Tang Yue wrapped himself tightly with clothes and blankets, leaning against the RTG beside him. By this morning, the room temperature in Kunlun Station had dropped to -15 degrees Celsius. Speaking of which, this temperature was still far from Tang Yue's limit of tolerance. When he was training with Old Wang in Daxing 'anling, it was snowing heavily at night, and the temperature could break -30 degrees Celsius.
Old Cat had already left, and Kunlun Station suddenly seemed empty.
This morning, Tang Yue woke up from his sleep and opened the curtains of the passenger cabin. He wanted to call out to Old Cat, but he stopped halfway. He suddenly remembered that Old Cat had already left, and he was the only one left in Kunlun Station. It was desolate.
"Have you exposed yourselves?
Have you exposed yourselves … Why don't you guys expose yourselves? "
Tang Yue opened the box and carefully examined the tomato seeds in the box. He turned them over and over again, like a pervert hoping to peek under a girl's skirt and her big white legs.
But the anti-gravity skirt didn't give him the chance.
For the past two days, he had been tying the tomato seeds to his body, relying on his body temperature to provide them with heat. But it was obvious that the results weren't significant. According to Mai Dong, the seeds should have sprouted by now, but the tomato seeds in Tang Yue's hands still showed no signs of awakening.
"The seeds haven't sprouted?" Mai Dong asked.
"No."
Tang Yue was a little disappointed and shook his head. The sudden malfunction of the temperature control system had completely disrupted their plan to plant tomatoes. If the temperature control system hadn't malfunctioned, the seeds would have been in the ground by now.
Tang Yue tried to check the temperature control system this morning, but he was still helpless. He didn't know which lunatic designed the heater to be so complicated. If it were just two heating wires, Tang Yue could fix it like how he fixed a hair dryer.
Tang Yue also brought the fermenting fertilizer in the garage over. It was better to be happy together than to be happy alone. It was better to be happy together than to be happy alone. While he was warming himself up, he couldn't forget the feces brothers who were freezing in the garage. So, Tang Yue brought a few jars of feces around the RTG to warm himself up. It was a happy and harmonious scene.
A few days later, the feces didn't ferment, but it had frozen and hardened a lot.
It used to be smelly.
Now, it was smelly and hard.
When one stayed in Kunlun Station alone, one would feel like the world was vast and they didn't know where to go. After a long time, one's heart would probably be overgrown with weeds. Even though Mai Dong was accompanying him in the channel, this kind of desolate loneliness couldn't be eliminated by hugging each other. If there were only two people on the Mars mission, then these two people would most likely say everything they could say during the long work period. In the end, they would be speechless and annoyed with each other. So, a scientific expedition team usually had six people, plus one Old Cat.
Tang Yue felt that this was most likely the reason why the Old Cat was so neurotic and talkative. The Old Cat could always find all kinds of inexplicable topics to talk about. On a smaller scale, it was to liven up the atmosphere in Kunlun Station. On a larger scale, it was to train the brains of the crew. When it came to chatting, the Old Cat was worth six people.
"How's the Old Cat?
Where is it now? "Tang Yue put away the seeds.
"Mr. Cat has stopped moving. It is now 31.4 kilometers away from Kunlun Station. It contacted me two hours ago."
Mai Dong glanced at the screen. The cursor representing the Mars Wanderer flashed every five seconds. "It should be charging now."
The Mars Wanderer had a high-power communications antenna. This antenna could directly contact the relay satellite or the Joint Space Station, but to save power, the Old Cat turned off the communications system. It only contacted the space station twice a day to report its specific situation.
Tang Yue got up and looked out through the porthole.
However, the distance of thirty kilometers was far beyond the limits of his vision. Tang Yue could only imagine the cat removing the solar panels from the car, stacking them one by one, and then leaning against the wheels quietly waiting for the charging to finish.
Tang Yue got up and lifted his legs high in the air in Kunlun Station. He then lay down and did dozens of push-ups to dispel the chill.
"I feel like I'm an Eskimo now, struggling to survive in the Arctic Circle."
"Inuit?"
Tang Yue nodded. "The group of people who like to eat Kiviak."
"Kiviak?"
"It's a dark cuisine from another world. The Eskimos will stuff five hundred puffins into the stomach of a seal, then let it rot and ferment for three months. Finally, they will take the puffins out and eat them."
Tang Yue explained, "This thing is called Kiviak. It is said to be rich in many vitamins. It's much scarier than canned Swedish herring in Laoshan's water."
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At around five o 'clock in the afternoon, Old Cat contacted the Joint Space Station and Kunlun Station. It sent a very short email.
Old Cat: "This is the Mars Wanderer. Everything is normal. The battery has been charged, and the solar panels have all been returned to their positions. It is estimated that we will continue to travel thirty kilometers tonight."
Mai Dong replied, "Space Station received. Mr Cat, your direction is correct. Good luck."
Tang Yue replied, "Old Cat, what's the situation?
Did you meet Optimus Prime? "
Old Cat: "I didn't see Optimus Prime, but I met the Nazi Germany's Mars base. They invited me in for tea and warmly entertained me. They also asked me if Stalin was dead."
Tang Yue lazily typed, "Oh?
In addition to the Moon, the Third De Zi also have a base on Mars? "
Old Cat: "Of course. According to them, at the end of World War II, after the Normandy landing, the Fuhrer saw that the situation was hopeless, so he gathered all the rocket experts in the country. With Sir von Braun as the leader, they secretly built large launch vehicles in the two cities of Peenemünde and Hamburg and sent the legacy of the Empire to Mars."
Tang Yue: "Amazing. The Third De Zi had the ability to land on Mars in 1944?"
Old Cat: "According to them, it was because the Fuhrer found alien black technology on the Tibetan Plateau. In fact, the Me262 and V2 were the results of reverse engineering imitation of alien black technology. They also found the legendary Ark of the Covenant, but it was stopped by a man named Indiana Jones. They also claimed to be the only country in the 20th century that had the ability to land on an alien planet. They said that the American Apollo moon landing program was fake and was filmed in a studio."
Tang Yue: "Why was it fake?"
Old Cat: "Because Baidu Tieba said it was fake."
Tang Yue: "Then did you see the mustached man?"
Old Cat: "The mustached man didn't come. He didn't trust Braun's rockets."
Tang Yue: "So the mustached man still committed suicide?"
Old Cat: "The mustached man didn't commit suicide. The one who died was a substitute. He ran to Argentina after World War II."
Tang Yue: "So the mustached man died of old age?"
Old Cat: "He didn't die well either. Israel's Mossad chased after him."
Tang Yue: "How many people are left in the base now?"
Old Cat: "There were three just now. Now there's only one left."
Tang Yue: "What happened?"
Tomcat: "The three people from before were Hydra. Now, the remaining person's name is Steve Rogers. He's dressed gaudy and has a shield in his hand."
Tang Yue: "Okay, where are you now?"
Old Cat: "I'm more than 60 kilometers away from the Chelomey landing site. I just installed all the solar panels on the car. I'll be on the road for the first half of the night and rest for the second half … Hmm?
Wait. "
Tang Yue: "What's wrong?"
Old Cat: "Maybe I'm seeing things."
Tang Yue: "You're a robot. How can a robot see things wrongly?"
Old Cat: "Robots can also see things wrongly. There's a bug in the program or something and it produces wrong images."
Tang Yue: "Then what did you just see?"
Old Cat: "Something flew over the rover."
Tang Yue: "?"
Mai Dong: "?"
Old Cat: "I just caught a glimpse. That thing looked very fast and flew very high. It was just a small glowing dot, like a jet plane. But it was silent and didn't make any sound. If I didn't happen to look up, I wouldn't have noticed it."
Tang Yue: "Satellite?
Space station?
Or a meteor? "
Mai Dong: "It's not our satellite, nor is it a space station. There are no satellites passing over Mr. Cat's head at this time."
Old Cat: "It should be a meteor. There can't be any other man-made aircraft on Mars … That's all for today. I have to continue on my way. Over."