Ivan Tran looked at the 3D virtual video provided by Murphy Kaysen and felt a little dazed.

Are they really talking about the same thing? Shouldn't everyone discuss how to rescue their captives at this emergency meeting today, and have asked the Huaxia people to return their equipment obediently? What the hell is this virtual animation for yourself?

"What is this?" Without waiting for the animation to be fully formed, Ivan Tran pointed to the video and asked, which alone shows that the patience of the new president of the United States is definitely not very good.

"Star Technology's future space city plan, what you see is the construction process of this space city, first of all, there will be a space elevator of Genesis directly into the space near orbit from here, and on this basis to transport various materials, and build the first part of this space city at this location, and then at this point will build a second space ladder, in addition to making the connection between this space city and the earth more tight, but also to transport more materials at double speed for the follow-up construction of this space city......" Murphy Kayson explained, gesturing at the top of the animation that had already taken shape.

And so it was, until the construction of a space city that circled the Earth in a geosynchronous orbit for a whole week was completed. The city is fully enclosed, with its own life cycle system, powered by solar energy, and the transparent material in the direction of outer space is not only tough enough, but also serves as an ozone layer, absorbing most of the harmful ultraviolet rays and other radiation turbulence. The city was fifty kilometers wide and twice the circumference of the earth, half of the land and half of the water, and twenty equal parts of the resources. That is to say, in the future, this large-scale space building that can be responsible for the vigilance of the earth's periphery will be divided into 20 space cities of almost the same area, which is enough to relocate all the intensive heavy industry bases and chemical industry bases on the earth to the top of our heads, and the means of production and products can be transported through 20 ladders, which can greatly reduce the pollution caused by human beings to the earth's environment itself and greatly reduce the burden on the earth! ”

"Not only that, these 20 space cities can support the living needs of at least 3 billion people according to their design standards, and with the current population of 6.4 billion, half of the human race can move to space cities in the future. Of course, these are secondary, and the most important thing is that these twenty space cities will be equipped with twenty space docks, in other words, if we can have one such space city, we will also be able to have a springboard to the mysterious universe. ”

Murphy Kayson earnestly described the beautiful prospect, much to the stunned Ivan Tran.

"Wait, Space City? Cosmic port? Aren't you kidding me? Even as the president of the world's superpower, Ivan Tran only feels weak in understanding, is this really not a science fiction screenwriter pretending to be a negotiator of the US Security Agency to fool him?

"Actually, when I heard all this, I thought that the Chinese man was joking, but the Chinese man proved to me that it was all possible, and it didn't even take too long, and I chose to believe him! So I didn't continue to negotiate with him, but rushed back to Washington as fast as I could, and passed the regular questioning before I was brought here! Murphy Kayson's face remained unchanged.

"Oh? How did he convince you? Ivan Tran finally became more serious.

"Seeing is believing a lot of things, if you are willing to go to the island, you will have a more intuitive experience, if you just let me describe it in words, I have all the information in that material!" Murphy Kayson gestured to the file bag that was sitting on Ivan Tran's large desk.

"Huh?" Ivan Tran picked up the document bag marked with top secret, the document bag was not thick, but he didn't seem to intend to open it directly, but turned his gaze to the defense minister who was guarding the side, "So what he just said, and the contents of this document bag, have you already reviewed it?" ”

"Yes, and we trust everything that Mr. Kaysen has described, and although we are reluctant to admit it, the truth is that China is indeed ahead of us when it comes to space strategy. If everything in this document proves to be true, then we will face the problem of having to make overtures to Huaxia, or rather to that company, in order to be able to get a place in this space city in the future. The Minister of Defense nodded.

Ivan Tran had a strange look on his face, and it was hard to say what he was thinking about at this time, but he naturally turned his attention to another cabinet member who had been specially recruited, his partner in this term, Vice President John Jobs.

"Obviously, if we can prove that this plan of the Chinese people can really be realized, it will be of great significance to our national interests. You also know that now the whole world's economy has been in the downward range, a hundred years of horse racing, decades of fine industrial division, capital competition, vertical and horizontal asset integration, financial leverage, the Federal Reserve has used the power of capital to the extreme, but world integration has doomed the economic situation to weaken inevitable, but if you can have a city in outer space, have a space port with infinite possibilities, it is too important for national interests! ”

John Jobs's answer was conservative, and in fact these were all things that Ivan Tran could have thought of. But who can prove that the Chinese people can really complete such an incredible project? Just what a national security agency negotiator can say? Or do you really want to go to the island?

The president only felt a little confusion in his mind, but after all, he had become the president, even if it was chaos, Ivan Tran did not show it, but asked very quietly, "So what are the conditions of the Chinese people?" ”

"During your term of office, do not take any initiative to provoke Huaxia and Putli Island, and the Huaxia people will assign us a city in the sky after the completion of this spacestar in the future, based on the contribution of the Americans in this project. After we agree to their terms and form a legally binding document, Star Tech will release all the prisoners, but not including the equipment on our three destroyers and two nuclear submarines, which, according to them, have already sunk into the sea. Finally, we must be open about those responsible for this incident. That's all there is to it. Murphy Kaysen listed all of Wang Shizi's requirements in a straightforward manner.

The standard is given a stick, and no one believes the nonsense that the equipment on the destroyer and the nuclear submarine have sunk into the sea, but this jujube is indeed too big, a super-large space city completely different from the territory of the earth, and the whole world only has twenty, and there is also a space port facing space.

The significance of being able to have a cosmic port is unquestionable. This can be compared to the Age of Discovery on Earth. Why were Spain and Britain able to dominate an era, not because they formed the world's largest and most powerful naval armada?

And to have such an invincible armada, the possession of ports is naturally a prerequisite. What landlocked country without a port can have such a fleet? In the same way, when human science and technology really progress to the age of space exploration, the significance of a port that can directly face the universe is self-evident.

It is extremely risky to send large aircraft directly from the Earth. It's like throwing a ship into the sea in the center of the continent and letting a ship sail straight out to sea in a port, the former is naturally much more dangerous and requires more resources than the latter.

Now there is an opportunity, maybe in a few years, the United States can have a port directly facing space, and it will be much easier to assemble a large spacecraft in a space city and then set off directly from a space port than to build such a large spacecraft on Earth and send the spacecraft out of space.

Not to mention that with a space city, scientists can get up close and personal with space and develop larger, stronger, and more space-friendly spacecraft.

All sorts of thoughts flashed through Ivan Tran's mind, and he immediately began to understand that these conditions were indeed not up to Murphy Kaysen. In fact, even after hearing this, it was difficult for him to make a decision immediately.

"Then Mr. Kaysen, what do you mean by the contribution of our country to this project?" After a moment of silence, Ivan Tran asked.

"As you can imagine, capital is profit-seeking, and Star Technology has enough things to impress that capital. So when Star Technology is raising money on a large scale around the world, the capital belonging to our country has lent them at least trillions of dollars, and these are our contributions. ”

Murphy Kayson shrugged his shoulders and continued, "The meaning of the Huaxia people is very simple, after the establishment of this space city in the future, we will be able to harvest all kinds of funds thousands of times, and the condition he offered is only that we can have the qualification to obtain a space city, and after the space city is really built, we still need to pay a certain price according to the situation at that time to obtain the qualification to settle in." That Wang Shizi also said that if everyone cooperates happily and the progress of Star Technology is smooth enough, within your two terms of office, you may be able to raise our heads and see the beautiful space city appear in the sky above the heads of everyone in the world! ”

"Alright, you go out first!" Ivan Tran waved his hand, he already had a general idea of what the negotiator needed to report, and it was clear that there were some things he needed to talk to his staff members alone.

Watching Murphy Kaysen walk out of the door of the president's office, and then closing the door, Ivan Tran turned his attention to the Minister of Defense beside him.

"This Murphy Kayson ......"

"He can be trusted, Mr. President, and you should not doubt the loyalty of an old member of the NSA to this country, when in fact Murphy Casen's judgment is what we should value most." The Minister of Defense replied earnestly.

"So you also think that Huaxia Enterprise will be able to complete such a huge project during my tenure?" Ivan Tran then asked.

"Don't forget about the efficient robots, according to the information we have obtained, Star Technology has been buying all kinds of raw materials to expand the production line of this engineering robot. And the Huaxia people have not shown their intention to sell this type of robot from beginning to end, and even in yesterday's conflict, they did not hesitate to expose the fact that these robots can be converted into armed robots at any time, if the Chinese people start to produce this kind of robot for sale, they will definitely not expose these functions, so the only reasonable explanation is that the Chinese people are indeed ready to carry out this whimsical-sounding project. And according to the content of that material, the Huaxia people have already shown this new material developed by them like Mo Fei, and it is indeed possible to succeed! ”

"If we add in the fact that Star Technology is not short of money in the early stage, and carries out various financing on a large scale, and invests trillions of funds in the infrastructure of Putley Island, we are almost certain that they are indeed preparing a big project, and of course, we don't know until today that this project is really big!" The Minister of Defense touched his nose and said.

Well, it's a big project, so today's impromptu meeting is no joke.

It's just that in Ivan Tran's opinion, Wang Shizi seems to be too good at talking this time, the temptation of a space city is indeed very big, so big that he can't resist it at all, of course, the point is that this project can really be completed. But who can say for sure? Just as a few hundred years ago, perhaps no one believed that people would be able to go to heaven in the near future, who would say that it would be better than three or five years of Chinese people who really built this city?

"Wait, I remember there was another Spaniard involved in the negotiations......"

"Yes, so now the Europeans may also know about this project, as far as we know, many European consortiums have also lent a lot of money to the Chinese, so this news is not exclusive to us, and it is likely that it will soon spread all over the world. If you have to let me say something from my heart, if this project cannot be completed by the Huaxia people, then there may be no one in this world. The Minister of Defense spread his hands and said helplessly.

A little dizzy, the president only came back to his senses at this time, it turned out that this is not an exclusive benefit for Americans, and he can know that this project represents that Star Technology does not intend to hide it, and this is the rhythm of finding support in the world again?

Of course, this is also conceivable, such a huge project is definitely not a small amount, not to mention the sky city, just really erect a ladder that can lead to space, I am afraid that there are hundreds of billions of dollars that can't be taken, right? (To be continued.) )