"Titan Outpost Project"
The words floated before everyone in large lettering.
"That's the situation." Lü Yongchang stood at the conference table and shrugged.
"Because of our hydrocarbon consumption, we need to go to Titan to collect various hydrocarbons."
"Does anyone have any objections?"
As he spoke, he scanned everyone around the conference table.
A few seconds later.
"Good. Since no one has any objections, it's settled."
"Zero, which pilots in Mars City are currently available?"
A Holographic Image opened before Lü Yongchang.
"Zhao Zijie... let's go with him."
"Tell him to pack his bags now," Lü Yongchang decided on the spot. "Zero, send over a Luan Bird Type I Starship."
One day later.
Zhao Zijie and Gao Yang dragged two large suitcases onto the Xunmu Space Elevator, looking utterly bewildered.
"Zijie, are we going to Saturn?" Even now, Gao Yang hadn't quite wrapped his head around it.
"Titan, to be precise."
Zhao Zijie gave him a weary, helpless smile.
Three days earlier, the two of them had just returned from the Asteroid Belt, ready to enjoy a week-long vacation.
Then a single Holographic Image had derailed all their plans.
"Good grief... the Titan Outpost Project. These projects just keep getting crazier," Gao Yang muttered.
Zhao Zijie pulled his suitcase closer. "I bet this is another project Professor Lü proposed."
"By the way, have you finished packing?"
"I reckon it'll be at least a few weeks before we get back."
Gao Yang gave the suitcase beside him a firm pat.
"Don't worry!"
The next second, he leaned toward Zhao Zijie's ear and whispered, "I've got plenty of snacks!"
Zhao Zijie's eyes lit up, and he nodded in satisfaction.
Interstellar travel was incredibly dull.
Beep!
Just as Zhao Zijie and Gao Yang were playing rock-paper-scissors to decide who got the