"Su Yu?" In the near-Earth Defense Department of distant Star Zone 273, Ashley sat at her office desk, poured herself a drink, and began recalling this person.
Before long, a string of memories flooded into her mind.
When Su Yu first appeared at the hub, he had seemed to be only Tier 8. He had somehow obtained second place in the Security Bounty rankings and rapidly advanced to Planetary-level, which was what first drew the hub public's attention.
After that, he did a series of things that shocked the hub: auctioning Darak's corpse, producing the Level 4 AI Blue Whale, killing Jared, a Planetary-level Tier 5 expert and one of the hub's top scientists, and proposing that Blue Whale could be upgraded from Level 4 to Level 5.
"He really was dazzling back then, but compared to now..." Ashley smiled and muttered to herself.
Compared to now, it truly amounted to nothing. What the hub's Star-level beings cared about most now was only Blue Whale's upgrade.
"But..." Ashley frowned slightly. "It feels like I've forgotten something. What was it... Right!"
Ashley remembered. She had once conducted numerous divination rituals with Su Yu as the target, and the conclusion had been—the Silver Federation's future seemed to have some connection to that young man.
"Could it be that he really found all the materials needed to upgrade the AI?"
That really did seem possible!
Thinking of this, Ashley did not dare delay.
She flew out of the Defense Department base and swiftly headed toward the inter-zone Teleportation Array.
If Su Yu could truly gather all the upgrade materials, his name would surely resound through the hub once more!
About forty minutes later, Ashley appeared on the inter-zone Teleportation Array in Star Zone 170.
Star Zone 273 was very far from