In the sunset, the Isa River is like a golden streamer, which has a beautiful knot on Lake Ely, and is divided into three strands, flowing to the north. Reading at Zero Point
This river, which once carried most of the cargo in Ely City, has now become a pure landscape, just like Lake Ely, which was once called a reservoir and built along the coast of the empire’s largest freshwater dock.
The Ely City, built around the lake, was originally just a small town. Poor short one-way tracks, muddy roads, low buildings, people wearing monotonous work clothes, but with hope on their faces… not many people remember the original scene here.
Wesley Berg stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window on the top floor of the Northern Group headquarters building, more than 900 meters high, watching aircraft of all sizes shuttle back and forth along the crowded waterway layer, and watching the city lights gradually light up under the azure sky, spreading to the end of the horizon.
Ailly, it was only because of the high-quality iron ore nearby that around the first year of the New Year, became the first industrial area on the empire’s vast territory. After six hundred and forty years of uninterrupted construction, it has become the largest city in the empire covering an area of more than 23,000 square kilometers and living in 1.2 billion people. It is also the headquarters of the Northern Group, which is well-known throughout the entire rand.
“Master Earl…”
The voice of a young woman pulled Wesley back to reality from her memories.
He turned his head and glanced at his assistant, Sinni Barnot Wien, and then scanned the more than 60 senior group executives on both sides of the long table.
Like all descendants who could get a blood relationship with Richard, Sinni has taken the name of her mother, Vien, since she was born, and gave up the surname Barnot, a former royal family name from her father’s lineage, in the eastern part of Middle-earth.
This action was quite convenient when she graduated from Truth City to the chairman and secretary of the Northern Group – not because Wesley was more willing to let a Wien family stay by his side to help, but because Mrs. Berg (formerly Queen of Thorns) knew that he would not attack a girl named Wien.
Wesley waved at Sinny, signaling her to go out first, and then after she gently closed the side door of the synagogue, she waved her right arm and shouted angrily: “Supreme Council! Another Supreme Council! More than 600 years ago, the people who created this group handed over the power to them! Now, they are going to hang shackles around our necks and lock our hands and feet!”
The retro-decorated synagogue was silent. Even the dozen group executives who attended the meeting with holographic projection because they were not in the Rand were not in the Rand, they felt the anger from Earl Berg.
The Count’s words are of course just a metaphor. No one wants to torture the people in this synagogue and throw them into prison, and no one dares to do so.
However, it represents the peopleThe Supreme Council of Will is restraining the Northern Group in terms of increasing the tax burden ratio of large consortiums, dispersing licenses, shortening the validity period of patents, restricting the development of super-powered weapons, etc.
More than 20 years ago, the outer space environment monitoring report released by the Academy of Sciences listed a series of observations of reduced brightness of the star system, predicting that the light star system (the solar system where Rand is located) has been surrounded by danger.
To this end, the Northern Group and the Chiga Group joined forces with the Femont military to propose a basket plan for extragalactic exploration and construction of space stations.
However, various conspiracy theories about the lone era have been circulating among the people of the empire. Some people believe that during those two hundred years, the entire empire was “kidnapping” by the large consortium using the interstellar threat theory – in fact that that period was indeed the fastest development stage of the Northern Group – and some even claimed that all the images of annihilated alien creatures sent back to Rand were forged.
Someone also smelled a strange smell when the Northern Group blocked the ruins of Rock City, and finally a tabloid excavated the local news that there might be alien sites or rand origins – this secret, which was mastered by a very small number of people in the Academy of Sciences, the Royal Family, the Northern and the Qijia Group, was not completely leaked, but the negative response caused was very great.