Freya had indeed had a wonderful time in the Falling Rain Forest, so much so that when Xu Yi appeared to take her home, she cried and refused to leave.
Only after Xu Yi and Anise repeatedly promised to bring her back often did Freya reluctantly agree to leave with him.
Xu Yi gave Elder Elusia a wry smile. "I think you have no need to worry about Freya's relationship with you. If anything, I should be worried that she'll favor the elves more when she grows up."
Elder Elusia smiled faintly. "Children are the most innocent of all. They're kind to whoever treats them kindly. But that changes when they grow up. Freya is human, after all. Once she grows up, she'll inevitably consider things from a human perspective, so you needn't worry, President Xu. I only hope she'll treat us elves as equals, just as you do."
"Don't worry. She's my daughter," Xu Yi replied with a smile.
Besides picking up Freya, Xu Yi had another task on this visit to the Falling Rain Forest: discussing a new cooperation project between the Xinfei Merchant Guild and the Night Song Tribe with Elder Elusia.
The Night Song Tribe had made a new breakthrough in plastic processing research. They could now produce a new kind of plastic with extremely high strength and hardness. Thanks to the remarkable effects of elven magic, this new material also had a degree of heat resistance and could even replace steel in certain applications, so Xu Yi had named it "tempered plastic."
This tempered plastic could replace certain components in most of the Xinfei Merchant Guild's magic machinery.
Not only would it reduce the cost of these machines, it would also make them lighter and reduce some of their energy consumption.
Taking the simplest example,