Confidential Meeting

Five in the morning.

Harbin International Airport.

A bright silver airliner slowly descended onto the runway, taxiing along the smooth tarmac.

Looking at the city shrouded in morning mist outside the cabin, Lu Zhou suddenly spoke.

"This is my first time coming this far north."

Wang Peng turned his gaze toward the window.

"This is my second time."

"Oh?"

"About six years ago. I was heading to the border on a mission and passed through here. I stayed for around a day and a half."

"There are missions in the north too?"

"There are missions in every direction."

Lu Zhou nodded and did not ask what mission it had been.

For one thing, Wang Peng probably would not tell him even if he asked. For another, Lu Zhou had little interest in matters from a world so different from his own.

After they got off the plane, a silver Buick was waiting outside. A low-keyly dressed man got out and opened the door for Lu Zhou, then drove them to a hotel near Harbin Institute of Technology.

This time, Wang Peng was not the driver. The driver had been sent by the Science and Industry Bureau.

Unlike the previous meeting in Shangjing, the attendees of this lunar aerospace project bidding conference all held relatively high—or rather, sensitive—positions.

Moreover, since the subjects discussed at the meeting might include information that could not yet be disclosed to the public, both the attendees' identities and the time and location of the meeting were kept strictly confidential.

Even Lu Zhou's official reason for coming here was to attend an academic lecture at Harbin Institute of Technology.

After getting out of the car at the hotel entrance, two men waiting outside came forward to greet them.

The man in front wore a smile and extended