Die on Mars - Chapter 224

c223 Day 327 (9) Never fall asleep

“I didn’t even know you had a sister.”

“Didn’t I mention it to you?” Tang Yue took out a piece of scratch paper and handed it to Lao Mao from above the monitor, “Old Wang and the others all know… Lao Mao can’t do calculations, can you make a prediction first? Process it and give it to me? This string of numbers is longer than your tail, and the most heinous thing is that it requires continuous square root, and the calculator overflows.”

The old cat took the paper away, glanced at it, and then handed it back.

“The answer is 42.”

“You never mentioned it to me.” Maidong said, “I thought you were an only child.”

“I am not an only child. My sister is three years younger than me. She has a terrible temper.” Tang Yue said, “She was sent to learn Taekwondo by my mother since she was a child. She learned Taekwondo, Wing Chun, and Sanda. Free fighting or something like that, in my mother’s words, girls are born weak, so they have to learn to protect themselves… Oh my god, is she still called weak? That girl dared to block the door of a class by herself when she was in elementary school. .”

Maidong was stunned.

She didn’t expect that she had such a powerful sister-in-law.

“Ever since she punched me to the floor when we were fighting for the TV remote control one summer vacation, she realized that I couldn’t beat her. From then on, she was no longer afraid of me. My dignity as an elder brother was completely lost. …” Tang Yue talked about the history of blood and tears when he was ravaged by his younger sister when he was a child. He simply lost power and humiliated the country, and was extremely bitter. “Old cat! Look at this, the computer reminded me… What is this? Correcting Rodrigo’s parameters…”

“Copy that.” Old Cat replied briefly on the other side, “I’ll take over now.”

The old cat took over control.

“The most terrifying thing about my sister is not her bad temper. The most terrifying thing is that my parents still spoiled her. When she was a child, she played with boys of the same age and often beat them up all over the neighborhood like they were catching chickens.” Tang Yue sighed, “My mother also said she was a thin little girl and told her to eat more, but have you ever seen a thin little girl with more developed abdominal muscles than men? She can split two solid bricks with one fist. I think she Punch me and I might die…”

Maidong chuckled.

She had never seen Tang Yue’s sister. For some reason, a vague shadow of a girl appeared in Maidong’s mind. She was boyish, lively and neat.

If Maidong was lucky enough to meet that girl, she must be like this, right?

“That’s great.” Maidong said softly.

“I often comfort myself now: the earth is actually still there, our relatives and friends are actually still there, everyone is here, but we can’t see them anymore.” Tang Yue touched his heart, “My temper My irritable sister still lives with my parents, she hasn’t graduated yet.”

“But in fact, the earth has already…”

“I always have to give myself a reason to keep living. I always encourage myself that as long as I can live well, sooner or later the earth will reappear.” Tang Yue said, “A life without goals is no different from a prison. , that is the real despair.”

He turned his head and looked outside. The sun outside the window had already set. It was pitch black outside Kunlun Station. The day had passed.

Tang Yue sat on a chair doing calculations and worked for a whole day without realizing it. The old cat kept throwing tasks over, one after another. Tang Yue was always in a state of high mental stress. The only thing that could relieve the psychological pressure was Ophiopogon japonicus. He chatted with Ophiopogon japonicus from morning until now. His mouth was dry and he had to drink water frequently.

It’s just that the United Space Station will enter the no-signal zone every once in a while. During this period, no one talks to Tang Yue. Once the old cat enters working mode, he stops talking. Tang Yue is alone staring at the numbers on the paper. The formula was so drowsy that he almost fell asleep after watching it. Only the sound of “Can Tang Yue hear me” from the earphones can make him energetic again.

“The attitude-orbit coupling motion model has been established.”

“Start simulation.”

“Secondary simulation.”

“Give me the control torque curve.”

The old cat’s two big eyes rolled around and murmured to himself.

Both it and the computer work until they forget themselves, and the computer and the computer become one.

Tang Yue is quite pleased that the workstation can cooperate with the old cat who often abuses it regardless of previous suspicions. As a proletarian, the HP workstation has a high ideological consciousness. The effect of the integration of cat and machine is that work efficiency rises rapidly. Tang Yue has to concentrate The spirit cooperates with them.

Tang Yue didn’t even have time to eat dinner.

“Tang Yue, give me the alpha value.”

“α?”

“Semi-major axis, and give me the sine and cosine of parameter K1.”

“receive.”

“Attitude error?”

“The attitude error has converged to zero.”

“The exact value of Ω gives me the mathematical expectation.”

“Which Ω? There are four Ω here.”

“Right Ascension of the Ascending Node.”

“Ascending node right ascension, ascending node right ascension… OK!”

The collaboration between Lao Mao and Tang Yue is efficient and tight.

“Do you need any other data? Perigee argument? Orbital inclination?”

“No need for the moment, Tang Yue, you have no mission for the moment.” The old cat said, “Is Miss Maidong still there?”

“I’m here, Mr. Cat.” Maidong replied on the channel, “But the space station is about to enter the no-signal zone.”

“I don’t have any more tasks? You mean I can finally rest, right…I’m sleepy and tired now.” Tang Yue yawned. Once his tense nerves relaxed, all the strength in his body was flowing with sweat. The floor flowed away, “It’s terrible, I actually spent a whole day dealing with mathematics.”

“Orbital calculations are physics.”

“In the final analysis, it is still mathematics.” Tang Yue put down the pen in his hand and tidied up the messy desktop. “The differential equations are longer than the last, and the matrices are larger than the last… I didn’t know how I listed a list of more than 5,000 orders before. The Matrix, it really scared me to death.”

“That’s because you miscalculated.”

“I’m not you. I’m bound to make mistakes if I continue to calculate math problems all day long. My brain is going to explode now. My eyes are severely bloodshot, my fingers are completely stiff, and I can’t even hold a pen… It’s obvious to both of us. It’s another task that only a regiment of engineers can complete. The results of my work today can’t match that of a battalion, right?” Tang Yue spread his fingers, which were numb, “With my help, the progress is much faster. ?”

“We have indeed done a job that only a team of people can accomplish.” Old Mao nodded, “But what you have completed is the normal workload of one person. As for the progress, the big framework has been formed, and the next thing to do is to improve the details. ”

Tang Yue stretched his limbs vigorously, turned his head and glanced at the clock, and was surprised, “It’s already half past eleven in the evening. I’ve been sitting here for a full fifteen hours… Have you retracted the solar panels? If not, trouble. Old cat, go and put away the solar panels.”

“You can’t go by yourself?”

“I have spondylosis, osteoporosis, and lumbar disc herniation. Do you believe that I will be hanging in front of your eyes when I go to the ground?”

The old cat pushed the keyboard away, got up and went out, preparing to recycle the solar panels.

It entered the airlock and closed the hatch with its backhand. With a dull “click”, Tang Yue was the only one left in the hall of Kunlun Station.

Tang Yue rubbed his stiff neck and took a breath.

“Tang Yue?” Maidong called him at this time.

“Huh? Girl, are you still here?”

“Of course I’m still here. Can you tell me more about your childhood? I…I want to know more about you.”

“Okay, I will tell you everything you want to know without reservation. After all, the old cat allows us to understand each other better.” Tang Yue yawned continuously, “But I am really too tired and sleepy, how about we meet tomorrow Let’s continue chatting…there will be enough time tomorrow.”

When he became sleepy, nothing could stop him. Even if the table was full of nails, he still wanted to fall down.

“Really so tired?”

“Really so tired.”

“Then… stay with me for another ten minutes?” Maidong hesitated, “Five minutes?”

Tang Yue smiled and cheered up, “If you have anything to say, just say it. I will risk my life to accompany you, gentleman, and I will stay with you until tomorrow morning. The worst I can do is not sleep tonight.”

“Okay, you agreed to stay with me until tomorrow morning.”

“It’s agreed.” Tang Yue yawned.

“Tell me more about your sister.”

“She? She is really a terrifying and violent woman, the kind who can smash through the door with one punch.”

Tang Yue sat on a chair, leaning against the back of the chair with his legs curled up, looking up at the dim and soft light above his head. It had only been a year for him to remember the past events on earth, but they seemed so far away when he recalled them.

For some reason Maidong suddenly became interested in his story. Tang Yue told the girl one by one all the stupid things he had done when he was a child. For example, he cheated on an exam in elementary school and copied the answer from the next table. After the exam, he found out that it was AB paper, I put sodium in my pocket in middle school chemistry class, and my clothes caught fire. I finished all the questions in the English listening test during the audition time. Maidong kept laughing and laughing.

“Tang Yue, I can see the sun. The space station is about to enter the no-signal zone.” Maidong stopped smiling. Her voice was unclear, maybe because the signal was unstable.

“Waiting for you to come back.” Tang Yue rubbed his eyes.

“Tang Yue.”

“Um?”

“You said that we have decided to get married, but you have never expressed it to me…” Maidong said, “I take the initiative every time.”

Tang Yue was stunned for a moment, a little embarrassed.

As a single, being silent and reserved is a must-have quality.

“Hmm… do you want to hear three words? Four words? Or five words?”

“Only five words at most?” The girl narrowed her eyes and hummed briskly.

“No, it can be up to five hundred words, let me think about it…” Tang Yue took a deep breath.

“Stop it, not now. You can tell me when I come back.” Maidong interrupted, “So… don’t fall asleep before I come back.”

“Okay.” Tang Yue nodded.

“Don’t fall asleep.”

“Not sleeping.”

“Don’t fall asleep…” The girl’s voice was drowned out by the electrical noise. After a moment, the contact was interrupted, and the United Space Station entered the signal-free zone.

I don’t know how long it took, but the channel became quiet. Tang Yue held his head and looked at the electronic clock in front of him.

The time has reached twelve o’clock, and the red numbers are beating second by second. How long will it take for the Joint Space Station to enter the no-signal zone? Half an hour? twenty minutes? I can’t remember clearly… Tang Yue stared at the time blankly, his brain seemed to be spinning and turning into a ball of paste.

He wanted to think about something to dispel his sleepiness, but he was too tired and sleepy. The numbers on the clock gradually became distorted in his eyes. Tang Yue suddenly found that he didn’t even recognize the numbers on the clock. He stared at that I stared at the number for a long time, not knowing what it was.

Tang Yue knew that his brain had begun to shut down, his cognitive function had completely declined, the information received by his eyes was rejected by his brain, and his double eyelids were as heavy as a thousand stones.

can not sleep.

Never fall asleep.

I promised not to fall asleep.

Who will give me a slap in the face?

Where is the old cat… The old cat hasn’t come back yet.

Why hasn’t it come back yet…

Does it take so long to move solar panels?…

Heavy tiredness rose, and Tang Yue could guarantee that he had never been so sleepy in his life. Everything he saw in front of him became blurry, and after his brain, other parts of his body also stopped working.

Vaguely, he seemed to hear someone calling his name.

Tang Yue…

Tang Yue!

Is it Ophiopogon japonicus?

He didn’t know if it was a hallucination or a dream.

Tang Yue began to make a last-ditch effort. He pinched his cheeks hard, trying to wake himself up.

But the next moment, it was dark and the world was dark.