It was still Howard's old office. Since taking over, Lorraine had been busy familiarizing herself with the job and had had no time to worry about renovations.
So when Daisy hunched her shoulders and entered amid the Space Marines' cries of "Praise the Emperor!" and "Eternal loyalty!" along the way, she found the office painfully empty as well.
The Governor's Building was Contraxia's second-tallest structure after the Heating Tower. Its enormous windows offered a view over the entire city.
Since it was also located in the first ring, the view below spread toward the horizon like a massive fan. Neon lights blurred together amid the wind and snow.
Even during the day, the place was brightly lit. Countless drunken aliens wandered through the streets and alleys, and from time to time, someone would collapse headfirst into the filthy mud by the roadside, dead or alive, no one knew.
But most of them wore smiles. Unlike the smiles of the Synthezoids in the shop windows, those were genuinely happy smiles.
"No wonder you call this place Happy Valley too." Daisy looked puzzled as she tapped the glass with a pale finger. "They really are happy. It's my first time seeing aliens, and they can actually smile."
"Of course." Su Ming accepted the tablet Lorraine handed him and projected its display. Sitting on the sofa beside the fireplace, he reviewed footage from over a hundred surveillance cameras simultaneously at sixty-four times speed while chatting with Daisy. "It's a tourism planet, after all. The customer is God."
"But weren't you going to beat up aliens?" Thor lay against the glass and looked outside, flattening the two soft mounds on her chest.
Su Ming stared at the screens projected in the air before him, analyzing every conversation. "I'm not some genocidal maniac. Aliens come