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Chapter 936: Chapter 880: Lincoln Astronaut Limited Edition Skin_1 Chapter 936: Chapter 880: Lincoln Astronaut Limited Edition Skin_1 Lance was initially contemplating using the coming ‘Freedom Day’ event to play with Shuihua, without having to worry about eSports Club tasks.

However, after one meeting – that was no longer possible.

All of their time had to be devoted to the “Global Professional League,” and not just on “Freedom Day,” but they didn’t even need to practice “Testing the Sword” anymore.

Of course, they still had to participate, but only in individual combat, to promote Cloud Dream’s game events.

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But using main force to join team combat was off the table.

Unless someday in the future, Cloud Dream incorporated the competition into the “Global Professional League” – which was highly likely to happen.

As for Shuihua, like many ordinary players, she registered for all possible events, not missing a single one.

It’s playtime!

Once winter vacation was over and school officially resumed, the final year of high school would start its full-on sprint phase.

Before graduation, one couldn’t expect any leisurely days.

So, when still able to play without constraints, one must fully enjoy it!

*

In the midst of the eSports Club’s intense preparation and the players’ bustling registration and anticipation, another two days swiftly passed.

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When the new week arrived, Lincoln finally ended his space journey and returned to Earth.

The return trip was even more thrilling than the ascent!

So much so that the three astronauts were carried out of the re-entry capsule in the end.

And after coming out, they were lifted without setting foot on the ground and immediately departed – not because they were injured, but because they had gotten accustomed to a zero-gravity environment for five days and experienced a bumpy ride back to their home planet.

Hence, the Earth’s normal gravity was no longer “normal” for them, requiring an adaptation period.

Besides, there were more troubles awaiting after the return.

Because the astronauts’ immunity would be lowered due to working in a microgravity environment, a period of isolation was needed after returning to Earth to restore their immune system.

Lincoln was no exception to this procedure.

After completing all medical examinations and submitting a report on the mission, Lincoln flew to Xiajing City for isolation.

– This part was a special arrangement.

While his two teammates were taken back to Jiuquan by the medical department for isolation, Lincoln was flown back to Xiajing with a chartered plane by the security team.

Joining the flight were a medical insurance monitoring team from the aerospace system and a medical group from the security team to ensure no accidents occurred during the journey.

This special arrangement wasn’t requested by Lincoln, but rather, was proposed by the security team.

With Lincoln not inside their created “safety bubble,” they couldn’t rest easy.

Therefore, Lincoln ended up in isolation at the Xiajing Aerospace Training Center for medical purposes.

Lincoln didn’t mind because the isolation did not affect him much.

– As long as the Mirage console was placed in the isolation room, he could deal with most of the work in the virtual world.

If there were to be an issue, the greatest one would be that for quite a while, he wouldn’t be able to hold his girlfriend in reality.

“Well, it’s not a big problem,” Lincoln thought.

But barely half an hour later, before the Mirage console was delivered, Henry called: “The mech has begun construction, do you want to come and see it in person?”

Lincoln immediately responded, “Sure!”

Henry, not being part of the aerospace system, wasn’t familiar with the details of the space mission.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t have made the call at this time.

After hearing Lincoln’s response, he promptly asked, “Shall I come get you, or just give you the address?”

“I’m at the Xiajing Aerospace Training Center; there are some tasks to finish up.

Could you come pick me up?”

“Okay, on my way.”

…

Twenty minutes later, Henry arrived at the Aerospace Training Center and was baffled to see Lincoln in isolation.

“You’re in isolation; why did you call me here?” He was full of question marks.

“To break me out!” Lincoln confidently replied.

“???” Henry was taken aback, “You do realize isolation is for your own good, right?”

– Before meeting Lincoln, the staff had informed him about the reasons and consequences of Lincoln’s isolation.

“That’s certainly true, but before you came, I had already thought of a solution.”

“What solution?” Henry was skeptical.

“The isolation is for my protection against virus invasion, right?”

“Yes, so what?”

“So, just by wearing a full set of spacesuit, I can completely isolate myself from the external environment, wouldn’t that utterly prevent the possibility of a virus invasion?”

“???” After thinking back on how he introduced himself to the engineers, Henry immediately felt very weird!

“So…you want to inspect the progress of mech manufacturing in a full spacesuit, and do technology exchange with the workers and engineers?”

“Why not?” Lincoln looked at Henry curiously, “Wearing a spacesuit wouldn’t hinder me from talking and seeing.”

Is that the point?!

Didn’t you think about how weird you would appear in the eyes of the workers and engineers?!

Don’t you realize, once this gets online, how many people will question your sanity?!

I just want to be an ordinary person; I don’t want to make the headlines and be the topic of netizens!

*

Twenty minutes later, ordinary man Henry, left the Aerospace Center in his car.

Behind him, Lincoln, wearing the bulky spacesuit and carrying a few cans of spare oxygen, sat in the back seat.

He watched the buildings and the hustle and bustle of pedestrians through the helmet’s face window and the car window.

After spending five days in space with two men, seeing the monotonous city scenery felt kind of interesting.

Latter, he found that being behind two layers was rather uncomfortable.

He also rolled down the car window and looked aroung with his glass helmet on.

Curious pedestrians glanced a few times, but the car was moving quite fast.

There were never a lack of eccentric people in Xiajing City, so after a little chat, they soon forgot about it without causing much of a stir.

This lifted a bit of the burden from Henry’s heart.

However, as the car stopped at the gate of the Third Machinery Factory, Henry started to feel tense again – The real challenge was just about to begin!

When the Factory Manager heard that Henry was bringing Lincoln for a visit, he brought along a few management personnel and technical experts to welcome them at the gate.

Everyone was already waiting at the gate.

As they saw Henry’s car approaching, they hurried over to meet him.

But all Henry did was nod his head, exchange a few pleasantries with them, go around to the back car door, and extend his arm to help Lincoln out of the car.

Seeing their superior who’s really in control behaving like a driver serving someone else shook the Factory Manager.

— Has Lincoln’s status risen to such an absurd level?

Even Henry needs to curry favor with him in such a lowly way?

Thinking about this, the Factory Manager’s pace quickened a bit.

Then, he saw a fat arm extending out of the car door, followed by a bulky leg.

Once the leg had solidly stepped on the ground, a round polycarbonate helmet carefully peered out of the car door.

Henry held the car door with one hand, and supported Lincoln’s arm with the other, helping him out of the car.

—Not only was the spacesuit inconvenient, but Lincoln’s physical condition was indeed a bit weak.

It was only after more than half of Lincoln’s body had exited the car that the Factory Manager snapped back to reality.

He hurried over to lend a hand, supporting Lincoln’s arm to help him maintain balance.

Simultaneously, the Factory Manager couldn’t help but think that it was fortunate and wasn’t about Henry needing to cozy up to Lincoln, but simply because Lincoln indeed needed some care in his current condition.

Besides this thought, nothing else remained in the Factory Manager’s mind.

Not just him, but the other few management staff and technical experts were also dumbfounded on the spot.

All those words of praise they had prepared for Lincoln—his astonishing technical ability, his courage to go to space, the incredible creativity of his large mech, etc., have all been forgotten.

They stood there, dumbfounded, watching a bulky astronaut wriggle out of the backseat, coming in front of them shaking their hands and exchanging pleasantries one by one.

Like a bunch of dummy geese, they mechanically greeted and introduced themselves.

This was nothing like the scene they had expected!

It felt extremely weird!

The Factory Manager glanced at Lincoln, then at Henry, then he hesitated but held his tongue.

…

Meanwhile, on the ultra-low orbit, only 200 kilometers above Earth, two spy satellites were aiming their cameras here.

The Lincoln Countermeasures Group, which had expanded to a team of 10, immediately received information: the key person, “Henry” had brought a mysterious person to the mech manufacturing factory.

Daniel immediately made a call, requesting the satellite team to increase the shooting frequency from once every five minutes to 20 shots per minute.

They wouldn’t need to wait for the data to be compiled, immediately send it over!

One after another optical satellite photo was quickly transferred over and projected on the screen in front of them.

Daniel selected the earliest one; he maxed its size, trying to see every detail clearly.

Then, they saw the [Lincoln Astronaut Limited Edition Skin].

“?” Daniel was dumbstruck, “Why an astronaut?”

Bree, the female member who was more experienced and knowledgeable, was first to speculate, “Is this…Cosplay?”