A few minutes earlier.
Xia Wanyi listened to the conversation coming through the Communication Device and let out a small sigh of relief.
Thankfully, the worst-case scenario had not come to pass.
The hematite came from Light Satellite One, which sharply reduced the likelihood of an advanced civilization existing on this planet.
Beep!
A crisp alert sounded inside the Planetary Lander.
[Current external wind speed: 25 km/h!]
Sitting in the front passenger seat, Xia Wanyi froze for a moment.
Hadn't the wind speed been 20 km/h just now?
Although she did not know the reason, a faint sense of caution rose within her.
On Dawn Star, where atmospheric density far exceeded Earth's, any change in wind speed demanded the crew's full attention.
The next moment.
Feng Yuanliang's shout rang out through the Communication Device!
"...Run! Run now!!"
Xia Wanyi shuddered, her heart, which had just begun to relax, tightening once more.
She quickly raised her head and looked toward her two teammates a hundred meters away.
Perhaps because the wind had picked up, more yellow sand was falling from the rock face.
Amid the swirling sand, two figures flickered in and out of view.
She could just make out the two of them using their Exoskeleton Armor to snatch up the drilling equipment from the ground and race toward the Planetary Lander.
"Academician Feng, what happened?!"
Without time to think, she activated the communications device to question Feng Yuanliang while unbuckling her seat belt and scrambling into the driver's seat beside her.
"Hiss..." Perhaps because of the windblown sand, the electromagnetic communications signal had become unstable, and bursts of static came from the Communication Device.
By then, Xia Wanyi was already in the driver's seat.
She swiftly buckled herself in and flipped several switches on the console with