Chapter 719: Spherical Space

Trindade Island does not prohibit any national power that discovers this place from landing, and is willing to trade with any faction. Although this has caused displeasure among some human nations, such as certain old-established powers in Europe and America, who cares?

However, Explorer has learned quite a bit from Sun Cheng, and he did not offend those human nations to the point of no return.

Trindade Island indeed does not reject trading with any human nation, but any human faction wishing to purchase high-grade goods from the Black Market must have the rare metals and rare earths used for payment delivered to the island within a specified time after placing an order, and they must also transport the ordered goods back themselves.

This provides feasibility for certain powerful rogue nations to join forces and monopolize the goods on the Black Market.

Explorer and the others will not intervene in this process, so whether the supplies are intercepted by the navies of certain nations during transport, how the ordered machines are to be transported back, and whether the route is safe, are not things they need to consider.

The hundreds of machines and instruments sold on the island were all specially selected by Sun Cheng because, in the fields of military, heavy industry, and high technology, they are about one to two generations ahead of Earth's current technological level.

Therefore, every national power that lands on the island with a purpose, upon learning that a group of aliens is very willing to trade with them and has even established a trading market on this island, providing mechanical equipment more advanced than what is currently on Earth, will mostly place orders quite readily.

During the month or so that Sun Cheng spent wholeheartedly designing and perfecting the small spacecraft, Explorer has already successfully sold seven batches of products.

The eight supply storage warehouses built in a corner of the island are now filled with the rare metals, rare earths, and other materials used by those human national powers to pay for previous transactions.

If Sun Cheng does not come out of seclusion, Explorer, having not received further authorization, will only be able to continue building more supply storage warehouses on the island.

After digesting the information shared by Explorer, Sun Cheng indeed gained a bit more approval for him.

The changes on the island during this period only surprised him slightly, but they were generally within his expectations.

With the terrifying operational capabilities of the Worker and thousands of robots of various types, it is just a small island with a total area of no more than ten square kilometers. If it were still the same as it was before Sun Cheng let go to research the spacecraft after a month of being tossed about by Explorer and the others, he would have to doubt the capabilities of his subordinates.

"Currently, the main forces purchasing equipment in large quantities on the island are Britain and France, who have almost monopolized about ninety percent of the first batch of machines and equipment temporarily released by the Black Market... The United States is followed by Japan and Russia... Although the United States also landed on the island to make contact with us at the first opportunity, because the first meeting ended on bad terms, they almost didn't snatch any of the first batch of products since the Black Market opened, and can only wait for the second batch of goods to be listed..."

Since it is a Black Market, Sun Cheng naturally will not sell things openly.

Unlimited supply would not only fail to fetch high prices but would also satisfy the demands of the covetous human nations in a very short time.

The consequences of doing this could only be two: either they would lose the desire to continue purchasing, or they would become even more insatiably greedy for products with higher technological content.

From the very beginning, Sun Cheng never thought about selling products with too high a technological content.

Even if the Black Market's goods are updated in the future, they will not be much more advanced than they are now.

He also does not worry about not being able to sell things; after all, there are plenty of human nations that want to buy.

The Black Market just sells things a bit more expensively and only accepts barter of rare metals and rare earths; it does not involve any additional conditions.

Just this point alone ensures there will be no shortage of buyers.

Under the guidance of Explorer, Sun Cheng arrived at the eight warehouses that were already full of supplies.

These are several warehouses built according to Decepticon standards, with a length, width, and height of 100, 20, and 20 meters respectively.

Directly in front of the warehouse is an automatic rolling shutter door that is ten meters high and ten meters wide.

As the warehouse doors opened, what Sun Cheng and the others saw was not piles of metals and rare earths stacked in a mess, but shipping containers stacked neatly.

A Chip was embedded on the body of each shipping container.

With a sweep of Sun Cheng's gaze, the weight, quality, type, and other information of the rare metals filled inside the containers all surfaced in his mind.

"Well done!"

He was very satisfied with Explorer's arrangements.

A long time ago, Sun Cheng promoted various standardized shipping containers within Base No. 2.

It was not that he felt standardized shipping containers could bring convenience to the transport of bulk goods; in fact, shipping containers could indeed bring some convenience, but it was mainly because it was truly convenient for himself.

Because Sun Cheng often uses the Spherical Space to transport and store some supplies and even robots, although the total capacity of the Spherical Space is constantly expanding because Sun Cheng has been steadily providing sufficient Energy Liquid,

no matter how much the Spherical Space expands, there is still a limit for now.

Various items thrown around in a scattered manner would occupy a lot of space.

In comparison, standardized shipping containers only need to be filled with things to save a lot of space.

Moreover, when needed, Sun Cheng can take out the neatly categorized shipping containers at any time, which is very worry-free.

It just so happened that some time ago, he had just cleared out most of the things in the Spherical Space and temporarily placed them in a private warehouse of his own at Base No. 2.

Looking at the various rare metals and rare earths piled up in the warehouses on Trindade Island, Sun Cheng did not say much and spent some time taking them all into the Spherical Space one by one. Looking at the Spherical Space that was filled up again, his heart was blooming with joy.

This special existence hidden in his body, suspected to be an Imaginary Space, has been slowly expanding by absorbing energy ever since he mastered that ability.

Over the past year or so, Sun Cheng has already loaded a massive amount of High-purity Energy Liquid into the Spherical Space for it to absorb and continue to expand.

After successively absorbing nearly twenty percent of the energy liquid accumulated at Base No. 2 over the past year, the interior of the current Spherical Space has expanded into a hemispherical space with a radius of over two hundred and seventy meters.

This gradually growing private space can be said to be Sun Cheng's greatest secret, second only to his ability to freely travel between two worlds.

Even with the continuous expansion of the interior of the Spherical Space, its help to him has begun to grow greater and greater.

For example, the Private Legion combat system that Sun Cheng designed for himself has the Spherical Space, which allows him to carry a large number of troops with him, as one of its cores.

Another example is a month ago, the reason why he suddenly thought that he could completely avoid waiting for the Explorer-class spacecraft to be built and instead design a small spacecraft to land on Mars first, was that he suddenly thought he could fully utilize the Spherical Space to transport a large number of robots to Mars together.

This would not only save a lot of time, but once the Mars Base starts construction, with an entire planet providing him with various materials and energy, the development of Sun Cheng's forces will be ten or even a hundred times what it is now.

"At Base No. 2, it will take about another half a month to build the spacecraft! Before that, I should indeed prepare in advance!"

As Sun Cheng thought this to himself, the Explorer beside him suddenly turned solemn, turned around, and reported to Sun Cheng: "Master, the Autobot Drift has arrived!"

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PS:

Sorry, I have been busy with my sister's wedding for a few days and haven't updated, which interrupted my train of thought. The updates have been unstable these past few days, please forgive me, I will restore my state as soon as possible.