Thousands of miles away in Kyoto, amid a magnificent complex of ancient buildings, two spirited elderly men sat on a sofa.
One was none other than the Big Boss who had made a special trip to Changxi to meet Shen Bing a few days earlier. The man beside him was just as important, another familiar face on the news whose standing in Huaxia was second only to the top chief.
After hanging up the phone, the Big Boss beamed. "Old Zhou, you're going to have your hands full from now on."
"You make it sound as though you'll have plenty of time to relax." Chief Zhou smiled. "Stop being cryptic. Tell me what's going on first."
"The young man agreed to supply power to the grid at 0.25 yuan," the Big Boss said.
Anyone who heard a chief mention a figure of 0.25 yuan would certainly have been astonished.
Weren't leaders like him supposed to talk in billions or tens of billions? What could a little over twenty cents buy, a piece of candy?
Yet when Chief Zhou heard those words, he was deeply shocked.
"This will send shock waves through the industry!" It took Chief Zhou a while to find his voice. "Old Lin, are you really so sure Phantom Immortal Technology can fully deliver the geothermal power generation technology they described?"
Instead of answering directly, the Big Boss asked, "You've seen what the Ghost Eye Type 1 Telescope can do. What do you think of it?"
"A revolutionary product. Not a single country in the world can manufacture one. I consulted the relevant experts. Even that CCD chip with hundreds of millions of pixels can only be made by the United States and Japan. I honestly have no idea how that young fellow managed it. As for how