The Federation General Assembly Hall was located on an artificial island in the middle of the ocean. Its position was very special. To demonstrate fairness and respect for all allied nations, the island had been placed exactly at the point equidistant from the original nine allied nations.
Every year, the Federation nations paid membership fees to maintain the island's daily public services. Whenever the Federation needed to decide some major issue, the leaders of all the allied nations would gather here for a meeting.
But such meetings were extremely rare. The last one had been held ten years ago, to discuss whether the new energy source should completely replace petroleum. After all, completely replacing petroleum at the time would have caused the economies of many petroleum-exporting nations to collapse outright. Yet if it was never replaced, social technology would face the dilemma of stagnating!
That meeting had determined the fate of one-third of the allied nations and lasted for nearly forty days. As for this time, the topic concerned the entire world!!
The meeting had been scheduled for nine in the morning, Asian time—three hours before Star Sea announced the election rules!
At that moment, the leader of Central China had just gotten off the plane and was gazing absently at this familiar yet strange place. The last time he had come here had been ten years ago, when he had followed the previous leader to broaden his horizons. In the blink of an eye, ten years had passed... Time really did slip away without anyone noticing...
The leader sighed.
The arrival of the Central China leader drew many people's attention. The reason was the two young men and women dressed as guards behind him. They wore standard Central China guard uniforms, somewhat old-fashioned yet solemn and formal, but the