Aldebaran had anticipated being sealed away long ago, so she had prepared a contingency beforehand-the gift I was now going to retrieve...
If she had seen it coming, how had she still ended up sealed away?
Lunar City lay on the side of the moon that always faced away from the sun. In other words, it was always night here. At most, from somewhere high up, you could glimpse a dawn that would never arrive.
Looking around the streets and alleys, Agatha asked:
"Hey, do you know where that institute is?"
"No idea."
Agatha squawked indignantly.
"Huh? You're planning to take us wandering around aimlessly?"
The original plan had been to teleport straight to the Second Research Institute, but the terrain had changed so much that my old coordinates and impressions were no longer accurate. I had no idea where we had ended up.
I explained, "This world used to be ring-shaped. You only had to look up to get a rough idea of where you were. But now that it's been unfolded to fit the moon, its curvature goes in the opposite direction."
"Then how are you going to get your bearings?"
I pointed upward.
"Head into the sky."
I activated the Antigravity Device on my armor and pushed off, leaving the artificially generated gravity of the lunar surface behind. I rose a hundred meters into the air to survey all of Lunar City.
There were hardly any people on the roads, and hardly any vehicles either.
Just as Liuzi had said, construction here wasn't finished, so it couldn't really be called a city yet.
The buildings of the Natives' civilization had several distinctive features: they were short, occupied large areas, had no doors or windows, and used some kind of alloy as their construction material.
For now, let's