Heaven's Gate Exploration Project

Within the Dog-Headed People Nation, this secret project was known as the Heaven's Gate Exploration Project.

However, things rarely go as Dog-Headed People. Although the secret project was well-concealed, it wasn't entirely foolproof, because some spies from other countries were among the project's personnel. After all, they were all high-ranking leaders and experts; there weren't many spies, just one who had been working undercover for many years.

However, a small leak can sink a great ship. Once the news is leaked, one day the whole world will know that the God of Light's Residence has been discovered in that country.

Of course not now.

Right now, the spy is still hiding among the experts, embarking on a journey into the Center of the Continent with Professor Amir and his group, his face full of anticipation.

Expeditions organized individually by various departments cannot compare to those organized by the state itself.

In this era, as the most developed Dog-Headed People Nation, the Dog-Headed People version of Maxwell's equations had been proposed, and radio communication had become a reality. At the national level, the concept of armored vehicles was put forward, and aerodynamic aircraft also existed.

Chemical fossil energy has long been developed and utilized.

If we were to make a comparison, the current Dog-Headed People world is roughly equivalent to the human world during World War II. Of course, not every technology is developed to the same level, but it generally falls into this category.

The most advanced countries have already begun experimenting with rocket technology. If this trend continues, in a few decades, the Dog-Headed People will probably be able to develop their own Dog-Made Satellite technology.

Without human intervention, they will continue their development, and after an unknown number of years, they will reach the Nuclear Threshold —nuclear fission and Nuclear Fusion. Then they will discover that they can use their technology to create Atomic Bomb and hydrogen bombs. However, after reaching the threshold of Controlled Nuclear Fusion, they will inevitably find that no matter how hard they try, they cannot achieve Controlled Nuclear Fusion.

Controlled Nuclear Fusion has a high barrier to entry, as it is a hallmark technology of Tier 1 Civilization. Another reason is the planet's resources. These resources include not only the fuel for Controlled Nuclear Fusion but also the propulsion systems needed to support stable Controlled Nuclear Fusion, which involve crucial materials and technologies.

The resources involved are diverse, Dog-Headed People Planet is lacking some crucial elements. They actually existed initially, but were exhausted by human exploitation.

Logically, such a thing might happen in other Star System, because if the planet itself doesn't have it, there would be some on its satellites. However, the planets in this Star System were completely mined out by the Flying Saucer Civilization long ago, leaving nothing but barren land.

The combination of these two aspects creates a situation where no matter how clever and hardworking the Dog-Headed People is, he will face the dilemma of having no rice to cook.

Humans reached this conclusion after exploring various resources, and before leaving, they left a base for the Dog-Headed People, giving them a chance to set foot in the stars.

It now seems the Dog-Headed People have seized this opportunity.

Once this secret national project was launched, it received a tremendous investment. It was fully equipped, had experts from various fields, as well as high-ranking officials and military personnel. They formed an expedition team of more than 300 people and, on an inconspicuous day, set off into the depths of the wilderness.

They could actually organize a larger team, but in order to avoid attracting attention, they kept the team size to a minimum.

The entire group of over three hundred Dog-Headed People followed the route taken by Amir and Wei Shiba and other Dog-Headed People. After traveling for several months, they officially left the country's borders and disappeared into the desolate area.

During the team's advance, the country also set up an airfield in a location on the westernmost part of the country under the guise of routine training. The purpose was ostensibly to test the troops' ability to adapt to harsh environments, but in reality, it was to enable its aircraft to fly further into the desolate areas deep in the continent, so that it could airdrop some food to the team on the secret project if necessary.

This Dog-Headed People Nation really went all out for this trip. Fortunately, their westernmost border is a towering Snow Mountain range, with no other kingdoms in sight. So, along the way, no other countries noticed anything unusual. Even if they knew they were organizing an expedition, most of them thought it was normal.

Because on the Dog-Headed People' planet, the continent is a single, massive Pangu Continent, with a high central area and low surrounding slopes. The arid climate in the center of the continent is unsuitable for Dog-Headed People to live in, and it has always been a vast wasteland. This wasteland occupies one-third of the entire continent, making it quite large.

Since the advent of the Industrial Age, many Dog-Headed People kingdoms have organized explorations of the Center of the Continent, and various private expeditions have sprung up. After all, many myths and legends point to the Center of the Continent, so for the Dog-Headed People, exploring this Barren Land is far more Gravity than exploring the ocean.

However, exploration is not easy. As mentioned before, this planet has many Magnetic Mountain, so much so that many expeditions have been buried in the wilderness and are forever lost there. Exploration of the oceans faces another kind of difficulty, mainly due to the vastness of the oceans and the scarcity of islands, which makes ocean voyages extremely difficult. Before the advent of the internal combustion engine, no one had ever completed a circumnavigation of the globe.

The vast wilderness at the heart of the Pangu Center of the Continent and the open ocean are two of the most intriguing places on the Dog-Headed People Planet. Even now, the Dog-Headed People haven't been able to figure out the full map of these two locations.

Many unsolved mysteries and stories originate from these two places.

Professor Amir and his Dog-Headed People Wei Shiba actually the first Dog-Headed People to survive after venturing deep into the wilderness, reaching the very heart of the continent. Even disregarding the discovery of a human-made base, this in itself was a tremendous achievement.

However, the Dog-Headed People of that country chose to keep it a secret in order to preserve the base left behind by humans.

As for why the Dog-Headed People tribe was able to reach the human base when humans arrived, it's because the place where humans landed back then and the place where humans left their base now are not the same location at all.

The area where humans landed wasn't actually that far from the Dog-Headed People settlement, but the reason this base was hidden so deep was primarily to raise the bar for discovery. Dog-Headed People society wouldn't have reached this point unless it had developed to a certain level, and without sufficient technology, finding it would have been useless.

Even if we could open it, we wouldn't be able to figure out what humans left behind.

With the current level of Dog-Headed People technology, although it's a stretch, they can understand some rudimentary technologies. This is why humans designed the key to activate the base to be activated by a radio signal.

Meanwhile, the group of over three hundred Dog-Headed People from the secret project, after months of travel, finally arrived at the Heavenly Gate once again, led by Wei Shiba and Professor Amir.