Before her stretched the vast blackness of space, silent as a dead wilderness.
The central planet of the Beichen Empire—Beichen Star—was covered in alloy metal and silver light screens.
Here, the endless starlight was drowned out by seas of artificial lights.
Countless quantum satellites and space fortresses formed an interwoven three-dimensional defense network. Even the path of a meteor would be analyzed in real time.
A Small Bat-style Fighter Jet, outwardly resembling an ordinary flying vehicle, skimmed along the planet's synchronous orbit and appeared ghostlike in near-orbit.
This was the Small Bat-style Fighter Jet Xia Chujian had taken, having completed its space warp from Southern Cross Star to Beichen Star.
The hatch opened, and a sky-blue mecha figure slid out, like a ray of light at the break of dawn before swiftly sinking back into the darkness of space.
It was Xia Chujian.
She had come to Beichen Star alone, without a sound.
Inside the mecha's communication channel, she was speaking with Huo Yushen.
"Sever my mecha from the Empire Mecha Alliance System, but don't leave behind any traces."
Huo Yushen's deeply magnetic voice sounded inside her fully enclosed helmet. "Received. Ultimate command: erase."
His low voice echoed through the communication channel, then completely cut off the signal between Xia Chujian's mecha and the Empire's entire mecha alliance.
Xia Chujian's Xuan Nu Cyan Obsidian Titanium Mecha entered full stealth mode. Not only did it absorb visible light and most electromagnetic waves, it could not be detected by any electromagnetic device.
She slipped into the atmosphere like a cloud of black mist falling into dark clouds.
The instant she plunged into the high-altitude plasma layer, blazing flames scorched the mecha's outer shell.
Cutting off her connection to the Empire Mecha Alliance System also meant cutting off her connection to Huo Yushen.