Jarilo-VI, Belobog.
Bai Heng pulled up all available data on the planet and reviewed the traces left behind by the Nameless of the Astral Express.
The records showed that this planet had lost contact with the Interastral Peace Corporation seven hundred years before the Stellaron and the Antimatter Legion arrived.
The Stellaron, the cancer of all worlds, had also severed the star rails laid by Aki-Vehri, leaving the planet completely forgotten.
Later, it seemed that someone had struck a deal with the Stellaron, freezing the Antimatter Legion's Voidrangers at the cost of a cold wave sweeping across the entire planet.
Unfortunately, the Stellaron had brought not only the cold wave, but also the emergence of Fragmentum.
The Fragmentum creatures born within had waged a seven-hundred-year struggle against Belobog.
Moreover, the Fragmentum had continued to spread and expand over those seven centuries. If not for the Astral Express's intervention, this planet would inevitably have perished because of it.
Yet of all that information, what left the deepest impression on Bai Heng—
was a certain historian from the Astral Society, who had remarked, "A godforsaken planet where people wake up every morning wondering whether the Fragmentum has crept into their beds."
It was somewhat disrespectful, but direct enough.
Still, Bai Heng decided he would see the actual situation for himself.
Forty-eight System Hours later.
Bai Heng had arrived outside Jarilo-VI.
From the observation window of the starship, he could take in the planet's full appearance.
It was a pale white world. Clearly, the cold wave had yet to recede.
"Retrieve the planet's surface temperature."
Holding a cup of coffee, Bai Heng ordered the shipboard terminal to scan the planet's overall environment.
Topaz had arrived a day ahead of him.
She should already have begun her debt collection work by now.
Bai