In the blink of an eye, three days had passed since Jiang Chen arrived in Lunar City.
In these three days, under the hospitality of Tang Weijie, the mayor of Lunar City, Jiang Chen and Xia Shiyu toured the entire city.
From the lunar ice exploration well, to the lunar soil mining station that collected helium-3, to the nuclear fusion power station that delivered electricity to half of Asia, and the wireless power transmission device that covered hundreds of square meters, Jiang Chen finally had an intuitive understanding of the development of Lunar City.
Generally speaking, this was a large mining area with mining as its main focus and tourism as a supplement. It had complete mining facilities, ground transportation, power supply, communication and dispatch, production management, and living service facilities.
According to Tang Weijie, to fully develop the potential of Lunar City, at least 50,000 permanent residents were needed. Before the problem of living space was solved, the limit of the permanent resident population of Lunar City was around this number.
To solve the shield technology, it depended on the restoration of the Holy Shield system in Wanghai in the apocalypse.
Jiang Chen pondered silently in his mind.
It was time to go back to the apocalypse.
…
Under the collective farewell of all the leaders of Lunar City, Jiang Chen and Xia Shiyu boarded the returning spacecraft.
After returning to Celestial City, the first thing he did was to convene experts from Future Heavy Industries and Celestial Trade to hold a seminar on the Moon Elevator.
With the input of a group of experts, the engineering plan for the Moon Elevator was quickly finalized.
After confirming the feasibility of the project, Jiang Chen immediately found Kelvin and instructed him on the matter.
With the personal approval of the boss, the Moon Elevator project was quickly launched. Future Heavy Industries immediately sent engineers to Lunar City for a field visit. The graphene factory in the Ange Island Industrial Park operated to the limit, and the production capacity that was originally idle due to the completion of the space elevator began to operate again.
The total length of the entire Moon Elevator was 200 kilometers with a budget of 3.7 billion Xin New Dollars. The construction party was, of course, Future Heavy Industries, and it was expected to be delivered to Celestial Trade in the first half of next year.
When Jiang Chen finished all the work at hand, it was already the 13th.
After staying in space for so long, he finally returned to the ground. When his feet stepped on the soft soil again, Jiang Chen suddenly had an illusion that he hadn't felt for a long time.
Seagulls soared in the sky, dolphins leaped out of the water from time to time, warm sunlight sprinkled on his face, and the sea breeze that blew against his face was mixed with the fragrance of coconuts … These things that couldn't be more common on Earth, at this moment, in his eyes, they were particularly intimate.
He took the helicopter back to Coro Island and went straight home.
As early as three days ago, when he was dealing with the Moon Elevator in Celestial City, Xia Shiyu returned early. Today was a working day, so she should be working at the company. Natasha was probably not at home either. From Monday to Friday, she would go to the Russian Embassy to "check in".
In that case, there was only one person who could open the door for him …
When Jiang Chen knocked on the door of the mansion, a beautiful figure jumped into his arms.
Jiang Chen held Ayesha in his arms and stroked the slightly curly dark brown hair. He looked at her pretty face and whispered.
"Did you miss me?"
Ayesha nodded and buried her face in Jiang Chen's chest. She rubbed her nose against his chest, and a blissful smile appeared on her cold face.
Ayesha took the suitcase from Jiang Chen's hand and jogged upstairs.
He hung his jacket at the door, went to the bathroom, and took a hot shower. When he opened the bathroom door, a change of clothes was already in the plastic basket. Jiang Chen looked at the neatly folded clothes, and a smile appeared on his face.
The clothes smelled like sunshine. They must have been dried not long ago.
After changing into clean clothes, Jiang Chen dried his hair with a towel and returned to the living room.
He looked at Ayesha sitting on the sofa in the living room and sat next to her.
"Did anything happen in the past few days I was gone? Nippon. "
Ayesha shook her head.
"The CIB suspended its espionage activities in Nippon and at least stopped contacting members of the Nippon Congress. We are now basically in a state of armistice with the CIB, although I don't know how long this situation will last … Speaking of which, why did you ask us to pay attention to Joseph Kennedy? Is there anything special about him? If it's just because he is from the B City Consortium — "
"Guess who I met in Lunar City? I met Loki, "Jiang Chen said." He talked to me about the alliance. He said that if Joseph Kennedy becomes president, they will give Nippon to us and join the Earth Defense Alliance. "
"Did you promise him?" Ayesha looked at Jiang Chen and blinked.
"Of course not." Jiang Chen shrugged. "This piece of meat is too fat. I'm afraid it will get greasy."
No matter from which perspective, the proposal of the B City Consortium could be regarded as quite generous. If there was a problem, it was that the cheque they wrote was too generous. It was so generous that Jiang Chen couldn't believe it.
Obviously, Ayesha thought the same.
"According to your instructions, we have begun to investigate the situation of Joseph Kennedy."
"Who is responsible for the operation?"
"Bernice."
Jiang Chen nodded.
He had some impression of the name Bernice. She and Zhu Yu were among the first batch of graduated agents. She was considered a veteran among the Ghost Agents. With her in charge of this matter, there shouldn't be any mistakes.
Now that the Earth Defense Alliance was on the right track, there was still a long way to go to integrate global resources. And the biggest obstacle was the hegemon of the old world, the UA. As the leader of the world's largest military body, as long as the UA existed, the sphere of influence of the Earth Defense Alliance could only stay in the eastern hemisphere.
However, the problem now was that both sides held the switch to destroy the world.
In this case, the two sides could only test each other on the surface of their respective bottom lines.
Although the two sides still maintained high-level economic and trade cooperation, the signs of the Cold War had quietly emerged. If this balance could be maintained, it would be fine. If one day the delicate balance between the two sides was broken by one party, it was likely to slide into an abyss that neither side could bear.
If you asked who was the most likely to break this balance first.
Jiang Chen's answer was undoubtedly the UA.
It wasn't a problem, but there was a theoretical basis.
After all, the UA changed its president every four years!
Not to mention the disparity between the governance of the two parties, there were all kinds of differences within the same party. If he chose a madman who didn't play by the rules, Jiang Chen really couldn't predict the final result.
In this case, regardless of whether the promise of the B City Consortium would be fulfilled, pushing Joseph Kennedy to the position of president was at least not too bad a choice. After all, Future Group's cooperation with the B City Consortium in the fields of desalination and VR finance was still quite close.
Of course, that being said, Jiang Chen certainly wouldn't provide them with help without reservation.
The Ghost Agents in North America were already on the move to collect Joseph Kennedy's dark history or something that could be used against him. Jiang Chen believed that as long as it was a politician, no one was clean. As long as they investigated in-depth, they would always find something.
"I'm going back to the apocalypse in a few days. I'll leave this to you." Jiang Chen rubbed Ayesha's hair.
Ayesha covered Jiang Chen's hand and nodded meekly.
"Mhmm."
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