Of course, it could be related to the pie Xiao Okada had painted for them, the gravitational pull of a payload mass of over 10 tons is certainly not small.
Throughout the journey, An Maowei and Edwin had been lavishing Lin Ju and New Yuan with crazy flattery and brown-nosing until they finally sat down and revealed their ultimate purpose:
"Mr. Lin, more than 20 billion is too expensive, is there any way to lower the price?"
Edwin was a Dutch man in his sixties, his Chinese was quite good and he didn't need a translator. He craftily didn't repeat New Yuan's US Dollar quotation.
"Hundreds of billions of RMB could build a small nuclear power station. If we have to spend so much just on the propulsion section, then we'll only have a very small budget left for the probe. This is contrary to our objective."
Lin Ju's face showed no sign of emotion as he naturally asked:
"Then, how much budget has the IAU decided to put into the entire exploration project?"
