Two hundred and ninety-seven years ago.
Extreme Domain outskirts, unexplored region.
In the dimly lit starry sky, a flamboyantly designed spaceship shut off its reverse thrusters and slowly came to a stop.
Inside the ship, Ilya held a basin-sized item and turned back to confirm with Sun Ying once more.
"Guest, are you sure you want to stop here?"
"From my experience, this area is a genuine dead zone of the universe."
"Not only are its mineral resources poor, but even starry-sky creatures rarely venture here."
"Without transportation like a spaceship or an interstellar teleportation array, it would be utterly impossible for ordinary Players to return to civilization from here by flying alone."
"You want me to dock the ship here..."
At that point, Ilya stopped herself, not daring to continue.
That was right.
By now, Ilya's regret had reached its peak!
Throughout the journey, everyone had remained silent, making the atmosphere inside the cabin extremely tense.
That only worsened her already unsettled mood. The closer they got to their destination, the more she felt that something major might happen.
On top of that, Sun Ying had not given her a precise location at all, merely saying vaguely, "Try to head somewhere safe and deserted."
The unknown bred Fear, making the wandering merchant unable to stop her thoughts from running wild.
And the unfinished sentence she had swallowed earlier was precisely her suspicion that Sun Ying and the others might intend to rob and murder a lowly wandering merchant like her.
She had thought the Spirit Clan Wild Hunt across from her would immediately tear off her disguise and reveal her vicious true colors.
Instead, the other party merely replied faintly.
"What? Is your service a one-way trip? You'll bring us here, but you won't take us back?"
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