After dealing with Shigure Kira, Noldrei took Vita to pay a visit to his former master, Sa.
Upon meeting Sa, Vita noticed many subtle little expressions on her face.
'As expected of the Lord Chairman. He easily accomplished what I couldn't.'
Vita had betrayed Sa because she believed Sa was not qualified to recreate the Venus civilization and had accepted Noldrei's standards for a new civilization.
Sa had completely given in. She had severed all her tentacles in the Sea of Quanta.
These tentacles were actually channels built through agents to absorb the power of those Bubble Universes in the Sea of Quanta.
This power was probably on the level of Kevin being able to create a Bubble Universe in the Sea of Quanta with his own memories.
"Sa, long time no see..."
Vita stepped forward with a smile and greeted Sa, saying, "I didn't expect that after not seeing you for a while, you've regained your emotions. It seems the Chairman has been taking good care of you."
Sa looked at her silently, her purple eyes flickering, as if she were considering whether to take Vita's head right then and there.
"I don't have much time to play guessing games with you two here. Sa, have you done what I asked you to do?"
When Noldrei left, he had specifically instructed Sa to deal with her tentacles and create the Second Cocoon on Venus.
He could now feel that strange power, but he had not yet actually seen the location of the Second Cocoon.
"The Second Cocoon is ready, but I've hidden it in the planet's core."
Sa knew she couldn't show too many emotions in front of Noldrei, because these emotions would bring her all sorts of unbearable mental attacks.
She was now like an ant trapped in a glass cage.
However Noldrei treated her was how she had treated the people in the Bubble Universes. In this way, he would squeeze everything out of her.
In Noldrei's eyes, she was like a god who had crowned herself as the god of ants, drawing energy from the ant nest. Any normal civilized person would know what that implied.
Sa could accept Noldrei's contempt and criticism because she had really lost to this guy.
But Vita...
Sa hated her deeply!
Damn traitor!
"Wow, what a terrifying look. I was just doing what a civilized person should do. In this situation, any agent would choose to abandon you and cooperate with the Earth civilization, right? Unless, Sa, you want to command all the agents' actions. But then why would you create agents? Wouldn't that mean you'd have to do the work yourself?"
Vita's taunt left Sa speechless.
Sa silently followed behind Noldrei and continued to explain her work on Venus.
"The power of Venus's core is insufficient, and it's impossible to simply restore the ecology of the past. Even if you can use your power to restore a certain amount of kinetic energy to Venus, it's still not enough to produce long-term benefits."
She no longer used the name of her former civilization, since the Venus civilization had been successfully captured and defined by Noldrei.
The overly arrogant Sa was now like a former Bronya, trying to restore her own emotional module.
Billions of years of repetitive work had almost made Sa degenerate and lose her cognitive ability of human society.
"No need. By that time, we'll already be able to leave the solar system's Imaginary Energy tide."
Noldrei had never thought of making Venus too good. It just needed to be usable for a thousand or so years.
This made Sa a little troubled. She didn't know if she should follow Noldrei's instructions. She had originally thought that Venus could last for tens of millions of years, but in Noldrei's mouth, Venus was as worthless as a temporary construction shed.
"There's one more thing. I had arranged for surveillance of the solar system a long time ago, with the purpose of dealing with the Cocoon of Finality."
Sa recalled the relevant content, thinking of Griseo who had brought back Project Ark, and also discovered some things about the solar system.
"The 'Stargate.' As long as we open the Stargate, we have a chance to rush to the world outside the solar system. And..."
"This is the message I brought back from the asteroid belt."
Sa handed a document to Noldrei.
Noldrei quickly read this... taunt from Sa.
Vita also curiously took a look. After looking, she suddenly felt sorry for Sa. Not only had she betrayed Sa, but even the people Sa had prepared in the past had also betrayed Sa, never thinking of a win-win cooperation with her.
They just ran away with the research results.
'What a loser. How did the Venus civilization find such a loser to be its successor?'
Vita cursed the source of her memory in her heart. The good Vita of the past had become the current Sa, and the result was this ridiculous mess.
The content of the letter was simple. It was that the people who had been taken to the edge of the solar system had discovered the "Stargate" and mocked Sa for being too "bloated" for a long time and unable to use the Stargate.
This "bloating" referred not only to her mentality, but also to the bloating of her life form, which might cause a relative energy conflict when passing through the "Stargate."
It was obvious that this researcher, the deputy director Mara, had discovered this key conflict.
She immediately patted her butt and ran away with her people, heading to a wider and more promising cosmic space.
Noldrei sucked in a cold breath and looked at Sa in shock.
He was still too soft-hearted. Whenever he thought of Sa wandering for so long, only thinking of hiding in the Sea of Quanta and engaging in Bubble Universe farming, he hated this kind of slave-owner loser even more.
Seeing Noldrei's expression, Sa instinctively shrank back.
She no longer dared to have any extra thoughts, for fear that Noldrei would humiliate her, this slave owner, again.
"This Mara, how long has she been gone? The future of your Venus civilization, that is, the future of the Fraxinus civilization, was buried in your hands just like that?"
Noldrei was both angry and shocked. He couldn't imagine how there could be such a loser in the world.
"That... that was one of the data lifeforms I created. He betrayed us..."
Sa beat around the bush, not daring to tell the real situation.
"I asked you how long she's been gone!! Answer me!"
Vita was startled by Noldrei's roar and quietly retreated behind him, afraid of suffering some unknown disaster.
"Probably, tens of thousands of years? Maybe not that long, maybe a few thousand years, I'm not too sure... anyway... it has been a little... long?"
Sa didn't dare to say exactly how long. She was meek and submissive, afraid of being punished again.
Noldrei didn't even have the heart to beat her. He pointed at this idiot's head and was too lazy to continue talking to her.
He suddenly turned his head to look at Vita, who was startled.
"Keep an eye on her. If she's not working hard, whip her hard! Strip her naked and whip her!"
Vita immediately said with a serious expression, "Yes, Lord Chairman! I guarantee I'll complete the mission!"