Ma Changsheng caught up and talked to Space Brother Dao at length, hoping it would go back.

But Brother Dao was dead set on it. This time it was leaving, and nobody could stop it.

"Brother Dao, if you go, there's no guaranteeing Changsha City's safety. You know how weak we all are," Ma Changsheng urged.

Brother Dao snorted. "I've already cleared out every evolved beast around here at ultimate-grade or above. What danger is left? Besides, you've already gotten plenty of Talent-raising methods from the new government, even the formula for the Spilled Water Serum. If you still can't protect yourselves, you might as well go run headfirst into a wall."

What Brother Dao said was true.

Changsha City had now been declared part of the new government, its twentieth city.

Its residents now received the new government's standard treatment. Talent-raising methods were shared, the formula for the Spilled Water Serum was shared, and the new government also planned to send a team of administrators and troops to speed up bringing the two sides together. The scientists especially would be gathered up and assigned research tasks under one plan.

These days the new government's technology was advancing by leaps and bounds almost every day, and the mechanical–Activity wave concept was gradually being rolled out.

As Shen Cong saw it, a lot of the technology being developed could be called prerequisite skills for the Transformer Development Strategy. Results like these made him more and more certain that uniting humanity and setting off a technology boom was the right approach, one that would get him the returns he wanted.

Strictly speaking, Shen Cong was getting the short end of the deal.

After all, as a particle-grade Mechanist, he had poured huge amounts of money, materials and manpower into uniting the factions, protecting them and investing resources.

Without him, the new government could never have been founded.

Yet the technology it developed benefited all of humanity, and by comparison Shen Cong was only one beneficiary among many. Still, Shen Cong didn't feel shortchanged: the investment and the returns had all gradually come…