In the end, perhaps it was because of the pressure from the Mechanical Race. Perhaps they didn't want their own people fighting each other. Or perhaps they truly shared an ideal and a goal.
In any case!
The next day, Annie heard that the leaders of "Tiannan" and "Iron Nest" had actually agreed to negotiate.
As for how they negotiated, what the process was like, how they would merge in the end, and which side would take the lead, Annie didn't know—and didn't want to know.
Anyway, for the next few days, she lived quite comfortably in a suite in that underground factory, complete with a bedroom, a small living room, and a bathroom. Every day, she got to eat big fish and all kinds of seafood. Aside from the lack of side dishes, fruit, and vegetables, life was pretty decent.
If she hadn't had to share the room with that idiot Li Boli, and could've had it all to herself, it might've been even better.
During that time, besides hanging around the enormous underground factory and watching the less-than-competent workers make their final preparations, paint, and test the nearly completed warship, she also had to start using the factory's existing simulators to give the warship's bridge crew intensive training.
That's right, training!
And Annie was put in charge of the whole thing, teaching them herself, hands-on!
The reason was that when the minor leader of Tiannan's forces, the skeptical Chao Jun, had used the factory's existing crew-training simulators to supposedly test and assess Annie's abilities, she'd thoroughly proved him wrong and left him deeply shaken. So, when the two factions began negotiations, he handed her full responsibility for the crucial task of training the crew.
Even if the warship's preparations went quickly, they could still take a month or