Looking at Li Hao, who resembled a long-haired monster, everyone was very curious.

"Haozi-ge, did you go to be a fisherman?"

"Haha, almost. Wow, Er Ya, what have you been eating? You've grown so fast!"

"Wow, I know! Haozi-ge, you must have become a pirate!"

"No way, Haozi-ge must be a good guy. He went to be a captain!"

"Pirates are captains too. Pirates are so cool. I want to be a pirate!"

At this moment, everyone felt that this was the real Li Hao. He had really grown a lot. He had grown up so fast in a year. A group of children surrounded Li Hao, chattering non-stop. Of course, this was just a three-minute fad. Soon, everyone lost interest in Li Hao.

At this time, a strange girl stood quietly to the side with a smile. Li Hao pointed and asked, "And this is?"

Zuo Xiaotang was immediately a little embarrassed, "Ahem, this is my girlfriend, Annie, our junior."

"Senior, hello. I'm Annie Hathaway. You're my idol." Seeing Li Hao, Annie was also a little nervous.

Li Hao blinked and gave a thumbs up, "Not bad, Zuo Xiaopang, impressive!"

Zuo Xiaotang proudly stuck out his belly. Just kidding, I'm a well-known figure now!

Various shells and some strange toys attracted the attention of the children. Li Hao and the others came into the house. After a while, Li Hao cut his hair short and cleaned up his beard. Looking in the mirror, he finally looked human again, and reappeared in front of everyone.

The director nodded approvingly, "You've gotten tanned and grown up!"

Li Hao smiled, "Yeah, I feel like I'm almost on par with Huo Ying."

"There's still a bit of a difference. Huo Ying is naturally dark. Hao-ge, you're finally back. You don't know how chaotic it's been," Zuo Xiaotang said impatiently.

"You're always exaggerating. Isn't everything fine? How's Tianjing Ji Wu? Still running?" Li Hao said with a smile. Along the way, everything in Tianjing City was normal and peaceful. Zuo Xiaotang just liked to make a fuss.

"Principal Long would say you have no conscience if he heard that," Zuo Xiaotang said, and you could tell the fatty was extremely happy.

In fact, within a few months after Li Hao left, everything on the Solar System side returned to normal. The Star River Alliance had a wealth of experience and model regulations for dealing with new members. Humanity could only accept it and had no room for negotiation. After initially understanding the scale and power of the Star River Alliance, the high-level human officials who knew the truth completely abandoned other thoughts. The only goal now was to find every possible way to integrate into the Star River Alliance as quickly as possible, improve themselves, and form a force capable of self-preservation. The existence of the Heavenly Race actually didn't cause too much resistance from humanity.

The Star Alliance established a huge stargate near Jupiter. The Eye of Jupiter's storm was a reserved coordinate. This was also a transit station for trade between the Solar System and other members of the Star Alliance. The Mechanical Race undertook the construction and sent an engineering team. Of course, the construction costs of the stargate and the sky city were borne by humanity. All trade rules were based on the Silverheart Business Alliance's contracts. Although it was a business alliance, it was actually the largest force among the Heavenly Race. The stargate linked to Kepler-22b.

The Solar System was not positioned as a direct connection to the main axis of the Star Alliance. Kepler-22b was designated by the Star River Alliance as the external window for human civilization, which greatly shortened the journey from the Solar System to Kepler.

Of course, there were a series of implicit problems. Kepler's K23 resources were obviously more useful than the Solar System's resources. Of course, the Star River Alliance was more concerned about the Solar System's "biological" resources.

As for the cutting-edge technology that humanity craved most... that was just wishful thinking. Not to mention the Heavenly Race, would humans give it easily if they were in their position? This was another breathtaking game between creatures. After a year of arduous transition, humanity did have a deeper understanding of the Star River Alliance. The Silverheart, Seventh Art, Ozier, Helax, and Starforged Dragon Clan were the first tier, formulating and controlling the Star River Alliance's order, finance, and law enforcement.

The Chakos Mechanical Empire, the Ghost Empire, the Symbiotic Empire, and others were the second tier, monopolizing some huge profitable industries of production and execution.

The Lartu Orcs and other huge third-tier races were essentially low-end raw material colonies, outputting the low-carbon fields and effective supplements required by the upper layers. Through these, they exchanged for the necessary technology. But it must be admitted that in the past hundred years, the Lartu Orcs have almost taken on all kinds of dirty and tiring work, and their development has indeed been rapid. The number of planets and troops they possess is very astonishing.

Humanity is definitely not lacking in adventurers. In this year, the four major federations have sent out many merchant fleets and exploration fleets. They have gained a lot and have indeed suffered various casualties. Interstellar travel is quite unsafe. It is better near the stargate, but once you enter an unfamiliar star field, you will encounter all kinds of civilization collision crises, as well as all kinds of space pirates.

But even so, humanity has not stopped, but has strengthened exploration. This is also summarized from human history. Closing the country will definitely lead to death. Instead of waiting for outsiders to kill us, it is better for us to actively explore. At least paying the price will bring certain gains.

This is also a characteristic of humans. As long as they are given a chance, humans are very resilient.

The Anthem is recruited to all members of the Star River Alliance. For new members like humans, there is a very preferential training period in this year, that is, a limited number of places are selected by humans themselves, and after this year, they must pass the assessment.

Of course, there is also good news. Among the Anthem, the performance of human warriors is extremely "outstanding." This outstanding is our internal self-assessment, because the Anthem system is almost perfectly compatible with humans. The focus on the soul provides room for advancement for human warriors who have already entered the Lucid state. Coupled with human learning ability and the Anthem's complete system, it is like a fish in water.

Of course, there are also problems. The potential of humans to adapt to the Anthem is absolutely unprecedented, but the objective and subjective biases they receive are also very huge. Objectively, the Anthem system is very unfriendly to new civilizations, causing Chao Qinglong and others to be unable to break through this constraint. Subjectively, advanced civilizations generally do not have a good impression of this kind of emerging and niche group like humans.

Another important reason is that because humans now need to rely on the Star Alliance in all aspects, the council's strict order is that human Anthem warriors in various places must not cause interstellar disputes for any reason. This will obviously cause great obstacles to Chao Qinglong, Maxis, and the others. The only one who has been relatively smooth is Ayouyou. She is in the top-level Libra Balance Anthem of the Galasta Business Alliance and has achieved excellent results.

Zuo Xiaotang babbled for more than an hour, and Annie listened quietly to the side, her eyes full of love when she looked at Zuo Xiaotang.

Li Hao was relieved. The fatty finally found someone whose eyes were full of him, and this guy was also very satisfied with his current life. "By the way, is the S competition still happening?"

"Yes, but we only made it to the semi-finals this year. North Carolina won the championship." Zuo Xiaotang scratched his head a little embarrassedly.

Although Chao Qinglong was gone, other excellent warriors from the major war zones were also sent to the Star River Alliance. Ye Tong didn't make it at the last moment, it seemed because of the Nangong family's identity issues. Of course, she herself didn't participate, and in this era, that little thing wasn't necessary.

Human technology has also ushered in a new round of innovation. Although they can't get new technology, it's enough for humans to see it. They can study it themselves. Obviously, in the general trend, although human mature mecha technology has not been abandoned immediately, don't rush to deny yourself when something happens. After this period of measurement, human mecha is behind the Heavenly Race, but it is still in the middle reaches of the Star River Alliance, and it has further room for improvement. The key is that the requirements for pilots are extremely low, while the requirements for Heavenly Race weapons are too high.

Of course, keeping pace with the times, the four major war zones have generally launched "ultra-light mecha," changing their thinking to further enhance human combat power, because in the coming year, they will welcome the new Anthem assessment. The Anthem assessment allows the use of individual weapons. All member states are the same, and the Heavenly Race is the same. Without Heavenly Race weapons, the Heavenly Race's combat power will drop a lot, while races like the Mechanical Race and the Symbiotic Race, who are born with strong bodies, really don't need them. More is a burden, but most races need them.

The current Tianjing Ji Wu has also added a "Star Diplomacy" major, which is also the most popular and glamorous, and is also a talent that humanity urgently needs.

Language is not a problem. In this year, many people have chosen the Mechanical Race's loading language program. Choosing a few mainstream common languages is enough, but the process will be a little painful. It's basically not a problem, while some people responsible for negotiations and some high-level officials eat the Helawes Empire's "Fish Pearls." This is a special kind of marine creature's egg. As long as it listens to various languages during its growth, it will automatically record them. The user will gain the ability to understand languages. This is also a specialty of the Helawes Empire and is a best-selling product in the Star River Alliance, but the price is expensive. For new members like humans who have "potential," the Helawes Empire provided a batch for trial use, and was also the first to establish trade with human civilization.

The strength of the Helawes Empire is beyond doubt. It is the most powerful branch of many marine civilizations. The power of the Arcane was once called the Heavenly Race's combat skills. They participated in four Star River Wars. Anyone who can survive as a main force in that era is a behemoth. The Helawes Empire is commonly known as the "Sea People," and belongs to the quasi-Heavenly Race type, but they are smaller in size. In human terms, they are probably about the size of dwarfs. Their physical strength is average, but they have powerful souls.

They can be considered a relatively friendly one among the powerful civilizations, for now.

Some nasty problems have also arisen in the dark corners of the general environment. Humans are very "popular" on the interstellar black market, especially with space pirates, who are moving at the slightest whiff of it. The reason makes humans laugh and cry, because in terms of image and characteristics, humans are almost ninety-nine percent similar to the Heavenly Race. The main difference is in the eyes. Excluding physical strength and soul strength, they are almost the same. This makes humans a very popular "slave" choice for other civilizations, who can use the lofty "Heavenly Race" as servants.