Recaps

Xi Xiu and the other warriors prepared for the threat posed by Qin Hongjun’s infiltrators and the rapidly reproducing Insects. After a training video exposed the Insects’ abilities, Qing Zhixun briefed the base on the situation across Jingsu and announced personnel changes and new training programs.

• Xi Xiu, Flora, and the others discussed the worst-case scenarios and hoped to survive long enough to return to ordinary lives.
• Qing Zhixun, Li Yuanting, and their colleagues prepared briefing materials, while Lu Zong'an completed models of the Insects’ larval, adult, and King Insect stages.
• Qing Zhixun held a base-wide meeting and presented Xi Xiu’s account and the biologists’ findings on identifying and defending against the Insects.
• Flora and He Yinlei learned that Xi Xiu had encountered the Insects before, and Flora urged her to share dangers with them in the future.
• The warriors studied the Insects’ feeding and reproduction, then Qing Zhixun summarized Jingsu’s situation and outlined base personnel changes and new training programs.

Xi Xiu increased 909’s training and updated Enweit on the danger facing Aura, while his family helped him secure the planet’s energy supply. With Aura’s defenses reorganized and the base’s training underway, Xi Xiu focused on preparing for what was coming.

• After learning about Jingsu’s situation, the warriors, He Yinlei, and Flora increased their training, and Xi Xiu sent the new plan to 909, including A Xian.
• During a video call, Enweit’s sisters warmly welcomed Xi Xiu and asked to test their strength against her, while Xi Xiu urged Enweit and his family to protect Aura and investigate suspicious families.
• Enweit and his siblings secretly searched Aura’s records and reassigned people with suspicious connections away from access to processed energy.
• Enweit secured Aura’s wartime energy supplies so they could not be diverted, while Li Zhengfeng continued training Wan Youlin and Xi Xiu concentrated on training at the base.

Xi Xiu submitted a marriage application after her friends encouraged her, and Qing Zhixun arranged for the Central Brain to match him with her. The results were due the next day, leaving Xi Xiu’s friends wondering whether she was delaying because she feared the match.

• A Xian, Flora, He Yinlei, Wei Lanshan, and Jing Xi encouraged Xi Xiu to submit her marriage application, and she finally did.
• Su Jinbao, Tarasha, Qiu Shaorong, and Qing Zhixun also submitted applications.
• Qing Zhixun read Xi Xiu’s extensive partner requirements and anticipated her reaction when the Central Brain matched them.
• A Xian reported Xi Xiu’s moods to Qing Zhixun while Xi Xiu trained with her team during the three-day wait.
• On the morning the results were due, Xi Xiu moved unusually slowly as Flora and He Yinlei prepared to contact their matches.

Xi Xiu discovered that the Central Brain had matched her with Qing Zhixun, while Flora and He Yinlei learned who their matches were. After Qing Zhixun assigned H909 a classified mission to Silvia in three days, Xi Xiu resolved to investigate the suspicious match and find a way to reject it.

• Flora was matched with Polk, and He Yinlei was matched with Xie Yahong, who planned to settle on Ningkui Star.
• Xi Xiu showed her match to Flora and He Yinlei, and they were stunned to see Qing Zhixun.
• Xi Xiu suspected A Xian had helped arrange the match, but a call from Qing Zhixun interrupted her questioning.
• Qing Zhixun ordered Captain Hong to prepare H909 for a classified mission to Silvia in three days, then ended the call without mentioning the match.
• Flora celebrated that Xi Xiu could meet Qing Zhixun in person, while Xi Xiu rejected the idea and suspected A Xian, Wu Jingyang, and the Central Brain had conspired to pair them.

After Qing Zhixun and Xi Xiu were matched as partners, soldiers at Yuanyuan base gossiped about them while Qing Sansui secretly fueled the discussion. Xi Xiu focused on preparing for a mission, while A Xian admitted to Qing Zhixun that Xi Xiu had guessed who was involved in arranging the match.

• News of Xi Xiu and Qing Zhixun’s match spread through Yuanyuan base, and soldiers debated their strength, backgrounds, and relationship.
• Qing Sansui hacked the base network to join the gossip, while Xi Xiu’s friends defended her and Xi Xiu liked their posts.
• He Yinlei and Flora arranged virtual meetings with their matches, while Xi Xiu organized weapons and reviewed the mission files.
• A Xian visited Qing Zhixun’s office, where Qing Sansui served her food and juice as she complained about Xi Xiu’s anger.
• A Xian told Qing Zhixun that Xi Xiu had guessed she, Wu Jingyang, the Central Brain, and Qing Zhixun were involved in the match.

Qing Zhixun told A Xian why he had pushed Xi Xiu away, believing his illness meant he could not give her a future. A Xian challenged his decision, and Qing Zhixun revealed that he had mistaken Xi Xiu’s love for gratitude.

• A Xian explained that she had deduced Xi Xiu’s origins from her ability to read Li Zhengfeng’s notes and confirmed that Li Zhengfeng knew too.
• Qing Zhixun asked whether Xi Xiu had told A Xian about someone from her past, and A Xian realized he was the man who had hurt her.
• Qing Zhixun admitted he had deliberately distanced himself from Xi Xiu because he believed he had only a few years left to live and she deserved better.
• A Xian argued that Qing Zhixun could not decide for Xi Xiu whether their remaining years together would have made her happy.
• Qing Zhixun said he had thought Xi Xiu was repaying a debt of gratitude because, in their hometown, gratitude was greater than heaven.

A Xian confronted Qing Zhixun about his past choices and learned that he was hiding his illness from Xi Xiu while hoping to win her back. Meanwhile, Xi Xiu prepared the team for a mission near the Yuanri Star System's border as signs of a coming crisis mounted.

• A Xian told Qing Zhixun that his refusal to confess his feelings to Xi Xiu had been selfish, but he chose to keep his illness secret and try to win Xi Xiu back.
• A Xian decided to observe Qing Zhixun and Xi Xiu from a distance, then returned to find Xi Xiu planning their mission assignments.
• Xi Xiu assigned Qiu Shaorong and Su Jinbao to the starship's energy systems and weapons and planned more intensive training after the mission.
• A Xian told Xi Xiu that Anvile had overcome its discomfort with the unusual aura and had mobilized its forces to defend itself and support Jingsu's other star systems.
• Xi Xiu prepared a retreat plan and scheduled a team briefing, while He Yinlei and Flora returned from dates pleased with their matches.

Xi Xiu prepared her team for a mission to Yuanri’s border while considering the match result with Qing Zhixun. When they met, Qing Zhixun confessed that he liked Hong Xixiu, leaving Xi Xiu flustered and unsure how to respond.

• Xi Xiu told her team they would leave for Yuanri’s border in two days and warned them to watch for unknown IDs and traces of Insects.
• Xi Xiu sent Wei Lanshan the match results and planned to speak with Qing Zhixun before the mission.
• Xi Xiu met Qing Zhixun in the artificial garden after he prepared snacks and juice for her.
• Qing Zhixun asked Xi Xiu not to reject him too quickly, despite her concerns that Gene Engraving would not make their partnership happy.
• Qing Zhixun directly confessed that he liked Hong Xixiu, and Xi Xiu became too flustered to know what to say.

Xi Xiu struggled to reject Qing Zhixun after he insisted he would accept whatever future she chose and promised to wait for her. She agreed to consider the match, though memories of a past-life partner still troubled her as she left.

• Xi Xiu told Qing Zhixun that her plans to venture into the Starry Sea had never included a partner, but he refused to withdraw their matching application.
• Qing Zhixun promised to follow Xi Xiu's decisions about their future and explained that he had modeled his matching application on her criteria.
• Xi Xiu asked whether Qing Zhixun had confused his feelings with the affinity Anvile People felt for her, and he insisted they were different.
• Xi Xiu postponed their upcoming scenario simulation, and Qing Zhixun promised to wait as long as necessary.
• Xi Xiu said she would consider the match, then left while Qing Zhixun watched her depart with sadness.

Xi Xiu struggled with the results of her matching with Qing Zhixun because of the pain he had caused her in their past life. After agreeing to think about it until the mission was over, she wondered how others had avoided being matched.

• Xi Xiu returned to the dormitory unsettled after speaking with Qing Zhixun, and A Xian comforted her with Ebony.
• Xi Xiu told A Xian that Qing Zhixun had offered too many exaggerated compliments, while A Xian encouraged her to give the match a chance.
• Ebony used its vines to make tiny figures resembling Xi Xiu and imagined her having children, delighting A Xian and embarrassing Xi Xiu.
• Xi Xiu told A Xian she would reconsider the matter after their mission, and A Xian promised to support her decision.
• Xi Xiu wondered how Wei Lanshan and Marshal Xu Jiusong had avoided matching, and considered asking Li Zhengfeng for advice.

Xi Xiu and A Xian prepared their Starship for a covert mission to identify unknown IDs at Yuanri’s barren border. After inspecting the ship and reviewing the plan, they set out for the space base, where Xi Xiu left the story ready to depart with her team the next morning.

• Flora said Polk had treated her considerately during their simulations, while He Yinlei’s happiness showed that Xie Yahong had passed her assessment too.
• Xi Xiu checked supplies and the Starship as she prepared to lead the expedition, with A Xian joining her and Flora and He Yinlei traveling with the main force.
• Qing Zhixun watched Xi Xiu depart for the starport and resolved to support her ambitions, while Qing Sansui sought permission to upgrade its programming.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian inspected the Starship and its equipment, then reviewed the plan to travel to Yuanri’s border and pose as merchants.
• Xi Xiu learned that the mission site was barren and that the unknown invading IDs appeared identical to the local race.

Xi Xiu studied the Belka People and the gaps in their outdated records before leading a limited force to investigate their distress call. The Belka People allowed only one thousand Alliance personnel to land, leaving Xi Xiu to prepare for a cautious mission with much about the planet still unknown.

• Xi Xiu reviewed Qing Zhixun’s mission materials and noted that the Belka People’s distress request and records contained unexplained gaps.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian discussed the Belka People’s unusual beauty, formidable Mental Power, and rumored ability to grow wings under extreme conditions.
• Xi Xiu discovered that Belka had cut off contact with the Alliance after Li Zhengfeng’s death, leaving no records of the past five hundred years or its new generation.
• A Xian explained that the Belka People were generally trustworthy but usually fought for themselves, suggesting their urgent request was unusual.
• Qing Zhixun secured permission for one thousand garrison personnel to land, and Xi Xiu selected the force while assigning Wang Zichun to command the Starship’s defenses.
• Xi Xiu memorized the available records and reread Wu Jingyang’s Anvile descriptions of the Belka People.

Xi Xiu prepared her soldiers and plans for the mission to Belka, using Qing Zhixun’s historical records to study the species and its customs. As the starship reached the barren planet, she remained wary that the Belka People’s request for aid concealed something unusual.

• Qing Zhixun sent Xi Xiu records about the Jingsu aristocratic families’ views of the Belka species and its former leaders, prompting her to develop additional contingency plans.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian met with the team captains, chose the soldiers who would go to Belka’s surface, and issued precautions and backup identity data.
• Xi Xiu’s starship departed the port and headed into space toward Belka.
• Xi Xiu told A Xian she had lived in a world where humans had only reached their Homeworld’s satellite, and A Xian realized the gap between their worlds exceeded ten thousand years.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian studied Belka’s barren surface and agreed to stay vigilant until they could verify the Belka People’s account.

Xi Xiu and A Xian arrived on Belka and learned from Elisa Belsha that the planet had been isolated for five hundred years after an unknown creature began copying its people’s genes. Belsha revealed that Belka’s leader had been replaced and its communications sabotaged, leaving the source of the threat unresolved.

• Xi Xiu’s team reached Belka, and Elisa Belsha allowed only Xi Xiu and a few subordinates to land so she could verify them in person.
• Belsha tested Xi Xiu with an ore-like object that glowed green, prompting A Xian to attack Belsha before Xi Xiu calmed her.
• Belsha explained that a creature could replicate Belkans’ appearance and genetic information, forcing the population to live underground in fear.
• Xi Xiu asked why Belka had not sought Alliance support, and Belsha said the leader had tried to contact the Nine-Star Marshal about five hundred years earlier.
• Belsha revealed that the leader had already been secretly replaced and that Belka’s communications had been cut off and redirected; they discovered the deception after warriors who left for the First Military Academy never returned.

Xi Xiu learned that parasitic creatures had nearly wiped out the Belka People and that Belsha’s father had sent her and other young people to seize the starport and seek help. She began investigating the threat and planned a search of the Belka People’s former home.

• Belsha explained that her father discovered the Belka People were being replaced by creatures that copied the dead, and sent her and other gifted youths to take control of the starport and contact the garrison.
• Belsha said most surviving adults were too badly injured to fight, while the young people had been spared because they were raised in captivity and had no knowledge of the outside world.
• Xi Xiu learned the creatures could parasitize someone only after death, studied Belsha’s drawing, and found a similar species in the Alliance database that feared light.
• Xi Xiu sent the information to Qing Zhixun, Wei Lanshan, and Wu Jingyang, then dispatched robotic reconnaissance across Belka’s Northern Hemisphere.
• Xi Xiu asked Belsha to send companions with a team searching the place where the Belka People had lived before their leader moved them north five hundred years earlier.

Xi Xiu and the garrison prepared to rescue the Belka People held underground by Parasites, while Elisa revealed how few survivors remained. Disguised as Elisa and her companions, Xi Xiu’s team descended into the enemy’s underground habitat, where they found an old but thriving ecosystem.

• Xi Xiu analyzed Belsha’s Discrimination Instrument, arranged for technicians to reproduce it, and coordinated defenses and reconnaissance with Wang Zichun.
• Xi Xiu organized the rescue team, ordered strict monitoring and safeguards, and sent ten fighters toward the Northern Hemisphere while Qiu Shaorong salvaged readable records in the south.
• Belsha revealed that her true name was Elisa and that her father estimated fewer than ten thousand Belka People remained, including the five hundred she had led away.
• Xi Xiu’s group reached the cave entrance, disguised themselves as Elisa’s people, and agreed that Elisa would guide them inside while the others waited on the surface.
• Elisa activated the underground lift and led Xi Xiu, A Xian, and the others two thousand meters down to a lush habitat with an old ecological system and neglected equipment.

Elisa returned to the Parasites’ underground city with Xi Xiu and the others, using a cover story to reach her father, Andra Belsha. They planned to strike at night, knowing they had at most twelve hours before the Parasites’ unseen controller responded.

• Elisa explained that Belka’s ancestors had planted the abandoned underground garden and led the group toward the Underground City on a slide car.
• Xi Xiu coached Elisa to claim that strangers had taken over the Starship sent to collect her, and the group passed the Parasites’ tunnel inspection.
• Elisa gave the Parasites a false account of the Starship and drew its emblem, while Flora marked a Belka person with identifying substance for the coming fight.
• Elisa reunited with Andra and pretended that she had returned because the outside world frightened her, while Xi Xiu and the others concealed their identities.
• Andra invited the group to stay for dinner, and the chapter revealed that the Parasites had killed Belka People to feed newly created Belka People.

Andra helped Xi Xiu and her team prepare to free the Belka People and destroy the Parasites controlling them. As the rescue operation began at two in the morning, Wu Yuan and Qi Mang encountered fierce resistance inside the Parasites’ nest.

• Andra explained how the Parasites kept the Belka People captive and why he had risked his life to help Elisa and the children leave.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian helped Elisa prepare a meal while Elisa answered the Parasites’ questions without raising suspicion.
• Xi Xiu outlined a plan to identify the Parasites, evacuate the real Belka People, and draw the Parasites into battle.
• Andra agreed to warn the Belka People to leave lights on in their homes after they fell asleep.
• At two in the morning, Xi Xiu sent Wu Yuan and Qi Mang with the robots into the deeper tunnels, where the Parasites discovered them and attacked.

Xi Xiu and the soldiers fought the Parasites while evacuating screened Belka People from the underground nest. Elisa chose to stay with Xi Xiu and learn to fight, and the chapter left Xi Xiu and A Xian pushing deeper into the nest as Elisa watched their strength in awe.

• Wu Yuan struggled to subdue the Parasites, whose soft, flexible bodies resisted ordinary attacks, so Xi Xiu revised the battle plan.
• Xi Xiu ordered Su Jinbao and Hu Yingyi to take screened Belka People to the surface, knocking out those who refused to leave and handing them over to Tarasha for quarantine.
• Elisa refused to leave with Andra and the others, so Xi Xiu gave her mecha armor and brought her along into the nest.
• Xi Xiu and A Xian fought their way through the Parasites, and Xi Xiu captured one alive in a containment vessel.
• Elisa watched Xi Xiu and A Xian fight at astonishing speed and wondered whether she could reach their level if she worked hard.

Xi Xiu and the others fought through the Belka underground nest, trying to capture the Parasites alive and uncover their memories. They discovered that the Parasite leader was reproducing and extracted its true body, but the identity of whoever brought the creatures to Belka remained unknown.

• A Xian admitted Xi Xiu was more talented than she was, while Xi Xiu hoped she could become stronger than her current self.
• Xi Xiu asked the warriors to capture the Parasites alive so they might recover their memories, and Wu Jingyang said success would depend on luck.
• Qing Zhixun watched the battle footage and ordered Qing Sansui to gather and organize information about the Belka People.
• Xi Xiu sent Wu Yuan and Qi Mang to isolate the immature Parasites while Leopard prepared weapons for an exit passage.
• He Yinlei noticed the Parasite leader appeared to be giving birth, and Xi Xiu had the team brighten their devices and activate a barrier.
• Ebony restrained the leader and pulled its true body from its Belka host, leaving the group wondering who had brought the Parasites to Belka.

Xi Xiu and her team defeated the Parasites beneath Belka and rescued the Belka People, then prepared to relocate them while the Alliance investigated the planet. Elisa and Andra tried to convince their tribe of the truth, but some still doubted them, leaving the Belka People divided as they prepared to leave.

• Xi Xiu's team finished destroying the Parasites and their eggs, while Tarasha and Yang Jiuqing cleaned and cared for the rescued Belka People.
• Xi Xiu told Elisa that the Alliance would take over Belka until it was confirmed safe, and Elisa agreed to follow their arrangements.
• A Xian showed the Belka People footage of the Parasites emerging from their supposed tribespeople, challenging them to reconsider their belief that they belonged underground.
• Qing Zhixun ordered Xi Xiu's team to take the Belka People to a transit planet and send the captured Parasites to an experimental base.
• Andra and Elisa explained their suspicions to the tribe, but a stubborn Belka accused the Alliance of staging the events to seize Belka's wealth.
• Andra declared that he and Elisa would leave with the Alliance soldiers, while the young Belka People stood with them.

The older Belka People agreed to leave with the garrison, though some still distrusted the Alliance and questioned its intentions. Xi Xiu outlined the garrison’s plan and warned Elisa about Belka’s internal conflicts, leaving Elisa resolved to grow stronger and guide her people.

• Andra’s challenge led the older Belka People to reconsider their past and agree to leave with the garrison.
• Elisa and Andra warned Xi Xiu that some of their people might not truly trust the garrison.
• Xi Xiu told the Belka People they would be taken to a transfer planet for supplies, safety, and medical care, while their homeland’s recovered items went to a research institute.
• A Belka person accused the garrison of abandoning them, but Xi Xiu explained the decision and offered to let them follow the research process.
• Xi Xiu warned Elisa about Belka’s future internal disputes and explained that strength also came from knowledge, perspective, and planning.
• Elisa decided to become stronger so she could handle Belka’s conflicts.

Xi Xiu brought the Belka People to a transfer planet for medical examinations and decontamination while the young Belka began imagining a future beyond captivity. The chapter ended with Xi Xiu and her warriors cleansing themselves in space as they shared their thoughts over squad comms.

• Xi Xiu let Elisa stay with her and warned that the Belka People needed to resolve their clan’s internal affairs and learn to survive independently.
• Xi Xiu arranged transport to a transfer planet, and the young Belka watched the stars and discussed their ancestors’ lost power.
• Xi Xiu’s group designated a temporary foothold and arranged medical examinations because the Belka People might carry Parasite eggs and could not endure exposure to space or intense sunlight.
• Elisa led Renees, Erno, and the others to the doctors, determined to study and become a leader for the Belka People.
• Xi Xiu, A Xian, Ebony, and the other warriors floated in space to remove contaminants while sharing their experiences over squad comms.

Xi Xiu returned to the garrison after the Belka rescue, arranged for the captured Parasites to be delivered to a research institute, and learned that Elisa and the other young Belka People had no Parasite eggs in their bodies. She discussed Belka’s uncertain future with Elisa, then agreed to meet Andra and the older Belka People.

• Xi Xiu and the 909 members joked together on their return, and their conversation turned to their marriage compatibility results.
• Xi Xiu assigned Qiu Shaorong, Tarasha, Yang Jiuqing, and other soldiers to escort the Parasite samples to the research institute.
• Elisa told Xi Xiu that she and the other young Belka People had tested negative for Parasite eggs, then asked to train with her.
• Xi Xiu told Elisa that Belka’s recovery could not be determined until the garrison assessed the planet and its environmental damage.
• Elisa brought Xi Xiu and A Xian to meet her father, Andra, and more than thirty older Belka People.

Xi Xiu welcomed Andra and the other Belka People and learned how Andra had secretly prepared Elisa and the young Belka to escape the underground and fight the Parasites. Andra planned to help the newly arrived Belka settle in and choose a new leader, while Xi Xiu answered his questions about the Alliance.

• Xi Xiu accepted Andra's apology for the Belka People who had spoken out of turn and explained the Alliance's situation to them.
• Andra recalled how the Parasites had executed his partner, driving him to resist them and ensure Elisa would not meet the same fate.
• After discovering the Parasites' conspiracy, Andra devised a plan to send the young Belka to the surface, where they secretly trained and attacked the Parasites at the spaceport.
• Andra explained that the Belka who had questioned the garrison was the son of the current Parasite leader, though he probably knew nothing about the Parasites beforehand.
• Xi Xiu urged the Belka to follow local rules and cooperate with doctors, while Andra said they would choose a new leader and asked her about the Alliance.