Chapter 180: The Accident Ship
Jin Family, Jin Zhiyong sat in a wheelchair, blankly staring at the Peregrine Falcon gradually receding into the sky, as well as the Young Dragon formation that left fear in all South Island Country people.
At this moment, he seemed to sense that this granddaughter’s last remaining relationship with the Jin Family had also been severed.
Jin Qiaoying did not return to the Jin Family again, nor did she linger much in South Island Country; she took Dan Qin directly aboard the Peregrine Falcon.
It then soared straight into the sky, heading directly to the Space Hub.
Although this was very rude to South Island Country, it was clear that Great Xia no longer needed to care about such things.
The Peregrine Falcon quickly burst out of the atmosphere.
Sitting on the spaceship, Jin Qiaoying had never experienced space navigation like this before; at this moment, her face showed some novelty as she alternated between looking at the blue Blue Star below her feet and deeply gazing at the distant, serene cosmic background.
Fan Ren turned his head to look at her, just in time to meet her turned gaze.
Jin Qiaoying smiled slightly, not feeling embarrassed at all.
Although she had been General Manager of Xinghai for so many years, and her previous office work location had also moved to the Space Hub, she had always used the Space Elevator for travel between ground and space.
This time riding the Peregrine Falcon was truly her first space navigation experience.
Fan Ren suddenly understood; he thought for a moment, then smiled and pointed to the control remote sensors ahead: “Sister Jin, want to give it a try?”
Hearing this, Jin Qiaoying’s small mouth opened wide; she looked at Fan Ren, extended her slender index finger to point at herself, and said with extreme uncertainty: “Me?”
“Sister Jin, drive it however you want; I’ll cover for you.”
A’dai’s confident voice echoed through the cockpit, causing the Dan siblings behind to laugh along.
Fan Ren nodded and confirmed: “Come on, give it a try; it’s a lot of fun.”
He then patiently explained the usage of the two joysticks, as well as the instructions for the thrust lever nearby.
Jin Qiaoying was clearly very smart and understood immediately; under Fan Ren’s encouraging gaze, she reached out both hands and placed them on the control sticks.
“Automatic navigation disengaged; please take over manual control.”
After hearing this report from the spaceship’s built-in voice system, Jin Qiaoying hesitated no longer and slowly pushed the thrust lever forward a distance with her left hand.
After feeling the spaceship’s slowing speed pick up again, Jin Qiaoying’s eyes and brows could not suppress her excitement.
In that instant, Fan Ren recalled the moment more than ten years ago when he first met her at the main entrance of San Xin.
That day, the scene of Jin Qiaoying speeding past him and Liu Jun in a sports car reappeared before his eyes.
Then, without giving him much time to reminisce, the Peregrine Falcon suddenly went full thrust; the huge acceleration’s inertial gravity slammed the four people in the cabin hard into their seats.
The most shocked were the Dan siblings in the back seats.
At this moment, the two couldn’t help but glance at each other, both seeing the shock on the other’s face.
The Peregrine Falcon, like a nimble falcon, under Jin Qiaoying’s deft control, swiftly streaked across the sky above Blue Star, its body occasionally tracing arcs, and finally plunged straight into the atmosphere.
Blue Star Space Hub.
The returning Peregrine Falcon was clearly going too fast and ‘smashed’ into the docking port with a sudden jolt.
“Sister Jin, just this once, just this once.”
Fan Ren’s legs were trembling; if not for being in vacuum where standing wasn’t needed, he figured he couldn’t even stand steady now.
Too crazy.
Could you believe that a woman who had never piloted an airplane or spaceship dared, on her first try, to fly the Peregrine Falcon—famous for its maneuverability and speed—doing all sorts of maneuvers over the Pacific Ocean, even occasionally pulling super-gravity dive and climb moves.
Turning to look, Jin Qiaoying’s originally fair face was now flushed red, and her forehead was beaded with fine sweat from extreme excitement.
Seeing Fan Ren’s resentful gaze, Jin Qiaoying suddenly felt a bit embarrassed; at this moment, she was like a young girl, playfully sticking out her pink tongue and nodding lightly.
“The Peregrine Falcon has become an accident ship.”
A’dai’s voice timely echoed in the cockpit; the docking speed had been too fast, causing the contact point to dent slightly where the ship body hit the port.
Fan Ren looked at Jin Qiaoying in shock, gave a thumbs up, and murmured: “It was my lack of consideration.”
Earth time, evening, at Fan Ren’s residence in the Space Hub.
Liu Jun pinched the edge of the instant food bag with a look of disgust and tossed it aside.
“Second Brother, I brought good booze, and you’re serving this to your brother?”
Li Jian smiled indifferently on the table, directly opened the alcoholic beverages Liu Jun brought and poured full glasses for the three brothers, then tore open his own bag of peanuts.
“Come on; after today, it probably won’t be this easy to gather so relaxedly again.”
Fan Ren smiled and nodded; today he had given himself a full day off, and after handling Jin Qiaoying’s matters, he called Liu Jun who had returned from the Jupiter-Mars Hub, and Li Jian who had been serving in the Space Force, for a small gathering.
Just as Li Jian said, after this, he would put all his energy into scientific research, from then until 49 years later when that alien spaceship arrived.
Liu Jun knew what he meant, clinked glasses, then downed it in one gulp.
The three each grabbed a handful of peanuts, ate them while silently sitting.
“Where’s your wife?”
Li Jian curiously broke the silence; all along, Zeng Yingying had taken care of Fan Ren, always keeping him neat and clean from head to toe.
But today, Fan Ren’s clothes clearly had a lot of dust on them.
Liu Jun shook his head, then sighed: “No idea what he’s on about; he tricked his wife into a hibernation pod for hibernation. Boss, does what he did even make sense?”
Liu Jun had always had reservations about what Fan Ren did.
In his view, Fan Ren was simply crazy; a perfectly good couple not together, and he neurotically sent his wife into hibernation.
When she wakes up from the hibernation pod in the future, a young and beautiful woman living with him as an old man?
Not awkward?
Hearing this, Li Jian also frowned; he didn’t fully agree with Fan Ren’s approach either.
It’s only been a few days since leaving Zeng Yingying, and even meals have no side dishes; how will he live from now on.
“What’s going on?”
Fan Ren gave an awkward smile and shook his head, took the wine bottle to refill their glasses, then equivocated: “These years haven’t been easy for her following me; let her rest for a few years, then I’ll thaw her.”
But clearly, this explanation lacked persuasiveness.
“Tell the truth!”
Don’t think that Li Jian, now serving in the Space Force with the rank of mid-level colonel, could put on airs in front of Fan Ren in terms of status.
However, in this instant, Fan Ren shrank back.
On the other side, Liu Jun laughed upon seeing this, lit a cigarette on his own, and comfortably puffed away.
Ever since Xinghai Biomedical Laboratory vigorously developed nanorobot therapy, smoking no longer posed any harm to the human body.
Just process it regularly.
Fan Ren scratched his head, casually took the cigarette pack, lit one for Li Jian first, then lit one for himself.
The three brothers sullenly puffed away clouds of smoke.
