"More than twenty thousand meters underground. There couldn't possibly be any living creatures here."
"But we found living creatures."
"They're incredibly ancient. Tests show that they're far older than the geological age of the entire world. They existed before the world was born..."
"Could they be from another world...?"
"No!"
"That's impossible!"
"There must have been an error in the test results. Even if they came from another world, they couldn't possibly be this ancient."
"We discovered..."
"The meteorite they were attached to may have come from the Comet Cloud..."
"There are countless comets there."
"Some lucky ones traveled through space many years ago, fell into this world, and brought matter from there with them... But that doesn't make sense. That place is merely the leftover material from after the galaxy formed..."
"It's far too ancient..."
This was the fourth page.
It had no connection to the previous two passages.
A record that had begun anew.
However, Jiang Qiao spotted a familiar term in it—the Comet Cloud.
Just as the description above had said.
It was the remnant left behind after the stars and several major planets of the Hometown Galaxy had formed. It surrounded the outskirts of the galaxy, acting like a barrier that cut the Hometown Galaxy off from outer space.
Oh.
Right.
It had another name—the Oort Cloud.
It lay beyond the Kuiper Belt.
This description seemed to correspond to some of the things the old man in the oasis had described before.
That old man was a Half-God.
He was the source of the City of Death in the Tower City incident.
According to his account,
the outskirts of the galaxy were surrounded by an endless Dead Silent Star Sea, made up of densely packed masses of frozen earth. Beyond the Star Sea was another