There is no artificial control of day and night on the spaceship Brave. Everyone can rest freely after completing their work according to their personal schedules, and to these research fanatics, eight Earth hours is considered very sufficient rest time.

To make himself appear as normal as possible, Wang Zhifan deliberately went to rest for a few hours, even though his body did not need it.

He slept in a very inconspicuous little cubicle in his office. If he hadn't specifically looked up where his bedroom was in the database, he might not have believed that a place that looked like a convenient spot for catching up on sleep would be a legitimate bedroom. This shows that although the Brave is very large, its use of space is quite precise.

The time for rest quickly passed, and a prepared Wang Zhifan once again arrived at the dock of the spaceship where he had not been away for more than ten hours, and saw the spacecraft he and Jessica's team would be taking this time, the Guangshu reconnaissance ship.

This interstellar vessel is much larger compared to the small spaceship he rode last time, measuring a full one hundred meters from head to tail, with a width of twenty to thirty meters and a height of about five stories high. It is said that there are only three such level ships on the Brave.

"Mr. Wang, has the Chief increased your soldier quota?"

At this moment, Jessica and her team of four were already standing at the entrance of the Guangshu's boarding cabin, and they noticed that behind Wang Zhifan followed a total of twelve cloned soldiers, which is three times the number initially planned.

"Yes, the Chief must have seen my message, so he temporarily increased my soldier allocation and also assigned us four sets of combat armor."

Wang Zhifan turned around and pointed to the large boxes dragged on the ground by four of the cloned soldiers, indicating that they contained not clothes or food supplies but pure combat power.

"That's really good news, this mission is bound to be as smooth as the last one."

Jessica's eyes swept over Wang Zhifan and the others, and she felt equally pleased with the enhanced security forces.

"Let's board the ship first and chat on the way."

With the pleasantries exchanged, Wang Zhifan had the four scientists board the ship first, entering the Guangshu's first-deck via a long, slanted steel ramp, and allowed the crew inside to start some identity verification procedures.

As a top-configured reconnaissance ship on the Brave mothership, the crew of the Guangshu was not like last time, where only the captain and co-captain were present. They had more crew members than Wang Zhifan's passengers combined.

Besides pilot crew responsible for operating the spaceship, there were maintenance personnel, service staff, and professional fighters, such as cooks who prepared meals for everyone, doctors responsible for medical care, and operators who controlled cannon attacks.

The presence of these people ensures that the Guangshu counts as a small scientific expedition team capable of handling a variety of situations.

"Identity verification complete, please use the vertical ladder to get to the second floor. We will use the cargo elevator to bring your luggage up."

After a female clone service attendant holding a recorder verified Wang Zhifan, they were allowed to enter the second deck of the Guangshu, where the real passenger cabin of this spaceship was located.

Soon after finishing climbing the vertical ladder to the ship's interior where they would live for about a month, Wang Zhifan found that this space was not as large as he had imagined. The main cabin had just enough space to fit nearly twenty of them, with no extra room, appearing somewhat cramped.

"Sir, many people boarding our Guangshu for the first time show the same expression as yours. They think the interior space of the Guangshu will be very spacious. In reality, because the volume occupied by the superluminal engine is too large, and the fuel tank space cannot be effectively reduced, the effective space of our spaceship has always been quite tight."

A white female flight attendant noticed Wang Zhifan's puzzled expression and took the initiative to explain to him.

"We each have our sleeping and hygiene space, right? Don't tell me this is the place we'll stay for the next month."

Wang Zhifan asked after hearing this, suspecting that the designer of this spaceship might be the same as that of the Brave.

"Rest assured, everyone has their private sleeping compartment, but there are only two restrooms, so they need to be shared in turns."

The flight attendant smiled and continued to introduce other configurations on the ship to Wang Zhifan and the others, such as a section of the cabin with a fixed rectangular dining table and oven, which was evidently the Guangshu's dining area.

The initial phase of getting acquainted with the surroundings quickly passed, and once everyone was assigned a resting compartment by the crew personnel, the journey officially began.

The Guangshu first warmed up for half an hour at the docking station of the Brave mothership before slowly sailing out of this safe harbor into the vast space. In the empty space, it did not engage in long accelerations but instead quickly entered a state similar to being stationary. However, the keen Wang Zhifan knew that during this phase, the Guangshu was not truly stationary; it was actually consuming fuel at a terrifying rate to accumulate energy.

"The twisted light outside should be a sign that superluminal travel is about to start, right?"

At this moment, Wang Zhifan arrived at a porthole inside the cabin and noticed the blonde blue-eyed female scientist Jessica staring out into the infinite space, focusing her gaze on the slightly trembling fine layer of light around the ship's exterior, seemingly lost in thought.

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