After Zhang Beihai made all the preparations, he took the Tiantai No. 1 space elevator located at the equator to the space station, and he was ready to act.

Zhang Beihai is suspended in space five kilometers away from the Yellow River space station, this wheel-shaped space station is part of the space elevator, located three hundred kilometers above the end of the space elevator, built as a counterweight for the elevator, is currently the largest man-made object in space, can accommodate thousands of people.

With the space elevator as the center, there are other space facilities within a radius of 500 kilometers, all of which are much smaller in scale than the Yellow River Station, and they are scattered sporadically, like nomadic tents on the prairie in the early stage of the development of the western part of the Eagle Sauce, which is the prelude to the large-scale entry of human beings into space.

Among them, the spaceyard, which has just begun to be built, is the largest, and its volume may be ten times that of the Yellow River Station, but so far only a construction frame has been erected, like the skeleton of a giant beast; At a distance of 80 kilometers from Zhang Beihai, there is an independent space station, only one-fifth the size of the Yellow River station, which was the first base established by the Space Force in synchronous orbit, from which Zhang Beihai flew.

He has now lived and worked there for three months with other members of Future Reinforcement Task Force I, during which time he has returned to the ground only once.

In Base 1, Zhang Beihai has been waiting for an opportunity, and now the opportunity has appeared: the space system held a high-level working meeting at the Yellow River station, and the three targets he wanted to eliminate were all participants.

After the Yellow River space station was put into operation, many meetings of the space system were held in it, as if to make up for the regret that most of the people who were engaged in the space industry did not have the opportunity to go into space.

Before flying out of Base No. 1, Zhang Beihai left the positioning unit on the spacesuit in his cabin in the base, so that the monitoring system of Base No. 1 would not know that he had left the base, and his outing would not leave any record.

Using a small jet thruster on a spacesuit, he flew eighty kilometers in space, came to this long-chosen position, and waited quietly.

Zhang Beihai knew that now that the meeting was over, he was waiting for all the participants to come out and take pictures.

It's a practice that at the end of each meeting, the attendees go out into space to take a group photo.

Generally speaking, taking pictures should be against the sun, because in this way the space station as the background can be taken clearly, when taking pictures, everyone who takes a group photo needs to adjust the space helmet mask to be transparent, so as to show their faces from the mask, at this time, if the sun is in the sky, the strong sunlight will make people unable to open their eyes, and at the same time, the helmet will soon be uncomfortable hot, so the best time to take a group photo is at the moment when the sun rises or sets from the edge of the earth.

In the synchronous orbit, the sunrise and sunset are also once every twenty-four hours, but the night time is very short, and Zhang Beihai is now waiting for the sunset.

He knew that the monitoring system at the Yellow River station would definitely detect his presence, but it would not attract any attention.

At the origin of space development, there is a huge amount of building materials scattered around, both used and discarded, as well as more garbage, many of which are about the size of a human body.

In addition, the relationship between the space elevator and the surrounding space facilities is similar to that of a large city and the surrounding villages, the latter is supplied entirely by the former, and there is heavy traffic between the two.

With the adaptation to the space environment, people gradually got used to walking alone in space, at this time, the spacesuit is like a space bicycle, the jet thruster can make it reach a speed of 500 kilometers per hour, and it is the most convenient means of transportation within a few hundred kilometers around the elevator, and now, almost every moment there are people wearing spacesuits flying between the elevator and the surrounding space station.

But at this time, in Zhang Beihai's feeling, the surrounding space is very empty, except for the blue star, which can already be seen in a complete spherical shape in the synchronous orbit, and the sun that is about to set on its edge, the other directions are pitch-black abysses, and the countless stars seem to be just shining dust, which cannot change the emptiness of the universe.

He knew that the life support system in the spacesuit would only last twelve hours, and before that, he would have to return to Base One, eighty kilometers away, even though it now looked like a shapeless point in the abyss of distant space.

And Base 1 itself, if it leaves the umbilical cord of the space elevator, will not survive for too long. But at this time, he floated in this vast void, and he felt that he had cut off the connection with the blue world below, and felt that he was an independent existence in the universe, not attached to any world, there was no earth under his feet, only space around him, suspended in the universe like the blue star, the sun and the Milky Way, not coming from nowhere, not going, just existing, he liked this feeling.

He even thought that his father's heavenly spirit might feel the same way.

At this time, the sun began to touch the edge of the blue star.

Zhang Beihai raised a hand, holding a scope in the gloves of his spacesuit, which he used as a telescope to observe an exit from the Yellow River Station ten kilometers away, and saw that on the wide curved metal outer wall, the circular sealed door was still closed.

He turned his head to look at the sun, which had sunk halfway into a radiant ring of the blue star.

Looking at the Yellow River Station through the scope, Zhang Beihai saw that the sign light next to the exit had changed from red to green, indicating that the air in the transition cabin behind had been evacuated.

Immediately afterward, the exit slid open, and a group of figures in white spacesuits rushed out, about thirty people. They collectively flew outward, casting a larger shadow on the outer wall of the Yellow River Station, and they had to fly some distance to get a full picture of the space station in the background. Soon, everyone slowed down and stopped, and began to line up in a weightless environment under the command of the photographer.

By this time, the sun had sunk two-thirds of the way, and the rest looked like a luminous body embedded in the blue star, and the ocean at sunset was like a smooth mirror, half dark blue and half orange, and the clouds soaked in sunlight were like a large pink feather covering the mirror.

As the light level decreased, people who took photos from afar began to make their masks transparent and show their faces in their helmets.

Zhang Beihai widened the focal length of the scope and quickly found three targets, as he expected, due to the level of these three people, they were all in the middle of the front row.

Zhang Beihai let go of the scope, let it levitate in front of him, turned the metal ring of the space glove in his right hand with his left hand, and took off the glove.

At this time, his right hand was wearing only a thin cloth glove, and he immediately felt the cold of minus 100 degrees in space, and in order to prevent this hand from freezing quickly, he turned his body at an angle, allowing the weakening sunlight to shine on his hand.

He slipped the hand into the work bag on the side of the spacesuit and took out the pistol and two magazines. Next, he grabbed the hovering scope with his left hand and attached it to the pistol. The scope was originally used in rifles, but he modified it by replacing the original clamp with a magnet to make it suitable for use on a pistol.

Most of the guns on the Blue Star can be shot in space, vacuum is not a problem, because the projectile of the bullet is its own oxidant, and what needs to be considered is the temperature in space - whether it is low temperature or high temperature, it is very different from the atmosphere, which may have an impact on guns and ammunition, so Zhang Beihai did not dare to let the pistol and magazine be exposed for a long time.

In order to shorten the time, he has been repeatedly practicing the actions of taking the gun in weightlessness, loading the scope, and changing the magazine for three months.