Her pale pink eyes, like the sunset, shimmered with the light of the full moon reflected in the water. Anyone who saw them would understand the cool indifference she exuded that day.
And in those eyes, what one could see was a silent, vacuum ocean beyond the observation window, with a lifeless, icy planet in the distance radiating white information from its horizon.
Of course, in front of these reflections, she pressed a small wooden sword against the observation window. She looked at the small sword with the character "Qing" on it against this background with a sense of nostalgia.
"What are you thinking about, our future Sword Master?"
A voice, clearly tinged with amusement yet also with concern, rang in her ear, breaking the chill and loneliness. She put the wooden sword into her inner robe and looked back to see a gray-haired woman wearing flowing cloud armor approaching.
Her eyes, black and white, were bright and lively like a fox's. A smile always played at the corners of her mouth. Her long hair was braided into a long whip, neat and tidy. An antique-style black jade gourd hung at her waist, and she exuded a faint fragrance of peaches.
"I'm watching outside, just in case a hidden enemy appears, Tao Yao."
The voice that answered was not as cold as the speaker's long hair, which flowed like moonlight; she replied with a hint of seriousness and nervousness.
"And... don't tease me about the hilt of the sword. That's my dream, but I'm still far from it. Saying it now would just be a joke."
Her exposed ears were slightly flushed, and she was clearly embarrassed by her companion's words.
"Hehe, shouldn't dreams be shared and used to motivate us? I'm just trying to encourage our little swordsman."
"Besides, you don't need to be so vigilant. The Star Chariot's celestial and terrestrial audio-visual system is still intact, even more accurate than eyes. And what can you possibly see through this little window? Let me take a look!"
Knowing something was amiss, Tao Yao went over to take a look, but there was nothing interesting to see. In the vast sea of stars, apart from the dark background that was impossible to see clearly and the floating planets, there was nothing else.
"It is useful, after all, as the teacher said, technology is ultimately just an external thing, and in the end, people have to believe in themselves."
"In past cases, there have been instances where the enemy used a shielding system and then bombarded the starship at close range."
She replied earnestly, but all she got in return was Tao Yao's kneading. Physically, Tao Yao was a woman in her twenties, while she was a girl of fifteen or sixteen.
However, they all share the same movement technique, which belongs to the Cloud Cavalry of the Immortal Ship. Of course, they are not like the Spring Rainbow Guard, which is a team with a specific title and organization.
"Alright, Tao Yao, stop spreading your indecent habits. She hasn't been on many missions, so she can't pick up your bad habits."
"Remember, we must not take this mission lightly, after all, our target is the whereabouts of the new apostle of the plague calamity."
The playful banter was quickly stopped by a third person, also a woman, but unlike the other two, she had distinct fox ears and a fox tail. She wore the same flowing cloud-patterned soft armor, but with added blue dyeing and patterns. Her mature and steady demeanor indicated her leadership position.
"How is this leading someone astray, Lord Chaoyi... Alright, alright, I'll be serious."
Tao Yao raised her hands in surrender, while Jing Liu, whom she had ravaged, regained his aloof demeanor, becoming serious and earnest.
"This is an order, not a reminder, Tao Yao. You need to understand the seriousness of this."
Chao Yi sighed as she looked at Tao Yao, who clearly didn't take it seriously. She understood why Tao Yao was like this; it was just a rumor, the truth of which was unknown, because the target was supposed to be a target.
Originally, they were just one of the many cloud rider squads in the Immortal Ship Luofu, tasked with scanning the already cleaned-up bountiful planet according to their mission.
Then, during the search, they tracked down the remaining twenty people of the Abundance Scum who had escaped in a spaceship, and learned from the eavesdropping that they were preparing to follow the footsteps of a new Abundance Messenger.
They were terrified at that time. They not only replied to the fairy boat with their coordinates, but also followed it without fear of death in an attempt to find clues.
And what was the result? After drifting for three years, they saw nothing, and during the continuous wiretapping, the other side even suspected that they were just imagining things because they had nowhere else to turn.
When the results came out, most of the team believed that they could destroy the enemy directly, since the enemy's ship was inferior to their starship in both performance and weaponry.
However, Xianzhou continued to track the news until the other party died and it was confirmed that the news was false. All supplies would be arranged in their own way. Since it concerned the Envoy of Abundance, Xianzhou felt that it was better to believe it than not to believe it.
"Captain Nest, new information has arrived! The enemy seems to be on the verge of collapse!"
Just then, an armored soldier wielding a Guan Dao (a type of halberd) came over and reported news that the journey was about to come to an end.
Three long years, a period of time that would normally have no scale compared to life, but to advance and track in this desolate vacuum of space, under the pressure of death at any moment... it truly felt like being on the edge of a black hole.
Chao Yi, Tao Yao, and Jing Liu immediately rushed to the main control room of the Star Chariot, where the space-time audio-visual system was also broadcasting the information about the distant spaceship.
“Jiqi, you’re a liar! It’s been three years, a full three years! For three whole years, I’ve been far from Mother Earth Antara’s care, following the direction you’re pointing. You said there’s a divine messenger here called Xuanpin, but why haven’t we found her after all this time?”
"This is a test of our sincerity, Poison Crow. Our sins are too heavy, our mistakes are too deep. Only by removing our blood-stained claws and teeth, suppressing the killing in our hearts, and returning to the highest path of goodness and our natural state of mind, can we achieve true redemption."
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