[Anime-inspired, ensemble cast, engineering, aerospace, no System]
Someone passed through the sky above. There were no guards up there, and no sound. The Heavenly Principles did not react.
Thousands of years ago, the dragon race took off from the Dunana Deep Pit. The base of the lunar pillar was nearly a hundred paces across. Several hundred years ago, a fireworks maker tied forty-seven fireworks to a bamboo chair and fell from the cliff atop Guyun Stone Forest. The final five characters in the record read: fell from a great height.
On the sixth day after the tents from Snezhnaya were pitched at the mouth of the pit, the surveying team had already started making its way down. Keqing wrote three words in her notebook, without punctuation. Ningguang was calculating the costs. Liyue had yet to decide whether to go up.
When Shi Zhiyuan received his transfer orders, he had no idea what the unit by the seaside was building. He folded one corner of a cross-section diagram of a dragon engine's cooling channels and tucked it under his pillow.