president.

Since FBI Director Mueller entered, the assistant to the President's Office sitting at the door of the office could hear from time to time the sound of a man furious from behind the door.

"What are you idiots doing!"

Standing in front of the president, Director Mueller held his breath and admitted his mistake tremblingly: "This matter is our negligence... We expected that those people would do something, but we didn't expect them to move so fast."

Although it is a pleasant thing to see opponents suffer losses, the White House absolutely does not want this to happen at this juncture.

Negotiations on the International Lunar Hadron Collider are still going on. They managed to win over a group of teammates through diplomatic means. They are going to put pressure on the budget committee and win more for the national committees responsible for budget approval. Powers other than approving the budget.

Now, however, their plans have been completely disrupted.

Because of the outbreak of the cyber attack, not only their allies cast a surprised look at them, but also made many vacillating neutral countries doubt whether the Americans really want to participate in this international project.

Maybe, they Yankees just want to spoil the meeting? Didn't you come here with the idea of ​​cooperation at all?

Everyone has such doubts.

Just then, the phone on the table rang.

The president took a deep breath and walked over, looked at who was calling, and pressed the speakerphone directly.

The phone was connected, and Director Carson's voice came over immediately.

"it's me."

President: "I know it's you, if you have something to say, hurry up!"

Although it feels like the president is in a bad mood, it's not convenient to ask about this kind of thing.

With a tired voice, Carson on the other end of the phone cleared his throat and said.

"There is pressure on us over there, those goddamn idiots, I drafted the plan for the budget committee all night, and I just took it out on the conference table today, and I was thrown by those people about the cyber attack. They blocked it back. They are now determined to make a big fuss about this matter, and plan to bring it to the negotiating table to resolve."

Taking a deep breath, he continued speaking with a faint tone.

"Well, now we are at an absolute disadvantage on the negotiating table, and even the neutrals who have already turned to us have expressed serious concerns about our domestic network security and new terrorism. .”

The president couldn't help asking: "Didn't you refute with that group of people, cyber attacks and hadron colliders, are they two different things?"

"I said it, but they started to frame us, saying that the predatory eagle might be supported by the federal government, and they said that they have some evidence, but they need further confirmation..." Director Carson paused at this point After a while, he hesitated and said, "Let me ask by the way, should it be..."

Wei Wei was stunned, and after hearing the meaning of this sentence, the president flatly vetoed it: "How is it possible! How could I approve such a stupid plan! Is destroying the servers of several websites beneficial to us? What do you think, Mueller gentlemen."

Stared at by the president with murderous eyes, Mueller nodded quickly: "Of course! I will never let my men do such stupid things... But just in case, I suggest that we call the CIA people to ask Give it a shot, maybe they'll do it."

"Now is not the time to ask who is responsible," Director Carson on the other end of the phone said in a tired tone, pressing his brows with a headache, "The situation may not be good for us now, my suggestion is...before they make use of the problem , to make appropriate concessions. Otherwise, it is hard to say whether they will reconsider whether our participation is really so necessary..."

There was an instant silence in the office.

It's as if a needle can be heard clearly when it falls on the ground.

Is there a need to participate in...

A bitter taste gradually appeared in the president's eyes.

If someone said that to him ten years ago, he would definitely think that this person was joking with him, and he would laugh out loud in cooperation.

There is no industrial chain in this world that can exist without the United States. No major international research project involving more than fifty countries could have been organized without the United States.

But now...

Someone is actually thinking about how to politely kick them out of the group?

The world must be crazy.

After a silence of about ten minutes, the president walked to the chair behind the desk and sat down.

Tapping his index finger on the table, he spoke in a tired voice.

"...You can relax other conditions as appropriate, and let go of the demands of allies for the time being, but you must ensure that we have at least three seats with full voting rights on the Budget Committee, which is out of the question."

Whether they really intended to do so or not, he dared not take the gamble.

It is true that they need America, but now it is clear that America needs more than...

Director Carson on the other end of the phone nodded and heaved a sigh of relief.

"……I try my best."

After hanging up the phone, the president slammed his fist on the table fiercely, cursing something like he was cursing someone.

"These bloody idiots!"

Looking at the president who lost his temper, Director Mueller held his breath and dared not speak.

Because of the disruption of the predatory eagle, the United States is now at a disadvantage in the entire negotiation.

If Russia fails to take a firm stand in the budget committee negotiations, an upper hand is almost certain...

No, to be precise, the group of Siberian bears must not stand firm.

As long as someone gives them a little favor, they will let go of this issue that is related to the vital interests of other cooperating countries. After all, they haven't paid a lot of money, and they are just here to join in the fun...

...

For Lu Zhou, what happened on the Internet was just a small episode.

Whether or not Predator Eagle is backed by the White House, these inconsequential trifles don't matter at all.

The ultimate source of all the IPs that launched the attack is from the United States. As long as they stick to this point, they will be invincible in this public opinion war and get enough "compensation" in the negotiations on the budget committee .

Of course, the crux of the problem is that the initiative of this seminar has always been with the Lunar Orbit Construction Committee.

Absolute strength is the guarantee of cooperation.

Otherwise, even if such a "misunderstanding" occurs, according to the habits of Americans, there is a high probability that it will not be taken seriously at all.

These days, while Lu Zhou is actively participating in the preparation of the Lunar Hadron Collider Research Center, he is also helping Director Li to select the list of experts to demonstrate the technical feasibility.

It was only when Lu Zhou started to do this that he realized that it was really difficult to avoid suspicion.

In terms of software engineering, Jinling University itself is relatively strong among the top five universities. There are two experts in the field of quantum computing at the Academy of Software, and one is even at the academician level.

It would be unfair to him to remove his name just to avoid suspicion, so after thinking twice, Lu Zhou still wrote their names.

As for the other experts, some are from Yan University and some are from Shuimu. There are ten people in total. The lineup is fairly balanced, evenly distributed. Then it wasn't until after the candidates were selected that Lu Zhou realized that he had unknowingly started to think about things other than academics.

"People can't help themselves in the rivers and lakes."

Lu Zhou shook his head with a dumbfounded smile, but secretly made up his mind that he would never take such troublesome things on himself again, and then sent this email to Director Li's mailbox.

It's finally done!

After finishing these things, Lu Zhou stretched himself and was about to get up to get some coffee.

But at this moment, an unread email suddenly flew into his mailbox.

Seeing the name, Lu Zhou raised his eyebrows slightly.

Professor Wu Tianqun?

Does this mean that Cao Cao Cao Cao will arrive?

Opening the email with curiosity, Lu Zhou quickly glanced at it.

As the saying goes, the shorter the word, the greater the amount of information.

The text of this email is only one sentence in total.

[The research on carbon-based chips has progressed! ! ! 】

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(Thanks to the leader "medking" for the reward of the Silver League! The first silver league in ginseng! And two at a time, so excited! Wait for me to expand (xuan) swelling (yao) in the circle of friends, thank you again !!!

Feeling the outbreak is really a painful and happy thing. Although the liver hurts a bit, I will try my best to persist! This week, keep breaking out! QAQ)