"My brother and I are different. If it were still my old body, I might not need to wear one, but now that my strength has been weakened, I can't even maintain energy balance in space. I can only stay for a short time," Li Qianxia explained.

Itheri didn't quite understand but didn't ask any questions either and opened the hatch of the space suit.

One by one, the high-tech space suits appeared before their eyes, one after another, like a high-end fashion exhibit or like ranks of hollow robots.

Li Qianxia and Bi's eyes gleamed.

The technology of Cangqiong Star was very advanced, but due to some reasons related to Cangqiong, they had never ventured into space. It was onlyafter reaching the Moon that they began to modify the rudimentary space suits from Earth or directly adapt the mechas for space combat.

With Itheri's help, the two of them donned suitable space suits.

"Dong dong!" Li Qianxia knocked on her transparent visor, facing the camera, and asked the bridge, "Do I look good?"

"You look good," Yang Qinglan laughed.

Indeed, she did look good. The helmet was neither too big nor too small, and Li Qianxia's face in the glass visor seemed exceptionally delicate, a sweet loveliness that was endearing.

Of course, it wasn't just her that had become more attractive; Bi and Itheri were similarly enhanced by their space suits.

Nevertheless, Li Changzhou still thought his sister was the cutest.

The three of them got into the No. 2 Flying Vessel.

As Itheri fiddled with a few keys and pressed several buttons, she said, "Main vessel, No. 2 Flying Vessel is ready for detachment, beginning hydrogen harvesting operation."

"Main vessel received," Da Yi responded.

Once Itheri had completed the setup, she placed her hands on the control sticks and gently pushed. The flying vessel detached from the main ship.

The flying vessel ejected plasma streams, showing off as it looped around outside the bridge's windows, before gracefully heading towards the "gas station".

Li Qianxia and Bi, like tourists, pressed their faces against the transparent walls of the flying vessel, eagerly gazing out like country bumpkins.

"No. 2 Flying Vessel is ready to enter the atmosphere," Itheri reported again.

"Main vessel received," Da Yi responded.

Through the flying vessel's viewpoint, one could see the "gas station's" colorful surface.

As the flying vessel descended, the colors gradually changed, from red to brown, then to white, and finally to blue.

Li Qianxia turned her head up, the vast trio of space vessels had now shrunk to a mere blurry silhouette.

On the bridge of the Si vessel, Divine·Valentine watched the flying vessel disappear from sight, still contemplating what exactly she ought to do.

As the space vessels completely vanished from the background, Li Qianxia and Bi observed the wild and formidable "gas station" planet with awe.

"This planet is gaseous, right? How do we collect from it?" Li Qianxia asked.

"Stupid!" Bi, munching on candy and with a slightly muffled voice, said, "Suck it up like a vacuum cleaner!"

Itheri gave them a cryptic and slightly proud smile: "You'll find out soon enough."

The flying vessel continued to descend.

They kept in contact with the main vessel at intervals. Along the way, due to strong electromagnetic distortion, some static occurred, but the signal was not lost — even though the Changzhou should have been retired five thousand years ago, complete signal loss was still rare.

Most of this rarity came from battles with enemy vessels, being cast aside by their more advanced spaceships.

After a while, Li Qianxia suddenly realized that what surrounded her was no longer air but... an ocean.

"An ocean?!" Li Qianxia couldn't believe it.

Bi also took notice, her mouth agape, staring outside.

Itheri chuckled and then purposefully manipulated the controls: "No. 2 Flying Vessel has entered the liquid hydrogen layer, ready to harvest hydrogen."

"Main vessel received."

The communication had fully recovered.

"What's that noise?" Li Qianxia was the first to hear it, "A hissing sound... are we leaking air? Brother, help!"

"Air leak!" Itheri laughed heartily, "I've opened the automatic intake valve. The hissing sound is the sound of intake."

"Don't embarrass me," Li Changzhou's voice came through the communicator.

Li Qianxia's face turned a bit red, had she not just blatantly revealed her naivety (from Earth village)?

Then she heard Li Changzhou say, "No worries even if something did happen. The first thing I did when I boarded this ship was to explore every corner."

It was not just for the sake of increasing his knowledge but also to establish coordinates for "Teleportation". If he wished, he could even teleport directly onto Arnes's commandeered No. 1 Flying Vessel and kill him.

Li Qianxia's mind was at ease, knowing with "Teleportation", even if a common person were exposed in the vacuum of space, her brother could save them in time, let alone them.

After watching for a while, she and Bi started to get bored. No wonder Itheri didn't like to do the tasks alone, it was depressing and lonely without company.

Thinking it over, being alone on a foreign planet was like being alone in the deep sea without heavenly light—a sense of claustrophobia, fear, and loneliness inevitably rises.

The three of them chatted to pass the time, growing sleepy.

"What's that?" Bi suddenly pointed to something and asked.

Li Qianxia looked over to see dark shadows, unclear, resembling schools of sharks.

"So there's an ocean on a gaseous planet, and there are living creatures in the ocean too," she marveled, "So, could Jupiter too —"

"Creatures?" Itheri looked over, her complexion instantly changing, "Main vessel, Hydrogen Transformation detected! I will return immediately!"

Boom!

The flying vessel abruptly ascended, leaving the liquid hydrogen layer and shooting towards the sky.

The liquid hydrogen tanks had not yet closed properly, spilling quite a bit of liquid hydrogen.

A host of dark figures followed, bursting forth from the "sea surface" and catching up with the flying vessel in an instant.

"What is this?" Li Qianxia exclaimed in surprise as she looked outside the cabin.

They had been encircled. Numerous dark figures swirled around them, devoid of any signs of life. These shadows in front of them were like fish corpses left to rot on the shore after the tide had receded.

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