Three days later.
Jiang Ye, Cen Yemeng, Isabella, Su Yueming, and Xu Yan boarded the same spaceship, setting off for the Supreme Star to undergo age modification surgery.
Shao Wan and Liu Jizi also needed to change their ages, but they were temporarily too busy and could only postpone their trip by two weeks.
They were traveling on a special ship from Deng Zixin Biotechnology Company, and the hospital under this company was responsible for the surgery on the Supreme Star.
This company was said to be an ancient giant of several hundred years, with extremely solid technology and extremely high prices. However, Jiang Ye only valued technology and ignored the price, so he directly purchased the top-tier service, which meant a comfortable trip from departure to return, all-inclusive.
Jiang Ye and Cen Yemeng had both postponed their work in advance, planning to take this opportunity to relax for a few days. Therefore, the couple had nothing to do on the ship, sticking together to eat, drink, and have fun.
Su Yueming, Isabella, and Xu Yan were in a more unfortunate situation. Although they had left their offices, their minds were still on work. The three of them stayed in their cabins, working day and night.
Xu Yan even conducted business calls while sitting on the toilet. Her company was currently aggressively acquiring land on Wheeler Star. While acquiring land, she was naturally making a fortune, but Xu Yan's tone on the phone had always been listless. Earning too much money had made her feel numb; in her words, she was "numb from earning."
Isabella was also writing directives during meals, her hair messy as if she had been electrocuted, with a look of exhaustion from staying up day and night. Her skin quality had visibly deteriorated recently, falling far behind Cen Yemeng.
Su Yueming would go to the swimming pool without fail every evening. She stood in the hot water in her swimsuit, with a waterproof computer floating on the water, typing and sending messages non-stop.
Jiang Ye and Cen Yemeng were curled up on the sofa watching television, yawning incessantly, as leisurely as an unemployed couple.
"Honey, why are they three so busy?" Cen Yemeng said.
"Work doesn't disappear out of thin air, of course, our work has been transferred to them," Jiang Ye said.
After saying this, the couple burst into lewd laughter, acting like evil bosses who exploited their employees.
The spaceship traveled for three days and docked at a space city.
Jiang Ye and his entourage disembarked from the small spaceship and, following the directions, boarded another large spaceship, also a special ship of Deng Zixin Biotechnology Company. This ship was fixed-route, like a bus, traveling back and forth between the space city and the Supreme Star.
The large spaceship was comparable in size to a cruise ship, and its interior was extremely luxurious, equipped with a cinema, arcade, concert hall, fine dining restaurant, hot spring pool, and more. It was almost a small space city.
However, there were very few passengers. The entire ship had only over forty passengers, all planetary dignitaries going to the Supreme Star for surgery. Yet, there were over fifteen hundred service staff.
Jiang Ye and Cen Yemeng immediately began to enjoy themselves.
They woke up in the morning and went straight to the observation restaurant, eating donkey meat burgers and clear broth with cabbage, while admiring the magnificent colorful nebulae outside the floor-to-ceiling windows. A hundred-person symphony orchestra played in the restaurant, and Jiang Ye could change the music with a wave of his hand.
After eating, they got up and went to the theater, listening to crosstalk for three hours, with a play in between, followed by a musical and a dance performance. Then they went to the massage parlor for a half-hour massage to relieve the muscle fatigue from sitting all morning.
For lunch, they had a Kong family banquet, with a total of 196 dishes. The ingredients were air-freighted from various planets. They were full after just a few bites of each dish. After eating, they went to the arcade, where the couple entered game pods. With brain patches attached, they played games furiously for two hours. When they got tired of gaming, they went to the hot springs. There was even synchronized swimming in the hot spring pool, with ten men and ten women in swimsuits rising and falling in the water. Emerging from the steaming hot spring pool, the couple was exhausted. They watched a movie, and dinner was delivered directly to the cinema, where they ate while watching.
In the evening, they went to the grand theater. From eight o'clock to midnight, there was a full four-hour performance, including acrobatics, skits, magic, song and dance, and poetry recitation. Jiang Ye felt that the entire process was very similar to the ancient Spring Festival Gala, even in terms of the venue size and the number of performers. The performances were quite professional, and at least the singers had extremely strong vocal abilities.
The most crucial point was that in the performances the couple watched, the vast audience seats were basically occupied only by them, equivalent to a private viewing. Some singers even invited the couple to the stage to join in the fun.
For three consecutive days, the couple enjoyed themselves non-stop from morning till night. On the fourth day, they were finally exhausted and didn't go anywhere. They stayed in bed watching television, and only left their beds to go to the restroom when they couldn't bear it any longer.
After watching television for a day, Jiang Ye and Cen Yemeng regained their energy. They put on their bathrobes and slippers, preparing to watch another performance.
As soon as they stepped out, they ran into Isabella.
Isabella was also wearing a bathrobe, with a facial mask on, looking pale.
"Major news, major news!" Isabella waved her arms, ushering the couple back into their room, like a mother hen flapping her wings to drive her chicks back to the nest.
"What is it, what is it?" Jiang Ye and Cen Yemeng retreated into the room.
Isabella entered and closed the door.
"Have you heard of the Virtual Planet Project?" Isabella asked.
Jiang Ye and Cen Yemeng looked at each other, both looking bewildered.
"What is it? An online activity?" Jiang Ye asked.
"It's not an online activity, it's real!" Isabella's tone was excited. "Damn it, this is the first time I've heard of this, and it's made my scalp tingle!"
"Who told you? What exactly does 'virtual planet' mean?" Cen Yemeng asked.
"You know the tea room in the southeast corner of our ship, right? After I finished my work, I wanted to have some sleep-inducing tea to sleep, and I thought there wouldn't be many people in the tea room late at night. But when I went in, I was stunned. More than twenty passengers were inside, chatting happily," Isabella said.
Jiang Ye and Cen Yemeng's eyes changed.
The couple had been seeking pleasure all over the ship for the past few days, but they had hardly encountered any other passengers. They thought they were all holed up in their cabins and not coming out. Unexpectedly, more than half of them were gathered in the tea room?
It should be known that the passengers on this ship were not ordinary dignitaries; the proportion of planetary leaders was high. If these people gathered in the tea room for tea, they must have been discussing extremely important matters.
"So I sat down and chatted with them. Several of them were planetary leaders. I am also a planetary leader, and they were happy to associate with me, and then they started talking about the virtual planet topic. I listened but didn't fully understand, but I felt it was a very terrifying concept, using virtual to create reality," Isabella said.
Jiang Ye and Cen Yemeng were both completely bewildered and didn't understand at all.
"I didn't quite understand it either, because when I arrived, they were almost finished talking, and they weren't starting from the beginning; they had already been talking for several days," Isabella said. "So I came to ask if you knew anything?"
"Haven't heard of it at all," Jiang Ye said. "Is this project big? How many planets are involved?"
"Tens of thousands of planets have already participated, comparable in scope to the Meir War!" Isabella emphasized.