Hurried footsteps drew closer.
Beep.
With a crisp notification tone, the doors to the Command Center swung open.
Lin Zile and several academicians well past their youth hurried into the Command Center.
The moment they entered, their eyes were drawn to the scene in the enormous Holographic Projection.
A huge, brilliant "moon" hung in the slightly dim sky.
Unlike an ordinary moon, this moon, which was actually Saturn, occupied a vast swath of the sky.
The "moon" shone bright, leaving few stars visible.
Beneath the radiance of the "Saturn Moon," almost no stars could be seen in the sky.
A pale orange atmosphere, a "Saturn Moon" glowing faintly orange, a flat expanse of gravel-strewn land steeped in a wild, primordial air...
And the unmistakable wreckage of the [Luan Bird], utterly out of place on that land, along with the intelligent beings dancing around it...
This fantastical scene deeply stunned the academicians, whose primary fields were theology and religious studies.
They stopped in their tracks, wishing they could step into the Holographic Projection and experience that unique, bizarre atmosphere firsthand.
"Professor, you wanted to see me?"
Lin Zile tore his awestruck gaze away and looked toward Lü Yongchang, who stood at the front of the Command Center.
"Zile." Seeing Lin Zile and the academicians behind him, Lü Yongchang instinctively breathed a sigh of relief. "You're finally here."
Having spent his entire life dealing with cutting-edge technology, he truly had no idea how to handle these primitive races.
He gestured toward the Holographic Projection. "Do you have any contingency plans for dealing with civilizations still in the age of ignorance?"
Lin Zile stared at Lü Yongchang in bewilderment.
"P-Professor..." Perhaps the shock was too great; Lin Zile even began to stammer. "The School of... the School of Sociology only has protocols for