As Harrison Clark boarded the return-bound spacecraft and headed straight for Earth, the massive statue removal plan had already been approved and immediately implemented.
Presently, humans have built hundreds of large cities and tens of thousands of medium-sized cities and settlements in the Solar System, as well as many more industrial bases and military camps.
A total of 33,762 statues of the sage Harrison Clark were being quickly dismantled by automated machinery, starting from their heads.
Harrison Clark watched the crowd in the statue square through the live surveillance provided by Star.
Before the operation began, almost everyone had been notified.
Then, almost everyone put aside what they were doing and came over here.
At this moment, statue squares in major cities and settlements were packed with people.
People looked up at the sky, some with gritted teeth, some with tears streaming down their faces, some cursing aloud, and others numb and rigid...