Chapter 1002 SS Oleg
Natasha didn’t tell Jiang Chen what happened even after they headed out. She just vaguely said that she had drunk too much yesterday then changed the topic. Although Jiang Chen was curious, he didn’t persist on the topic. After, he went to clean himself up.
At about eight o’clock, surrounded by hairy Russians in suits, Jiang Chen took Natasha downstairs and sat in the limousine.
While it didn’t feel the most comfortable being followed by a large group of security personnel, he understood that they were now in the midst of a special period and it was always better to be safe.
A call came to Jiang Chen from Xia s.h.i.+yu.
“How are you? Are you safe?”
“It’s fine. I have so many burly men looking after me when I go outside, and there are people to even go to the washroom with me.”
“Oh, then I’m relieved. You won’t do bad things then.”
Xia s.h.i.+yu was doing her hardest not to laugh.
Jiang Chen, who thought Xia s.h.i.+yu was laughing too hard, decided to tease her. With a smirk, he said. “That’s not necessarily true. Guess who the appointed security consultant is?”
Xia s.h.i.+yu thought about it for a second and wanted to say Ayesha, but she thought she could be regarded as a private bodyguard.
After thinking for a moment, she suddenly thought of a name and probed.
“Is it… Natasha?”
Among all Russians, she knew Natasha the best. She remembered that Ayesha had mentioned to her that Natasha used to serve the KGB and later entered the diplomatic system.
Although her relations.h.i.+p with her wasn’t bad and the four of them even went on holiday together, this didn’t mean she was willing to add one more sister.
“The two beautiful women in the family aren’t enough for you to eat?” Gritting her teeth, Xia s.h.i.+yu couldn’t think of any way to control Jiang Chen. She pouted as she spoke with resentment.
“Ahem. She’s just a safety consultant; I have nothing to do with her. Don’t think too much. Well, let’s not talk about this. How about you? How many of our asteroids have been contracted out?”
She noticed that Jiang Chen didn’t want to continue with the topic. Although Xia s.h.i.+yu got jealous easily, she didn’t always persist on the same thing and understood priorities. She quickly s.h.i.+fted her focus to the more important issue.
“A total of five were contracted out, including Hua, Russia, the UA, Nippon, and India. NASA asked us to expand the asteroid contracting quota and replace the hard indicators with market bidding. The United Kingdom and France submitted an application to us.”
“NASA’s request can be ignored. Get them to finish mining the one on hand before applying for the second. As for the United Kingdom and France…”
As Jiang Chen was talking, he glanced at Natasha sitting opposite him.
Although she put her hands over her ears to indicate she wasn’t listening, Jiang Chen was not easily convinced.
He organized the wording in his head, avoiding all the sensitive information.
“The conditions for the United Kingdom’s application can be relaxed. Just hold France’s application for now. Once the EU mess is over, you can review their application.”
“Will this be brought to the WTO?” Xia s.h.i.+yu was somewhat hesitant.
“WTO is for countries. We’re a private enterprise and a large multinational one at that. We have the power to decide who we do business with and who to play with,” Jiang Chen said with certainty.
“Well, since that’s your order, I will follow it.” Xia s.h.i.+yu nodded.
“Please.”
After saying goodbye to Xia s.h.i.+yu, Jiang Chen smiled and turned off the holographic screen on his watch then his line of sight crossed Natasha’s.
“Why can’t I be included?” Natasha said, displeased.
“Because…” Jiang Chen couldn’t think of how to answer this question then responded with: “Love is selfish.”
Sure enough, Natasha made a vomiting gesture and also an exaggerated clown face at him.
“Then why is Ayesha?”
This time, Jiang Chen didn’t know how to answer. For a while, he couldn’t think of any reb.u.t.tal.
“There are always exceptions,” Jiang Chen shamelessly said.
“I understand. You only like women with small b.o.o.bs and aren’t interested in other women. In the words of your country, you’re a Loli Lover! Pervert!” She was infuriated by Jiang Chen’s answer so she blurted out the sentence before she turned her head and ignored him.
Jiang Chen looked at her sulking without knowing what to do.
What is this?
Maybe she was really angry. Natasha didn’t say a word again along the way. Although he was confused, he wasn’t too bothered by this. He knew very well that she wasn’t the kind of woman with a small mind, and she might forget it in a while.
As for asking him to examine himself, that was impossible.
When he arrived at the Russian Aeros.p.a.ce Science and Technology Group, a Russian with a giant nose greeted him and enthusiastically invited him into the building. He took Jiang Chen from the warehouse to the office and even went into the research and development center without hiding anything.
During their conversation, Jiang Chen learned that the name of the big nose Russian was Yuri, which was a very popular name in Russia.
He was extremely talkative. After Jiang Chen entered through the door, he didn’t stop talking for a minute.
“This is the RM-320 we produced according to the drawings you provided. Your design is outstanding. I don’t know what words to use to describe the astonishment in my mind. The only limit is that the materials in our combustion chambers aren’t up to standard…” Pointing at a bright silver rocket engine, Yuri didn’t stop complimenting him. “We will also ask Jiang Chen about some of the technical problems related to the rocket.”
However, Jiang Chen was bound to disappoint him. He didn’t understand any of the technicalities at all. At most, he understood the direction. In terms of technical details, he might be less knowledgeable than the interns who copied data, working behind the scientists.
Fortunately, experts also came with him from Xin and these problems were dealt with by those experts. Perhaps it was because of the conviction of the technology of Celestial Trade that these high-spirited scientists were very eager to learn. If there was anything that they didn’t understand, they were humble to learn.
Helping Russia master the RM-320 engine itself was part of the agreement. Jiang Chen let the Celestial Trade expert deal with the scientists while he went to another place with Yuri.
In an empty warehouse, a flat-shaped cuboid aircraft about 15 meters long was parked. Behind the cuboid aircraft, there were four large holes and an RM-320 engine could be placed in each of the holes.
“SS Oleg, this is our s.p.a.cecraft that can be used in the Earth-Moon system. This is the top secret of our group.” Yuri slapped the metal giant and squinted his eyebrows at Jiang Chen with pride.