Chapter 900 - The Miracle of Medicine (1/2)

Just as Xia Shiyu expected, the economic crisis arrived on schedule and swept the world from the Mediterranean at lightning speed. Even if OPEC member states all announced production increases, the upward oil price momentum remained unstoppable.

It should be noted that capacity was only one of the factors that determined the price, and not the only factor. The Turkish Civil War cut off the southern corridor that supplied European’s energy needs. The Ukrainian issue and the sanctions against Russia completely blocked the gas pipeline from the east to Europe.

The extreme forces such as IS spread like wildfire and have also caused the Middle East’s oil production capacity to hit a low.

The attack on the Pilsen Synagogue was just a fuse.

The turmoil in the stock prices of the thirteen financial groups directly detonated the long-overdue crisis.

The global economy once again hailed a disaster no inferior than the 2008 financial crisis. The New York Stock Exchange’s Dow Jones failed to stop the freefall, and Wall Street’s “dealer” rang the bell to begin the shuffle.

It was India that fell first. Due to geological conditions, India was an oil importing country and has very little natural gas reserves. As an emerging economy that was on the road to industrialization, the price of oil directly constrained the lifeline of this country.

With the rise in oil prices, bills for imports of crude oil in India also continued to rise, and the crisis further exacerbated. The rapid increase in production and transportation costs, the drop in exports, and the withdrawal of investors, followed by a sharp rise in the Indian government’s fiscal deficit, eventually triggered a crisis.

There were countless companies that went bankrupt. The unemployment rate in all countries grew by more than a percentage, and the consumer index fell to a historic low. Affected by the impact of the aftermath, Future Group’s group operation also suffered. These losses were reflected on the November financial report.

However, compared to other companies, Future Group’s focus on the frontier industries, was minimally impacted.

With the continued expansion of the planting area of petroleum crops, the factories of Future Group at least did not need to worry about high oil prices. As for other commodities driven by crude oil prices, Future Group relied on the three raw material suppliers, MLL Island, Country F, and Madagascar to ease some of the pressure.

The global economic situation was in a downturn. Jiang Chen also gradually shifted the focus of investment to the industries beyond Earth. The real enemy was actually just light years away. While the Freemasonry posed a big problem, in contrast, he must plan out more important things in advance.

The space elevator was basically complete. Some plans that previously must be put on hold, could now gradually start.

Before that, Jiang Chen had one more thing to do.

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Coro Island Central Hospital, a hospital funded by Future Group, brought together cutting-edge technologies for Future Biology. Many incurable diseases that could not be solved by modern medicine was treated to a certain extent here, and some were even completely eradicated.

The entrance of the hospital was completely jammed by reporters and TV vans. People looked at the hospital entrance with full of hope. At this moment, they were devoted believers, they were waiting for a miracle.

A culture chamber that was tangled with tubes stood inside the special medical room in the hospital. On the surface of the culture chamber, a palm-sized screen was embedded and the center of the screen pulsated with numbers similar to a countdown.

When the number returned to zero, the medical staff in the room gathered around the chamber and emptied the culture fluid, opened the chamber, lifted the respirator and the tubes with different functions on the patient, and finally lifted the patient to the moving bed and sent him to the rehabilitation room.

There was an uproar downstairs, and if it weren’t for security guards, the eager reporters would have rushed upstairs

Who had this honor?

Yes, it was the famous physicist and the patient with ALS, Hawking.

Before he was sent to the rehabilitation room, he opened his eyes and saw Jiang Chen at the entrance. He used his vocal cord to intermittently say the first words he said in decades.

“Where is my wheelchair?”