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The Orion Empire is located in a cosmic region called the Orion Constellation. There are two major nebulas, the Orion Nebula and the Horsehead Nebula, containing dozens of stars. It is the cosmic nebula region closest to Earth in the Milky Way galaxy, only 1,500 light-years away from Earth. Its brightness is quite high, second only to the Kalina Nebula. It can be observed with the naked eye in a dark area.
Among the dozens of stars in the Orion Constellation, four are hot stars similar to the Sun, seven are bright planets, and the rest are low-brightness planets and ordinary gravel dust.
According to some rumors on Earth, the main star of the Orion Empire was located on Rigel 7, one of the seven bright planets. Although it had never been confirmed by anyone, it could be regarded as a direction for Ito Sei. He would not have to fly around the universe like a blind man. Otherwise, it would take him three, five, eight, or even nine years to find the main star!
Of course, before that, Sei Itō's first priority was to determine his position and re-lock the course.
The spacecraft flew for more than a day under autopilot before it once again jumped out of the subspace. A beeping sound came from the large magnetic field detection device, indicating the discovery of a planet.
Hearing the beeping sound, Sei Itō slowly withdrew from his meditative state. He opened his eyes and reached out to hold the spacecraft's control panel, then changed the autopilot mode back to manual mode. He then controlled the spacecraft to fly around the newly discovered planet while observing the planet's state through the optical screen.
This was a grayish-brown planet that was very large. It was about three times the size of the original Earth and had a thin atmosphere. However, it was very unstable. Lightning bolts visible to the naked eye were constantly jumping in the atmosphere. It emitted bursts of light. There were no surrounding satellites similar to the relationship between the Earth and the Moon, nor were there any asteroid belts similar to the outer surface of Saturn. It was bare and alone floating in the universe.
After roughly observing the planet's state, Sei Itō stopped the spacecraft and turned on the life detection device.
In an instant, a special electric wave that was invisible to the naked eye extended out from the cabin that suddenly opened at the front of the spaceship. It was shot out from a small round pot that looked like a satellite receiver. It passed through the void and rushed into the planet's atmosphere.
Then, after about a minute, a subtle "di di" sound came from the device.
Sei Itō's gaze shifted slightly when he heard the notification. It landed on the surface of the radar-like life detector. The emptiness of the planet told Sei Itō that it was a dead planet without any life.
Sei Itō, who wasn't surprised by this, didn't mind it. He activated another function of the probe and sent out another wave to explore the planet.
This time, the time taken was slightly longer than the previous exploration. About 3 minutes later, a new prompt sounded from the instrument.
Sei Itō's eyes glanced at the interface of the instrument. His expression suddenly changed and a look of surprise appeared on his face. Because in the new interface, there were a bunch of densely packed dots. However, the small dots that were scattered into several clusters came into his sight.
What they represented was none other than the fresh lives of each and every one of them! The reason why the previous exploration didn't detect them was entirely because the two probes targeted different life forms. The previous exploration targeted three-dimensional life forms similar to humans on Earth. The second exploration targeted four-dimensional life forms that were higher than three-dimensional, so the results of the two probes were different in a short period of time.
Sei Itō slightly memorized the distribution of these life forms on the planet, then his figure flashed. He left the spacecraft and appeared in the outer space. Then, he bent down and rushed toward the planet.
At a speed as high as 20 times the speed of sound. In almost an instant, Sei Itō broke through the planet's atmosphere and arrived above the planet's surface with a thick gray cloud.
Just like what he saw in the outer space, this was a grayish-brown world. There was no water, no vegetation, and everywhere he looked were mountains that extended for hundreds of kilometers and craters similar to those on the moon's surface. Thick lightning bolts occasionally struck the ground, shattering the mountain rocks and leaving streaks of blazing white marks in the air.
Apart from that, there were several active volcanoes within sight. Thick black smoke and boiling red magma constantly gushed out from the craters of the active volcanoes. Even if he didn't take out a specialized instrument to detect the air quality, Sei Itō could imagine that this environment was definitely not suitable for humans to survive.
Then, Sei Itō retracted his gaze and moved toward the place where the four-dimensional life forms were closest to him.
Flying at a speed several times the speed of sound, Sei Itō arrived above the place where those life forms were located in just a few minutes. However, what he saw was still a barren rocky surface.
Feeling somewhat surprised, Sei Itō raised his eyebrows and released his spiritual sense to carefully investigate the surroundings. In the next moment, Sei Itō understood why.
"So it's underground." Sei Itō muttered to himself.
After saying that, his figure flashed and disappeared into thin air.
In the next moment, in a huge space about a hundred meters below the barren surface, Sei Itō's figure appeared out of thin air along with a faint change in light.
Then, he looked around and observed the surrounding environment.
This was an extremely spacious space. The top floor was tens of meters away from the ground. It was unknown how wide it was. It was so empty that it was like a huge underground city. However, there was no city or city wall. Instead, there were many irregular round holes of about three to four meters in diameter on the surrounding walls. They were pitch-black and led to unknown places.
In the center of the underground space, there was a large machine in the shape of a five-tiered pyramid. A pale blue light flickered on top of it. At the top of the pyramid was a spherical metal ball. One end of it was connected to a huge pipe that led to an unknown distance.
A dozen heavily armed soldiers of the Orion Empire stood around the pyramid, guarding the huge staircase of the pyramid with solemn expressions.
"From the looks of it, this seems to be a mine?" Sei Itō said thoughtfully after taking in the environment in front of him.
Then, with a thought, the soldiers of the Orion Empire who were guarding around the pyramid suddenly appeared in front of him. They waved their limbs in the air in a panic like drowning people.
At this time, Ito Sei's mind turned, and a black energy barrier immediately appeared around all the soldiers of the Orion Empire, forming a coffin-like rectangular column, sealing all the soldiers of the Orion Empire inside.
Then, these black coffins flashed and disappeared into thin air.
At this point, all the soldiers of the Orion Empire in the entire underground space had been captured and sealed. Then, Sei Itō's figure flashed and appeared next to the pyramid. He seemed to be observing there. However, after looking at it for a long time, Sei Itō still could not figure out what the pyramid was for or how it worked.
Then, he retracted his gaze and spread out his divine sense to explore the surrounding tunnels that were similar to the tunnels dug by the Cavemen.
Soon, a creature that looked different from the Orion Empire appeared in Sei Itō's mind through his divine sense.
It was a group of humanoid creatures. They were not tall, similar to the legendary dwarves, only about 1.2 to 1.4 meters tall. However, they were not as strong as the dwarves. Instead, they were similar to the goblins. They were thin and dry, without a single hair on their bodies. Their eyes were very small and could even be said to be almost non-existent. However, it seemed that the nose was particularly developed, occupying one-third of their entire head. They were dressed in rags and stood there foolishly as they dug at the wall. They took down pieces of dark blue ore from the rock wall and threw them into the backpack beside them. After filling the backpack, they carried the ore to a towering device with four semi-curved metal arms near the middle of the tunnel. The device flashed with a blue energy halo inside and threw the ore into the device. After throwing the ore into the device, the blue energy halo flashed faintly and sent the ore to an unknown storage point.
"Natives, or a slave race from another planet?" Sei Itō deduced.
Then, with another thought, he moved a dwarf that was digging in front of him.
"2 # ¥. # ¥# ¥" As soon as he stood still, the dwarf let out a strange cry full of panic.
"It has a language. Seems like it's an intelligent creature," Sei Itō thought to himself.
Then, he converted his divine sense back into mental strength and probed into the dwarf's mind, connecting with the dwarf's mental strength field.
"Silence!" Sei Itō said softly with a voice filled with the Daoist Soul Suppressing Voice.
"... Who are you?" After a moment of silence, the dwarf asked with a voice filled with fear and fear.
"Who are you, and what kind of creatures are you?" Sei Itō did not answer the dwarf's question. Instead, he asked a question of his own.
"My name is Ghar. I'm from the Tatakrosaer tribe," the dwarf named Ghar replied.
"The Tatakrosaer tribe? Are you a native of this planet? "Sei Itō asked.
"No, we, the Tatakrosaer tribe, live on a planet called Saros. We were captured by the Orion Empire and brought here," Ghar replied.
"Mining for them?" Sei Itō asked.
"Yes," Ghar confirmed.
"Tell me about the situation here," Sei Itō requested.
"This planet..." Ghar nodded his little head and began to explain the situation here. Seeing how cooperative Ghar was, Sei Itō was speechless. He could not help but wonder if he had frightened him.
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