Chapter 216: Invading the Presidential Palace (Seeking Subscriptions)

The so-called negotiation, whether it is merely a normal commercial transaction or a state-level diplomatic exchange, is nothing more than "asking an exorbitant price and countering with a low offer."

Sun Cheng clearly understood this point, so he called out a price at the very beginning that would definitely make the Chinese side frown, but was not entirely unacceptable, and then continued the negotiation.

The Three Gorges Dam, this is bound to become the focus of the negotiation!

Since the start of construction on this world-class water conservancy hub project, China has poured massive amounts of resources and financial appropriations into it; from the central government to local levels, from central enterprises and state-owned assets to foreign enterprises and private capital, too many interests have already been entangled in it, and international attention is also extremely high, so the other side should find it very difficult to accept.

By comparison, his other requests were much easier to accept.

Five hundred thousand tons of various metals might seem like a lot, but in reality, over ninety percent of it is iron-carbon alloy and iron-titanium alloy, which is just the most common carbon steel and titanium steel on the market; it's just that the quality Sun Cheng requested is slightly higher.

As for truly rare metals, even if he wanted to be greedy, it would be useless; not to mention that China doesn't have that much, there are over a dozen rare metals he urgently needs, such as palladium, ruthenium, polonium, and bismuth, which are not even found in large quantities across the entire Earth.

By the same token, the ten thousand tons of rare earths he proposed to the Chinese side are the same.

About half of this is rare earth carbonate chloride and phosphate rare earth, which are the two most common primary products in the rare earth industry; as a major rare earth power, China's production has not only formed a scale, but the extraction difficulty is also not as high as other rare earths.

After all, this is the first contact, and considering that the other side also needs time to discuss whether to cooperate and what their bottom line is.

Therefore, after Sun Cheng finished speaking, he quickly interrupted the control of that equipment terminal in Beidu.

Once the Core was retracted and the light screen before him dissipated, he turned his head again to look at Major General Chen Zhongyuan, who was still in a state of shock, and said in a deep voice: "General, please convey my apologies to your country's President. In addition, I will soon head to Russia to make contact with the Russian government. If nothing goes wrong, I will return in three days, at this same location. By then, I hope we can all get what we want!"

Having said that, he did not wait for Chen Zhongyuan and the others to react, and once again activated the Optical Stealth Net on his body; his entire figure vanished again amidst a crackle of jumping electric sparks.

The next moment, he leaped and transformed into the Reaper Drone form, flying up into the high altitude.

Then, without looking back, he flew toward the capital of Russia—Moscow.

Unlike the contact with China, Sun Cheng did not have a shred of good feeling for the country of Russia.

In the real world, a confrontation that spanned over a hundred years lasted from the founding of the Soviet Union until 2016 AD.

The two countries fought a cruel war for over a hundred years over the more than three million square kilometers of territory that the former Russian Empire had conspired to seize from the Qing government, from Vladivostok in the Far East to Siberia, and then to Almaty in the Middle East; to this day, his motherland still deploys over eighty divisions along the long border between the two countries year-round, and border clashes occur almost daily—it would be no exaggeration to call it a blood feud.

Even though this is not the real world, and this Russia is by no means the same evil neighbor that is still eyeing China in the world he came from, that still does not provide a reason for him to have any good feelings toward Russia!

If it weren't for the fact that in the world of 【Transformers】, the United States, having reached a consensus with the Autobots, is simply too powerful and far beyond what the current China can withstand, he would not have held his nose and taken the initiative to seek out Russia.

Mutual utilization is one thing, but Sun Cheng's attitude toward the Polar Bear is clearly worlds apart from how he treats China.

At a top speed of Mach 2.7, he quickly entered Russian territory and followed the Trans-Siberian Railway all the way, heading straight for Moscow.

With speed fully engaged, just a few hours later, Sun Cheng had already entered the territory of Moscow.

After circling briefly above this ancient capital of ice and snow and quickly confirming the location of the Kremlin, he flew straight toward the Kremlin.

As the capital of the Polar Bear, Moscow has a strict security system surrounding it.

Just like the Imperial City of Beidu in China, the Kremlin, as the former palace of the Tsar, is a massive complex of buildings.

During the former Soviet era, the Red Empire took a portion of the Kremlin's buildings to use as the center of power.

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the newly established Russian Federation had no intention of changing it; after slightly renovating some of the buildings from the former Soviet era, the Kremlin remains the power Core of this country.

Because there is a five-hour time difference between Russia and China, when he arrived in Moscow, the sky had only just begun to darken, and the time was just past four in the afternoon.

Because he had investigated before coming, Sun Cheng knew that Russia's strongman President—Vladimir—did not have any plans to travel abroad today.

However, because today is the traditional Russian Mother's Day, he would be having dinner in the evening with dozens of hero mothers invited by the government.

To avoid missing the time, although the sky had not yet darkened, he did not wait any longer.

He bypassed the exhibition area of the Kremlin and headed straight for the Presidential Residence within the Kremlin.

Like the White House in the United States and the Prime Minister's residence in the British, the Russian Presidential Palace did not have many soldiers guarding it from the outside.

However, as soon as Sun Cheng approached, his Core began to beat wildly.

Clearly, not only is this place covered in dense surveillance equipment, but it also has a complete and independent air defense and anti-riot system.

He leaped over the two-story-high beige wall and entered the Presidential Palace.

He happened to see several Russian officials in expensive suits strolling in the courtyard, looking as if they were preparing to meet Vladimir.

Sun Cheng's eyes rolled, and he repeated his old trick, landing heavily in front of the officials, leaving a loud boom on the ground.

The next moment, his figure was revealed amidst a crackling symphony of electric sparks.

Sun Cheng then looked at the several Russian officials two meters away who had not yet reacted, a rich smile appearing on his ferocious face.

"This is the Russian Presidential Palace, right? I need to have a meeting with your President, so, who will introduce me..."

He spoke slowly to the officials in the Russian he had just learned.

Perhaps his appearance was too ferocious, or perhaps Sun Cheng's sudden appearance frightened these high-ranking Russian officials.

In any case, after coming to their senses, the faces of the officials before him all changed color simultaneously.

One of them was even so frightened that their teeth were chattering, and after regaining their composure, they almost instinctively let out a loud shout.

"Guards, there is an intruder..."

"Whoosh..."

Following that loud shout, the quiet Presidential Residence immediately became noisy with human voices.

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