Chapter 300 - Only The Living Have The Right To Worry About Tomorrow (2/2)
“Only the living have the right to worry about tomorrow. Don’t worry about Apollo. In such times, NASA has no option but to carry on with the project. They will try their best to prove the world wrong, and all. What we need to do now is to eliminate the rest of them and get ourselves on Apollo 11.”
“You’re right. I couldn’t agree more. We’ll go according to your plan during the fire drill,” the schoolkid nodded.
After a month training and studying, the players were already familiar with Kennedy s.p.a.ce Center’s surroundings. Hence, the schoolkid managed to make his way to one of the storerooms during his break. The small-ish room located on the seventh floor stored the base’ daily rations, and security there wasn’t too tight. Usually, a single administrative officer would watch over the place. It wasn’t too difficult to sneak in without alerting anyone. After the accidents, NASA increased the security of the entire facility. Although the store wasn’t of great importance, they placed a guard there anyway to ensure nothing untoward would happen again. However, that didn’t stop the schoolkid from breaking in. He took out a small piece of gla.s.s, and after a few tries, he managed to turn the sunlight’s reflection to the guard’s face. He then placed it outside the wall and waited for him to pick it up. The startled guard immediately got up, approaching the curious s.h.i.+ny object with caution.
It was at that time that something magical took place. Right after the guard picked up the gla.s.s, his mind went completely blank, and he plopped to the ground with a gaping mouth, stunned and oblivious. Relieved, the schoolkid emerged from the back of the wall, took a quick look at his surroundings, and hurried into the storeroom. After a while, he walked out hiding something under his s.h.i.+rt. Once he picked the gla.s.s from the ground, the guard returned to his normal state.
“Great. I have been looking for this thing. I’m glad you found it. Thank you so much!” the schoolkid exclaimed, with an ear-to-ear smile beaming over his face. The guard was still in a daze, unable to remember what happened after he picked up the gla.s.s. As a NASA employee, he quickly recognized the schoolkid as one of the astronaut candidates. So, he nodded at him and returned to his post. After getting the items he wanted, the schoolkid quickly ran back to the training center. He arrived at the training center right before the fire drill started, ending up beside Livingston and gasping for air. Many people were looking at him.
“Are you trying to tell everyone you’ve just done something behind their backs?”
“Easy for you to say. Try running from the canteen to the storeroom to the training center in such a short time! I’m nowhere on time. I think I did a good job, though. Managed to figure out how to make the captain team us up without raising our opponents’ suspicion?
“We don’t have to say anything. They are weaker than us. Logically, they should be the ones worried, not us.”
Before Livingston could finish, Zhen Xiong pointed at Jia Lai and asked the captain a question.
“Kenhaus, can you put us in the same team?”
“Reason?”
“I’ve teamed up with the others during our previous sessions. Anderson is the only person I haven’t teamed up with. I would like to team up with different people so I can familiarize myself with the way others do things.”
“Very reasonable. Request granted.”
Zhang Heng had no intention to get involved in their fight. Hence, he asked to team with the trainer. Thus, everyone now had their partner with them. Everyone also knew that this part of the training wasn’t going to be as simple as they thought it would be.