The "fish" swam on.
In some of the sci-fi novels Shi Ming had read in his past life, the inside of a planet's core either harbored a terrifying behemoth...
...or it connected to an unknown Secret Realm.
In short, it was always an extraordinary place.
Humanity, with its boundless imagination, had made all sorts of wild speculations about the very center of the planet, yet had never found a way to see its true face.
...
There was no more magma here.
Matter, under terrifying pressure, had been compressed into a solid, dense, crystalline metallic structure. Gravity emanated from this point, and here it reached its peak.
This was the planet's true "core."
The temperature was extreme, the pressure immense.
The Sunshot stopped its traversal.
