novelTime to Bluff
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If it weren't for the different-colored eyes and silver-colored hair, Jiang Chen would occasionally forget Lin Lin's identity, as well as Tingting that lived inside her.
The feeling of kissing a digitalized human was not much different. He could still feel the temperature between the saliva, the heartbeat of the girl, as well as the passion inside her...
It was enough.
The next morning, when Jiang Chen woke up, Lin Lin laid on his chest and slept like a little cat.
After he gently moved her aside, covered her with a quilt, he sat up from the bed and put on his pajamas. At the same time, he wore his watch.
"Two sandwiches, two cups of hot milk, room A702."
He called the front desk and ordered breakfast. After he had done that, he went to take a shower. When he came out wrapped in a bath towel, the waiter had already pushed the dining cart to the door and delivered the hot steamy breakfast to his hands.
Perhaps Lin Lin smelled the aroma of food, she woke up from her dream. Her slightly messy hair dropped on her face while she sat up on the bed in a daze. She stared at the breakfast on the table for a long time, sniffed with her cute little nose, and then finally felt more awake.
"Come have breakfast if you're awake, remember to brush your teeth first." Jiang Chen threw the wrapping paper into the garbage bin while he quickly drank the last sip of milk.
"Are we still going to go to the Space Command Center today?" Lin Lin muttered while she put on a T-shirt.
"No, we have to go back today."
"This quickly?" Lin Ling pouted.
She could only have Jiang Chen to herself here.
"We can't stay here all the time, " Jiang Chen rubbed Lin Lin's head, "I will take you here when I have a chance in the future."
"Deal."
Jiang Chen smiled and nodded at the pouting Yao Yao.
"Mhmm."
The trivial matters like checking out of the hotel were naturally for his assistant. He carried his bag and brought Lin Lin to the apron, where he sat into the G100 that had been waiting for him.
Almost immediately after he got off the plane, he received a call from Zhang Yaping, and the first sentence did not surprise him.
"Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov hopes to meet with you."
"Russian Foreign Minister? Why haven't I heard that he is planning to visit Xin?"
"He only applied yesterday. It should be a temporary adjustment of the itinerary. Did something happen again?" Zhang Yaping could not help but ask.
"Why do you ask?" Jiang Chen laughed.
"Because it's not just the Russian Foreign Minister. Just yesterday at noon, our consulates around the world probably received more than a dozen applications for foreign affairs visits, " Zhang Yaping said.
"Something happened, " Jiang Chen smiled, "but you will see it in the news soon, so there is no need for me to talk nonsense here."
Zhang Yaping was taken aback for a moment. He wanted to ask a few more questions, but he saw that Jiang Chen didn't seem to want to say more so he gave up on the thought.
"What about the Russian Foreign Minister?"
After Jiang Chen debated for a moment, he replied.
"Let him wait for me in Future Building. I will go there at about three o'clock in the afternoon."
Jiang Chen was not too concerned if Golovin got in touch with other countries. After all, although all countries knew a little bit about quantum communication technology, the quantum entanglement to achieve superluminal communication was still firmly controlled by Celestial Trade.
Even if Golovin was interested in communicating with other countries on Earth, the first step was for the countries to hear him. Otherwise, it would be like shouting into empty space while the other side was deaf.
As for the contact between researchers to their home countries, Jiang Chen could not stop this from happening. A joint project worth hundreds of billions of dollars in investment was not like an illegal coal mine.
There was no doubt that the astronauts on Europa sent the news from yesterday back to Earth via radio. A message in text form did not require sophisticated technology at all, not to mention that it would be only 1KB in size.
But Jiang Chen didn't plan to censor the news, otherwise, he wouldn't have told so many things to Golovin, as well as asked him to put on an act.
And the first person to visit was from Russia. It was what Jiang Chen expected.
After all, that starship's name was written in Russian.
It was likely that last night, no one from the Kremlin had a good night's sleep.
...
"Hello."
In the reception room of the Future Building, Jiang Chen met Foreign Minister Lavrov.
Jiang Chen had met the foreign minister from Russia several times in previous international conferences.
After they shook hands, Jiang Chen gestured for him to take a seat and asked the waiter to pour tea.
"Mr. Lavrov made a special trip for what matter?" Jiang Chen asked with a smile.
"I heard some rumors recently and I wanted to verify them, " Lavrov smiled and subtly probed in a chattering tone, "I heard that under the ice sheet of Europa, there is a starship with Russian text on it? The name of the Baikonur Cosmodrome is also written on it. I don't know if it's true."
"It's the case." To Lavrov's surprise, Jiang Chen did not hide the news. He not only was straightforward, but he also joked, "Although I don't know what's inside, it shouldn't be your lost starship, right?"
In fact, such a starship happened to be missing recently from the hangar of the Baikonur launch base...
Although Lavrov wanted to say this very much, he knew that he himself would not believe it.
There were two main reasons for his visit to Xin. One was to find out why the name of the Baikonur Cosmodrome was written on the "alien" starship, and the other more important reason was about the salvage of an alien ship.
It is alien technology!
And a starship well preserved!
This alone was enough to make countries around the world hold their breath.
If Celestial Trade did not let them join the fun in the past, it was understandable. After all, it was their technology. From their own perspective, they would do the same. But now, the major member states were invested in the Europa project! If Celestial Trade decided to monopolize the technology again, it won't be justified.
"Of course not, the question just now was just because of my personal curiosity, " Lavrov smiled, "I wonder what Mr. Jiang Chen plans to do with this alien ship?"
"Of course, to salvage it first, and research on it together."
There was a hint of surprise and disbelief in Lavrov's eyes after he heard Jiang Chen's answer.
He thought he would have to spend a lot of effort and even have to surrender a lot of the interests that originally belonged to Russia, but he didn't expect Jiang Chen to be so open and direct. So much so, he even forgot about the feasibility of salvaging that starship for the time being.
"It's just..." At this moment when Lavrov was still processing the shock, Jiang Chen suddenly changed his tone and sighed softly, "The guests on the starship made an unreasonable request."
"Guests? You mean..." Lavrov's expression changed and his eyes were filled with disbelief.
"That's right, " Jiang Chen nodded, "That's not a shipwreck. There are living people on it."
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