Annie naturally did not attend the command center completion ceremony or the conference and speeches that followed.
After all, she was the great Supreme Leader Annie of an entire star sector. The completion ceremony for a forward base command center on some tiny planet—especially a stripped-down version—was hardly worth the personal appearance of a leader like her.
Of course, the most important reason was that she had not leisurely woken up until the afternoon, so there was no way she could have made it in time.
But Annie did not care. She had already told Gao Lanlan in advance that she would not be attending. Even if they had postponed the ceremony until the afternoon, she could not be bothered to take part in that speech game, which was even more boring than children playing house!
Still, not attending the ceremony was one thing. After waking up, she naturally had to inspect the newly completed command center—a structure smaller than a standard command center, with fusion power, standard furnaces, and a manufacturing center. It could rapidly produce all kinds of standard structural components and modular parts, manufacture SCV engineering robot exosuits, and then have those SCV engineering robots swiftly assemble all kinds of base buildings!
And so?
Accompanied by Gao Lanlan, she soon arrived in the command center's control hub hall. The place was roughly the size of two or three basketball courts, filled with holographic screens and control consoles. There was also a huge floor-to-ceiling viewport through which one could see the sky and desert outside at a glance, and she began wandering about the control hub.
Before long, after making a circuit and returning to the middle, Annie finally stopped. Blinking her eyes, she asked:
"It looks like..."
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(゜-゜)
"Although it's very new, why does it feel