With Scott's problem resolved, Aurum Alley began operating normally again.
Afterward, the chairman with the Golden Automaton head in Aurum Alley had considered whether letting Aurum Alley develop this way would leave it with any of its old flavor.
But after hearing that Jiang Yu strongly supported this development, he decisively abandoned his own idea.
Civilizations and lives were swept forward by the torrent of the times, but most of the time, those tiny individuals could not notice this at all. To them, what pushed them forward were other things that were relatively just as small.
As for Scott, he seemed to have left the Xianzhou after barking like a dog that day. At least, no one in Aurum Alley had heard anything from him again.
Perhaps he had left early. After all, he had suffered such a crushing defeat and so much hardship in Aurum Alley.
What a shame, what a shame. Scott probably never dreamed that even after returning to the Corporation, disaster would still be waiting for him.
To put it in Stelle's words about Jiang Yu-"Everyone who stands against Little Fish feels clearheaded once things are over, without realizing in the slightest that this is only the beginning.
"Arrangements like these are just like those traditional horror stories on the Xianzhou. The end of the farce doesn't mean everything has settled. It's merely a sign of the coming storm.
"Almost everyone who goes against Little Fish faces some unexpected punishment after things are over. Without knowing a thing, every one of them has had their future neatly arranged by him."
After wrapping things up on the Xianzhou, Stelle and Jiang Yu stayed for a few more days, waiting for the Astral Express to return.
Those days were quite leisurely, too. Jiang Yu supervised Yanqing's training practically