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The tea room was very quiet.

A deep blue star map slowly rotated in front of the three of them.

Su Man looked at Shen Fei.

She could feel that Shen Fei's usually calm heartbeat was now much faster.

Lunar real estate, the new global order...

These plans all seem insignificant and unimaginative in the face of this star map.

Chen Qingquan didn't say anything, he just quietly drank his tea.

He is waiting.

Shen Fei was waiting to process this information, which was enough to overturn all his plans.

Finally, Shen Fei spoke.

His voice was calm, devoid of any emotion.

But it was this calmness that let Su Man know that he had made a decision.

"What do you want?"

Shen Fei stared directly at Chen Qingquan.

He never believed in free lunches.

Moreover, this kind of intelligence.

Chen Qingquan smiled and put down his teacup.

"We don't want the technology, the resources, or the land."

The old man's gaze fell on the rotating star chart, his eyes filled with a kind of persistence and longing.

"We only need one boat ticket."

"Boat tickets?" Su Man asked, puzzled.

"Yes, a ship ticket." Chen Qingquan's tone was very solemn. "When Mr. Shen decides to set off for the place indicated by the star map, we hope that China will have a place there."

"Our civilization has been doing one thing since its inception."

"Record."

"We record the trajectories of the stars. The changes of the earth, the rise and fall of dynasties, we record them all. And that includes those... uninvited 'visitors from outer space'."

"We are the chroniclers of history. The world has changed, and we don't want to be absent."

He looked at Shen Fei, his eyes not pleading, but only showing a shared pursuit of the same goal.

"We want to witness it firsthand and record it, to see what the end of it all is."

Shen Fei fell silent.

For the first time, he began to re-examine the old man before him and the ancient civilization behind him.

They are not here to negotiate.

They came... to find like-minded people.

"Hannah, Evelyn, come to me."

Shen Fei issued the command through his personal terminal.

Less than a minute.

The door to the tea room was pushed open.

Hannah and Evelyn walked in quickly.

They were stunned when they saw the unfamiliar star map in the center of the room.

Evelyn, in particular, was instantly captivated by the deep, dark blue light and couldn't look away.

"Boss... this is..."

"The next stop in the universe."

Shen Fei's words made Evelyn stop breathing.

He ignored the surprise on the faces of his two subordinates and issued a new order directly.

"From now on, the 'Lunar Real Estate' project will be moved to second priority."

Hannah's pupils contracted sharply.

That was a plan that could have disrupted the global economy, and it's been downgraded just like that?

"Its new goal is to provide full financial and resource support for our upcoming long journey," Shen Fei said in an unquestionable tone.

"Hannah, you continue in charge. I need you to get all the funds from those old powers on Earth as quickly as possible. Use their money to build us a ship."

"Yes, sir."

Hannah immediately accepted the order; she had already sensed greater profits and...greater risks.

Shen Fei's gaze shifted to Evelyn, who was completely absorbed in staring at the star map.

Evelyn.

"Yes, boss!"

Evelyn stood up abruptly, like a student whose name had been called by the teacher, her eyes shining.

"The 'Genesis Factory' project is on hold. You now have a new mission."

Shen Fei pointed to the star map.

"Analyze it. Then tell me, with the current technology of the 07 mothership, how long will it take us to get there?"

Evelyn's face showed a mixture of excitement and embarrassment.

"Boss, this...this is incredible. But it's impossible."

"The scale indicated by this star map is far beyond our observation range. It may not even be in the Milky Way. We have no course, no navigation parameters, and with just one map, we can't even determine our direction."

"It's like being given a treasure map but not told which country the treasure is in."

Her words revealed a reality.

Having a goal, but no path.

However, at this moment, Chen Qingquan opened his black leather suitcase again.

He took out the last item from the very bottom.

It was a crystal that was half a meter long.

It looks like a piece of bone, with intricate and complex patterns on its surface, like a circuit board.

The moment it appeared, the star chart in the room flickered, as if in resonance.

Evelyn's eyes were fixed on the "bone," and she couldn't look away.

"This...this is..."

""keel"."

Chen Qingquan slowly uttered its name.

"Thousands of years ago, an exploration ship called 'Observer' went out of control on its return journey and crashed on the ancient Yangtze River in China."

"Most of the ship was destroyed, leaving only two things behind."

"Same as above, it's a distress signal transmitter that records the location of their home planet, which is this mask."

"The other thing is this."

Chen Qingquan solemnly pushed the "dragon bone" to the center of the tea table.

"Its shipborne navigation core."

Evelyn's breathing became heavy.

She looked at the "dragon bone" as if it were a lover, muttering to herself.

"So that's how it is... The star map is the destination, and this is the navigator..."

"With it, we can calculate the waterway, we can locate the coordinates, we can..."

She was so excited she couldn't speak.

Shen Fei reached out and grasped the cold "dragon bone".

The moment his fingers touched the "dragon bone".

Chen Qingquan's voice, carrying a solemn tone, rang in his ears.

"Mr. Shen, please be careful."

"The ancient records we've deciphered are very fragmented. But all the information points to a disturbing hypothesis."

The old man took a deep breath and said, word by word.

"The 'Observer' civilization perished in its escape."

"And the 'burial place' that the star map points to is not a grave..."

"...It's more like a cage."

"An 'unknown' cage used to imprison that 'Observer' civilization could not even defeat."

The words fell.

Shen Fei gripped the "Dragon Bone" tightly.

His consciousness sank into the "dragon bone" the moment it came into contact with it.

He didn't see the starry sky or technology; he only "saw" a fragment of information sealed deep within the core.

It was darkness.

And in that darkness, a primal, cold instinct seized him.

Run away.

To perish.

They didn't even dare to look back.

Shen Fei's face turned pale for the first time.

Meanwhile.

His global perception extended outwards in the distant direction indicated by the star map.

This time, he noticed something unusual.

That's not energy.

It is not a substance either.

It was a rhythmic pulsation, devouring the universe itself.

With each pulse, a small space, along with the time and rules within it, is completely erased.

Return to nothingness.

A voice, transcending time and space, resounded directly in his mind.

【Hungry.】