I, a ship girl, am the savior of civilization.

It feels like a pointless upgrade.

Having silently witnessed the final burst of this late-stage supernova, Laura remained unmoved, silently removed her symbolic sunglasses, and returned to the starry universe.

Laura has really missed Noah and VV since she last visited Huanmeng, and she also wants to see how much Huanmeng has changed.

"However, it's only been a few years, so there probably won't be much change..."

Laura shook her head. Not all civilizations are like Aierriel, with abundant resources and a starting life surrounded by countless mega-structures that can change every day.

Even if Aierriel and Huanmeng reach a cooperation agreement, Huanmeng will not be able to replicate Aierriel's miracle.

With this in mind, Laura activated the spatial vortex and teleported herself to the Universal Headquarters located on the planet Gangkun.

Global Headquarters, Santi's Office (a tool for making money)

Buried in a mountain of documents, Santi scanned one trade application after another. During Laura's absence, Santi devoted himself to managing the company. The database left behind by Laura allowed the company to quickly move past the initial stage of starting from scratch and develop towards the grand goals initially set.

Over the course of five years, Huanmeng came into contact with many mature interstellar empires and established friendly diplomatic relations with most of them. With Huanmeng's support, Huanyu also expanded its business to other countries.

Moreover, just a few months ago, the Pan-Galaxy Trade Alliance, which was established through the efforts of Santi, was founded, further enhancing the world's influence.

Against this backdrop, Santi needs to sign a large number of substantial trade agreements and submit internal development proposals every day, determining the future direction of the company.

"Sigh, finally finished. I still feel like I was fooled by Laura back then."

After passing the proposal to "Distribute Noodles for Free to Impoverished Starfields," Santi stretched his stiff back and couldn't help but complain.

"Are you that tired? Is Huanyu very busy right now?"

Laura had just arrived at Santi's office when she heard Santi's complaints and asked him something out of curiosity.

"Of course, Laura, you don't know how much the global business has expanded. I used to only need to work one hour a day, but now I have to work three hours more overtime."

Santi nodded matter-of-factly, then turned his back and listed Huanyu's recent projects: "The interstellar situation has been unstable lately, and Huanyu's control of the interstellar market has involved so many things, there are quite a few troubles now."

"When Laura gets back, I'm going to give her a piece of my mind and turn her into a typing machine who only knows how to sign documents..."

As Santi envisioned a bright future, he suddenly realized something, and a chill ran down his spine.

"Wait, Laura, when did you get back?"

With a forced smile, Santi felt himself suddenly shrink in front of Laura, who had stretched from a little girl into a demonic shadow, pressing him down.

"Since Huanyu is so busy, then as the CEO, you should take responsibility."

With half her face hidden in shadow, Laura expressionlessly bestowed her blessing upon Santi: "Santi, as CEO, you should properly implement the 996 work system."

Upon hearing this, Santi struggled a few times, trying to protest strongly, but ultimately his resistance was futile. He could only slump onto the desk, completely consumed by grief, and accept this tragic reality.

"So, to what extent has the world developed now?"

"The giant ring supports my body," Laura asked curiously. From what Santi had just said, it seemed that the development of the universe was a tiny bit faster than Laura had imagined.

When it came to serious matters, Santi couldn't help but become serious and proudly told Laura about the current scale of the world.

Covering more than 30 inhabited planets, more than 100 permanent trading space stations, spanning seven interstellar empires, and leaving its mark on one-third of the Milky Way galaxy.

The center of the Pan-Galactic Trade Alliance was established in the Hongkun Galaxy. The daily trade volume was not to be underestimated even by Huanmeng. Santi even used this to secure the production and sale of military industry.

"Huh? Is Huanyu developing this fast? You didn't sign a contract for a budget version of Madoka's '50 years of happiness,' did you?"

Looking at Santi with suspicion, Laura felt as if she had been gone for decades, not just a few years.

"Signing a contract with the Void Realm? How is that possible?"

Santi shook his head, both amused and exasperated, then pulled up an interstellar news report: "The one that truly facilitated the unification of so many interstellar empires was actually another empire."

"About four years ago, the empire that maintained trade ties with us sent us a request for assistance, claiming that it had been attacked by an unknown empire."

"After that, we received a communication request from someone who identified himself as Cyberlux."

"Cyberlux???"

Laura blinked, looking completely bewildered.

"Yes, have you heard of Laura?"

"I am not you, don't talk nonsense."

Laura responded with a swift and decisive triple denial, stating that she did not know him.

What a joke! Although I don't know if Sentinel Prime's brain is connected to the wrong circuit, I absolutely cannot admit to having any connection with Cyberlux under these circumstances.

Otherwise, when Laura wakes up tomorrow, Lexington might ask her to mediate the interstellar dispute and prevent war.

However, things are clearly not that simple.

"Don't worry, the war wasn't started by Cyberlux."

Santi rolled his eyes at Laura, and immediately saw through her purpose in denying that she knew the Cyberex: "In fact, the two sides in the war should have originally been the Cyberex and another interstellar power. That interstellar empire was just caught in the crossfire."

“Oh, Laura remembers now, Laura does have some recollection of Cyberex.”

Upon hearing that Sentinel Prime's circuit was connected correctly, Laura breathed a sigh of relief. Then, without even a scene transition, as if she had suddenly realized something, she instantly remembered the existence of Cyberex.

Santi: ...

144. On the truth of the anti-government war, Santi is utterly despicable.

Although he knew that Laura didn't like getting into trouble, Santi's silly acting still left him speechless.

Unfortunately, the vine is taller than the mulberry tree, and Laura is destined to face this trouble.

"Lola, you can't get rid of this."

Santi frowned and sent the information about the enemies of Cyberex to Laura.

"???"

Laura looked at the intelligence on the origins of the war that Huanyu had collected, completely bewildered. Several black lines immediately appeared on her forehead, and even the tachyon sensors on her ship's equipment drooped.

The classic red spiky spherical fleet, and the familiar look of its leading commander.

"Why did Little Noah become the war chief?! And why was the purge agreement activated ahead of schedule?!"

After giving Belfast a frantic thrashing, Laura finally collapsed onto the giant statue's ring, utterly dejected.

(Little Belfast: ???)

With Laura's abilities, she could naturally tell that the mysterious fleet in the images sent by Santi was the source of the information.

The Purification Protocol originated from a certain iteration of a supreme civilization and also inherited a version of the Noah Primarch's ship hull. Ultimately, it was used by Laura as an insurance measure to prevent Astra from falling into CPU0.

In the first batch of iterations, a pioneer ship girl civilization emerged, seeking to uncover the truth about the supreme god. In its quest to find the truth of the universe, that ship girl civilization consumed resources like crazy, building tens of thousands of battleship fleets, and countless mega-structures and vanity projects.

The Pioneer Ship Girl Civilization can be considered one of the most advanced god-level civilizations in the Stellaris universe. A typical fleet can accommodate tens of millions, or even more, of warships.

Their actions nearly depleted the entire galaxy's resources and caused Astra to become unbearable, almost crashing it.

Therefore, while they were building massive projects in hopes of uncovering the truth, they were unaware of the subtle changes taking place in the physical constants of the universe.

Finally, at some point, time in the Pioneer Shipgirl Civilization came to a complete standstill. After that, Laura finished recording the data of the shipgirls of that civilization and quietly initiated a reboot, pulling Astra back from the brink of death from overwork.

To this day, on a desolate planet in the Fantasy Starfield, the remains of that pioneer ship girl still remain, waiting for the Fantasy Ship Girls to excavate them.

After that, in order to avoid exhausting Astra's computing power, Laura decided to prepare to create a crisis contingency program.

The Purification Agreement was the restrictive measure chosen by Laura. Using the Pioneer Ship Girl Civilization as a standard, Laura set the Singularity Civilization Rules for the many god-level civilizations that came into contact with the rules of the stars.

Before obtaining more matter and data on the rules of other universes, the Type 30 civilization singularity is the limit for interstellar civilizations.

Of course, the purgation protocol is just one of the protective measures that Laura is more comfortable using; there are many other countermeasures besides it.

As it turns out, the purge agreement was not without its flaws.

The fact that the young lady is now leading a small pacification fleet to shout "it's too late" all over the universe is the best proof of this.

"So, what's going on with Noah?"

Resigned to reality, Laura asked San. Since it's Little Noah, at least there's room for maneuver. Moreover, judging from the size of Little Noah's purging fleet, the purging agreement certainly hasn't been fully activated.

No, let alone fully activated, judging from the current strength of the Purge Agreement fleet, Laura even suspects that this is a Purge toy that Little Noah dug up from somewhere.

Judging from the strength of a god-level civilization at the height of the Purge Agreement, a Purge battleship group with five units could easily destroy a nascent civilization that didn't even have a group of battleships.

Among the current interstellar civilizations, the Phantom is in the first tier, with only a handful of civilizations in the entire galaxy capable of rivaling it. However, such a Phantom would be utterly vulnerable before a true Purge fleet.

"Well, the young lady said she wants to purify all the evil organisms in the galaxy. Huanmeng probably doesn't count, but her attacks on other civilizations have indeed caused a great disturbance, and we can't persuade her to stop."

Santi honestly recounted the results of his previous conversation with the young lady.

"Like this..."

Sighing, Laura shook her head, a sly smile appearing on her face: "Looks like you, Santi, you old capitalist, have taken advantage of the situation to plunder quite a bit."

Santi's face immediately turned bright red. She, who could usually talk about win-win situations with economic colonies without batting an eye, was now somewhat embarrassed and tried to defend herself.

"How can you call it taking advantage of someone's misfortune when it's a matter for a global behemoth? The global behemoth even gave away a frigate for free, making an indelible contribution to the peace of the galaxy!"

Then came the talk of "necessary wartime price increases" and "essentially a timely help in need."

Laura smiled and didn't tease Santi any further, but she didn't take Santi's rebuttal seriously.

Just now, Laura had browsed through the records of major events in the universe. In addition to the large-scale price increase of commodities and resources, Santi also snatched a lot of business from other interstellar companies.

Because currently only Huanyu in the entire galaxy can use the nano-deformable metal left by Laura to repair megastructures or explore wormholes, Santy, under the pressure of the war, directly acquired at least two damaged stargates and opened three stable wormhole routes.

The Space Bridge, which could originally be used an unlimited number of times, has been listed by Santi as an emergency space teleportation item, priced at 500 energy coins per use.

It can be said that among the several civilization star domains participating in the Pan-Galactic Trade Alliance, Huanyu possesses the most convenient means of communication. If other civilizations want to transport resources over long distances, they have to apply to Huanyu for permission, even if it means gritting their teeth.

Santi made a fortune just from collecting tolls.

In addition, the Interstellar Empire inquired whether Universal could provide warship sales services. In response, a CEO of Universal, who wished to remain anonymous but claimed to be dedicated to building a colorful galaxy, said that Universal was just an ordinary commercial company. Although it sold weapons, it would never provoke the Illusion Codex to openly sell warships, such powerful strategic military weapons.

Then, Santi approved the proposal to sell large warships for trade, and stated that although Universal would not sell warships, it would provide warship armament modification services, limited to large warships for trade.

In addition, there are a series of wartime provisions, such as the loan service of the global escort fleet.

Although they knew that Santi was just bluffing, the countries whose borders were repeatedly attacked by the "Miss's Fleet" still had no choice but to grit their teeth and sign agreements that emptied their national treasuries.

In fact, if this weren't the case, then what they lost might not just be a matter of a few border star systems.

Seeing this, Laura looked at Santi with suspicion.