After the initial discomfort passed, the astronauts began to adapt as they made their way through the atmosphere.
The safety belts strapped tightly around them had all been undone.
Through the windows, they observed the azure planet, and everyone sank into a... quagmire of beauty, unable to pull themselves free.
Perhaps this was because the Common Language lacked the words. Maybe this was the most beautiful description possible.
"It looks absolutely incredible."
One officer could not help praising it. "Actually, I never really believed that the place we lived was a sphere, but now it looks like I need to read more books."
The saying that the heavens moved and the earth remained still had been passed down for many years. Even now, some people still believed they lived at the center of the universe, with everything revolving around the continent called Gaia where they lived.
The stars, the moon, and the sun were all the same.
They would argue against other people's views, insisting that those were all crooked heresies, even though humanity had already set foot on the moon and sent back photographs of Earth observed from its surface.
Those people still believed it was all fake, processed footage, and that the Federal Government and those so-called scientists were part of a colossal lie and scam.
But when the officer truly broke through the atmosphere and saw that part of its boundary was not perfectly regular—
Those rigid beliefs all vanished.
The other astronauts also began sighing over the planet's beauty.
Of the six astronauts, one was a woman, and she looked...
A little too flamboyant.
Officers, scientists, and researchers all carried very obvious labels, but this female astronaut had no clear label attached to her.
Compared with the other five, who were marveling at the splendor of