I started by watching videos, and I chose 10,000 combat power.

Luo Fei was taken aback when he heard Xiao Wan's words.

Do you still feel anxious?

Xiao Wan replied, "Yes, it will. I am the core intelligence of the Eternal Falcon, and the spaceship is my body. If you put my body into a place where I cannot perceive any signals, my program will produce an anxiety-like reaction. This is a function implanted from the beginning of the design, with the aim of enabling me to more proactively protect the spaceship and the captain."

Luo Fei pondered for a moment and felt that there was some truth to it.

"Okay, I'll let you know in advance next time."

Xiao Wan seemed satisfied, and her tone became relaxed again: "Thank you, Captain. Take care."

With a thought, Luo Fei teleported back to his home in Liuxi Village, where his parents had not yet returned.

He washed his hands, tied on an apron, took out a few dishes from the refrigerator, and started cooking a home-style lunch.

His knife skills were superb, and he controlled the heat perfectly. In less than half an hour, three dishes and a soup were served.

When Li Xiulan and Luo Weidong returned from the fields and saw the dishes on the table, they were both taken aback.

"Xiao Fei? When did you get back?"

"I thought you went back to the villa yesterday."

Luo Fei replied, "No, I went out to take care of some things, and I'll rush back at noon to cook for you."

Luo Weidong washed his hands, sat down at the table, picked up a piece of chicken, chewed it a couple of times, and nodded: "This chicken is stewed until it's very tender."

Li Xiulan sat down, picked up her bowl, and glanced at Luo Fei: "Are you going out again this afternoon?"

"Yeah, I'm going to Jiangcheng. I have a dinner appointment tonight."

Luo Fei put a chicken leg on his mother's plate and a chicken wing on his father's plate: "I'll be back before dinner tomorrow."

Li Xiulan didn't ask any more questions and lowered her head to eat. She took a bite of the chicken leg, and oil dripped down the corner of her mouth. She quickly wiped it with a tissue and said with a smile, "Your cooking is getting better and better, child."

Luo Fei smiled but didn't say anything.

After finishing his meal, Luo Fei cleared away the dishes.

He then went into the storage room, took out two bottles of Moutai from the corner, put them in a bag, and put them into his ring.

After thinking for a moment, he went out into the yard, took out his phone, and called his aunt.

"Auntie, has the first batch of that hair growth cream been produced yet?"

Luo Yumei's voice was filled with excitement: "It's out! It's out! It was just packaged this morning, I was just about to call you."

"I'll go get two boxes."

"Okay, come over here, I'm at the company."

Luo Fei hung up the phone, said goodbye to his parents, and then drove off.

We arrived at my aunt's company building very quickly.

Luo Yumei was already waiting at the door, carrying a paper bag.

Seeing Luo Fei get out of the car, she went up to him and handed him the paper bag.

"Here you go, this is the first batch. It hasn't officially launched yet, so take two boxes to try."

Luo Fei opened the paper bag, inside were two white boxes. The packaging was simple, with the words "Qing Si Tang" printed on the front, and a line of smaller print below that read: "Hair Growth Gel, Herbal Formula".

He opened one of the boxes, inside was a brown glass bottle, somewhat like a medicine bottle, but of good quality.

Unscrew the cap, and inside is a pale yellow gel with a faint herbal smell that isn't unpleasant.

"Have you had anyone test it out to see how effective it is?" Luo Fei asked.

Luo Yumei said, "We had someone try it, and after three days, fine hairs started to grow on the scalp; after seven days, the hair became noticeably thicker; and after half a month, the bald spots were basically no longer visible."

Her tone was filled with undisguised pride: "Your recipe is truly amazing."

Luo Fei smiled and put the paper bag away: "Okay, I'll take two boxes first. Auntie, thank you for your hard work. You go ahead and do your thing. I'll be going now."

Luo Yumei waved her hand: "What's so hard about it? You provided the formula and you paid for it. I'm just keeping an eye on things for you. By the way, the company is planning a product launch in a couple of days. Can you come?"

Luo Fei thought for a moment: "It depends on the schedule."

He said goodbye to his aunt, drove out of the county, found a deserted section of road, put the car into his ring, and with a thought, teleported back to his room at the Jiangcheng Hotel.

The curtains were still drawn, the bed was made exactly as it was when he left that morning, the blankets were pulled back, and there were traces of him sleeping on the pillow.

He sat on the edge of the bed, noticing it was still early.

So I took out my phone and watched some videos for a while.

The first news item I saw was about "outlets".

"Today, multiple international astronomical agencies simultaneously announced that the previously much-anticipated exoplanet 'Otteres' disappeared from observation several hours ago, and telescopes from various countries were unable to find any trace of it."

"Some experts speculate that the celestial body may have collided with other objects in the asteroid belt, causing it to disintegrate. Other experts disagree, believing that a collision and disintegration should produce a large number of fragments, but no possible debris clusters have been observed so far. A bolder speculation is that 'Outlet' may not be a natural celestial body, but some kind of man-made spacecraft that has now changed course and left the solar system."

The comments section was filled with heated debate.

"I told you it was an alien spaceship!"

"It was just a broken rock, it just shattered."

"Can we trust what experts say?"

"Does this have anything to do with me, who earns a little over three thousand a month?"

After reading it, Luo Fei put down his phone.

Of course he knew what an "outlet" was.

That meteorite and the probe hidden inside it are now part of space debris, scattered throughout the vast universe.

-

Last night, after returning from the Heavenly Palace, Emily did not rest but went straight to report to the Locke family headquarters.

She neither embellished nor concealed anything; she simply recounted the events as they happened.

There was a long silence on the other end of the video conference.

Then, the current patriarch of the Locke family directly ordered: "Cooperate with his friend's company at all costs. Profits don't matter. We must not allow Luo Fei to have any dissatisfaction with us. Get rid of that company as soon as possible."

Emily responded, "It's already been arranged to be handled."

When Zhao Zixuan and his father arrived at the company early this morning, the secretary was on the phone.

After hanging up the phone, the secretary's expression was somewhat strange. She said, "Mr. Zhao, several companies have called, saying they want to cooperate with us. One of them, who had previously refused to budge, has offered to lower the profit-sharing by two percentage points."

Zhao Zhiyuan was stunned for a moment, then dialed back one after another.

In every phone call, the other party's tone was unusually polite, as if they were a completely different person.

Zhao Zixuan sat in his office, gazing at the sky over Jiangcheng outside the window. Scenes from last night at the Cloud Palace flashed through his mind: Emily bowing to Luo Fei, the club owner's polite attitude towards Luo Fei, and Qian Duo's pale face when he was dragged out.

He took out his phone, intending to send a message to Luo Fei, but after typing a few words, he deleted them and finally sent only one sentence: "Brother Fei, today the company received a lot of proactive cooperation offers, things we couldn't even ask for before. Thank you."

Luo Fei replied: "Here we go again. This isn't like you."

Zhao Zixuan smiled as he read the reply.

In contrast, companies with more money were not so lucky.

Emily's methods were very direct—the Locke family withdrew their investment and simultaneously notified all companies that had business dealings with the Locke family to suspend all cooperation with the Qian family.

These companies are located all over the planet, from raw material suppliers to sales channels, from bank loans to logistics and transportation.

All of Qian's company's business chains have been severed.

Qian Jianguo's office phone was ringing off the hook with calls, all of them notifications of order cancellations, early loan recalls, and terminations of cooperation.

He sat in his office chair, holding a telephone receiver, his face turning from red to white.

Qian Duo stood to the side, half of his face still swollen, and the wound on the corner of his mouth hadn't healed. He lowered his head and didn't dare to utter a sound.

That evening, Luo Fei went to Zhao Zixuan's house for dinner.

Zhao Zixuan's home is located in a long-established upscale villa area in Jiangcheng.

Because the company had encountered a crisis, Zhao's mother had already paid the nanny and cook their wages in advance so that they could find other jobs.

So tonight, Zhao's mother cooked a whole table of dishes herself.

Zhao's mother looked thinner than when Luo Fei had seen her video chatting with Lao Si in the dormitory, but she looked well and had a loud, clear laugh.

Zhao's father, Zhao Zhiyuan, was wearing a dark-colored house dress. He had quite a few more gray hairs, but he seemed to be in good spirits. When he saw Luo Fei, he stood up, took a few steps to greet him, shook Luo Fei's hand, and said "thank you" several times.

Luo Fei put down the wine and hair growth cream he had brought.

When Zhao's mother saw this, she quickly said, "You're here, why did you bring anything?"

Luo Fei handed the two boxes of hair growth cream to Zhao's mother: "Auntie, this is a new hair growth cream developed by my aunt's company. It's made of pure Chinese medicine and has no side effects. Please give it a try."

Zhao's mother took the box, opened it, and her eyes immediately lit up. She looked at Luo Fei and asked, "Little Luo, this must be very expensive, right?"

Luo Fei smiled and said, "It's not expensive. It's made in-house. Feel free to use it. I'll bring you more when you run out."

Zhao's mother was overjoyed, muttering, "This child is so thoughtful."

Zhao Zixuan watched from the side, a slight smile playing on his lips.

After dinner, it was already late at night.

Luo Fei bid farewell to Zhao Zixuan and his family and returned to the hotel.

The curtains in the room were not drawn, and the night view of Jiangcheng outside the window was brilliantly lit. The reflections on the river were shattered by the wind, like scattered gold dust.

He stood by the window for a while, then drew the curtains and lay down on the bed.

Just as he was about to go to sleep, on the other side of Earth, in the United States, a conference on the ownership of celestial bodies was reaching its climax.

The meeting was held in a conference room in the United Nations Headquarters building on Blue Star.

Representatives from various countries sat on either side of the long table, each with a nameplate and documents in front of them, their expressions varied.

The representative of the United States was a man in his fifties with blond hair who liked to gesture with his hands when he spoke, and he was very persuasive.

His proposed solution was simple: "Whichever country builds the first permanent structure on the moon and sends researchers to reside there permanently will own the moon. The same principle applies to other planets and moons."

The representative from the Northern Bear Kingdom was the first to stand up and object.

He was tall and obese, with a booming voice: "This is unfair! Your spacecraft has just completed a manned lunar orbit mission and has mastered the key technologies for lunar landing. Your proposal now clearly shows you were prepared in advance, wanting to seize the moon before everyone else!"

The representative from the United States smiled calmly and said, "We are simply proposing a principle of fair competition. Whoever has the capability, whoever lands on the moon first, owns it. Isn't this precisely the rule that the international community has always followed?"

The representative from the Northern Bear Kingdom slammed his fist on the table: "Rules? Did you set the rules? If you're so capable, wait until everyone is ready before you start competing, instead of jumping the gun before others are even prepared!"

Representatives from other countries also spoke, some in support, some in opposition, and some taking a wait-and-see approach.

The representative from the United States had been observing the reaction of the representative from China. The representative from China sat at the other end of the long table, with documents spread out in front of him and a pen in his hand, occasionally writing a few words on a piece of paper, his expression calm.

The representative from the United States originally thought that even if China did not support it, it would not strongly oppose it—after all, China's space technology has made rapid progress in recent years, and its lunar landing program is also steadily advancing, so this plan is not entirely unfavorable to China.

But when the representative from China stood up, his first words stunned everyone: "We object."

His tone was calm yet firm: "Space belongs to all of humanity on this planet and should not be claimed by any single nation through a race to be the first to land on it. We suggest that all issues concerning the ownership of the Moon and other celestial bodies should be decided through multilateral negotiations, not through this kind of competitive approach."

The smile on the American representative's face froze for a moment.

He hadn't expected the Dragon Kingdom to be so vehemently opposed. He glanced at his assistant, who whispered a few words. He frowned, but quickly relaxed.

During the voting process, the majority of votes were in favor, and the proposal was passed.

Only a few countries, such as the Dragon Kingdom and the Northern Bear Kingdom, voted against it.

The plan has officially taken effect.

The representative of the United States stood up, smiled, and applauded. A burst of applause rang out in the hall, with only a few representatives from other countries not joining in.

The representative from the Northern Bear Kingdom angrily packed up the documents and turned to leave.

Representatives from other countries were either whispering, shaking their heads, or expressionless.

The representative from the Dragon Kingdom was the last to leave the conference hall.

He walked slowly and leisurely, with a meaningful smile on his face.