binnovel Chapter 436 Departure! Sea of Stars
Chapter 436 Departure! Sea of Stars
On November 25th, various meetings were held in Dawn City under the chairmanship of Li Chenglong and others. Some meetings even invited representatives from the Huaxia headquarters to participate.
These meetings resulted in significant supplements and revisions to the existing laws governing Shuguang City, as well as the reorganization and adjustment of some departments. Unqualified managers were dismissed or reassigned, and those who violated laws and regulations were punished with the most severe penalties according to law.
It's worth mentioning that members of the space fleet also participated in this meeting, with their elected representatives attending the Dawn City People's Congress and the Dawn City Political Consultative Conference. Furthermore, high-ranking members of the space fleet, including Erica and Cecily, also attended the Dawn City Senior Meeting and the expanded meeting of the Dawn City General Committee. This signifies that they have now truly become members of Dawn City, participating in its management and development.
During the conference, Li Chenglong and his team conducted a detailed investigation of all departments and areas of Shuguang City, gaining a thorough understanding of its current development. He truly traversed Shuguang City on foot, visiting every corner and learning from the people. As a result, Shuguang City's regulations, management systems, and laws are now widely welcomed by people from all walks of life and the general public.
It's worth mentioning that reporters from Huaxia headquarters provided live coverage of the entire series of meetings in Shuguang City and Li Chenglong's research trips to various locations. Huaxia headquarters also produced a special documentary about Shuguang City, which was broadcast in seven episodes during prime time across Huaxia.
Seven days later, the various meetings in Dawn City concluded, and everything returned to normal. At this time, Lena and dozens of warriors from Roland and Hyland arrived in Dawn City. According to the agreement made by the Interstellar Alliance, to ensure a relative balance between Earth's combat power and the alien coalition forces, and to protect Earth from the void creatures, Lena, Roddick, and Sera would each lead a group of high-ranking warriors to be stationed on Earth.
Her arrival and that of the warriors were welcomed by Li Chenglong and others. The relevant departments of Dawn City also held a small welcoming ceremony. After the ceremony, Lena and Watson, the squad leader of the guard directly under the Elder Council of Hailan Star, held a small meeting with various senior administrators of Dawn City on the second floor of the Dawn Tower. At the meeting, they explained in detail the purpose of their visit to Dawn City and introduced the warriors they had brought.
Accompanying them were five female elf warriors from Roland Star, who were to accompany Li Chenglong to the Interstellar Alliance headquarters. To make amends to Dawn City and to express goodwill towards Li Chenglong, Princess Sera of Roland Star personally gifted him a small interstellar warship with performance far superior to the Dawn.
In addition, they brought a large quantity of grain and vegetable seeds cultivated on Roland Star itself. These crops not only grow quickly and have high yields, but they also contain a large amount of energy, enough to meet the food needs of hundreds of thousands of people in Dawn City. Most importantly, these crops can grow without a psionic space; the yield is lower on normal land, but it's still sufficient.
That evening, Li Chenglong had just finished showering and was about to blow-dry his hair. Yun Lan sat on the bed, looking at the manual for the new S2 transformable mecha, and asked, "Are you really going to the Interstellar Alliance headquarters? I heard it's extremely far away. Even the latest warship, the Flying Dragon, that Princess Sera gave you, will take a month to reach it. The universe is vast and boundless; what if something dangerous happens?"
Li Chenglong smiled and said, "I'm still going. You know how terrifying those void creatures are. I'm going to the Interstellar Alliance headquarters on behalf of Earth to negotiate with them and find a way to fight them. Don't worry, I'll be back as soon as I'm done. The Flying Dragon is on the way, so I should arrive safely. Plus, I have a letter of introduction from three planets and warriors from Roland Star to escort me, so nothing will happen."
Seeing the S2 transformable mech manual in Yunlan's hand, Li Chenglong thought for a moment before saying, "This new type of mech can now be manufactured in our Dawn City industrial zone. Although it's slow, we can still produce two a day. While this mech is much stronger than the S1 model, it's also much more difficult to operate and puts a greater strain on the pilot's body. After I leave, don't rush into actual piloting training unless you're absolutely certain."
The two leaned against the headboard and talked for the entire night, almost from the moment they joined Xiaolong Special Forces until the present. However, Yunlan did most of the talking, while Li Chenglong listened attentively, occasionally interjecting a few words.
The next morning, Li Chenglong arrived at the China headquarters aboard the X2 passenger spaceship. Surprisingly, high-ranking officials like Chen Guoqiang and Zhao Wannian personally came to greet him, leaving Li Chenglong somewhat flattered. Commander Chen Guoqiang had learned some of the details through Liu Xuehua's report.
He specifically summoned Li Chenglong, and after his secretary Han Fei left first, the two had a long conversation. In fact, through recent communications with Teacher Lena and others, Li Chenglong realized that he seemed to have misunderstood something before.
The initial idea behind the G-Gem, a growth-type energy aggregate, was indeed to cultivate it and then use its immense energy to attract the vast majority of void creatures, which would then explode together in the dimensional rifts to eliminate most of them.
However, in later research, especially during the continuous growth of the G-Stone, Li Chenglong surprisingly gained the ability to cross dimensions. Furthermore, in the battle two weeks prior, Rena and the others were astonished to discover that the skills Li Chenglong unleashed, infused with G-Stone energy, were highly lethal to Void creatures. Roddick, Sera, and Rena immediately began experiments and, combining this with data sent by the Interstellar Alliance, concluded that they now finally had a glimmer of hope—that a G-Stone user could directly confront Void creatures without sacrificing their own.
When Commander Chen Guoqiang learned of this situation, he was very pleased. Although the threat of the Void Creatures was constantly approaching, he did not want the heroes of China and his friends to sacrifice themselves for peace.
After consuming the psionic apple gifted by Li Chenglong, Commander Chen Guoqiang has now become a Level 8 dual-elemental ability user. Originally over seventy, he now looks like he's only forty-five or forty-six. He has repeatedly told Li Chenglong that in private, they are not in a superior-subordinate relationship, but rather friends. Li Chenglong naturally agrees, but since his superior treats him as a friend, he cannot overstep his bounds in his behavior.
In the following days, Li Chenglong traveled to many places in China and even across the globe, meeting with friends and business partners. He also gleaned a crucial piece of information: Zhao Wuji planned to leave Earth with his subordinates after the threat of the void creatures was eliminated, to find a suitable planet to live on. While this had previously sounded like a fantasy, with the arrival of the space fleet, it was no longer so far-fetched.
At 8:12 AM on December 10th, after bidding farewell to the high-ranking officials of Dawn City and the Dawn Army, Li Chenglong also gave some instructions to his family members, including Yunlan, Li Yunhao, Li Xue, and Han Xiaoling. Then, he and five other warriors from Roland Star, including Cynthia, boarded the Flying Dragon and left Earth.
Because the matter of the void creatures is currently only known to the higher-ups, and to avoid causing panic, the Chinese headquarters has also requested that the news not be disseminated. Therefore, Dawn City TV did not broadcast the scene live, but only broadcast a brief news report stating that Li Chenglong had gone to negotiate with the alien coalition.
The Flying Dragon left the atmosphere in just two minutes. Li Chenglong then took a serious look at the blue and beautiful Earth before signaling to Cynthia that she could leave. It's worth mentioning that as the Flying Dragon departed, Marina, Babar, and others actually came to see it off in a regular spaceship, paying their respects to Li Chenglong with cosmic etiquette.