"My name is Taren."
"Talon... Talon Navy Military Supplies Transport Unit No. 2412, captain of transport ship No. 21232."
"Twenty years ago, I received a mission to test the latest Emergency Evasion Device. It was designed to instantly initiate a jump out of the battlefield when a ship was at an extreme disadvantage in Void War, preventing the loss of the vessel. But after my transport ship used the device, the entire ship jumped into a place we did not know."
"We were attacked by unknown creatures. All of us escaped in lifeboats."
Captain Taren sat before the recorder, digging desperately through everything in his mind. He forced himself to remember every detail. It was not entirely for the sake of leaving a record, but to fight something.
Taren could sense that something existed around him, and that he was fighting it on the level of will.
From his past experiences, Taren had concluded that the only way was to force himself to think, force himself to remain rational, force himself to recall who he was and what he had experienced. Only then could he avoid losing his memories and sanity.
Everything contained in those four sentences was all he could remember now.
"I... we... transport ship..."
When Taren tried to remember more, he could not utter another word. In the end, he could only reach out and turn off the recorder.
Taren was inside a lifeboat. This type of lifeboat contained only one room, roughly fifteen square meters in size. Every other space outside the room was crammed with all kinds of supplies, leaving nowhere even to set a foot.
After living in this narrow little room for twenty years, Taren had learned how to adapt and take care of every aspect of his life here.
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