Clayton's broadcast answered Meiduo's question for Old Hake.
Hearing the name Tian Xingjian, Meiduo felt a deafening roar in her ears, and she couldn't think of anything else. She stood dazed at the spot, watching the jubilant figures before her. Those were hundreds of Leray men, celebrating with high-fives.
Behind the crowd were others, Leray refugees who arrived on the same spaceship as her, men, women, the elderly, children... Their eyes were glowing, and their faces were flushed with excitement.
Tian Xingjian, this name, had been lost for a long time. The recruitment posters on Leray's city streets had faded with the wind and rain. The fall of the Bermuda Star System, the Saleria Federation coup, the Leray coup—each piece of news weighed heavily on the heart of every Leray person. Heroes of the past had long been overshadowed by the hardships of life.
