"After I leave this time, the Sherman Empire might exert great pressure on the Wind people. I'm worried Edwan might make a mistake in his haste."

"He has noble character and is willing to sacrifice himself for these Wind people, but that's precisely why he's easy to be taken advantage of."

"He's not like us. We are all self-serving."

"Understood," Kolev smiled, glancing at the night view outside the window, "I'm just an old bone, and I like Edwan a lot too, rest assured, I'll remind him as much as I can."

"If I'm too busy, Lyu will give you the related information."

Kolev's eyes lit up: "Does this count as manipulating state affairs?"

"Watch your expression," Yang Ming chuckled, "almost forgot your pirate nature."

"Oh hahaha! Don't worry! I washed my hands of that long ago. I'm Haton now, energy tycoon Haton!"

The young and the old exchanged a glance, raising their glasses and clinking them lightly.

"Life is really nice."

...

Yang Ming took the Valkyrie from the Dark Star No.3 Base.

He intended to check on Hera, but Hera didn't have time to see him.

She has found a new 'motivation for survival' and has poured herself entirely into experimental preparations, currently tackling the challenge of [accelerated growth and development of clones].

Lyu has already assembled a complete Mechanical Thought Body 'biological' team to collaborate with Hera on the research.

Lyu was right; even if Yang Ming stayed, he couldn't really help much.

The secret base on Saka Star has started construction under Lyu's direction.

Saka Star already has many abandoned underground cities, and Lyu only needs to mobilize a few thousand Mechanical Guards underground to establish the shielding and defense system, allowing direct laboratory construction.

Lately, Saka Star has become incredibly lively.

Large amounts of resources have continuously arrived at Saka Star, filling up nearly half the city;

A labor company established in Yang Ming's name has begun hiring Saka Star residents for some high-paying jobs.

The nobles who stayed on Saka Star as Yang Ming's guests were sent away after delivering 5 billion Empire Coins worth of resources and materials.

This is the first pot of gold for Saka Star's development forward.

—Saka Star is essentially like a 'prefecture-level city' in Yang Ming's hometown, and the injection of resources of this magnitude has already sustained the preliminary consumption of Saka Star's rise.

Nobles left, but nobles returned as well.

Godoy Saka returned to Saka Star, dumbfounded, and settled into the governor's mansion here.

In recent days, he had been wanting to meet with Yang Ming, but because Yang Ming left only a high-fidelity robot here, Lyu has been turning him away with various excuses.

Another one who wants to see Yang Ming but can't is Revelle Rassoga.

This isn't about Yang Ming and Lyu using up this young earl and then discarding him.

It's just that... he came looking for Yang Ming too frequently, too often.

When Princess Daphne and Catherine were here, Revelle restrained himself, busy gathering resources and materials everywhere.

But once Daphne and Catherine left one after another, Revelle immediately felt that his idol must have time to develop friendship now... and then he sought Yang Ming out over ten times a day!

Lyu was really afraid of exposing the fact that Yang Ming used substitute robots, so he could only use various excuses to fob off Revelle.

Finally, once Yang Ming's entity returned to Saka Star and received Boss Yang's consent, Lyu sent Revelle a dinner invitation.

Revelle dined with Yang Ming and set off on his return trip the very next day.

He left with Yang Ming's earnest advice, carrying the great goals set by his idol with burning determination in his eyes.

He was determined to help his idol, return to the political arena of the Emperor Star.

Upon Yang Ming's arrival at Saka Star, he temporarily hid away the high-fidelity robot and focused wholeheartedly on construction.

Yang Ming also had his own private motives.

Developing Saka Star not only means developing his legitimate forces within the Empire but also leaving a 'guaranteed' base for his home planet.

After about two months, the underground laboratory was ready, and the two gene assimilation machines had passed performance testing.

Yang Ming brought Little Pusuo from the East Wind down to the laboratory, leading her inside.

"Another mobile battery, huh," Pusuo clicked her tongue gently, "how long this time?"

"It'll take roughly a year," Yang Ming said, "The Faya people reminded us that our power is not enough for the upcoming disaster."

"Are we going to deal with the Great Queen who's about to ascend dimensions?"

Little Pusuo mused.

Her body started to glow red, and she began to grow rapidly at a visible rate, her clothes quickly becoming a tight-fitting little shirt.

Shortly, a youthful Pusuo appeared before Yang Ming, her long hair falling naturally at her back, stretching her soft waist.

"Don't judge me with human narrow aesthetics."

She glanced back at Yang Ming, whispered a word, and turned to walk into the weightlessness chamber on the right where the indicator light was lit.

Yang Ming shrugged, summoned a projection screen, and quickly scanned through the information from all aspects.

Military friction had already started appearing at the Wind border, but the issue wasn't too severe for the time being.

Everything else was fine.

"Becoming stronger is the hard truth."

Yang Ming gathered his spirits and bent down into the weightlessness chamber on the other side, with only one wall separating him from Pusuo.

...

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