Artificial structures enveloped half the star, continuously mining its stellar energy. The Alliance's energy systems all drew their power from here.
To the Interstellar Alliance, this was nothing unusual. These artificial structures had been built by the Murong Group.
A boyish-looking man came alone to the Murong Group's headquarters. His identity was special, so he passed unhindered all the way to the office of the Murong family head.
The Murong family head was over sixty, yet looked like a man in his thirties.
Seeing the boy visit, the Murong family head rose with great interest and personally welcomed his partner.
"What brings the president of the Supreme Society to me today?"
The boy sat unceremoniously in the seat of honor and snorted. "Test Subject Number One got away. I came here to clear my head."
The Murong family head was astonished. "Test Subject Number One? That's no small matter."
"Speaking of which, I have my own troubles. I wiped out the Constellation Society, which had always opposed me, but the crucial evidence chip proving their illegal stellar mining wasn't in their hands."
Seeing that the Murong family head was troubled too, the boy's mood improved considerably. He stopped dwelling on the two infuriating matters and turned instead to the cooperative project between them.
The boy rose and gazed through the window at the star overhead. "How is the solar mining going? How far are we from the stellar core?"
"Only six thousand kilometers remain. It'll be finished in another half a month."
At last, he had heard some good news. The boy grew excited. "In half a month, we'll be able to see that creature in its entirety?"
The Murong family head's expression turned strange. "Are you sure that thing is really a creature? According to my engineers, its energy