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Lost Ship's original site.

After Electronic Edison's team flew the ship away, all that remained was a massive pit and a broad highway leading up to its edge.

At the intersection of the highway and the pit stood three large parking lots, along with fifty all-weather biological turrets.

Although Deep Space Echoes had introduced simple and convenient teleportation keys, many players still chose to drive through the perilous rainforest and come here with friends to play.

Some were reluctant to spend money on keys, but many simply enjoyed the feeling of a self-driving trip.

When the Lost Ship vanished through a jump, many players were still in the parking lots.

They parked, pushed open their doors, looked up—and the ship was gone.

They were completely dumbfounded.

The players who arrived one after another afterward were the same.

Everyone stood at the edge of the pit, staring blankly at one another without knowing what had happened.

After searching online and figuring out what was going on, most got back in their cars and left, either returning to Sprawling Metropolis or continuing on toward Abyssal Cliff Town.

Only a few players who could not be bothered to move and were heavily addicted to the game stayed behind, sitting by the pit to barbecue and chat while waiting for the ship to return.

They waited until nightfall.

They had already moved on from barbecuing to camping, lying beside the pit and gazing at the stars overhead as they chatted idly.

After a while, some of them even began to feel sleepy.

Then, at one moment, a vast patch of stars overhead suddenly warped. The starlight stretched into streams that converged toward the center.

Amid the hazy white light, space looked like a crumpled sheet of paper, curling and deforming.

Until the white light