"Return voyage record?" Lu E's news caught me off guard. I repeated it reflexively, then suddenly realized what it meant and pounced in front of the elf girl. "You mean Green Star returned once after escaping the polluted Old Empire Zone? But this return voyage record can't be found in the sailing log—it was deleted!?"
"We can't be certain of that much yet." Lu E seemed startled by my excitement and immediately shrank back. Aside from being exceptionally "brave" whenever she was chasing Lilina, this elf girl was very timid. "Mother Tree's memories are extremely vague, much like Race Consciousness. After ordinary elves like us read them a second time during the cycle of life and death, the records become even blurrier. So we can only roughly confirm that Green Star briefly returned after leaving the polluted area. We don't know whether it was an order from the planetary core or whether some other force drew it back. We also can't confirm whether the planet's sailing log was altered... There are no traces in the log at all. It simply lacks this return voyage record, but we can't find any deletion record, nor have we found any misalignment or gaps in the log."
Seeing me frown in thought, Lu E cautiously added, "Mother Tree's memories are very vague. They don't even contain the time of that return voyage, so we can't work backward from the time to determine the date in the log."
Seeing how nervous the elf girl looked, I smiled and waved a hand at her. "Relax, relax. Your news just surprised me a little... An ark that returned to the Empire Zone after successfully escaping? You're definitely the first in history to do that. Zadom, you were Harlan's general. You should have been there when Green Star