July 14, 363 Earth Flare Sun

After a round of initial exploration, thirteen volunteers and I entered the cave in full gear into the unknown, which went down as if there was no end to it, and some sections were too steep to stand upright.

The safety rope and the carabing axe saved Terry's life today, and he had to take matters into his own initiative, which seemed overconfident for an average sweeper driver.

He fell from a steep rock, and the rope that connected the whole team grabbed him, and Xie Futi, who was lined up behind him, was almost carried into the cliff by him, but Terry eventually found that the bottom of the cliff was flat, a large platform, and there was not a trace of light in the cave, and the captain Zhao Changan told us to rest here according to the standard time.

To save energy, the power of the portable lamp was turned to a minimum, but writing in dim light wasn't my first time.

It reminds me of my hometown in Bud Valley, New Newcastle, where there were frequent power outages due to its mountainous location, and I often looked forward to the moonlit day in Hermes in the summer, because that was the only inspiration and motivation that would support me to write that damn novel at night.

A dream of becoming a best-selling author, but in the end, I tossed and turned, and finally came here, becoming a humble farmer like my father.

I really hope that the editors of the high-ranking publishing house will see the highlights of that novel back then, instead of rejecting it again and again.

Maybe it's really fate, isn't it?

……

Steven did visit the old base, which was home to a large number of colonists, a few times during the year. It was the site of a colonialist riot decades earlier, followed by a bloody and brutal clandestine crackdown by the Minotaur's private forces, which was unearthed by the media a few years later from several colonial survivors.

The first major case before the Supreme Court was a retrial of the Cadmus tragedy in 363 of the Human Federation. Although he never pleaded guilty to all the charges against him, the verdict a few months later still made the CEO of the Minotaur 'True Guard', Byron Brown. Ludendorff was imprisoned for this.

A year later, the Joint Parliament voted by a majority vote to forcibly revoke the Heisenberg family's Cadmus rights.

In the 37 years after this, the long-doubted planet mining rights were won by the 'Better Tomorrow' consortium, which urgently needed acetitanium to expand the production scale of its flying cars, with sky-high contract money.

In order to prevent misunderstandings, and to deliberately distinguish between the enlightened nature of the Better Tomorrow consortium and the brutality of the Heisenberg consortium, the newly approved colonist base was not rebuilt on the long-abandoned old base, but was rebuilt in another vein not far from it.

When Steven arrived as one of the first contract colonists, the base builders and security personnel who had arrived early had already explored the old base several times. Since Tomorrow's Better Company theoretically owns everything in the entirety of Cadmus, it would be a shame that the ownerless equipment and remnants of the old base, abandoned by the Heisenberg chaebol, were left there.

Therefore, the command center of the base began to mobilize various transport vehicles on a large scale, and sent professionals from various functional departments to go there to 'loot' the valuable items in the old base that were still well preserved under the thin atmosphere, and transported them back to the new base for storage and classification, so that they could be reused in the future.

Steven, as the key position of the base and the only candidate for the food processing plant, also participated in the 'big clean-up' operation. He didn't make as much of a fortune as the mining and security sectors, and he couldn't get anything back during that move.

Decades ago, the soilless cultivation technology was relatively old, but with the strength of the Heisenberg Foundation, their colony still uses the ancient organic soil cultivation technology. The mountains of fifth-generation wheat seeds had lost their vitality in a vacuum and oxygen-deprived environment, rendering them useless to Steven's new food factory, and the bales of well-preserved organic fertilizer and vermiculite did not interest him in the slightest.

But in the laboratory of this old factory, he accidentally found a diary written by hand by the person in charge of the place.

Steven had only flipped a few pages at the time and found it interesting and carried it with him. After returning to the base, I took it out and read a few paragraphs, but I couldn't help but feel creepy, it turned out that this was not a diary, it seemed to be more like a fictional novel based on the base scene!

Since he was a child, Steven has disliked looking at these strange things the most, and when he is afraid to look at them in a room, he throws them aside. A few months later, when he was bored and took out the novel again and gritted his teeth to read it, a series of questions arose in his heart.

The underground palaces, the pure gold floors and walls, the mad miners and the ubiquitous whispers in the ears described in those books are so realistic and real, is it true that everything is real? Could these seemingly subtle descriptions really be the real cause of the Cadmus colonial rebellion?

Curiosity and boredom made him boldly apply to the command center for several outing vehicles on the grounds of inspecting the experimental materials available in the old base, and went to the base several times by himself to carefully investigate, but he never found the entrance to the 'Golden Palace' described in the book.

Stie didn't read much, but he wasn't stupid, and when he looked through the words that looked like a diary, he also wondered if there was a relic of the Ascendant buried under the old base.

He didn't know much about it, but the pure golden relic metal of the Ascension had also heard of the third brother Daniel. Taylor mentioned that he knew it was an eternal, strange metal, similar to what was described in the book.

He went to the base several times in a row, but the search was fruitless, and he just stopped. But soon this was known to a group of miners from a mining company, who did not understand it, and wouldn't they be afraid to go to that ominous place that was full of bloodshed and torture in those days?

So at Lenny's Bar, someone gave Steven a new nickname, calling him: Taylor the Two Darers.