A flash of light pierced the darkness as Giant Turtle Rock Platform emerged from the Trans-dimensional State and entered an entirely new starfield.
The scene outside the ship appeared on the external monitors and was simulated around the bridge through wraparound projections. Hao Ren saw that the starfield outside was faintly dark gray, which meant this region of space was surrounded by an enormous band of primitive clouds. On one side of the starfield, he could see a bright, elongated band packed with countless points of light, as though millions upon millions of stars had clustered together to illuminate the night sky. It should be a stellar nursery, constantly creating brand-new stars and spewing Primitive Material into the universe.
"A... magnificent place." Izax finally lifted his head from the newspaper he never let go of, only after they had arrived. He looked around. "Looks like the Sirens' galaxy is still very young."
"Aeolus has appeared directly ahead. The ship is approaching the target." The Data Terminal's voice rang out through the shipwide broadcast. "Wait... All right, you can see it now."
Directly ahead of the holographic projection, a dim-colored planet gradually grew larger. Its surface was completely covered by dark oceans, and the entire planet was shrouded in gray-blue hues. Only a few enormous, fragmented white patches were sparsely scattered across the northern hemisphere. They were seasonal floes resembling continents. The southern hemisphere, meanwhile, was enveloped in dense cloud cover. According to Nathatone's database, this was a unique atmospheric phenomenon that moved across the planet's surface in an annual cycle. The Sirens of old had called it the "Sky Curtain."
The sun lay to one side of the line connecting the ship and Aeolus. Sunlight slanted across the planet's surface from the side, making it look as though it had