Hao Ren felt he should never have expected Raven 12345 to arrange a reliable interstellar journey for him from the start, but Nangong May and Izax clearly did not care about such details. The great demon and the Siren girl quickly picked out their rooms, tossed their luggage inside, and came to Hao Ren to ask about the arrangements. Izax's suggestion was Fight the Landlord—he had just learned how to play...
Hao Ren really did not want to spend his first interstellar journey playing Fight the Landlord, and Nangong May was unwilling as well, so the two of them stared at the Data Terminal. "What is there to do now?"
The Data Terminal connected itself to the cabin's data interface and projected a set of holograms. "Before entering faster-than-light status, you can take a look at the scenery outside the ship. We haven't left the asteroid belt yet. Once we pass through this area, the ship will turn toward open space. Then there'll be nothing to see but darkness."
Hao Ren discovered that the holographic projection showed the scenery outside the ship. The viewing angle seemed to come from a monitor set somewhere on the outer hull. He could see a vast expanse of alloy armor plates spreading across his field of vision like an iron plain, while the Fourth Connecting Port and the Space Station facilities outside it rapidly receded from the edge of that iron plain. Two enormous beams of light shot from the tower-like spires atop the Fourth Connecting Port and extended parallel to both sides of the ship. The Data Terminal told him they were navigation beams used to guide the ship's course.
"...I thought the asteroid belt would be really dense." Hao Ren stared at the empty darkness at the edge of the image. "Why