Shuji, Mo City, it was still a day of endless rain.
A small shuttle, vastly different in style from the local transportation, deftly hovered over the City Lord Mansion and landed on the Immortal Boat Platform after getting clearance.
Luo looked up at the ethereal shield enveloping the building. The endless rain merged into a hazy water curtain on the barrier. Amidst the dense clouds above, a heavy freighter transporting crystal mines (which the locals called 'Immortal Boat') was slowly accelerating.
For some reason, fragments of broken and yellowed images flickered in her mind, bringing back things she thought long forgotten. She remembered the old observatory back home, a sudden downpour, and the frustration of missing the "H-32" comet during that rainstorm—she recalled the time when the planet's only interstellar flight passed through the clouds, the flames from the engines burning in the rainy night, sparking her first impulse to leave her hometown in her childhood.
