"Landing attempt in progress. Expected to reach the landing site in three minutes."
As the mechanical voice sounded through the communications channel, the four people inside the Space Capsule held their breath and focused.
An animation of the lander descending appeared on the display, clearly showing its current position.
According to the planned route, the lander would follow a roughly parabolic trajectory toward the surface of the Transparent Planet, continuously testing the planet's landing conditions along the way to determine whether it possessed a physical "entity" that could be landed on.
The view beyond the porthole was still a blood-red starry sky, but perhaps it was an illusion—while the lander continued descending, the blood-red starry sky outside seemed to be "walking" toward them as well.
The entire space seemed to be warping from the outside.
Even now, no one knew whether this Transparent Planet had a physical form.
Beep beep beep--
At that moment, a crisp alarm sounded beneath the display.
Everyone tensed and looked toward the screen. A huge line of red text flashed across it: [Planetary Surface Detected].
"Everyone, according to the radar data, we have detected a physical area below us that is suspected to be the planet's surface,"
Orator's voice came through the communicator.
"However, the data is strange. The detected planetary surface appears unstable. It exists at times and disappears at others, and its physical location is different every time it appears. We can't plan a landing route based on this entity response."
As she spoke, the entire lander began shaking violently.
"We detected... it's... electromagnetic..."
Amid the violent shaking, Orator's voice was drowned out by complex static.
"It's an electromagnetic storm."
Li Cheng looked up at the other three. "This Transparent Planet does not possess entirely pure physical properties. We may not be able