100: A new era of energy! People all over the world are lining up to buy electricity!

When the news that the “sun of the east sea” had successfully ignited and connected to the grid swept across the globe overnight like a Category 12 super hurricane.

The entire world fell silent.

All the politicians from the Western Alliance who had previously been frantically clamoring about the “Xia Nation Threat Theory”!

All the energy oligarchs who had previously been gloating and waiting to see the people of Xia Nation suffocated by the “Oil Embargo”!

All the Western media outlets that had previously been overwhelmingly mocking the people of Xia Nation for being “wildly imaginative”!

At this moment, they all felt as if an invisible giant hand had fiercely gripped their throats!

Their faces were ghostly pale, and their bodies were ice cold!

Staring at the “Artificial Sun” above the East Sea, which was being globally broadcast by the official media of Xia Nation, shining with divine brilliance!

Their minds were blank! It was real!

It was actually, damn it, real!

The people of Xia Nation actually used their damned diligence and wisdom!

In just a few short months!

They silently achieved that ultimate dream that had plagued human civilization for over a hundred years!

They actually, damn it, achieved it?!

How the hell are we supposed to compete now?!

For a time!

The entire Western world was plunged into a doomsday-like silence and

despair!

Forming a stark contrast to this.

Were the Third World countries, which had long suffered from energy shortages and the oppression of the Western Alliance's “Oil Hegemony.”

When they saw this news, which felt like a “Divine Oracle.”

They were all like travelers who had trekked through endless darkness for centuries and suddenly saw the dawn of hope!

One by one, they were all crying tears of joy!

A frenzy erupted!

“Oh God! What did I just witness?!”

“The people of Xia Nation actually created a sun?!”

“This is wonderful! Absolutely wonderful! We no longer have to endure the attitudes of those damned Western vampires!”

“Exactly! Starting today! We're going to use all our foreign exchange reserves to buy electricity from Xia Nation!”

And so, a comical scene, filled with magical realism and worthy of inclusion in the annals of human history!

Played out before everyone in the world.

On one side, dozens of supertankers from the Western Alliance, laden with dirty and expensive crude oil, drifted helplessly on the vast ocean, ignored by everyone, like a group of pitiful orphans abandoned by the times.

Meanwhile, on the other side.

At the headquarters building of Pangu Technology in Jinghai City, Xia Nation.

Energy ministers and royal nobles from over a hundred countries around the world were lined up like the most devout believers, enduring the scorching sun in a long, endless

queue!

There was not a hint of impatience on their faces!

Only a look filled with desire and a pilgrimage-like

fervor!

They were all holding high Blank Checks that could drive any ordinary person

mad!

Their goal was singular!

Which was—

To buy electricity!

To buy that clean, efficient, and incredibly cheap, almost free, Divine Energy from the Divine Nation of the East!

Divine Energy!

And, at this moment.

Pangu Technology, CEO's office on the top floor.

Wang Peng wore an expression of “happy trouble” as he looked out the window at the terrifyingly long queue that wrapped around the entire building three times.

His honest, chubby face was filled with an unreal feeling, as if he were dreaming.

“Holy crap! Chen Zi!”

He turned around, looking at the young man leisurely lying on the sofa drinking tea, his voice trembling!

“You have no idea how crazy it is outside right now!”

“That rich scumbag, the Saudi Prince from the Middle East, offered one trillion US dollars outright! Just to buy the exclusive power supply rights for the ‘sun of the east sea’ for the next ten years!”

“And the Prime Minister of Sakura Island Nation, who has always been at odds with us, almost knelt down before me! He was crying and begging me to sell them a little ‘life-saving electricity’!”

“This, this is just too damn awesome?!”

His face was flushed with excitement!

He felt like a god who held the power of life and death over every nation in the world!

God!

“Standard procedure. Calm down.”

Lu Chen put down his teacup and calmly waved his hand.

As if that one trillion US dollars was nothing more than a meaningless string of

numbers to him.

“Tell them.”

He looked at Wang Peng's smug face, which clearly read “praise me,” and said lightly:

“Pangu Technology does not sell electricity.”

“Huh?!” Wang Peng was stunned. “Don't sell?! Why not sell it?! This is cold, hard cash!”

“I said we won't sell it, to ‘them’.”

The corner of Lu Chen's mouth curved into a meaningful smile.

“But,”

“We can ‘lease’ it.”

“Lease?” Wang Peng was even more confused.

“That's right.”

Lu Chen nodded.

He extended a finger and tapped lightly in the air.

The next second!

A brand new Global Energy Lease Agreement, drafted long ago by heavenly craft, filled with overbearing terms and overt schemes,

was clearly displayed before Wang Peng!

The content of the agreement was very simple.

And very brutal!

[Any country or organization wishing to use Pangu Technology's 'god of fire' series of controllable nuclear fusion energy.]

[Must use one of their nation's most important 'Core Assets' as]

[Collateral!]

“Core Assets?!” Wang Peng gasped as he looked at the Tyrannical Clauses, which reeked of naked plunder!

“That's right.”

Lu Chen smiled.

It was a kingly smile, full of absolute confidence and absolute control.

“For example,”

“The oil of the Middle East.”

“The natural gas of Bear Nation.”

“The iron ore of Australia.”

“The diamonds of Africa.”

“Or even,”

His gaze turned toward the distant Western sky outside the window.

A cold, cruel arc formed at the corner of his mouth!

“All of the Western Alliance's facilities, scattered across the globe,”

“Military Bases!”

Boom!!!

Wang Peng was completely petrified!

He stared blankly at Lu Chen's delicate face, which was as calm as still water!

He felt a chilling coldness, enough to freeze the soul, rush from the soles of his feet straight to the crown of his head!

Crazy!

His good brother was, damn it, completely insane!

He wasn't satisfied with being the world's richest man anymore!

He wanted to become the Planetary Governor of Earth!

“Chen Zi…”

He looked at Lu Chen, his lips trembling, unable to utter a complete sentence!

“How is what you're doing any different from those Western Alliance vampires?

Different?”

Lu Chen smiled.

He slowly stood up and walked over to the immense floor-to-ceiling window.

He looked out at the prosperous yet unfamiliar concrete jungle outside the window.

In his pitch-black eyes, vast as the cosmos, flickered a profound light that Wang Peng couldn't comprehend.

His voice was soft, yet it sounded like a Divine Oracle that split the heavens and earth!

Clearly echoing in Wang Peng's ears!

“Of course there's a difference.”

“They seek plunder. I seek unification.”