Seven years ago, the city was completely reduced to the territory of the Winter Graves.

The down-and-out earthlings and the lazy Gravegravens coexist peacefully in an eerie way.

The Winter Grave people have no desire to multiply.

Of course, they don't need to reproduce either – because they have a long lifespan.

According to public data from the Alien Population Bureau, the average age of the Winter Grave Planet who came to Earth was about 531 years old, and the oldest Winter Grave Man was more than 1,200 years old, and there was no sign of aging so far.

Once they have taken root in this land, there is no possibility of leaving.

Today, there are less than 30,000 inhabitants of the earth.

The remaining 1.2 million or so people are all Winter Grave Stars.

The central government also took a renunciation attitude towards Jihecheng.

Every year, the city receives only enough supplies from the center to survive, and nothing else.

There is no construction here, and all the public construction is the same as it was seven years ago......

— but it is a hundred times more barren and desolate than seven years ago.

In the past seven years, great scientists have made major breakthroughs, and life on Earth has been turned upside down.

Everything is moving in a better direction.

Only this Jihe city has stopped moving forward and still retains its primitive simplicity.

No, in essence, the city is regressing......

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the last slum on earth.

However, the Winter Grave people are very happy with this degradation of civilization.

The wilder the city, the more comfortable they lived.

Paradoxically, the only remaining earthlings in Jihe City love this picturesque city as much as the Winter Grave Planets.

One of the most enthusiastic of them is Mr. Conrad, the president of Star Travel University.

He loves his homeland and wants to bring these interstellar travelers back to their planet.

And this is almost impossible to achieve.

Every Winter Grave who comes to Earth is tight-lipped about how they arrived.

No one knows if they really forgot how they got here, or if they were hiding something.

If we can know how they can travel between the stars at will, it means that earthlings will also have the opportunity to travel to distant galaxies tens of thousands of light-years away.

Since the arrival of the Winter Grave Planets has become an open secret, neither the government, nor scientists, nor even scientific research companies have stopped exploring and questioning their ways of visiting.

But all of them are empty.

Years ago, Mr. Conrad decided to take a different path, painstakingly creating this unmodern university in the city.

He hopes to use the city's unique resource, the existence of the Winter Grave Star, combined with the increasingly advanced modern scientific research, to find a way to send these people back to the Winter Grave Star.

Sadly, no one is bullish on him.

The government was unwilling to pay for Mr. Conrad's great ideals, and no well-known professor wanted to come to the abandoned city to teach.

Mr. Conrad, with his strong will, finally built this shabby school.

Every student at the school is a local earthling—one who shares Mr. Conrad's ideals.

Mr. Conrad was particularly interested in my quantum bridge theory and invited me to give a talk on this trip.

Over the years, I've always maintained a hide-and-hide mentality for the people of that planet.

The first time I met President Conrad, I politely declined his invitation.

Unexpectedly, he actually found An Yanke and taught me to ride a tiger and it was difficult to pass the buck.