Terra, Dream Boat One Temporary Survival Base.
Several astronauts led by Team Leader Wei Xuan were putting on spacesuits and other equipment.
Three others remained still, all wearing deeply worried expressions.
One of them could not help asking, "Team Leader, are you really going to the other survival base?"
"This is an order from the Space Administration, and it is also a responsibility we must bear. If something happened to us and the circumstances were unknown, the astronauts aboard the Empire Pioneer would also be obligated to come here and investigate."
"I understand, but... those screams were too horrifying..."
The screams that had come through the communicator earlier were so terrifying that no one could imagine what kind of situation would make such determined astronauts cry out like that.
"If they had all died, we would probably have been recalled. But the problem is that their vital signs are still present." Another astronaut putting on equipment was baffled. "If they had suffered some terrible attack, there should have been casualties. If no one was injured or killed, why weren't they responding to communications?"
"That is what we need to find out." Wei Xuan looked at the three people staying behind at the base. "There must be some unknown threat on this planet. You personnel remaining here must stay alert as well and keep in contact with us at all times."
"Yes, Team Leader."
"Please be careful too, Team Leader!"
"Alright. Let's go."
Fully equipped, Wei Xuan and the others left the survival base and began heading toward the area where the Empire Pioneer astronauts were located.
The landing sites of the two manned rockets were about twenty kilometers apart. Without vehicles and traveling only on foot, the trip would take at least five or six hours.
However, Terra's gravity was