"It's wonderful..."
Leaning back in his space chair, Yu Fei took off his helmet and gazed at the barren landscape beyond the porthole, letting out a heartfelt sigh.
About three days earlier, while the Bird's Nest stadium was alive with celebration, viewing events had also been held aboard the Moon Palace spacecraft and at the Lunar Surface Research Station.
Of course, they could not watch in person, much less soak in the "dangerous" water vapor for a low-temperature sauna like the audience in the stadium. Instead, they used virtual reality helmets to project their consciousness into a virtual world, reaching out to those illusory lights and shadows through their minds.
Of course, although the lights and shadows were illusory, the emotions they conveyed were utterly real.
The final scene, in particular, when Space City appeared, had shaken him to his core.
The trains traveling between buildings in space, the tourists walking through the space modules-everything he had seen had planted a seed in his heart, where it took root and began to sprout...
So much so that even now, three days after the celebration had ended, he still could not resist setting aside an hour every day to sit in the empty virtual stadium and watch those stirring images over and over.
Fifty-nine minutes of waiting, all for that final minute.
Or rather, all to see the sun slowly rise over the edge of Space City...
Yu Fei was savoring that breathtaking feeling as he set his helmet aside when the office door suddenly opened. Deputy station chief Liang Junhui walked in, wearing an intravehicular spacesuit.
Looking at the station chief sitting in his space chair with his back to him, Liang Junhui was just about to speak when the chair swiveled around.
Turning his gaze to his deputy in