Famuli and Visiou, the two mixed-blood Little Greys, were trapped in a room at the very bottom of the Moon Base, struggling to come to terms with Dis's death.
They had nowhere to go. All they could do was wait there for Aomazo to return and rescue them.
As for Huang Ji and Feis, after putting on their act, they bombed and wrecked several places to cover up the small items they had stolen, then quietly left.
"I'll come back for the Great Silence Barrier at the end."
"Next stop: Mars."
Huang Ji and Feis squeezed into the Kunlun Ship and flew toward Mars at full speed.
They arrived in just half a day. The ship landed between Marineris Canyon and the Tharsis Highlands, in a region known as Noctis Labyrinth.
The terrain was extraordinarily complex, as though water had eroded it for thousands upon thousands of years and mighty rivers had swept through it.
"Wow. This looks like a riverbed," Feis said.
Huang Ji smiled. "It is a riverbed. There used to be a city here."
Feis had grown used to such revelations. "Oh. Martians?"
"There were no Martians. Mars once had an ecosystem capable of nurturing life, but it never produced complex life, much less intelligent beings. Maybe a few single-celled organisms."
"But in ancient times, aliens were all over Earth. Mars was such a stable rocky planet that there's no reason they wouldn't have visited it too. Plenty of people from Interstellar Civilizations must have lived here," Huang Ji said.
"You mean Mars might have ancient relics left behind, like Earth?" Feis asked.
"According to the Moon Base records, the center of Mars is rich in Keng Ore, so it was developed."
"But a living planet will always be more valuable than a barren one. Earth and