Qu Jianlei headed to Future Star, accompanied only by Yi He and Sunset Glow. He did not even bring Jing Yuexin.
More than one person expressed concern over this, because the team's rise and fall truly rested on First One alone.
At everyone's insistence, Qu Jianlei had no choice but to bring along one of Xiao Hu's avatars—the second-generation one.
He firmly refused to bring anyone else, even stating, "If you come along, you'll only hold me back."
Those words stung quite a few people. After he left, Jia Shuiqing and Jing Yuexin even organized a meeting.
The meeting's central topic was: How could they work together wholeheartedly to ensure they would not be left even farther behind by First One?
When Qu Jianlei arrived near Future Star, he still used the Teleportation Array Disc to land.
Without any other team members accompanying him, he easily reached Xinguang, the second-largest city.
Xinguang was nearly the same size as Tianyou, the largest city, except Tianyou City had a much larger capital circle.
Also, Tianyou was basically all about Tech-Side research and development, while Xinguang City had some research aimed at the Awakened One System.
As for cities specializing in research on the Awakened One System, Hongyuan City, controlled by the Divine Script Society, was the foremost.
However, not all researchers gathered there, nor could the Divine Script Society possibly monopolize research into the entire system.
Qu Jianlei had come to Xinguang because he wanted to gather some information first, to see whether any organization was researching the secrets of fate.
He had never heard before that anyone in the Empire was studying this, so it was necessary to investigate carefully.
After arriving in Xinguang, he first had Xiao Hu conduct a thorough online search for two days.
Future Star had a