With the gradual rise of the development of outer space, the industrial capacity of Celestial City had also increased to a terrifying level. Especially in the field of heavy industry, asteroid mining provided raw materials for the development of heavy industry, and wireless power transmission reduced the cost of industrial electricity to the extreme. In addition to the high cost of the space station itself, there was no place more suitable for the development of heavy industry than Celestial City.
In less than a year, Celestial City's production capacity had caught up with the New Malaysia Special District and Ange Island Industrial Park, and was even expected to exceed the combined production capacity of the two industrial parks in the next six months.
Just half a month ago, Future Mining had successfully realized the smelting of A, B, C, and other types of steel in space. At the same time, Future Heavy Industries also completed the digestion of the technology provided by Jiang Chen and achieved a leap from theory to production of the two technical difficulties of "molybdenum nerve access device" and "power armor core chip".
The establishment of the T3 power armor production line in Celestial City already had the hardware conditions.
With the resources of the modern world as the backing, coupled with the production and assembly technology of the apocalypse, the factors restricting the production of power armors would no longer exist. When batches of power armors came off the assembly line, Jiang Chen could already see the horrified faces of those who coveted the power armors.
After he returned, Jiang Chen would launch a large-scale expansion plan. The establishment of one power armor brigade would be expanded to two power armor divisions and two mechanized infantry divisions! In the future, the focus of the development of power armor would also shift from land combat to outer space combat. Gauss rifles more suitable for low-gravity environments would replace traditional gunpowder firearms, and ion propulsion engines would replace the existing aerodynamic engines.
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Time passed by day by day, and soon it was June 13th.
As the Outer Space Security Summit held by Celestial Trade approached, the high-level foreign ministers of the UA, Hua, Russia, Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Arabia … arrived in Coro City. The President of Xin and the Foreign Minister held a grand welcome ceremony at the airport.
For this grand gathering of representatives from all over the world, Celestial Trade and the Xin government put in a lot of effort. Drones and police cars were dispatched at the same time, and the patrol intensity was doubled compared to the past to strengthen the security of Coro City, which was already as solid as an iron wall. The Celestial Trade Army even directly transferred an entire special operations brigade from the New Moon Island military base and temporarily deployed them in the urban area of Coro City to ensure the safety of representatives during the summit.
The venue of the conference was set at the newly built Parliament Building in Coro City, and the hotel where the representatives of various countries stayed was also set at the Hilton Hotel next to the Parliament Building. The wealthy Celestial Trade directly booked the entire building for a week. Foreign ministers and high-level officials lived above, and soldiers in kinetic skeletons lived below.
Everything was to make one thing clear.
That was the importance Celestial Trade attached to this summit.
Whether it was the topic that was about to be discussed or the countries participating in the summit.
As early as a week before the summit, there were already rumors about the agenda of the summit. Some people claimed on social media that the Outer Space Security Summit was likely related to the recent X2 bacteria leak in Finland. Some even linked the X2 bacteria to aliens, Area 51, the conspiracy theory of the UA moon landing, and Celestial Trade's Mars colonization plan, and characterized the X2 bacteria as the counterattack of Martians?
Driven by public opinion, this summit naturally attracted the attention of countless media outlets.
However, what made major media reporters regret was that the content of this summit would not be disclosed to the public. In other words, whether or not to disclose the content of the summit to the public was one of the topics discussed at the summit.
Everyone wanted to get first-hand information about the summit. Everyone wanted to stand in the eye of the storm of public opinion and capture the envy of their peers around the world. However, this time, the governments of various countries kept their mouths shut, and no matter how hard the reporters tried, they couldn't get any information.
What exactly made Celestial Trade so cautious?
It wasn't just the reporters waiting outside the Hilton Hotel, everyone who was interested in the conference had similar questions in their minds.
Just two days before the summit, Jiang Chen finally returned to the apocalypse with the research report on the X2 bacteria compiled by Lin Lin. He should have come back yesterday, but there was a small accident in Lin Lin's research, and it was delayed until today.
Jiang Chen returned to Coro Island on a yacht. Instead of going home directly, he went to the Xin Presidential Palace.
When he arrived at the Presidential Palace, Zhang Yaping was chatting with the Frankberg Foreign Minister. Jiang Chen didn't disturb them, but followed President Zhang's secretary to the lounge next to the Presidential Palace. He slowly sipped his coffee while waiting for the end of the informal diplomatic meeting between the two countries.
He didn't have to wait long before footsteps came from outside the door.
"You're finally willing to come out." Zhang Yaping pushed the door open and sat on the sofa opposite Jiang Chen. He gestured to the secretary with a tired face. "Pour me a glass of water. No need to add tea, just plain water."
High-level foreign ministers from ten countries visited, and Zhang Yaping didn't stop for a week. What's more, the Outer Space Security Summit was about to begin, but at this critical juncture, Jiang Chen went missing and couldn't contact anyone.
Although it wasn't the first time he went missing, it was the first time before such an important event.
"I've been busy lately." Jiang Chen smiled and ambiguously avoided the question. "I think you handled it well when I wasn't here."
"That depends on how you interpret the word 'well'." Zhang Yaping shook his head helplessly, took the cold water from the secretary, whispered a thank you, and gestured for her to leave. Then he looked at Jiang Chen. "Every foreign minister is asking me about one thing. Guess what it is?"
"Extraterrestrial civilization?" Jiang Chen laughed.
"That's right." Zhang Yaping took a sip of water, moistened his throat, and said in a half-joking tone, "Everyone wants to know what kind of trick you guys are playing. Is the extraterrestrial civilization real, or is it just a smokescreen? Of course, the foreign ministers of various countries are most concerned about how far your research on extraterrestrial civilization has progressed. Kerry also threatened me with a warning tone, saying that any unilateral contact with extraterrestrial civilization bypassing the United Nations will be regarded as a provocation of war … Are you kidding me? "
Zhang Yaping shook his head with a smile and put the cup aside.
"Aliens? Haha, you've watched too many Hollywood blockbusters. "
Although Zhang Yaping had already seen the agenda of the Outer Space Security Summit submitted by Celestial Trade, he didn't take the extraterrestrial civilization mentioned in it seriously at all. After all, Jiang Chen never disclosed the details of Celestial Trade's space activities to him.
Jiang Chen looked at Zhang Yaping with an odd expression.
Zhang Yaping noticed Jiang Chen's odd look, and he frowned.
"What's wrong? Is there a problem with what I said? "
"Nothing, I was negligent."
Jiang Chen shook his head, paused for a moment, and looked at the confused Zhang Yaping. "What if I tell you that the extraterrestrial civilization mentioned in our invitation … is not a joke?"
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