Several more years passed in a blink.
In every world ruled by the Rescue Team, technology advanced by leaps and bounds. Movies, televisions, telephones, and mobile phones were introduced one after another.
With Mingzhu City at its center, infrastructure slowly spread outward, and new cities sprang up like bamboo shoots after rain.
In an ordinary world, developing the basic industries alone would take considerable time before all kinds of technology became possible. But in a world with superpowers, many of those foundations could be bypassed in a single leap.
Professor Zhou's institute, in particular, held vast amounts of data from different worlds. The specifications for many technological products had been preserved.
The Rescue Team established a new department called the Research Group to handle this work. One product after another emerged, and people's lives changed by the day. In just a few years, they traveled a road of scientific research that took many worlds decades, even centuries, to complete.
Once televisions, movies, and mobile phones became available, stories about dragons appeared on screens large and small at Nameless's direction. He even played the True Dragon King himself to gather Legendary Attainment.
At that moment, on a mountain peak, a boy and a girl were struggling to climb higher.
Below them lay a sea of fire. Lava churned and sent up billowing white smoke, while jets of golden molten rock occasionally shot upward and set great swaths of trees ablaze.
"Quick, Xiao Wu! I'll pull you up!" The boy reached the peak first, then turned and shouted to the girl still climbing below.
Sweat drenched the girl's hair, and her face was smudged in several places. She stretched her hand up with all her might, and at last their hands clasped.
"One, two, three—up you come!" the boy growled. With a