Wandering Planet

"Solar," the Data Terminal replied briefly.

"A pile of solar... ashes?" Hao Ren was somewhat surprised. "A dead star? What else?"

"Nothing else. No planets, no asteroid belts, and no artificial celestial bodies. The drone swarm's collective-thinking program compared the starry sky in the wrath spirit's memories. It found a location here where a similar starry sky could be observed, with a star-map overlap rate of 99.99 percent. It can basically confirm that this was where the wrath spirit once gazed at the stars—but that location contains nothing but endless outer space. The nearest solid object is a dead star. The only good news is that the star is still some distance from the location we previously deduced, with a deviation of roughly two astronomical units. So the Nangong couple probably weren't thrown into the sun. They were thrown onto one of the planets that had originally orbited that sun. It's just that those planets have vanished without a trace."

Everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Lily sprawled over the back of her seat. "Why don't we go take a look?"

Hao Ren nodded and ordered the ship to sever its direct data link with the outpost. The Giant Turtle Rock Platform withdrew its communication beam and turned into a streak of silver light that vanished into space, while the tiny outpost readjusted the angle of its crystal panels and soon returned to operating normally.

After a brief journey, the ship reached its destination. The observation platform on top of the Giant Turtle Rock Platform slowly emerged from beneath the armor belt. Once the light-shielding layer descended, endless outer space appeared before everyone, dark and vast.

The Data Terminal indicated a direction in space with a beam of light. At the spot it pointed toward, they could see a