Qingni: "I heard that you're very skilled at piloting starskiffs. Would you be willing to teach me? I want to become a flight officer."

Seeing this message, Pei Guang didn't hesitate at all and replied immediately: "No problem! Racing? That's my specialty! Time, place, and how do we meet?"

Meanwhile, in the Sky-Faring Commission's Palace of Astrum, Qingni lit up with excitement upon seeing his reply. She had heard plenty about the Trailblazers by now.

The nameless guest who had saved the Luofu from disaster. The benefactor of the Xianzhou Alliance who helped return countless heliobi back to normal.

She had a feeling: if Pei Guang was the one to teach her how to pilot, her mother… might not stop her from becoming a flight officer.

Qingni may not have known just how right, yet so very wrong, this decision was.

By choosing Pei Guang, she was guaranteed to become a flight officer… but what kind of flight officer, that was no longer in her control.

Back in the room, reading Qingni's request, Pei Guang perked up.

Stelle: "What is it? A new mission?"

Stelle was fired up too. The mention of a new mission made her want to take her trash-can cannon out for a spin!

After all, it had taken her so many brain cells to create and it would be a waste not to use it.

Seeing how excited Stelle was, Pei Guang's eyes gleamed with wisdom as he replied, "Exactly! We've got a new mission. And it's even tied to those trash cans that gave us rewards. I knew there had to be a quest for new equipment!"

Stelle: "So what's the mission?"

Pei Guang: "Someone wants to become a flight officer. And I know a thing or two about that."

Pei Guang had done his homework on the Xianzhou Alliance.

Flight officers were mostly foxians.

As for what they actually were and did? Pei Guang's understanding was that they were like pilots, but given the Alliance's cyber-cultivation setting, flight officers probably had higher requirements.

Stelle: "I see! But Ah Guang, can you train someone to be a flight officer?"

Pei Guang widened his eyes and looked at her. "Of course! I might not have been one myself, but I'm totally confident I can train one. Everyone I've trained turns out amazing!"

As a player, training characters in simulation games was part of daily life. Every character Pei Guang trained turned out great—unless he was just messing around.

And in this world, Pei Guang had already experienced a few "training" moments. With that under his belt, he didn't think training a flight officer would be too hard.

In fact, he was already getting ideas.

Looking at the special trash can parts from all over the universe… and the unique trash can he built with Stelle… Pei Guang's eyes suddenly lit up.

He was enlightened. He was completely enlightened.

So this NPC named Qingni came to him for help at this time because… she needed the help of trash cans!

Though Qingni's quest description said it was about teaching her how to pilot a starskiff, Pei Guang believed the core of the mission was to make her into a flyer.

In his old man's words: "The starskiff doesn't matter. What matters is becoming a flyer!"

With this realization, Pei Guang looked at Stelle beside him.

"No problem! We've already built trash cans that can fly: helping her become a flyer should be easy, right? But flyers of the Xianzhou Alliance need to fight Abominations of Abundance, so I think we shouldn't just teach her how to fly—we should teach her how to fight. And I think what we've got here is perfect."

Hearing Pei Guang's explanation, Stelle's eyes lit up even more. "Great! Great! So the Trash Can Alliance is about to get a new member?"

Pei Guang: "Since she'll be the first member, we've got to give it our all! Remember what's most important in our alliance?"

Stelle spread her hands and drew a rainbow shape in front of herself. "Imagination~"

Pei Guang: "Exactly! Imagination~ We've got parts, and what we need is imagination to make the trash cans move! But if we just show up with trash cans, she'll definitely think we're crazy. So we've gotta let this girl see the true power of trash cans."

Stelle: "How are we doing that?"

Pei Guang: "Of course it's…"

At the agreed meeting spot, Qingni had arrived early and was already waiting for the Trailblazer.

Her heart was racing a little. Just thinking about the way the Trailblazers had controlled a starskiff that day with superhuman skill made her blood boil with excitement.

Her body was telling her: she longed for the sky. She wanted to pilot a starskiff and soar across it. She was ready in every way to become a flyer, but no matter what, she just couldn't convince her mother.

She believed this was her chance. If she could learn something from the Trailblazer, maybe her mother wouldn't try to stop her anymore?

With these thoughts, Qingni's excitement grew even stronger.

But just as she was feeling fired up, she saw two shadows flying toward her.

The location was Dragonprayer Terrace, the territory of the Vidyadhara. Normally, no one would dare to recklessly fly a starskiff here.

But here came two people… flying in… trash cans?????

Qingni had expected people to arrive in starskiffs, but when she saw what was actually flying through the air, she was stunned.

Up in the sky, Pei Guang was piloting one trash can, while another trash can, more like a rocket, was blasting someone forward.

When the two noticed Qingni looking at them, they even started showing off.

Pei Guang began drifting and drifting~ midair, then kicked on nitro, blue flames bursting from the battered trash can, instantly propelling it faster than a typical starskiff. And Qingni could tell: this wasn't even its limit...

On the other side, Stelle wasn't as fast flying on her trash can cannon, but the spinning motion of it created a striking visual display.

Yet Pei Guang and Stelle showing off wasn't even the main point.

The real point was… the trash cans were flying!

That thing that looked like a crudely cobbled-together trash can contraption was actually flying??? And flying faster and more steadily than a starskiff? Then what the heck has the Xianzhou Alliance been researching with their starskiffs?!

Qingni didn't even know how to complain, so she could only stare in shock as Pei Guang and Stelle performed aerial stunts and landed in front of her riding trash cans.

She'd heard of a planet that could give you pleasant dreams, but last she checked, the Luofu didn't have that function.

So how on earth was she wide awake in the middle of the day, dreaming about flying trash cans in the sky?