"Thank you."

Lin Ju took the brewed new tea, but still didn't sit down, just paced in place.

Seeing this scene, the big guy laughed: "I've never seen you so nervous before, the Storm is in very good condition, and it will land in a while, so there's nothing to worry about." ”

He didn't know that Lin Ju was waiting for the system to settle, and thought he was worried about the space shuttle, so he joked:

"You flickered them around last night, how did I not know that there was a shallow ...... No, a thousand meters deep is not a shallow mine. ”

Lin Ju: "I'm not lying...... Every sentence is true, it is the No. 2 landing site, the area of the Tranquil Sea.

Do you remember that Explorer 1 picked up a piece of rhenium ore with an abundance of 1.5% last year? Even around there, iridium, osmium, and neodymium are extremely abundant, and they are all rich ores that can be easily smelted, and they will never be found on earth! ”

Big guy: "What about what you didn't say?" ”

Lin Ju: "It's a secret to invest and maintain costs, but frankly not optimistic, the early investment will be very bad according to the market quotation, optimistic for five years, not optimistic for ten years, Xinyuan can barely maintain no loss is a good result." ”

"But it's acceptable for Xinyuan, at least to find a truly sustainable project, and then wait for the technology to advance to the point where one day it can be developed in large quantities to make money, right?"

Lin Ju was silent for a while before replying:

"The annual trading volume of the rare earth market is about 200,000 tons of raw ore, of which the pure metal content will not exceed 2,000 tons.

"Yes, that's enough, the above actually attaches great importance to rare earths, which has been reducing exports and increasing imports, but this thing ...... It's not just money, it's the right to speak.

Actually, you can make a lot of money, but you have to do it well. ”

A mysterious smile suddenly appeared on the big guy's face, and he spit out two words:

"Futures."

"We are still an important exporter of rare earths in the world, and it is much faster to make money from capitalists than to sell resources."

……

At 14:45 p.m. on June 3, the Storm crossed the sky over Kazakhstan and entered the state border from the northwest.

The two escort fighters, who had been waiting at the border for a long time, began to relay the escort, but the Storm's gliding speed was extremely high, and it did not decrease to an altitude of 30,000 meters until it entered the grassland.

At the semi-open airport, which has been designated as a special take-off and landing site for the nuclear-powered space shuttle, military newspaper reporters wore full-body protective suits and waited by the runway with photographers and ground crew.

As soon as the massive shuttle approached, the taps on both sides of the runway immediately sprayed foaming lotion upwards and kept it spraying.

The ground crew, who were also wearing protective suits, first used the mobile scaffolding prepared in advance to cover the three engine nozzles with anti-radiation cloth, and then left to watch a large number of decontamination vehicles continue to spray foam on the space shuttle, and the sewage on the ground was also sucked away by the other two vehicles in time, and then washed with pure water.

The staff in the tower carefully checked the air and the surface of the shuttle for residual radiation: fortunately, it was below the safety line even without protection.

An hour later, the seven astronauts who had waited in the cabin for boredom were finally able to get out of the hatch, this time without a wave of strolls, and all of them asked to quickly enter the rugged off-road vehicle and quickly move away from the Storm.

The Storm will be de-radiated for 7 days, and will be completely cleaned before it will be returned to the base for maintenance by the An-1250, and the interval between crews must not be less than three months, and no more than twice a year.

Even if the radiation level is lower than that of a nuclear submarine, it would be nice to have less risk for astronauts.

Lin Ju, who was hundreds of kilometers away in the capital, heard the prompt in his head the moment Hu Dong stepped out of the hatch, and the reward of the system came as scheduled.

……

Hexagon, Air Force Intelligence Office.

Since the test flight of the H2 series of space shuttles, it has become the busiest department, mobilizing almost all the satellites to conduct unsightly secret reconnaissance all day long.

Major General Kaili, who is in charge of this place, has become even more powerful because of this, and it is said that he will be promoted next year, so that the elites of various departments are trying to find a way to enter here.

Anthony is a case in point, having submitted a speculation about the unknown purpose of the NX-17 spacecraft three months ago and successfully applied for $200,000 in funding and access to the reconnaissance satellite.

While there is a 10% chance that the NX-17 is a secret weapon, Anthony sees it as a good opportunity to make a difference, overstating the severity and forming Office 17 headed by him to follow up.

In the previous month, NX-17 had not found any anomalies, and a small number of tests were reasonable, but after that, Xinyuan's official website low-key stated behind a daily tweet that the "experimental space nuclear reactor" had completed its test mission and had run out of orbit change fuel and nuclear power had lost contact, saying that this nuclear facility would send a space shuttle to recycle it at an appropriate time.

Although the direct crash of a large nuclear device into the atmosphere had little impact on the Earth, Xinyuan clearly did not intend to cause trouble for himself, and this announcement was decent, almost announcing the end of Office 17 that it could be disbanded with nothing.

But Anthony always thought that there were ghosts in it, and used the rest of the funds to continue to maintain it for two months, but it was basically coming to an end.

However, others still envy him, and this resume is one of the basis for future promotions, especially in the Air Force Intelligence Office.

Office 17 is not always able to mobilize satellites, in essence, they can only use them when higher-level projects are idle, so they only had time to observe four days after Xinyuan announced that they were missing, and sure enough, they did not find it.

It's not surprising that, while the NX-17 is small, it's nothing in the vastness of space, and a small acceleration can make the orbit irregular, and it's hard to find.

Now he was on the verge of giving up, but things had taken a turn for the better.

Thirty-seven hours ago, a spy satellite accidentally recorded a set of high-frequency encrypted communication signals, which Anthony recognized although it was impossible to crack.

All too familiar, the NX-17's unique band has been etched in the mind over the past few months, and one of the reasons it caught the attention of the Air Force was high-frequency encrypted shortwave communications with satellites, which generally makes sense for secret facilities.

Anthony immediately applied for more permission to conduct reconnaissance, and asked astronauts to speculate a possible orbital altitude range, as long as NX-17 can be found, it can prove that Xinyuan is lying, NX-17 definitely has ghosts!

There is very little that can be inferred from that set of signals, and relying on these searches is almost like looking for a needle in a haystack, but Anthony has a strong sense of confidence, and almost all of his food and accommodation are in the Pentagon.

NX-17, where is it?

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