Aboard the Hope, the twenty Candy Technology employees—including Little Flying Hero Chen Yifeng, who had officially become one of the ship's pilots—didn't leave right away.
They wouldn't leave before the team of experts traveling with them had departed the Hope.
In a sense, they were the hosts.
The guests hadn't left yet. How could they possibly go first?
Since the authorities had been notified in advance, the Hope had been docked at the lunar Transfer Station for less than half an hour when a Space Shuttle belonging to the Xia Nation government slowly approached.
As the two Artificial Intelligences continuously exchanged positional data, the Space Shuttle successfully docked with the Hope.
A few minutes later, the hatch opened.
Zero didn't need to remind them. The experts, who had been eager to leave for ages, filed through the passageway and boarded the Space Shuttle.
"The hatch is about to close. Please move away from the hatch. Thank you for your cooperation."
With a click, the passageway closed.
Watching it shut, Little Flying Hero Chen Yifeng and the others breathed a sigh of relief. Next, they would leave the Hope and return to the lunar Transfer Station. After a brief rest, the company's Space Shuttle would take them back to the surface of Blue Star.
Two days later.
An Yang Base, Blue Star.
A Space Shuttle bearing a Candy logo slowly came to a stop on the landing strip.
Before long, more than a dozen Big Whites, who had been waiting for them, boarded the shuttle to give the twenty employees returning to the ground a comprehensive physical examination.
After two months away, when Little Flying Hero Chen Yifeng and the others finally set foot on the airport runway, they felt safer than ever before.
Only those who had ventured into space