Ch.570Planetary Exploration is One of the Crowning Jewels of Science Fiction. (3)

Of course, where other users had landed wasn’t particularly important information to me.

At this point, I decided to close the gallery and leisurely use my assault troops to scout the planet’s surface.

Of course, I wasn’t just using assault troops—I was also conducting satellite reconnaissance through the ships waiting in orbit.

After about six hours of diligent scouting…

“Umm, Commander? The surface exploration is complete!”

“Already?”

“Yep, I guess it’s because the ships in orbit were constantly scanning in real-time?”

No sooner had Jessica told me that processing had been completed faster than expected than another event message popped up before my eyes with a cheerful jingle.

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<Event>

<Planet ‘VXB-788r’ Surface Exploration Complete!>

<Details>

<You have successfully explored 99.999% of the planet’s surface perfectly through satellite scanners on your ships and the sacrificial spirit of your assault troops.>

<And unidentified facilities were indeed detected on the planet’s surface…>

<The problem is that there were far too many such facilities detected.>

<Additionally, due to the planet’s climate characteristics, these facilities are heavily covered by extremely thick ice.>

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‘Damn it.’

Through this message, I sadly realized that this wouldn’t be an easy exploration.

Thinking this was truly unfortunate, I contacted the assault troops outside and the superhumans commanding them, like Berial and Decarabia, instructing them to conduct a more detailed search.

Unlike those superhumans who could “command” in that way, I had the three combat-oriented I-Pa-S members search independently.

As for Grigori and the remaining superhumans, I decided to have them stand by at this command center.

But exactly 5 minutes and 42 seconds after making that decision…

-“C-Commander! Unknown monsters from ice zones everywhere!”

-“The corpses are moving!”

‘Was this planet’s original name T*ra V*lvantis?’

Seeing the strangely familiar ice corpses and monsters charging at my troops not only from the outer ice zones but also from inside those facilities buried in ice…

I felt a very familiar g*me vibe and hurriedly had reinforcements deployed from the ships.

At the same time, I called Ignis, Partia, and Smeralgi, who had been acting independently, to immediately deal with those damned monster scum.

And in this way, deploying Hell*divers against corpses on an ice planet, or…

-KABOOM!

-FWOOSH!

“It burns well despite temperatures dropping to minus 80 degrees.”

“That’s because we’re spraying highly flammable materials like thermite that burns at 3,000 degrees Celsius.”

-FWOOSH!

As we thoroughly roasted ice corpses and monsters that had emerged from this ice planet reminiscent of a horror movie setting with overwhelming firepower…

The situation continued to be more fun than expected and great for stress relief, making me think how unpredictable the world can be.

Although, as things in life never go according to plan…

-CRASH!

“M-monsters have entered the command center!”

“Aaaaargh!”

“Commander!!”

Unfortunately, a monster that had broken into the command center swallowed me, leaving me covered in the damn creature’s saliva and gastric juices.

“Give our Commander back, you damn monster!”

“Die, meow!”

“No, don’t kill it! I’ll take it later and thoroughly punish it.”

“Good idea.”

The monster that had successfully breached the command center was severely beaten by the other superhumans who had chased it here.

It was reduced to a barely-alive lump of tenderized meat.

Witnessing these rather spectacular scenes one after another, I couldn’t help but feel a strange, melancholic mix of emotions.

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And at the moment when the monster that tried to eat our Icarus was reduced to pulverized meat with only its head remaining…

Other users were also facing equally chaotic situations.

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Title: My command center is built on top of a giant turtle, what do I do?

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of a command center sitting on the shell of a giant turtle swimming across the vast ocean]

FML

The shell was disguised as an island so even the scanners couldn’t detect it

Comments:

-[Jonah much?]

-[LOLOLOLOL]

-[What happens if the turtle dives? You’re screwed?]

-˪[The command center is waterproof, dustproof, and heat-resistant, so it shouldn’t be a problem](Author)

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Title: Is this earthquake for real?

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of a command center wedged between split ground, causing distorted vision]

The ground where I built my command center collapsed, and now the center is completely stuck between the cracks

This really sucks

[Image of assault troops and superhumans diligently digging around with various heavy equipment brought from somewhere]

I’m doing manual labor before even starting the event

Is this right?

Comments:

-[It’s frustrating that you have to do construction work before you can even start the event]

-[Wait, aren’t enemies attacking?]

-˪[Dunno? I haven’t even scanned yet, so maybe that’s why they’re not coming](Author)

-˪[Oh]

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In this way, perhaps because the locations of newly built command centers weren’t very good…

Some users were facing spectacular situations before even starting the event.

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Title: Anyone else drop on an ocean planet??

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image of a Cr*ken-like giant octopus-headed monster emerging from the deep sea and flipping over the user’s hovercraft]

Damn it

There’s no land, just water everywhere, so I was wondering where to find facilities and was just moving around

Suddenly an octopus-head jumps out from 20km deep and flips my boat

This is so messed up

Comments:

-[The answer is ‘steamboat charge’]

-[You have battleships in orbit, right? Just ram them into its belly and make a hole]

-˪[You want me to ram a battleship over 100km long into a monster that’s barely over 20km tall…?](Author)

-˪[You can do it! You can do it!]

-[Everything’s a mess here too lol]

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Title: What the hell, why is the inside bigger than…

Author: ToothFairy

Content: [Image of a bizarre facility with an interior that expands like R*gional Space]

The assault troops I sent to search suddenly lost communication and didn’t return, so I went to check and found this

Will superhumans return if I send them in?

Comments:

-[So now even searching requires rolling a random gacha]

-[Let’s go check it out]

-˪[What if I send them in and they don’t come back?](Author)

-˪[Not my superhumans, so whatever]

-˪[You jerk](Author)

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Title: You guys have it better, damn it

Author: Anonymous

Content: [Image showing a view of an extremely hot area with bubbling magma]

I found where the ancient empire facility is

But it’s under magma so I have to break through that

FML

Comments:

-[Time for underground exploration]

-[LOLOLOLOLOL]

-[Wait, there’s a facility buried under the crust?]

-˪[According to the event message, the facility was buried due to tectonic movement](Author)

-˪[That’s seriously messed up]

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As these situations beyond imagination continued to unfold one after another…

Users were experiencing massive satisfaction with dopamine pumping in a “different way” from the combat-filled events they were used to.