The order was given.
Zero meticulously carried out Lü Yongchang's commands.
For safety, the probes scattered across the Lost Star fired their Antimatter Engines and converged on several predetermined landing sites.
The skies of the Lost Star, quiet for countless years, suddenly filled with dazzling streaks of light!
Light from the black hole's accretion disk illuminated the chaotic yet orderly trails across the sky.
The high-energy gamma rays generated by the Antimatter Engines also surged into every corner of the Lost Star, wave after wave, like a rising tide.
Under the bombardment of these high-energy gamma rays, this forest-covered planet underwent a few minute, unnoticed changes.
Even the probes, equipped with countless advanced observation instruments, failed to detect these tiny changes during their high-speed flight.
As time ticked by, the leaves, originally pointing every which way, slowly adjusted their orientation-they turned their upper surfaces toward the streaks of light in the sky.
It was as though the trees were watching the trails left by the probes!
This eerie sight did not last long. As the streaks slowly faded from the sky, the leaves returned to their original orientations.
The Lost Star's equatorial region.
Twenty thousand meters above landing site A1.
Dozens of probes adjusted their orientation, then reduced the output of their Antimatter Engines.
As the glow from their exhaust nozzles gradually dimmed, the probes steadily lost altitude.
Dense forests covered all the land on the Lost Star, making landing somewhat difficult for the probes.
Initially, Lü Yongchang had planned to use a "forced landing" approach, clearing a safe landing zone with laser weapons and high-yield bombs.
But Mao Zhengzhi had strongly opposed the proposal.
As an academician in biology, he could not bear to see such a remarkable ecosystem destroyed.
Of course, the most important reason was that