Time slipped quietly away amid the bustle. By the time Chu Fei returned to the Sun-Moon Star Cluster, more than ten years had passed.
A great many things had happened over those ten-odd years.
The Myriad Dragon Group collapsed with unimaginable speed. Chu Fei's return had instead accelerated its decline; less than twenty-four months after his return, it had been deregistered.
As for the Myriad Dragon Group's downfall, the public actually applauded and celebrated.
All one could say was that people brought ruin upon themselves.
With Chu Fei's support, the "Ascending Dragon Hall Sun-Moon Star Cluster Industrial Park" newly established by Li Long advanced by leaps and bounds, drawing in talent from across the entire Sun-Moon Star Cluster like a siphon.
More than thirty percent of the Myriad Dragon Group's personnel had been poached by Li Long. The remaining seventy percent, however, had it rather miserable.
As a former senior executive forced out by the Myriad Dragon Group, Li Long naturally knew who was talented and who was deadweight. If Li Long did not want someone, neither would anyone else. That was simply how cruel things were.
A direct Gravitational String route had now been opened from Pegasus Star to the new "Ascending Dragon Star"—though it still passed through several transfer points. Building an entirely new route from scratch would have cost far too much time and money.
The Ascending Dragon System was the star system beside the Hyper-Dimensional Channel. It had only recently begun development and been officially named. Conditions there remained harsh. However, one planet possessed excellent natural conditions and could be transformed into a Life Planet. A professional planetary transformation team had estimated that, if no expense were spared, it could become initially habitable within fifty years.
For the time being, everyone lived aboard spaceships. The technology