After ending his communication with the ground, Chen Mo pushed off and floated over to the window by the hatch.
Beyond it lay the endless starry expanse.
There was almost no air here, let alone pollution. The Milky Way he saw now was crystal clear, every star shining brightly.
Only when looking up at the stars could one clearly feel how small humanity was. In the boundless universe, Earth was no more than a speck of dust—utterly inconspicuous, yet incomparably miraculous.
The starry sky outside was filled with endless mystery and unknowns. Humanity had only just become capable of leaving its little corner of Earth.
Sometimes, when he gazed at the stars and thought deeply about them, a sense of dread would always coil around his heart.
Only by considering the endlessness beyond could one understand humanity's place in the universe. Perhaps before advanced extraterrestrial civilizations, humans were no different from invisible colonies of bacteria.
If they were discovered by a more advanced civilization one day, their fate might be no different from when humans caught ants for experiments and research.
In the vast universe, extraterrestrial life remained something unknown and dangerous to humanity for now.
After admiring the stars for a long while, Chen Mo finally withdrew his gaze.
Now was not the time for sentiment or fantasy.
He had to make preparations, so that when extraterrestrial life was truly discovered someday, he would at least be mentally prepared.
"Mo Nv, prepare to launch the lunar satellites," Chen Mo said.
"Okay. Launch countdown: ten minutes."
Mo Nv began announcing the time.
This spaceflight mission also included the task of launching lunar satellites.
Besides its abundant Helium-3 reserves, the Moon was also Earth's outpost. Looking up at the stars, the Moon was the first starting point.
This time, they would