After enduring the prolonged gaze of the Deep Space Demonic Eye, the starfield where Pupil Ring-28758 Asteroid lay seemed to have been stained with a faint tint of blood. Most of the time, it was easy to overlook, yet it would suddenly catch the eye without warning, until one could almost smell a tangy, gamey odor in the air.
Against such a backdrop, Han Guang Main Star, fifteen Light-Years away on the other side of the sky, looked like a cold blue diamond embedded in deep space, stingy even with the slightest trace of warmth.
Before entering the Main Base, Zhong He took one last look at the sky and saw precisely that scene.
At the same time, the ice beneath his feet continued to tremble.
The situation was exceedingly complicated. Besides the mechanical vibrations triggered by the firepower pouring down from both near and far, there were also the aftereffects caused by the Main Base's surroundings—and even the entire planet—rocking and rolling within an unstable spacetime environment.
It was under such conditions that Pupil Ring-28758 Asteroid's terrain had undergone sweeping changes. The planetary core, dormant for many years, had also become unstable, and high-intensity earthquakes had struck repeatedly.
If the Command Department had not prepared in advance, pushing hard for the Main Base's "demi-plane transformation" and successfully completing it two days earlier, there would have been no need for the Extraterritorial Species to besiege them. This place would have nearly collapsed on its own.
Zhong He had not originally needed to come to the Main Base. He did not belong to the asteroid's ground-based Engineering Corps, nor did he have much to do with the other reinforcement units. He reported directly to the Two Star Gate campaign Command Center.
Under normal procedures, he could have boarded a ship and