Technological advancement begins with devouring.

Chapter 40 Cooperation Achieved

The preservation of ancient civilization relics?!

Upon hearing this, Jiang Chen immediately realized that Hong had misunderstood.

Jiang Chen wasn't surprised that others would think that way.

There are too many unique aspects to me.

The fact that he is only nineteen years old and at the planetary level seems extremely absurd on Earth today.

Although Luo Feng will break through to the planetary level at the age of twenty, that will be after he receives the inheritance of the ancient civilization's relics.

If this could be explained by his extraordinary talent, then Jiang Chen's achievements in the field of science and technology are completely beyond the comprehension of earthlings.

Within a few years, they have produced several technological achievements, each with the potential to change the situation between humans and monsters.

Compared to Jiang Chen, these scientists on Earth are like elementary school students.

This absolutely cannot be covered up by the simple word "talent".

Many forces suspect that Jiang Chen has obtained something related to the relics of ancient civilizations.

However, Jiang Chen has never left the base city, and he rarely even leaves the area of ​​Yangzhou City, so there is no evidence.

In addition, Jiang Chen's own strength was not weak, which prevented those who secretly coveted him from making any rash moves.

However, given Hong's strength, he was fully confident enough to ask the question directly without worrying about provoking Jiang Chen's displeasure.

Faced with Hong's blunt question, Jiang Chen remained silent.

Tell the truth? That's absolutely impossible.

The existence of the system must never be exposed.

But... ancient civilization relics? Jiang Chen had never actually come into contact with that kind of thing.

After a moment of silence, Jiang Chen shook his head slightly and said, "There are some things I cannot say."

Jiang Chen decided to just use "cannot say" to get by, and he didn't care whether Hong Xin believed him or not.

If the other party really resorts to any means to obtain my so-called "inheritance", then at worst, Jarvis can just take over all the "Boxer" mechs in the world and fight to the death.

Hundreds of Boxer mechs certainly couldn't kill Hong, but none of Hong's other confidants and subordinates would survive.

However, deep down, Jiang Chen didn't believe that Hong would be such a ruthless person.

As a powerful assassin, Hong is certainly not a good person.

But having been able to stop the monster invasion and protect humanity for so many years, Hong couldn't possibly be a villain without any moral bottom line.

"It's not that you don't want to say, but that you can't say?" Hong raised her eyebrows slightly, showing surprise.

Jiang Chen didn't answer, he just nodded.

"Then I won't ask anymore." Hong was very decisive, as if he would believe whatever Jiang Chen said.

Changing the subject, Hong continued, "But if he wants to borrow the spatial ring, there will still be a price to pay. Hmm... he wants the [Boxer's] techniques."

"Core technology is impossible." Jiang Chen shook his head and emphasized, "Besides, merely borrowing a spatial ring doesn't have that much value."

"What if he's willing to trade this spatial ring with you? Not borrow it, but sell it to you?" Hong continued to press.

Jiang Chen was somewhat tempted, but after hesitating for a moment, he still told the truth: "Even if I provide the technical data, no one on Earth besides me can build it. It involves many other things, and just the precision of the parts manufacturing alone is beyond the reach of Earth's current technological level."

"I see..." Hong seemed a little regretful.

Jiang Chen hesitated for a moment, then tentatively asked, "First Speaker, can we change the terms?"

Hong didn't answer immediately, but waited for a while before saying, "How about this, I'll lend you my space ring for ten [Boxer] mech squads, that is, one hundred and twenty mechs."

After a pause, Hong added, "Don't leave any backdoors. I also have an auxiliary AI from an ancient civilization's ruins."

One hundred and twenty Boxer mechs, equivalent to a cost of over one hundred billion.

The price for merely borrowing the spatial ring is not low.

But Jiang Chen felt the deal was worthwhile, as it gave him a better starting point.

After a moment's thought, Jiang Chen didn't continue haggling and readily nodded, saying, "No problem, but the orders for the mechs are already booked until the end of the year. These 120 mechs probably won't be delivered until next year."

"Okay." Hong nodded and pressed a button.

A burly man completely clad in armor appeared in the room.

Hong introduced, "This is my bodyguard 'Iceberg,' a planetary-level martial artist. After he gets the spatial ring in a few days, he will take it to the Jiangnan Base City to find you. At that time, you can hand over the goods you want to transport to him."

"Okay, I'll have to trouble you then." Jiang Chen nodded and said, but the last part of the sentence was said while looking at 'Iceberg'.

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After leaving the virtual space, Jiang Chen immediately went to the factory located in the suburbs to take inventory of the supplies and other resources in the warehouse.

After repeatedly calculating the size of the spatial ring, Jiang Chen decided to purchase another batch of supplies on short notice.

According to the dimensions Hong provided, it wouldn't be able to fit everything in one go, and the second time it would only require about a quarter of the space, with the rest being wasted.

Considering that there might be many unexpected situations during the initial construction of the base, Jiang Chen decided to bring as many supplies as possible, within the limits of what he could carry, so as to avoid being caught off guard and in a panic if something unexpected happened.

Following the cooperation with [Boxer], the eight major forces have given high priority to cooperating with Jiang Chen. All the resources Jiang Chen needs will be supplied first, and payments can be delayed for a period of time.

Jiang Chen didn't care about the debts. Large orders were placed simultaneously through multiple channels, and massive amounts of ore, building materials, machinery and equipment were continuously delivered to Jiang Chen's warehouse.

They even prepared enough food and medicine to last tens of thousands of people for a whole year.

—Although Jiang Chen did not intend to take anyone to the base he was about to establish.

But since it's portable and doesn't cost much, it's always better to be prepared.

A few days later, Hong's bodyguard "Iceberg" arrived at Jiangnan Base City with a spatial ring, accompanied by Jia Yi.

Also arriving was a "Primordial" level intelligent fighter jet, a gift from "Primordial".

"Mr. Iceberg, I'll trouble you to make this trip." Jiang Chen led 'Iceberg' to the warehouse and pointed to several huge storage rooms in front of him, saying, "Everything in here needs to be taken over. It probably won't be able to be packed in one trip; it will have to be done in two trips."

"No problem. As per the Master's orders, you may use this spatial ring I have for the next week as you please." 'Iceberg' was very cold, but he was unambiguous when it came to carrying out orders.

Hearing this, Jiang Chen smiled and said, "Let's start with warehouses number one and two. First, put the contents of those two warehouses into our spatial rings, and then we'll head to South America."

(End of this chapter)