Lin Yunqing was fretting over finding her next angel investor. The most prominent financial conglomerates and Star Sea Giant Enterprises had long been involved in Eastern Xia's Great Pioneer Movement, giving them control over numerous resource worlds.
For example, several of United Pharmaceuticals' best-known products—the Energy Liquids of various grades—came from the resource planets Wanxia and Changhai, where crystal-rich ores were abundant and easy to extract.
Back then, United Pharmaceuticals had invested in the Great Expedition Legion, supplying it with materials free of charge for nearly four hundred years. In return, it had received a generous reward of ten resource planets.
The deal was considered a classic example of cooperation between Star Sea Giant Enterprises and Eastern Xia, inspiring countless imitators.
But their results had been poor. An almost unprecedented military campaign like the Great Expedition consumed an unimaginable quantity of resources every single day.
Even financial conglomerates could offer little more than a drop in the ocean compared with the war machine roaring into action across the entire galaxy.
Take the Fourth Legion, known as the hellish front line stationed on the border. Plenty of opportunists had tried to cooperate with it under the pretense of serving their country. One day was all it took for them to lose a tenth of their total assets and go bankrupt.
"Between eighty and one hundred Life Force, you need to undergo Cosmic Heavenly Light and complete the refinement of your mortal body if you want to make it through smoothly, without getting stuck in the bottleneck that follows rapid growth."
Lin Yunqing rolled back and forth on the sofa. Her connections were limited to the Imperial Capital, Haizhou, and the university scene. She really wasn't familiar with those Super Powers, the sort who'd swallow you whole and think of nothing but