"Everyone, it's been a long time."
Xiao Ran had spent around two years in the Mission World, and the others had likewise spent quite some time in their respective missions. Yet for Prometheus, no matter how long they had remained in their Mission Worlds, only a single day had passed.
Now that Xiao Ran had returned, the scenes of everyone parting ways before the mission felt as though they had happened only moments ago. The experiences of those two years of missions were suddenly pushed into the background, fading in Xiao Ran's memories until they felt like distant recollections.
Cruze walked over to Aiba Shinyo, who was still floating in midair. Folding his arms, he looked up at Aiba Shinyo as he continued undergoing Prometheus's conversion, then glanced at Xiao Ran. "What's this?"
"A new member of the team. He's neither a pilot nor one of the Technicians, but he'll definitely give you all a big surprise later." Xiao Ran smiled as he answered Cruze, then walked over to Sheryl and Mwu. Smiling gently at them, he asked, "Did this mission go smoothly?"
Mwu nodded with a smile. "It went quite smoothly."
Sheryl rolled her eyes at Xiao Ran. Perhaps she was a little unhappy that she had not been able to join Xiao Ran for this mission, and she spoke with a faint note of complaint. "It was a four-way war between participants. It went smoothly enough, but for the thing you wanted, we ended up facing nearly all the participants and Native inhabitant factions."
Xiao Ran looked at Sheryl in surprise, paused, then said, "Something like that happened? Fortunately, everyone came back safely. Nothing serious happened, right?"
After looking at Aiba Shinyo for a while, Cruze lost interest. Still somewhat puzzled, he walked over to Xiao Ran and