Chapter 221: Dancing with the Bear (Part II) Seeking Subscriptions

As a civilization that entered the energy age millions of years ago, the scientists of Cybertron have always believed that pure energy bodies are difficult to form in a natural environment.

Take the Spark, or the AllSpark, for example; they all bear strong traces of artificial creation.

Therefore, the scientists of the planet Cybertron invented the 'Energy Extraction and Conversion Device', which, by taking collected solar energy, biological energy, thermal energy, and the like through a series of purification and structural reorganization processes, converts them into higher-quality and purer Energy Cubes and Energy Liquid.

Electrical energy is undoubtedly a basic energy source very suitable for conversion into pure energy, and uranium ore—a rare mineral that, looking across the entire universe, can only be formed under extremely special geological conditions—is clearly superior to thermal or hydroelectric power for generating electricity.

Even by the standards of Earth civilization, nuclear power has clear advantages over thermal and hydroelectric power. If controlled properly, its pollution is worlds apart from thermal power, and compared to hydroelectric power, its damage to the environment is almost zero. Therefore, almost every country on Earth with strength has included nuclear power as an important option for commercial power generation.

The planet Cybertron had already mastered thermonuclear power generation technology during the period of the alien colonizer invasion. Although it had been completely replaced by the safer and more efficient cold fusion by the time of the Ancient Council, thanks to Shockwave, this great scientist of the Decepticon Legion saved a vast amount of the technology he had collected within the Cores of the Workers when he created them, which created the numerous, seemingly inconspicuous, yet capable-of-everything Worker clusters under the Decepticon Legion.

The Workers not only mastered the thermonuclear power generation technology of the planet Cybertron, but they also possess even more advanced cold nuclear fusion technology.

However, cold nuclear fusion requires deuterium and tritium (heavy water, super-heavy water) to produce helium-3.

Earth does not have these natural fuels of deuterium and tritium; they need to be extracted from hydrogen through certain means, which requires a large number of Workers.

And although helium-3 is abundant on the Moon, The Fallen is currently on the Moon, and Sun Cheng does not dare to easily set foot on the Moon, so he can only temporarily abandon the more efficient cold nuclear fusion and choose thermonuclear power generation.

It is just that he is not in a human body in this world, so although he formulated a plan to contact and cooperate with China and Russia, Sun Cheng did not give them his complete trust.

Especially regarding the energy most important to his development, he had no intention of actively handing his weaknesses over to the other party.

Therefore, although he made a request to the Chinese side hoping to obtain a hydroelectric power station, his trip to Russia was to get rid of the situation where his energy was still constrained by others; he hoped to obtain an ample supply of uranium ore from the Polar Bear.

Previously, Sun Cheng had also set his sights on the uranium mines of the United States, Canada, and Brazil, but after close-range reconnaissance, he had to give up.

For every country, uranium ore is the kind of important mineral that attracts the attention of the highest levels once discovered.

Therefore, almost every country invariably deploys guards near its own uranium deposits; even if one succeeded once, it would be at most plundering a batch, after which the other party would certainly strengthen their guard, making it difficult to obtain more.

This forced Sun Cheng to consider how to obtain uranium ore through formal channels, and Russia thus became his best choice.

Although there have been voices in recent years suggesting that after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the main uranium resources of the former Soviet Union all fell into the hands of other Commonwealth of Independent States countries besides Russia, this claim is actually biased.

At the very least, according to Sun Cheng's investigation, Russia possesses 78 uranium deposits with a scale greater than 500t and a grade higher than 0.03%, which is 13 more than the 65 deposits of the same grade in Kazakhstan, 44 more than Uzbekistan's 34, and 3.7 times as many as Ukraine's 21 deposits, ranking first among the Commonwealth of Independent States countries.

If the data he investigated is correct, then Russia undoubtedly possesses the second-highest number of uranium deposits after the United States (184 deposits), with a scale even exceeding that of Aodaliya (72 deposits), France (47), Canada (41), and Germany (16); the richness of its uranium reserves is beyond imagination.

The Workers there possess thermonuclear technology far more advanced than Earth's, so as long as he can obtain uranium ore from Russia, he can soon build a large number of thermonuclear reactors in Base No. 2 in the Amambai Mountains of Brazil to solve his energy shortage.

Filled with anticipation, Sun Cheng waited patiently for the arrival of Vladimir and his party.

A few minutes later, this iron-fisted Prime Minister finally arrived at the West Garden accompanied by two Russians and met Sun Cheng.

"Hiss..."

Perhaps because it was their first time seeing a Mechanical Life form like him, the other two people who arrived with Vladimir clearly gasped the moment they saw him.

Vladimir was just about to introduce the two, but Sun Cheng swept his gaze over them and took the initiative to greet them, "Nice to meet you, Minister Konashenkov, Prime Minister Dmitri. My name is Frenzy."

Seeing the slight change in the faces of the three, he didn't care at all, tapped his own head, and said, "I have come to contact you with sincerity, so I have already sent people to investigate the list of Russia's high-level officials; the data is all stored here!"

Regardless of whether it was true or false, this explanation at least made the three look slightly relieved.

Because Sun Cheng's body was too tall, there was clearly no bench in the West Garden that could allow him to sit down.

Therefore, Vladimir and his party did not take their seats either and asked directly, "Lord Frenzy, let us continue the topic we haven't finished just now. You mentioned cooperating with us in Russia; I wonder how you intend to cooperate with us?"

The smile on Sun Cheng's face grew thicker; compared to the subtlety of the Chinese style, this straightforward style of the Russians could undoubtedly save him a lot of time.

Immediately, two azure beams of light shot out from his eyes, forming a huge light wall in front of him that was no less than two meters high and a full four or five meters wide.

The light wall displayed dozens of folders, each with Russian annotations on them.

【Five-axis Linkage CNC Machine Tool】, 【M Gas Generator】, 【Thirty-seven types of super-hard and new alloys】...

【Hellfire Missile】, 【F-16 Fighter Jet】, 【Reaper Drone】, 【M1A2 Tank】, 【Modified Yasen-class Attack Nuclear Submarine】, 【Modified Typhoon-class Ballistic Missile Nuclear Submarine】, 【Modified Borei-class Ballistic Missile Nuclear Submarine】...

【Fifth-generation 50,000-horsepower shipborne gas turbine unit】, 【Third-Generation Optical Stealth Technology】, 【Third-Generation Shipborne Nuclear Reactor】, 【First-generation magnetohydrodynamic water-jet engine】...

"Everything displayed on the light screen is something we can all trade. The trade includes not only technology transfer, but if you have the need, we can even manufacture the physical objects for you directly. In exchange, we need large amounts of metal, rare earths, and uranium ore..."

PS:

1. Thanks to the three readers 'Book Friend 20170111185222775', 'Feng Family BEN Shao', and 'GSLT' for their tips and support.

2. The Russia trip will end in the next chapter; the China trip will be shorter than Russia's, but it will open up a side plot involving a certain artifact of Cybertron. Guess which one it is!