The Great Wall of Sloan, located at the junction of the two superclusters of SCL111 and SCL126, has a prominent narrow starry sky, named by the Spark Council:

Tachino Delta.

Due to the Spark Council's fortress group built at the forefront of this star field, under their protection, this area is rarely invaded by void creatures, and it is like an oasis in the desert that many civilizations have been preserved, and many new or surviving civilizations have also been born here.

And the remote planet Panod is just such a pure land.

If you look down from space, it is an orange-red planet, shrouded in the dust of history by the light of the stars that shine through the particles in the sky.

The only regret is that the blue of the ocean is almost invisible on the surface of the planet, and even the green can only be seen in the highly developed urban circles.

And even those few bits of poor green, people can only look through the thick glass cover and protective net, with hope and envy to look at the cherished and protected animals living safely on the grassland.

All that's left is the endless saline wasteland and the pale, pale, palpitating pits on it.

For the Panod people, who have a history of thousands of years, even if they have become accustomed to the gradual desertification of the environment, they have to admit that they have reached the point of breaking down.

This was originally a planet rich in resources and great potential, but due to the overdevelopment of the planet's surface and the population explosion, coupled with the failure of several successive large-scale interstellar colonization plans to alien galaxies, in the past hundred years, people can only watch the small number of large lakes gradually dry up under the endless demand.

And the Panod is gradually becoming desolate.

Desertification, land salinization, increasingly violent sandstorms, the gradually crumbling ecosystem, increasingly acute social contradictions, and the precarious international situation have all made people's nerves tighter.

Those who could afford to leave Panod had long since left the area, and with their professional skills and accumulated wealth, they had migrated to the same moon, which had also begun to be a little crowded, through the guarantee of bribes from high-ranking officials or relatives.

But at least, they left the worse and worse place of Panod, and they had more respite.

After all, the people who can migrate to the satellite are a minority, and for the more people who can only stay on the Panod, life still has to go on.

At least in this relatively developed society with a material civilization, people do not need to worry about food and clothing. Most of the food sources are all kinds of synthetic meat produced by Blueprint Factory, although the taste is not bad, but after all, it is not comparable to natural meat.

And all kinds of green vegetables and fruits, for the low-level civilians, are luxury goods that are difficult to see once a month.

The people of Panod are still living relatively peacefully, but only alive.

Since the vast majority of today's jobs only need to be done by machinery and blueprint factories, for the lowest level of civilians, to a certain extent, more than 60% of the population, even without heavy work at all, can live a decent life under a complete social security system.

But this is undoubtedly sad, because without irreplaceable professional skills, it means that they do not even have the qualifications and value to be exploited...

Once people lose their value of existence, they can easily fall into the vicious circle of self-denial, become inferior, sensitive, and even neurotic, resulting in a greatly increased probability of committing crimes.

In order to maintain the relative stability of the society, and also to take care of people's spiritual life under idleness, the entertainment industry in Panod is relatively developed.

People use star-chasing and rich holographic games to anesthetize themselves, soothe the growing emptiness in their hearts, and the anxiety of confusion about the future.

But even so, the increasingly indifferent and calm Panod is like a backwater pool that is difficult to flow.

The smell of numbness seeped from every street, from every building, from the faces of every idle person who had nothing to do and looked confused behind the holographic game helmet.

No one knows how long such a stable day will last, and people are desperate for change, eager to be able to return to the TV screen, hundreds of years ago, in the dream world of mountains, rivers and grasslands.

And all this can only be counted on by the aviation department, in their lifetime, to find a planet capable of interstellar migration.

However, it is a pity that the Academy of Sciences has used optical and infrared means to scan and observe 70% of the planets in the galaxy within a radius of six light years, but still has not been able to find many planets that may be suitable for life.

This desperate result once made the majority of Panod people think that the planet Panod where they are located may be the only oasis in the universe, the only miracle of life.

However, eight years ago, the international space agency ZERA announced that it had discovered a planet 4.3 light-years away that was likely to have a lot of water.

This news undoubtedly raised hope among the originally numb people.

And today, it is the day when the manned spacecraft Deep Blue is preparing to depart from the International Space Station.

People stopped what they were doing, took off their headphones or holographic game helmets, and looked at the TV screens, or walked out into the streets in droves to watch the live broadcast on the giant holographic screen in the sky.

Even if possible, set up an astronomical telescope directly on the balcony or roof of your house to keep an eye on the movement on the International Space Station.

Kevin, who is a student, is one of them, while staring at the spaceship with a total length of no more than 400 meters through the astronomical telescope, while listening to the voice of the hostess in the headphones who can't hold back the excitement in his heart at the moment:

"All the preparations for the Deep Blue are complete, and it is about to be launched, so let's witness this moment that will go down in history."

"Heh, do you want to deceive us again? I'd rather believe that there are aliens in this world than that this broken ship can discover a new orange star. Kevin muttered to himself with a numb expression.

"Five from the Deep Blue launch!"

"Four!"

"Three!"

“......”

“... O God! What exactly... What a thing! ”

However, at this momentary attention, and even counting the countdown excitedly with the hostess, I suddenly found that her voice stopped abruptly, and then said in a trembling voice with great fear.

"Is she crazy?"

At first, people were a little ignorant, but soon, everyone saw that the background of the universe behind the International Space Station was slowly occupied by an incomparably huge streamer shadow, as if it was slowly descending from another world!

The International Space Station, which is more than 10 kilometers away, is like an insignificant speck of dust and sand in space.

Soon, people in the night hemisphere noticed a celestial object suddenly appeared in the sky! It's three times bigger than Gerald's satellite!

It was so bright and brilliant that it was like a morning star rising out of thin air in the night.

Click.

The astronomical telescope in front of Kevin was directly knocked to the ground by him in a panic and fell in two.

However, at this moment he was in no mood to care about the priceless astronomical telescope, and he staggered, trembling and staring at the unknown stars in the night sky.

“...... Is this the end of the world? ”

Kevin has fantasized about similar scenarios more than once, and in his opinion, this world is too boring, and no matter what it is, it is better than a pool of stagnant water

But when this moment really came to his eyes, he realized that he was so scared, and felt that the three views of his whole life had collapsed at this moment.

"Mom! Run! Aliens have invaded Panod!! He rushed downstairs almost with tears in his eyes.

And the panic of the unknown also began to spread around the world!

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