The figure in the white shirt walked toward the sky.
Then he entered the landing craft. Like a streamlined little boat, the craft spread its mechanical wings, its flame thrusters ignited, and it soared toward the higher heavens, merging with the massive black starship.
The reporters looked up.
Everyone knew that was the Punisher. That was Di Wu.
In people's hearts, the Punisher was the most invincible and fearless being on the entire Earth.
He represented the most cutting-edge power.
Yet he, too, had embarked on space exploration.
Space—without a doubt, humanity's boldest and most perilous undertaking.
Prayers rose in people's hearts.
Even if you are the mighty Di Wu, may the road ahead be smooth, and may you return safely.
River Town.
His mother, Lu Shuyun, sat before the television, watching the enormous craft rise into the sky.
And that indistinct figure.
Her eyes glistened faintly with tears.
She silently watched that figure, just as she had when he had fought extraterrestrial civilizations before.
They said mothers possessed an intuition beyond imagination.
Even among ten thousand bustling figures, they could recognize their own child at a single glance.
Lu Shuyun murmured, "I raised you for twenty-six years. How could I not know what you're doing? You must come back safely."
The enormous starship, eight kilometers long and shaped like a sharp black triangle, had been named Tian Jue by Liu Di.
The sky was vast and the earth boundless; one came to realize the infinity of the universe.
At that moment, the starship rose straight upward, its front end already piercing through the atmosphere.
It was as though it had broken free from Earth's clouds, facing the sea of stars as the first fearless warrior to press onward.
Behind it.
Wang Kong 1, far smaller in size, also took