Chapter Seventy-Six: Smooth Negotiations
The night in Las Vegas is brightly lit and quite sultry.
Gaze at the sky-high hotels, each building is intricately carved and colorful, highlighting the extraordinary prosperity of Las Vegas.
It had been tossed all day, and by the time Yuan Haochen and Durunik returned to the Caesars Palace Hotel, it was already close to night.
"Yankees, do you want to go to a late-night show?" Durunik asked with a wicked grin.
"No, it's not early, let's rest first." Of course, Hara knew what the so-called late-night show was.
After unexpectedly getting the information he wanted, Yuan Haochen felt that he could finally slow down and take a good rest.
"OK, so shall we go back to NASA tomorrow?" Durunik asked with interest.
"Let's wait for news from Robert." Yuan Haochen thought about it and felt that the time to go back was still not ripe.
"I think Robert will call us soon." Durunik said confidently.
"Durunik, I'll go back to my room and sleep first. Don't play too late, you have to take it easy. After saying this, Yuan Haochen turned around and walked towards the room.
“Bullsh~it!”
Early the next morning, Yuan Haochen and Durunike went to the car market to get a car, and then drove all the way to the Grand Canyon and other tourist resorts to visit.
After returning in the evening, Durunik led Yuan Haochen to watch various performances: music and dance shows, magic shows, sky shows, circus juggling, talk shows, striptease performances (bright, but not as dirty as imagined).
On the third day, they continued to drive and visited the desert park and the Hoover Dam.
It wasn't until the evening that the two finally waited for the deputy director of NASA's public relations office. amp; amp; amp; A call from Robert, IEA Organizational Liaison.
"I said Trunik, did your expedition to Las Vegas go well?" Robert on the other end of the line asked meaningfully.
"It's just going so well, ha~ha~" Durunik replied while looking at Yuan Haochen and laughing.
"And when are you going to come back?" Robert continued.
"Is Thomas still busy these days? We'll go back and disturb him when he's done, or we'll be presumptuous. ”
"Thomas hasn't been busy for the past two days, and he's been waiting for you to come back." Robert laughed and said that of course he understood what Durunik meant.
"Okay, we'll go back to Washington tomorrow and tell Thomas that we're missing him. See you later, Robert. ”
"OK, I'll wait for you to come back."
"I don't have to play." Hanging up the phone, Durunik looked at Yuan Haochen and said.
"It's almost time to get back to business." Yuan Haochen said with a smile
The next day, in Washington, D.C., on the fourth floor of NASA's headquarters, the Office of the Head of Space Flight.
Ladies and gentlemen, I haven't officially introduced it yet, but this is Dr. Durunik, and this is Dr. Hara Chen. Robert was making an opening introduction, "Deputy Director Thomas, who is in charge of the Space Flight Department, has already told you before. “
After Robert's introduction, everyone shook hands with each other and sat down one after another, and the scene was very harmonious.
"I'm sorry, Deputy Director Thomas, we went to Las Vegas to inspect some projects in the past two days and delayed for a few days before coming back, so you have to wait for a long time."
After a moment of silence, Yuan Haochen began to talk nonsense politely.
"It's okay, it just so happened that I was busy a few days ago, and the hospitality was not good, so please be considerate." Thomas also said politely.
Durunike and Robert on the side looked at the two people in front of them very speechlessly, telling lies seriously.
"Presumably Director Thomas must know who we really are. As agreed, we have brought the technical information that NASA needs. After Yuan Haochen said this, he looked at Thomas with a smile.
"Thank you very much, this is the information that the IEA needs about the Mars II landing program on Mars." Thomas naturally understood what Yuan Chen meant, and immediately took out a very sophisticated-looking file box from the desk drawer.
"All the information is in it. In addition, before we planned to land on Mars, the unmanned spacecraft also carried out a special mission."
Thomas, raising his voice to emphasize the completeness of the data, is very careful about the unexpected discovery of an unmanned spacecraft landing on Mars.
"It looks like NASA must already know that we've met former Martian astronaut Nicholas." Yuan Haochen smiled in his heart, what Thomas said was basically the same as what Nicholas said.
"The relevant materials collected by the astronauts at that time are also in it." Indeed, NASA has learned that its hole cards have already been opened, so today Thomas simply did a favor and handed over all the information to the IEA (Interstellar Exploration Alliance).
"Thank you very much, Mr. Thomas, for your kindness." Yuan Haochen said with a smile.
"No, the IEA is a great organization, and the fate and future of all mankind are at stake, and that's what NASA should do." Thomas waved his hand and said frankly, "I am very sorry for being neglected for some reasons before. ”
"Mr. Thomas, you are such a personable person."
"Thanks for the compliment."
"Here's what NASA needs." Yuan Haochen took out the black titanium box given to him by Dean Watt, decrypted it on the spot, and handed it to Thomas.
"Thank you, this information will bring more new vitality to NASA!" Thomas looked at the black titanium box with a slightly agitated look.
"In addition, we would like to take away a small number of rock samples collected by unmanned spacecraft, and we hope to have your support." Yuan Haochen continued.
"No problem at all." Thomas replied without hesitation.
"That's great."
Next, after a while of greeting each other, under the leadership of Deputy Director Thomas, they went to the experimental warehouse where the rocks collected by the unmanned spacecraft were stored.
"Gentlemen, this is the Martian rock that our astronauts and unmanned spacecraft have collected." Thomas pointed to a glass warehouse with transparent walls.
Inside the glass chamber was a large dark brown rock, which Durunik and Hara Haochen were looking at intently.
"In appearance, it is indeed very similar to the main part of the meteorite." Yuan Haochen thought to himself.
"Mr. Thomas, what is the composition of this rock?" Durunik asked with great interest.
"Mostly high-iron peridotite, monoclinic pyroxene and plagioclase." Thomas replied after a brief glance at the information in his hand.
"That's right, that's it." Yuan Haochen's expression was slightly excited, and he said with great certainty in his heart.
(To be continued) (Welcome to join the book friends exchange group: 529839423)