The instant his fingertip brushed against the hilt of the short blade, Qin Ye, the interstellar scavenger, felt a sudden surge of blue-purple data streaming through his neural interface 💥—an unexpected treasure he had unearthed amidst the desolate wreckage of the “River of the Dead-7” battlecruiser. The ancient stellar script etched into the blade’s surface unfurled in his retinal projection, revealing it to be an official weapon of the long-lost “Iron Dome Legion.” Legend has it that this short blade was forged from fragments of a supernova’s core, its razor-sharp edge capable of slicing through warped spatial folds and once tearing apart the composite chitinous exoskeletons of the insectoid swarm during the Third Insect Invasion. Yet just as he reached to stow the blade in his diamagnetic backpack, the grotesque, devouring motifs on the hilt flared with a deep crimson aura 🔴, triggering a catastrophic malfunction in the ship’s gravity system. From the depths of a distant, abandoned garrison module came low-frequency tremors unlike anything human or insectoid—sounds that seemed to herald the awakening of some dormant entity, roused by the blade’s star-stone energy…