The launch of Ascendant 1 was a great success, and as in the past, this incident has become the focus of public opinion.

The liftoff video of the Ascender 1, as long as it is relevant, has reached the level of millions of views on each video platform, and many people have also found business opportunities here, with various clips, various styles, and post-production special effects in the form of animated memes also going viral on the Internet.

Azir has actually been paying attention to the changes in this hot spot, but don't underestimate this subcultural life, which directly shows what the people's psychological state is like.

When Azir first returned to Shurima, he saw a lifeless scene, and any detached thoughts would fall to the ground under the great gravitational pull of reality.

After this year of changes, people's cultural life has obviously been much richer, and their thinking has developed in a divergent way, and many people have been influenced by this social atmosphere and have begun to pay attention to the central space program, and some people have even begun to write their own science fiction novels about the future and space, which was simply impossible before.

"Shurima is really changing, and that's a good thing." Azir was heartfelt as he browsed through this information.

However, when people pay attention to every news and stage hot spot, they will always think of a singer afterwards, as if every time he releases a new song, he can always catch up with a big event, from the return of the prince, the coming-of-age ceremony, the succession of the new emperor and the launch of the space station this time, he has caught up.

The popularity of the new song is crushed.

But ridicule is ridicule, and those who don't listen still don't listen.

Since then, there have been no major incidents, and since the successful launch of Ascension 1 into orbit, many unnoticed photos of the universe have also been transmitted.

The Academy of Sciences did not hide, all the photographs of the universe were made public, and the fear of the cosmic scene in the people of Shurima seemed to have really disappeared, and their comments on the cosmic scene were mostly positive comments such as beauty and magnificence.

In this way, until the end of the year, nothing could have caused a big sensation.

The New Year is approaching, and the royal family receives gifts.

No matter how grand a career is, there must be people who are sophisticated.

From the high-ranking officials of the administrative districts to the cadres of the central government, they all packed gorgeous gift boxes and sent them to Vishina's palace, and the queen mother was really not interested, so she asked Azir to pick a few at random, and then sold all the others to fill the treasury.

Nasus didn't have a very expensive gift, he sent a poem that he personally mentioned, framed it and sent it over, Vichyna smiled and accepted it, and then made a mistake, according to her aesthetics, she felt that it was not appropriate to put it, and then thought about it, it would be good to put it in the kitchen.

I just felt that those contents were not suitable for the occasion, so I asked people to copy and modify a few sentences:

"There is a fish in the North Underworld, its name is Kun, and the Kun is so big that it can't be stewed in a pot."

As for Nasus's original, it can only be collected.

After the visit, Nasus, like Azir, reported on the year's work, and he led almost sixty percent of Shurima's work, including administration, military, logistics, and part of the Academy of Sciences.

Azir is a little strange, according to his previous performance, Nasus should want to retire very much, but in the second half of the year, I don't know why he is working very actively, and the work style of various departments is very strict, and there are people in the middle who can't stand it and run to Azir to make a small report.

In fact, Nasus and Asitaya's administrative styles are just the opposite, just like the temperament of the two of them, which is also the opposite.

Cabinet Scholar Nasus feels like a kind old man, but he never scolds people when he does things, but if the people below dare to disobey orders, he will let the entire department to which the person belongs to be depressed to death.

Assitaya, the Cabinet Commander-in-Chief, looks like a gloomy and gloomy ghost, sometimes he is very short-tempered, sometimes he doesn't say a word, and he always seems to curse, but when he makes a decision, he basically has to be discussed or held by a group of people for a long time before making a decision, and everyone will have some free room for development.

So in fact, officials at all levels prefer to work under Asitaya than Nasus.

Nasus reported to Azir that the work of all levels and departments of the government over the past year, as well as the changes in the people's living conditions, were basically no different from what Azir knew.

After Nasus left, Azir and Vicina went to pay homage to their father, because the tomb of the previous emperor was in a public cemetery, so they also dressed up when they went, and chose to pay their respects when there was a small number of people.

They didn't want to be screamed by the crowd at such a time, so they didn't bring any attendants such as guards and bodyguards, so as not to attract any unnecessary attention.

To tell the truth, now Shurima, almost no one can hurt these two people.

Azir wondered why the Smoke Keeper had said that his mother had been the number one warrior of Shurima, at least in his own memory, he had never seen Vichyna use a knife to rob him.

Vichyna didn't answer Azir's question, she just caressed her husband's tombstone with a wistful face, and then said to Azir, "I'll tell you when I have a chance later." ”

Azir also worshipped the smokekeeper, though he knew there was nothing under the tombstone.

Soon after, Asitaya came to find Azir, who did not give New Year's prayers like the other officials.

Instead, he wanted to invite Azir to go with him to a place where he had something to show him.

"I haven't seen you for a few months, and now I see that your gray hair has changed so much."

Azir looked at his hair that was obviously mixed with other colors and said, "Don't be too tired, if you can't even hold your body, then why talk about guarding Shurima?" ”

"I never thought of holding on, Your Majesty."

Asitaya's thin cheeks fell together, and he said, "That's the business of posterity, and the mission of my generation is to expand the territory." ”

After several hours of travel, Azir finally followed Asitaya to the place he had spoken, a laboratory secretly built by Asitaya himself, where he had asked Azir for a small corvette of pirates, and the pirate ship had been pulled to no apparent location.

The laboratory was built underground, almost a dozen stories high, and the pirate's frigate was placed in the middle, around which the layers of platforms were built.

Routes from the pirate ships also lead to these platforms, each with a dozen to dozens of busy scientists.

Finally, in one of the deepest secret rooms, Asitaya showed Azir what he had done over the years—

A slender, carved golden scepter with sacred lines.

After that, it's Chinese New Year's Eve.

In the sound of fireworks, the end of the year arrived.

Safe.