[No, I won't.]

[Only one star, Alpha Centauri A, has entered the Circular Flow stage, but self-awareness will only be born after its destruction. Actually, the distances between them are very far.]

[It's still in the stellar stage over there.]

[I'll borrow their bodies for a while, and I'll return them afterward as long as I don't break them.]

Zhou Yi didn't quite understand the matter of stellar ecology, so he couldn't offer any opinions. He asked the Golden Tree to be careful with everything.

Originally, seven Artificial Suns were planned to be gathered on the Moon, but the Golden Tree couldn't wait any longer. After sets 101, 102, and 103 were assembled, it manipulated the Trinity stage Transformer Sun to rush to Proxima Centauri, embarking on its first field visit.

...

As the year-end approached.

The entire world needed to temporarily enter a period of recovery; the Eastern and Western Continents were both calming down, and disputes and conflicts were confined to localized areas.

Too many things happened this year.

There were both good and bad events.

The beginning of the year witnessed the ascent of the Artificial Sun.

During the Wasteland era, humanity began to rewrite natural disasters for the first time and used their tangible hands to control the atmosphere and the Dead Sea.

Then the Monster Radish spread across various places, the consciousness nerve industry officially emerged, leading to a series of chain reactions.

This created enormous value economically, pushing agriculture, which was originally nearing saturation, to a new level. The farmlands supplying oil and sugar for the Floating Heart gained more added value themselves.

Based on this, the company launched the Wasteland Armor, capturing consciousness fragments across regions, thereby allowing the material side to possess the physical tool to interact with the consciousness side for the first time.

Through collecting consciousness fragments, they ultimately began mass-producing the Heavenly Pearl, driving every level of society from civilians to Skywalkers, showing unprecedented active vitality within the labor society in each region.

Then various major groups gradually started flocking to Mars. Those with money contributed financially, those with manpower contributed physically, all seeing huge business and profit opportunities in extraterrestrial development.

Within the company, they reached an agreement on the Dead Sea stabilization plan and affiliated with the Golden Tree in the Sun, securing a strong alliance.

There were also negative aspects.

Firstly, there were frauds and false reporting incidents brought by demolition, which still appeared in various places to this date. Where there is profit, there are always people trying to exploit loopholes and take risks.

The Dead Sea Park hadn't been established for long, and there were still many supportive management and maintenance projects needing improvement, exposing several shortcomings.

The two events with the largest impact scale were:

The first was the underground smuggling.

These people and Guangna Species wanted to dig tunnels underground into Dead Sea Park, secretly hiding in positions one to two meters underground, enjoying the abundant pure Death Light in the park for free.

The underground smuggling involved dozens of regions, with more than a thousand people implicated.

The second was the black market card.

To break through the outer Light Soot wall and avoid recognition by Jade City's internal security system, entering level 2 and 3 Dead Sea Parks, a gang developed a special program[Access Card].

This was called the black market card on the black market, with each card usable only once, scrapping upon use, priced at only 30% of the standard ticket, available in two versions: 0.3 Light Seed and 1.5 Light Seed.

Over 300,000 black market cards were circulating on the market, involving a vast amount of money.

If it weren't for the Western Continent's overflow, leading several sea lords to jointly seek help from the company, these black market cards might have continued growing for much longer.

Under Zhou Yi's personal supervision, the security department arrested the entire gang, which surprisingly consisted of only two members, both being mechanical life forms of car types.

A Ford Focus and a Nissan Tiida.

The Focus specialized in tinkering with black market cards, while the Tiida went out selling goods.

The most absurd part was.

They wholly relied on cracking the company's products to start their career, initially forging Floating Hearts, then dealing Western electric cats on the black market, previously engaged in pirating projection wall equipment — which was the entertainment department's externally sold game consoles.

After Dead Sea Park gained heat, they continued iterating their products, devising black market cards.

They kept exploiting the company at every opportunity.

Zhou Yi even specifically met with them, asking why they only cracked the company's products.

The Tiida responsible for sales explained, "I've researched the market; the company's products are very popular. Particularly in the Western Continent, there are fewer distributors over there, so there's often a shortage. This direction is what we've been deeply cultivating, so..."

The Focus responsible for technology commented, "The company's goods are simple and easy to use, cracking them isn't a hard technical challenge, mainly relying on thought. Since the company keeps releasing new products, new items inevitably have loopholes, giving a chance to crack before those loopholes are patched... I really like the company's products, so cracking them gives me a sense of accomplishment."

Ultimately, through a vote by several department directors within the company.

Everyone decided to bring these two talents in as special recruits.

They both joined the manufacturing department, becoming formal employees of the company, showcasing their strengths in sales and anti-cracking capabilities.

Additionally, there were Basil-induced bomb man terrorist incidents, droughts, and a series of underground pollution and Radiation problems following the Dead Sea demolition...

Though each year passed with storms and rains, the year-end was generally a relatively relaxed phase for everyone.

Not only because the steadily rising annual bonuses were distributed each year at this time, but also due to all departments starting to summarize, employees could see the impact they made on the world, even if only in a small part of a certain field.

The sense of involvement and pride was a unique experience.