Three days later.
Chun Prefecture.
The sky was gray, and heavy snow covered the skies above Chun Prefecture like clouds.
The unfinished supercity stood firm amid the wind and snow.
Today, Chun Prefecture was unusually quiet, unusually mournful.
Before the monument to loyalty and righteousness outside the city.
A small funeral procession trudged through the snow, leaving footprints of varying depths.
Heavy snow soon buried their footprints, erasing the path they had come by along with them.
There were few people in the procession, only a dozen or so, looking so small in the barren snowfield.
Yixiu walked at the head of the procession with a wooden box in his hands, tears glistening in his eyes.
There was no photograph of the deceased on the box, only four large characters simply carved into it: "Loyalty and righteousness for all eternity."
Huang Yiyi followed Yixiu with reddened eyes, the words that man had spoken to her echoing endlessly in her heart: "I can't guarantee he'll live, but I'll definitely die before he does."
He had done it.
Yixiu had returned.
But he had forever turned into starlight, drifting above the Dragon Kingdom.
Crunch.
The group stopped before a fresh grave.
It was Big Bear's grave, and another shallow pit had already been dug beside it.
Neither grave had a headstone, nor did they need one.
Because in life, they could not show themselves, and in death, they could leave no names.
Click.
The wooden box slowly opened.
Inside lay a worn military overcoat.
Instructor had died in battle without even leaving a body behind. This coat was proof that he had been here, and the only keepsake he had left his brothers.
Yixiu gently stroked the coat, tears falling.
"Maybe it's better that you're gone. You spent your whole life exhausted...