After realizing these two points, Li Chen's feelings became even more complicated.
Yet on the surface, he remained completely composed.
Moreover, Li Chen no longer wanted to keep tangling with Mu Xiao.
After all, he did not know whether Mu Xiao was truly a native Earthling or an envoy of the Noah Civilization.
Either way, he could just bill Noah for it later.
"Fine!"
"Since you've put it that way, Brother, if I keep refusing, I'd be ungrateful!"
"Tell me your Space Shelter's resource consumption for half a month, and I'll have someone deliver the supplies to you later."
Li Chen readily agreed to Mu Xiao's terms.
The resource and energy consumption of the Space Shelter for half a month
was equivalent to fifty percent of an entire month's consumption.
It was the same as the condition the other party had just proposed.
"However, I think we need to sign a contract!"
"Starting today, fifty percent of your Space Shelter's total monthly consumption will be covered by the Star-Level Shelter."
"Furthermore, all expenses for your Interstellar Resources extraction activities will be borne by the Star-Level Shelter."
"As a condition, however, fifty percent of every bit of resources you extract in the future—whether the resources themselves or the profits from selling them—must be allocated to the Star-Level Shelter."
"At the same time, you must provide us with all resource extraction data unconditionally."
"And I want this contract to have no expiration date."
Li Chen readily accepted the other party's terms.
But at the same time, he proposed a series of additional conditions.
Whether it was the cost of extracting Interstellar Resources or the Space Shelter's daily expenses, including its defense expenditures,
all of it could be billed to Noah.
It was equivalent to the Noah Civilization using its own resources
to