This damn flashlight must've drained Li Fan's last bit of travel budget, and once it realized it couldn't milk more money from the poor guy, it stopped responding to him. Li Fan yelled for a long time, but it didn't even grant him the courtesy of a dim light.
As a result, probably due to the disintegration of the space station, all the hangar doors were sealed shut. Li Fan couldn't find a shuttle to rent for his escape, so he had no choice but to crawl along the shuttle's launch tracks.
The gravity system was glitching, intermittently flinging people into the air or squashing them. Occasionally, it would eject large pieces of junk like cargo containers. He had to use his spring knife as an ice axe, trying to flatten his body against the track to prevent being tossed into the vastness of deep space.
