"It's really cold here."
On a vast expanse of gray lunar soil, the young man in a bulky spacesuit glanced at the external temperature displayed on his helmet projection and sighed.
"Heh, you can still freeze while wearing a spacesuit?"
Walking beside him was Wu Gang, captain of the Lunar Surface Research Station's engineering team. The team often joked that he had come to the Moon to chop down trees, while he jokingly called himself the Moon's general contractor.
And that was more or less true. The entire research station had only one engineering team.
Everything dropped from the Moon Palace spacecraft had to be unloaded, installed, and deployed by them.
He repaired the solar arrays and the Lunar Collider. It could be said that every artificial facility on the lunar surface had been built brick by brick by him and the engineers on his team, using space construction equipment.
As for the man beside him, he was an engineer recently assigned to the team. His name was Xu Chengli, and he was said to hold a master's degree in aerospace engineering from Jinling University.
Because Jinling University and the Institute for Advanced Study maintained close cooperation in aerospace technology research, that credential was highly sought after in the aerospace industry. Wu Gang could not understand why Xu Chengli had come to a godforsaken place like this.
"I was just saying it casually. Don't get worked up."
Hearing the voice over the communications channel, Xu Chengli smiled awkwardly.
Since he had only just arrived, everything still felt novel to him. Quite a few teammates thought he was overly talkative. Yet he did not see it that way and instead considered it a virtue.
After all, on this silent Moon, hearing even a little human speech was incredibly difficult. He always