"Damn it, why is the weather in June in China so hot?"

"This is Rongcheng, the basin terrain, so it is certainly hot..."

"What are you talking about? Look at the weather forecast on your phone. Today, the temperature in Chengdu is higher than that in the Sahara Desert!"

"….Okay, it's my problem. Hell, why is it so hot?"

Pidelof and Jace, who had just walked out of the airport, were about to be rushed back to their minds by the heat waves coming. Thirty hours ago, they were still blowing the humid and cold sea breeze of Nordic, and 30 hours later, they felt as if they had entered the stove.

"Why didn't our driver come yet? Didn't we agree that someone would come to pick us up? Wait a few more minutes and I feel like I'm going to be roasted from the inside out!"

Pidlov irritably took half a cigar from his pocket and lit it. Jace glared at him in dissatisfaction and said:

"Please pay attention to your image! We are here to negotiate this time. If you continue to act as rude as you are now, then you don't participate in the next negotiation!"

"Why? We have what they want, and they also have what we want. It's just an exchange, so it's not that complicated..."

Pidlov spit out the smoke from his mouth indifferently, and continued:

"Besides, didn't our previous cooperation go smoothly? The European headquarters of the Natural Sect was destroyed, and the list of pastoral organizations they wanted was also obtained. Shouldn't they regard us as friends?"

The two were Hermes' operations in Europe, and a few months ago, they planned a series of clearance operations against the Natural Sect and achieved shocking results.

"friend?"

Jace ticked the corner of his mouth with some sarcasm and then continued:

"You have to remember that Chinese people will not regard uncontrolled organizations like us as friends, they only believe in their own strength."

"The reason why we have cooperated before is that our purpose happened to be consistent with them."

"Afterwards, if our opinions differ, they will abandon us without hesitation, and even use tough measures to suppress us--they are much more terrifying than those ugly nationals."

"But in terms of execution, no one can compare with them. As long as it is something they want to do, nothing can be done."

Hearing Jace's words, Pidlov finally nodded in agreement. After taking a sip of the cigar, he pressed most of the remaining parts on the trash can on the roadside, and then said:

"Well, they didn't treat us as friends, and fortunately we didn't treat them as friends either."

"After that, do you think our negotiations will be successful this time? Judging from the news from Mingsen, the technology we want has almost reached a strategic level."

"I always feel that exchanging this technology with them is as ridiculous as asking the Ugly Kingdom for atomic bomb technology during World War II."

"It's really ridiculous, but I think they will agree--after all, what we have in our hands is no worse than the so-called 'atomic bomb'."

"I doubt this."

Pidlov shook his head and said.

"Of course you will doubt that you have never thought about anything with your brain. I really don't know how you got your bachelor's degree. Did you threaten your mentor with a gun?"

Pidlov laughed and replied:

"You're half right."

"I did use a gun, but that's not a threat."

"What's the meaning?"

Jace's brow frowned.

Pidlov cleared his throat and said:

"Well, the principal of my school at that time was a divorced single lady..."

"Okay, you don't have to say anything more, I'm not interested in listening."

Jace noticed Pidlov's eager expression and decisively stopped his show-off before he continued to speak.

The two stood in the hot air and waited for twenty minutes. When they were about to lose patience, a seemingly ordinary business car finally stopped in front of them. After Jace carefully checked the license plate number, he pulled Pidlov into the car, and there was already someone waiting for them in the car.

This person is really Chen Hao. The one sitting beside him is a senior intelligence officer from a certain military department.

After a brief introduction, Chen Hao spoke:

"I'm glad to meet you, Mr. Pidlov, Mr. Jace. How about it, were you scared by the weather in Rongcheng?"

"Yes, yes, help me, lower the temperature of the air conditioner a little longer, I feel like I'm about to catch fire."

Pidlov spoke carelessly, but in a flash, he remembered Jace's warning just now, so he retracted his hand that had reached out and sat upright on the back of the chair.

"Of course it's OK."

Chen Hao smiled and adjusted the air volume of the air conditioner. Pidelov on the opposite side was obviously relieved. After taking the water handed over by Chen Hao and taking a big gulp, he looked at Jace on the side, and the latter nodded with understanding.

"Mr. Chen Hao, it's not the first time I've met you. You know the purpose of our visit this time, so I think, are we going to get to the topic directly?"

"No problem---Your style is very similar to ours, very pragmatic, and I appreciate this."

"We can't be unpragmatic... After all, there is not much time left for humans. So I'll just say that what we need is the neural electrical signal compilation algorithm in AVS technology and related database files."

"This part of the content will be used in the neural mapping project of Birmingham National Laboratory, which aims to simulate human neural network activities through computers and ultimately replicate the complete human thinking one-to-one."

"Simply put, it is consciousness upload."

"Where have you been going now?"

Chen Hao was not surprised by the concept he said, who was surprised that he could understand this technology in such a short time, but when he saw the headphones Chen Hao was wearing, Jace felt a sudden realization.

Although there were only two people sitting in front of him, there were far more than two who were actually negotiating with him.

After considering the words for a moment, he answered:

"We have just achieved a breakthrough from zero to one, and neural mapping technology has proven to be feasible, but we are currently facing a computing power bottleneck and need more powerful and sophisticated algorithms to support it."

Chen Hao nodded slightly and continued to ask:

"What is your purpose? I mean, what do you want to do with awareness upload?"

In fact, in the previous discussion, Chen Hao had already obtained speculations about the other party's purpose from Ye Zhou and a professional. One of the most mainstream ones was that there might be some hidden "escape faction" branch within the Hermes organization. They wanted to use consciousness upload technology to store human consciousness into computer systems, thereby reducing the energy consumption demands of human individuals and avoiding the crisis of energy depletion caused by adjacent dimension invasion.

But out of caution, he still needs to get a clear answer from the other party's negotiators.

As he expected, the reason Jace said was no different from his previous judgment. After hearing this, Chen Hao sighed slightly.

In fact, this so-called cooperation negotiation has ended here.

Huaxia must not allow any escape faction to exist, and it is even more impossible to cooperate with them.

Jace noticed Chen Hao's expression keenly, so he spoke directly:

"Mr. Chen Hao and the real decision-maker, I know you don't agree with our route to solve the problem, but it doesn't matter. It's just a difference in direction. Our ultimate goal is the same."

"From our point of view, when humans face such a major crisis, we just need some exploration in different directions, and consciousness uploading is one of them."

"You can think we are wrong, and we will not force your approval, but you should listen to our exchange."

"I think this exchange may change your opinion."

"Even if we cannot recognize us, such conditions should be enough to achieve a positive result in our negotiations."

“What is it?”

Chen Hao asked calmly.

Jace cleared his throat and replied:

"You know, the Ugly Military is about to apply the latest quantum encryption technology. Under this technology, the information deterrence you have achieved with RSA decryption technology will be completely invalid."

"Relatively, in terms of conventional military strength, there is still a considerable gap between China and Chou Kingdom. If such deterrence disappears, the Chou Kingdom military will enter a retaliatory rebound and expansion stage, which is extremely unfavorable to China."

"So, our condition is that we will help you achieve a new deterrence against the ugly country, and the duration of this deterrence is about 18 months."

Chen Hao nodded slightly and continued to ask:

"What are you going to do?"
Chapter completed!