353 - Musk
At noon on June 1, at Walvis Bay International Airport, a luxury private jet slowly landed on the temporarily prepared runway.
A middle-aged man with a plain appearance slowly stepped off the plane under the escort of his bodyguards.
The man was wearing a summer casual shirt and a pair of sunglasses that covered most of his face, although he couldn't see his appearance clearly, whether it was the pomp or the momentum he exuded, it could be seen that the man was worth a lot of money.
At this time, under the passage, three Rolls-Royce Phantoms had stopped in front of the plane, and at the same time, several men in suits stood with their hands in their hands, led by a young man who was also wearing sunglasses.
The first time the two met, they shook hands with each other, and then hugged each other gently as if they were old friends.
If a reporter from an international weekly saw this scene at this time, I am afraid that he would tremble with excitement, although the two people in front of him are not stars in the entertainment industry, and they can't even fight with the eight poles in the entertainment industry, but their influence is incomparable to any international star.
One is the prototype of Iron Man, and at the same time a top entrepreneur across the three major fields of new energy, aerospace and electric vehicles - Elon Musk.
The other is the newly rising oligarchy in the biological field, who has brought human beings into the era of life escape and the founder of the era of biomimetic transformation - Chen Chen.
This was the first time the two had met, but it was a pity that no reporter was able to cover this historic scene.
"Mr. Musk, you are my ancestor."
At this time, Chen Chen had a modest 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 have thought you were a thirty-year-old young man." ”
"If I can accept your company's latest aging reversal treatment program now, maybe I can really go back to 30."
Elon Musk laughed and patted Chen Chen on the shoulder, "Mr. Chen Chen, your achievements are not inferior to mine, and you are younger, and your future is far greater than mine." ”
"It's over, Mr. Musk, you're older than me, so you can just call me by my name."
Chen Chen said with a greeting.
"Yes, Chen, I'll call you that."
Musk nodded, and then followed the direction of the airport, looking at the rows of tall buildings on the skyline in the distance, "If you don't guess wrong, there is the pearl of the human life science world - Life Science City, right?" ”
"It's over, this city is just an ordinary sanatorium, and I'm just eating a mouthful."
Chen Chen smiled and made a gesture of please, "Please get in the car, Mr. Musk." ”
With Chen Chen's invitation, Musk and one of his personal bodyguards got into the back seat of the car, seeing this, Chen Chen simply sat directly in the co-pilot of the car, driven by Cheng Chao, and drove in the direction of Life Science City.
Just in the car, Musk couldn't sit still, he didn't have much greetings with his workaholic personality, and asked directly, "By the way, Mr. Chen Chen, this time you invited me to come in addition to new cooperation, but also said that there is a new type of treatment technology, which can cure a series of diseases such as hypertension and diabetes, what is going on?" ”
"This is a completely new technology, and its real effect is to repair the body, and it has just been successfully tested, but it has not yet been made public."
Although Musk's bodyguard was present in the car, Chen Chen did not shy away from it at all, but said with a smile, "And I will not make this technology public for at least thirty years, and only a few people will know about the existence of this technology and use it, I believe you have also heard of it, right?" ”
"God's forbidden zone?"
Musk's expression froze, and he immediately blurted out, "Only people from the 'God Forbidden Zone' association are qualified to use it?" ”
"Yes, it is."
Chen Chen nodded, not surprised at all that the other party knew about the God Forbidden Zone, after all, the name 'God Forbidden Zone' was almost about to go crazy in the upper class of Europe and the United States, and ordinary people were still kept in the dark.
"But I don't mean to join any organization."
Musk shook his head with a smile, a flash of disdain flashed in his eyes, as an emerging wealthy family that has risen alone, he doesn't think much of this kind of old-fashioned consortium that eats old books and can only monopolize traditional industries.
"It's okay, we can talk about it later."
Chen Chen didn't change his face at all because of the other party's refusal, but still smiled, "I know that you are a technoholic and workaholic, so I have brought this "Letter of Intent for Cooperation" with me, you can take a look at it first." ”
Saying that, Chen Chen made a move with one hand, and a book of information appeared in his hand out of thin air, and the bodyguard next to him looked stunned, and he didn't even see what kind of trick Chen Chen used.
Musk was not surprised, he raised his eyebrows, took the "Letter of Intent for Cooperation", and read it directly in the car with relish.
But at this look, Musk suddenly sank......
This is Chen Chen's second collaboration with Musk.
That is, a few months ago, Chen Chen spent a huge amount 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 is the first cooperation between the two.
Although Chen Chen paid a billion dollars for this, Musk now seems to have lost money.
After all, the right to use the technology of lace electrodes is a one-time thing, but the speed of making money in the Xingtian project is outrageous, and there is a trend of returning to the cost in just two months.
Human beings, after entering the era of life escape, have not had time to react, and have been pulled into the era of bionic transformation again.
However, they are all figures with heads and faces, and this amount of money has been considered a drizzle after the launch of Musk's Starlink project, after all, the 12,000 Starlink satellites launched by his SpaceX company have covered the whole world and monopolized the network broadband services all over the world except for the Central Continent region.
This is another network technology in parallel with the 5G technology dominated by the Central Continent region, although the speed is not comparable to 5G, but it does not require any service base station technology, but provides global network coverage by ubiquitous low-altitude satellites, including the North and South poles and oceans.
The so-called Starlink project relies on a satellite network composed of tens of thousands of low-orbit satellites in space to cover the whole world, providing countless Internet services to the earth's population.
It is precisely because of this plan proposed on January 16, 2015 that Musk officially monopolized the global Internet access service this year, raising nearly $50 billion a year......
Therefore, Musk at this time can be described as full of confidence, and this is the peak moment of his life.
Musk is not a rocket expert, in fact, his dream is not to launch a rocket, his real dream is to immigrate to Mars - a dream that is enough to change human civilization.
At the beginning of 2001, Musk, who was just in his early thirties, planned a project called "Mars Oasis" in order to be able to immigrate to Mars in the future, planning to land a small experimental greenhouse on Mars.
However, when he found that the launch cost was much higher than the R&D and engineering costs of the project, he had no choice but to postpone the project and decided to set up a company to study how to reduce the launch cost.
Thus, the famous SpaceX company was born.
On May 31, 2012, Musk's company SpaceX's Dragon capsule successfully docked with the International Space Station and returned to Earth, opening the era of private space delivery.
On February 7, 2018, SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch vehicle 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.
Originally, there were only three in the world that had mastered the technology of spacecraft launch recovery, and they were: North America, North Sea, and Central.
But from this day on, there is one more Elon Musk.
And Musk also planned a long time ago that when the spacecraft launch recovery technology is developed, which can save a lot of costs, he can launch the Starlink project and monopolize the global Internet access service, so that he can get enough money to study how to immigrate to Mars.
Therefore, when he saw the content of Chen Chen's "Letter of Intent for Cooperation", the more he looked at it, the more surprised he became.
In this "Letter of Intent for Cooperation", BlackWorth opened up a $30 billion cooperation project to let SpaceX help him launch five satellites in geosynchronous orbit.
And this is only the first cooperation, and in the second cooperation, it is a new spaceship technology.
SpaceX has been researching Starship since 2019, and now it has arranged the model of the test machine to SN7, but it is still only orbiting the geosynchronous orbit, and there is no certainty of landing on Mars, and Musk, who originally planned to land on Mars in 2023, has fallen into a technical bottleneck.
Therefore, when he saw the new spaceship technology mentioned in the "Letter of Intent", the surprise in his heart was beyond words.
"Are you kidding?"
At this time, Musk slowly raised his head and showed an incredible look, "The starship technology that our SpaceX company has spent more than ten years to develop has represented the forefront of manned spacecraft technology, and even the Earth Federation does not dare to say that it is better than ours, why do you think that your spacecraft technology can be more advanced than ours?" ”
"Unless...... You stole Starship technology in Middle-earth? ”
"Not really, Mr. Musk."
Chen Chen's expression remained unchanged, "Please forgive me for keeping the source of the technology secret, I know that you won't believe what you say now, in this case, I can let you and your engineers refer to it until you are sure that our technology is real, how about the cooperation after we talk about it?" ”
“…… Good! ”
Musk's face no longer had any relaxed smile, he glanced at Chen Chen deeply, then lowered his head and continued to look at the lengthy information in his hand.
However, it is certain that his heart is no longer as calm as before......