Jiang Ye and Cen Zi finished lunch. Cen Zi got up to leave, giving Jiang Ye a meaningful look, a mix of expectation and pleading, before departing. Jiang Ye nodded silently, indicating he understood.
Closing the door, Jiang Ye sat down at his desk and began working.
Two hours earlier, while Jiang Ye was enthusiastically giving his lecture, three major events had been reported almost simultaneously!
The first major event was the Spiral Star's online application for its population migration initiative!
Population migration referred to the relocation of Spiral Star citizens living on other planets to reside on Spiral Star.
The first batch of migrants received preferential terms, including cash subsidies, affordable housing, and employment contracts, offering very generous benefits.
Of course, the first residents to arrive on Spiral Star would also face the greatest risks. After all, it was a brand-new planet, and anything could happen. They were the first to taste the crab. The crab might be tough to chew, or the roe might be incredibly delicious.
Jiang Ye could see the number of applications in the backend.
In the past two hours, 1.18 million people had applied to go to Spiral Star, submitting their resumes!
Jiang Ye was satisfied. 1.18 million people were enough to establish a new city on Spiral Star.
In practice, they probably wouldn't concentrate these millions of people in one place but would disperse them into several small cities to mitigate risks.
As long as the first city began to thrive, people would flock there continuously.
Jiang Ye was very familiar with population growth curves. He had experienced many such instances himself. Although he didn't know the total human population in the universe at the moment, whenever a new planet appeared, people would rush from all directions, expanding and filling it rapidly like bacteria in a petri dish.
Having spent so much money, manpower, and time to transform Spiral Star, it was finally about to start paying off, and Jiang Ye was in high spirits.
The second major event was also good news.
The first group of officially dispatched tourists from Daughter Star had arrived on Jiang Ye Star, totaling ten thousand people.
In the public announcement, this was a legitimate tourist group. Daughter Star had sent a group of people to sightsee, eat, drink, and promote interplanetary friendship and cultural exchange.
In reality, this was entirely a surgical team. Over nine thousand eight hundred of these ten thousand people were there for covert longevity surgeries, while the remaining hundred or so were guides responsible for liaising with the diplomatic departments and longevity hospitals.
Upon arrival on Jiang Ye Star, they would first visit a scenic spot for a photo opportunity and interviews with the waiting press corps.
News reports would appear within a few hours, detailing how much the Daughter Star tourist group enjoyed their visit, how much they admired the customs and traditions of Jiang Ye Star, and featuring important speeches by local tourism association officials.
As netizens read the news reports, the tourist group would have already broken up into smaller units, dispersing to longevity hospitals across various locations to quietly lie on operating tables and undergo surgery.
The third major event, however, was currently uncertain whether it was good news.
Several spies from Tian Rao's company on Wheeler Star had gone missing.
These were seasoned spies who had infiltrated the warlord factions for several weeks, were making great progress, and even befriended the warlord leaders. Then, they suddenly disappeared.
Their disappearance was absolute. Communication devices could not reach them, and they had not sent any warning messages before going missing. Furthermore, according to observations by other spies, the missing spies had not been seen in public. It was as if they had suddenly melted like ice in the sun, then evaporated without a trace.
Tian Rao judged that the reasons for their disappearance might include the following:
1. Their identities were exposed, leading to their deaths.
2. Their identities were exposed, and they were undergoing interrogation within the warlord factions.
3. They were temporarily unable to appear due to special reasons, such as entering a secret military base or meeting with the warlord leader.
Jiang Ye was worried. He still wanted to acquire Wheeler Star. The original plan was to gather enough information and then support one or a few puppet warlords. However, the information was not yet sufficient, and the spies were gone. The subsequent development was truly unpredictable.
After dealing with the major events, there was a series of miscellaneous small matters.
Jiang Ye's habit was not to take these miscellaneous matters lightly, as they involved an entire planet or even multiple planets. A slight oversight could lead to significant trouble. Any information submitted to him, the supreme leader, was not submitted casually.
On Exile Star, Bu You Shan had cracked a drug manufacturing factory in a mine pit, apprehending over twelve hundred people involved.
These individuals used abandoned underground mine shafts, already depleted of resources, to cultivate hallucination mushrooms on a large scale. Hallucination mushrooms could be extracted to produce high-priced, highly addictive harmful hallucinogens. They also did not require light and preferred damp, cold, dark environments, making the underground mine tunnels a natural breeding ground for cultivation. Furthermore, they were hidden and difficult for the police to discover.
A soldier at the South Pole military base on Jiang Ye Star shot and killed his comrades, resulting in four deaths.
The shooter had been killed. He was a black immigrant who had just enlisted this year. The entire military base's officers and soldiers were temporarily evacuated for a thorough investigation. Rapid response troops from nearby areas had temporarily taken over the base.
Several listed companies on Bi Rong Star had falsified their financial reports, with many executives suspected of financial crimes, involving over ten billion.
In multiple locations on Exile Star, cult organizations known as "Heaven on Earth" had appeared. This organization possessed illegal firearm workshops, expanded its membership through sexual gatherings, and was accompanied by numerous fraud cases. The police arrested some members for interrogation, and senior members claimed they were from an alien planet and received five hundred million in operational funds annually.
On Bi Rong Star, thirteen cities received public reports that several factories were directly discharging highly toxic wastewater into rivers, causing a large number of fish to die. Dead shrimp and crabs piled up on the banks. Some less educated civilians collected the dead aquatic life to take home and consume, leading to over a hundred cases of blindness, shock, miscarriage, and organ failure.
Jiang Ye reviewed each item, occasionally writing down processing orders, his brow furrowed.
The three planets were experiencing an increasing number of strange and unusual bad incidents, with a large pile appearing every day.
It felt as if these planets were like fruit. A few years ago, they were sweet and intact, but now they were gradually developing rotten spots, and small insects from the outside were crawling onto them and nibbling.
Jiang Ye then thought that perhaps this was not a bad thing, but a good one.
Similar criminal incidents must have occurred in previous years. On a planet with billions of people, it was a fantasy for there to be no bad elements. However, at that time, the crime-solving capabilities were insufficient, and many things could not be brought to light.
Perhaps now, with improved crime-solving capabilities, they were clearing out some residual dregs, which made the number of cases appear to have increased. Especially since many criminal gangs were not new; they had been active for several years.