"Sir, the Safe Window will open in five minutes."
A graceful female soldier came to Wang Chen's side and said softly, "Please prepare for landing."
Seated beside the porthole, Wang Chen nodded. "Understood."
His gaze remained fixed through the thick glass window, admiring the enormous planet outside.
ED502 Ecological Experiment Star, an extraordinarily unusual planet.
More than three hundred years ago, an Imperial expedition had discovered it and conducted a scientific survey that lasted three years.
It was then named "Senhai."
What made Senhai Star special was that this Life Planet was entirely blanketed by mountains and forests. There were no oceans or lakes, nor were there any visible rivers or streams.
The vegetation here was exceptionally lush. Trees could grow hundreds of meters tall, the oxygen content in the air was more than twice the normal standard, and it was also filled with countless plant spores.
Once people inhaled this air, certain spores would grow in their lungs and might even sprout!
Thus, without protective equipment, ordinary people could not survive on Senhai Star.
Unless the planet underwent planetary-scale terraforming!
But such a transformation required an astronomical investment and might not even succeed. Moreover, the Empire at the time had no pressing need for interstellar immigration, so it had merely deployed a space station in planetary orbit.
For scientific research.
Yet not long afterward, Imperial researchers discovered more than a dozen valuable mineral deposits on Senhai Star.
Including Energy Stone mines!
And so, a grand mining enterprise began in full swing.
Over the centuries, several Imperial mining companies had dug Senhai Star's interior until it was riddled with holes. It was said that the deepest mine shafts reached more than fifteen thousand meters underground, densely crisscrossing like stars scattered across the sky to form a vast subterranean labyrinth.
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