Tang Yue tapped on the keyboard word by word. "In the first half of the fourteenth century, the Italian poet Dante Aligelli wrote the famous long poem, Divine Comedy. In the long and dark Middle Ages, for the first time, it reflected the dawn of humanism that later rose during the Renaissance. In the long poem, Dante wrote fsuzkvbfccccc from a first-person perspective …"
"Tang Yue!"
Old Cat pulled Tang Yue's face up from the keyboard and patted his face.
"Go and rest if you're too sleepy."
"It's okay, it's okay. I can still hold on."
Tang Yue rubbed his eyes and shook his head. He yawned and continued to type on the keyboard. "Dante wrote about his journey from Earth to Mars from a first-person perspective …"
Old Cat shook its head, pressed Tang Yue into the chair, and pulled him away from the computer. If he continued to write like this, Tang Yue would be the first person from Earth to land on Mars.
It asked Tang Yue to sit on the side to rest and refresh himself. Recently, Tang Yue's mind was full of Mars orbit and Orion. He was almost obsessed. At night, he was calculating the mass of the lander in his sleep, and it was the calculation of one hundred tons plus one hundred tons equals three hundred tons.
"How many is this?" Old Cat raised a toe in front of Tang Yue.
"One."
"How many is this?" Old Cat raised another toe.
"Two."
Old Cat suddenly raised four toes. "How many is one plus two?"
"Four."
"Look at you, your brain is completely muddled. You don't even know elementary school addition. Tang Yue, don't do anything now. Rest first. Miss Mai Dong also needs to rest. Both of you need to relieve the pressure, or your bodies will collapse." Old Cat waved its paws and continued to sit back in the chair in front of the computer, staring at the data on the monitor.
The second simulation test failed, and Old Cat's face was swollen. Now, Old Cat's face was still burning.
Old Cat did not know what went wrong. It was unreliable to rely only on the workstation to perform a rough simulation. It needed a wind tunnel, a fatigue tester, a structural strength tester, and a lot of special industrial testing equipment. Each of them was huge, and Kunlun Station did not have them.
Old Cat really wanted to stuff the entire Orion II spacecraft into the assembly plant and measure the detailed data on every detail.
"When can the third simulation be carried out?" Tang Yue asked. "What are the chances of success?"
"The fourth simulation ended five minutes ago," Tomcat replied.
Tang Yue was shocked.
"What's the result?"
"The largest fin-stabilized armor-piercing projectile in history was created."
Old Cat replied, "The sixty-meter-long main truss successfully got rid of all the burdens and swooped down at seven times the speed of sound. The scene was spectacular. I think it can easily penetrate the armor of the Iowa-class battleship and skewer the Ford-class aircraft carrier."
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"Old Cat, tell me honestly, is this damn simulation test impossible to succeed?"
Tang Yue asked, "You told us before that Orion II can land vertically. Is that nonsense?"
"Of course not."
"Look into my eyes when you speak." Tang Yue sat up straight.
Old Cat stared at the monitor, and the movements of its claws slowly stopped. It was silent for a moment before turning its head.
"If I said that Orion II cannot land, would you give up?"
Tang Yue was stunned.
"No."
"Then why are you asking this question?"
Old Cat crossed its arms. "Orion II landing vertically is only theoretically possible. Do you know what it means to be theoretically possible?
A high school student who failed all his subjects could theoretically be admitted to Tsinghua University. As long as the time is right, the world revolves around him, as long as he works hard enough, as long as his grades improve by leaps and bounds, as long as he happens to bet on all the exam questions before the exam. "
Bet on the college entrance exam questions?
As someone who experienced the college entrance exam, Tang Yue was all too familiar with Old Cat's analogy.
The teachers who set the questions in China's college entrance exam: I won't brag. Millions of you can bet as much as you want.
"As long as Orion II doesn't have any accidents during the landing, the engine doesn't malfunction, the attitude control is fine, the navigation system works normally, the main truss is not overtired, the lander docking mechanism is well-sealed, the atmospheric environment does not change, and every detail is perfectly in line with our expectations, then it can land safely."
"Do you believe that?" Tang Yue asked.
"I do."
Old Cat said lightly. The cat's face was expressionless, and it looked like it really believed that what it said could come true.
It truly believed that the Orion II spacecraft could land without any problems.
"Even if there is only a one in ten million chance of success, I am willing to believe it."
Old Cat said, "I know you are very anxious, but this is the only way we can go. We should be glad that there is a possibility of success. Try to think about it. If Orion is theoretically impossible to land, then what should you be doing now?
Sitting there in despair?
If the fourth model fails, there is still the fifth model. If the fifth model fails, there is still the sixth model, the seventh model, the eighth model, and the ninth model!
We can keep experimenting until we succeed. "
Tang Yue doubted the authenticity of Old Cat's words, but he could not confirm whether the Old Cat was lying or not.
Perhaps Orion II could not land successfully at all. The so-called theoretical possibility was just a fabrication by Old Cat to fool laymen like them. It was to artificially create a false hope before the comet came, so that Tang Yue and Mai Dong would not fall into complete despair in their last days.
If the cat was really acting, then Tang Yue and Mai Dong would definitely not be able to tell.
Old Cat had a motive for doing so. In a desperate situation, it was responsible for the safety of Tang Yue and Mai Dong.
"I promise you, before the comet hits Mars, I will find a way to take down Miss Mai Dong."
Tang Yue observed the Old Cat's expression. It was as calm as ever. To be honest, he could not read the expression of a robot cat. Tang Yue did not know how much of the Old Cat's words were true and how much were false.
Tang Yue sighed.
"Three models after three. If this continues, the comet will hit us, boss."
"You should have confidence in me."
Old Cat patted its chest. "Next, I will conduct the fifth simulation test. Do you believe that I will succeed this time?"
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Five hours later.
"Failure is the mother of success." Old Cat sat upright and said righteously.
"You said the same thing when you failed the ninth simulation test. That time, the explosion happened earlier than before." Tang Yue curled his lips. "After failing so many times, is your success due to a difficult birth?"
"Do you believe that we will succeed next time?"
"Mr. Cat, what are the chances of success in the next test?" Mai Dong asked.
"Miss Mai Dong, look out the window." Old Cat said, "What do you see?"
"Mars."
"The grip is so big."