Die on Mars - Chapter 215

c215 Day 327 (1) That is my ideal

Six days after the space station accident.

There are still five days until the Tianzhou 37 cargo spacecraft arrives.

Before dawn, Laomao and Tang Yue got up and prepared to continue preparing for the landing of the Tianzhou spacecraft. At this time, the space station contacted the Kunlun Station, and Maidong informed them that the hub node module was missing.

“The hub cabin is gone?”

“The hub cabin is gone.” Maidong leaned against the porthole and looked out. The spherical cabin that was originally connected to the core cabin had disappeared without a trace.

“The docking mechanism is broken.” The old cat was very calm. He pulled out two steel pipes from under the table and touched them lightly. “That thing is already fragile, but it is quite tenacious to be able to hold on until now. It will collapse anytime.” Not surprisingly.”

After the collision, the hub cabin and the crystal cabin were the only two remaining cabin sections, but no one knew how strong the connection between them was. For safety reasons, Lao Mao closed and locked the connection between the crystal cabin and the hub cabin. The cabin door does not allow Ophiopogon japonicus to enter the hub cabin.

Originally, Laomao wanted to disconnect and simply release the hub cabin, but the docking mechanism had failed and was out of control. Several attempts had no effect, so he had to give up.

By last night, the docking mechanism between the crystal cabin and the hub cabin finally collapsed. When everyone was sleeping and resting, the hub cabin broke away from the United Space Station. After Maidong woke up, only the crystal cabin was left on the joint space station. Du Miao, as for the Hub node module, it may have fallen into the atmosphere at this time.

“Is the problem serious?” Tang Yue sat on the chair, took off his headphones and turned to ask Lao Mao.

“Normal situation.” The old cat was neither salty nor indifferent, his face was expressionless, and he punched the floor with the steel pipe in his hand. “Sooner or later, the node module of the Hub will fall. It’s just a matter of sooner or later.”

“Girl, where is the attitude of the space station? Has it been affected?” Tang Yue asked.

“I can’t tell.” Maidong replied, “The crystal cabin has been rotating slowly, and the angular velocity does not change much.”

“What about the orbital altitude?” Tang Yue asked again, “Can you roughly estimate your current altitude?”

Maidong put up her pencil, closed one eye, and found a reference object on the surface of Mars. She had learned how to measure distance using the eye-tap method. If we could go back two hundred years, she would definitely be a good artilleryman on the battlefield.

“Hmm…” The girl in the channel was pondering.

“How is it?” Tang Yue squeezed the headphone cord tightly.

“Um……”

“How is it? How high is your current orbit? Has it dropped below one hundred kilometers?”

“Um……”

“Girl?”

“Oh, Tang Yue, don’t rush me. It’s disrupting all my thoughts. Shut up, shut up.”

Tang Yue shut up obediently.

Half a minute later, the estimation results came out.

“Tang Yue, my current altitude is…well, about one hundred and twelve kilometers.”

“About 112 kilometers! The current orbital altitude of the United Space Station is 112 kilometers! Old Cat!” Tang Yue immediately took off his headphones after hearing the result, turned around and called Old Cat, “Is this altitude safe enough? Can you hold on until the Tianzhou spacecraft arrives?”

The old cat squatted on the ground with his back to Tang Yue, splicing steel pipes. Without looking back, he raised his front paws and gave a thumbs up.

Tang Yue put on his headphones and said, “Girl, the old cat said you are safe.”

“Above one hundred kilometers is a safe altitude. The atmospheric density at this altitude is not enough to slow down the Joint Space Station significantly. The space station can maintain a relatively stable state. Eighty kilometers is a warning altitude. This is the middle layer of the Martian atmosphere. Once it drops, At this altitude, the impact of atmospheric resistance will rise straight up, and the energy of the space station will be consumed rapidly. Sixty kilometers is the crash altitude, and it has begun to enter the troposphere. Once it falls here, there is no way to save it.” Old Mao said in Tang Yue’s I muttered behind my back, “One hundred and twelve kilometers, there is nothing to be afraid of…There is nothing to be afraid of anymore…”

It straightened up, stood up two steel pipes in front of it, and flattened them with its paws to make sure they were the same length. The old cat was 1.5 meters tall, and the two steel pipes were almost as tall as it.

“What are you doing?”

“Be a crutch.” The old cat answered.

“Being a crutch?” Tang Yue didn’t understand what this meant.

“Crutches.” The old cat placed two steel pipes against the wall, then turned around and rummaged through the debris to find foam and cardboard. “We don’t know Miss Maidong’s current physical condition. We can make her a pair of crutches to be prepared. It will make it easier for her to move after she comes down. After all, recovery takes time… You can’t just carry her around, right?”

“As long as she is willing…” Tang Yue said, “I have no objection.”

“Oh, you’ve grown up, you’re no longer that lone wolf in the desert?” The old cat grinned and squinted, “We agreed to stay single together for the rest of our lives, but you secretly got the certificate and found a mirror to look at you. This giggle.”

Tang Yue picked up the mirror on the table and touched his cheek. He was a little confused and said, “I’m not smiling.”

“The smile in his eyes is almost overflowing.” The old cat wriggled in front of him again, “You are like a wild cat in spring, restless, with ‘Ah, I finally can’t do it’ written all over your face. “I’m alone again”, “Ah, I’m so happy.” Sure enough, compared with girls, human civilization and thousands of years of history are all scum, right? Don’t think I don’t know that you laughed secretly under the covers last night Noise.”

Tang Yue was stunned and looked in the mirror again.

“Is it that obvious? And I fell asleep in bed last night…you heard me snoring, right?”

“Human beings are indeed vulgar.” said the old cat.

“Human beings are inherently vulgar.”

“I’m not against vulgarity. To be honest, on this damn planet, compared with the happiness of you and Miss Maidong, all human civilization and thousands of years of history are really rubbish. Nothing in this world is more important than your lives. The pursuit of happiness is never vulgar.” Old Cat took out a large pile of foam plastics from the drawer, “If you can have a perfect ending, then human civilization will have a perfect ending.”

“If conditions don’t allow it, I would be happy to see you and Miss Maidong give birth to a litter of cubs, and then help you raise the cubs, give them a complete education and care, and train them to become mathematicians and physicists. Scientists, chemists, biologists, historians, writers, artists… When the cubs grow up, they can continue to have cubs.” The old cat continued, “When you have finished your happiness together. After a happy life, I will bury you in the open space in front of Kunlun Station, set up a monument for you, and continue to cultivate little cubs until I become old and disabled.”

“Hey, you are a close relative.” Tang Yue reminded it that this idea was against human ethics. The old cat’s tone and words did not sound like he was raising children, but more like raising pigs.

The old cat ignored him. It stood on the floor and looked out the window with an armful of foam plastics in its arms, its eyes far away.

“That’s my ideal cat student.”