An Yang walked a short distance away, then smiled without much concern and said, "It's fine. I've mastered spatial teleportation now. When the time comes, I can connect the two places and travel freely between them, just like going in and out of a room. We can still celebrate the New Year together!"
"I already told you I don't mind." Huang Lan muttered, then looked up again at the huge public-service advertisement about family reunions.
After wandering around for most of the afternoon, the group finally went home.
Then An Yang and Xiao Qian went to Parlance.
Silver Moon City.
The city's grandeur and magnificence were enough to earn praise at any time. No matter which angle one viewed it from, it still resembled a fantastic metropolis that existed only in films or literary records. Even without the enormous semitransparent shield standing over the land and enveloping the entire city, without the aircraft and aerial combat mechs constantly taking off and landing, without layer upon layer of defensive rings and menacing sci-fi turrets, its own grandeur was still enough to shake the heart in the most direct way.
The forests outside Silver Moon Territory had long since vanished. The plains that were easy for mechs to sweep with gunfire had long been filled with the city as well. It had expanded to the farthest limits visible to the eye, even incorporating the distant mountains into its territory. The Divine General's Territory established by those two little girls had also become part of it, while Blackwater City had been reduced to a satellite city.
Back then, the two princesses, Chen Feng and Xi Yu, clearly had never imagined that the nameless nobody accidentally injured during their squabble would unify the world in such a short time, or that the thousand-year-old giant