Jiang Chen was never a person who favored one over another. At most, he was a bit immoral.
That was what he had always believed.
He spent a happy Christmas Eve and Christmas with Ayesha. And on Christmas Eve, he brought Ayesha's hand-made fruit pudding and turkey back to the apocalypse.
Even though he possessed unimaginable wealth, he had never forgotten this villa. His subordinates suggested to him more than once that he should renovate the mansion. Since the building was exposed to a nuclear explosion, even if the radioactive dust was cleaned, the cracks on the wall could not be covered up.
But Jiang Chen decisively rejected it.
To him, this place had a special meaning. It was more than just a place to sleep.
"Woo! It's so delicious! How did you do it? The taste of mango and strawberry perfectly blended together, it's … amazing! " Her hand gripped the fork as her silver hair trembled. Lin Lin's black and red eyes shone with happiness.
[Fu * k, it's just eating pudding, there's no need to put on an orgasmic face!]
But it was obvious that both Lin Lin and Tingting, who was residing in her body, admired Ayesha's cooking.
"Jiang, Brother Jiang Chen." Yaoyao pulled on Jiang Chen's shirt as she timidly said.
"What's wrong?" Jiang Chen smiled at Yaoyao.
"That … that girl named Ayesha, is her cooking better than mine?"
Yaoyao asked a difficult question. Just like how girls loved to ask "who is prettier, me or her?" [Whose cooking is better?] In Jiang Chen's opinion, each had their own merits. But of course, he wouldn't say such a stupid truth.
"Of course it's Yaoyao." Jiang Chen freed his hand and rubbed the little girl's head. "Yaoyao is the best."
Unlike what Jiang Chen had expected, Yaoyao didn't show a happy smile, but instead blushed. Although the happiness could still be seen in the pair of big eyes, Jiang Chen felt something was not right.
Sun Xiaorou still had a smile on her face as she elegantly put the pudding between her lips.
"Sister, a powerful opponent appeared."
"Mhmm!"
"Hmm? Sister, are you not jealous? "Sun Xiaorou tilted her head and looked at Sun Jiao who was eating the turkey.
"Humph, I'm used to how shameless that guy is!" Sun Jiao glared at Jiang Chen.
Although she was glaring at him 'fiercely', Rourou could still see the gentleness hidden in her sister's eyes.
After the sumptuous dinner, a mess of cups and plates was left on the table.
By the time everyone cleared the plates, it was already late. Yao Yao and Lin Lin took a shower and went back to their room to rest.
But Jiang Chen's Christmas Eve with Sun Jiao and Xiaorou had just begun …
…
When he returned to the modern world, it was already the second day after Christmas.
Carson Loki called to congratulate him on the successful listing of High Tech Freshwater.
"Congratulations, Mr. Jiang Chen. Now you have an additional eight billion USD under your name. On behalf of the investors on Wall Street, I wish you a Merry Christmas! "
The call should have come two days ago, but Jiang Chen went to the apocalypse, so he didn't receive it.
"Thank you for your blessing." Jiang Chen smiled.
"If you have any plans to list subsidiaries, please contact us!"
"Haha, if there is." Jiang Chen brushed off Carson's probing with a smile.
B City Consortium was an ally, but Jiang Chen never thought they were the type that would confide in him. The market value was overestimated to this extent. If there was no organization behind it, it wouldn't make sense. And the one most likely to push up the price of High Tech Freshwater was B City Consortium.
There were only two reasons why they would do so.
First, it was because of Carson Loki's shares. Increasing the market value of these shares would be beneficial to him.
Second, B City Consortium hoped to expand this cake to make Future Group interested in becoming a "cake chef" with them and list more cakes on the New York Stock Exchange. The more subsidiaries Future Group listed in the UA, the more benefits B City Consortium would receive, and the more confidence the Capital and Congress would have in Future Group.
But Carson's expectations were destined to be disappointed.
The listing of the subsidiaries allowed Future Group to taste the sweetness, but it wasn't enough for Jiang Chen to "faint."
He had to admit, the one-time profit from going public was indeed tempting. It would take twenty years to earn in one second, but Jiang Chen never expected to rely on this to make money. High Tech Freshwater going public was the right choice after weighing the pros and cons. Since the Gulf of Aden was next to Somalia, Celestial Trade didn't have the diplomatic influence of an overseas military force.
There was no need.
Jiang Chen could only describe the intentions of B City Consortium and Wall Street in two words.
Direct bait.
After he hung up the phone, Jiang Chen went to New Moon Island.
With the rapid increase in Coro Island's population, Celestial Trade's employee count also multiplied. The business also expanded from a simple military contractor to aerospace, communications, and other fields. It was clearly copying Raytheon's development model.
New Moon Island was the most powerful military force in the entire Xin, and it was Jiang Chen's strongest trump card. From the initial scale of one hundred people, it grew to three thousand people. One-fifth of them were civil servants and logistics personnel, and four-fifths were fully deserving war machines!
When Jiang Chen arrived at New Moon Island, Ivan was already waiting at the port.
After he landed on the island, Jiang Chen didn't stop and went straight to the center of the island.
There was a spacious factory that was also the entrance to New Moon Island's underground arsenal. It was usually used to store weapons that couldn't see the light of day, such as power armors.
Since the Moro Independence War and the series of events at the underwater missile silo, New Moon Island had an eye on its head. Jiang Chen collected the terrain data of New Moon Island and reported it to the architects in the apocalypse as their "professional ability test". They designed a modification plan, then mobilized the engineering robots to expand the underground arsenal.
Based on the specifications of the temporary fallout shelter, Jiang Chen not only moved the new equipment training ground underground, but he also built an L-shaped underwater port for submarines to enter. The sea around New Moon Island was relatively shallow, but fortunately, there was a seabed fault that connected to the deep sea. On the side wall of the fault, the amphibious engineering robots opened up an exit for small and medium-sized submarines such as the Droplet to enter.
The project took five months and was completed around October of this year. At that time, Jiang Chen was in the apocalypse and didn't visit after the project was completed. Now, the underground training facilities were already in use.
For example, power armors.
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