On the Moon Palace spacecraft, hundreds of thousands of kilometers away, a bird-shaped aerospace plane slowly approached the majestic space fortress.
An alloy tube serving as an airlock extended from the Moon Palace spacecraft and inserted into the open docking port on the side of the Rosy Glow's nose, guiding the Rosy Glow, whose propulsion system had already been shut down, safely into port.
The alloy tube began to fill with air.
As the alloy doors on both sides opened, six astronauts in spacesuits gripped the handrails along both sides of the corridor and slowly floated across the airlock into the Moon Palace spacecraft's buffer chamber.
Having stopped inside the buffer chamber, Liang Youcheng gazed at the Moon beyond the porthole, his eyes filled with longing.
"I heard back on Earth that you can see the IMCRC Collider and the Guanghan Special Zone from the Moon Palace spacecraft."
"You definitely can't see them from here," Captain Xu Zhenghong said with a faint smile as he walked over to Liang Youcheng's side. He was responsible for delivering the five astronauts to the Moon. "But perhaps you will be able to in another hour."
"Have you been to Guanghan City?"
"Twice."
"What's it like there?"
"It developed quickly!" Xu Zhenghong looked at the Moon outside the porthole and reminisced for a moment before speaking. "The first time I went, I was delivering supplies. Back then, there was nothing up there—just a lonely research station and a few researchers stationed there. My deputy and I even wondered whether they could hold out on so little."
Liang Youcheng asked, "What about the other time?"
"The other time, I brought 4.27 tons of lunar ore, 50 kilograms of wheat, corn, potatoes, as well as some biological reagents and research specimens produced on the Moon, back