Hu Wei, the ultimate-grade iron person, had learned the Third Eye. Next came building the Super-Thunder Wave station.

The Super-Thunder Wave station took half a day and went up without trouble. From then on, Shen Cong's Super-Thunder Wave station had one more channel besides the laboratory, New Hefei, the Mushroom City and the China Rescue Team — the Academy of Sciences. The new Super-Thunder Wave station was built inside the Academy itself, so that they could trade technical information at any hour.

With the Super-Thunder Wave station up, Shen Cong meant to leave the Provisional Government at once.

He turned down repeated invitations to banquets from the Provisional Government's senior people. He only wanted out of this murky place full of scheming, and back to Duliu Town, where he was staying for now.

"Boss Huang, since you insist on not resting here, I can't argue you out of it. Before you go, let me thank you on behalf of all humanity for what you've done to let the human beings who survived trade what each of them has." There was warmth showing through the Party Secretary's gravity. "You have your own pursuits. I can't be as free about it as you are."

"Anything else?" Shen Cong had no fondness for courtesies, least of all hollow ones.

He had come to the Provisional Government and built no relationships with anyone, and backed no proxy of his own. He knew perfectly well he did not fit in, and that he had given Yan Jike, one of the standing committee, a very rough lesson in the meeting room.

It would be a wonder if the senior people here felt any real gratitude toward him.

And if they were not grateful, why put on the act?

Unless they were carrying a scheme.

Shen Cong found himself missing the Eastern Theater Command. There was scheming in the Eastern Theater Command too, and no small number of people who wished him ill. But on the surface the cooperation ran very smoothly, and both sides were direct with each other. Work together where you can, don't where…