Watching his old friend step down from the open hatch, Chu Guang smiled and extended his right hand.
"Pleasure to meet you, Mr. Li. It's really been a long time!"
The man standing before him was Li Changkong, a manager from Ideal Group's Construction Department.
As one of the representatives the Enterprise had sent to assist The Alliance in Dawn City, Chu Guang had not seen him for some time since the war in Luoxia Province ended.
For quite a long time, diplomatic exchanges between the Council and The Alliance had been handled by staff from the General Administration Department and Yi Chuan from the Overseas Affairs Department.
This time, Li Changkong's visit to the southern seas represented not the Enterprise Council, but Ideal Group—the oldest of the Enterprise's five major groups and the "King of Infrastructure."
The infrastructure of Utopia City had been built entirely by Ideal Group back then. Its later transition into property management and maintenance had only come after Utopia City was completed.
Li Changkong's purpose in coming here was naturally to inspect firsthand The Alliance's proposed "trackless space elevator" project from the Sticky Community conference.
Keeping Utopia City operational consumed an enormous amount of energy, and that happened to fall within Ideal Group's business scope.
If they could reopen a stable route from the surface to outer space, or even restore the Earth-Moon flights that had been suspended for two centuries, it would undoubtedly solve the potential threat of energy depletion facing Utopia City at its root.
That was precisely why Ideal Group had shown extraordinary interest from the moment The Alliance proposed the plan.
When it heard that The Alliance had joined forces with the Southern Sea Alliance to begin site selection in the southern seas, Ideal Group's chairman immediately sent an application to