"Hello?" Jiang Ye answered the phone.
"Do you have any soldiers you can send to Har Star?" the High Priest asked urgently.
Jiang Ye's heart tightened. Why the sudden need for soldiers? His first thought was a mutiny. He had always subconsciously felt that religious planets like Har Star were prone to such uprisings. Now, with the great catastrophe, it was the perfect opportunity to seize power, to strike while the iron was hot.
"What do you need soldiers for?" Jiang Ye asked.
"The Governor of Su Star has sent several giant spaceships, dual-purpose for disaster relief and war. My current troops are insufficient. If you have any soldiers who can pilot them, I'll give you a few," the High Priest said. kanδん
"Oh, that's too kind of you, such expensive things..."
"Har Star has no use for the spaceships anymore. Everything will eventually be sold or given away. At this point, why should we be so polite?" the High Priest said. "The spaceships being sent are of the Giant Nest model, similar to the ones you use, but on a larger scale. They can carry fifty thousand soldiers and accommodate four hundred and fifty thousand disaster refugees."
"I have plenty of personnel," Jiang Ye said.
"Then I'll give you two. Send your troops to Har Star as soon as possible. The Giant Nests will arrive tomorrow," the High Priest said. "I'm directing disaster relief here, so I'm hanging up. I'll contact you later."
The call ended. Jiang Ye quickly searched for "Giant Nest" class spaceships online. There were many models of "Giant Nest" class spaceships in the online stores, and he didn't know which type they were sending. However, the price of each model was outrageously high, averaging around 450 billion. With some modifications, interior decoration, and equipment, two ships would likely cost a trillion. Har Star's friendly planet was quite generous, sending such large spaceships without hesitation, and in such numbers.
Jiang Ye then searched for Su Star. Su Star was incredibly far from Har Star, on the other side of the galaxy. Jiang Ye found it inexplicable, not understanding how the two sides had established friendly relations. According to online information, Su Star was a super-large planet with six moons, meaning six large satellites. People lived on both the planet and its satellites, with numerous underwater and underground cities, as well as twenty orbital space cities. Each city was densely packed with super-tall buildings, as if anything under eighty stories wasn't considered a building. The permanent resident population was 38 billion, with an additional 3 billion floating population, totaling 41 billion people living on Su Star. Besides the sheer number of people, Su Star also had an incredibly high birth rate, with an average of five children per couple. Additionally, there were over thirty million illegitimate children annually, indicating a rather chaotic social structure. Jiang Ye felt overwhelmed, wondering what "crowded" truly meant.
Jiang Ye was also very interested in the name Su Star and, upon a brief search, found its origin. The name Su Star came from the planet's first Governor, who had an experience similar to Jiang Ye's – he was also a cryogenically frozen person. However, Jiang Ye was frozen due to illness, while the Governor of Su Star had been a platoon leader in the army, frozen due to radiation sickness during the Third World War. After being thawed, he started a business: Su-style mooncakes. He began by making them by hand, then hired apprentices, eventually establishing an automated Su-style mooncake factory, and then expanding to extraterrestrial mooncake factories. The sales were extremely popular, with a peak daily sale of over six billion mooncakes, which provided him with his initial capital to purchase the current Su Star. Initially, the Governor of Su Star intended to name the planet "Mooncake Star." However, during registration, he discovered that there was already a Mooncake Star in the universe, purchased by a boss who made Cantonese-style mooncakes. Although planets could share names, Su-style mooncakes and Cantonese-style mooncakes were arch-rivals in the market, irreconcilable enemies. Naturally, they couldn't have the same name. Thus, Mooncake Star was renamed Su Star.
Jiang Ye held his phone, constantly searching from one entry to another. For the next four days, he and Cen Yemeng stayed in the office. After all, the Divine Palace was also in an earthquake zone, and it wasn't safe to return. No matter what, they would not be affected by earthquakes in the spaceship. If the earth was shaking, only flying in the air would be safe.
On the fifth day, Jiang Ye received news. Har Star's orbital space city had begun operations, and a residence had been reserved for him, where he could move in. Jiang Ye did not go. Disaster relief was still ongoing, and by staying in the Nest, he could monitor the situation at any time. However, the activation of the orbital space city led him to guess some things, so he sent a message to the High Priest.
Jiang Ye: "Har Star will be uninhabitable in a year. Where will you go? The space city?"
High Priest: "Yes, Har Star is my planet. Although it has become prone to earthquakes, it will eventually stop. I will live in the space city for now and make a comeback in the future."
Jiang Ye: "Doesn't living in the space city feel a bit unstable? Will it feel insecure? If you don't mind, you can come to Jiang Ye Star or Bi Rong Star. You can return after Har Star stabilizes."
High Priest: "Thank you for your kindness. When I have time in the future, I will definitely visit you on Jiang Ye Star and Har Star. I have lived in space cities before, so I can get used to it. I still want to look down every day and see the situation on Har Star."
Jiang Ye understood. Putting himself in the High Priest's shoes, Jiang Ye felt she was quite pitiful. A perfectly good planet, and within a year, her home was destroyed, and her family gone. All the prosperous great cities had turned into ruins and sunk into the sea, all the beautiful countryside was occupied by volcanic ash and fissures, and everyone had left. She could only stay in the space city, which orbited the planet like a satellite. Above her was the endless dark and desolate universe, and below was the transformed planet. Every day, she watched volcanoes erupt on the planet like pimples, the land constantly changing its appearance.
The phone vibrated, and the High Priest sent another message.
High Priest: "We have a plan to place icebergs into orbit to slow down the rise of sea levels and mitigate the destruction of coastal cities by tsunamis. After all, with the frequent volcanic eruptions, the polar ice caps will melt, and sea levels will rise significantly. If we can reduce the amount of water in the sea, it will help to neutralize this."
Jiang Ye was astonished, "Place icebergs into orbit? Will that work?"
High Priest: "Huan Jie Star has the relevant technology. It's not about using natural icebergs, but about condensing large square blocks of ice from seawater and then using rocket propulsion to push them into orbit around the planet. These large ice blocks will orbit Har Star in outer space. The outer surface of the ice blocks will be coated with a special material to block space radiation. When Har Star's climate returns to normal in the future, these large ice blocks will be brought back down and placed at the poles as artificial icebergs."
Jiang Ye: "That's a massive undertaking! Incredible! What do you need me to do?"
High Priest: "You don't need to do anything. I will send you the flight times and locations of the ice blocks, and your spacecraft should avoid them when entering and exiting Har Star."