Chapter 1,234 Do You Need Reinforcements?

"Have you read this morning's newspaper?"

Xia Shiyu, who had already put on professional attire as she walked over with a dinner plate, smiled at Jiang Chen, sat down next to him, and placed several newspapers on the dining table. "W. ⒉３Ｔ

Jiang Chen glanced at the cover of the newspaper and smiled. He knew that face all too well.

After all, he can see it every day when he looks in the mirror.

"Am I in the headlines again?"

Putting down the spoon in his hand, Jiang Chen lazily stretched out his hand and picked up a newspaper.

His eyes glanced at the title twice, and he was caught off guard and almost spit out the oats in his mouth.

At this moment, a ball of soft jade rabbit hit the back of Jiang Chen's head, and the pleasant smell swept across the tip of his nose along the golden hair.

Hugging Jiang Chen's neck from behind, Natasha put her face close to the newspaper and read out the contents of the newspaper for him with great interest.

"'...The Halo Trade Warship is dispatched urgently, targeting Mars!'...Eh? Are you going to make a movie?"

"..."

"Go away, didn't you see that Jiang Chen was troubled?" Ayesha walked out of the kitchen, looked at Natasha who had been clinging to Jiang Chen's back early in the morning and sighed, rubbing her hands with one hand. With slightly darker eye sockets, the other hand placed the dinner plate with salad and bread slices on the table.

Obviously, she didn't get a good rest last night.

As for what I'm doing, hehe... I don't need to elaborate on this.

Perhaps because she was often suppressed when competing in martial arts, Natasha still listened to Ayesha's words. She pursed her lips and reluctantly let go of Jiang Chen's neck. She walked to the side with the newspaper and sat down, drinking coffee while continuing to read.

"Alien vs. Predator? Or is it the prelude to Star Wars? The Mars scientific research team encountered a giant alien attack while detecting water resources, severely injuring a Halo Marine... This article is from the New York Times, and the next article is from the United Kingdom Reuters’.”

"The Reuters reporter's application to follow the Halo Trade Marines to Mars was rejected. The situation on Mars may be more serious than imagined, and the Tiangong City plan may go bankrupt? It is recommended that British investors carefully consider the Mars investment environment... Tsk tsk, you are not in trouble. Small."

Put down the newspaper,

Natasha glanced at Jiang Chen teasingly.

"It's just so so," Jiang Chen said while stuffing bread into his mouth. "Reporters' usual trick is to use exaggeration to exaggerate things, and then use 'follow-up reports' to restore the events after gaining enough people's attention. the truth.”

Tiangong plan goes bankrupt?

What an international joke.

The next batch of supplies and equipment needed for colony expansion almost went together with a thousand dormant pods loaded with Marine Corps soldiers. In addition, one hundred rounds of ground-penetrating cloud explosive bombs used to attack devil insect nests were also taken away.

After two generations of upgrades to the engines of the Seagull-class transport ship, the newly manufactured Seagull-class is now capable of traveling between Mars synchronous orbit and Halo City. The journey to Mars is no longer a one-way ticket with one's head on the ground - this This was also the reason why Jiang Chen dared to send a thousand marines to the Mars colony for reinforcements.

The one thousand marines sent to Mars were, on the one hand, to suppress the devil bugs, and on the other hand, to protect the normal progress of the excavation project of the ruins of Gaia civilization.

"I'm full." Natasha put the coffee cup back on the plate, stood up with the plate in hand, and looked at Jiang Chen who was still chewing slowly, "I'm going to the Russian Embassy in a while. Is there anything you want me to say for you?"

"No, the call is probably coming soon anyway."

Almost as soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Chen's watch started beeping.

Jiang Chen was stunned for a moment, raised his head and exchanged surprised glances with Natasha.

Such a coincidence?

…

The call was indeed from an ally of the Earth Defense Alliance, but it was not from Moscow, but from Beijing.

"...I read this morning's newspaper."

"I watched it too, what's the matter?" Jiang Chen said nonchalantly.

"Nothing." Wu Changfeng laughed dryly, paused for a moment, and continued, "I heard that there is a problem with your No. 071 mine?"

"That's right, our people were drilling for underground water there, but they didn't expect that a bug came out." Jiang Chen sighed and said in a heavy tone, "We have sent reinforcements to the Mars colony, two weeks at the latest. It would take a thousand Marines to reach Mars geostationary orbit.”

Two weeks!

Wu Changfeng's eyebrows jumped sharply.

If I remember correctly, this number was still more than a month half a year ago! And at that time, Mars was much closer to the Earth than it is now.

The speed of Star Ring Trade's progress in aerospace technology is so fast that people doubt their lives.

Seeing that there was no sound on the other end of the phone for a while, Jiang Chen asked.

"What's the matter?"

After controlling the shock in his heart, Wu Changfeng coughed lightly and spoke.

"It's nothing. I'm just asking on behalf of China, do you need reinforcements? After all, when we signed the Earth Defense Alliance Treaty, we swore to be unanimous in dealing with threats from extraterrestrial civilizations. If you need it, China will We are willing to send infantry to assist your Marines in combat."

Hearing Wu Changfeng's suggestion, Jiang Chen smiled and politely declined, "No, we can solve this small problem ourselves. And whether the devil bug can be called an extraterrestrial civilization is still open to question. After all, in our opinion They’re just a bunch of more dangerous beasts.”

"That……"

"I know what you are worried about," Jiang Chen interrupted Wu Changfeng and said in a determined tone, "Don't worry, the specimens of the devil bug will be returned to Star Ring City by the end of this month at the latest. We will arrange a meeting at that time The Biotechnology Summit will fully disclose the research progress on Mars species to the international community."

Having said this, Jiang Chen smiled slightly and said the words Wu Changfeng had been waiting for.

"At that time, we welcome your scientists to attend the summit in Halo City and jointly participate in the research on Martian species!"

Wu Changfeng was overjoyed and said with a smile.

"Thank you very much, Mr. Jiang!"

In fact, his seemingly informal phone call was ordered by his superiors after a meeting and discussion overnight.

After all, he is just a major general in the army. It is really not his turn to say where to send troops.

The reason why he enthusiastically offered to send reinforcements to the Star Circle Trade at the beginning was not really to send soldiers to battlefields tens of millions of kilometers away, but to vaguely remind Jiang Chen that when the Earth Defense Alliance was first established, Covenant made——

All information related to extraterrestrial civilizations should be shared without reservation among major member states. This is also one of the reasons why China and Russia are willing to make certain concessions to their own interests in international affairs and firmly stand on the same front as the new country.

What Wu Changfeng is most worried about is that the Star Ring Trade is careless about the issue of extraterrestrial civilization. After all, Starlink Trading seems to be the only company in the world that has the power to send people to Mars. The entire route is monopolized, and even if they are dissatisfied, there is nothing they can do.

Jiang Chen's words undoubtedly dispelled his worries and allowed him to go back to deal with the big guys in a certain hospital.

However, what Wu Changfeng didn't know was that the specimen of the devil bug was just an "earthworm" thrown out by Jiang Chen to divert the attention of the international community.

As for the memory of the Gaia civilization and the ruins hidden under Mine No. 071... these real treasures, Jiang Chen would never let one out of his mouth before the Star Ring Trade dug them up. Word.