On the Mechanical Planet.
Time slowly passed.
Liu Di and the red-skinned man remained silent for a long while, each carrying a mission in his heart, each lost in his own thoughts.
One had laid down a burden weighing a thousand pounds; the other saw the road ahead with ever-greater clarity.
Titan King had seen the truth and acknowledged his own inferiority. In the end, he entrusted his long-cherished wish to Liu Di.
The Shaowei Zengba system possessed two stars—two suns. They maintained harmonious orbits. Where there was sunrise, there was naturally sunset.
The sunset here differed from Earth's, yet it was breathtakingly beautiful.
From afar,
two crimson suns could be seen slowly setting toward opposite sides of the horizon.
Titan King said, "It is said that once the first four sets of Cosmic Equations are gathered, one can learn the whereabouts of the fifth set. By my logical deduction, the fifth set—the final Cosmic Equation... have you found an answer?"
Liu Di gazed into the distance, his eyes flickering. After a moment of thought, he said, "I have."
Titan King nodded. Bracing one hand against his knee, he rose with a grimace of pain. "Proxima b's glory and Earth's safety now rest upon your shoulders. May you carve your way through every thorn and bramble. As for me, I suppose it is time to retire."
The two suns traveling in opposite directions finally vanished beneath the horizon.
Titan King looked up at the sky. "We shall go our separate ways."
Liu Di looked at him. The man who radiated the bearing of an Emperor now seemed incomparably lonely.
Then Titan King suddenly said, "But even now, I still do not understand. Why you? And where exactly did I fall short?"
Yet Titan King did not wait for Liu Di's