040: Dive

040. Dive

Three months after the victory in the Entropy Lord Suppression War, on November 28, the White Candle Autonomous State's Planetary Governor's Office on Azure Planet was completed.

This meant that Azure Planet's sovereignty had officially been transferred into Li Aoz's hands.

On the same day, Dai Weilin's body was cremated. In accordance with the will he had made twenty years earlier, no funeral would be held, and all his assets would be donated to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration—Li Aoz could not help but sigh at how far ahead Dai Weilin had seen.

Even a reincarnator was no better than that. What was more, Dai Weilin had probably been around seventy when he made that decision, yet he had still foreseen such a distant future.

Dai Weilin's children were practically all dead. Even his younger brother had fallen critically ill and been hospitalized after the war, and was now receiving end-of-life care, unable to move around.

Yet even so, the people spontaneously organized memorial services. People from all over the country used every means of transportation to rush to Gemini Palace, weeping and crying, "His Excellency the President, are you leaving us?" "We don't want to be bullied and oppressed anymore!" "Please save your people one more time!"

Though the scene was deeply moving, and the procession chasing the hearse stretched for dozens of kilometers, this excessive dependence on Dai Weilin still caused quite a few problems. Twelve of his supporters chose suicide, though fortunately they were rescued in time.

Quite a few people from neighboring countries could not stand it anymore and bluntly criticized them. "Can't you let His Excellency the President get some rest? What kind of people drag a man in his nineties out to work himself to death?"

Though it was unpleasant to