Great Power Heavy Industry: Rise

Chapter 331: The City That Never Sleeps

In the next two days, accompanied by Xu Jiuwen, Zhong Cheng and Ye Wenxin visited Yuegong City and some surrounding industrial bases in detail.

It even includes the highly guarded Sky Ecological Control System Management Center and the Helium-3 Refining Plant.

Although there are only more than 100 people in the Ancient Minhui in Yuegong City, most of them are in important positions, and the chief executive of Yuegong City and the president of the Moon Development Company also have a deep relationship with Red Star Company.

In Yuegong City, Zhong Cheng and his wife swaggered around for sightseeing and investigation, there was no place they could not go to.

9 month 23 day.

On the third day after arriving on the moon, Zhong Cheng proposed to visit the city that never sleeps in the American Federation.

Xu Jiuwen was a little hesitant when he heard the words, and he replied: "The security situation in the city that never sleeps is not very good. We have very few people there and have no contact with the government. If something goes wrong, it will be troublesome!"

Zhong Cheng asked suspiciously: "What's the matter, isn't it the same as Yuegong City over there?"

Xu Jiuwen explained that all the factories, shops, and service facilities of the Asian Federation on the moon are properties of the Lunar Development Company directly under the Space Affairs Administration, and are under the supervision of the Federal Moon Administrative District, so the security situation is very good.

The European and American federations are different. Their cities and bases on the moon are jointly or independently invested and built by many companies. Although there are official management agencies, those big companies mainly have the final say.

These big companies promote the spirit of adventure, advocate individual heroism, indulge the people to fight and cause trouble, and because of their conflicts of interests, they often resort to force to resolve them, so the law and order there is not very good.

Marven Ye asked curiously: "Could there be another gunfight?"

That was something that often happened on the streets of the American Federation more than ten years ago, but it is not seen now.

Xu Jiuwen said with a smile: "That's not the case. The management of guns on the moon is stricter than that on the earth. Even security personnel and garrison personnel are not allowed to bring guns and other controlled weapons into the dome area. The interior of the dome ecosystem is still very fragile. .”

"Those armed conflicts mostly use fists and short knives to fight. I am worried that the two of you will be accidentally injured."

Zhong Cheng was relieved when he heard that, as long as he didn't use guns, he would have no problem protecting Ye Wenxin.

Besides, as long as they keep a low profile, nothing will happen.

If you go to the moon and don't visit the lunar cities of the European and American Federation, the effect of the investigation will be greatly reduced.

Regarding Zhong Cheng's insistence, Xu Jiuwen gave up after a few persuasions.

He took Zhong Cheng and Ye Wenxin to the transportation port of Yuegong City, and took a passenger flight to the city that never sleeps.

The Nightless City is located in the center of Tycho Crater, more than 3000 kilometers away from the Moon Palace City, but the speed of the passenger plane on the moon is very fast, and it can be reached in one hour.

Tycho Crater is one of the most famous craters on the surface of the moon, named after the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe.

It is located in the mountain area in the south of the moon. It is the most observed lunar crater, with a diameter of about 85 kilometers and a depth of about 4850 meters. At the bottom of the crater, there is a relatively complex central peak group, which is as high as 1600 meters.

Tycho crater can be seen with the naked eye on the earth, and it is the favorite target of many astronomy enthusiasts.

The lunar plane that the three of them took is also a product of Red Star Company. It is the space version of the Qingluan passenger plane, which has enhanced sealing functions and internal life support system functions.

The Qingluan plane flew into the Tycho crater, and Zhong Cheng saw a large dome city that looked almost the same as the Moon Palace City, and it was also built in the center of the crater.

Coming out of the airport in the city that never sleeps, Zhong Cheng and his wife were shocked by the noise in the city, no less than the busiest street market on earth.

Xu Jiuwen said that both the city that never sleeps and New Paris have urban populations that far exceed Moon Palace City, with a permanent population of more than 50.

Although this is related to the loose policy of the European and American Federation on space control, it also has a lot to do with the adventurous nature of the Europeans and Americans and the relative backwardness and poverty of the European and American Federation regions on the earth.

Both Xingwang Company and Solar System Power Company purchased Red Star Company's small nuclear fusion engine and Zhurong electric drive to manufacture a large number of aerospace planes, which are called space shuttles in the European and American Federations.

Although they started a year later than Yue Miyagi, their current development on the moon has surpassed that of the Asian Federation.

The permanent population on the moon exceeds 120 million. In 2032, the GDP of the lunar administrative regions will be ranked first in the American Federation, second in the European Federation, and No.3 in the Asian Federation.

This is also the main reason and reason why the Asian Federation agreed to lift the ban on space.

The streets of the city that never sleeps are lined with high-rise buildings, colorful, neon lights flashing, and there are all kinds of advertisements everywhere, even holographic projection advertisements in the sky.

Coupled with pedestrians and tourists in strange clothes and strange behaviors, Harley-Davidson locomotives whizzing by on the street, and electric speeding cars speeding in the air, Zhong Cheng and his wife feel that they have entered a future steampunk era.

This city fully expresses the differences between Europeans and Asians.

Xu Jiuwen led Zhong Cheng and his wife through this weird city vigilantly.

Although Zhong Cheng and Ye Wenxin put on leather jackets and large sunglasses, they still didn't fit in with this environment, and constantly called in harassment from unscrupulous people.

Only then did Zhong Cheng understand why Xu Jiuwen said it was not safe here.

However, Zhong Cheng calmly dealt with those blind people without making a fuss, which almost made Xu Jiuwen lose his eyeballs in shock.

Of course, Zhong Cheng didn't really solve those people, he just let them retreat with a little injury.

It took one day, Zhong Cheng and the three simply strolled around the city that never sleeps, and went to several industrial cities the next day, but they couldn't enter the most core aerospace industrial cities.

Zhong Cheng found that the European and American Federations had indeed caught up in the field of space technology. They already had a good foundation and obtained some core technologies from the Red Star Company and the Asian Federation. Even the ecosystem of the moon city was based on the sky ecosystem.

Now the European and American Federation has developed a complete aerospace industry system, and has even taken the lead in deep space voyage technology.

To be honest, the Chinese paid too much for the peace of the human world, but how many people still remember it now?
Even within the Asian Federation, these things are being downplayed as much as possible. This is what makes Zhong Cheng and other members of the Ancient Minhui the most upset.

On the third day, the three of them returned to the city that never sleeps, preparing to take a flight back to Moon Palace City.

When the three of them walked through Sixth Avenue, the busiest area of ​​New Manhattan, Ye Wenxin found a large group of people gathered at the entrance of a magnificent nightclub next to the street.

She dragged Zhong Cheng over to watch the fun, but Xu Jiuwen couldn't dissuade her, so she followed her.

Zhong Cheng separated the frenzied crowd in front, and found a dozen burly men forming a five to six meter circle in the middle, and a bald young man in the middle of the circle was punching and kicking a thin young man.

The boy was only seventeen or eighteen years old, with an Asian face. The boy held his head in his hands and curled up on the ground. He was beaten and rolled all over the ground without saying a word.

A lot of white people and black people gathered around, cheering for the bald young man.

Zhong Cheng was furious and was about to step forward to stop him, but Xu Jiuwen grabbed him and said in a low voice, "Don't worry about this, Mr. Zhong, the people on the ground are descendants of Orientals in the American Federation!"

(End of this chapter)