At eight in the morning, the lights at the launch site's coordination building finally went off.
It wasn't because the workday had ended, but rather because the daylight had come.
After a busy night, the detailed report materials had taken their initial shape.
Next would come several rounds of review, polishing, and striving to report to the higher-ups in the afternoon.
Throughout the process, not only had no one dozed off, but no one had even taken a bite to eat.
Around eight o'clock, a man resembling a quintessential intellectual in his fifties knocked on the door and entered the conference room, carrying several large bags of coffee.
He first went to Chen Hongbing and Shen Tinglan to deliver coffee, then proceeded, with polite attentiveness, to distribute it to everyone according to their seating arrangement.
It wasn't until he had served seven or eight people that Chen Hongbing realized and hurriedly got up to say, "Chief Engineer Liu, when did you arrive?"
