160: Western Alliance requests to share a lunar base? Dream on!

They were completely petrified!

"Helium-3?! And it's a terrifying reserve sufficient to support humanity for ten thousand years?!"

"What the hell kind of god-tier concept is this?!"

They knew that Helium-3 was the most perfect and cleanest fuel for Controllable Nuclear Fusion!

They knew even better that the Helium-3 reserves on Earth were pitifully small, even more precious than diamonds!

And now, this ultimate energy problem that had plagued the entire human civilization for over a hundred years had been so casually solved by that little guy, Lu Chen, in the most unreasonable way possible?!

"Hahahaha!"

The leader in charge of the energy sector could no longer hold it in!

Like a madman, he suddenly jumped up from the ground and erupted into a hearty, arrogant laugh!

He pointed at the grayish-white, sacred land beneath his feet, filled with endless treasures, and then pointed at the beautiful, azure home planet above his head, roaring hoarsely: "Did you see that?! Did you see that?!"

"From today on! Our Xia Kingdom will completely break free from the shackles of energy!"

"We will become the world's only energy hegemon!"

"What bullshit oil! What damn Middle Eastern tycoons! You can all get the hell out of here!"

His roar, filled with a sense of triumph, instantly ignited everyone present!

"That's right! Get out!"

"We have the sun! And the moon! Who else do we need?!"

"Hahahaha! Satisfying! This is so damn satisfying!"

For a moment, the entire far side of the moon echoed with the laughter of these national pillars, who usually kept their emotions hidden, laughter filled with ecstasy and pride!

As for Lu Chen, he simply watched this "historic" scene before him calmly, without the slightest ripple on his face. It was as if all of this was within his expectations.

Meanwhile, when that "Lunar Resource Exploration Report," capable of driving every country in the world mad, appeared on the global internet through Xia Kingdom's official media in an earth-shattering manner, the whole world fell silent.

All the Western media and politicians who had previously been frantically mocking the Xia people for "daydreaming" were now being slapped hard across the face by an invisible hand! Their mouths were wide enough to swallow the Earth, and their jaws dropped to the floor!

They knew. From this moment on! That Guanghan Celestial Palace, which only existed in myths and legends, had truly been built by that group of Eastern madmen whom they had regarded as "primitives"!

In sharp contrast were the billions of ordinary mortals around the world! When they witnessed, with their own eyes through television, the internet, and mobile phones, that Guanghan Celestial Palace rising from the moon, filled with hope and dreams, the entire planet exploded!

"Holy crap! What am I seeing?! A lunar city?! Is this real?!"

"Oh God! This is simply a miracle! Can we humans really live on the moon now?!"

"Too awesome! Absolutely awesome! [Pangu Technology] is awesome! God Lu is awesome! (Voice cracking)"

For a time, the entire world's internet was a scene of jubilation! All the ordinary people who had previously felt numb and desperate due to their dull, realistic lives were now like a group of adrenaline-fueled madmen! Everyone felt triumphant and shared in the pride!

They knew! From today on! Their human civilization would completely break free from the shackles of Earth, this tiny "cradle," and go forth to embrace the vast and expansive starry sea!

And at this moment, in the White House of the Western Alliance, the atmosphere was so oppressive it could drip water.

Burns and a crowd of Western Alliance leaders were all like walking corpses drained of all their souls, slumped in their chairs! Their faces were deathly pale, and their eyes were filled with endless despair!

It's over! It's all over!

Their last hope! Their laughable "aerospace hegemony"! In front of this miracle-like Guanghan Celestial Palace, it was incredibly fragile! It wasn't even worthy of carrying their shoes!

"Sir."

Just then, a blonde, blue-eyed intelligence officer rushed in, stumbling with a look of deathly despair on his face!

"It's... it's bad!"

"The Xia people... the Xia people have released... another new report!"

"What report?!"

"It's... it's about lunar resources!"

Boom!!!

This sentence was like a black lightning bolt capable of splitting the entire White House open! It struck all the Western Alliance leaders present right on the crown of their heads! They were completely petrified!

"Helium... Helium-3?!"

"Ten... ten thousand years?!"

When he saw that terrifying number capable of driving any country mad, Burns felt a sweetness in his throat! A mouthful of hot blood almost sprayed out on the spot!

He knew they were finished. Their oil empire, which had ruled the world for over a hundred years, would become history in the face of the Xia people's near-infinite clean energy!

"No!"

"We haven't lost yet!"

A hot-tempered Five-Star General slammed the table and roared hysterically: "We must find a way to join them!"

"That's right! We also want to go to the moon! We also want a piece of the pie!"

"I suggest we immediately submit an emergency application for 'Space Cooperation' to the Xia Kingdom in the name of the Western Alliance! I don't believe that in the face of the shared future of all humanity, they, the Xia people, would dare to hog it all for themselves?!"

His shameless declaration, filled with "moral kidnapping," instantly stirred the last bit of fighting spirit in all the gamblers present who were about to lose everything!

"Yes! Cooperation! We must cooperate!"

"The moon belongs to all of humanity!"

That afternoon, when that emergency application for "Space Cooperation," filled with the scent of "peace" and "development," was submitted to the highest levels of the Xia Kingdom through the fastest and most official diplomatic channels, Lu Chen, who was "inspecting work" on the moon, smiled.

He looked at the ugly, "righteous" faces of Burns and the others, broadcast in real-time by heavenly craft on the light screen, and a cold, mocking smile appeared on his face.

"Cooperation?"

"Do you deserve it?"

He picked up the internal communication phone and dialed the number.

"Hmm?"

"Tell them."

The corners of his mouth curled into a demonic smile, "Want to come to the moon? You can."

"First, sign our accession agreement for the [Xia Kingdom Technical Standard System]."

"And," he paused, speaking clearly and word by word: "The tickets for our 'Jianmu' space elevator seem to have gone up in price again."

"Let them get in line and buy tickets."