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The cosmic area where the Orion Empire is located is the constellation Orion. There are two large nebulae, the Orion Nebula and the Horsehead Nebula, one large and one small, containing dozens of stars. It is the closest cosmic nebula area to the earth in the Milky Way. It is only 10 meters away from the earth.

It is 1,500 light-years away, and its brightness is quite high, second only to the Kalina Nebula in the whole sky. It can be observed with the naked eye in areas without light pollution.

Among the dozens of stars in the Orion constellation, four are hot stars similar to the sun, seven are highly luminous planets, and the rest are low-luminosity planets and ordinary gravel dust.

According to some rumors on Earth, the Orion Empire's main star is located on Rigel among the seven bright planets. Although it has never been confirmed, it can be regarded as pointing out a direction for Ito Cheng, so as not to let

He was flying around the universe like a blind man, otherwise it would have been impossible to find the rightful owner without spending three, five, eight, or nine years!

Of course, before that, the first thing Ito did was to determine his location and re-lock the route.

The spacecraft flew for more than a day under autopilot before the spacecraft jumped out of subspace again, and a beep of a planet was discovered from the large magnetic gravitational field detection device.

After hearing the prompt, Ito Cheng slowly exited from the trance state, opened his eyes and reached out to hold the control panel of the aircraft, changed the automatic mode back to the manual mode, and then controlled the spacecraft to fly around the newly discovered planet while revealing

Observe the state of the planet through the optical screen.

This is a grey-brown planet with a large size. It is about three times the size of the original Earth and has a thin atmosphere. However, it is very unstable. Rays of lightning visible to the naked eye are constantly in the atmosphere.

It is jumping and emitting bursts of light. There are no earth-circling satellites similar to the relationship between the earth and the moon, nor is there a ring of rubble similar to the outer ring of Saturn. It is floating alone and naked in the universe.

After roughly observing the state of the planet, Ito Shige stopped the spacecraft and turned on the life detection device.

In an instant, a special radio wave invisible to the naked eye was emitted from a small round pot that resembled a satellite receiver from the cabin that suddenly unfolded under the front end of the spacecraft, passed through the void, and rushed into the planet.

in the atmosphere.

Then about a minute later, a subtle "didi" sound came from the instrument.

After hearing the prompt, Ito Cheng's eyes turned slightly and fell on the surface of the life detector, which was like a radar interface. The empty situation on it told Ito Cheng that this was a death star without life.

Ito Cheng, who was not surprised by this, didn't care. He turned on another function of the detection instrument and re-emitted the detection wave to explore the planet.

The time it took this time was slightly longer than the previous exploration. It took a little more than three minutes before a new prompt was uploaded from the instrument again.

Ito Cheng glanced at the instrument interface, and his expression suddenly moved, with a look of surprise on his face. Because in the re-transformed interface, there were a lot of dense dots. But the small dots scattered into several groups were reflected in his eyes.

eye.

What they represent is nothing else, just living lives! And the reason why the previous exploration did not detect them is entirely because the two previous explorations targeted different life forms. The previous exploration was aimed at

Three-dimensional life similar to humans on earth. The latter exploration was aimed at four-dimensional life that is higher than three dimensions, so the results of the two explorations in a short period of time were different.

Ito Cheng briefly remembered the distribution of these life forms on the planet, and then he left the spaceship in a flash and appeared in the outer space. Then he leaned down and shot towards the planet.

Racing at speeds up to twenty times the speed of sound, Ito broke through the planet's atmosphere almost instantly, bringing thick gray clouds to the surface of the planet.

And just like what he saw in the universe, this is a gray-brown world with no water and no vegetation. What can be seen everywhere are mountains stretching hundreds of kilometers and meteorite impact craters similar to the surface of the moon.

From time to time, thunder and lightning dropped a powerful bolt of lightning to the ground, shattering the rocks and leaving blazing white traces in the sky.

In addition, there are several active volcanoes within sight. Thick black smoke and red hot magma are constantly surging out from the active volcanoes. Even if no special instruments are taken out.

Coming to check the air quality, Ito Shige could also imagine that the environment here is definitely not suitable for human survival.

Then Ito Cheng withdrew his gaze and moved towards the place where the four-dimensional creatures closest to him in his memory existed.

Flying at several times the speed of sound, within a few minutes, Ito reached the sky above where those creatures were. But what caught his eyes was still a bare rocky surface.

Feeling a little surprised, Ito Cheng raised his eyebrows and let go of his mind to carefully explore the surroundings. Then the next moment, Ito Cheng knew why.

"It turns out it's underground." Ito Cheng murmured to himself.

After speaking, the figure flashed and disappeared into the air.

The next moment, in a huge space about a hundred meters below the bare surface, accompanied by a faint change in light, Ito Cheng's figure emerged from the void.

Then he looked around and observed the surrounding environment.

This is an extremely large space. The top floor is tens of meters above the ground. It is unknown how wide it is. It is as empty as a huge underground city. However, there is no city or city walls. Instead, there are many diameters on the surrounding walls.

An irregular round hole about three or four meters away, so pitch black that I don't know where it leads.

In the center of the underground space is a large machine, in the shape of a five-story stepped pyramid, with a faint pale blue light shining on it. The top is a spherical metal ball, and one end is connected to a huge pipe leading to somewhere.

the distance.

A dozen heavily armed Orion Empire soldiers stood around the pyramid, guarding the huge stepped pyramid with serious expressions.

"Looks like this is a mine?" Ito Cheng said thoughtfully, taking in the environment in front of him.

Then with a thought, the Orion Empire soldiers who were originally guarding the pyramid suddenly appeared in front of where he was, their limbs scratching in the air in panic like a drowning man.

At this time, Ito Cheng's thoughts were spinning, and black energy barriers immediately appeared outside all the Orion Empire soldiers, forming a rectangular cylinder like a coffin, sealing all the Orion Empire soldiers inside.

Then these black coffins flashed and disappeared into the air.

At this point, all the soldiers of the Orion Empire in the entire underground space were captured and sealed. Then, Ito Cheng's figure flashed and appeared next to the pyramid, and he seemed to be observing there. However, after watching for a long time, Ito Cheng

I can't figure out what this step pyramid is used for, or what its working principle is.

Then he withdrew his gaze, unfolded his spiritual thoughts, and explored the surrounding tunnels that were similar to those dug by cavemen.

Soon, a creature that looked different from an Orion appeared in Ito Cheng's mind through his spiritual thoughts.

It was a group of humanoid creatures. They were not tall, similar to the legendary dwarves. They were only about 1.2, 3 to 1,4, 5 meters tall. However, they were not as strong as the dwarves. Instead, they were as strong as the goblins.

Almost the same, they are skinny and dry, without any hair on their bodies, their eyes are very small, almost none, but the organ that seems to be the nose is very developed, occupying one third of their entire head, and they are dressed in rags

Rotten, he was digging at the wall stupidly, plucking the faintly dark blue ores from the rock wall one by one, throwing them into the backpack next to him, and carrying them after filling them.

Go to an instrument with four semi-arc metal arms and a blue energy aperture that stands near the middle of the tunnel. Throw the ore into it, and then it will be teleported out in the slight flash of the blue energy aperture.

Sent to an unknown storage location.

"Aboriginal people, or a slave race transported from other planets?" Ito Cheng deduced.

Then with another thought, he moved a dwarf creature digging for mines in front of him.

"2#￥.#￥#￥" As soon as he stood still, the dwarf creature panicked and let out an inexplicable shout.

"It has language. It seems to be an intelligent creature." Ito Cheng secretly said.

Then he converted his spiritual thoughts into mental power, penetrated into the other party's mind, and connected to the other party's mental force field.

"Quiet!" Ito Cheng said softly with a Taoist soul-soothing voice.

"..., who are you?" After a moment of silence, the dwarf creature asked in a voice full of cowardice and panic.

"Who are you, and what kind of creatures are you?" Ito Cheng asked directly without answering the other party's question.

"My name is Ga, and I am a member of the Tatakrosar tribe." The dwarf creature named Ga replied.

"The Tata Crosar tribe? Are they the indigenous people on this planet?" Ito Cheng asked.

"No, the planet where we Tatarosar people live is the Saluo planet. We were captured here by the Orion Empire." Jia replied.

"Mining for them?" Ito asked.

"Yes." Gao affirmed.

"Tell me about the situation here." Ito Cheng demanded.

"This planet..." Ga's little head tapped lightly, and he opened his mouth to describe the situation here. That extremely cooperative look left Ito Cheng speechless, and he even couldn't help but wonder if he was frightened by him.
Chapter completed!