"Where are you from?"
"Hubei Province."
"Hubei Province? Isn't that Academician Lu's hometown too?"
"No, he's from Jiangling, and I'm from Jiangcheng. They're still quite far apart."
"Jiangcheng..." A trace of recollection surfaced in Liang Youcheng's eyes. Sitting in a passenger cabin seat, his voice carried a hint of nostalgia. "I remember the hot dry noodles there being quite good."
Han Kangyu thought for a moment, then casually replied without much change in expression.
"Just so-so. I prefer doupi."
Sixteen days had passed since the Xu Fu spacecraft departed. After more than two weeks of travel, they were drawing ever closer to their destination.
At the same time, however, they were getting ever farther from home.
Over the past two days, most of their conversations had inevitably revolved around their hometowns.
Liang Youcheng had never expected that he would miss home so much.
When he was still on Earth, there had been many things he had never deliberately thought about. It was only when the Xu Fu spacecraft completely broke free of the Earth-Moon System's gravitational restraints that he suddenly realized how many things he had yet to do, and how happy life on Earth had truly been.
At that moment, someone beside him swallowed audibly.
"What's doupi? Is it good?"
The speaker was named Fan Tong. Though his name was easily misunderstood, anyone able to sit aboard this colony ship obviously could not be a real "rice bucket."
As a doctor of planetary geology from the Jinling University Institute of Astronautics, his advisor's research in planetary geology could be considered among the very best both domestically and internationally.
Like another crew member, a doctor of bioengineering named Ming Wenzhe, he had been moved up from the second batch to the first because of his outstanding performance in training. Since