The Man in Power After Being Married into Her Family

Merlin hurriedly explained, "Young Master Wade, I'm not afraid of taking risks..."

Charlie nodded. "I know, and I do not doubt your courage, but as you've just said, the contact is mutual, so it's better to be cautious. If contact is really necessary, it'd certainly be safer for me to make contact instead of you. So, you should just do the preliminary investigation and leave the rest up to me to decide."

Merlin's purpose was to remind Charlie to be more careful and cautious.

When he saw that Charlie had accepted his advice, Merlin felt relieved and said, "Young Master Wade, in that case, I won't have any worries. I will let you know as soon as I make any progress."

***

That night, as Charlie drove back to Providence, Merlin took a Virgin Atlantic flight to Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, via London.

After a twelve-hour flight, Porter used a helicopter to pick Merlin up personally and brought him to Ten Thousand Armies' base in Syria after the plane landed in

Beirut.

Due to the extremely abundant funds for Ten Thousand Armies' infrastructure, the current base already had a large-scale prototype.

A large number of workers from allnoveldrama

over the Middle East were working on this huge construction site

twenty-four hours a day, and various high-end heavy machinery that could only be seen in developed countries were used in the base construction.

When Merlin saw several Liebherr 750-ton all-terrain cranes hoisting wind turbines around Ten Thousand Armies' base with his own eyes, he was dumbfounded.

He subconsciously asked Porter, "Mr. Porter, does... does Ten Thousand Armies own all these wind turbines?!"

Porter nodded and said with a smile, "Ten Thousand Armies has several electricity sources, and wind power is just one of them. We have also invested in a large amount of photovoltaic power generation on the mountain not far away. We use photovoltaic power during the day and wind power during the night. If that is not enough, we still have electricity supplied by the official Syrian government. After the basic power generation is in place, we will also invest in and build large-scale energy storage base stations. In

addition, more than eighty percent of the oil in Syria is extracted illegally by the United States, and the Syrian government cannot get a single dime from that. So, they plan to give us a mining license so that we can explore and extract the oil ourselves before we then invest in building an oil refinery and oil-fired power plant."

Merlin was shocked when he heard this and blurted out, "This scene is really too big..."

Porter said indifferently, "Mr. Wade arranged it. He asked me to make this place into a permanent base, so the infrastructure construction must be done well. Mr. Wade also gave us tens of billions of dollars in funds, so we intend to invest more money and trade money for time."

Merlin could not help but exclaim, "Young Master Wade is indeed generous and ambitious when it comes to his work. If this base is fully completed, it might be able to compete against that mysterious organization, then."

With that said, he quickly asked, "By the way, Mr. Porter, where is the survivor that Young Master Wade mentioned?"

Porter said, "547 is in the core area with the highest level of secrecy. Please follow me, Chief Lammy!"