No matter how hard Abo tried, he could not understand why, at such a critical moment, the Group had decided to send him—the only experimental prototype—together with his inventor, to this remote star system.
This would surely throw the carefully formulated experimental and production plans into complete disarray, bringing disastrous consequences to the research. It might even force the research to be delayed and set back, causing this epoch-making invention to take hundreds... perhaps thousands more years before it could see the light of day.
The Boundless Control Group could not possibly have been unaware of that.
And precisely because of that, the more Abo thought about it, the stranger it seemed. The several possibilities he had previously considered were becoming increasingly untenable.
The Group had even told him to bring the entire city with him. That meant his Lineage, his factory, even his wife and the newly laid egg still incubating, would all be coming here with him.
Though traveling everywhere was perfectly normal for the Boundless Tribe, and nobody found anything strange about it. They had always traveled while carrying their own Household along.
That only made him more certain that this game of chess was far greater than his invention—even greater than the Boundless Control Group itself.
Perhaps it truly involved the fate of the entire civilization.
Just then, a voice from outside interrupted his train of thought.
"Abo, may I come in?"
It was a woman's voice.
Clearly, his wife had arrived.
Abo's wife was named Leileidi. She was an engineer, as well as Abo's most capable assistant.
Not only were her hands exceedingly skillful, capable of carrying out all kinds of experiments, she could also help Abo organize his thoughts.
Abo's thoughts were rather chaotic. He was always struck by inspiration, throwing himself passionately into