<h4>Chapter 1328: Ambition For Arms Sales</h4>


    The eerie blue jet me pushed the Seagull-ss carrying the hope of human civilization towards the endless darkness. In addition to three hundred scientific researchers, the space elevatorponents designed by Future Heavy Industries for the Mars colony were also loaded on-board.


    After Jiang Chen watched the starship depart, he left the port of Celestial City.


    In order to determine the candidate for the inoction of Flowers of Memory, he had already spent more time than he nned for, now it was time to return to the surface.


    When Jiang Chen returned to his mansion on Coro Ind, it happened to bete at night.


    He saw the lights in Xia Shiyu’s office were still on, so he gently opened the door and walked in.


    Just after she finished signing a document, she yawned, leaned back against the chair, and stretched out to rx herself.


    A pair of hands was gently ced on her tender shoulders, and the unexpected Xia Shiyu almost fell off the chair.


    She turned her head to see a smug smile and revtion appeared on her face as she gave him a hard stare.


    “You didn’t say a word when you came in.”


    “I was afraid to disturb you.”


    “You already disturbed me, okay?”


    She closed her eyes and gradually rxed her body. With a sweet smile, she quietly enjoyed the massage from the big hands on her shoulders.


    “Why are you up sote?”


    “It’s because of you.”


    “Me?”


    Jiang Chen nced at the pile of documents on the desk in a puzzled manner. He only saw the words “2020 Xin International Defense Expo” and “nning Document” written on the pile of signed document’s left upper corner.


    When he saw this, he realized what happened.


    He actually personally instructed this matter.


    “We have invited 47 countries to participate in the expo, 39 countries have confirmed their attendance, and 789panies have confirmed that they will appear in the expo.” The closed eyshes trembled lightly fromfort; she said in azy tone as she reported the event’s progress to Jiang Chen. “The venue and time for the event have been finalized, and it will be held in the Heart of the Sea on Coro Ind in September.”


    It was the first international defense expo hosted by Xin. The invited countries were either members of the Earth Defense Alliance, or the countries with intention of joining the alliance. The purpose of this defense expo was not only to strengthen military cooperation among member states, but also to find overseas buyers for the burgeoning arms giant, Future Military.


    It was the first time Future Military was open to arms sales.


    In addition to creating profit, the sale of arms itself was also a way to expand influence.


    It was almost foreseeable that EMP weapons and kic skeletons would be the stars of this defense expo.


    Of course, all weapons sold to foreign arms were export models specially designed by Future Military. In terms of technical capability and performance, they were naturally inferiorpared to the Celestial Trade models. The equipment was more simr to the ones used by Madagascar’s mercenaries.


    “Don’t stay up toote,” Jiang Chen said softly.


    With a rxed sniffle, Xia Shiyu joked.


    “I suddenly realized that you are quite good at taking care of people.”


    “You just realized?” Jiang Chen smiled.


    “What... what are you doing?” With his hands that started to venture into other territories, Xia Shiyu bit her lower lip and blushed. She nced at the door, and then whispered, “Don’t be silly.”


    “If you are worried about Lilith hearing us, you can rest assured.” Jiang Chen smirked and quietly whispered in her ear as he watched the red hue cover her face, “When I went upstairs, she was ying games.”


    “You, you haven’t showered yet...”


    “I want you to help me.”


    ...


    It was a quiet night.


    The next day, Jiang Chen slept until almost noon before he got up.


    After he washed up and ate the lunch Ayesha prepared, he went to the living room.


    Lilith, on the sofa, saw Jiang Chen moving towards her, so she moved her legs to make room for him.


    Jiang Chen sat down next to her,fortably leaned back on the sofa, and turned on the holographic TV.


    It just so happened that it was international news.


    The Colombian government force and FARC exchanged fire in the central region. Because they had lost the support of the NATO Coalition Force, the government force retreated under the offensive of the guerris. They retreated to a ce less than 20 kilometers from Bogota.


    At present, NATO attempted to start a dialogue with Moro on the issue of prisoners of war, but Moro refused at this moment. Italy and Greece were considering withdrawing from the NATO Coalition Force, as well asunching peace talks with FARC as independent nations in order to redeem their captured soldiers.


    After all, the two countries just sent a battalion each symbolically. It was purely to join in on the fun and respond to their allies. Now the situation was turning south, it was clearly not in their interest for the war to continue. Compared with themon interests of NATO, domestic political interests were much more crucial.


    “Are things developing as you expected?” Lilith, who was on the sofa with her legs curled up, suddenly asked nonchntly.


    “Not at all,” Jiang Chen smiled, “but at least the general direction has not gone south.”


    “Really?” Lilith said thoughtfully.


    At this moment, Ayesha walked into the living room, nced at Lilith on the sofa, and then sat down on the other sofa.


    “Bernice called. The UA Department of Defense issued a document to all UA soldiers, requiring the strict implementation of the requirements to toon-levelbat units. All electronic equipment, especiallymunication equipment, must be strictly stored in a Faraday backpack during non-usage time...” Ayesha turned on the holographic screen on her watch and pushed the news to Jiang Chen, “Here is the original document.”


    “She can even get this information.” Jiang Chen was a little surprised as he extended his finger with interest and fiddled with the scroll bar on the holographic screen.


    It seemed that the UA was indeed terrified by the EMP attack, otherwise, it would not implement this method.


    The benefits of doing this were obvious. There was no need to worry about Celestial Trade’s EMP attacks destroying the eyes and ears of the military. The tradeoff, however, was that it hindered real-timemunication, such that it was necessary to agree upon amunication time and so on.


    In addition, the report also mentioned that the UA Department of Defense ordered a batch of old-fashionedmunication equipment from domesticmunicationpanies to respond to emergencies. At the same time, the country also invested 10 billion dors to develop a more advanced, more convenient, and lower-cost optical transmission system, intending to solve the threat of Celestial Trade EMP weapons at the root.


    Jiang Chen was skeptical about whether or not the UA could really achieve this.


    Their direction was indeed correct. There were only two measures to deal with EMP weapons in the apocalypse. One was to rece telmunicationponents with optical transmissionponents, and the other was to make key electronicponents as small as possible.


    However, it was still impossible topletely resist EMP strikes, unless the electromaic field could bepletely shielded...