"An additional order? So soon?"
Chen Mo looked at Li Chengzhi in surprise. The first order signed with Worker Ant Defense had only been for ten robots, and it seemed they had not even been fully delivered yet. Now there was already an additional order?
"For an additional order, why didn't you and Zhu He negotiate it yourselves? Why come to me?"
"The production line hasn't been completed, so we can't fulfill the order within their expected timeframe." Zhu He gave a bitter smile. She was helpless too, which was why she had come with Li Chengzhi to report the matter.
"So urgent? They need that many?"
Chen Mo was puzzled.
From what he knew, the robot production line would be fully operational in just over a month. If they could not complete the order on time, then either the deadline was tight or the quantity was large.
"It has to be completed within two and a half months," Li Chengzhi said.
"Two and a half months? A military parade?"
Chen Mo immediately grasped the key point. In three months, there would be an important anniversary military parade. They were in such a rush because they likely wanted the robots to appear in the capital during the ceremony, displaying them to the world and creating a deterrent for outsiders.
After all, they were robots—something no one else in the world possessed. Mysterious, futuristic, unknown. That in itself was an invisible form of deterrence.
"How many units?"
"One hundred would be ideal," Li Chengzhi said.
"A small formation? That's not many. Why not make it bigger? It would have more deterrence and grandeur," Chen Mo asked.
"You think we don't want to? Your robots cost one hundred million each. A full formation would cost thirty-five billion, and that doesn't even include