"You're awake?" The moment Hanxing opened his eyes, Firefly's face appeared before him. "Who are you?" Hanxing asked in confusion. Firefly looked alarmed. "You've lost your memory again?"
"Just kidding. I'm fine." Seeing Firefly's alarmed face, Hanxing smiled. "You're so worried about me. Could it be that you..." "Why are you just like Silver Wolf? I'm only doing this to thank you for curing me." A blush flashed across Firefly's face, and she fell silent.
"How is he? Is he awake?" Watching the familiar scene unfold, Kafka smiled helplessly. Hanxing nodded. "So, what exactly is my mission?"
"Oh, you're so impatient." Kafka looked at Hanxing with a smile and spoke slowly. "Go to Jarilo-VI and retrieve the Stellaron that's gone out of control."
"That really does suit our team's name," Hanxing joked. "But what exactly is a Stellaron?"
"I forgot you don't know anything about this world." Kafka slapped her forehead. "I've already uploaded knowledge about this world into your phone's knowledge base. You can take it out and look whenever you need to."
"A phone... I don't know how to use this thing yet," Hanxing said helplessly. Kafka turned to Silver Wolf, who was standing nearby. "Can you teach him?"
"In the end, it's up to me." Silver Wolf stretched and walked over to Hanxing. "Do you want the easy tutorial or the hard one?" Hanxing smiled. "The easy one. I probably wouldn't understand the hard one."
"How boring." Silver Wolf glanced at Hanxing and began teaching him how to use the phone in earnest...
"Then it's time we set off too," Blade said to Kafka from a distance. "Why are you in such a hurry too? Do you want to go to jail that badly?" Kafka teased. "This is all what Elio said. The future it speaks of is the best future." "Oh, don't be so serious. We'll head over once Hanxing gets off the ship."
"It already has Spatial Slash, so doesn't this blade have any other spatial abilities?" Hanxing looked at the embroidered spring saber in his hand, his head aching. "Why not try it and find out?" Silver Wolf suggested. She immediately got her hands on the sheathed saber and drew it.
"Don't!" It was too late to stop her. The embroidered spring saber came all the way out of its sheath, and a spatial rift appeared, leading who knew where.
"So that's how it works..." Realization dawned on Hanxing. He made a horizontal slash and a vertical slash, and a red spatial gate appeared in the air.
"Although I'm grateful you helped me find a new skill," Hanxing said, his tone turning a little more serious, "you'd better not touch this blade. I don't know what other large-scale destructive skills it might have."
"All right, all right. Honestly..." Silver Wolf pursed her lips and turned to leave.
"Firefly, wait!" Hanxing turned back to look at Firefly one last time. "Are you completely better?" Firefly smiled. "Of course. I don't even need to wear my armor here now."
Looking at Firefly in her light green short dress, Hanxing was captivated by her eyes, which seemed to hold the stars. "I couldn't have imagined before that you were so beautiful-" Firefly's face turned half red, and she forced herself to remain calm. "Can I take that to mean those words carry some special feelings?"
"Interpret it however you like." Hanxing smiled and said no more.
"By the way, I asked someone to get some local currency to keep you from being unable to get by there." Kafka came over again and pressed a handful of coins into Hanxing's hand, then added, "This planet has been cut off from the outside world for a long time because of the Stellaron disaster, so it's best not to disrupt their daily lives."
"Okay." What Kafka meant was that he shouldn't use any major skills and should try to take the Stellaron without anyone noticing.
Kafka paused. "Next, I have a personal request-" A photo then appeared on Hanxing's phone. "If the situation becomes critical, please help protect him." The image showed a gray-haired man dressed in yellow and black.
"Why do you care so much about him?" Hanxing asked. Kafka paused. "Because, in a way, I'm his mother. He was also once our comrade-in-arms and family."
"Once...?" Hanxing asked again. "Why once?" Kafka replied, "It's because of Elio's destiny. That's all I can say." Hanxing said no more and agreed to Kafka's personal request.
"Wait a little longer. I have something for you." Silver Wolf came over too, holding something that looked like a chip, and stuck it on the back of Hanxing's head. "This is a Synesthesia Beacon. It can turn foreign speech you don't understand into speech you can understand. Not every planet speaks the universal language, after all, and it'll help with your future missions too."
"Then I'm off!" Hanxing opened a spatial gate. On the other side was a plain covered in ice and snow.