At noon on June 1, at Walvis Bay International Airport, a luxurious private jet slowly landed on the temporarily prepared runway.
A plain-looking middle-aged man slowly walked out of the plane under the escort of bodyguards.
The man wore a casual summer shirt and a pair of sunglasses that covered most of his long face. Although his face could not be seen clearly, whether it was the extravagance or the aura he exuded, it was obvious that this man had a high social status.
At this time, below the passage, there were already three Rolls-Royce Phantoms parked in front of the plane. At the same time, there were several men in suits standing with their hands behind their backs. The leader was a young man who also wore sunglasses.
The moment the two met, they shook hands and then gently hugged each other as if they were old friends meeting.
If a reporter from an international weekly saw this scene at this time, he would probably tremble with excitement. Although these two people in front of them were not stars in the entertainment industry, and even had nothing to do with the entertainment industry, their influence was incomparable to any international star.
One was the prototype of Iron Man and also a top entrepreneur in the three major fields of new energy, aerospace, and electric vehicles — Elon Musk.
The other was the newly rising oligarch in the field of biology, the founder of the era of anti-aging and bionic modification — Chen Chen.
This was the first time the two had met. Unfortunately, no reporter was able to report this historic moment.
"Mr. Musk, you're my ancestor."
At this time, Chen Chen had a humble smile on his face and said enthusiastically, "I didn't expect you to be so young in reality. If I didn't know your age, I would think you're a thirty-year-old young man."
"If I can receive your company's latest age-reversal treatment program now, maybe I can really return to thirty years old."
Elon Musk laughed and patted Chen Chen on the shoulder. "Mr. Chen Chen, your achievements are not inferior to mine, and you're younger. Your future is far more promising than mine."
"You flatter me, Mr. Musk. You're older than me, so you can just call me by my name."
Chen Chen made small talk.
"Sure, Chen, I'll call you that."
Musk nodded, then looked in the direction of the airport and looked at the rows of tall buildings on the distant skyline. "If I'm not mistaken, in front of us is the pearl of the human life sciences — Eco Science City?"
"You flatter me. This city is just an ordinary sanatorium. I'm just trying to make a living."
Chen Chen smiled and made an inviting gesture. "Please get in, Mr. Musk."
Following Chen Chen's invitation, Musk and one of his bodyguards got into the back of the car. Seeing this, Chen Chen simply sat in the passenger seat of the car. Cheng Cao drove them toward the Eco Science City.
Musk could barely sit still in the car. Being a workaholic, he did not mince words and went straight to the point. "By the way, Mr. Chen Chen, you've invited me here this time not only to discuss our new collaboration, but also to discuss a new type of treatment technology that can cure a series of diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. May I ask what's going on?"
"This is a brand new technology. Its true effect is to repair the body. It has just been tested successfully, but it has not been made public yet."
Although Musk's bodyguards were present in the car, Chen Chen did not shy away. He smiled and said, "Also, I won't disclose this technology for at least thirty years. At the same time, only a handful of people will know about the existence of this technology and use it. I'm sure you've heard of it?"
"God's Forbidden Zone?"
Musk's expression froze and he immediately blurted out, "Only the people of the 'God's Forbidden Zone' association are qualified to use it?"
"That's right, that's true."
Chen Chen nodded, not at all surprised that Musk knew about God's Forbidden Zone. After all, the name "God's Forbidden Zone" was almost spreading like wildfire in the upper class of Europe and the United States. Only ordinary people were still kept in the dark.
"But I have no intention of joining any organization."
Musk laughed and shook his head, a trace of disdain flashing in his eyes. As a rising tycoon who had risen to prominence on his own, he did not think much of these financial groups that relied on their own capital and could only monopolize traditional industries.
"It's fine, we can talk about this later."
Chen Chen's expression did not change at all because of the other party's refusal. He still smiled and said, "I know that you're a technical maniac and a workaholic, so I've brought the 'Letter of Intent for Cooperation' this time. You can take a look first."
With that, Chen Chen waved his hand and a document appeared in his hand out of thin air. Musk's bodyguard was taken aback when he saw this. He could not tell what kind of trick Chen Chen had used.
Musk was not surprised by this. He raised an eyebrow, took the "Letter of Intent for Cooperation", and directly read it in the car with great interest.
Even so, after reading it, Musk was immediately immersed in it...
This was the second time Chen Chen and Musk had worked together.
Just a few months ago, Chen Chen had spent a huge sum of money to buy the lace electrode technology of Musk's Neuralink company and applied it to his Xingtian bionic prosthetic project. Strictly speaking, this was the first time the two had worked together.
Although Chen Chen had paid a billion US dollars for this, in Musk's view, he had still suffered a loss.
After all, the right to use the lace electrode technology was a one-time thing. However, the speed at which the Xingtian project was making money was extraordinarily ridiculous. In just two months, it seemed like it would recover its capital.
After mankind entered the era of anti-aging, before they had time to react, they were once again pulled into the era of bionic modification.
Still, they were all people of status. After the launch of Musk's Starlink project, this amount of money was nothing more than a drizzle. After all, the twelve thousand Starlink satellites launched by his SpaceX company had covered the world and monopolized the world's network broadband service except for the Mainland.
This was another network technology that paralleled the 5G technology dominated by the Mainland. Although it was not as fast as 5G, it was a technology that did not require any service base stations after all. Instead, it was provided by ubiquitous low-altitude satellites to provide global network coverage, including the North and South Poles and oceans.
The so-called Starlink project relied on a satellite network composed of tens of thousands of low-orbit satellites in space to cover the entire world, providing countless Internet services to the earth's population.
It was also because of this plan proposed on January 16, 2015 that this year, Musk officially monopolized the global Internet access service, raking in nearly 50 billion US dollars every year...
Therefore, at this time, Musk could be said to be full of confidence. This was the peak of his life.
Musk was not a rocket expert. In fact, his dream was not to launch rockets. His real dream was to migrate to Mars — a dream that was enough to change human civilization.
In early 2001, Musk, who was in his early thirties, planned a project called "Mars Oasis" in order to be able to migrate to Mars in the future. He planned to land a small experimental greenhouse on Mars.
However, when he found that the launch cost was much higher than the research and development and engineering costs of this project, he had no choice but to suspend the project and decided to first set up a company to study how to reduce launch costs.
Thus, the famous SpaceX company was born.
On May 31, 2012, the "Dragon" space capsule of Musk's company SpaceX successfully docked with the International Space Station and returned to Earth, opening the era of private space transportation.
On February 7, 2018, SpaceX's "Falcon Heavy" carrier rocket was successfully launched for the first time at the Kennedy Space Center in the United States and successfully completed the complete recovery of two first-stage booster rockets.
There were originally only three countries in the world that had mastered the technology of spacecraft launch and recovery. They were: North America, North Sea, and Mainland China.
However, from this day onward, there was an additional Elon Musk.
Musk had also planned for a long time. When the spacecraft launch and recovery technology was developed, it could save a lot of costs. Then, he could launch the Starlink project and monopolize the global Internet access service. In this way, he could obtain enough funds to study how to migrate to Mars.
Therefore, when he saw the contents of Chen Chen's "Letter of Intent for Cooperation", the more he read, the more surprised he became.
In this "Letter of Intent for Cooperation", Blackwatch's opening offer was a 30 billion cooperation project, asking SpaceX to help them launch five geosynchronous orbit satellites.
And this was only the first cooperation. In the second cooperation, it was a new type of spacecraft technology.
SpaceX began researching interstellar spacecraft in 2019 and now the model of the experimental spacecraft had been scheduled to be the SN7. However, it was still only at the level of circling the Earth's synchronous orbit and there was no guarantee of landing on Mars. Musk, who originally planned to land on Mars in 2023, had fallen into a technical bottleneck.
Therefore, when he saw the new spacecraft technology mentioned in the "Letter of Intent", the surprise in his heart was simply indescribable.
"Are you kidding me?"
At this time, Musk slowly raised his head, a look of disbelief on his face. "Our company, SpaceX, has spent more than ten years to develop interstellar spacecraft technology. It already represents the forefront of manned spacecraft technology. Even the Earth Federation can't say that their technology is better than ours. What makes you think that your spacecraft technology is more advanced than ours?"
"Unless... You've stolen the interstellar spacecraft technology from Mainland China?"
"I haven't, Mr. Musk."
Chen Chen's expression did not change. "Please forgive me for keeping the source of the technology a secret. I know you won't believe me no matter what I say now. In that case, I can let you and your engineers refer to it until you're convinced that our technology is authentic. How about we talk about future cooperation?"
"... Okay!"
There was no longer any relaxed smile on Musk's face. He took a deep look at Chen Chen, then lowered his head and continued to read the lengthy information in his hand.
However, what was certain was that it was difficult for his heart to remain as calm as before...
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