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On the ice sheet of Zeta-Ω, Caius's compass needle always deviates from the course - it's not a malfunction, it's the planet that is "guiding".
As an interstellar explorer, he landed with the brass compass left by his grandfather, only to find that there was a heartbeat-like resonance hidden under the ice. Night after night, there was a knocking sound from the ice, like someone tapping a fingernail on the cabin door; the star map on the compass automatically changed, pointing to an unknown deep valley; and the black-haired boy who called himself an "aboriginal" always disappeared into the ice mist when he turned around.
"Don't touch the ice in the deep valley." The edge of the note left by the boy was frosted. "They will remember your fingerprints."
But Caius went anyway. When the ice cracked and the compass sank into the abyss, he saw countless luminous lines spreading on the ice wall - like someone had drawn a huge treasure map deep in the planet. And those knocking sounds turned out to be not a warning, but an invitation.
