Die on Mars

"Tang Yue?"

"Tang Yue, what's wrong with you?"

"Tang Yue, wake up!"

Tang Yue opened his eyes, and the first thing he saw was the face of Ophiopogon pear blossoms and rain on the screen.

"Tang Yue, are you awake? Are you okay?" Maidong was surprised, overjoyed, and laughed through tears.

She was really anxious and frightened.

The past few hours could be said to be the most difficult period of her life. Maidong watched Tang Yue fall in the airlock, thinking that he had suffered a stroke, cerebral hemorrhage, and heart attack.

In Maidong's eyes, Tang Yue fell seriously ill and was in urgent need of rescue, but the only person who knew about it was still on the track hundreds of kilometers high.

For a moment, Maidong wanted to find her mobile phone and dial 120, but then she realized that she was in a desperate situation.

Maidong almost fell into despair.

She could only call Tang Yue's name over and over again, but she couldn't do anything else. This was a great torture for the girl.

She thought she was watching Tang Yue's life pass by, and that man would lie there forever.

There was no one else on Kunlun Station, and no one even turned the camera. If Tang Yue really died in the airlock, his body would be displayed on the video forever.

A white wall, a circular hatch, and a bloated white human figure together form part of the composition of this postmodern surrealist death painting, which was created by a master like Dali.

"I..." Tang Yue frowned.

"What happened to you?"

"I fell asleep." Tang Yue sucked the hazelnut beside his mouth.

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"I...how long have I slept?" Tang Yue felt dizzy and looked at the time on his wrist. The screen of the Mingguang Kai control terminal showed 6:40 pm. The time to go out this morning was around 7:00. Calculating the time, he slept for almost twelve hours. After working continuously for the past two days, he was very stressed. He was really exhausted. When he went out in the morning, he tripped and fell to the ground. As soon as his eyelids closed, he immediately fell asleep and has been sleeping until now.

Tang Yue slept too deeply this time. Maidong shouted into his earphones all day long until his voice became hoarse, but he still couldn't wake him up.

Tang Yue had a good sleep, but it frightened Maidong. She saw Tang Yue fell to the ground through the screen and never got up, thinking something was wrong with him.

The old cat disappeared and there was no news. If something happened to Tang Yue again, Maidong would be left alone.

Maidong was on the space station, four hundred kilometers away, unable to do anything except worry.

She desperately called Tang Yue's name, but the latter lay motionless on the ground like a dead pig, and he lay there for more than ten hours. Maidong searched the entire space station, but couldn't find anything that could help. In the end, Maidong was so anxious that she burst into tears. At the end of the road, she could only hold Ah Q and pray to God for a miracle.

Tang Yue slowly got up. The Mingguang Armor was flashing a warning. He didn't know how long it had been reporting the alarm. The oxygen in the life support system had long been exhausted, and the pressure of the main and backup oxygen bottles had dropped below the danger line. .

Fortunately, before Tang Yue left Kunlun Station, he fell down in the airlock. After the Mingguang Armor ran out of oxygen, it detected that the oxygen concentration in the surrounding environment was normal, so it opened the external oxygen circulation, allowing the airflow inside and outside the Mingguang Armor to communicate—— Otherwise, Tang Yue would have to suffocate in the spacesuit.

The sun had set and the sky was completely dark. Before Tang Yue went out, he had planned to move the battery panels, but now he had to move them. Tang Yue slept all day, and all his routine work was wasted. Fortunately, there was a battery in the Kunlun Station. There is still enough remaining power in the phone to survive tonight without any problem.

The Mingguang Armor ran out of energy and was now just a thick and heavy sack. Tang Yue sighed, unlocked the life support system, removed the battery and gas cylinders, then got out of the Mingguang Armor, and hung the extravehicular suit on Wall charging.

"Tang Yue, do you want to do a check-up?"

"Tang Yue, I think your physical condition may not be very good. How about a check-up?"

"Tang Yue, are your bones loose? Are your muscles atrophied? Have you exercised strictly according to the physical training schedule?"

"Tang Yue?"

Tang Yue smiled bitterly, clasped his hands together, and bowed deeply towards Maidong, "Miss Maidong, thank you for your kindness, but why are you exactly like my mother?"

Ophiopogon japonicus' nagging tone is indeed like the old lady urging you to wear long johns, with 360-degree surround sound.

"Go away, I don't have a good-for-nothing son like you."

The girl was stunned and turned her head. Her eyes were still red, but her tone sounded brisk. Tang Yue finally woke up safe and sound, which made Maidong feel relieved. He breathed a sigh of relief, and a big stone was weighing on his heart. After falling down, I was in the mood to joke with Tang Yue.

Tang Yue moved his hands and feet, and when he woke up, he found that he was very hungry, so he took out a piece of compressed biscuit from the box and put it in his mouth, scooped up half a cup of water, and sat down on the chair in front of the table.

"Did you find anything on the image?"

"No."

To be honest, Maidong didn't pay much attention to the photos in the past twelve hours, and couldn't find time to scan and take pictures. Tang Yue collapsed in Kunlun Station. Maidong couldn't even sit still, and he couldn't concentrate on searching for the old man. cat.

With a beep, the computer announced the hour, seven o'clock in the evening.

Tang Yue's heart sank, and he subconsciously turned his head to look at the headset. Unsurprisingly, no communication signal was transmitted within this second.

The result he was most worried about has finally appeared. It has been more than seventy-two hours since the old cat lost contact. According to the normal schedule, the old cat should have returned to Kunlun Station by this time - the last bit of hope in the hearts of Tang Yue and Maidong. It was also shattered. They had such a fluke before: the old cat only damaged the communication system, but its normal actions were not affected. The Martian stray dog ​​could still continue driving and it would return to Kunlun Station on time.

But three days have passed and the old cat has not returned, which shows that it is not just the communication system that has been damaged.

The situation took a turn for the worse.

By this time, Tang Yue was basically sure that there was something wrong with the actions of Lao Mao and the Martian stray dog. This result was not unexpected. Although he was unwilling to admit it, Tang Yue believed that there was a possibility that the Mars rover would be completely destroyed - but it was strange. They couldn't find the old cat on the satellite images. All possible locations that could have caused the vehicle failure were searched, but no trace was found.

If the old cat really overturns.

So where exactly was it turned over?

A very incredible possibility slowly came to Tang Yue's mind: Could it be that the cat really eloped with the Martian stray dog?