Reborn in 2011, I am the chief designer of aerospace.

This might be an opportunity for him to come into contact with Salyut 7 earlier than Wang Han, who went mad and disappeared in his previous life.

Perhaps this can prevent some accidents from happening.

At first, Jiang Mian felt embarrassed and didn't dare to do such a thing, but under the other party's persistent coaxing, she had no choice but to agree.

The confidential room was quiet. Apart from the old man flipping through a martial arts novel, you could also hear the rustling of pages turning in a corner.

It seems that besides myself, there are others in this confidential room who are also looking up information.

Jiang Mian sat in the chair like a well-behaved primary school student, but secretly she was thinking about her next move.

She timed her move perfectly, and while the old man was engrossed in reading his novel, she quietly got up and left her seat.

The moment Jiang Mian lifted her foot to walk towards the filing shelf, she caught the old man's movement out of the corner of her eye; he suddenly looked at her.

Jiang Mian didn't dare to turn around, or even pause at all.

She forced herself to keep walking, pretending to be looking for something nonchalantly, her eyes quickly scanning the index cards on the side of the shelf: 2006-2010.

It seems that the shelves in this confidential room are arranged in chronological order according to the years of the documents.

She looked at the shelf on the other side, where materials from 2001 to 2005 were piled up.

Following this pattern, Salyut 7 was launched in 1982 and crashed in 1991...

The data should be on several shelves spanning the period from 1981 to 1995.

But Jiang Mian could feel the old man's gaze fixed on her back. Before she could look at the dates on the other filing shelves, she suddenly heard him shout from behind:

"Excuse me, what are you looking for?"

"what?"

Jiang Mian was startled. She hurriedly turned around and stammered, "I...I'll look at something else."

"Read whichever book is listed on the borrowing slip!"

The old man stared at Jiang Mian's face, his attitude quite stern. "This is a confidential room, not a market. Don't wander around!"

"Yes, yes, I understand. I'm sorry, teacher!"

Jiang Mian quickly apologized, bowed, and slunk back to her seat.

Only after she sat down again did the old man slowly withdraw his scrutinizing gaze and continue reading his novel.

Jiang Mian reopened the meeting minutes on the table, pretending to read them, but her heart was pounding.

too frightening.

The old man was sitting in front of them, and he was far from being as incompetent as one might imagine. On the surface, he was reading a novel to pass the time, but in reality, his every move was being monitored by the other party, and he had no chance to get the information on Salyut 7 at all!

Jiang Mian was starting to back down and was eager to escape the confidential room and return to report.

However, when she thought of Song Xingye's longing look, her heart softened.

No! I can't just give up like this!

Just when I was in a dilemma, an opportunity suddenly came.

Suddenly, a pleasant ringtone rang out in the quiet confidential room.

"I'm like a fish in your lotus pond, just to wait with you under the bright moonlight..."

Jiang Mian subconsciously looked up and saw that the old man, who had been keeping a stern face, suddenly relaxed his eyebrows and revealed a kind smile.

He quickly pressed the answer button and held the phone to his ear.

"Oh, my little girl..."

Although the old man tried his best to keep his voice down, the conversation was still clearly audible in the quiet confidential room.

Hearing the old man's completely different, amiable tone, it was clear that it was his beloved granddaughter calling; there was no trace of the stern look he had just given.

To avoid disturbing the peace and quiet of the confidential room, or perhaps to have a private conversation, the old man answered while covering the microphone and quickly walked out the door.

Jiang Mian initially complained about the old man's double standards, but she quickly realized—

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

Jiang Mian immediately got up and quickly walked backwards along the archive shelf according to the year, nervously browsing the file names on the shelf as she went.

Find the information quickly before the old man finishes his call!

As she rushed past several rows of file shelves, she caught a glimpse of a man sitting in the corner, flipping through documents.

The rustling sound I heard earlier must have come from him.

In her haste, Jiang Mian only noticed the other person's gray hair, bloated figure, and faded Zhongshan suit.

The other party seemed engrossed in the documents and didn't notice anything happening here.

She had no intention or time to pay too much attention to the man; she was just secretly praying that he wouldn't expose her to the old man later.

终于，找到了1981~1985、1986~1990、1991~1995三个年份的档案架。

Jiang Mian was delighted. She glanced around and quickly ran her fingers across the dusty spine of the document.

She picked up several documents and checked the file names, then quickly put them back when she found they weren't Salyut 7.

Time ticked by, and Jiang Mian was sweating with anxiety.

Finally, she crouched down and rummaged through the bottom iron shelves until she pulled out the fourth document, which was titled "The Mysterious Incident of Salute No. 7 (Part 2)" on the cover.

that's it!

Jiang Mian cheered inwardly, quickly stuffed the previous documents into the folder, and then continued to flip through the surrounding folders.

Strange, only the second volume? What about the first and second volumes?

This row of iron frames appears to be the only document related to the Salyut 7 missile.

But she couldn't worry about that anymore. Jiang Mian tucked the folder tightly under her arm and turned to walk back.

When they were still a few meters from the table, the old man's clear voice came from outside the door:

"Okay, sweetie, Grandpa will buy you osmanthus cake at Confucius Temple after get off work. We'll eat it secretly in the car so your mom won't know..."

Jiang Mian quickened her pace, not daring to slack off, and almost ran a few steps. Just as the old man was about to step into the confidential room, she successfully sat back down in her original seat!

Despite keeping her head down, she could still feel the old man's gaze linger on her for two seconds, as if to make sure she wasn't moving around.

In order not to let the other party notice anything amiss, Jiang Mian tried her best to hold her breath and didn't even dare to lift her eyelids.

The old man seemed oblivious until he heard the chair being moved, and he picked up his tattered martial arts novel again and began reading with great interest.

Jiang Mian then quietly let out a breath, tidied her hair, and carefully wiped away the cold sweat that had seeped from her forehead due to nervousness.

The folder in front of me, titled "The Mysterious Incident of Salute No. 7 (Part 2)," looked older and heavier, with a severely worn cover and a musty smell, suggesting it had been sitting on the shelf for many years.

Turning to the title page, the paper inside was already yellowed and brittle. After turning just a few pages, tiny dust particles flew around wildly in the sunlight, causing Jiang Mian to sneeze unintentionally.

Her heart clenched, and she looked up at the old man with a guilty conscience.

Seeing that the other person didn't seem to care, he covered his nose and continued scrolling down.

Jiang Mian probably slowed down and quietly pulled the pink backpack over to block the table.

As a student of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a newcomer about to join Dongyu Group, she had long heard of the famous "Salyut 7".

This is the swan song of R country's space empire, the pinnacle of the third-generation space station. It was launched in 1982, weighs 19 tons, and is 16 meters long.

It has hosted 10 Soyuz manned spacecraft and 12 Progress cargo spacecraft, and has carried out six rotations of astronauts. Svetlana Savitskaya was the first woman to conduct a spacewalk on it!

But beyond its glorious history, this space station also carries many unknown secrets.

It was a product of the Cold War's peak, a symbol of R country's space power, and was used to test all sorts of unheard-of space weapons, and even... to undertake the absurd mission of contacting extraterrestrial civilizations for R country.

Yes, the Russians considered themselves the world's number one at the time. Although they were at a disadvantage in the moon landing, if they could establish contact with extraterrestrial civilizations before Country A, it would undoubtedly be another glorious and great (show-off) achievement.

By 1985, Salyut 7 had taken on a new mission: docking with a heavy experimental module codenamed "Cosmos-1443" to welcome the Buran space shuttle, which was about to undergo its maiden flight.

However, the mission ultimately failed.

For various reasons, the legendary Buran space shuttle was completely shelved.

Salyut 7 was later destroyed in the skies over South America.

This is all publicly available information, and Jiang Mian doesn't know why Song Xingye asked her to investigate it.

But when she saw the words "mysterious event" in the file extension, her curiosity was piqued.

It seems that what Song Xingye asked him to find is no simple matter!