Spring had arrived in the Imperium.
It arrived earlier to the underground world of the capital planet that had never witnessed spring than it did to the surface.
Xu Zhicheng, a former distinguished miner and a leader of Nepenthe, stood before the Great Iron Factory that he found both familiar and strange, unable to believe that the place where he was born and brought up could turn into such a paradise!
The suffocating factory had been added with infinite automatic assembly lines, and the purification and fashioning facilities here were state-of-the-art even in the whole Imperium. More than 85% of the workers did not have to waste their lives for the dangerous jobs anymore.