flstandardbreds Chapter 160 Why was the expansion halted?
Chapter 160 Why was the expansion halted?
Akivili and Pam opened the car door and observed Bobbit Star.
It was a planet shrouded in dark clouds, its surface completely covered by a thick atmosphere, making it almost impossible to observe the surface from above.
“Bobbit Star…” Akivili murmured.
"How did the once-promising pioneers end up like this?"
Several Amber Ages ago, he visited this place, bringing exploration and prosperity.
Connected by the galactic orbit, the people of Bobbit fly out of the planet and roam the universe, where everything is thriving.
But now, that vast galactic orbit has been severed in half, and the galactic orbit at one end of the planet has collapsed into a free and disordered force of expansion. The people of Bobbit have also retreated to their cradle and no longer come into contact with the outside world.
"Our goal is to get them to set foot on the frontier again!" Pam declared with great ambition.
Akivili pursed his lips and reached out to the pioneering forces near the planet, intending to rebuild these forces into the galactic rails connecting the universe.
buzzing.
The power of pioneering trembled, but there was no other reaction; it remained unmoved in the face of this pioneering emperor.
With a strange booming sound, the pioneering power at the edge of the planet suddenly ignited, then quickly disappeared, leaving only blank heat.
“This is…” The sudden change caught Akivili off guard. He observed for a long time and then let out a soft hum.
"What's wrong?" Pam asked.
“It’s nothing,” Akivili turned his gaze back to the planet. “I left the Key to the Stars here. If we find it and reactivate it, it will absorb the remaining pioneering power and condense the star orbit... I can sense it.”
"Then what are we waiting for? Let's get started." With that, Pam went to choose the right tools. "According to you, we don't even need to go down. We can just send the message to the people on Bobbit."
“No,” Akivili stopped Pam, “I also left a solution for the galactic anomaly before I left. Why do you think they did nothing, letting the orbits collapse, and why didn’t they try to reactivate them?”
"what do you mean?"
“We can’t draw any conclusions yet. We’ll find out once we go down and investigate,” Akivili paused. “In this expedition, we will try our best to guide rather than interfere.”
"Ok."
After discussing for a moment, the two left the observation car. The next moment, Zhou Yuan's vision went black. When he opened his eyes again, he was in a small, cramped room.
The pervasive musty smell in the air made Zhou Yuan frown. He fumbled for a rope in the darkness, pulled it down, and the light came on, illuminating the surroundings.
The scene was one of utter chaos, with various tools scattered around. Lifting the oil paper at my feet revealed a broken drill bit lying underneath.
"This is... a mine?" The searchlight on his hard hat and the pickaxe in his hand allowed Zhou Yuan to quickly recognize his surroundings.
He had possessed a Bobbit miner.
“This light cone is Akivili’s memory… In other words, the former Akivili also chose to possess this miner.” Zhou Yuan clenched his fist, feeling the roughness of his fingertips.
He began to quickly peruse the memories within this body.
The body's owner was named Evan, an archaeologist.
From the day he graduated from school, he picked up a pickaxe, vowing to find the Star Key recorded in history books, so that Bobbit could return to the world as described in history books.
Federal President Leonard trusted him and generously allocated funds to assemble a massive archaeological team for him.
And so, Evan led the archaeological team to begin the excavation, and twenty years passed in the blink of an eye.
Over the course of twenty years, it's not that he gained nothing. He unearthed a biological weapon that the enemy had used for their invasion, which poisoned several of his teammates. He also unearthed a former war machine, but due to someone else's misoperation, it caused a mountain to collapse.
He unearthed the past glories, but few of the Bobbitians were grateful to him; they only believed he would bring disaster to the planet's future.
"Look, Evan dug up another strange thing!"
"Hey, run! He'll get us killed again! Leonard trusted him so much."
"He stinks! And he's filthy... I heard he was mining when his parents died. I think he's just obsessed with studying!"
"Exactly, things are fine now, why does he have to think about going out to do something? Is he afraid of alien invasion? Planet explosion?" People laughed. "I remember there's a phrase in a book that suits him perfectly, '杞人忧天' (a person of Qi who worries about the sky falling), hahahahaha."
The ridicule and unexpected events from others made it difficult for Evan to continue, but fortunately, Commander Leonard has always supported and encouraged him, which has allowed him to persevere until now.
"What will Akivili do after he finds out what happened to Evan?"
Without a doubt, Akivili would step in to help a pioneer who was being treated this way.
In other words... help him find the Key to the Stars, proving the necessity of exploration.
Zhou Yuan closed his eyes, and an object emitting a pulsating energy immediately appeared in his mind.
It exists a hundred meters beneath your feet in the rock layer; it is the Key to the Stars, located directly beneath Evan's base, which he built over several years.
What Evan had been searching for for decades without success became as luminous as a firefly in the night in Akivilli's perception.
“Then the rest is simple. Just let the archaeological team dig down and activate the Star Key, and this part of the story will be perfectly over.” Thinking this, Zhou Yuan’s expression froze.
"Have you forgotten something?"
"By the way, the archaeological team has been disbanded."
Months ago, all members of the archaeological team had already left, and no matter how much Leonard offered, he was unwilling to stay.
In their words: It's too dangerous. There's an explosion today and a landslide tomorrow. It's better to stay on the surface.
Evan is now all alone, and his mission is to dig through a hundred-meter-deep rock layer.
Perhaps because Akivili had instructed Pam to only guide and not interfere, Zhou Yuan now had no power and could only rely on his sensitivity to exploration to determine the location of the Star Key.
He was practically just an ordinary person.
It was a situation where "the boss only needs to say something, and the subordinates have to run themselves ragged." This limitation left Zhou Yuan at a loss, and he subconsciously asked:
"Xing, what do you think?"
However, when he looked back, there was no one there. He was all alone.
"Tsk."
Zhou Yuan sighed and suppressed the idea of "going down into the mine" in his heart.
The most urgent task is to find the person possessed by the star.
But the planet is so vast, where should he even begin his search?
Zhou Yuan straightened his clothes and hair in front of the blurry reflection on the pickaxe, pondered for a moment, and finally stepped out of the room and walked towards the outside of the mine.
Meanwhile, several kilometers away in the federal government, Xing finally finished digesting the original owner's memories.
A tall figure pushed open the door and walked to her side:
"Aixing, how's Evan's mood lately?"
“Uncle Leonard,” Xing subconsciously used the title from her memory, “My dad has been locking himself in the base lately. He… he still wants to find the Key to Pioneer.”
“Sigh,” Leonard, whose hair was already turning gray, sighed, “he still won’t give up?”
"Then let him die."