Jingcheng Time, September 20, 3:15 a.m.
The city had already fallen asleep. The tall buildings lining the streets were brightly lit, but there wasn't a soul in sight. Only the occasional passing car left a faint trace on the asphalt. The cool evening breeze brushed against people's faces, whistling softly.
Beneath the streetlights, frogs croaked as if whispering to each other. Irregular sounds came from far away, seemingly from robots hard at work on a construction site, adding a lively note to the quiet night. At night, the scenery of nature was especially captivating, stirring something deep inside you.
It was the dead of night, and most people in the country were fast asleep.
Far out at the edge of the Solar System, in the Kuiper Belt, a wormhole that had been utterly unremarkable just a day earlier had silently expanded to a massive diameter of over thirty meters.
Against the backdrop of the universe, a thirty-meter change in diameter was insignificant. Even against the backdrop of the Sun, it still wasn't much to look at.
But the changes in Twisted Space had caused the surrounding asteroids to shift in a regular pattern.
Ten seconds earlier, Candy Technology's intelligent probe satellite had happened to detect this scene.
Vast quantities of data were sent back to Blue Star via Quantum Communication.
After tens of thousands of calculations over ten seconds, Zero reached a terrifying conclusion based on the probe data and video transmitted by the satellite.
That unfathomably deep hole was almost certainly a wormhole!
At that moment, Zero could no longer remain calm.
Even ordinary people with nine years of compulsory education knew what the appearance of a wormhole meant.
Aliens had arrived.
It was most likely the Merk Civilization, the first extraterrestrial civilization humanity had ever discovered!
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