Chapter 422: Shenzhou One, Launch Countdown

November 15, 1999, 3:12 PM.

"That's the 'Shenzhou 1'..."

Lin Xingjie squinted her eyes, her gaze cutting through the dust hovering over the Gobi desert, staring off into the distance.

The most eye-catching features within the launch center were naturally the two tallest "buildings":

The launch tower, cast from steel, and the white rocket standing shoulder to shoulder with the tower.

Like two giants, they stood silently on the wasteland, gazing up at the sky. The cosmos deep in the heavens was their destination.

Immediately after disembarking the plane, a dedicated car was waiting to pick her up. Lin Xingjie and her accompanying personnel took the car, and it took half an hour to reach the launch base. Looking at the target location from the open wasteland, the actual distance to be crossed was always further than expected.

Lin Xingjie sat alone in the back seat of one of the dedicated cars, resting her cheek on her hand, quietly watching the barren terrain whiz by the window.