Hearing Mo Yue's explanation, Li Chen's expression immediately became very strange.
"So you are still threatening them after all!"
He communicated with her privately through Mental Power, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.
The Space Shelter's energy had already reached the point of complete exhaustion.
One of the urgent reasons they needed to mine Interstellar Resources was precisely to resolve their own energy shortage crisis.
But they already had barely any energy reserves left.
And now they still had to carry out highly energy-intensive interstellar mining operations.
Wasn't that just making trouble for themselves?
In other words, they were now heavily dependent on the Star-Level Shelter.
They had to obtain the Star-Level Shelter's energy support before they could continue these operations.
And if the Star-Level Shelter refused to cooperate with them,
they would not even be qualified to take action.
Let alone mine cosmic resources.
Under this major premise,
if Li Chen truly refused to include them,
and instead chose to develop spacecraft and Mining Ships on his own,
then the Space Shelter would fall completely behind.
They would be completely left in the dust by the Star-Level Shelter.
In other words,
as long as Mo Yue used this ultimate move of "refusing to cooperate,"
no matter how unreasonable the other party's demands were, they could only obediently accept them.
"Master, I really didn't threaten them."
"I merely laid out the facts and reasoned with them. Does that count as a threat?"
Mo Yue looked utterly aggrieved, and even her tone was pitiful.
Li Chen could not handle her acting like that.
A femme fatale had suddenly turned into a coquettish, cutesy creature.
That enormous contrast gave Li Chen goosebumps all over...
He quickly ended the topic and moved on to the next one.
He looked at the second