"Crack, crack, crack!"
As the shell of unknown material gradually broke apart into motes of light that faded away, Nie Yun's eyes widened.
What appeared before him was a glimmer of starlight no larger than a grain of rice.
The instant Nie Yun looked at it, the speck of starlight shot into the space between his eyebrows with a whoosh.
The next moment, a peculiar stream of information exploded in Nie Yun's mind...
Nie Yun's eyes instantly turned silver-white, seemingly losing focus.
Codename materialized. She had already noticed something was wrong with Nie Yun and watched him with concern.
Fortunately, only a moment passed before clarity returned to his eyes.
But now, his eyes held nothing but shock.
"Boss, are you all right?" Codename stepped closer nervously, a wrench having appeared in her hand at some point.
"Relax, I haven't been possessed. It was just some encrypted information." Nie Yun rolled his eyes and rubbed his aching head.
"Information? You mean that strange sphere contained nothing but information?" Codename asked in confusion.
"Yes! A navigation log, to be precise." Nie Yun wore a complicated expression.
Seeing Codename's thoughtful look, Nie Yun nodded.
"That's right... this thing was a black box."
Three days later.
The Solar System, the Moon.
Seven straight pillars of light shot down from lunar orbit into the Energy Receiving Stations on the Moon's surface.
[Prometheus System charging at full power. Lunar Energy Network capacity limit reached...]
An immense amount of energy harvested from the distant Sun began pouring into the energy network that spanned the Moon, then surged through densely packed energy conduits into the depths beneath Third New Moon City...
The former energy crystal mine had now been almost completely exhausted.
Inside the vast underground space stood a magnificent silver tower, ten thousand