After saying goodbye to that fanatic civilized planet that had entered the interstellar age yet still worshiped Annie to an extreme degree, the Orville soon resumed its long journey of wandering, investigating, and exploring along the borders of the Planetary Alliance.
Ed and the others had made everything clear to that fanatic civilization from another universe, which was supposedly on the verge of unifying the entire galaxy. They knew that the other side would forever maintain its reverence for that so-called "god," and it had also promised not to interfere with the Orville's universe. It would soon use advanced technology to conceal the entire planet, so that even during the next "pilgrimage," which came once every seven hundred years, the people of this universe would not easily discover its homeworld?
Therefore, after reporting their work to Planetary Alliance Headquarters, Ed immediately led the Orville away from that wondrous "Dual-Phase" system.
They had no choice but to leave.
After all, every eleven days, the other side's technology would advance by a full seven hundred years beyond the Planetary Alliance's. That tremendous gap and terrifying rate of development were things Ed and the others did not dare imagine. If they stayed for another half a year or year, who knew what they would have to face by then?
Besides, by that point, it might genuinely be impossible to say who was researching whom.
As for the so-called "divine object" that a certain troublesome little girl had given them, even after many days of interrogation and probing, Ed, Kelly, and the others still had no idea what the thing actually was.
In any case, they only knew that the troublesome little girl had once inadvertently bragged and revealed that it was merely a "glass ball"?
Such an outrageous explanation was naturally believed by