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Having escaped the pirates and arrived safely at the Ceres space station cluster CERES-ORBITPLANT-VIII, Li Pan gazed out from the bridge and was first greeted by a sight that wasn't the cold Valley God, but huge hourglasses.
Rows and strings of silver hourglasses covered with liquid solar cells spanned the Ceres surface, orbiting Valley God, charging through solar power, and surrounded by strings of shining pearls tied around their waists.
Of course, they were not hourglasses but residential PLANT cultivation gardens. Nor were those pearls but light strips, marking the ceaseless traffic of ice harvesting, mining, and freight ships, which, under automated navigational coordination, entered and left port at a steady pace, delivering vast amounts of resources and necessities to feed the millions, if not tens of millions, of miners.
