"Uh-huh↗Mom, um, I've checked it three times!"
"Who examined Yanyan?"
"It was Sister Lin Shuang who took me for the checkup! She's wearing the mask right now! Look, Mom!"
Jiang Ling took the quick-detachable wrist monitor from her daughter, which displayed the parameters of the fifth-generation exoskeleton. She then noticed two cylindrical objects in her waist compression-resistant carrying gear and asked, "What did Yanyan bring?"
"It's a gift! Teacher Zhihui said that we should bring gifts when visiting relatives and friends, otherwise it would be impolite." Yanyan took back the monitor floating in the air, then skillfully put it on her arm and adjusted its position.
"What else did Teacher Zhihui say?" Jiang Ling touched Yanyan's head, and her short light blue hair immediately became fluffy due to static electricity.
"No, don't touch it!" Yanyan reached out and grabbed the space handrail on the inner wall of the airlock. The static eraser quickly began to work, taking away the trace electric charge on her body.
While she was still, Jiang Ling carefully checked her exoskeleton. After making sure nothing was missing, she felt relieved and said to her earnestly, "Yanyan, listen to your mother. Be careful, cautious, rational, and decisive. The world outside our home is beautiful but also dangerous. Never forget what Teacher Wisdom taught you!"
"Yeah! I've always remembered it!" The hair on Yanyan's head was stretched straight by the tension of its hair follicles, making it look like her radio antenna. "Move slowly, use light force, relax your mind, and breathe rhythmically... Mom, am I remembering it correctly?"
"Okay, Mom always believes in Yanyan!" Jiang Ling smiled, put a little force on her toes, slowly floated back to the node cabin, and then manually closed the airlock door.
Fifteen minutes later, the control terminal in the node cabin where Jiang Ling was located showed that the external door of the airlock cabin was opened and the external sensor detected that the exoskeleton had safely left the station. She switched the sensor to optical mode and watched with a little pride as the small figure among the stars floated further and further away.
Yanyan's full name is "Yu Yan". She is an orphan adopted by Jiang Ling nine years ago. Her biological parents were once Jiang Ling's colleagues, but they died in a production accident caused by force majeure. They had just celebrated their 30th birthday when they passed away.
Time flies. Three years after Jiang Ling adopted Yu Yan, the "Nanwan-1" mass accelerator she helped build was completed, instantly bringing the cost of human spaceflight to a new low. That same year, she took Yan Yan into space with her. At the time, Nanwan-1 had sixteen parallel orbits, totaling approximately 1,050 kilometers. 800 kilometers of these orbits were for the acceleration section, and the remaining 250 kilometers were for the curved ascent section, with an average overload of 3G.
Today is June 1st of the 35th year of the Star Calendar, the happiest day of the year for children living under the rule of the human community. Twelve-year-old Yu Yan has just completed her first spacewalk in her life, which was also her first visit to the neighborhood.
The excited Yu Yan did most things well, but there was only one thing that was a little regretful, that was the 6 kilograms of ultrapure water she brought with her before leaving, which she did not tell Jiang Ling about. Due to her lack of life experience, she did not realize until later that giving them as souvenirs was indeed too expensive - almost the same as proposing marriage in person.
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