Chapter 1046: Trade in the United Unified District

"I thought you had given up all intelligence work."

"Kutpov is in charge of this mission. I am only responsible for helping him contact Starring Trading. The coordinates of Arrow Company have been exposed. If nothing happens, he will fly to Finland tomorrow."

"Ha, that old man, I know, he's quite an interesting guy."

"Interesting? I can't see anything interesting about that face with as many scars as wrinkles..."

In a villa on the outskirts of Moscow, an old man and a young woman sat opposite each other at the dining table, enjoying a dinner that did not have a strong family atmosphere. But Nikolaev is already very satisfied. Since Marina's death, his family has begun to fall apart. The cold war between his daughter and her father has continued until now. The last time they had dinner together like this seems to have been a long time. It's a distant thing.

Both parties know it's not each other's fault, but they can't forgive each other. No matter what she did, Marina was Natasha's mother, and she died in Georgia on her own orders. He didn't expect Natasha to forgive him, even if he believed she could understand him...

Nikolaev took a deep look at his daughter. Natasha stopped holding the fork in her hand, frowned and touched her cheek.

"Is there something on my face?"

"There are a lot of things, a lot of things that look like Marina... I'm sorry, I shouldn't have mentioned that name."

"It's okay, I know her death is more painful for you than me." Natasha said seemingly indifferently.

Nikolaev smiled bitterly, pinched his eyebrows, and after hesitating for a long time, he finally said the words he had been preparing for a long time.

"Look, I heard he had a lot of women."

"Aren't you the same?" Natasha sneered.

"This... is still a little different..." When his daughter exposed his private life, Nikolaev touched his nose in embarrassment and said in a somewhat awkward tone, "I just hope that you can take care of me when I go outside. Be good to yourself——"

"I will."

Nikolaev opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't say anything. He had to spread his hands and said, "... I hope so."

Her life is her own, and he has no right to interfere too much, even if he is her father, but she is already an adult. But if possible, he wanted to meet Jiang Chen again. When they met this time, he swore that he would grab him by the collar.

Give that nasty lucky boy a good beating.

Looking at her father's expression, Natasha knew what he was thinking and couldn't help but sigh.

After a moment of silence, she slowly spoke.

"After a while, I will go live there."

"Oh." Nikolayev replied in a nasal voice as if he didn't care.

"Although I don't intend to forgive you, but...I still remember the things you did for me."

After a pause, Natasha stared at the steak on the plate and said in a pretended relaxed tone.

"Always, thank you."

However, it could be heard from her slightly trembling voice that she was not at peace when she said this.

"Thanks……"

The old man smiled foolishly and touched his stubble-covered chin.

He had previously made up his mind to beat that kid, but suddenly changed his mind.

Drinking two bottles of vodka together seems to be a good choice.

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"Ah sneeze!"

His nose felt a little itchy, and Jiang Chen couldn't help but sneeze.

He didn't know who was thinking about him, but this was already his second sneeze in five minutes. If it weren't for the fact that he knew very well that his body was immune to most colds, he would have doubted whether he had caught a cold.

Sitting opposite Jiang Chen and drinking tea, Chu Nan laughed heartlessly and joked.

"Did you catch a cold last night?"

"It's just that my nose is a little itchy... Where did you talk about just now?" Jiang Chen rubbed his nose and continued.

Chu Nan sighed, "I'm talking about the Northern United Controlled District, are you really listening?"

"Yes, yes, go on." Jiang Chen waved his hand, indicating for him to continue.

For the NAC, which has rekindled the fire of civilization, the Northern United Region is like a nomad. They moved south due to climate problems and set their sights on the relatively affluent Wanghai City area, hoping to seize this "prosperous" land from the NAC by relying on the equipment they inherited from the Pan-Asian Cooperation.

Especially those three Gardens of Eden. It can be said that half of the reason why they chose Wanghai City as the direction of their march was because of it.

But it is obvious that the NAC is not a vegetarian. Last winter's offensive finally ended in a disastrous defeat in the United Unified District. The Prowler tanks they were proud of were vulnerable to particle cannons that surpassed the pre-war technological level.

With this thing as a trump card, even if the people in the joint control area want to fight, they have little chance. However, the same thing is that they can't defeat them, and it's also difficult for Jiang Chen to defeat them.

It was not that Jiang Chen, Han Junhua, and other NAC senior officials had not discussed the issue of the expedition to the joint unified area before, and it was not impossible to implement it, but a very practical problem was placed in front of them, and that was the issue of revenue.

Regardless of winning or losing, even if NAC can win this war against thousands of kilometers of supply lines, passing through the wasteland where countless alien species, zombies, and predators are entrenched, there will be no substantial benefit to NAC.

The "gap between rich and poor" between the two sides was too big. Apart from weapons, those in the United Unified District had nothing worthy of Jiang Chen's covetousness. The only thing that interested him was the Jiuquan Launch Center behind the Liantong District, but he was only interested. After all, according to the Gravekeeper Sect, there is nothing left to loot there.

Since war is the worst option for both sides, there is only one right option left.

"You mean, they plan to trade with me?" Jiang Chen chuckled, took a sip of the tea made by Tieguanyin, "We have a lot of good things here, but what will they give in exchange?"

Chu Nan didn't say anything, but also smiled. He took out a graphene card from his pocket, held it between his fingers and shook it, then placed it on the coffee table between the two of them, and gently pushed it in front of Jiang Chen. .

Jiang Chen picked up the graphene card and rubbed it on the switch. A holographic screen with a list of goods appeared in front of him.

"Exotic fur, steel-toothed tiger fangs, blood vines, sub-crystals... There are some things on these that I can't understand," Jiang Chen frowned.

"Except for crystals and blood vines for industrial purposes, the others are all luxury goods. They are only found in the inland toward the northwest. They can be processed into coats, accessories, or other things. These luxury goods are in the Block 6 and other relatively wealthy survivor settlements in the south and overseas are easier to sell. How about it? Are you interested?" Chu Nan said.

Jiang Chen almost laughed out loud when he heard the word luxury goods.

Sure enough, it is human nature to pursue quality of life. Once you have enough food and clothing, you start to think about other things. However, this is also the ultimate path for the development of civilization. A civilization without luxury goods cannot truly prosper.

"What do you think about this?" Jiang Chen threw the card back on the table. Jiang Chen did not answer Chu Nan's question directly, but instead asked for his opinion.

"If trade can feed their mouths, it will at least allow them to control their hands. I think this matter is on the way. But we still have to think about what can and cannot be sold." Chu Nan looked shrewd. said. (To be continued.) Activate new URL