Earth Wolf Twelve had visited no less than twenty Dead Stars, but neither he nor the entire company had ever ventured so deep into a Dead Star to confront the root cause of the planet's "Cocoon" transformation.
Up to now, all investigations of Dead Stars stopped at the surface, for any further steps would lead to being devoured by monsters, viruses, or natural disasters, and even the Long Branch Guards were no exception.
At least when Earth Wolf Twelve was still a candidate for the Long Branch Guard, the company would lose several candidates each year to planets undergoing "Cocoon" transformation; sometimes even formal members of the Long Branch Guard would perish, which led all explorers to a consensus—that human strength was not yet enough to contend with the "Cocoon."
However, it wasn't long before Earth Wolf Twelve understood more vividly what Mingyuan meant by the "gods" being displeased with them.
