Xu Yi strained to lift his head, but all he could see was an enormous shadow completely covering the sky above him, blocking out even the sunlight. Helplessly, he said, "Hey, Cassandra, could you turn into human form first? Talking to you like this is going to break my neck sooner or later."
"Oh..."
A phantom shimmered, and the enormous shadow instantly vanished, replaced by a human girl standing beside Xu Yi. She was Cassandra of the Red Dragon Race, Akali's friend and the first of her kind to come to the Sains Continent and appear before Xu Yi.
"You think space is fun?" Xu Yi gave Cassandra a puzzled look. "Apart from stars everywhere, most of it is empty space with nothing in it. What's so fun about that?"
"You know what space is like?" Cassandra blinked, then understood. "Oh, your Xinfei Merchant Guild launched an artificial satellite, so you know what space looks like. But President Xu, there's more to space than that. You have to fly up there and experience it yourself to know how interesting it is."
"What exactly is so interesting about it?" Xu Yi was even more baffled.
Although he had never had the chance to experience space travel on Earth, he had seen countless views of space in news reports and documentaries. He hardly thought it looked interesting.
"I can fly around however I like without worrying about crashing into anything. That's already fun enough!" Cassandra replied with complete confidence. "And flying in space is easier. I don't even have to flap my wings, and I can go much faster than in the sky. It's so exciting!"
"Obviously. There's no air in space, so flapping your wings wouldn't help anyway." Xu Yi rolled his eyes at her. "Come to think of it, though,