When it was just the two of them, Xian Zhu could no longer keep his complaints bottled up.
Even though Ronan was only someone he had met for the first time, Xian Zhu had never been one to watch his words or actions.
"The Ancestral Court, the Senate, the Budget Committee—they all kept saying the chances of 28758 entering the Red Wheel Rift's gravitational sphere were negligible. They said it couldn't withstand modification, and even if it were modified, it could very well shatter from a single blow. Yet there was no construction for the past several hundred years, and now, at the very end, they're planning to push it over there... Are they playing games?"
"It wasn't pushed in. At most, it could be considered an automatic slide-in."
This was Ronan's judgment, based on the newly revised template and reasoning backward from the result.
He believed the greatest trigger had most likely been that self-destructing Magneto-Optical Mica.
It had originally been the most powerful "Door God" in the area marking the actual gravitational control boundary of the Red Wheel Rift. Who knew whether it had gone mad, or whether years of bearing Evil Poison had finally pushed it to its limit? Its sudden self-destruction had not only torn another gap in the already fragile cosmic barrier of the region, but also caused enormous spacetime disturbances across an area with a radius of nearly a hundred light-seconds.
That one event had most likely shifted asteroid 28758's orbit. Combined with the accumulation of various other conditions, it had led to this change.
If that was true, then it really had been an accident. The Command Department had merely gone with the flow at most.
As Xian Zhu picked through the many substitute materials, finding fault with one after another, he continued