In the dazzling sunlight, a planet was rapidly approaching its doom.
Zhuom's sun-facing side kept erupting like a firework under the star's radiance. Its thick layers of rock melted, exploded, and vaporized in the sunlight, then were torn away by gravity and scattered magnificently and tragically into space. As the entire planet rotated, it continuously spilled out billions of tons of stellar material, heading toward its end as a planet in the most spectacular way possible. On Zhuom's dark side, meanwhile, a bridge of life was struggling to save the civilization that had once lived on the planet during the final six hours before doomsday.
The strata near the equator blossomed like a flower bud. Countless enormous tentacles, somewhere between plants and animals, wriggled through the crust, shoving aside rock layers taller than mountains. At the center of this gigantic "bud," a structure made of flesh, plants, and machinery trembled faintly. The red light it emitted had now become the most conspicuous glow on Zhuom's dark side.
The entire structure looked like a colossal Flower of Life, blooming defiantly in this hellish world that was about to fall into the blazing sun.
The Giant Turtle Rock Platform was like a silver-white bird, hovering nimbly at the heart of the "Flower of Life." It connected vast numbers of cables and pipes to the planet's heart, extracting the sixteen billion souls of Zhuom like a hummingbird gathering nectar.
A reconnaissance drone flying over the planet captured this magnificent and rare sight, then quickly uploaded it to the inspectors' communications platform.
The inspectors often posted footage recorded during their missions on that platform, and Hao Ren had gradually developed the same habit. It wasn't to flaunt his achievements—there was no need to show off in front of his colleagues. He recorded and posted