B-level Base.
It was 3 a.m. on July 20th, and Xiao Okada had been up all night, now sitting tiredly in the chair for a quick rest.
Although the other staff members were also on duty, they were in a rather relaxed state, their dedication somewhat less than that of the security guards in the guardroom.
"Thank you."
As Shen Zuozhou took the sugared and milked coffee and glanced at the out-of-sorts crowd, his face couldn't help but twitch.
In the evening, the two Venus detectors, "Tai Bai" and "Morning Star No.1," had sent back signals indicating their impending arrival, and the deep-space exploration team had been waiting here ever since for the detectors to enter orbit and transmit photos—a wait that had stretched on for seven or eight hours without the craft entering orbit.