The Great Star Voyage
Chapter 256

Arrival

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Human life is precious. If it were alien vassals leading the charge, there would be fewer concerns. They could even sacrifice human life at will without any regrets when strategically necessary.

However, this idea requires a deeper understanding of all aspects of the Dog-Headed Alien, and also the establishment of relevant systems.

If you really want to do that, there's a lot of work to be done.

It's too early to consider such matters now. At the same time, Yue Yuan also wants to wait for the scholars to complete their drafts and hear their thoughts.

Several months passed in the blink of an eye. Instead of receiving advice from those scholars, Yue Yuan witnessed the departure of the first batch of landing spacecraft.

Humans are now very experienced with landings, and unless they encounter dangerous entities like the 'Silver Mist Consciousness,' they are unlikely to experience malfunctions or crashes.

However, this landing is different from the one in the Ross 154 Star system because it was an unmanned landing, not a human landing.

Four Landing Ship carrying ground Base Vehicle and eight spacecraft carrying engineering equipment broke into the planet's atmosphere from geosynchronous orbit.

Human Landing Ship and landing craft are not as large as the Lake-class ships. They are modified from the Callisto-Class Warship, with a length of about 800 to 1000 meters and a width and height of 500 meters.

This was built by humankind after comprehensively considering the gravity conditions of different planets and their own technological capabilities.

A spacecraft of this size has a structural stability that can adapt to the gravity and atmospheric environment of most Rocky Planet, allowing it to travel freely between Earth and space.

Following the departure of the first batch of Landing Ship, the second Landing Ship began preparations. This second Landing Ship carried various supplies and components for the Orbital Mass Accelerator.

Humans do have space transport ships, but their transportation efficiency is clearly inferior to that of Orbital Mass Accelerator.

Of course, to be honest, both have their advantages and disadvantages. After all, no matter how powerful the Orbital Mass Accelerator is, it can't achieve air-to-ground transportation, right? The first few batches of this landing operation were unmanned. Only after the ground base is completed will humans truly set foot on this planet.

While AI technology is powerful, many things still require human involvement, such as mineral exploration, geological surveys, experimental analysis of resource samples, and module assembly of Orbital Mass Accelerator. These tasks all require human hands-on work.

As time passed, the first batch of twelve Landing Ship finally plunged into the atmosphere. At the same time, twelve fireballs suddenly appeared in the sky above the planet, streaking across the sky like falling meteorites, heading towards their designated targets.

Such a scene would be considered a celestial spectacle for any living creature on the planet.

However, the fireball didn't last long, only a few seconds. After all, human Landing Ship couldn't keep free-falling like that. Once they reached a certain orbital altitude, the ships started their engines to slow down.

Therefore, the appearance of the fireball was only seen by animals with good eyesight who were near the human landing site; no such phenomenon was observed in other areas of the planet.

In fact, if humans hadn't used No. 1 Alloy Material for their Landing Ship, their landings would have been much gentler, and the scene of fireballs appearing in the sky probably wouldn't have happened.

As the twelve fireballs drew closer and became visible to many animals, they all looked up at the sky, watching the twelve fiery streaks that pierced the heavens.

After all, they were animals with little intelligence. Once the fireball streaked across the sky and disappeared into the horizon, they lowered their heads again and went back to eating grass or meat.

Perhaps these animals, living solely on instinct, will never understand what they see.

As the animals, bewildered, lowered their heads again to nibble on their food, one gaze remained fixed on the direction where the fireball had vanished. The owner of this gaze was different from the animals; he was an intelligent being.

At this moment, this intelligent creature is wearing a 'dog head for protection' expression on its face, looking at the horizon with curious eyes.

The Comical Dog Head man didn't know what it was either, but he was very curious. He had never seen anything like it before.

Indeed, they had never seen anything like it. Not to mention him, even generations of Dog-Headed People had never witnessed such a phenomenon in the sky. The reason was simple: there were almost no meteorites within the range of this Rocky Planet, and therefore, there were virtually no meteors.

Even if there are occasional meteors, they are probably the kind that drift from space, are eventually captured by the Orange Dwarf Star, and then drift for who knows how many years before finally falling onto this planet.

Anyway, since humans arrived here, they have never discovered the existence of Asteroid Belt. On the contrary, the orbit outside this Rocky Planet is as clean as that of the Gaseous Planet.

So, after witnessing this phenomenon, the curious, Comical Dog Head man was both intrigued and bewildered. After a long period of stunned silence, he hurriedly returned to his dwelling and began gesturing wildly and chattering to the Comical Dog Head man inside.

However, not long after, the Comical Dog Head man walked out of the house with a dejected expression.

It appears he told the Comical Dog Head in the house what he saw, but clearly, none of the other Dog-Headed People believed him.

Back outside, the dejected Comical Dog Head looked up at the sky again, at the spot where he had seen the twelve fireballs appear, seemingly waiting for the same scene to repeat itself.

Before he knew it, his neck was sore, and he still hadn't seen the scene he was looking forward to. But the Comical Dog Head man didn't seem to have given up.

The other Dog-Headed People noticed that in the following days, this Comical Dog Head not only stopped staring blankly at the sky, seemingly looking at nothing, but also frequently spaced out while working.

For this, the Comical Dog Head man received a lot of criticism.

Several local planetary days passed, and the Dog-Headed People was staring blankly at the sky as usual. However, to avoid being scolded, he did so only after finishing his work.

Perhaps noticing his unusual behavior, this time, another Dog-Headed People approached him and rattled off a string of words. "%...#!! x'&,@@#&*,※"."

Upon hearing this, the Dog-Headed People was staring blankly at the sky, seemed somewhat helpless, and at the same time uttered a string of unintelligible sounds. "Hinaa, yshr&&*¥,,¥%#".

If there were a universal translator, the first sentence would be translated as. "A Tu, what are you looking at? What's wrong with you these past two days? The Great Elder sent us out hunting because he trusts us. If we come back empty-handed like yesterday, it won't just be a matter of being scolded."

The second sentence is. "A Ya, I really saw twelve Great Fireball fly towards the Great Wilderness from the sky. Why doesn't the Great Elder believe me? I really saw it with my own eyes."

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