Chapter 344: Extra Ch 1 : Ten year mission
Four Years Ago, Year 780
Warm sunlight poured down onto the earth.
On this day, at the turning point between spring and summer, the weather was neither as hot and dry as the height of summer, nor as damp and rainy as early spring.
It was a pleasantly comfortable day.
At some point, the green grass had already spread across the entire plain.
The lush green, full of life, swayed gently with the breeze, like nimble little sprites leaping about.
It gave people an involuntary sense of ease and openness in their hearts.
The sky was a pure and beautiful azure, untainted like fine jade, stretching endlessly to who knows where.
A train was traveling along the tracks on the plain.
The loud hiss of the steam whistle and the rhythmic clanking of the wheels brought a bit of liveliness to this quiet landscape.
Inside one of the train cars.
It was a sparsely populated carriage.