Gazing at the jungle outside the window, Chen Mu finally had a little time to spare. He had just handed his prototypes over to Bagnell. They needed to be tested before any definite conclusions could be drawn. Whether they were viable would soon be clear.
Chen Mu relished this rare moment of leisure. At heart, although he was someone who strove to improve, he was far more often passive. He had only come this far because life had forced him to keep moving forward. If not for those unexpected events while making "Encounter" and "The Legend of the Mecha Master," he would probably still have been living a simple, ordinary life in Dongshang Guard City.
Yet the ways of the world were always so curious. People often had few choices. When there was no fork in the road ahead and no retreat behind, all you could do was steel yourself and press on. Then, to your surprise, you would discover that you had gone much farther than you had imagined.
Outside the window, the emerald grass lay as smooth as a carpet, and the distant jungle stretched out in full view.
From high ground, the sweeping view stirred a surge of bold ambition.
He had learned the broad outlines of what had happened in the Federation over the past few days. Even someone like him, with little grasp of the bigger picture, understood that the Federation was probably about to descend into turmoil. An age of chaos was coming.
What would an age of chaos look like? He did not know. But he knew that once order was lost, disorder was certain to follow.
His childhood memories were so vivid, their countless details seemingly branded into his mind. Looking back now, wherever the place, the fiercest and cruelest struggles had