"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 Mai Dong's tear-stained face on the screen.
"Tang Yue, you're awake?
Are you okay? "
Mai Dong was alarmed before she was overjoyed. Her tears turned into smiles. She was truly anxious and frightened. The past few hours could be said to be the most unbearable period of her life. Mai Dong had watched helplessly as Tang Yue collapsed in the airlock, believing that he had suffered a stroke or a heart attack.
In Mai Dong's eyes, Tang Yue was seriously ill and in urgent need of rescue, but the only person who knew was still hundreds of kilometers in orbit. For a moment, Mai Dong wanted to find a cell phone to call 120, but then she realized that she was in a desperate situation, isolated and helpless.
Mai Dong almost fell into despair. She could only call Tang Yue's name over and over again. There was nothing else she could do. This was a great torture for the girl. She thought that she was watching Tang Yue's life fade away, and that the man would fall there forever.
There was no one else in Kunlun Station, and no one even turned the camera. If Tang Yue really died in the airlock, then his body would be shown in the video forever. A white wall, a round hatch, and a bloated white figure were part of the composition of this post-modern surrealist death painting, and it was the work of a master like Dali.
"I …" Tang Yue frowned.
"What's wrong with you?"
"I fell asleep." Tang Yue sucked the saliva in his mouth.
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"I … How long have I been asleep?"
Tang Yue's head was spinning. He looked at the time on his wrist. The screen of the Bright Light Armour's control terminal showed that it was 6: 40 in the evening. He had left the house around 7: 00 in the morning. He had slept for about 12 hours.
Thinking about it, he had been working non-stop for the past two days and was extremely tense, he was really too tired. 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 slept until now.
This time, Tang Yue slept too soundly. Mai Dong shouted in his earpiece for the whole day. She shouted until her voice became hoarse, but she still couldn't wake him up.
Tang Yue had a good sleep, but it scared Mai Dong. She saw Tang Yue fall to the ground and never get up again through the screen. She thought something had happened to him.
Old Cat had disappeared without a trace. If something happened to Tang Yue, then Mai Dong would be left alone.
Mai Dong was in the space station, four hundred kilometers away. Apart from being anxious, she could do nothing. She desperately called out Tang Yue's name, but the latter lay motionless on the ground like a dead pig. Furthermore, he had been there for more than ten hours.
Mai Dong searched the entire space station, but she couldn't find anything that could help. In the end, Mai Dong was so anxious that tears came out of her eyes. In her desperation, she could only hug Ah Q and pray to the heavens for a miracle.
Tang Yue slowly got up. Bright Light Armour was flashing a warning. He didn't know how long it had been doing that, but the oxygen in the life support system had long been depleted. The main and backup oxygen tanks were dangerously low. Fortunately, Tang Yue hadn't left Kunlun Station yet. He had collapsed in the airlock. After the Bright Light Armour ran out of oxygen, it detected that the oxygen concentration in the surrounding environment was normal. It turned on the oxygen external circulation, allowing the airflow inside and outside the Bright Light Armour to connect. Otherwise, Tang Yue would still be suffocating in the spacesuit.
The sun had already set, and the sky was completely dark. Tang Yue had planned to move the solar panels before he left, but there was no need for that now. Tang Yue had slept the whole day, and all his routine tasks had been neglected. Fortunately, Kunlun Station's batteries still had enough power to last through the night.
The Bright Light Armour's energy had been depleted, and it was now just a thick and heavy gunny sack. Tang Yue sighed and unlocked the life support system. He removed the batteries and oxygen tanks, then crawled out of the Bright Light Armour and hung the EVA suit on the wall to charge.
"Tang Yue, do you want to do a check-up?"
"Tang Yue, I think your physical condition might not be too good. Do you want to do a check-up?"
"Tang Yue, are your bones loose?
Have your muscles atrophied?
Have you been training strictly according to the physical fitness training chart? "
"Tang Yue?"
Tang Yue smiled bitterly, put his palms together, and bowed deeply to Mai Dong. "Miss Mai Dong, thank you for your kindness, but why do you look exactly like my mother?"
Mai Dong's nagging tone was indeed like an old woman urging you to wear long johns. It was a 360-degree surround sound system.
"Get lost, I don't have such a useless son like you."
The girl was stunned and turned her head away. Her eyes were still red, but her tone was light. Tang Yue finally woke up safe and sound, and Mai Dong was already relieved. She breathed a sigh of relief, and a huge weight was lifted from her heart. She was also in the mood to joke with Tang Yue.
Tang Yue moved his hands and feet. When he woke up, he found that he was very hungry, so he took out a piece of compressed biscuit from the box and held it in his mouth. He then scooped half a glass of water and sat on the chair in front of the table.
"Did you find anything on the image?"
"Nothing."
To be honest, Mai Dong did not pay much attention to the photos in the past twelve hours, and she could not find the time to scan and take photos. Tang Yue was unconscious in Kunlun Station, and Mai Dong could not even sit still. She could not spare any attention to search for Old Cat.
"Beep —" The computer chimed in at seven o 'clock in the evening.
Tang Yue's heart sank, and he subconsciously turned his head to look at the headset. Unsurprisingly, there was no communication signal in that second.
The result he was most worried about had happened. It had been more than seventy-two hours since they lost contact with Old Cat. According to the normal schedule, the Old Cat should have returned to Kunlun Station by this time. The last bit of hope in Tang Yue and Mai Dong's hearts was shattered. They were still holding on to the fluke that Old Cat had only damaged the communication system, but its normal movement was not affected. The Mars Wanderer could still continue to drive, and it would return to Kunlun Station on time.
But three days had passed, and the Old Cat still had not returned. This meant that the communication system was not the only thing that was damaged.
The situation had taken a turn for the worse.
At this time, Tang Yue could basically confirm that there was a problem with the Old Cat and the Mars Wanderer's movements. This result was not unexpected. Although he was unwilling to admit it, Tang Yue believed that there was a possibility that the Mars Wanderer was completely destroyed. But the strange thing was that they could not find the Old Cat in the satellite images. All the possible locations that could cause the vehicle to malfunction had been searched, but no traces were found.
If the Old Cat had really crashed.
Then where did it end up?
A very incredible possibility slowly surfaced in Tang Yue's mind. Could it be that the cat had really eloped with the Mars Wanderer?