Chapter 138: Great Character Li Jian
Moon, Guanghan Palace Base.
‘Early in the morning’ (Blue Star Great Xia time) Li Jian carried a suitcase made of a layer of ultra-thin tri-titanium alloy, deliberately lightening his footsteps, and quietly exited the base pressurization chamber without alerting anyone in the base.
In the distance, the base landing field, the Peregrine Falcon’s very beautiful hull was slowly descending.
Wrapped in the nano-coat, Li Jian walked with a light gait, and that originally very heavy suitcase was now as light as nothing under his strong arm, effortless and nimble.
In the distance, the azure Blue Star slowly rose, like a water-blue jewel against the black background, often captivating him so he couldn’t look away.
“Boss!”
A familiar voice sounded in the communication channel, Li Jian turned back to look toward the Peregrine Falcon, a slightly chubby figure jumped straight down from the cabin door.
Seeing the situation was off, Li Jian quickly set down the suitcase in his hand, his right foot slightly stepping back, then he took a deep breath.
Over there, Fan Ren followed out of the cabin, looking speechless at Liu Jun hanging on the boss.
Good grief, over 30 years old, still acting like when he was young, what a great mindset.
“Whoa, all this meat, these two years weren’t lived in vain, Third Brother.”
After putting down Liu Jun, the somewhat downcast expression on Li Jian’s face had completely vanished.
He smiled and looked at Liu Jun in front of him, his tone carrying a long-missed relaxation, a posture he had never shown at the Lunar Base.
“Boss, congratulations.”
Fan Ren stepped forward, he was also quite envious of Liu Jun’s youthful mindset, unlike him, getting more and more dull with age.
“Second Brother, why did you come personally?”
Li Jian knew the importance of Fan Ren’s current identity, though not exactly clear, but from the word ‘congratulations’ he just said, this time his transfer from Guanghan Palace Base was related to him, and it was a promotion.
“I just happened to have something to communicate with you personally, Third Brother was also dragged along by me. Let’s board the spaceship first.”
Fan Ren glanced at Liu Jun, smiled, and the three of them boarded the Peregrine Falcon.
Inside the base, nearly 50 military headquarters Space Force members stood silently in the command room, saluting under the lead of the new commander Shi Xianliang, watching this streamlined spaceship slowly lift off and depart.
Guanghan Palace established for three years, Li Jian from the initial first moon landing leading Shi Xianliang to pioneer for several months, established Guanghan Palace, up to now expanded to a large base with thousands of people, his contributions were paramount.
Inside the Peregrine Falcon cockpit.
Li Jian’s last space navigation was three years ago before the moon landing.
But that time he rode a Star series spaceship, with a right-angle upright seating posture in the cockpit.
Unlike now, where he could sit like on an airplane, gazing directly at the space scenery outside the window through the transparent glass ahead.
Although Li Jian had a steady personality, in front of these two he couldn’t hold back, looking around here and there inside the Peregrine Falcon, eyes eagerly fixed on the control levers in front of him.
The spaceship was currently in autopilot state, Fan Ren also didn’t go for manual operation.
Seeing Li Jian like this, he smiled and told him the basic operation methods, then reached out to turn off the autopilot function.
“Boss, give it a try, don’t worry, I know how to fly this thing, foolproof operation!”
Liu Jun encouraged from the side, it was truly foolproof operation, a joystick controlling attitude, which could control the spaceship’s pitch, dive, roll left and right, and other attitudes.
There was also a small joystick on the main joystick controlled by the thumb, used for controlling the spaceship’s forward and reverse hull turning, generally used when the spaceship needs to decelerate.
The rest was just another thrust lever responsible for thrust.
Very simple, leave the complex stuff to autopilot.
Li Jian looked at the encouraging gazes from his two brothers, no longer hesitating, he knew Second Brother had it all figured out.
He glanced at the navigation chart, he understood this thing, then took over manual operation, slowly pushing the thrust lever.
The spaceship that had entered inertial flight once again transmitted a surge of thrust, accelerating into deep space.
However, not long after, he understood why Liu Jun called it ‘foolproof’ operation.
Indeed, after adjusting the spaceship’s bow to point at the target, just push the thrust lever to the end, let the spaceship maintain continuous acceleration, and no other actions are needed.
The only thing is to occasionally adjust the bow direction to prevent being pulled by a planet’s slight gravity, leading to major directional deviation.
Just like driving at high speed, very boring.
But immediately after, he sensed something wrong, looked at the target location on the navigation chart panel, Li Jian turned his gaze to Fan Ren in surprise.
“Aren’t we going back to Space Hub?”
“Back to what Space Hub, today is your moment in the spotlight, Second Brother and I decided to take you on a trip, our destination this time is… holy shit Second Brother, Jupiter?”
Liu Jun was originally confident, but after seeing the changed navigation chart, he was dumbfounded too.
“Aren’t we going to Mars?”
Fan Ren smiled and shook his head, pressing several times on the control panel, the spaceship then re-entered autopilot.
“We are going to Mars, but there are other purposes.”
At this time inside the spaceship, besides the three brothers, the last seat was Dan Wu.
But he had always been like a transparent person, Fan Ren didn’t think there was any risk of leaking secrets.
“Boss, first congratulations on officially completing your moon garrison mission, after returning the military headquarters will hold a related commendation ceremony. But don’t blame me, there’s another mission for you, besides you I have no one I can trust.”
Seeing Fan Ren suddenly become serious, Liu Jun stopped joking around.
He knew the plan Fan Ren was about to carry out next, he was never kept in the dark about this.
To be honest, when he first heard it, he felt quite uneasy inside.
Li Jian nodded, he knew how important Fan Ren’s position in Great Xia was now, something even he was so cautious about was definitely not simple.
“You say it, I haven’t reached retirement age yet.”
He cracked a joke, drawing slight smiles from everyone.
“It’s like this.”
As Fan Ren explained in detail, even Liu Jun who already knew couldn’t help but fall silent again.
In just 7 years, Fan Ren had grown to the point where he could rely on Great Xia and United States to carry out a massive experiment involving a million participants.
As a military headquarters man, Li Jian first thought of Fan Ren’s words ‘no one I can trust’.
“Second Brother, you mean you want me to oversee the future Utopia City?”
Fan Ren nodded, then thought of Neto and sighed, originally a good candidate, but the other party’s wrists weren’t strong enough.
A small Mars Base, in three years, couldn’t even establish authority over dozens of people.
Much less overseeing a million-person city in the future, that was simply unrealistic.
“Yes, but rest assured, you’re only responsible for city security work, and the military headquarters will deploy a thousand-person scale force, drawn from various departments of Great Xia, the most elite and well-trained high-quality personnel, who will be stationed in Utopia City at that time, ready for your command at any moment.
As for the city’s development and management work, you’re not suited for that, someone else will be in charge.”
