Feifei rubbed Yu Lian's face thoroughly three times, making sure he hadn't actually gone insane. Only then did she turn her attention elsewhere and follow his gaze toward the distant "future."
At first glance, it really did look like an ordinary artificial space structure, the kind found almost everywhere in the Empire. After all, the Empire's shipbuilding technology and space cities were practically the best in the universe, and it was also the universe's number-one fanatic when it came to space construction. In newly developed star systems, various functional structures in space were already going up around the clock before plans for planetary colonies had even been approved. Besides, most spaceships were actually built in space. As for dreadnoughts, Titans, and even larger superfreighters, building one was practically no different from assembling a space city large enough for people to live in.
In short, the Empire's territory was vast, and construction never stopped in any of its star systems. If you happened to pass through a system with one of its large shipyards, you might think you'd wandered into a city undergoing massive construction work in preparation for the Olympics...
Of course, the Empire's shipyards were better than the Olympics. At least, once a ship was built, it could be put to use. You didn't have the infuriating situation of finishing a building only for an epidemic to break out.
The Jijiang system was on the Empire's frontier, and there weren't that many space construction projects there by comparison, but they had still passed several along the way. If Yu Lian hadn't pointed it out, Feifei would have overlooked this one too.
That "space structure" should have been mostly complete. Its main body was long and narrow. By a rough estimate, it was over fifty thousand meters in length.
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