Die on Mars - Chapter 193

c193 Day 322 (3) Call my name again

Tang Yue was neither surprised nor surprised.

His mind was blank, and all the emotions had not yet come to him.

After seeing the message “Mars Space Station has crashed” on the computer monitor, the first thing Tang Yue did was to squat down and bang on the workstation’s case. He felt that this was probably because the computer had convulsions, because two minutes ago he was talking to Mac When chatting with Dong, the girl was still laughing and rolling around with her stuffed dog in her arms. Why did the screen jump and tell her that the space station had crashed?

Have you watched a whole season?

Or did someone pull a frame?

“Old Cat, what’s wrong with this crappy computer? It crashed again? Why are the contacts cut off?” Tang Yue squatted under the table and poked at the case, then turned around and said, “Old Cat, come over and take a look…”

He suddenly stopped.

The old cat stood there without moving, his eyes wide open, staring at the monitor that was popping up alarms like crazy. The expression on his face was a mixture of surprise, shock and disbelief. The gray despair revealed in those cat eyes made Tang Yue suddenly feel a sudden rush in his heart. trembling.

“Old cat?”

“Old cat…Old cat?”

The old cat remained motionless and silent.

“Old cat…what’s wrong with you? Come and take a look at this convulsing computer? Haha…it’s scaring people again…ha…” The smile on Tang Yue’s face gradually disappeared, and he suddenly became uneasy, ” Old cat?”

The old cat remained silent.

The workstation is still warning like crazy, as if it is infected by a virus. The number of alarm windows it has popped up in this life has not been more than today.

Tang Yue’s heart slowly sank.

“Old Cat? Can you say something, Old Cat?”

The old cat turned away.

Tang Yue stopped paying attention to the old cat. He stood up, grabbed the earphones, turned on the communication system, and called the United Space Station on all channels. Tang Yue’s hands were shaking so much that he pressed the wrong button several times in a row.

“This…this is Kunlun Station, calling the United Space Station, calling the United Space Station! Please answer if you hear it!”

“Call the United Space Station! Call Alpha! Call Alpha! If you hear me, please answer! Ophiopogon japonicus, can you hear me? Ophiopogon japonicus! Ophiopogon japonicus, answer me!”

“Ophiopogon japonicus! Can you hear me? Ophiopogon japonicus!”

The old cat sat down slowly and hugged his head. Tang Yue’s anxious roar was mixed with the sharp alarm of the computer, but the former’s efforts were doomed to be in vain. “NO SIGNAL” on the monitor flashed one by one, scarlet. The colored letters are particularly eye-catching.

It suddenly understood what the desolation of the world is. Reality is sometimes more dramatic than drama. It and Tang Yue were like the audience sitting on the lawn of Cape Canaveral watching the launch of the Challenger. They were excited. , excited, jubilant, celebrating and shouting for the launch of that great space shuttle, even when the accident happened, no one realized what happened.

Because it only takes one second for tragedy to happen, and before this second comes, no one will believe that tragedy will really happen.

Tang Yue was still calling the space station hoarsely. As time passed by, Tang Yue gradually realized what had happened. His eyes were red and he was crying. The only response to him was the mechanical “NO SIGNAL” on the computer screen. .

“Why can’t we be contacted?” Tang Yue smashed the earphones on the table, “Why can’t we be contacted?”

“Because the space station crashed.”

“This is impossible!” Tang Yue grabbed the old cat’s shoulders angrily, hoarse, “Why did it crash when it was perfectly fine? It didn’t have any problems at all two minutes ago! It didn’t have any problems at all two minutes ago. !Two minutes ago! There was nothing wrong with it at all!”

“The problem is not the space station.” The old cat looked sad, “It’s Orion.”

“Orion?” Tang Yue was stunned.

“The power module of Orion exploded, which caused it to escape control, the docking mechanism broke, and the spacecraft collided with the space station.” Old Cat replied, it can infer what happened on the orbit from the computer’s alarm, and what happened on the space station The sensor sent data to the Kunlun station before it stopped working, and “the Orion spacecraft’s truss sliced ​​the space station like a knife.”

According to the recovery results of Laomao, the first thing to explode was the Raptor-05 engine performing attitude adjustment work. It ignited the No. 3 propellant storage tank. The leaked methane and liquid oxygen intensified the fire. The fire destroyed No. 3 and No. 4 storage tanks. The first explosion caused Orion to tumble and twist and break the docking mechanism between it and the space station.

After losing control, the Orion began to slide sideways according to inertia, cutting off all obstacles along the way, including the space station’s truss, solar panels and super arm.

After the collision with the space station, Orion’s posture changed. Its main truss also bent during the impact. The spacecraft rolled around the center like a nunchuck and fell headlong into the inflatable cabin of the space station. This triggered a second There was an explosion, and propellant tanks No. 1 and No. 2 were destroyed in the explosion.

I don’t know what happened next. At this point, the space station’s computer stopped working, and the communication system and sensors basically failed.

So the computer at Kunlun Station determined that the space station had crashed based on existing conditions.

“But why did Orion’s engine explode?” Tang Yue roared, “Why did it explode? What kind of bullshit single particle effect is it? Is it the loss of gravitational influence of the earth? And an inexplicable celestial body came out of nowhere? Isn’t it always good? Really…why is there no warning at all?”

Tang Yue was hysterical and panting.

He was angry and desperate, as if the whole world was against him.

“It’s not a natural disaster.” Old Cat replied, “It’s a man-made disaster.”

“Man-made disaster? Whose fault?”

“It’s my fault.” The old cat lowered his head, “It’s all my fault. The accident happened to Orion because I tampered with Orion’s flight control program… I shouldn’t have designed any pulse throttling program. Repeatedly Ignition of the rocket eventually leads to turbine surge. In fact, it doesn’t matter whether this fuel is saved or not. It does not affect the final result. Orion itself is an old spacecraft that has been used for decades. It cannot withstand such a torment…it is mine. Arrogance and arrogance have led to the current consequences, and I bear full responsibility.”

Looking back now, the last straw that broke the camel’s back was the circuit breaker gate that Ophiopogon pulled down at that time. After the sudden circuit breaker, the engine turbine pump collapsed, and the debris penetrated the pipes and combustion chamber.

The girl had failed to shut down the engine through the control system before, and it was obvious that there was something wrong with the engine at that time.

Tang Yue let go of the old cat, staggered back, and sat down on the chair.

He buried his face deeply in his hands.

“You mean there’s something wrong with your program?”

“Yes.”

“Then if Maidong really landed on the Orion 2 spacecraft, wouldn’t she definitely die?”

The old cat was silent for a few seconds.

“Judging from the current results, yes.”

“But all our simulation tests were successful!”

“Simulation tests cannot explain anything and cannot indicate any results.”

Tang Yue took a deep breath.

“If I could detect this problem earlier, if I could write a more perfect control program, if I could be more reliable…” Old Cat whispered, “Tang Yue… I’m sorry.”

The appearance of Tianzhou 37 not only confused Tang Yue’s mind, but also affected the old cat’s judgment. Even for such a cautious and precise cat, he was careless.

“I don’t blame you, I don’t blame you, I don’t blame you, don’t talk to me now…” Tang Yue said, “Let me be quiet for a while, let me… be quiet for a while.”

Tang Yue wanted to cry, but couldn’t because the sadness hadn’t come yet.

Tang Yue wanted to cry early so as not to cry out later.

He looked at the monitor screen from between the fingers of his hands. From now on, no one would appear there, greeting him with a smile and saying “Hi Tang Yue”.

Are you kidding me?

An hour ago she had been there, alive.

Half an hour ago she had been there, alive.

Ten minutes ago, she was there alive!

Why is it gone now?

For such a big person…

Tang Yue sat silently, staring blankly at the headphones on the table. His heart felt empty. He said silently: Girl, please say hello to me again. Just one sound is enough. Please, girl. Call my name again.

Tell me you are still alive.

Tang Yue blinked hard, tears blurring his vision.

Please, girl.

“Tang Yue…can you hear me?”