"This feels great!"
Li Yao played with the 'Mountain Crabs' for a long time. He then squatted on the ridge in the field and observed how the pioneering magical equipment that could shatter rocks directly and turn them into soil after mixing special nutrition liquids and bases worked. He also studied the whole process of how the immigrant starships of the Imperium unfolded into modern towns and bases. He could not have felt more refreshed and happy.
It wasn't that he was being pretentious or trying to play the game of "being approachable and having fun with the people". It was purely his nature to do so.
He had been a fan of magical equipment since he was little. All kinds of magical equipment, whether civil or military, would be his cup of tea as long as they were advanced and novel enough. He could not wait to play with them.
The Imperium of True Human Beings boasted one of the best technological capabilities in the civilization of mankind. Both the military magical equipment such as the Crystal Suit and the arsenal starships and the civil magical equipment such as the 'Mountain Crabs' and the immigrant starships had a lot of unique features. Many of their designs and operation patterns were unbelievable and whimsical. Li Yao was truly amazed and broadened his horizons.
Compared to being involved in the complicated political turbulences and competing with a bunch of cunning people, Li Yao would rather stay on Boneyard day and night to dismantle all the civil magical equipment of the Imperium and study it while he enjoyed the atmosphere where everybody was working together to build the desolate mountains into a beautiful home. That was what was truly worth being happy about!
At this moment, the awkwardness in Li Yao's heart that he had been forced to the throne of 'Black Wind King' was finally gone. He had to admit that it was the best choice. It was a win-win situation. No, triple wins. No, quadruple wins. The Federation, the Black Wind Fleet, the Ancient Sages Sector, and even the rightful government of the Star Ocean Republic on Firefly would all benefit from such a cooperation.
Naturally, the Xing Yao Federation would be the biggest winner.
The first trophies that they collected were not the arsenal warships, shield warships, and other warships of the Black Wind Fleet that were armed to the teeth but the immigrant fleets that carried a large batch of technicians and contained the colonization technologies of the Imperium.
It must be noted that before the Black Wind Fleet's attack, the Xing Yao Federation had already reached a bottleneck after a hundred years of golden development. It was mainly because the speed of expansion and the colonization technologies were too fast to keep up, which led to the unbalanced development of population, resources, and space zones, which led to a series of internal conflicts and structural problems.
The Xing Yao Federation boasted a population of a hundred billion and seven Sectors. On the surface, the average population of each Sector was more than ten billion.
But in fact, the distribution of the hundred billion population was too abnormal.
On one hand, the highly-developed Sectors such as the Tian Yuan Realm, the Uranian Ring Sector, the Flying Star Sector, and the Blood Demon Sector boasted more than eighty percent of the population of the Federation. The population was already beyond the limits of tolerance. Diseases, resource exhaustion, and aging were very serious in the major cities. A lot of population control measures had to be taken.
On the other hand, the Water Crystal Sector, the Forest Ocean Sector, the Nether World Sector, the resource planets, and places such as Boneyard had a harsh environment, a vast territory, and few people. Because of the lack of population and the lack of effective population, their development was extremely slow.
Precious resources were not necessarily hidden deep inside those Sectors, but the stormy deserts of the Water Crystal Sector, the primitive forests of the Forest Ocean Sector, and the wastelands of the Nether World Sector that were filled with radiation were not places that ordinary people could settle down and develop easily.
With the technological reserves and manpower of the Federation right now, it was impossible for them to fully transform those Sectors. Even if they gritted their teeth and developed them without caring about the cost, the resources that they invested in the Sectors would far exceed the total amount of resources that they could produce in the next hundred years. Now that a great enemy was right in front of them, it would be suicidal.
Therefore, the people of the Federation could only watch the resources hidden deep inside those Sectors while they coveted them and dreamed about their beautiful future.
Take Boneyard below Li Yao's feet for example.
Speaking of which, Li Yao and Boneyard were rather destined. Years ago, as a member of Occult Orbs Fellowship, he was one of the first people of the Federation to set foot on the planet. Later, he discovered 'Sparkle', a multipurpose exploration starship from the Star Ocean Imperium, and died together with Skeleton Dragon on Sparkle. Eventually, he jumped to the Flying Star Sector and began his soul-stirring journey in space.
Since Boneyard was the headquarters of Skeleton Dragon, an expert of the demon race, forty thousand years ago, and demons and human beings were of the same origin, the place naturally had an atmosphere, breathable air, a relatively stable crustal structure, and standard gravity.
Compared to the planets made of fatal acids, it was almost a paradise on earth. Also, because of the facilities left by Skeleton Dragon deep below the ground, it should have been a rather good settlement, or at least a resource development area.
However, the surging tides thousands of meters high were rising on the ocean, which eroded the hundreds of square kilometers around the coastline periodically. The inland was nothing but endless mountains and ridges, which were barren and barren.
In such an abnormal environment, even if a large batch of hardworking demons were transported here from afar, it would be barely possible for them to export the resources effectively.
Therefore, the Federation's development on Boneyard had been delayed for various reasons in the past hundred years. Few Cultivators and experts of the demon race had established some settlements and research stations in the place, but they had never been established on a large scale. The deserts of the Water Crystal Sector, the jungles of the Forest Ocean Sector, and the wastelands of the Nether World Sector were all the same.
The surrender of the Black Wind Fleet was a timely help.
The fleet below the brown dwarf commanded by Di Feiwen, other than the logistics troops that delivered the military assets, was made up of immigrant starships that carried billions of civilians. No wonder a 'businessman' such as him was responsible for the overall planning.
Those immigrant starships all represented the essence of the colonization technology of the Imperium. They were at least one generation ahead of the Federation. With the help of the technologies that they exported incessantly, it was finally possible to modify and develop Boneyard, the Water Crystal Sector, the Forest Ocean Sector, and the Nether World Sector on a large scale.
The Federation did not turn Boneyard, the Water Crystal Sector, and the Forest Ocean Sector into settlements for the civilians of the Black Wind Fleet just because of humanitarianism or petty benevolence.
On one hand, the Federation needed the technologies and specialists of the Black Wind Fleet to modify the harsh environment and change the status quo of the barren lands as quickly as possible so that the war potential could be accumulated. It would also create favorable conditions for more people of the Federation to move in later.
On the other hand, a lot of specialists, technicians, and apprentices of the Federation had arrived, too. They ate and lived together with the specialists of the Black Wind Fleet, built new homes together, and learned the most advanced colonization technology of the Imperium.
The edge of the cosmos was a boundless place. There were actually a lot of planets that could still be exploited. It was just that the Federation had never been able to appreciate those planets before because of the technological limitations.
Once they learned the advanced technologies of the Imperium and grasped the 'internal arts', the Federation would be able to launch a new round of expansion and make the comprehensive national strength soar again!
Of course, the necessary wariness was still there. The people of the Federation would certainly not do something as stupid as' open the door to the thieves', only to have their nest taken over by somebody else in the end.
Li Yao knew himself well enough to know that 'Black Wind King' was just a nominal title. He did not intend to be involved in the political struggles of various aspects for a long time.
However, he had a very suitable candidate under his wing — Jin Xinyue!
Jin Xinyue was almost a woman born for schemes and power. Ever since the 'Dim Moon Plan' almost failed, she had been keeping a low profile. But it did not mean that her seething ambitions had completely hibernated. She was simply looking for new battlefields and new prey.
Boneyard became Jin Xinyue's new stage. How to accept and modify everybody in the Black Wind Fleet, from 'Immortal Cultivators' to 'hominoids', became a new challenge for Jin Xinyue. The queen of demons was more than willing to endure the hardship. Therefore, she had migrated a large batch of strong demons from the Blood Demon Sector as the first layer of 'insurance'.
Li Yao believed that after Jin Tuyi, who was one of the best strategists in the Federation, passed away, Jin Xinyue, who had inherited her father's will, would certainly grow even bigger. At the very least, the few malicious guys in the Black Wind Fleet would certainly not be able to escape her eyes. It was sort of 'fighting fire with fire', wasn't it?
The second layer of 'insurance' was Firefly.
In the space battle more than half a year ago, the Xing Yao Federation secured an unexpected victory. When the news reached Firefly, the ministers of the 'rightful government of the Star Ocean Republic' were all dumbfounded and shocked.
It was especially so when they learned that the members of the so-called 'Team Red Lotus' turned out to be the top experts of the Yuanying Sector from the Ancient Sages Sector who each had a Colossus, and that their 'captain' was the legendary 'Vulture Li Yao', everybody, including Speaker Cui Lingfeng and Captain Tang Dingyuan, was completely dumbfounded.
After the plot of the extraterrestrial devils, the assault of the Black Wind Fleet, Li Yao's dominance, and many other details of the battle were revealed one after another, the integration of Firefly and the Xing Yao Federation was no longer suspenseful. The exiled starship that had drifted among the dark planets for a thousand years finally sailed to a new home.
Right now, the legal experts of the two parties were still negotiating on the details of the name and the structure, but Firefly had already jumped from the Dragon Snake Space Zone to Boneyard and disconnected the hundreds of starships that were connected to it, landing on the surface of Boneyard.
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