Ever since Zai Jiu Xunge had started painting worlds as little puzzle pieces, Players would gather around her whenever she appeared aboard the ship. Most of the time, however, no one could tell which world she had been painting lately from the races sitting beside her.
Not only were there plenty of spectators, but in most worlds, most races had failed to survive to the end.
Ever since Yu Xunge had started designing the sketch for this enormous puzzle, the Little Robot, who had previously followed Tulan everywhere to attend all sorts of classes, had never left Zai Jiu Xunge's shoulder.
Qihua, meanwhile, liked studying the enormous sketch covered in puzzle-piece outlines and densely packed world names.
Yu Xunge suddenly paused as she was about to put her brush down again. "We're missing a world," she said in dismay.
"No, we aren't," Qihua said. "I've checked it plenty of times. Not a single one is missing."
Yu Xunge looked at B80 and smiled. "We're missing the Abandoned Zone."
The little beady eyes on B80's face grew wider and wider as it murmured, repeating, "The Abandoned Zone."
That was the Mechanical Race's final destination, and the place she had taken B80 away from.
"That's right. Why shouldn't you be included? You should have been included all along. We went to the Abandoned Zone to look for you in every Timeline..."
Yu Xunge looked regretfully at the three worlds she had already painted. She took the sketch from Qihua's hands and said:
"There's still time. We can still adjust it. I was regretting having only 9,999 puzzle pieces before, and I even had to make some of them a little bigger. Now ten thousand will be just right..."
Her gaze suddenly froze on the sketch, and even her heart skipped a beat.