"Surprise... Ming, do you really know what 'surprise' means?"
When Huo Gu first heard Ming say it wanted to give him a surprise, he had been deeply uneasy. If Ming did not fully understand the meaning of surprise, then when the time came, there might be no delight—only shock.
[Heh heh heh, of course I do.]
[Just come with me.]
Ming was brimming with confidence. It had received reliable information from Perpetuity: the Solar System had been found, and so had Earth.
Taking Huo Gu with it, Ming directly tore open a wormhole in the void. In an instant, they crossed a distance of millions of light-years.
Huo Gu observed the external environment through his sensory organs and saw nothing that could surprise or frighten him. As he relaxed, he could not help asking,
"...So where is the surprise?"
[Huh? Huo Gu, you can't recognize it? This is the Solar System.]
"Oh, the Solar System... Wait? The Solar System?! You're saying this is the Solar System!"
Huo Gu froze, then increased the power of his radar waves. Within dozens of minutes, the waves swept across the entire stellar system, providing him with precise data on the celestial environment.
"One, two, three... seven, eight... The first four are terrestrial planets, while the latter four are gaseous planets... The planet on the third orbit has one satellite, the planet on the fourth orbit has two, and the planet on the fifth orbit has seventy-nine..."
Huo Gu checked every detail one by one, afraid of overlooking even the slightest discrepancy.
His reaction was understandable. He was afraid—afraid that he had mistaken it for something else.
Ming quietly waited for Huo Gu to confirm it himself.
Only after Huo Gu had fully determined that the current stellar system was the Solar System did Ming