Lin Ye’s knuckles pressed against the checkered grip of the blue-crystal short dagger, and the matte texture beneath his fingertips was the only solace he’d found in the Fragmented Star Belt💫. Three years ago, he unearthed this dagger from a sealed compartment in the decommissioned tactical bay of the “River of the Underworld” — at the time, it was encased in anti-corrosion gel, its ice-blue blade still bearing faint traces of residual radiation from a starship nuclear leak. As one of the lowest-ranking scavengers in the Fragmented Star Belt, this dagger was his lifeline: its serrated edge could slice through alloy pipelines, the checkered grip would never slip even in zero gravity, and the loop at the hilt could be attached to a safety tether to secure it to his spacesuit🔧. Last week, while cutting through the armor of a derelict frigate, he unexpectedly discovered a string of microscopically etched codes in a groove on the blade—exclusive identification marks reserved for Alliance forces. He entered the code into his terminal, and the name that popped up on the screen sent a chill down his spine: Lin Xi, his sister who had been missing for five years and former tactical commander of the River of the Underworld. And sure enough, the hull number of the frigate wreck before him was precisely River of the Underworld-7💥. His hand gripping the dagger began to tremble; he wasn’t sure whether to keep digging for the truth or to flee this Fragmented Star Belt that had swallowed his sister, dagger in tow.