A Page in the Vast Sea (Thanks to Ysera Cangjia for the Alliance Leader)

Like snow falling thick and fast into a burning furnace.

Pale specks danced, rising and falling amid waves of green fire and shattered skies, moving with the wind toward every direction.

In the silent warehouse, a door that had been sealed away for a long time was opened.

Those mountain-like piles of notices, those long-prepared announcements, those invitations that had been ready for finalization since Ji Jue's first day here, had finally seen the light of day.

There were no lengthy introductions or boasts, only plain and straightforward content, printed on both sides in the languages of the Federation and the Empire, dense lettering filling every corner.

<Coast Group Seven Cities Industrial Park's First Major Recruitment Notice>.

Coast Group sincerely invites you to join us. We are currently hiring for the following positions: operations, assembly, quality inspection, maintenance, materials, warehouse management... forklift operators, heavy truck drivers... shipbuilding, repairs, sailors, shipyard workers... security guards, gatekeepers, general laborers... Night school training also available... Full insurance coverage, excellent benefits.

They rose in a flutter, soaring lightly on the wind, crossing long, long distances, scattering over everything burning in the flames and traveling to places where flowers bloomed in abundance.

They blanketed the sky, filling everything.

They fell into mud, into sewage and ruins.

They fell into the flames.

They fell into every mutated, distorted palm, delivering this invitation before every pair of hollow eyes, carrying the invitation and guarantee issued by Ji Jue.

"What is this? Can't understand it."

"What a hassle."

"My eyes hurt from reading it, it feels bad... uncomfortable..." In a narrow alley, a hunched wanderer wriggled uneasily, swaying his mutated body as he mumbled indistinctly, "Reading it... makes people uncomfortable..."

Subconsciously, he crumpled the flyer in his hand into a ball, then instinctively tore it to shreds.

But another