86: The leak has thrown energy giants around the world into a panic!

When Xia Guo, this sleeping Eastern Lion, completely awoke for a shared "Sun Dream" and erupted with terrifying, world-destroying power, there was no wall in this world that could keep secrets.

Although the Dragon Shield Bureau had exhausted every means to seal off the news.

However, the terrifying, "genesis"-like scale of the "sun of the east sea" project inevitably leaked out.

Three million engineers!

One hundred thousand units of heavy machinery!

Carrying out twenty-four hours of non-stop moving mountains and filling seas on a deserted small island in the East Sea!

This kind of "Infrastructure Maniac" power, enough to make any nation tremble, simply could not be concealed!

All at once!

All the intelligence agencies worldwide moved frantically, like sharks smelling blood!

Countless spy satellites!

Countless high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft!

Countless deep-cover agents!

Converged frantically from all directions toward that mysterious Eastern island!

Trying to figure out what earth-shattering move the Xia Guo people were making!

However

All they saw was a massive construction site bustling with activity.

And the vast, overwhelming crowds that could instantly kill anyone with trypophobia,

They found nothing else!

The entire "Sun Island" was like an independent world shrouded by an invisible information black hole!

Any electromagnetic waves or network signals attempting to spy on it were instantly and completely swallowed up!

This, naturally, was the doing of Lu Chen's "good housekeeper"—heavenly craft.

But the more impenetrable it was,

The more it made those "old friends" on the outside feel

Deeply alarmed!

A heart-pounding, unprecedented emotion spread like a plague through the hearts of all the world's energy giants and oil tycoons! This emotion was like an invisible giant beast, opening its bloody maw and ruthlessly devouring their reason and composure.

Panic, this word constantly echoed in their minds like the whispers of a devil, accelerating their heartbeats and quickening their breaths. They stared wide-eyed at the data and reports in their hands, only to realize they knew nothing about the future situation and had completely lost control.

This panic wasn't just due to market fluctuations or threats from competitors; it was a fear of the unknown. They didn't know how this unprecedented situation would unfold, nor whether their wealth and status would vanish overnight.

In this moment full of uncertainty, the energy giants and oil tycoons felt like solitary boats drifting on a vast ocean, liable to be swallowed by turbulent waves at any moment. Their hearts were consumed by fear; they couldn't think, couldn't make decisions, and could only watch helplessly as the situation gradually worsened.

Although they didn't know what the Xia Guo people were building.

Their capitalist intuition, sharper than a dog's nose, was frantically sounding the most piercing death alarm!

Something big!

Was about to happen!

Something that could completely overturn their vast and dirty financial empire, built upon "oil"—

Something monumental!

Western Alliance, Wall Street.

This place was the sacred ground in the hearts of all capitalists worldwide!

And the wicked heart that controlled the global economic lifeline!

At this moment, in a luxurious office that overlooked the entire Manhattan night view.

The atmosphere, however, was so oppressive it felt like water could drip from it.

Several top oligarchs who controlled all the oil and energy lifelines of the Western Alliance!

Were sitting one by one on soft, leather sofas, puffing away with gloomy expressions.

“Well, speak up.”

Old Morgan, the current head of the Rockefeller Family who sat in the main seat, slowly spoke.

His voice was hoarse, yet filled with the authority accumulated over years.

“What exactly is going on with that damned 'Sun Island' belonging to the Xia Guo people?”

“We spent tens of billions of US dollars hiring the world's most elite intelligence dealers!”

“Did we really fail to get even a single useful piece of information?!”

The entire office fell into a deathly silence.

No one dared to answer his question.

Because they truly hadn't found anything!

“A bunch of useless trash!”

Old Morgan fiercely stubbed out the cigar in his hand on the expensive mahogany table!

Those cloudy old eyes flashed with cold, viper-like light!

“I don't care what method you use!”

“Within three days!”

“I must know what medicine the Xia Guo people are selling in their gourd!”

“Otherwise—”

“We can all wait together, embracing our damned oil,”

“And jump into the Hudson River!”

Just then!

“Ring-a-ling—”

A sudden, urgent phone ring broke the deathly silence!

It was Old Morgan's private phone!

Fewer than five people knew this number!

Every single one was a super big shot capable of making the entire Western Alliance tremble!

Old Morgan frowned and picked up the phone.

“Hello?”

A hoarse voice, one he was all too familiar with, came from the other end of the line.

It was Burns, the Director of the CIA!

“Mr. Morgan.”

Burns' voice was filled with unprecedented gravity!

“We just received the—”

“—highest top-secret intelligence from the mole we planted in the highest levels of Xia Guo, Zhong Kui 'Zhong Kui'!”

“What intelligence?!” Old Morgan's heart instantly leaped into his throat!

There was a long silence on the other end of the phone.

It was so long that Old Morgan thought the call had been disconnected.

Only then did Burns' voice, filled with endless bitterness and despair, slowly sound out.

“The Xia Guo people...”

“What they are building on that island is not some secret weapon base.”

“Nor is it an aircraft carrier battle group.”

“It is—”

He took a deep breath and spoke word by word in a voice that was almost a trance:

“A...”

“Controlled Nuclear Fusion Experimental Reactor!”

Boom!!!

This sentence was like an anti-matter bomb capable of destroying the entire Solar System!

It violently struck the souls of Old Morgan and all the oil oligarchs present!

They were completely petrified!

They dumbly held the wine glasses in their hands, their minds blank!

Con—

Con-trolled

Nuclear Fusion?!

That ultimate myth which, in their view, would take at least another century to realize?!

It was actually...

It was actually developed so quietly by the Xia Guo people, just like that,

And brought into existence?!

“Clang!”

A crisp shattering sound rang out!

The antique crystal wine glass worth millions of US dollars in Old Morgan's hand suddenly slipped!

And smashed onto the polished marble floor!

Turning into a floor covered with glittering

Fragments!

All the color instantly drained away from his old face, which was usually as calm as an ancient well!

Replaced by an unprecedented, bone-deep

Fear!

He was finished!

Their oil empire, which had ruled the world for centuries!

Starting today!

Would completely become history!

“No... impossible...”

He slumped onto the sofa, muttering distractedly to himself.

“This must be fake news!”

“It's a smokescreen released by the Xia Guo people!”

“That's right! It must be!”

Yet,

While he was still deceiving himself.

Burns' voice, filled with endless despair, sounded again from the other end of the phone.

Like the sharpest dagger!

Plunging fiercely into his already riddled heart!

“Mr. Morgan.”

“I regret to inform you.”

“This news...”

“Is likely true.”

“Because—”

“Just ten minutes ago.”

“Xia Guo's Ministry of Foreign Affairs officially announced to the entire world”

“That they will hold the first ignition ceremony for Phase One of the 'sun of the east sea' project in one month!”

“Ignition Ceremony!”