[Earth]
Human Federation Head Councillor's Office.
The office door slowly opened, and Fang Xu's voice came from outside.
"Senator Hong Chair, do you have a moment?"
The scrape of a chair and footsteps sounded together, followed by Hong Qiming's slightly muted voice.
"Academician Fang, it's been a long time!"
As his footsteps quickened, his muted voice grew louder. "Come in, come in!"
Looking at the familiar, slightly wrinkled face inside the office, Fang Xu broke into a smile he had not worn in a long time.
"It's been ages. The last time we met must have been a few hundred years ago, right?" Fang Xu gave Hong Qiming a teasing look and walked into the office.
"Ah!" Hong Qiming waved a hand helplessly. "If you count the time we spent in cryosleep, it must have been nearly eight hundred years."
"After waking up, I actually feel like I'm falling behind the times."
"Curvature navigation... something I never even dared to imagine has become a reality!"
Fang Xu sat down with a cheerful smile as Hong Qiming marveled.
"So?"
"Do you have time now?" he asked with a smile.
"I do! Of course I do!"
Hong Qiming hurriedly continued, "Parliament has only just woken from cryosleep. Right now, no one knows what to do."
As he spoke, he spread his hands and looked helplessly at Fang Xu. "There's nothing we can do. Apart from the academicians from your Academy of Sciences, none of the ordinary citizens have woken up. Even if we wanted to do something, we couldn't."
Fang Xu looked at Hong Qiming with a smile. "Don't worry, Senator Hong Chair."
"See? I've come to find you something to do."
Hong Qiming: "???"
Who put things like that?
Or had he fallen behind the times?
"Human Civilization has now reached