On the blank snow, a small black dot was slowly moving, trampling the neat snow around it into a mess, staining the immaculate white carpet with a black stain.

The busy little black dot was Chen Zheng.

Looking down from the sky, everything seems so small, and to the naked eye, at this distance, humans are no different from those little ants crawling on the ground.

If you are farther away from the ground, even the towering giant trees comparable to the CCTV building have turned into a layer of fluffy moss, clinging to the ground to form a slightly thick blanket.

Farther away, the hills and depressions on the ground begin to look like skin lines, and only the texture can be seen. The erupting volcano is nothing more than red and swollen acne, and the alpine plains are just a tiny imperfection in the skin......

As the distance becomes farther away, the outline of the earth begins to bend and eventually form a sphere that appears to the naked eye to be perfectly round.

This is the origin of the name "planet".

Doubling this distance tenfold, when people stand on a natural satellite and look at the planet they live on, they will be shocked to find that their planet is so small.

However, when the distance is extended to the distance between stars and planets, if one can stand at this distance and look at one's home star, one will find that one's world is nothing more than a speck of dust in the universe.

And when you jump outside the star-planetary system and look at it, even with a high-resolution optical telescope, you may not be able to observe your home star, the huge and incomparable star obscures all light, and the faint reflection becomes imperceptible under the star's brilliance.

When the distance is further extended by a thousand or ten thousand times, the "sun" that brings light to oneself is just an inconspicuous one among the stars in the sky, and the mother planet that gives birth to oneself is like dust in the universe.

The sky is full of stars.

Each has its own world, and each has its own story.

In the era when technology was not yet enlightened, the stars in the sky could not influence anything except provide infinite space for reverie, let alone interact with each other. Each world is a small, self-contained, closed loop.

However...... When tidal gate technology was invented, everything changed.

……

A corner of the universe, at the edge of the Santan Nebula.

Here, the nearest stars are very, very far away, and the line between night and day is so blurred that even at noon on the sun, it is at best a clear and moonlit night on Earth.

This is not only the corner of the universe, but also the corner of the Olnick star-planetary system.

There is no sunlight, no air, and even water exists in a solid state, so it can be said that life is extinct.

But even in such a harsh environment, there are still intelligent beings living here. There is only one reason, and that is...... This is the Land of Tides, which can connect 7 living planets with atmosphere and liquid water.

And this dark asteroid is called the dark field.

……

"Bang."

"Failed!?"

A burly man slammed the table.

"Why did you fail ??" The strong man asked, "It's just a low-level civilization, how can a low-ranking apostle and an Ote battle body fail!?" You teach me!? ”

A gray-skinned man over 3 meters tall, with a pair of antennae on his head and carapace reflection on his skin, straightened the small disc around his neck, and a voice came out of the small disc:

“…… Sorry, I don't know either. ”

"You tell me I don't know!?" The strong man glared angrily at the gray-shelled alien like a bamboo pole.

“…… I just received the news yesterday that the task is complete and the things are in hand, but ......"

"I'm listening." The strong man said impatiently.

“…… The contact signal I sent was slow to respond. The Grey Shell Bamboo Pole Man thought about it for a moment, "Maybe they ......"

Before he could finish speaking, the strong man slapped the table again.

"Betrayed! It must have been a betrayal! I knew the damn slugs couldn't be trusted! Thankfully, they were only given a drifting valve! ”

"But there's another Otei ...... following."

“…… No matter how good the reputation of the Otters is, they can't match that cunning slug! Besides, he's still a subordinate apostle!! The battle body really can't restrain the apostle's ......"

"But they ......" the gray-shelled bamboo pole seemed to want to refute, but before it could speak, it was interrupted by a strong man.

"There's nothing more to it than that! You tell Tang Kai to go, I want that thing, and the corpses of those two traitors! ”

“……”

"Why don't you go yet!?" Looking at the gray-shelled bamboo pole in a daze, the strong man roared again.

“…… The drifting valve this time? ”

"Just one!" The strong man roared.

"Yes......"

The strong man kept staring at the gray-shelled bamboo pole man until its back disappeared outside the door, and the anger on his face finally couldn't be suppressed, and he returned to his seat in three steps and two steps, and took out a "watch" without a strap.

"Wow ......"

With a soft sound, the "watch" suddenly attached to the wrist of the strong man like a magnet, and then the strong man began to use his hand to gesture out of thin air.

……

On the other hand.

The gray-shelled bamboo pole man staggered out of the strong man's office, stood at the doorway and scratched his head.

"Tang Kai ......"

“…… Nasty guys. ”

"No way...... I had to go. ”

The gray-shell bamboo pole man hesitated for a long time, but still got on the shuttle.

The iron-gray shuttle ran for several minutes, passing through a tattered steel building and coming to a halt in the middle of an iron building.

Before I got off the shuttle, a strange sound came.

"Boom—buzz......"

"Boom—buzz......"

“…… Trouble guy. The tentacles on the gray-shelled bamboo pole man's head swayed for a while, looking a little irritable.

"Boom-"

"Boom-"

As the gray-shelled bamboo pole man approached, the strange voice gradually became clear. If you stand here and listen, this strange sound is somewhat similar to the sound of a temple bell, but it is not as clear as the bell, but it is deeper and more muffled, and if it is a bell, then it must be solid.

Standing in front of the last isolation door, the gray-shelled bamboo pole man's abdominal pouch bulged slightly, and a large amount of gas was sucked in from the valve on its shoulder and expelled again.

Then, it finally pushed open the door.

A loud sound that shook people's scalps suddenly poured out of the door.

"Knock ——————"

"Stop!"

"Buzz ......"

Even if the "bell" didn't ring again, the metal still reverberated and vibrate.

In the center of the hall, a huge creature like a mountain of meat slowly turned around.

"Fine?"

“…… Shocked me...... What did you say? The gray-shelled bamboo pole man gently stroked the tentacles on his head, pressed the tentacles down to the side of the mouthparts, and gently gnawed a few times.

“……”

Roshan looked at the bamboo pole, reached out and took a small metal disc from his collar and crushed it casually, slowly walked to the side of the room and put it next to his throat.

As if attracted, the small disc naturally pasted on, and then an extremely heavy, hoarse voice came from the small disc.

"What's the matter?"

"I'm here to remind you to look at the logs, there's a task."

"Okay."

After speaking, Roshan walked towards the bamboo pole, and the bamboo pole man vigilantly dodged away, allowing himself to stand in a place that Roshan would never reach.

"Hehehehehe......"

Roshan smiled low and passed by the bamboo pole man.

The bamboo pole man glanced with some jealousy at the center of the hall, where there was a huge metal lump that could not be seen at all.

"Monster ......"