Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
In her dreams, Vera felt a hand shaking her shoulder gently.
“Wake up, it’s time to get up, we will disembark in two hours… If you don’t get up now, you will regret it later.”
Vera opened her eyes. Discombobulated, she tilted her face slightly, and her eyes drifted out of the window.
Her pupils shrank, and her eyelashes trembled.
She was shocked.
A fiery red planet was in front of her.
The dust on its surface tumbled under the force of the wind, like a burning flame.
The space station suspended in orbit was so small in comparison, dancing on the edge of the red flame.
“Is this… Mars?”
Looking at the fiery red planet outside the porthole, Vera couldn’t help but widen her eyes. She touched the window with her hands unconsciously.
“That’s right, this is the frontier of our civilization… At least for now.” Anderina said with a smile on her mouth while her eyes had a look of fascination, “Speaking of which, are you that surprised? I remember during the 21st century, people have already landed on Mars.”
After two weeks of sailing, the two had become best friends.
Vera was full of curiosity about everything in this world, and Anderina, who dreamed of becoming a novelist, also cherished this opportunity to interview a dormant human from the last century.
Especially since Vera came from the 2020s.
That was the time period in which her idol, Lu Zhou, was flourishing the most.
After hearing Anderina’s words, Vera explained softly, “It probably happened after I went into dormancy.”
Before she went dormant, she vaguely remembered that the most remarkable thing people had done was to build a scientific research station on the moon.
“I see.” Anderina looked at her and rubbed her chin thoughtfully. She continued, “Speaking of which, you said that you came to Mars to find someone… Who is that person? A relative? Or a descendant of your relatives?”
Upon hearing this question, Vera showed a warm smile on her face and said softly, “He’s a great person.”
“What a coincidence, the purpose of my trip is the same. The Pan-Asian Cooperation has not been willing to disclose the details of faster than light technology. We journalists have to go there by ourselves.” Anderina looked at Vera, smiled, and continued, “A war had just broken out here, so the political state is still unstable. I worry about letting you run around alone. Where are you going? I can give you a ride.”
Vera said embarrassedly, “Will this… be too troublesome for you?”
Although this was a tempting proposal, she was worried about whether it would affect her friend’s work.
“How come?” Anderina said with a smile, “We are friends. Isn’t it normal to help each other? Speaking of which, do you have a clue where the person you want to see is? Don’t tell me that you don’t know.”
“Of course not.” Vera shook her head and said with a smile, “I know where he is, but I didn’t tell him I’m coming.”
“A surprise visit, right? Haha, I get it.” Anderina winked at Vera and continued, “Anyway, it’s good that you know where he is. Finding people in Tiangong City is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Despite the small area of the city, the population density is the highest in the solar system…”
While they were talking, the speakers above their heads began to play soft music.
Under the guidance of the flight attendant’s reminder, the guests in the cabin stood up from their seats and began to leave the cabin of the transport ship.
Because she hadn’t adapted to walking in a gravity-free environment, Vera, who had just left her seat, was a little clumsy. Fortunately, Anderina held her hand, so she didn’t float to the ceiling.
“Relax, think of yourself as a fish, you are in the sea… Come with me, the ground shuttle usually doesn’t wait around. If it’s full, we have to wait for the next one.”
She pulled Vera quickly across the corridor of the departure hall. When the two were about to get on the shuttle, they were suddenly mesmerized by the scene outside the window.
An unimaginably large starship, like a silver-white ruler, was hovering in the orbit of Mars.
When she was on the transport ship earlier, she didn’t see this starship because of the angle. But now, just like herself, many tourists from Earth looked at it with eyes of surprise.
“What is that?”
“That?” Following Vera’s sight, Anderina was slightly stunned. She then said with a smile, “Oh, that thing, if I had to guess, it should be Noah’s Ark… Of course, his name is Milky Way now that Academician Lu bought it.”
Noah’s Ark?
For some reason, Vera, after hearing the news, had a slightly complicated look on her face.
There was a hint of comfort, relief, and regret.
Anderina looked at her strangely and didn’t think too much.
After all, humans were sentimental beings, and Vera happened to be at a sentimental age.
After taking the shuttle to the ground, the two dragged their luggage out of the terminal building. Anderina clearly felt the atmosphere of post-war reconstruction in the air.
The bullet holes that remained on the ground and the pit holes left by the explosion had not been completely erased, and some seriously damaged buildings were still circled by police tapes.
The tourists had a somewhat curious look in their eyes, but the faces of the locals were full of grief.
After getting a taxi, the driver changed the gear and flew the car into the suspended pipeline in the air. Anderina asked the driver, “How is the law and order here these days?”
“The law and order is good, even better than before,” the driver said in a casual tone. “But you know, Ma’am, Mars is not a peaceful place. It’s better not to wander around… Where are you going?”
Anderina opened her mouth to speak, but Vera, who was sitting next to her, said immediately, “Star Sky Hotel.”
After hearing these words, both the driver and Anderina, who was sitting next to Vera, gave her a surprised look.
However, the driver didn’t say much. After replying “Got it!”, he returned his attention to driving.
In about half an hour, the car quickly reached its destination.
After getting out of the car, the two stood in front of this magnificent hotel.
After politely rejecting the doorman who came to help with the luggage, Anderina glanced at Vera awkwardly and asked in a quiet voice, “That friend of yours… lives in a place like this?”
Vera gave her a strange look.
“What’s the problem?”
“Nothing…”
The Star Sky Hotel, located in the center of Tiangong City, was the most luxurious hotel in the city. The credit points needed to live here for a day was equivalent to her one-month bonus, and this was just for the ordinary rooms.
Anderina was thinking about what kind of person lived at a place like this.
Suddenly, a voice of surprise came from nearby.
“Vera?!”
The two turned around together and looked in the direction where the sound came from.
Instantly, Vera’s eyes widened, and there was a layer of mist in her excited eyes.
She ran in that direction.
Anderina, who was left behind, was dumbfounded.
“Lu… Lu Zhou?”
She didn’t expect that the “great man” the little girl was talking about was actually him…
