On Day 9 of Week 50, Year 1305 of the New Century, aboard the "Fast Ship" Tai Yu had borrowed, all the bridge windows had been sealed shut, blocking out the dim vista of "hyperspace."
This was to avoid the unstable Energetic Information Turbulence within "hyperspace." During the tense navigation phase, one careless glance at that storm of colored light could bring devastating consequences.
Tai Yu sat in the Command Seat on the bridge, with Mo Jia standing respectfully at his side. The rest of the human tools each attended to their own duties—though all they could really do was put on a show.
The "Fast Ship" was now entirely a large toy under Tai Yu's command, racing through "hyperspace" according to his will toward the target star region.
Tai Yu's willingness to cooperate with Mo Jia had nothing to do with the "friendship" between them, nor with any notion of "saving people as if putting out a fire."
At the root of it, he simply wanted to make his mark in the Boundary Curtain region, to strike this world with power on the level of a "Great Monarch" and receive clearer feedback.
To achieve that goal, brute force might work once or twice, but eventually he had to change the rhythm.
Xi Corporation was neither too high nor too low in standing, neither too great nor too small in influence. It was quite suitable as an entry point.
Especially since Tai Yu and Xi Corporation had the unavoidable connection of the Isolated Star System. As a shareholder in that project, he was naturally Xi Corporation's partner. Deepening their ties and cooperation was the most natural thing within this social framework.
This was also equivalent to adjusting the distance of his Boundary from the outside world and modifying the right