End of December.

The temperature is getting lower and lower.

There was even a heavy snowfall a few days ago, and the whole city was covered in a blanket of white.

The magical year of 2020 is about to pass.

The new year is coming.

If you ask Levi what his New Year's wish is, his wish is that the Death Fleet will not betray and will return to pick up their emperor, who will forgive the soldiers' sins of delay as long as the fleet returns.

But unfortunately, this wish is not very realistic.

He can only rely on himself for now.

So a more realistic wish is: he hopes that Dark Technology Company can sell more copies of "Smart Optimization Assistant" and make more money.

I also hope that the construction speed of the battery factory can be faster. It would be best to stimulate the "infrastructure maniac" attribute of the Xia people and strive to complete the factory as soon as possible.

Then we will mass-produce Type 1 high-energy batteries to lay a solid foundation for the next steps.

Perhaps in the most optimistic scenario, in about ten years, he will be able to break out of this planet, enter outer space, and find a more spacious and comfortable living environment.

He really hates the planet under his feet.

However!

December 30th.

Lin Guoming called and reported an emergency!

"Something terrible has happened, Your Majesty Levi. We have been tricked by the Gangbia people!" Lin Guoming said hurriedly, with an angry look on his face.

"What's going on?"

"Something's happened with the small satellite. Those idiots from Gambia aren't willing to do steady business. They were easily fooled by the people from the space agency and sold your signal device to them. Our plan to buy time has failed!"

Lin Guoming cursed: "What a bunch of useless people, short-sighted and greedy, they can't see the money!"

It turned out that the signal device taken out from the butler Bowen's brain was "salvaged" by the Xiaguo Space Agency and secretly studied. However, due to the interference from the Gambia Embassy, ​​the scientists were unable to calm down and concentrate on their research.

October.

In order to get rid of the Gambia Embassy, ​​the space agency paid 10 million to rent a "small satellite" for three months.

December.

The Gambia Embassy called ahead to negotiate, asking the space agency to prepare 20 million and transfer the money to them at the end of the month, but they could only rent the "small satellite" for one month.

He also announced that if the Xiaguo Space Agency still wanted to continue researching Gangbia's "strategic weapons", it would have to transfer 20 million every month to compensate Gangbia for its losses.

Not a penny less!

If you don't pay, the small satellite must be returned to Gangbia immediately, and if any damage is found, one billion yuan must be paid in compensation!

In short, the space agency has become a fixed "cash machine" and will make a lot of money from it every month.

This was originally a very good plan, and the Gambians were very cooperative. However, after the space agency offered a huge sum of money to buy out the small satellite, the Gambians were tempted and gave up their long-term plan and agreed to the buyout plan.

"How much money did the space agency pay out at one time? They dealt with the Gambians." Levi asked with a frown.

"I called Daura Kaiba more than a dozen times and asked him dozens of times before he told me hesitantly that the space agency paid 500 million yuan in one go to buy out the satellite, and then they agreed," Lin Guoming replied.

"Five hundred million?"

Levi frowned and said angrily, "How can a signal device only be worth 500 million? Even if it's 5 billion or 50 billion, you can't buy this signal device!"

"Those Gambians are the dumbest idiots in the universe!"

"I think so too, Your Majesty Levi!"

Lin Guoming nodded in agreement and said, "Even if they didn't agree to the buyout and insisted on the return of the small satellite, they could have claimed 1 billion yuan for any minor damage found during the inspection. But I didn't expect those idiots to sell it for 500 million yuan."

"A bunch of poor, useless bastards, hopeless!"

However, no matter how much criticism and scolding there is, it cannot change the fact that the small satellite was sold.

Li Wei was still unwilling to give up and said, "Lin Guoming, can you please stop the Gambians from selling satellites and tell them that they can make more money by taking it slow and steady."

"It's useless, Your Majesty Levi. The contract has been signed, the space agency has transferred the money, and the deal is done. Gambia has no excuse or reason to interfere with the small satellite."

"The space agency's response was so quick?" Levi was very surprised.

"Your Majesty, I suspect there might be some experts within the space agency who were able to accomplish this with incredible efficiency, without even notifying me. Perhaps they sensed my presence and resorted to deceit."

Lin Guoming sighed, "Xia Country is a land of outstanding people. To entertain those impoverished and short-sighted Gangbia people is like playing with monkeys. They can't possibly cause any significant damage... Our previous plan underestimated them."

"Also, we shouldn't get too involved right now. Once my identity is exposed and that expert knows about it, Your Majesty Levi, you will likely be in danger!"

Therefore, it is best to allow small satellites to be bought out and accept this new situation and reality.

After all, these few individuals do not have the strength to compete with the behemoth.

Levi's face fell.

A sense of crisis began to arise from the bottom of my heart.

Because he dared to guarantee that with Xia Country's current scientific and technological strength and industrial level, if Xia Country scientists were given 100 years to crack the technology and core secrets in the signal device, they would not gain much!

At most, it will broaden your horizons and broaden your horizons.

But technology is dead, but people are alive.

Seeing that all the cracking methods were useless and they could not understand the working principles of the signal device at all, the scientists scratched their heads and racked their brains but could not achieve much results.

It's like a primitive man taking an AK-47, disassembling and reassembling it a thousand times, and firing tens of thousands of bullets, but it's impossible for him to suddenly get the idea and figure out how to make an AK-47.

Behind that signal device lies an entire industrial system!

Without sufficiently advanced industrial technology, even if we know the core working principle of a signal device, we cannot make an identical signal device.

When scientists were at a loss.

They will think divergently and start to think of other ways to explore the source of the signal device and find the owner and inventor of the signal device.

In the end... it was traced back to Levi.

This is what Levi doesn't want to see. Once he is targeted, once his identity is accidentally exposed, what awaits him is probably endless interrogation and being dissected piece by piece by excited scientists on the operating table.

The thought of this horrible scene.

He couldn't help but shudder.

But he also had no way to take back or steal the signal device that was under analysis and research from its strict protection... He did not have the ability to do so.

"The plan must be accelerated! We must strengthen our security and enhance our own defense capabilities! Furthermore, we must leave this increasingly dangerous planet as quickly as possible!"