The three fairies spoke with such righteous certainty that Hao Ren did not react for a moment...
"We don't know the way back! We were swept into a spatial turbulence back then, and then drifted all the way here!" "The starship's navigation computer broke ages ago—and even when it wasn't broken, we didn't know how to use it." "That's nonsense. We all know how to use it. You're the only one who doesn't!" "Anyway, we just don't know where the battlefield is anymore."
The three fairies clamored over one another. Hao Ren had now more or less adapted to the speech patterns of these tiny creatures, so he could actually sift through a mountain of irrelevant information and organize the useful parts. This time, the clue was simple—
The Planetary Fortress where the fairies lived had suffered a massive explosion on the battlefield. The spatial turbulence generated by the blast had hurled this enormous celestial ruin into the distant reaches of space, and the starship's navigation computer had been severely damaged in the process. Now, this ruin had no propulsion and no navigation. It wandered through the universe entirely by drifting, so the fairies had no idea how to return to their homeland.
Although they had been born from Resonance Crystals, they themselves apparently lacked the ability to find their homeworld by tracing the resonance signals.
But Hao Ren quickly thought of something else. "Then how did those people who attacked you before find you?"
"The bad guys can track the resonance signals!" The smallest of the three fairies hopped around in front of Hao Ren. Her hair crackled with arcs of electricity from excitement, and even her voice seemed to discharge sparks. "They wanted to destroy the crystals—to destroy the hub created by the Goddess!"
Hao Ren heard a