Chapter 281: The Infinitely Proliferating Alien Cells

Su Xin's words caused a global sensation.

The high-level officials of every country fell silent.

Yingjiang Country, in particular, felt a chill in its heart.

Currency is one of the three most important cornerstones that Yingjiang Country once used to maintain its global hegemony; it is even the most core, unshakable foundation.

What is currency?

To use a common analogy, if every country were a large supermarket, then currency would be the shopping vouchers issued by that supermarket.

The shopping vouchers themselves have no value; it mainly depends on the reputation of each supermarket. Whichever supermarket's issued voucher you hold, you can exchange it for various goods at that supermarket.

Normally, the shopping vouchers issued by each supermarket can certainly only be used in their own stores; otherwise, why would anyone exchange a piece of waste paper printed by another supermarket for the precious goods in my supermarket?

However, in the era of economic globalization, the goods of every supermarket must be exchanged with one another.

So what should be done?

One must find a suitable anchor.

This anchor must certainly be an essential commodity that every supermarket cannot do without.

The anchor in the past was gold.

Later, it was oil.

As long as one holds oil, one can exchange it for things in all supermarkets, because this item is very important to everyone, and everyone is willing to trade for it.

But as a physical object, oil certainly cannot be used as a medium of exchange like currency; that would be far too troublesome and would have various flaws.

Thus, one day, Yingjiang Country reached an agreement with major oil-producing countries and pushed for the major oil-producing nations to form a cooperative organization, establishing the situation where global oil trade is settled in Eagle Dollars.

From then on, the Eagle Dollar and oil were completely bound together.

If you want oil, you must use Eagle Dollars to exchange for it.

If one says that the oil trade has kidnapped the world.

Then, by kidnapping the oil trade, the Eagle Dollar has indirectly kidnapped the entire world, becoming the world's universal currency.

It is equivalent to a global universal shopping voucher that can be exchanged for any other shopping voucher to purchase goods at will in other supermarkets.

This means that as long as Yingjiang Country prints shopping vouchers without limit, it can harvest the goods of other supermarkets without limit, which is to say, harvest the resources of various countries.

The grain that everyone works hard to grow, the products they manufacture, and the resources they mine can all be taken away by Yingjiang Country printing a piece of green paper.

This is currency hegemony.

With currency hegemony, they can harvest the whole world using currency; it is equivalent to the whole world bearing the seigniorage for the Eagle Dollar. They only need to start the printing press to harvest wealth anywhere in the world.

Even though their technology is now crushed by Long Country and they no longer have a clear military advantage, they still possess a fairly high status globally, which can be said to be relying on their status as the currency hegemon.

The most critical point is that this status as the currency hegemon is basically impossible for anyone to shake.

Because Yingjiang Country has already used the Eagle Dollar to be deeply bound to the global economy; once this connection is forcibly severed, the world economy will suffer violent turmoil as a result.

Therefore, even though many parties have long suffered under the Eagle Dollar, they dare not attempt to break free from this binding relationship.

To put it bluntly.

If Yingjiang Country were truly at the point of desperation and printed money crazily, causing the value of the Eagle Dollar to collapse, then the existing global trade system would also collapse completely, which would in turn lead the global economy into an abyss of no return.

The Eagle Dollar is Yingjiang Country's economic trump card.

It is also their bottom-line card that is sufficient for them to flip the table.

And now.

Su Xin wants to move their roots!

He wants their lives!

In a certain office.

Several high-level officials of Yingjiang Country, who were watching the live broadcast together, had their expressions change wildly, and they roared hysterically:

"What kind of joke is this? A single company? And a country, wanting to join forces to set global currency rules? This is simply a dream!"

"Su Xin is crazy!"

"Is he not afraid of the global economy collapsing?"

"How could he possibly change global monetary policy by his own strength?"

"He is seeking his own death!"

"Currency is a symbol of credit and a manifestation of national strength; by what right does Su Xin..."

The few people cursed frantically.

But as they cursed, they fell silent.

They thought that the Eagle Dollar was also issued by a private company, yet it still circulates globally; whether in terms of reputation or capital, Su Xin is not lacking at all.

Moreover, their Eagle Dollar only circulates globally because it is bound to oil.

Oil is a product that every country cannot do without and can become an anchor, so why can't the products of Tianqi Group?

Every country is likewise inseparable from Tianqi Group.

Who can afford not to buy things from Tianqi Group?

Who can afford not to sell things to Tianqi Group?

Who can refuse cooperation with Tianqi Group?

In all these transactions, Tianqi Group is basically in a dominant position; when they announce that they only accept Credit Coins, if everyone wants to continue cooperating, they can only bring Credit Coins.

Especially since the tentacles of Tianqi Group have long reached deep into every industry and every corner of the world; their assets are too numerous to count, and the transaction share they are involved in is even more exaggeratedly large.

It is much larger than the global oil trade share.

Of course.

The products of Tianqi Group are industrial products and cannot truly serve as a global currency anchor like energy materials such as oil.

But this policy of Tianqi Group is sufficient to forcibly promote the large-scale circulation of Credit Coins.

As for whether the value of the Credit Coin can remain stable, that will depend on the specific monetary policies.

In the video.

Su Xin seemed unaware of the various countries' reactions, his expression remaining calm and solemn:

"I know that many people are watching this live broadcast, including high-level officials from various countries and various oil-producing nations."

"The reason I specifically held this global live broadcast speech is both to announce this policy to the whole world and to remind you all—"

"The era has changed; there must be new rules."

"I hope that oil can also be traded in Credit Coins in the future; the Eagle Dollar is no longer up to the task."

"I might as well say it directly: Yingjiang Country cannot protect you, nor can it threaten you; your past agreements can be considered void."

"I hereby sincerely invite all countries to join the Blue Star Currency Alliance and connect to the Credit Coin trading system."

"I guarantee with my reputation that the issuance of the Credit Coin is absolutely not to seize monetary hegemony, but to promote global commercial development and the mutual exchange of resources, further deepening cooperation among all parties."

"I also promise to balance the interests of all parties, ensure fairness as much as possible, allow the Credit Coin to replace existing currencies as smoothly as possible, and adopt various policies to reduce the impact on the economy."

"At the same time..."

"I also solemnly warn certain groups that the implementation of the Credit Coin is imperative; no person or group can stop it. Otherwise, I will use all means to strike, including but not limited to economic strikes and military strikes."

"If anyone feels my behavior is too overbearing, then think carefully about what happened a few days ago, and think about the threat of the aliens."

"Extraordinary times require extraordinary measures."

"The comprehensive integration of Blue Star is an inevitable trend that no one can stop; it is also the foundation for us to resist the alien invasion, and it is the prerequisite for me to protect Blue Star at all costs."

Su Xin's words sparked frantic discussion among the entire population, and various countries held emergency deliberations.

And after Su Xin's live broadcast ended.

Invitations to join the alliance were sent to some major countries, and discussions on cooperation matters were proposed.

A general plan regarding some systems of the Credit Coin was established.

The reason Su Xin announced it directly to the whole world first was also to give everyone a show of strength first, so that everyone's willingness to cooperate would be higher and the subsequent negotiations would be smoother.

Sure enough.

After receiving the invitations, everyone agreed one after another to join the Blue Star Currency Alliance and agreed to discuss specific cooperation plans together.

Yingjiang Country also agreed.

There was no other way; they had to agree.

In terms of economy, military, technology, and public sentiment, they were completely at a disadvantage in every aspect.

Unless they wanted to cut themselves off from Blue Star.

One week later.

In a large conference hall.

Representatives from White Bear Country, Yingjiang Country, Beer Country, Romantic Country, and more than a hundred other countries held a joint press conference to announce their accession to the Blue Star Currency Alliance.

A series of policies and regulations regarding the Credit Coin, as well as the exchange plans and ratios between the Credit Coin and the existing currencies of various countries, and the promotion plan and process for the Credit Coin, were all announced in detail.

For a time, the whole world was stirred.

After Su Xin finished watching the press conference, he returned to his Laboratory.

The replacement of global currency is by no means a simple matter; the market needs a long time to adapt, and the economy will also have certain fluctuations.

Therefore, Su Xin will not push other policies in the short term; he can only take them one by one.

His most important task now is still the research and development of the Bio-Armor.

"Put the No. 5 cell tissue into the culture tank."

Su Xin gave the order and then went on to study the other clusters of cell tissue by himself.

A researcher immediately followed his instructions and began to operate, placing a small, dark green piece of flesh into a glass culture tank.

The culture tank was about the size of a basketball, filled more than halfway with translucent nutrient solution.

And the dark red piece of flesh was cell tissue cultivated with great care from cells extracted from the scales on the surface of the alien's body.

If the scales were equivalent to a layer of special metal armor on the alien's body surface, then this dark red piece of flesh was equivalent to a metal block made from this special metal.

Although the material was the same, the defensive power of the two was not on the same level at all.

After the dark green piece of flesh was put into the nutrient solution, it quickly absorbed the nutrients and began to proliferate and expand at a speed visible to the naked eye, soon becoming an irregular, ugly ball of flesh.

It was not until the nutrient solution in the culture tank was completely consumed that the piece of flesh stopped proliferating.

At this time, the piece of flesh had grown from the size of a fingertip to occupy half the space inside the culture tank, which was half the size of a basketball.

"Director Su, the cultivation is complete."

The researcher reminded him carefully.

"Good, test the various values."

Su Xin turned his head to look, and ordered with a calm expression.

The first step in the research and development of the Bio-Armor was to combine the cells of the alien Iris with cancer cells, enabling them to proliferate infinitely on their own.

This step was not difficult for Su Xin.

He had already succeeded several times before.

But what Su Xin wanted to achieve was to ensure that the cell tissue possessed sufficient strength and toughness, so as to guarantee the amplification effect of the Bio-Armor.

It also needed to have a sufficiently fast proliferation speed to ensure that the transformation during combat was fast enough.

A dozen minutes later.

The test data came out.

The strength and toughness of this cell tissue had already reached a level equivalent to that of the alien.

This also means that as long as this type of cellular tissue is used as Bio-Armor, and its thickness is no worse than the scales on the surface of the aliens' bodies, it can possess defensive capabilities no less than those of the aliens.

It would be able to ignore bullets from ordinary firearms, ignore blades swung by ordinary people, and possess a body that is indestructible in the conventional sense.

Of course, this only reaches the foundation of the Bio-Armor's physical strength; it does not mean that the Bio-Armor technology has already succeeded.

It should be said that it is still far from it.