Star Sea: Explorer's Notes

Chapter 1 Explorer Notes

Boundless yellow sand.

Under the scorching sun, a layer of heat waves rolled over the border between the desert and the sky.

Looking across the undulating sand dunes, a black spot the size of an ant is particularly abrupt in this desert without variegation.

When you get closer, you can find that the black spot is actually a traveler in shabby clothes. On the back covered with gravel, you can vaguely see several logos written in the common language of the Federation: Toyo Mining Company.

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This is Frege Norm's first desert...

...How many days have it been?

He couldn't remember at all.

The daytime on this planet is much longer than the Galactic Federation standard time, and the pocket watch he picked up from the ruins seems to be malfunctioned by the special magnetic field here.

In the first few days, he could use his own concept of time to deduce roughly how long it had passed.

In order to avoid confusion, he even used the notebook he carried with him to simply record his daily experiences like a diary.

notebook...pen...

He touched the shriveled backpack on his chest with some difficulty—he had carried all the nutrient solution on the ship with him, but it still bottomed out now.

"Is it gone... Forget it, it's not something important."

He was very open-minded.

The notebook may have been left on the way long ago, and it is obviously irrational to go back and look for it now.

The gust of wind whizzed by his ears brought up a tornado of hot sand, and his curly black hair, which had already been soaked in sweat, was tightly attached to his face.

At this moment, he actually felt... that the hot wind actually brought him a bit of coolness.

In just a short while, his face and clothes were once again covered with a layer of fine sand. For this, he just kept cleaning around his eyes with his hands, and he had no time to take care of other places.

Pain—pain, pain... numbness.

In addition to the faintly visible bloodstains on the chapped purple lips, wounds of different sizes can also be seen on other places on his body, and the limbs that are obviously swollen from the beginning made him feel that death is approaching.

Didi, Didi——

"What sound? It's... a communicator?!"

Hearing this sound, Frege immediately took out the vibrating black square screen from his backpack.

"Hello, hello?"

A blue holographic projection lit up on the screen:

"Poples Explorer, please call back if you receive it! Please call back if you receive it!"

"Got it, got it!" Frege cheered up immediately after hearing the words, "This is the Polops Explorer, and I'm Frege Norm!"

"Fregg Nome, this is the Galactic Federal Investigation Committee, report your situation immediately!"

"I am an explorer recruited by the survey team. Our original plan was to..."

"Say the point!"

"Yes!" Frege quickly returned to the topic, "That day was March 1983, 3 in the Star Sea Calendar..."

"During the process of returning to the star port from the mine planet, the 'Poples Explorer' we took, the space anchor point was disturbed due to the failure of the jump engine, and the ship failed to return to the scheduled location."

"After wandering in subspace for several months, we found a desert planet. Our companions were very excited because it was an unknown planet that was not marked on the star map."

Frege looked at the distant horizon, and the national anthem of the Galactic Federation seemed to be ringing in his ears.

He will never forget the cheers of everyone on board the ship when the planet came into view—the first discovery of an unknown planet will bring them great rewards.

At that time, the golden color symbolized a good harvest, but at this moment, the endless desert in front of him was surrounded by layers of heat waves, completely blocking his hope.

After recovering from a brief stupor, he clenched the communicator and continued to report.

"After the landing preparations were completed, the accident happened."

"—The gravity of the planet suddenly changed strangely."

"The ship fell towards the ground uncontrollably, with explosions, roars, and sirens everywhere. Like the other companions, I fell into a coma under the violent impact."

"When I woke up, I found myself lying in the desert, surrounded by the wreckage of the ship and the corpses of my companions."

"There are 132 ships in total. There are 87 researchers, 16 support staff and 30 explorers on board."

"I am the only survivor of this disaster."

"The other 29 explorers, like me, are all cooperative explorers entrusted by the survey team..." Seeing that there was no answer for a long time, Frege took a deep breath, "It's been too long, and I have some other memories. I don't know."

"But I wrote everything down in my notes, wait for me..."

He licked his lips, and the tingling sensation from the chapped place brought him back a bit of clarity.

However, in the next second, he stopped what he was doing——

He realized that the notes were no longer in his bag.

"Sorry, I accidentally lost that notebook..."

Just as he was about to explain, the blue projection just now disappeared suddenly, and the screen of the communicator fell into darkness again.

Hallucinations, hallucinations...

It turned out to be...an illusion.

The communication has been blocked long ago, and he already knew it.

"Cough cough..."

He looked up at the scorching sun above his head, it was quite normal to have hallucinations under the extreme lack of water - he knew it a long time ago.

"Thirsty...so thirsty, what...what's going on?"

Didn't you just drink water?
Frege couldn't control his right hand reaching into the backpack——

Take a sip, just a sip...

After unscrewing the last water bag, he took a deep breath and slowly raised his head.

One second, two seconds, three seconds... one drop...

a drop.

The crystal water droplets burst out dazzling brilliance in the sun, and he couldn't help closing his eyes, feeling the sweetness of the entrance in the tranquility.

His right hand holding the water bag trembled uncontrollably.

Gone?

Gone.

The water bag landed.

He also lost his strength and fell into the desert.

Bang.

"Pain... what is this?"

He felt as if a foreign object had hit his forehead.

"pen?"

He opened his eyes, struggling to get up and dig out the black pen with strength from all over his body.

Somewhat familiar.

He spun around, and after seeing the small characters written on the body of the pen in elegant cursive script, thousands of emotions surged in his head, and his slightly thin body in the wind became more and more unsteady.

"Brother, remember to go home."

He won't admit it wrong, this pen is unique in Xinghai.

It was her—his sister's birthday present to him five years ago.

The pen is here, and the notebook should be...

He looked around, and sure enough, he saw a sharp corner protruding from the yellow sand not far away.

After playing for a long time, it turned out that he had been turning in circles...

Give up, it's time to give up.

Why……

"I just... just want to live..."

With the last of his strength, Frege dug out the notebook from the desert, and gently wiped off the sand outside.

He slowly flipped through the notes, and then flipped through several pages back and forth in a daze.

How is it... blank?

What about those diaries he wrote before?

Where did it go?

This is indeed his notebook...

Looks exactly... the same from the outside?
"This is……"

He suddenly noticed that there were five more scrawled ancient characters on the cover at some point——

"Explorer... notes?"

He thought he had never seen this kind of writing before, but for some reason he could immediately understand the meaning of these five words.

Turning to the first page, a line of red font that looks particularly pervasive came into view:
"Don't open this notebook, you'll regret it."

"regret?"

Frege couldn't help frowning, the words that looked like a joke were obviously not left by him - he didn't have red ink at all.

As if he didn't see the warning on the title page, Frege turned to the next page without hesitation——

"Watch your back."

Frege stared blankly at the blood-red handwriting, and when he was wondering, he suddenly felt a faint vibration from the soles of his feet.

"Ok?"

He bent down and dipped his fingers into the yellow sand, and found that the vibration was expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The gravel jumped back and forth, hitting his fingertips constantly.

Intuition told him that there must be a big problem behind this abnormality.

"what's the situation……"

He suddenly felt that the sunlight above his head was covered by something, and when he looked back, he fell to the spot in an instant.

"This... what is this?!"

I saw a giant mechanical puppet with a height of several hundred meters emerging from the desert, and Frege was as small as an ant at the bottom of its feet.

The golem made of metal had a huge head with a hideous face on it, and he had no time to pay attention to what it was just after a quick glance - the golem had already used its huge hand composed of countless rusted iron plates to face the monster. He caught it.

In an instant, all that could be heard in Frege's ears was the roar of the gears meshing at the opponent's joints.

run!
That was the only thought left in his mind.

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