Lin Ye suddenly yanked the Xuan Yin Cang Lang Xiaoyue Yin-Yang Tactical Dagger from the interstellar pirate’s carotid artery 🩸. Warm blood splattered onto his oil-stained tactical mask, while the Cang Lang claw imprint on the dagger’s handle glimmered with an eerie silver sheen under the faint glow of his combat armor. He had salvaged this blade from an ancient Huaxia relic site in the post-apocalyptic wasteland; at the time, it was embedded in the chest of a wolf-shaped biomimetic mech, its tail-end Yin-Yang pattern still holding half a fragmented star-map chip 🔌. Three days ago, he received a classified Alliance mission to infiltrate a pirate-held asteroid base and retrieve a stolen quantum key. But when he finally located the key, he discovered that its encryption perfectly matched the纹路 etched into the blade’s chip. Suddenly, the roar of a mech engine erupted behind him. Lin Ye turned to see the very wolf-shaped mech—once slated for scrapping—standing beneath the base’s domed ceiling, its blue eye lights mirroring the dagger’s silvery gleam in the distance 🐺. At that moment, his tactical terminal abruptly displayed an encrypted message: “Holder, return to base.”