"Tang Yue?
Tang Yue —! "
Old Cat roared.
It lifted Tang Yue's upper body and placed it on its legs. Tang Yue lay inside the Bright Light Armour, his eyes wide open and bloodshot. At the same time, his mouth was slightly open. His facial muscles were frozen, and there was still fear and disbelief on his face. He looked like a person who had unfortunately drowned.
"Hell, hell, hell, hell … Tang Yue, wait for me. I'm coming to save you now. I'm coming to save you now …"
Old Cat took off its helmet and reached for the life support system behind the Bright Light Armour. It opened the cover and pulled out the emergency oxygen unit with force. It then grabbed the oxygen tube and took a big breath. Then, it pulled Tang Yue's wrist and jabbed at the control terminal of the Bright Light Armour.
"Open the mask!"
Bright Light Armour refused to execute the command. At the same time, a warning popped up: Dangerous operation!
The atmosphere outside is not suitable for survival!
"Open the mask!"
Bright Light Armour continued to refuse to execute the command.
"Damn it, why are you so troublesome … Enter emergency control mode!
Can't you understand cat language?
Open the mask by force!
Open it by force! "
Old Cat tapped on the terminal screen.
"Dangerous operation!
You are trying to open the mask. It may lead to a serious loss of pressure. Do you want to continue? "
"Continue!"
The lock on the Bright Light Armour's mask was unlocked. Old Cat immediately pushed the glass up. In a few short seconds, the air inside the Bright Light Armour instantly leaked out. Old Cat reached its claws into the Bright Light Armour's helmet and pressed on Tang Yue's chest. The Bright Light Armour was a semi-rigid structure. Its upper body was a hard shell that could not be pressed. Its other paw lifted the back of Tang Yue's head and blocked his nose. Then, it leaned over and sealed his mouth.
Breathe!
Breathe, Tang Yue!
Take deep breaths!
Old Cat blew oxygen into Tang Yue's respiratory tract while pressing hard on the latter's chest. As a robot cat, the blower in its body used to dissipate heat and circulate air was far more powerful than the lungs of ordinary people. It quickly injected the oxygen into Tang Yue's trachea, filling the latter's alveoli.
Old Cat could feel Tang Yue's heart, which was still beating weakly. When Old Cat performed CPR, it would stimulate the heart to contract at the same time. Every time it pressed hard, it would prompt the venous blood to flow back to the ventricle.
Take deep breaths!
Do your best to breathe!
Breathe！
Breathe！
Old Cat got up and took a big breath of oxygen. Then, it buried its head again. The pressure on the chest was getting stronger and stronger. It did not dare to stop for a moment. Old Cat could feel that the young man's vital signs were getting weaker and weaker. His life was slowly flowing away in its claws.
The Bright Light Armour was in a state of loss of pressure. The low temperature of minus 90 degrees Celsius outside was invading the EVA suit. It slowly drilled in and took away Tang Yue's body temperature and life bit by bit.
Low temperature was as deadly as lack of oxygen.
"Breathe!
Tang Yue, breathe … You need to breathe, you bastard! "
“Breathe！
Please，breathe！”
Tang Yue lay motionless in the Bright Light Armour. The water vapor in the spacesuit condensed into a layer of frost within a few seconds after the loss of pressure. Tang Yue's hair and beard were covered with thin ice shards. He looked like he had aged forty years overnight. Snowflakes condensed from carbon dioxide fell on his face and Old Cat's shoulders. Soon, they turned white.
Tang Yue's body temperature was getting lower and lower. Old Cat could not perform CPR and CPR on him endlessly. If this continued, Tang Yue would soon freeze to death.
Old Cat gritted its teeth. It pressed 120 times in one minute, which was an average of two times per second.
However, Tang Yue still did not respond.
Old Cat looked at Tang Yue's lifeless eyes. It suddenly realized that in Tang Yue's subconscious mind, he might not want to wake up again. After he woke up, Tang Yue would have to face the cold and cruel reality of despair. He would have to endure the endless torment of being alone and continue to trudge through the dark and endless night. Instead of suffering such inhuman suffering, it would be better for him to sleep.
For him, being alive was the source of his suffering.
Old Cat's frequency of chest compressions gradually slowed down. It hesitated. It did not know if it really wanted to pull Tang Yue back into this hell on earth again.
He was already tired enough.
He was in enough pain.
Why not let him have a good night's sleep?
"If you want to blame someone, blame Asimov. He told me that I can't sit back and do nothing when human lives are threatened."
Old Cat said in a low voice. It took another big breath of oxygen and poured it into Tang Yue's lungs. Then, it pressed his chest vigorously to circulate it. Finally, it raised its paw and slapped Tang Yue's face.
"The Earth has recovered!
Old Wang and Mai Dong are back!
Bastard, come back to life! "
Tang Yue's limbs twitched, the muscles on his face moved, and his pupils suddenly contracted. Tang Yue woke up from his deep coma and began to cough violently.
Old Cat poked the oxygen tube of the emergency oxygen production unit into Tang Yue's mouth and held him down. "Don't move, don't move!
Listen to me, take a deep breath!
Take a deep breath! "
Tang Yue held the oxygen candle and breathed hard. He gasped for air and shivered from the cold.
Old Cat asked him to hold his breath and put the emergency oxygen production unit back into the Bright Light Armour. Then, it closed the mask and adjusted the air circulation flow and heating power of the Bright Light Armour to the maximum.
Tang Yue collapsed on the ground weakly. He rested for a long time before he had the strength to speak. He had just returned from the gates of hell.
Old Cat also breathed a sigh of relief.
"Acute carbon dioxide poisoning."
Old Cat said, "The carbon dioxide absorption tank of the Bright Light Armour has been used up. The carbon dioxide in the EVA suit's environment has risen sharply. A normal person exposed to such a high concentration of carbon dioxide will go into shock and stop breathing within half a minute."
Tang Yue sat on the ground silently.
"Without the carbon dioxide absorption tank, from now on, you can only open the external circulation every once in a while to release the high concentration of carbon dioxide to the outside world."
Old Cat continued, "When the carbon dioxide concentration reaches five percent, you have to be careful. If the concentration is higher than this, you may be poisoned."
"How … far … are we?" Tang Yue asked softly.
"Not far," Old Cat replied. "Less than a kilometer."
"Okay … okay … let's continue …" Tang Yue stood up with his hands on the ground. His legs gave out and he fell to the ground again. He could no longer squeeze out any strength.
"Let me help you."
Old Cat crawled over and put Tang Yue's arm over his shoulder. The latter supported Old Cat and slowly straightened his body. The soles of his feet slipped several times in the sand. Fortunately, he finally stood firm.
"The … direction … is … right?" Tang Yue lowered his head. His voice was very weak.
"That's right."
Old Cat supported Tang Yue and walked forward step by step. He staggered.
"We're almost there, Tang Yue … hang in there. Hang in there for the last time!
It's so close. We can crawl over. "