The rise of nanometers

Dunsink Observatory, Dublin.

The headquarters of the Space Development Company, controlled by Maple Leaf Group, is on the east side of the observatory.

In fact, the Universe Development Company was not established just this year. The company was established three years ago, and neither the management, board of directors, nor investors have anything to do with Thomas.

The reason why Chu Xuan suspected this company was because Thomas, Valentine and others accidentally revealed a piece of information during a conversation.

That is, they are preparing to enter outer space.

As soon as this information came out, it attracted Chu Xuan's attention. After all, entering outer space cannot be done casually.

Elon Musk has been dealt with by Noah, not to mention the Space Exploration Company controlled by Musk.

Thomas no longer has Musk's Space Exploration Company, but he has vowed to enter outer space. Obviously, he has relevant support.

Currently, there are only a few companies or regions around the world that have the ability to enter space.

After excluding the Federation of Greater China and the Noah Society, only the Western Continent Alliance and Lucia are left.

But Xizhou and Lucia are also easy to monitor. Unless they are private companies, they can do some small things outside of monitoring.

Therefore, after a series of analyzes and investigations, the Universe Development Company and the Maple Leaf Group behind it came into the sight of the Intelligence Department.

The Intelligence Department was very concerned about the Thomas faction. After locking in the Maple Leaf Group and the Universe Development Company, it began a comprehensive investigation.

At this time, James and Andrew were staying in a hotel about 2.4 kilometers away from the headquarters building of the Universe Development Company.

At the same time the two of them were settling their luggage.

Inside the headquarters building of Universe Development Company.

Welcoming Karina and her group, Karina is the woman we met at the airport. She is one of the executives of Maple Leaf Group and wears a pair of rimless glasses.

The top floor of the 32nd floor of the building.

Karina and Space Development Company CEO Lewis Brand met in the office. The conversation between the two centered on the development of the company and the research and development of launch vehicles, and there were no other outrageous remarks.

In a residential building less than 300 meters away from the building, an old house was rented to an Austrian about two months ago.

But at this time, in the old house, a device similar to a radio was working silently, collecting the sound waves inside the building without missing a beat, and then sending them to a special network channel.

After secret transmission, these sound wave data came to the supercomputing center hidden in Monaco, where they were finally restored and analyzed and turned into preliminary information.

Neither Karina nor the two knew that their words had been leaked.

After talking about ostensibly business matters for more than two hours, the two finally got to the point. Lewis took her into the other side of the president's office, a hidden safe room.

This kind of safe house can shield electromagnetic waves, light waves, and sound insulation, but it cannot prevent sound waves from propagating in solids.

In fact, even the Noah Club did not pay too much attention to the solid propagation of sound waves, because it was difficult to evaluate whether the isolated conference room they had built before had any specific effect.

The Intelligence Department would not take the initiative to expose it. Instead, it made many ambiguous actions to deliberately confuse the judgments of Noah, Thomas and others.

Therefore, the safe house at the headquarters of the Space Development Company still maintains the design specifications of the old model.

This may also have something to do with Thomas's financial problems. Although he seems not to care about the loss of North American power, it actually has a huge impact.

And this impact is still negative.

After losing power in North America, the resources, talents, funds, and connections of the Thomas remnant party have all suffered heavy losses, to the point of breaking their muscles and bones.

There is simply not much money to spend on upgrading the isolated conference room, so we can only make do with the old-fashioned safe house for the time being.

It was precisely this embarrassing situation that led to the intelligence of Thomas's remnants being further targeted by the Intelligence Department.

Inside the secret safe house.

Taking off all the electronic products on their bodies, the two scanned their entire bodies again before entering the safe house.

The interior of the entire safe house is very monotonous, with white walls, a table and four chairs.

Apart from that, there is nothing else.

"Karina, what are your orders, sir?" Lewis asked first.

Karina said seriously: "Sir, I want you to reach an agreement with the Western Continent Alliance as soon as possible to come up with some appropriate technologies. We only need to obtain the first launch site in Kulu and invest in a new fourth launch site."

"I'm afraid this is a bit difficult." Lewis replied awkwardly.

It's not that he doesn't want to operate, but that it is indeed very difficult at the moment.

Currently, the Western Continent Alliance has a total of two space cities, namely the Guyana-Kourou Space City in South America and the Algerian Space City on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa (re-controlled and renovated).

Including the three old space cities owned by Lucia, the total is five space cities.

It seems that there are five. In fact, neither the Western Continent Alliance nor Lucia can support the upgrading and transformation of the five space cities at the same time. They can only choose two of them as key operations.

Xizhou Space Administration chose the North African Space City, which is closer but far away from the Noah's Society, as the key space city.

And Thomas took a fancy to the location of Kulu Space City and the fact that it was not taken seriously by Xizhou Space Administration, so he planned to focus on operating this space city.

"Lewis, don't worry, there are our people in Xizhou Space Agency. As long as you show some sincerity, they will agree." Karina explained.

Lewis' eyes flashed: "That's it, I understand."

Although the Western Continent Alliance and Lucia are now joining forces in the space field, it does not mean that the two parties really intend to join forces. They are just holding together for warmth.

Once given the opportunity, they will definitely not show mercy to stab someone in the back, so both sides are secretly wary of each other.

In terms of technology, although the remnants of Thomas suffered heavy losses in North America, Thomas had already backed up the space technology of Space Exploration Company, Blue Origin, and Virgin International.

Now there is no problem in giving some of it to the Xizhou Space Agency. As long as it is reshaped, these technologies will not expose Thomas's existence.

The two discussed for a while, and Karina ordered all the things that needed to be explained, and then the two ended the secret conversation.

the next day.

Karina took another flight to Paris.

But she didn't notice that there were a few extra tails among the passengers on the plane.

James and the two, who were still in Dublin, did not follow him. Instead, they continued to pretend to be tourists and wandered around Dublin.

Tracking Karina is not their mission.

Their target is the data stored within the Space Development Company. These data may contain the aerospace technology Thomas brought from North America.

Although the China Space Administration looks down on this information now, it can be used as a reference. After all, this is the accumulation of NASA in the past 60 years, and it still has some reference significance.

The main reason why the Intelligence Department knew this was that Universe Development Company had ordered a batch of glass dragon memories from Dragon Totem Company. The storage capacity of this batch of memories was very large.

Considering the characteristics of Lilong storage, unless it is confidential information, there is no need to order so many.

Moreover, the reader and recorder of the Lilong memory were designed by Long Totem Company. Who knows if there are any tricks in it?

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