Echo

Lu Ming is the captain of the Echo. This ship is old and inconspicuous, and it makes a living in the gray area of ​​interstellar shipping - taking on semi-legal transportation jobs, running routes that regular companies disdain to run, and making shady money. Lu Ming needs this kind of inconspicuousness. Twelve years ago, on a remote colonial planet in the K-7 sector, a group of people calling themselves "investigators" went door to door to "register information." Lu Ming's mother went to register, and when she came back, she looked at him as if she were a stranger. She still remembered that she had a son, but she couldn't remember his name, what he liked to eat, or what he was afraid of. Lu Ming ran away. It took him twelve years to learn how to survive in the gray zone and learn how to make himself "inconspicuous" - until that day, the Echo received a transportation mission from the K-7 sector. There is a box of undeclared goods in the manifest, number K-7-114, encryption level C-4. Lu Ming recognized this number. When he was twelve years old, those "investigators" carried boxes of the same size and "registered" them door to door. Now, that box is in his cargo bay. It's still pulsing.