When Tang Yue woke up again, he realized that he had just fainted. He did not know how long he had been unconscious.
Tang Yue tried to move and found that he was being hugged. Someone was hugging his helmet.
At this moment, Tang Yue realized that his posture had changed. Previously, he was lying on the sand, but now, he was lying on his back.
"You're awake?"
Tang Yue was stunned. He quickly raised his head. Through the Bright Light Armour's visor, he saw a huge spherical head above his head. The round head was looking down at him. Of course, it was not an alien. It was the helmet of Old Cat's spacesuit.
Old Cat let Tang Yue lie on his lap. He hugged the Bright Light Armour's helmet and looked down at him.
"Old Cat?"
Tang Yue saw the cat's face through the glass visor of the spacesuit. He was pleasantly surprised. "You're not dead yet?"
"I'm dead. If I was two hours late, I wouldn't be the one dead. It would be you." Old Cat leaned forward and pointed at the Bright Light Armour's wrist.
Tang Yue lay on Old Cat's lap. He raised his left hand and wiped the dust off the monitor on his wrist.
The life support system's battery had decreased by more than half. The Bright Light Armour was warning him. A small orange exclamation mark was flashing.
The pressure in the oxygen tank had also dropped significantly. There was less than 0.5 atmosphere of oxygen left in the main oxygen tank. It was close to the red line of the alarm. The main oxygen tank in the Bright Light Armour's life support system could store about 5 MPa of oxygen. This amount of oxygen was enough for Tang Yue to move about in the extravehicular space for eight hours.
Tang Yue had been busy the whole day. The oxygen in the Bright Light Armour was almost depleted.
According to the design, once the pressure in the Bright Light Armour's main oxygen tank dropped to 0.4 atmosphere, the life support system would no longer be able to deliver oxygen normally. At this time, the Bright Light Armour would automatically connect to the backup oxygen tank. The backup oxygen tank was for emergency use. It only stored 1.2 kilograms of oxygen and could be used for no more than 40 minutes.
Old Cat was right. If it had arrived an hour later, the oxygen and battery in the Bright Light Armour would have been completely depleted. Tang Yue would have either frozen or suffocated to death.
Tang Yue poked the monitor with his finger and sighed.
"As expected of an EVA. Running out of battery is normal in the plot."
"Running out of battery's normal?" Old Cat did not understand what he meant.
"That's what I'm talking about."
Tang Yue pointed to his chest. "The EVA system is not only the abbreviation for Extravehicular Activity System, but it's also the name of a giant humanoid weapon. That thing will go berserk once it runs out of battery."
The Bright Light Armour's spacesuit's official name was the EVA system. Its full name was Extravehicular Activity System, which was also known as the Extravehicular Activity System. However, just by looking at the abbreviation, it seemed like an extremely powerful secret weapon.
Old Cat helped him up. Tang Yue sat up. "How long have I been unconscious?"
"The time now is 11: 20 pm. You might have been unconscious for about an hour. When I found you, you were lying on the ground," Old Cat replied. "The wind speed has begun to decrease."
Although the wind speed had decreased, Tang Yue could not see any difference. The surroundings were still dark. The only thing he could see clearly was Old Cat's face. This was because the light in its helmet illuminated the Old Cat's face.
"The current wind speed is 38 meters per second," Old Cat said. "But why did you run out?
I told you to stay in Kunlun Station and not move. "
"I waited for more than an hour."
Tang Yue replied. "You didn't come back … Then when I took back the safety rope, I found that the rope was loose, so I came out to look for you. But why weren't you on the rope?
Did you untie the safety rope? "
Old Cat nodded.
"The rope was wrapped around the gangway and couldn't move, so I untied the lock."
"But you left for more than an hour and didn't come back." Tang Yue asked, "Why did it take so long?
Half an hour to go back and forth? "
"I walked more than once because I almost lost my way."
Old Cat replied, "I missed Kunlun Station and walked forward for more than ten meters before I realized that something was wrong. When I turned around and found Kunlun Station, I found that you were not there, so I followed the rope to find you. Fortunately, you were tied with a safety rope. Otherwise, I might not have been able to find you."
Tang Yue breathed a sigh of relief.
Old Cat was fine.
Everything was a false alarm. Speaking of which, during the last supply delivery, the one in the most danger was not Old Cat, but Tang Yue. Tang Yue was unconscious in the sandstorm, and the life support system of the Bright Light Armour was almost exhausted. If Old Cat did not find him, then Tang Yue would have frozen to death in his coma.
He had unknowingly brushed shoulders with death. He had walked around the gates of hell and was pulled back by Old Cat.
Bright Light Armour began to sound the alarm. Tang Yue glanced at the terminal display. The pressure of the main oxygen tank had dropped below the red line. The backup oxygen tank was connected to the Bright Light Armour.
The air pressure inside the Bright Light Armour's EVA suit was generally maintained at about 40 kPa, which was 0.4 atmospheres. This pressure was mainly provided by the oxygen tank. Once the backup oxygen tank was activated, the forty-minute countdown began.
"Let's go, let's go. We should go back. You have forty minutes of oxygen left."
Old Cat pulled Tang Yue and climbed back along the safety rope with difficulty.
Old Cat climbed in front, and Tang Yue followed behind. The two of them were strung together on the rope, one in front and one behind. It looked like they were climbing Mount Everest.
After being unconscious for more than an hour, Tang Yue had recovered some of his strength. "Have you delivered the last box?"
"It's here."
Old Cat answered. "All the supplies have been securely tied to the Eagle's cargo hold. Everything has been arranged properly, and we're just waiting for the launch."
"Don't we need to check it again?"
"We've done everything we can."
Tang Yue was slightly relieved. They had finally completed this step. This four-hundred-kilometer delivery was finally packed. This was probably the most difficult delivery in history … If it weren't for this damn sandstorm, the situation wouldn't have become so troublesome. Things were truly unpredictable.
"When is the launch?"
"There are a total of six suitable launch windows during the day tomorrow. My original launch time was 8: 30 in the morning … But now, this plan can be completely scrapped."
Old Cat shook his head. "In the current situation, there's no point in planning ahead. We have to observe the wind speed. When the wind speed drops, we'll launch."
"Fifty meters per second?"
"Fifty meters per second is the design limit."
Old Cat said, "Of course, the lower the wind speed, the better. It's best if it can be lower than thirty meters per second … If it's lower than thirty meters, we have a higher chance of success. If the wind speed can drop to that level, we might be able to restore communication with the Joint Space Station."
Tang Yue nodded.
"Hurry up and recover. The little girl in the sky is probably crying right now."