"We're finally back!"
After spotting the familiar scenery outside through the porthole, Shi Zunhou let out a loud cheer.
The others weren't startled at all. Instead, they joined in with all sorts of strange noises.
For a moment, the command room of the Sky Peng Horizontal was filled with ghostly howls.
Wang Dong didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
This trip away from the Changpan River System had lasted almost half a year.
By the standards of interstellar travel, a mere six months wasn't long at all.
But for the people aboard the Sky Peng Horizontal, the existence of the Apocalypse High-Dimensional Transporter meant they'd rarely had an experience like this before.
They quickly connected to the internal network.
To everyone's relief, over the past six months,
neither Wang Dong's territory nor the Black Stone Kingdom had encountered any major problems.
As for Wang Dong's territory, under the orderly management of Zhong Shiji and Xia Longque,
preparations to colonize the Dead Sea Star Abyss had been completed in full.
In particular, they had taken advantage of the Black Stone Kingdom's annexation of the Free State Conglomerate and the large-scale migrations that had accompanied its successive military campaigns.
Zhong Shiji and Xia Longque had arranged for a large number of high-quality migrants, and completed the preliminary organization and administrative planning.
All that remained was for Wang Dong to return and give his confirmation, after which these people would be transported to the habitable planets that had already been terraformed in the Dead Sea Star Abyss—577 of them.
This left Wang Dong quite pleased.
As for the Black Stone Kingdom,
its annexation and pacification of the Free State Conglomerate were progressing steadily under the command of Marshal Dicimov and the veteran general.
Large swaths of the Free State Conglomerate's territory, purged