The world of shelter under the glacier

the next day.

May 5, year 1 of the Glacial Calendar.

Today is the day when Xingchen opens its manganese nodule trading market to the world.

Early on, many people gathered in front of the Xingchen Foreign Affairs Department. Not only small and medium-sized city-states and large sects and organizations from all over the world, but also important representatives from the thirteen most powerful superpowers in the world.

Currently, any major organization or powerful country with an emperor in charge can be regarded as a super power.

In this way, there are a total of thirteen emperors in the world, and accordingly thirteen superpowers were born.

However, those with peak kings or half-step kings at their command are considered large forces. They are only one step behind super powers and are collectively called first-rate forces.

Just down the road is a medium-sized city-state where the mid-to-high-end king sits, a second-rate force.

After that, there are small city-states where ordinary kings sit, and third-rate forces.

And those sanctuaries without the protection of the king are all inferior forces, and in the end they can only become objects of annexation.

At 9 a.m., the Ministry of Foreign Affairs held a press conference.

"Welcome to Xingchen, and welcome everyone to attend the first external press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Xingchen on May 5, 1st year of the Glacial Calendar."

After briefly greeting everyone, Foreign Minister Xu Wenbin went straight to the point:

"I have three things to inform you about this press conference."

"The first thing is that the Star Trading Market, which was originally scheduled to open today, has been suspended. The specific date is uncertain."

"What?"

"Suspension? What's going on?"

"Are you kidding us?"

"What the hell are you Xingchen doing??"

As soon as this news was announced, it could be said that one stone stirred up a thousand waves. Everyone was in an uproar and stood up to ask why.

Suddenly there was a lot of noise and it was impossible to hear what everyone was saying.

But Xu Wenbin knew what everyone wanted to ask without having to listen. He calmly patted the microphone on the podium and said in a deep voice:

"Everyone, please be quiet!"

"If you have any questions, I will answer them later."

"Now, I have two major news to inform you."

"Please be quiet!!"

"Please obey the order of the venue!!"

After being comforted, everyone slowly became quiet.

certainly.

It's also because everyone is curious.

The first piece of news is so exciting, but what about the other two?

What could it be? ?

Will it still be so exciting? ?

For a moment, everyone was curious, confused and...a little expectant.

"The second thing is that at 0:15 in the morning on the 5th today, our Xingchen 2 Pacific Mining Site was suddenly attacked by unknown persons. The only two Pioneers in our base have been stolen by criminals..."

“Please look at the big screen!!”

Everyone looked at the light curtain blankly.

At this moment, what was swirling in their heads were Xu Wenbin's words just now.

The stars were robbed?

The Pioneer seabed mining vehicle was robbed?

Who did it? ?

After counting the interest.

Everyone was sure that Xingchen had been robbed. In just 2 seconds, Xingchen's only two Pioneers were all taken away by two men in black.

"Such a bad act, we, the stars, condemn it!!"

"Our city lord is very angry about this."

Xu Wenbin said angrily on the podium:

"so."

"Before the identity of the murderer is confirmed, our Xingchen will not open the market to the outside world, so as not to be taken advantage of by this hateful villain."

"But Minister Xu, our country needs mines~~"

"Yes, we are waiting for the ore to cast the city wall."

"You bastard, who did this? Stand up and I will chop you to death!!"

Many people couldn't help but wailed.

"Everyone, please be quiet. In response to such bad behavior, I want to announce the third thing."

At this moment, Xu Wenbin said loudly:

"In response to last night's robbery, our stars hereby issue a reward - to anyone who can uncover these two men in black and provide the identity of the mastermind behind the scenes, our stars hereby offer a reward of 100,000 tons of manganese metal."

"For those who can kill these two men in black, we will reward each of them with 1 million tons of manganese metal."

"If we can kill the people or forces behind this organization, we will reward 10 million tons of manganese metal or rare metals of equal value at one time."

"what the hell!!"

"What kind of deal is this? Hurry up and check the news."

"My darling, if we kill the organizer behind the scenes, we will be in trouble!!"

"The stars are pouring money, who is going to be unlucky?"

"..."

The moment the reward order was announced, the entire venue was in a state of excitement, as they were all stunned by the news one after another.

Not only was he surprised that someone finally couldn't help but attack Xingchen, but he was even more surprised by Xingchen's generosity.

This is hundreds of millions of tons of manganese metal, which is enough for the superpowers to mine for several years, but it has been rewarded like this.

“What a generous move!!”

While shocked, this news was also immediately sent back to their respective countries or city-states by representatives from major forces around the world.

Suddenly, the whole world went crazy, looking for the robbers frantically.

Among them, some inevitably think more.

That’s 10 million tons of manganese metal! !

5 trillion dragon coins! !

Under the temptation of huge interests, all forces with some strength are being targeted by all kinds of agents.

Inside Villa No. 1.

"Brother Feng, is there too much reward?"

While reading the news, Li Wanrou asked curiously:

"And don't we already know the person behind the scenes? Why are we still offering a reward??"

Calculated based on the current external price of L_guo 10 dragon coins for a 150-gram cream, 100,000 tons of manganese metal would be 2.5 billion creams, enough for 1 million people for nearly seven years.

Too much.

It was so much that Li Wanrou's flesh ached.

"hehe."

"How can they have the motivation if they don't throw in a little more meat and bones?"

Chu Feng smiled and said:

"and."

"The Kingdom of the Sun and the Kingdom of Brahma did this very neatly, and it is not so easy to find out."

"A little more, it should be."

That's right.

As soon as he got up in the morning, Chu Feng received a report from Tiangong, confirming that the robber this time was the Kingdom of the Sun and the Kingdom of Born, one of the three kingdoms that emerged from the corpse of Asan Kingdom.

"Brother Feng, why don't you announce it directly? Wouldn't it be better to directly expose their ugly face?" Li Wanrou looked confused.

"No no no!"

Chu Feng shook his head.

"Placing bounties, arresting people, destroying the country, etc., these are not my real goals."

"I wish I were the hot spot."

"A hotspot that can divert the world's attention to other places."

"A hot spot that dilutes our stars."

At present, the popularity of stars is too high, and they are under the eyes of the public all the time. This is not enough.

Take the current large-scale mining plan as an example.

Every secret transfer of a Pioneer mining vehicle is a major test for Xingchen, and this test will last for a full month.

No matter how careful he was, Chu Feng had no guarantee that no one would find out any clues.

so.

He needs a hot tip.

The current ‘car theft incident’ is a good hot spot.

He will not let this hot spot cool down easily. Instead, he will hype it up vigorously to attract the attention of the world, thereby alleviating the pressure on the logistics department to secretly transport the pioneers.