Chapter 1433 - A Disruptive Finding (1/2)

The shooting on the streets of Capital resulted in two deaths and one minor injury. Due to the seriousness of the incident, the FBA had started an investigation. However, the result was not far from what Jiang Chen expected, the incident was classified as a gang fight.

It was almost predictable that after this incident faded out from the public’s attention, it would be swept under the rug. But since the editor was controlled by B City Consortium, there was still room to turn the situation around.

The next day, Celestial Trade’s Los Santos office held a press conference. The UA business director (mainly responsible for Celestial Trade’s investment and promotion) stood in front of the cameras and gave a speech on the recent controversies.

“The flights between Celestial and the Mars colony will commence at the end of the year. From the perspective of peace, friendship, and common development, we will also bring home the astronauts stranded on Mars. In the fastest scenario, these astronauts will have to wait until mid-January next year to return to the country, when the election is over. Therefore, the use of astronauts by Celestial Trade to interfere in the election is pure speculation.”

“We have noticed the previous report of the Washington Post. We found the argument used by the Washington Post to be very strange. When did a serious news source start to interpret two articles with no basis by distorting facts?”

“Of course, I understand the current circumstance in the country.”

“Using accusations and speculations as means of collecting votes are perhaps part of the election process?”

At the same time, under the coercion of the B City Consortium, Jacob Wood also appeared in front of the media to apologize.

“I have a great responsibility for that report. First of all, I would like to apologize to Celestial Trade. I shouldn’t quote those two reports without basis. As a media professional, I…”

This speech clearly sounded scripted and it was obviously the work of B City Consortium. Given how smooth the speech went, he definitely was very well “prepped”.

In any case, the public controversy triggered by the three reports had finally come to an end. As for how it would affect the election in a few days’ time, it would only be evident after the election result was made available.

After all, the time left now was not even enough to do a pre-election poll.

As for the other person, Amy Qasim, her whereabouts were currently unknown. It was unclear whether she fled to the central states and hid after she realized the severity of the situation, or she was already controlled by Morgan and Rockefeller and locked into a dark room.

Now to shift the perspective from the Earth to the Kuiper Belt 30 astronomical units away.

After half a month of exploration work, the researchers on SS Origin had conducted a rough mineral identification of the types of asteroids around the spaceship.

The result was beyond everyone’s expectations. These asteroids, which were originally thought to have the same minerality, had large differences in elements. After the news was revealed, it not only created a shockwave among the astronomy researchers, but even the physics researchers were also shocked by the finding.

If this phenomenon was universal in the Kuiper Belt, then it would undoubtedly be a major discovery in the study of the origin of the Solar System that could change the existing understanding. Many scholars and scientific researchers in astronomy and physics submitted applications to Celestial Trade to fund a research ship to send them and their equipment to the Kuiper Belt, and establish a scientific research base for more in-depth research on those asteroids.