At the Upper Bay Harbour, a cruise ship set sail from Manhattan Island.

The dazzling neon lights on the ship, with the lights of the entire New York City and New Jersey as the background, slowly heading towards the estuary.

Not far away, the torch held high in the statue of Liberty's hand has re-ignited a copper-yellow flame, flashing a faint light in the night. This flame was presented to the Trump administration by the New Kingdom, and symbolized the long-lasting and hard-won peace between the two countries, because it is mixed with special fluorescent materials, which can be seen vaguely even in the middle of the night.

As one of the 15 most luxurious cruise ships in the world, the Diamond Princess is the largest and most complete world-class luxury cruise ship in the world-famous cruise brand "Princess" series fleet, which is the largest and most complete in facilities. It is like a five-star hotel floating on the sea. The cruise ship has a total of 1,337 cabins, of which 748 cabins have private open-air balcony. Visitors can enjoy the beautiful sea view without leaving the room and directly on the railing.

At this moment, on the deck of the cruise ship, guests wearing formal clothes or evening gowns were holding champagne in their hands, gathering in groups of three or five into large and small circles, chatting with each other. The luxury of the banquet seemed to be higher than the banquet held by the Boston Consortium, but in terms of the style of the participants, it was much inferior.

"That is the chairman of Princeton Group, the top 500 companies in the world, with a market value of over 100 billion US dollars. The one over there is Jellenick, the major shareholder and CEO of Costco Group, and is also a shareholder of many Internet startups..." Noting that Jiang Chen yawned, Leslie pursed her lips and smiled, "Of course, they cannot be compared with you."

"Don't say it's a comparison with me, it's a problem to compete with your father." Jiang Chen smiled faintly.

He did not use his real name. Jiang Chen got on board as Leslie's male companion and wore sunglasses that almost blocked his face. Because Garcia's surname is heavy enough, the security guard in charge of cruise ship security did not check his identity, and he has not attracted anyone's attention until now.

"Not exactly," Leslie pursed her bright red lips and smiled. "Five billion is the threshold for participation, but there are also rich people worth hundreds of billions. This kind of banquet is not a serious matter. You can notice that people's demand for business partners here is relatively low, mainly for..."

"For?" Jiang Chen raised his eyebrows.

"To relax," Leslie smiled slightly, lifting her chin to the man who was hugging left and right not far away, "in other words, solve the physiological needs."

Jiang Chen laughed and didn't answer.

However, the meaning in his eyes was very clear. If this was the case, the banquet would not be enough to attract him.

"If you're not interested in these appetizers, there's an auction later, and I bet there's something you like on it."

"For example?" Jiang Chen asked with a smile.

"Artworks, cultural relics, luxury home land deeds, company shares, and even people..."

"People?" Jiang Chen raised his eyebrows.

"This is the secret of the upper class... Generally, such auctions will be set up for banquets with a capital threshold of more than 5 billion US dollars. Of course, if you dislike it..."

"Just curious." Jiang Chen smiled faintly, "By the way, I have always wanted to ask, what are they celebrating?"

"Sandax Group won the bid for the Bering Strait Expressway project, which is a major project with a investment of hundreds of billions of dollars, and it is indeed worth celebrating." Leslie smiled pursed.

More than a century ago, a French engineer first proposed the bold idea of ​​building an undersea tunnel under the Bering Strait. However, the plan was difficult to implement, let alone the tense diplomatic relations between Russia and the United States.

Of course, this project is not a difficult task today. The breakthrough of graphene materials and nanoceramics technology has made this century-old project have the basis for realization. Since the newly-employed Trump administration has joined the Earth Defense Alliance, it has also actively repaired diplomatic relations with other member states. Eighty percent of the world's political crises seem to be lifted with the decline of US hegemony.

Therefore, the grand plan to connect the Eurasian continent and the American continent was put on the agenda. This undersea tunnel, which is 103 kilometers long and crosses the Bering Strait, hit it off after the latest diplomatic meeting between the United States and Russia, and after returning to China, the heads of state hit it off and jointly issued an announcement to jointly build this "Century Project".

More than 500 companies will participate in the bidding for this project, and in the end more than 50 companies will win the bid to participate in the project.

Speaking of which, Jiang Chen also had some impression of this incident. Xia Shiyu mentioned to him a few days ago that in the future, Renmin Heavy Industry will provide steel, corrosion-resistant cement and graphene building materials for this undersea tunnel. In the latest meeting with Trump, he also heard that person mention this matter.

As for the money issue, it’s easy to say. Not long ago, Renminbi increased its holdings of US Treasury bonds by US$600 billion, and the US Supreme Court’s ruling on Morgan and Rockefeller Group also obtained trillions of assets for the Trump authorities.

This ill-fated president was a blessing in disguise. It is no exaggeration to say that the position he took over now is definitely the most financially prosperous term in American history.

No president has ever been able to build such a big project without worrying about his budget.

Jiang Chen chatted with Leslie all the time, while tasting the red wine in the goblet. Suddenly, he seemed to see a familiar figure in the crowd, but just when he was about to look carefully, he was nowhere to be found.

He frowned slightly, and at this moment, a disharmonious voice came from beside him.

"Leslie, is this your boyfriend? Indian? Or Mexican? Oh, my god, don't tell me that I'm Asian." The woman said in an exaggerated voice, with a faint sneer on her lips.

Jiang Chen tilted his head slightly and looked to the side.

I saw a woman wearing a silver-white long dress holding a male guest's arm and walking towards him and Leslie. The corners of the skirt were dotted with silver light, like diamonds, which looked very expensive. The male guest looked familiar, but Jiang Chen didn't remember who it was for a while... But the problem was not here.

He understood something in an instant, and Jiang Chen glanced at Leslie meaningfully.

The latter glanced at him with some guilt and explained in a low voice.

"Elsa Griffin, the youngest daughter of the Griffin family, his father is the chairman of the United Bank..."

"If I guess correctly, you had a holiday with her, am I right?" Jiang Chen said with a smile.

"Sorry, I... I really don't know that she will appear here too. His father and my father have had holidays in business. It's true that our relationship is bad..." Leslie looked at Jiang Chen carefully and said nervously, "I, I just..."

Leslie wanted to explain something, but Elsa had already walked over here.

Judging from her staring straight at Leslie, the flashing meaning in her eyes was obvious...

She obviously did not come here with a friendly purpose-

ps: Reply to questions about Iopa.

The book is not Titan, it is Io.

Actually, what I wrote before should be clear. This is a planet with extremely low atmosphere density, and the gravity acceleration and surface temperature mentioned are both the parameters of the Europa (if you are interested, you can look back and see). The atmosphere density of Titan is 1.5 times that of the earth, which is obvious from this point of view.

Regarding the surface of Iobi, the atmosphere and rock mass contain carbon but not oxygen, these can actually be found on Baidu. As for why Iobi, one reason will be mentioned later, and another reason is that the astronomical community currently has very little information about this planet. The only image taken by "Cassini" is extremely clear and does not show any details of the surface of Iobi. This means that I can freely play, after all, I write science fiction, not science readings~
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