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Chapter 383 What are the conditions?

Nie Qingcheng looked at Zhang Yan.

What are you planning to bring?

"Thousand-arm robotic arms, the heart of ingenuity, and miniature robots."

"Mecha?"

"Black Scorpion on standby remotely, White Tiger as backup, Vermilion Bird remaining stationary."

Why is Suzaku not moving?

"The commotion is too great."

Nie Qingcheng nodded.

"OK."

She paused for a moment, then asked, "Should I go?"

Zhang Yan looked at her.

Qin Xiao immediately looked down at the documents.

Zhang Yan said, "This time it's a foreign military facility."

Nie Qingcheng remained silent.

Zhang Yan continued, "You're in charge in Jinghai; the business operations need your control."

Nie Qingcheng asked, "What if I insist on going?"

Zhang Yan said, "I will reassess the evacuation route."

Nie Qingcheng looked at him for a few seconds.

"You've learned your lesson."

Zhang Yan said, "You said I'm not allowed to make decisions for you."

Nie Qingcheng's gaze softened slightly.

"I'll stay in Jinghai this time."

Qin Xiao quietly breathed a sigh of relief.

Nie Qingcheng looked at him.

"What are you so relieved about?"

Qin Xiao immediately sat up straight.

"No, sister-in-law, let me take a deep breath."

Nie Qingcheng said coldly, "Qin Xiao."

"exist."

"You keep an eye on Zhang Yan's mobile communications."

"clear."

"Notify me if there is no response for more than six hours."

Qin Xiao glanced at Zhang Yan.

Zhang Yan said, "Listen to her."

Qin Xiao nodded.

"clear."

At 3 p.m., the Helios Group board of directors held an emergency meeting.

Nie Qingcheng did not go to the company.

She sat in the villa's study and opened the encrypted video.

The head of the European department reported respectfully.

"Mr. Nie, there are disagreements within the other party's board of directors."

"The point of divergence?"

"Price is not an issue, and they are also willing to accept joint research rights."

"But they demanded that we promise that no defense samples were involved."

Nie Qingcheng gave a cold laugh.

"They're getting anxious."

Zhang Yan sat next to him, disassembling the internal ventilation structure diagram of the facility.

Nie Qingcheng asked, "Has the CFO had any private contact with you?"

"Yes. He was testing our true intentions."

"How did you reply?"

"As per your instructions, the applications include aerospace high-temperature alloys, deep space propulsion materials, and rare metals."

Nie Qingcheng said, "Tell him that Qingcheng International can provide an additional bridge financing."

The person in charge was taken aback.

"Amount?"

"Six hundred million."

Qin Xiao almost choked on his water while standing next to him.

Nie Qingcheng continued, "Under the same conditions, the scope of joint research authority will be expanded."

The person in charge immediately replied, "Understood."

The video call ended.

Qin Xiao looked at Zhang Yan.

"Brother Yan, your wife's generosity..."

Zhang Yan said, "She's always been like this."

Nie Qingcheng looked at him.

"Afraid of spending money?"

"no."

"Then what are you feeling sorry for?"

Zhang Yan said, "I feel sorry for you having to stay up all night again."

Nie Qingcheng paused for a moment.

Qin Xiao silently got up.

"I'm going to the balcony to make a phone call."

No one cares about him.

Nie Qingcheng said in a low voice, "If you stop worrying me, I can go to sleep earlier."

Zhang Yan nodded.

"As much as possible."

"Not as much as possible."

"it is good."

At 8 p.m., Qin Xiao sent back the latest satellite images.

His face was very somber.

"Brother Yan, there's something wrong with the Sahara facility."

Zhang Yan accessed the image.

Qin Xiao pointed to the underground thermal scan.

"A stable heat source was found at the deepest point of the fifth underground level, which is the sample storage room."

Nie Qingcheng asked, "Meteorite?"

"Unlike a typical heat source."

Qin Xiao superimposed the two curves.

A path leading from the first gate of Shennongjia.

One came from an underground warehouse in the Sahara.

The two curves have different amplitudes of fluctuation.

But the rhythm is consistent.

Qin Xiao's voice was strained.

"It's resonating."

Zhang Yan stared at the curve.

Nie Qingcheng asked, "Is Heng Xingchen himself responding to the gate?"

Zhang Yan said, "It might not just be Stardust."

Qin Xiao looked at him.

"What do you mean?"

Zhang Yan slowly said, "The meteorite may not be an ordinary meteorite."

"What is that?"

The system will then display a notification.

A suspected resonance source of door debris was detected.

Priority: Extremely high.

Zhang Yan looked at the prompt and lowered his voice.

"It might be part of the door."

Nie Qingcheng looked at the heat source on the fifth underground level.

"So they locked the pieces of the door in the military warehouse."

Qin Xiao remained silent.

Zhang Yan raised his head.

"The operation cannot be brought forward."

Nie Qingcheng said, "Continue with the business route."

Qin Xiao said, "Plan B will continue as well."

Zhang Yan nodded.

The next second, Qin Xiao's tablet rang again.

He glanced at it, and his expression changed again.

"Brother Yan."

"explain."

"The Helios Group board of directors has agreed to negotiations."

"But they made a condition."

Nie Qingcheng's eyes turned slightly cold.

"What are the conditions?"

Qin Xiao projected the email onto the screen.

The email ends with only one line.

The joint research team must arrive at the Prometheus Desert branch within 72 hours and be subject to full security oversight.

Zhang Yan looked at the line of text.

Nie Qingcheng said slowly, "They are waiting for someone to go in."

Qin Xiao asked, "Brother Yan, are we still going?"

Zhang Yan put away the documents.

"go."

Nie Qingcheng did not stop her.

She only said one sentence.

"This time, you can't disappear from my surveillance for even a second."

Forty-eight hours later.

The Helios Group held its second board meeting at its headquarters.

In the study of the Jinghai Villa, Nie Qingcheng sat in the main seat, with three computers in front of her.

Zhang Yan sat to her left.

Qin Xiao remotely connected.

Stargazing is also on the communication channel.

The head of the European department reported in a low voice: "Mr. Nie, the other party's CFO requests to speak directly with you."

Nie Qingcheng said, "Answer it."

The screen flashed.

A blond middle-aged man appears in the frame.

He nodded first.

"Ms. Nie."

Nie Qingcheng didn't stand on ceremony.

"You only have five minutes."

The other party paused noticeably.

"Qingcheng International's acquisition offer is very sincere, but our board of directors needs to confirm one thing."

"explain."

"Are you truly interested in our materials science department, or in certain unpublished samples?"

Zhang Yan looked up at the screen.

Qin Xiao whispered into the communicator, "That old fox."

Nie Qingcheng's expression remained unchanged.

"Helios's materials science department wouldn't be worth this price without unpublished samples."

The other party was silent for a second.

"Ms. Nie, some samples are under the supervision of the French Ministry of Defense and do not belong to the group's assets."

Nie Qingcheng said, "What I bought was not the ownership of the sample."

What would you like?

"Joint research permissions".

"Some parts can be opened."

"Some parts are not enough."

"Sample number 2021-SA7 must not be touched."

The room fell silent.

This number has appeared.

Zhang Yan put down his pen.

Nie Qingcheng looked at the screen.

"Is it that I can't touch them, or that I'm afraid to touch them?"

The other person's expression changed slightly.

"Ms. Nie, I don't understand what you mean."

"You understand."

Nie Qingcheng's voice was cold.

"Three years after the samples were recovered, Prometheus Lab replaced twelve technicians."

"Three people died."

Four people were reassigned.

"The five individuals signed a lifetime confidentiality agreement."

"The sample storage area has undergone six isolation upgrades in the past three years."

"It's not that you don't want to open up."

"You are afraid."

The other party remained silent for a long time.

Qin Xiao whispered in the channel, "My sister-in-law's oppressive aura is really scary."

Guan Xing said calmly, "She's very good at handling people."

Qin Xiao: "What you're saying is quite frightening."