Words

Two Consecutive

Inside the Snowflake Radiance's infirmary, Captain Xueying lay on a bed with his wounds hastily treated, struggling to sit up.

But he was advanced in age, and the sudden double blow to his mind and body had left him weak despite having his wounds treated.

"I'm sorry, everyone."

Captain Xueying lay on the bed, his once-spirited expression now somewhat haggard. Looking at the crew beside him, he had a crystalline glimmer in the corners of his eyes.

He had applied his previous experiences with outside civilizations to the Takepeng Civilization, leading himself to make the wrong judgment.

As a result, he had implicated everyone, the Snowflake Radiance, and perhaps even the entire 27th Immigration Fleet.

The power core had already been on the verge of shutting down. Without the Snowflake Radiance, the fleet's main force, to contribute, it probably could not hold out for much longer.

They had spent so much time escorting the fleet back precisely so they could resolve the problems that came afterward. But now, not only had the problems remained unsolved, the crucial Snowflake Radiance had also been detained.

Compared with that, his own life did not matter.

"Captain, this wasn't your fault at all. You were thinking of the bigger picture."

"Captain, since we all came aboard this ship, we've already thrown caution to the wind."

"It's just infuriating that we can't take the Snowflake Radiance back."

"Ah, we were too greedy..."

"..."

The crew members chattered as they tried to console him. Captain Xueying could not help sighing. They had braved powerful radiation that even protective suits could not block, disregarding their own safety to come aboard the Snowflake Radiance and work.

Everyone present had long since put their own lives aside.

But the more they did so, the more the guilt