Yang Yi had only just returned to the Nightmare Star when he ran into Zhao Tie, who was running toward it.
Zhao Tie froze at the sight of Yang Yi. His size had changed so much, after all, but his unchanged features still allowed Zhao Tie to recognize him. A look of wild joy spread across his face, and he raised his hand high in greeting.
"Brother Yang!!!"
He flew straight up, flames jetting from his cybernetic palms, crossed the hundred-odd meters between them, and landed steadily on the Nightmare Star's deck.
At the same time, Cui Bisi and Cui Xiya heard the commotion and emerged from the Nightmare Star Captain's Quarters, where they saw Yang Yi and Su Na following close behind him.
But there was someone else as well, only slightly taller than Cui Bisi when she used the Light Fairy Scepter. Her eyes were bright red, and her expression remained stunned as she followed Yang Yi aboard the Nightmare Star. She was Dara, who had escaped from the Moon Festival.
After Yang Yi's explanation, she finally understood what was going on with the woman named Lada, and a look of horror settled over her face.
"Mirror Island... the Mirror of Infinite Possibilities. So that's how it was. Someone actually managed to claim it."
She could hardly believe it. Like a country bumpkin, she was logging into the Player Forum, browsing information and experiencing a way of communicating entirely different from that of her batch of players.
After leaving the Moon Festival, Dara had quickly reconnected to the system-or, more precisely, connected to the current version of the system. Her template had been updated, and she had regained her player status.
Only her ship was gone. So much time had passed, after all, and neither the system nor