After plenty of delays and waiting, Hong Yanrong—the black market boss and former shelter leader—finally got to meet a certain little girl who had eaten her fill and now had nothing to do. The two of them had a fairly pleasant conversation.
As for what they talked about, outsiders had no way of knowing.
But in any case, the two of them had known each other before, and Annie had apparently made her some sort of promise?
So, in the end, the shrewd and deathly afraid black market boss, Hong Yanrong, managed to get permission from Annie to use a Medivac that could carry people on short interstellar trips. That meant she could take the craft—which could transport dozens of unarmed passengers to any planet in the Canopy Star system—whenever she wanted, bringing herself and her subordinates to whatever destination she chose.
After all, carrying passengers was no trouble at all for a military Medivac.
Besides, a Medivac with a warp drive and the ability to make short-range jumps could take a few dozen, a hundred, or even more people to some planet in the system with only one or two jumps. It would just burn a little more fuel and waste two or three hours at most. It was no big deal.
In short!
With Annie's authorization, Hong Yanrong got the use of a Medivac as promised.
Next, when she saw that Annie had indeed kept her word and immediately dispatched a small spaceship capable of spaceflight, Hong Yanrong was overjoyed. She promptly made up her mind and began nervously and eagerly preparing to evacuate, as if she couldn't bear to stay another moment.
Clearly, she hadn't changed her mind!
She seemed to have truly lost all hope for this planet. The Warp Daemon's influence might really have taken