Chapter 529

Sun Cheng was soon feeling incredibly glad about his decisive decision.

Not long after he arrived in Shencheng by spaceship again, news of 【Clarissa】, which had grown into a super-strong Category 5 typhoon, striking the Central America region appeared in reports across major domestic websites and television stations.

Costa Rica happened to be right in the path of 【Clarissa】; the country suffered power and internet outages, countless trees were uprooted, houses collapsed, and there were even cars swept up into trees over ten meters high, while fishing boats were washed into residential areas over ten kilometers away from the port.

There were no reports about 【Nublar Island】 yet, but judging from the path of Typhoon 【Clarissa】 posted online, the typhoon did not make landfall directly on 【Nublar Island】, but instead veered off several dozen kilometers away, so the situation on the island should be much better.

However, 【International Genetic Technologies】 was surely cursing; although the typhoon did not make landfall on 【Nublar Island】, it happened to pass right over 【Sorna Island】.

Judging from the disaster situation in Costa Rica, the situation on 【Sorna Island】 would likely be even more severe.

【International Genetic Technologies】 had a massive amount of assets on the island; 【Sorna Island】 was not only a dinosaur breeding center but also the location of 【International Genetic Technologies】's most important biological genetic 【Laboratory】.

The ideal scenario would be that 【International Genetic Technologies】 had evacuated their personnel in time, resulting in no casualties.

However, it was hard to say what would happen to their facilities and assets on the island.

After checking into a hotel in Shencheng, Sun Cheng rested for a few hours, browsed various news stories online, and had dinner along the way.

Once night fell, Sun Cheng took a taxi to the port.

Then, in a secluded corner, he put on his optical camouflage suit and spent some time secretly placing the two 14nm 【Lithography Machine】s he had prepared onto the cargo ship that had already arrived at Shencheng Port.

After finishing all this and returning to the hotel again, the time had remarkably reached past one o'clock in the morning.

After a simple wash, he lay down on the bed and fell asleep quickly.

When he woke up from this sleep, the time was already past nine o'clock the next morning.

Ordering by phone, he had hotel staff deliver a fairly hearty breakfast to his room, and Sun Cheng finished his breakfast inside the room.

He would not stay in Shencheng for long, so he quickly dialed the contact number provided by the other party during his meeting with the four people from the 【National Control Bureau】 and the 【Equipment Department】.

"Beep, beep..."

The phone only rang twice before it was quickly answered on the other end.

At the same time, a low male voice came through, "Hello, who are you looking for?"

"... I am Sun Cheng!"

Sun Cheng answered very directly; this was not the first time he had dialed this number since receiving it.

He had already called this number once when notifying the cargo ship in Manila to set sail.

Because he was using his private phone, Sun Cheng believed the other side should be very clear about who he was.

"... I am calling this time because I received news that the two 14nm 【Lithography Machine】s you ordered have arrived at Shencheng Port in 【Xia Country】... Currently, the two 【Lithography Machine】s are on the Philippine-registered cargo ship—the 【Zambat】... The people on the ship are unaware of the information regarding the items on board, so please provide me with a fax machine, and I will transmit the receipt vouchers over..."

The phone went silent for over ten seconds before Sun Cheng heard someone reply to him again.

"Understood, please wait a moment, I need to ask for instructions..."

Then came another twenty-plus seconds of waiting: "xxxx-xxxxxxx, please fax the receipt vouchers here!"

"No problem!"

Sun Cheng roughly guessed that the other party was stalling for time; in the technological age, one only needs to maintain a call for a certain duration for investigators to lock onto the target's location and position.

He had no intention of hiding this, as the handover of the two 【Lithography Machine】s had to take place in Shencheng.

Sun Cheng could indeed have set the delivery location in Nandu, but in the 【Transformers】 universe, he had dealt with high-level officials from several countries and had long discovered that politicians were a group of insecure old men and women.

Even with his eyes closed, he knew that if the group of politicians in Nandu discovered that a certain force could secretly transport 14nm 【Lithography Machine】s—high-tech equipment explicitly embargoed by foreign countries against 【Xia Country】—into their national administrative center...

Then, Sun Cheng would not need to consider any future development.

What would await him would be endless probing and investigation, and he might even have his personal freedom restricted.

Sun Cheng never minded speculating about human nature with the most pessimistic attitude; he was a standard proponent of the "human nature is evil" theory.

If he were a decision-maker in 【Xia Country】, he also could not accept an unknown force having unusual influence or even potential power within his own borders, let alone the capital.

Therefore, Shencheng became a very good choice; as the largest seaport and international metropolis of 【Xia Country】, many foreign forces had spent effort and energy here, and behind the glitz and glamour, it was no exaggeration to say it was a place where dragons and snakes mingled.

One obvious example was that one of the three important branches under the National Security Bureau was located in Shencheng.

As the person in charge of the 【P·C·F】 he had fabricated and pushed to the forefront in 【Xia Country】, Sun Cheng certainly had to be present for the handover of two pieces of cutting-edge equipment worth over a billion 【Xia Country】 yuan.

He currently had no trusted personnel in the real world to help him cover his lies.

Therefore, many things needed to be done by himself in the short term.

After hanging up the phone, Sun Cheng had 【Xiao Wu】 notify 【Frenzy】 to fax the several receipt vouchers for the grain on the cargo ship, which had been prepared in advance by domestic shell companies, to the fax machine designated by the other party.

Then, he wandered around Shencheng with interest for a few hours until noon; just as he had ordered a simple lunch at a small roadside 【Canting】 on the Bund and was preparing to enjoy it, 【Xiao Wu】, sitting on the table next to him, began to buzz and vibrate.

A call was coming in!

And it showed no number!

Sun Cheng put down his chopsticks, picked up the smartphone that 【Xiao Wu】 had transformed into, and raised an eyebrow.

He knew that domestic telecommunications providers offered hidden dialing services for some government agencies and numbers used by the military.

Although he couldn't be sure who was contacting him, he generally wasn't wrong.

He immediately answered the phone, and sure enough, a voice that felt somewhat familiar to him quickly rang out from the other side.

"General Manager Sun, it's me, 【Wang Yuan】. We have arrived in Shencheng; you should be in Shencheng too, right? If it's convenient, let's sit down together; I happen to have some things I'd like to consult with you about!"

"No problem!"

This was entirely within his expectations. He looked at the name and said, "I'm here on the Bund; if you need me to take a taxi over, give me an address!"

"Haha, no need, I'll send a car to pick you up right now!"

"Alright, I'm here on the Bund, at a small 【Canting】 called 'Meiwei Xuan'. See you in a bit."

"See you in a bit!"