Although she had seen cars before, Dora was still utterly amazed when she climbed into the metal box, touching this and looking at that as if she wanted to figure out how the thing moved.
Seeing her make such a fuss, Ye Shi could not help commenting.
"Come on, you've even ridden starships capable of faster-than-light travel. What's so fascinating about this little thing?"
Dora froze for a moment before realizing what a starship was, then spoke softly.
"Starships... are more impressive than this?"
The little koala strapped into the front passenger seat let out a helpless sigh.
"This was probably the worst slander the Orion had ever suffered."
"S-Sorry, I didn't mean—"
"I know." Watching Dora hurriedly explain herself, Ye Shi sighed. "Let me think... Looks like we need to start by filling in the most basic common knowledge."
Maybe after returning to Dawn City, he should buy a set of elementary school language textbooks from a bookstore.
Psychic power was certainly a convenient communication tool, but a lack of common sense was also a huge problem.
The convoy of sedans stopped outside the gates of Lowell Camp.
This former military base had now been turned into an old-world museum for tourists.
A waist-high stone monument at the entrance bore an inscription describing what had happened here—
A general named Lowell had achieved an "unparalleled feat" amid ice and snow.
Later generations had mixed opinions of him.
Some believed that his ideas had been good, only his execution had been wrong. Besides, Red Soil had later served some purpose by sheer accident; it was not as utterly worthless as General Lowell's opponents claimed.
Others believed he had simply been an obsessive tyrant, a gambler who stubbornly pressed on, fantasizing that he was an omnipotent savior. For a plan that