Li Yang found it hard to believe how smoothly everything went.

He initially thought the nomination for Ren Zhong would encounter some resistance from the Frozen Elders.

After all, in any era, under any social background, military power is crucial.

The Frozen Elders had no reason to hand over military power so easily to someone of a humble origin.

Yet, mysteriously, it all happened simply and naturally.

Even with his assistance, Ren Zhong secured joint approval from the Nine Major Groups and received the voluntary abdication offer from Ying Ye, but it was still too astonishing.

It seemed as if, with the Great Migration day approaching, the Frozen Elders had changed their temperament, abandoned principles upheld for millennia, no longer pursued noble bloodlines, betrayed the harsh hierarchy they established, began selecting talents based on ability, even trusting those from the lower class.

In the end, Li Yang could only rationalize it by attributing it to the Frozen Elders' insight, akin to his own.

They all had a discerning eye for people, thoroughly understanding Ren Zhong's talents, believing his value was significant enough to break all barriers, thus granting him immense privileges and creating a facilitative environment for advancement.

"My ability to judge is indeed unique. They, like me, have agreed to have the Nine Major Groups cooperate with the Ren Group. Over the past fifteen years, the Ren Group has developed rapidly and unimpeded, certainly for this reason. Since they summoned Ren Zhong and personally tested and questioned him fifteen years ago, they have already demonstrated it. But those pitiful old ice sticks didn't know that Ren Zhong, whom they placed high hopes on, was actually loyal only to me. Ultimately, the final victor can only be me."

After Ren Zhong left, Li Yang muttered to himself.

He was persuading himself through self-talk to actively ignore the few doubts behind the events.

If his cognitive control hadn't malfunctioned, if when seeking "new friends," he wasn't so conservative, even tried one more time, breaking the "friends" count to one thousand and one, then he might have discovered he had a "fake friend."

Regrettably, there are no "ifs," and it happened just like that.

More regrettably, Ren Zhong had actually considered this possibility.

He even actively guided Li Yang to try increasing the "friends" count to over a thousand, even reaching one thousand and two.

The result was that Li Yang's first and second "friends," whom he controlled upon leaving the Human Paradise, namely, Mengdu Group staff, gradually slipped out of control.

Yet these two didn't immediately betray Li Yang; instead, because they were too deeply involved in Li Yang's interest circle and couldn't extricate themselves, they continued proactively posing as loyal "friends," playing the minion role more fervently, even actively self-narcotizing and self-hypnotizing, becoming more devout, like zealots.

To verify whether these friends were reliable, Li Yang even had to utilize Telekinesis Masters for individual audits, ultimately failing to identify who lost control, and it ended without resolution.

Ren Zhong also felt reassured and derived the above conclusion.

...

Upon ascending to power, Ren Zhong immediately commenced tight-lipped secret operations.

He fully cooperated with Li Yang, massively deploying Mengdu Group's Armored Soldiers to Armed Battleships, and even transported the Ruined Beast Legion, capable of starry sky movements, as cargo aboard.

This was all reasonable, without encountering any resistance, within Ren Zhong's own authority.

The Source Star Colonization Great Migration Fleet consisted of a total of twelve thousand space ships, eight thousand transport ships, and four thousand armed battleships.

The Year-Ring class spherical transport ships, with a diameter of thirty kilometers, possessed extremely high loading capacity, with an average maximum passenger limit per ship being two hundred thousand. Internally, they comprised ordinary cargo loading zones, high-risk cargo loading zones, frozen slumber zones, living areas, entertainment zones, training areas, spaceship manual control areas, life material guarantee areas, and human brain storage areas, among other sections.

To date, including top integrated mining centers of the former Purple Crystal Mining, most core productivity equipment had already been moved onto the transport ships.

Many high-ranking Citizens with tickets had already relocated with their families onto the transport ships. The once bustling, lively Upper Origin Capital and Lower Origin Capital City had become much more spacious, devoid of human presence, appearing cold and desolate. In Upper Origin Capital, not a single green plant could be seen anymore. Those people even uprooted plants thoroughly, leaving no seeds behind.