The instant his fingertip brushed against that streak of icy blue, the radiation alarm let out a piercing screech🔊. Lin Ye jerked his hand back, only to see the short dagger embedded in the alloy bulkhead emitting a faint, cold glow, while the radiation-induced crystallization on the bulkhead was melting away before his very eyes💫. As the “Mad Wolf”—the most reckless of interstellar scavengers—he had never witnessed anything like it: in this “Death Nebula Belt” abandoned by the Federation, every piece of metal would be corroded by radiation into scrap—yet this blue dagger remained perfectly intact.

With great effort, he pried open the bulkhead; the moment he gripped the hilt, his fingertips felt a fine, rapid tremor, and a flood of fragmented images suddenly surged into his mind: Marines in powered armor locked in fierce combat on the bridge, the blue dagger plunging straight through the core of a bio-mechanical unit, the final command issued just before the starship detonated… Lin Ye’s whole body turned ice-cold. He knew it wasn’t an illusion—this was the standard-issue weapon of the “79th Starship Marine Task Force,” a unit that had vanished without a trace ten years ago during the “Insect Nest Suppression Campaign”😱.

Suddenly, the sound of metal boots crunching over gravel echoed behind him—the infamous “Black Crow” space pirates of the Nebula Belt. Lin Ye tightened his grip on the blue dagger; the tremor in the hilt intensified abruptly, and a pale-blue energy blade⚡ began to shimmer along the blade. Before the pirate could even fire his laser rifle, the blast wave generated by the dagger’s strike sent him sprawling to the ground. When he had finally dispatched the last pirate, the dagger suddenly slipped from his grasp, hovering midair and pointing toward a hidden door deep within the starship🔦. After a brief hesitation, Lin Ye followed it. Inside the cryo-chamber beyond the door lay the commander of the 79th Task Force—his father—whose hilt bore the very symbol he had seen since childhood: a wild wolf🐺 clutching a dagger in its jaws.