Chapter 65: The Airport is Completed!
Zhong Huihui handed her terminal to Su Wudeng, which was already playing a freshly released interview.
On the screen, Lin Rongsen looked both furious and deeply sorrowful. “…Many people present at the scene saw it with their own eyes,” he claimed into the microphones. “Su Wudeng powered up her dreadnought and initialized its primary combat sequence, aiming heavy artillery directly at the civilian sector of Athens. If I hadn’t detected the operational anomaly in time and stepped forward to defuse the situation, I am deathly terrified that an unrestricted war would have engulfed our entire planet…”
“…I have formally escalated the incident logs to the high command of the Ether War Zone, and I place my faith in their military tribunals to launch a thorough investigation so we can ensure a catastrophic security breach of this scale never threatens our citizens again…”
“…Furthermore, I strongly condemn Su Wudeng’s reckless, lawless behavior. Her actions didn’t merely compromise the structural safety of Athens; they represent an absolute, direct threat to the defense grid of the entire Federation…”
“Consequently, every single executive director of the Scott Galaxy Beast-Taming Association has executed a unanimous vote to permanently expel Su Wudeng from our ranks. Her credentials have been permanently revoked, and she is barred from ever holding office within our legislative body again…”
“The formal expulsion decree has already been routed to the Ares Galaxy Supreme Council for final statutory verification. I possess absolute faith that the high council will deliver the correct judicial resolution…”
The playback terminated, and Zhong Huihui was practically vibrating with indignation. “The bastard is blatantly manipulating the narrative to frame you, Manager! How could any sapient being manufacture a lie of that magnitude?!”
“But the immediate operational hurdle is that Lin Rongsen’s interview has completely broken the Starnet’s algorithms. Billions of users are actively debating the conflict.”
“Our official media accounts are buried under a mountain of reports, and thousands of demands are trending, ordering our establishment to step forward and issue a formal defense statement.”
“Manager, should we immediately route a high-priority dispatch to General Chu to secure his intervention? He will absolutely enforce a just resolution for our house!”
Su Wudeng exited the media player, shifting her interface to track the Starnet’s trending index. Predictably, eight out of the top ten high-traffic hashtags were explicitly driving the controversy:
#LinRongsenExposesSuWudengBattleshipDeployment #SuWudengExpelledFromScottAssociation #IsSuWudengPsychoticallyUnstable? #VisualEvidenceExposed!CombatSequenceConfirmed
She tapped the fourth trending topic, which contained a localized video file uploaded by a verified anonymous whistleblower.
The raw footage captured General Chu’s dreadnought running at absolute maximum combat readiness, the pitch-black, glowing plasma muzzles of its heavy turrets pointed dead-center at the recording drone’s lens. The visual perspective was exceptionally heavy and suffocating, radiating an ominous kinetic threat that made it look as though a planetary bombardment was imminent.
Reviewing the footage, Zhong Huihui felt her breath hitch. She cast a thoroughly shaken, wide-eyed look at her manager. “Manager… this visual profile…”
“You didn’t truly intend to open fire on the docks, did you? No, that’s impossible. Is this video a deep-fake synthesis?”
Su Wudeng’s gaze remained entirely indifferent, her voice cool. “The visual data is authentic.”
“However, the sequential order of events has been systematically reversed. Their armed enforcement fleets blocked our trajectory first, and my matrix merely initialized a passive defense protocol.”
She pointed her finger toward the edge of the holographic projection. “Directly outside our hull perimeter, Lin Rongsen had deployed an entire active security division. The individual who recorded this data was exceptionally clever; they utilized digital clipping to completely wipe out every single one of Lin Rongsen’s corporate vehicles from the frame. Consequently, to an uneducated viewer, it looks as though our dreadnought initiated an unprovoked assault.”
Lin Rongsen had cleanly sliced away the introduction and the resolution of the timeline, completely burying the core cause-and-effect structure of the standoff, isolating nothing but the micro-second where Su Wudeng’s combat frames initialized. Wielding the data this way made it child’s play to trick the public into believing that Chong’ai Pet Home was the primary aggressor.
It was a highly sophisticated, deeply effective inversion of right and wrong.
Staring at the screen, Zhong Huihui felt an icy dread settle into her chest. “Manager, what’s our counter-play? The man is completely unburdened by shame! What is his true endgame?”
What else could it be? His closing remarks had explicitly outlined the goal: to legally strip her of her legislative seat on the association board. The entire media campaign was merely a smoke screen engineered to clear the path for that statutory objective.
Su Wudeng reasoned calmly, “Do not lose focus. Every standard military warship carries an encrypted sovereign black-box recorder. Initiate an immediate data pull for that specific temporal log.”
Zhong Huihui’s fingers flew across her terminal, routing an official clearance to the dreadnought’s internal computer to extract the external sensor files from the standoff.
However, the moment she unlocked the playback file, her hands froze. The exterior footage contained zero traces of Lin Rongsen’s armed enforcement division. The airspace surrounding their hull appeared completely empty.
Zhong Huihui’s mind went entirely blank. “How can the data be corrupt? It’s blank? Is it possible their cyber-warfare units managed to infiltrate our black box to overwrite the file?”
Su Wudeng pondered the variables for a brief interlude before shaking her head. “Mathematically impossible. The black-box array is a standardized, hard-coded asset manufactured by the Federation’s high military command, and its cryptographic clearance level inside the ship’s mainframe is absolute. A civilian conglomerate lacks the processing infrastructure required to alter those sectors.”
“Therefore, the omission can only yield one deduction: they engineered the distortion outside our hull.”
“Those corporate security vehicles traveled to the hangar heavily optimized for stealth. They almost certainly deployed a high-spec tactical cloaking blanket designed specifically to blind our black box’s sensory receptors, preventing our ship from logging their physical presence.”
The hypothesis was entirely consistent with core world tech capabilities. Before launching their ambush, Lin Rongsen’s analysts would have thoroughly reviewed the dreadnought’s hardware blueprints, identifying it as a standard Federation military asset. Knowing exactly how its automated recording sensors mapped reality, they simply deployed specialized electronic countermeasures to ensure their offensive units remained entirely invisible to her black box.
And without that primary empirical verification, she had zero material evidence to clear her house’s name before a tribunal—precisely the trap she was currently sitting in.
Zhong Huihui’s expression turned entirely bleak. “Manager… does this imply they had pre-programmed this entire trap before we even touched down in Athens?”
Su Wudeng tapped her fingers rhythmically against the desktop. Who says a counter-attack requires a black-box file to succeed?
Lin Rongsen’s leaked video merely provided empirical proof that she had powered up her defense grids. The claims he had manufactured regarding her internal motivations or “unprovoked madness” were nothing more than unverified, subjective assertions; they didn’t constitute legal evidence.
If his corporate legal team possessed a bulletproof case, why would he waste time guiding public opinion and leaking edited packages to the media instead of simply having the Ether War Zone’s high marshals place her under immediate arrest?
The answer was simple: he was forced to rely on public outrage to neutralize her influence. He knew she held absolute veto authority over his regulatory bills. If he could successfully convince the populace that she was a homicidal maniac who aimed heavy artillery at civilian docks, her political support would vanish overnight, making it impossible for her to maintain her office on the board.
Therefore, the critical center of gravity in this conflict wasn’t the legal framework—it was public perception.
Su Wudeng suddenly looked up. “Huihui, you noted earlier that the global tracking metrics for this controversy have shattered the Starnet’s algorithms? The traffic volume is at an all-time high?”
“Tell me… if our channel launches an immediate, unrestricted live broadcast right now, what baseline viewership will our feed command?”
Zhong Huihui stared at her manager in profound shock. “Manager, you intend to launch a live defense stream right now? But our database contains zero physical evidence to refute his files! The netizens will simply tear us apart!”
The worst-case scenario was that their explanation would be perceived by an angry public as a pathetic, unverified corporate excuse, causing the public outrage to solidify completely behind Lin Rongsen’s narrative.
She added anxiously, “Our highest operational priority must be locating an independent witness to secure a material counter-file.”
Su Wudeng merely smirked, her brow arching. “Who says my house lacks evidence? Maintain your composure and activate the broadcasting array. I will show you exactly how to rewrite their worldview.”
She had spent the last hour trying to calculate a high-impact marketing strategy to publicize their new interstellar transit port, and right on schedule, Lin Rongsen had generously gifted her a global, multi-billion-view trending index.
She would be an absolute fool not to hijack this sky-high traffic for her own balance sheet!
Following ten minutes of streamlined operational preparations, Su Wudeng locked in the transmission keys.
The exact millisecond the channel went live, the concurrent viewer tally exploded, smashing past two million users within seconds as the Starnet’s notification matrix cleared.
She offered a calm, perfectly serene smile to the camera. “Good evening, Starnet community. I am Su Wudeng, Absolute Sovereign of Chong’ai Pet Home. It has been entirely too long~”
[Manager Su! Are you broadcasting right now to deliver a formal statement regarding the Athens incident? I believe in you!]
[My allegiance remains with the manager! She chose to launch a stream at the absolute peak of the crisis; she must possess definitive evidence to clear her name!]
[What is there left to clear?! The whistleblower’s video literally shows her heavy turrets powered up and tracking civilian coordinates! There is zero excuse for that level of kinetic threat, right?]
[…Honestly, I couldn’t care less about corporate border disputes. Did anyone actually die? No. I just want to know what new species the manager brought home! When is the next pre-order block opening?!]
[Exactly! The channel has been dark for days, and my feed was starved for fluff. I assume the manager traveled out to secure a massive biological surprise for us, right? Hehe~ my credits are ready!]
[Where are the citizens of Athens? A backwater vendor literally tracked her heavy plasma batteries onto your city, and you guys are sitting in the chat without launching a counter-strike? Cowards!]
The scrolling text fields flashed past at blistering speed. Su Wudeng analyzed the streams, mentally segmenting the audience into three distinct categories: the loyal fans awaiting her explanation; a massive, highly synchronized wave of corporate internet bots desperately trying to force the narrative toward her criminal guilt; and a massive, completely unbothered segment of animal-lovers who had flooded the channel solely to track new pet allocations.
The balance of the room was vastly superior to what her analysts had predicted. Most surprisingly, the final category commanded an immense volume of users.
This specific demographic possessed zero interest in interstellar geopolitics or corporate hot searches. Their singular, unwavering objective was to secure a contract with a real beast, and they were aggressively spamming the chat to demand updates.
When your value proposition is absolute, the market will ignore any amount of corporate noise.
Su Wudeng locked in her strategy, her smile widening as she addressed the lens. “Our primary agenda for today’s broadcast is to officially introduce the newest, elite members of our growing Chong’ai family matrix~”
“First up, allow me to present our exceptionally precious Saber-Toothed Tiger infants. I assume our military history buffs possess comprehensive knowledge regarding this lineage—the reigning, legendary commander-class war beast of the Ether War Zone belongs to this exact taxonomic branch. The developmental potential of this species is historically unmatched~”
She smoothly panned the high-res tracking drone down, focusing the lens on the nursery enclosure where the tiger cubs were wrestling. The juveniles were tiny, their faces perfectly round and plump. Their large, liquid eyes blinked curiously at the floating camera sensor, radiating a concentrated charm that was completely lethal to the senses.
One of the braver cubs sprinted directly toward the lens, its thick baby paws swatting frantically at the casing before Su Wudeng’s slender fingers gently scooped it up by the scruff. “Behave yourself, little warrior. Don’t damage the equipment.”
The little “brain-axe” let out a tiny, high-pitched mew, its limbs instantly locking into a stiff, submissive freeze as it floated in the air, not daring to move a single muscle.
The moment its belly touched back down onto the padded mat, the cub immediately executed a dramatic roll, protecting its neck while extending its four thick, fuzzy paws to tightly clamp onto Su Wudeng’s fingers—
“Awoo~”
It opened its small mouth, attempting to execute a fierce, protective bite against her hand, but finding its baby teeth lacked the structural development to puncture skin, it simply gave her finger a sloppy, wet lick before collapsing back onto the floor, staring up at the lens with wide, innocent eyes.
The cub had entirely forgotten that its primary teeth hadn’t even cleared the gums yet!
The comical display made Su Wudeng chuckle, her fingers gently scratching the soft fur behind its ears.
[Ahhhh! That Saber-Toothed tiger cub is illegally cute! My chest is literally aching just looking at that face!]
[Look at how thick those paws are! It’s an absolute cloud of milk-fat! I have never envied a pair of human hands more than I do right now!]
[My structural defenses have collapsed completely. How can an apex war beast look this overwhelmingly precious~ I can’t endure this~ let me kiss him through the screen!]
[I am launching a heist protocol immediately! God dammit, my tracking sensors don’t lie—that is officially my tiger!]
[To look this incredibly soft during infancy, only to transform into an unchallengeable engine of destruction upon maturity… this is the mount of my absolute dreams! Come to me, baby!]
[Hehe~ the little brain-axe is perfect! I am booking a transport right now!]
[…Wait a minute, do not let yourselves be manipulated by her marketing! Su Wudeng is explicitly utilizing fluff to redirect the conversation away from her war crimes!]
[What conversation? I don’t care about your corporate boards! I just want to secure an operational window to contract with that little tiger! Little brain-axe, lock onto my bio-signature! I promise to allocate my entire life’s earnings to your nutrition!]
[Passerby user here, I logged in solely to track the political scandal… but wait, I think I just underwent an absolute conversion! I am a fanatical loyalist now! My feet literally refuse to leave the channel after looking at that tiger! My soul has been completely conquered! Please, Manager Su, open up the contract queues for the tiger cubs immediately!]
…
The corporate bot networks were completely frozen. Their managers had spent the entire night drafting complex scripts to systematically discredit Su Wudeng’s character the moment she attempted a defense statement, mapping out every legal and logical angle to crush her reputation.
But Su Wudeng wasn’t playing by the rules of engagement.
She didn’t even acknowledge the existence of the Athens star system. She simply panned the camera and started showcasing babies!
Millions of neutral users who had logged into the stream solely to witness a high-profile political takedown found themselves entirely derailed, completely forgetting their duty to cosmic justice as they drowned in the pure, unadulterated cuteness of the tiger cubs.
The praise in the chat became an absolute avalanche, completely burying the bot scripts. Concurrently, the stream’s baseline traffic curve skyrocketed, clearing five million concurrent viewers within minutes.
The bot operators stared at their monitors in profound defeat. It’s just a tiger cub! How can a baseline consumer abandon their geopolitical morals for a ball of fluff?!
Before they could mount a secondary script, Su Wudeng shifted the drone’s telemetry tracks once more—
“Alright, our evaluation of the tiger nursery is complete. Let’s pivot our sensors toward our secondary lineage: the Holy Lion!”
“Behold an exceptionally stunning strain—a celestial cub whose coat radiates a natural golden glow under the studio arrays~”
The lens rotated, and the shimmering golden lion cubs materialized before the global audience.
Though their physical mass remained tiny, the rich reflective index of their golden coats was remarkably striking, casting a beautiful, soft halo across the mats.
Su Wudeng reached down, her fingers sweeping through their silken fur. “The baseline socialization of these lions is superb; their temperaments are naturally vibrant, enthusiastic, and they possess a profound desire for human proximity~”
As if validating her analysis, the golden cubs began pressing their heavy heads against her open palm, purring loudly as they nuzzled her wrist.
“Wow, their tactile feedback is entirely identical to an oversized domestic feline~” Su Wudeng praised.
[Gasps! Ahhhh! How can a biological coat possess that level of golden luster?! It’s magnificent!]
[Vibrant, affectionate, and golden! My aesthetic sensors have been completely conquered! I can’t handle this level of visual luxury!]
[I refuse to believe I am the only degenerate in this chat whose greed has scaled to want both the tiger and the lion! I demand both!]
[Waking up and immediately seeing a celestial sun-lion on my feed… my day has been completely validated. Thank you, Manager!]
[I’ve already screenshotted every single frame from the macro-lens. I hereby declare this golden baby as the undisputed ruler of my terminal backdrop!]
…
“And our final introductory lineage for today is our sleek shadow stalker, the Shadow Wind Leopard~”
Su Wudeng toggled the interface, and the midnight-black panther cubs stepped into the frame.
“The Shadow Wind Leopard is an elite stealth class built for extreme kinetic velocity and absolute cloaking. Their hide features a flawless, uncorrupted obsidian tone, framed by striking emerald-green eyes. Do not let their cold, elegant aesthetics deceive you; their behavioral data indicates they are profoundly clingy companions~”
One second, the sleek panthers were sitting obediently before the lens; the next, their frames blurred into a black shadow, vanishing entirely from the tracking matrix.
The moment Su Wudeng initialized a vocal recall, they re-materialized with the speed of a localized gust of wind, lining up along her arm and aggressively rubbing their sleek crowns against the back of her hand.
“Can you adjust your velocity downwards, sweeties? Give our viewers a proper window to admire your coat patterns~”
The nearest panther cub tilted its head, its magnificent emerald eyes staring innocently into the camera lens, its long black tail curling upward into a perfect little question mark as it stood proud.
[Sleek, elite, highly lethal, yet entirely clingy! That is the absolute definition of my dream companion mount!]
[To pack that much majestic grace into a tiny, clumsy infant frame… it’s making me scream out loud!]
[Manager Su! You can entrust that panther to my care with absolute confidence! My security clearance is pristine!]
[My emotional shields have suffered total structural failure. I managed to survive the tiger and the lion, but this obsidian panther has completely broken my bank account!]
[Mysterious midnight black paired with deep emerald eyes… my resistance is zero! Manager, name your price! I am buying it!]
The moment the third lineage cleared the presentation protocols, the stream’s traffic metrics violently broke through the ceiling, clearing ten million concurrent viewers.
The active barrage of the chat transformed into a monolithic wall of pure adoration, frantic demands for pre-order queues, and requests for contract matching. The remaining corporate bots attempting to inject political outrage were instantaneously swept away by the sheer velocity of the users’ enthusiasm, their scripts deleted by the rapid scroll.
Every single ounce of the high-volume traffic Lin Rongsen had generated through his political hot searches had been completely funneled right into Su Wudeng’s broadcasting room—and once there, every single user had been thoroughly, irrevocably hypnotized by the charm of the nursery, unable to extricate themselves from the fluff.
Su Wudeng monitored the viewer metrics with absolute satisfaction. No sapient mind can withstand the coordinated deployment of a tiger, a lion, and a leopard cub.
The infants remain undefeated.
Seeing that the traffic acceleration curve was beginning to reach its natural equilibrium, Su Wudeng decided the time was ripe to deploy her primary tactical payload. Her tone suddenly shifted, dropping to a serious, measured register.
“In the interest of absolute transparency… every single one of these infants was personally liberated by my hand from an active, illegal corporate poaching syndicate camp.”
“Beyond these cubs, our facility is currently triage-managing dozens of critically injured, mutilated traditional beasts. The absolute, singular reason my dreadnought powered up its defense grids in the Athens sector was because I required an uninterrupted trajectory to return these dying animals to our primary medical theaters before their systems collapsed.”
“To verify my operational data, please review the official command logs from our ship’s bridge.”
Su Wudeng cast the authentic system log of the dreadnought’s combat initialization directly into the center of the live broadcast. The cryptographic file explicitly verified her precise vocal command: “…retains absolute authorization to unleash a total, unrestricted counter-strike!”
The data proved irrefutably that she hadn’t initiated an unprovoked offensive; her grid had merely prepared a automated, passive defense loop to guarantee her safety against an imminent threat.
[I knew it! My manager would never launch an unprovoked planetary assault! The corporate media has been thoroughly exposed!]
[Reviewing the data, it appears both factions possess valid arguments, right? Director Lin has the physical footage of the turrets tracking, but Manager Su’s tactical log proves her defense was reactive…]
[Oh, so just because she claims there were poachers in the sector, we’re supposed to believe her? Where is the physical evidence of this camp? These cubs look perfectly healthy and robust. How do we know she didn’t just fabricate the ‘rescue’ narrative to mask her own illegal acquisition operations?]
[The user above me is a paid corporate bot, right? Talk about a desperate argument. Anyone who has tracked Manager Su’s early broadcasts knows her world has a history of violent encounters with poachers—just look at the scar data on Yingying’s file from month one!]
[As a neutral observer, is it a crime to demand material verification? Manager Su’s explanation requires a massive leap of faith. For all we know, she is the apex poacher! Look at the sheer volume of mythic wildlife she just transported onto her planet! How is that logistically any different from a syndicate haul?]
[Are you clinically insane? You’re calling the owner of a certified sanctuary a poacher? ??? If she hadn’t extracted those infants from the wilderness, how could a bunch of newborn cubs survive an active forest sector on their own?]
The chat devolved into a fierce, high-speed debate, and the bot handlers finally found a narrow logical vector to exploit, aggressively targeting her lack of secondary proof.
Su Wudeng had anticipated their structural counter-attack. It was time to unleash the absolute killer asset.
She tilted her head, delivering a crisp wink to Zhong Huihui. The assistant instantly toggled the primary video feed, shifting the stream’s focus directly into the secure feline maternity suite.
Su Wudeng’s voiceover filled the channel. “During our extraction operation, our team successfully liberated a massive demographic of pregnant feline mothers. These animals had been systematically locked inside rusted, electrified metal boxes by the syndicate, their bodies brutally violated to serve as automated breeding units for the black market.”
“And by an absolute, beautiful miracle of nature… one of these rescued felines has been verified as the biological mother of our first-born litter of Snow Crystal kittens!”
“The data confirms they have cleared a flawless, complete family reunion~”
On the high-res feed, several of the massive cat mothers were lounging lazily across the premium furniture.
The Orange Tabby mother was collapsed flat on the luxury sofa, her four limbs extended up toward the ceiling in an absolute, shameless display of total physical relaxation.
The Calico mother was meticulously grooming her silken coat, occasionally scratching behind her ears with a paw. Suddenly, she lifted her head to look directly into the camera drone’s lens, her breathtaking, uniquely patterned face instantly stunning the entire viewer base.
Meanwhile, the Snow Crystal mother, Shelley, was nesting near the pristine panoramic window bay. Under the warm, artificial sunlight, her silken white fur glowed with an immaculate purity, her tail swaying gently against the glass, looking the absolute picture of peaceful serenity.
[Ahhh! Look at those beautiful mamas! The Snow Crystal mother and our precious Baiyun share the exact same facial geometry! It’s undeniable!]
[My heart! The cat mamas are absolutely gorgeous! Let me give them a digital kiss!]
[What a beautiful, high-welfare maternity ward. You can tell the cats feel immensely safe in that room~]
[Seriously, look at how that big orange cat is sleeping. Her system has completely let go of all defensive tension. That only happens when an animal feels entirely secure.]
[The Calico mother is stunningly elegant~ Oh my god, how can a feline possess that level of poise? My heart has been completely stolen!]
The netizens weren’t the only ones affected; watching the relaxed cats through the monitor, a soft, involuntary smile touched Su Wudeng’s lips. The felines had been deathly phobic of her presence hours prior, with only Shelley showing a tentative trust, yet within a day of entering her facility, their survival walls had completely collapsed, leaving them perfectly content.
The sheer, profound sense of professional accomplishment she felt seeing these hollowed-out corporate breeding assets reclaim their absolute, unbothered freedom was intoxicating.
Right then, the pneumatic latch of the suite chimed, and a line of kittens slipped through the opening—it was Baiyun and his siblings.
“Meow~ Meow~”
The juveniles proudly hoisted their thick tails, sprinting across the room to bury themselves in Shelley’s silken fur, trilling happily as they vied for her attention.
Baiyun: “I missed your scent, Mommy~” Xiaoxue: “The training rings were incredibly grueling today, Mom~” Xueqiu: “I require an immediate maternal cuddle protocol right now~” Xiaohua: “Look at my paws, Mommy, the pads are completely calloused from the climbing drills~”
Shelley flared her front paws, wrapping her entire bulk around the cluster of juveniles, single-mindedly delivering deep, affectionate licks to their coats as her head nudged theirs.
“My brave little cubs… consistent exercise is the only path to unlock your true strength~”
[My emotional fuel tank is completely empty! Sobs This is the most beautiful visual data on the internet today~]
[It doesn’t matter how many times I watch it, a family reunion of this caliber will always break through my cynical defenses!]
[When I think about how these magnificent mothers were locked inside rusted wire boxes, my blood boils. Seeing them this blissful makes me realize how vital the manager’s work truly is~ You must protect them at all costs, Manager Su!]
[Yes! Reclaiming your lost family after surviving a corporate harvest… the psychological weight of this victory is staggering!]
[I volunteer to join the husbandry staff solely to take care of these mamas! Manager, look at my credentials! I promise to treat them like royalty!]
[So what is the calculated labor window for the remaining pregnant mamas? I am camping on this channel until the new puppies drop!]
Tracking the rapid acceleration of inquiries on the board, Su Wudeng addressed the camera. “The automated monitoring systems indicate the labor window for our pregnant felines will initialize in precisely one month. Our official Starnet portal will publish continuous data packages regarding their progress. Thank you all for your profound empathy and love~”
“Furthermore, I am thrilled to exploit this peak traffic window to officially announce a monumental milestone for our world,” Su Wudeng said, her smile turning brilliantly confident as she dropped her secondary tactical payload. “The construction phase of our planet’s primary Interstellar Transit Port is officially complete! Moving forward, our warp gates will maintain active, direct lanes to every prominent first-tier core world—including Athens, the Sun Star, and the Flower Star—as well as scheduled freight and passenger routes to the majority of second-tier sectors, granting our consumers absolute logistical convenience!”
“To celebrate the historic completion of our warp gates, Chong’ai Pet Home will be hosting a grand planetary festival spanning three consecutive days! The itinerary includes exclusive facility tours, live demonstrations of our mythic lineages, and direct, on-site contract matching opportunities! The gates are open to all!”
“And as a small token of gratitude for your unwavering support, we are initializing a live lottery block right this second. The prizes consist of one thousand complimentary, first-class maiden voyage transit passes! Good luck to everyone~”
[Ahhhh! Manager Su, you finally built it! You actually executed our infrastructure advice!]
[Manager, how is your deployment velocity this fast?! You secretly finished a multi-billion-credit interstellar transit port without a single leak?!]
[Clear the warp lanes! I am booking my pass to the Pet Home immediately! I am going!]
[Does this imply… I can finally achieve face-to-face physical proximity with Baiyun, Amber, and Yingying… Ah! My brain is exploding with joy!]
[Stop wasting characters in the chat and pull the raffle lever! I need that complimentary pass!]
Su Wudeng locked in the lottery parameters. “One thousand available slots. Lottery sequence, initialize!”
The enthusiasm of the viewer base was terrifying; the entire pool of premium passes was swept clean in under three seconds.
“Wow!”
“The manual dexterity of our community remains elite. Congratulations to our one thousand victors! Your terminals will receive an official cryptographic confirmation via private dispatch from the pet home shortly; ensure your logistics teams clear your schedules for immediate departure~”
“I will be waiting for your arrival at Chong’ai Pet Home!”
“With that, our broadcasting block for today draws to a close. See you on the next transmission!”
She swept her hand across the interface, terminating the live feed.
“Finally, the broadcast cycle is complete!”
She collapsed back against the soft leather cushions of the sofa, letting out a long, ragged sigh of exhaustion.
But before she could enjoy three seconds of silence, the office doors were violently thrown open, and her primary planet administrators, Chu Feng and Lin Yue, burst into the room.
“Planet Master! How do you still possess the cognitive peace to lounge on a sofa?!”
Chu Feng looked on the absolute verge of a psychological collapse. “You just broadcasted to ten million concurrent users that all global warp lanes are active! Do you comprehend the sheer structural crisis you just manufactured?!”
Su Wudeng’s heart instantly climbed into her throat, her posture stiffening as she offered a tentative guess. “…We lack sufficient personnel?”
Crap. She covered her face, realizing she had completely bypassed a fundamental variable in her marketing equations: her world possessed virtually zero civilian infrastructure!
Not only did they lack human staff, but their primary transit terminal lacked basic supporting commercial equipment!
Tracking the sudden horror on Su Wudeng’s face, Chu Feng knew she had finally parsed the data. He let out a long, heavy sigh. “Planet Master, our logistical status is deeply critical. The physical warp gates have cleared engineering, yes, but our entire aviation and customs division consists of the exact same handful of grunts from month one.”
“Historically, their workload consisted of processing a single local route per day. But now… with multiple first-tier core worlds and dozens of second-tier sectors integrated simultaneously, our daily manifest has instantly scaled to dozens of active interstellar routes!”
“Furthermore, look at our surveillance and processing gear. We purchased a few sets of security arrays for a local dock, but our territorial perimeter has now expanded to encompass a massive planetary transit port! We don’t even possess enough scanners to line the primary arrivals gate!”
“And that’s completely ignoring the absolute nightmare of managing the civilian safety and counter-espionage protocols the second ten thousand tourists drop out of warp simultaneously…”
The deeper Chu Feng dove into the administrative numbers, the more severe his headache became. The operational variables were completely overwhelming.
But Su Wudeng forced herself to stand, her posture straight. “This is an evolutionary threshold our world was destined to cross sooner or later. We cannot afford to defer our growth; we must single-mindedly engineer a path through the bottleneck.”
As long as their planet maintained its upward development arc, these structural crises would inevitably be resolved by the market.
“If the aviation division lacks operational personnel, we launch an immediate high-salary recruitment drive. Our absolute, overriding priority is to safely navigate this initial peak traffic surge.”
“Regarding specialized customs equipment, you are authorized to immediately drain the liquid capital from my private personal account to finance the acquisition, then amortize the debt against the port’s commercial transit revenues once operations normalize.”
“Civilian safety inside a wildlife sanctuary is indeed a critical risk variable. Therefore, we will strictly confine the tourists to a pre-programmed, highly structured guided tour vector. That will drastically compress our operational perimeter and minimize our security blind spots.”
“Every secondary variable can be broken down and solved through the exact same methodology—one systematic step at a time.”
Lin Yue’s brow remained furrowed with deep anxiety. “Planet Master, professional aviation and customs operators require an extensive technical training window before they clear certification. Even if we launch the recruitment drive today, finding certified personnel willing to relocate to a fourth-tier world on a few hours’ notice is…”
Unless an applicant’s brain had been severely damaged by a kinetic strike, it was an impossible ask.
Su Wudeng narrowed her eyes, a sharp spark of inspiration striking her mind. That remains to be seen. General Chu had access to elite military personnel, and she had a history of hiring retired specialists.
“This is an engineering hurdle,” Su Wudeng analyzed, looking directly at Chu Feng. “Chu Feng, from a structural perspective, is it logistically feasible for our administration to secure a temporary talent lease from our neighboring allied star systems?”
Chu Feng blinked, caught off guard. “Well… if our local office submits the request, the statistical probability of approval is virtually zero. But… if General Chu personally signs off on the deployment…”
His meaning was entirely explicit. Their planet’s local diplomatic standing wasn’t even worth a footnote on a core world’s ledger, but the personal political weight of a frontline warlord like General Chu changed the mathematical reality entirely.
Su Wudeng clapped her hands together in pure ecstasy. Exactly! I still possess the General’s personal network assets!
She would dispatch an encrypted request to General Chu’s terminal before dinner.
Right then, a soft knock rattled the frame, and Fei Yuanlin stepped into the office. Seeing the intense, high-stress atmosphere between the two executive officers, she paused. “Planet Master, are you currently presiding over an urgent administrative session? Should I withdraw and return after the briefing?”
Perched contentedly on her shoulder was a plump, round little juvenile tit, while a massive, imposing silhouette trailed closely behind her heels—the Golden Eagle.
The exact millisecond Su Wudeng’s eyes locked onto the predator, her gaze transformed into brilliant spotlights. “Absolutely not! Your arrival clears our bottleneck perfectly!”
“Come here, big eagle! Come to sister’s arms~”
The Golden Eagle hadn’t anticipated intersecting with Sister Su inside the administrative sector. It let out a joyful chirp, hopping forward with immense enthusiasm and launching its massive bulk right into Su Wudeng’s embrace.
“Sister!~”
“Diaodiao, sister needs to balance a highly complex equation right now. Are you willing to deploy your elite capabilities to aid my house?”
The Golden Eagle tilted its majestic head, its golden crest feathers catching the light. Aid sister?
It offered a proud, unyielding nod of its crown without a microsecond of hesitation. “Absolutely!”
Su Wudeng wrapped her arms around the massive raptor, planting a fierce, affectionate kiss against its sleek neck. “Our Diaodiao is the most magnificent warrior in the sky~”
She spun toward Chu Feng and Lin Yue, her face radiating a brilliant, triumphant grin. “The logistics strategy is locked. I am formally commissioning the creation of the Sky Vanguard Security Force!”
“The Sky Vanguard?” Chu Feng and Lin Yue repeated, exchanging a bewildered glance before looking back at her.
“Precisely!” Su Wudeng nodded sharply. “I am delegating the absolute security and perimeter defense of our entire transit port and the three-day festival directly to Diaodiao and her battalion of rescued apex raptors!”
“First, we formalize the tactical deployment of the birds of prey. Then, we launch a targeted human recruitment drive designed explicitly to match the behavioral and aerodynamic traits of each specific raptor!”
“A unified ‘One Master, One Beast’ security cell! This operational configuration guarantees absolute, unchallengeable aerial surveillance across our borders, while allowing our rescued raptors to fully exploit their evolutionary strengths!”
Chu Feng’s jaw hit the floor. The sheer, radical audacity of the concept was completely mind-blowing!
But tracking the variables through his analytical processors, the strategy was mathematically, logistically brilliant.
The visual clarity, atmospheric velocity, and raw kinetic power of an apex bird of prey were parameters no conventional human security guard or commercial drone could ever hope to replicate. Furthermore, their instinctual vigilance and sensory reactions to environmental security breaches completely outclassed any automated algorithm.
Their solitary operational limitation was their unfamiliarity with human civil protocols and customs processing lines, but by linking each beast to a certified human handler, the two entities would seamlessly complement one another’s blind spots!
He stood in a daze. Why on earth hadn’t any core world transportation grid ever engineered a security matrix of this caliber?
But a secondary variable flared in his mind. Is a deployment of this scale logistically manageable? These aren’t domestic hounds; they are deeply traumatized wild predators. Can we truly enforce organizational discipline?
“This… Planet Master,” Chu Feng stammered, attempting to draft a list of behavioral risks, but before he could articulate the first point, he watched the majestic, terrifying Golden Eagle lower its massive head with absolute, submissive docility, its amber eyes staring up at Su Wudeng with intense, adoring expectation.
The moment Su Wudeng extended her slender fingers to gently massage the base of its skull, the fearsome apex predator began leaning its weight against her, its tail feathers wagging in absolute bliss.
Chu Feng swallowed his words. “…Please disregard my prior concerns.”
With Manager Su anchoring their psychology, enforcing organizational discipline was going to be an absolute breeze.
The behavioral loop was completely secure…
Wait, a sudden realization hit Chu Feng’s brain, and his chest tightened. How do the first-tier core worlds typically manage transit security?
Historically, they relied on thousands of human technicians, automated cyber-drones, and millions of credits worth of static monitoring grids.
Yet their backwater planet… was preparing to completely overwrite automated machinery by deploying an entire active battalion of commander-class living raptors to serve as TSA agents!
Chu Feng felt completely faint, his voice dropping to a hollow whisper. “Isn’t this… isn’t this asset allocation a bit too flagrantly extravagant…?”
An elite, commander-class raptor whose biological lineage couldn’t even be sourced on the open market for a billion credits… was being handed a high-visibility vest and assigned to baggage claim?
Su Wudeng panned her gaze across her thoroughly convinced administrators. “Well? Is the strategy approved? Is it viable?”
Chu Feng wiped a thick layer of cold sweat from his forehead. “It’s an absolute flex, Planet Master! The sheer flex of this deployment is going to break the galaxy’s brain!”
“Then the decree is finalized!” Su Wudeng waved her hand with absolute authority. “Let’s give our incoming core world tourists an unforgettably terrifying demonstration of our Sky Vanguard’s absolute majesty!”
A security force composed of purebred, majestic apex raptors would completely conquer the hearts of every traveler who stepped through the warp gates!
