Chapter 163: 096 The Beginning of Civilization Chapter 163: 096 The Beginning of Civilization “Dark Star? It’s called Dark Star?”
Kolev looked at the projection screen in front of Yang Ming. The rocky planet was slowly rotating, with two irregularly shaped asteroids, captured as its satellites over long astronomical times.
“Does this have any specific meaning?” Kolev asked.
“It’s simply a star hidden in the shadows,” Yang Ming frivolously fibbed, “Isn’t the name cool?”
“Cool,” Kolev clicked his tongue, “It’s a name young people would like.”
“What would you call it?”
“Gorgeous Dream Goddess?” Kolev murmured, “It should definitely represent an unattainable dream, or carry some religious connotation… Let me look at its basic parameters, oh, it has a rich underground water system, and intact shallow mineral veins… So this was an abandoned Resource Star by the Luofeng Empire? Indeed, all they care about is rhodium-6 rings!”
Yang Ming chuckled without a word.
The joy of picking up a bargain, something this old pirate who liked robbing wouldn’t understand.
A domestic robot controlled by Lyu spoke up as a reminder, “Boss, the transport ship has entered the atmosphere.”
“It’s starting, it’s starting, let’s hurry over!”
Kolev excitedly put on the holographic helmet.
Yang Ming glanced at the inbox on his watch and first sent Windsor a message that he would be working for a few hours consecutively before picking up the somewhat familiar-looking helmet beside him.
The helmet was very light, made of a material similar to carbon fiber.
Yang Ming didn’t understand materials science, but he knew that this thin helmet was a technological product that only a Second Level civilization could produce.
Some information from the depths of his memory resurfaced.
On the release day of the “Abyss” game, the tech-filled holographic helmet received widespread acclaim from the first batch of players, and now, a question was in front of Yang Ming.
Could Earth, with its civilization level not even reaching ‘1’ at the time, truly manufacture and mass-produce holographic helmets?
They even reduced the price to be cheaper than a high-end brand mobile phone.
The two were products of completely different eras!
“Boss,” Lyu asked softly, “Is there a problem?”
“Just thinking of something,” Yang Ming exhaled lightly, placing the helmet on his head, “Some mysteries I must personally uncover sooner or later.”
An electronically synthesized female voice came from the side of his ears.
A humming sound of the spaceship’s engines appeared beside his ears, with the volume adjusting from soft to loud to make Yang Ming feel comfortable.
“Please open your eyes, please blink… Wonderful!”
The annoying electronic female voice disappeared.
Yang Ming closed his eyes for a few seconds and then opened them again, in front of him was the bridge window of the transport ship.
A familiar slight distortion appeared at the edge of his vision, constantly reminding him that this was a holographic projection.
Kolev’s voice came through the headset:
“Wow, this planet is really beautiful.”
Yang Ming turned his head and saw the mechanical soldier standing beside him.
The mechanical soldier’s silver-white skeleton was stained with rust resembling an oxidation reaction, and the three cameras added behind its ears and on its forehead made it look quite comical.
——The mechanical soldier Yang Ming was controlling at that moment was of the same design.
Yang Ming turned his head to look forward, through the cabin window he could see the planet’s atmosphere, like a thin blanket.
The transport ship’s exterior was covered with a thin energy shield, and the ship’s body cut horizontally into the top of the dense atmosphere, with the energy shield trembling lightly as if it could break at any moment.
Yang Ming sweated a bit.
This type of transport ship didn’t have heat-resistant coatings.
“There’s an aurora over there! Wow!”
This old man Kolev seemed like a child who had never seen the world, beginning to shout excitedly beside him.
“Oh my, such a good place, it could clearly be developed into a semi-habitable tourist planet! That mountain range and plateau are so majestic, are those snow-capped peaks made of water molecules? Wow! Is that the relic of an ancient ocean? I’m sure there’s more to develop beyond just the surface!”
Yang Ming laughed, “Yes, we can’t directly place the base on the surface, it’s too unsafe. I plan to develop the underground ocean beneath the rock layers, creating a new civilization in the crust.”
“Civilization?” Kolev murmured, “That’s a heavy word, don’t throw it around lightly.”
Yang Ming reminded, “Can you control this thing to walk now? We need to go to the aft cabin, it’s a few hundred meters away.”
“Of course,” Kolev grumbled, “You should’ve taken a few days off, and we could have taken the Feinan over ourselves.”
Yang Ming snorted with a laugh, “If Mimili hadn’t ambushed me, I would have had the opportunity to fly over.”
“Oh, she ambushed you?” Kolev’s voice trembled slightly, “I knew it, your relationship definitely isn’t just… Oh, you shouldn’t say this to an old father, it’s a huge blow, I’ve already lost my precious daughter, haven’t I? I’m no longer the most important person to her; the remaining value of my life has decreased by half.”
Yang Ming’s forehead was covered with black lines, and the mechanical soldier delivered a flying kick that almost knocked Kolev’s controlled mechanical soldier over.
“I mean she ambushed this ship! We’re still innocent for now!”
“Oh,” Kolev instantly smiled broadly, “I almost gave you my blessing, you’re measured, my dear nephew.”
Yang Ming rolled his eyes, too lazy to deal with this old daughter-lover.
He clearly said for now.
A dozen minutes later, the transport ship was gliding smoothly in the atmosphere, pushed by six sets of high-power engines, heading toward a flat alluvial plain.
A small repair ship, shaped like a box, carried their two mechanical soldiers away from the aft cabin, circled halfway around the transport ship, and fell towards the ridge beside the target river valley.