Chapter 277.

Chapter 277.

Chapter 277. The Planetarium, Operation Hook Up: The Show. (5/5)

Amidst the darkness, in complete silence, the narrator’s voice resounded, “Haaaaaah. It seems we were a bit too eager and flew too close to the sun and our spacecraft was vaporized.”

With those final words, the room remained chillingly quiet for a full minute as everything we watched from beginning to end sank in.

After that minute of silence, the lights on the walls lit up and illuminated the room. The show... was over.

I let out the breath I’d been holding in.

It was quite an enjoyable experience. It was a shame there were so few shows. Creating such an immersive experience was by no means an easy task.

Words alone couldn’t possibly do it justice. Unless you saw it with your own eyes and experienced it with your body, you wouldn’t understand.

Sadly, these days, people just want a quick fix, junk food, something easy to digest. Stuff without any substance.

All the random little tidbits of background information the narrator interweaved through our voyage through space was stuff nobody really cared about. It was designed to be an educational show, but hardly anyone would remember or appreciate the time and effort the narrator took to speak about them.

What would be remembered were the most impactful visual scenes we saw today.

Well, there wasn’t much that could be done about it. That was human nature.

“This concludes today’s show. Does anyone have any questions they’d like to ask?” The narrator officially declared the end.

“Haaaaah. That was really good,” Alicia mumbled in my arms with the back of her head on my chest.

“Does that answer any questions you had about Planet Nine?”

“Yes. But, isn’t it possible that there are enough distant Kuiper Belt objects to exert the gravity needed to keep those objects clustered together?”

“The researchers also considered this possibility as well, but they found it would require the Kuiper Belt to have about one hundred times the mass we believe it has today which seems unlikely.”

“I see.”

The one who’d asked a question that led to such a long-winded answer was a woman. Though, it was quite an intriguing question.

The phantom planet haunting astronomers of this time. Since I had knowledge of the future, I was naturally aware of its existence.

I was still a bit surprised right now. Not because someone had asked about this hypothetical planet. Rather, it was the identity of the person who asked the question. I recognized her disguise and though she’d altered her voice, I could tell it was definitely Angela.

So that’s where she’d been hidden this entire time. She must have gotten here while I was busy with Izora in the coatroom. She hadn’t put her coat away and had it with her.

Did Angela actually have an interest in outer space or astronomy? Hmm, actually, it might make sense. For someone who wanted to become a star and reach for the sky, perhaps she had an interest in real stars and astronomy. It was a somewhat unexpected side to see.

I wonder if she took a first-year astronomy course as an elective in university for her degree or something. I didn’t know what courses she’d taken as I’d never asked. Well, there was another possibility. Numerical methods and analysis was a computer science course I’d taken in university. We had a lab one time where we modeled and simulated the solar system in Matlab. I guess it’s not impossible that she heard about planet nine in passing if she’d taken that sort of course as well.

Well putting that aside for now, how will things play out from here? Is there a way for me to make use of Angela in this situation? It was pretty inconvenient not having a method to contact her. If I did, I could have her stick around and claim I was able to make the next show if she wanted to stick around and see it with me.

By forcing her to stay after we exit, I’d be able to arrange an encounter between her and Izora while Zane was still around. If Zane became aware she was Angela, the famous celebrity, and that Izora got to befriend such a person while he was forced to leave with his class, Izora’s stock would definitely shoot up in Zane’s eyes.

That was my assessment of Zane’s character. He was someone who valued social status and Alicia’s outgoing personality. Alicia held a special sort of status in school that appealed to him and Angela’s outward personality when in front of cameras was comparable to Alicia’s.