Die on Mars - Chapter 226

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Three days later.

The Tianzhou 37 cargo spacecraft landed slowly on the sand. The reverse thrust engine roared and kicked up dust that covered the sky. At a distance of more than fifty meters, the sound of the rocket engine should have roared like thunder, but it was too thin. The air weakened the noise, and to Tang Yue’s ears, it was just a walking tractor coming outside.

He turned his head and looked out. The white and round fuselage of the cargo spacecraft stood out in the brown dust. Tang Yue could even see the blue letters on the fairing: CNSA. He also saw the old cat, that little The shadow stood in the dust, guiding the spacecraft to land on the landing field, its fur ruffled by the airflow of the engine.

This was the first time Tang Yue saw a man-made object after the earth disappeared. The Tianzhou spacecraft is undoubtedly a graceful whole, like a huge warhead. It is a disposable spacecraft and cannot take off again after landing, so there is no Divided into upper and lower stages, the white and smooth fairing shell reflected the sunlight. The spacecraft slowly unfolded the landing gear. In the last few centimeters of landing, the engine was turned off and shut down. The spacecraft stood firmly.

Everything is perfect.

The spacecraft traveled a long distance of hundreds of millions of kilometers, and without anyone’s guidance and intervention, the final landing point was only five meters away from the planned location.

Old Cat lowered the ramp and elevator of the spacecraft’s cargo hold and began to unload the cargo.

They have been waiting for this spacecraft for too long. It brings hope for the survival and continuation of Kunlun Station.

Tang Yue should have been very happy.

He has been eating compressed biscuits and tomatoes for more than half a year, and now he finally has canned beef and Australian lobster. In the past, this would have been like celebrating the New Year.

But he watched the Tianzhou spacecraft land on the ground from a distance, but he couldn’t shake his heart at all. He even refused the old cat’s invitation to unload the cargo.

He doesn’t like eating lobster anyway.

Tang Yue sat on the chair, his eyes falling on the monitor on the desktop, a little dazed. In the past three days, he had often been in a daze, and his brain was too tired to move.

On the computer monitor was still the orbital equation he had calculated three days ago. They tried their best to design a rescue plan, but fate did not give them a chance to implement it. He didn’t understand why the space station crashed. The old cat said you should report Ophiopogon japonicus to Just discount your number by 30%, and that’s the true height.

This cat knows everything.

But it says nothing.

This is the fucking style of artificial intelligence. They always remain rational and always choose the optimal outcome. The old cat probably predicted the final outcome on the day of the accident on the space station. It was the one who peeked at the dice points in the cup, but it was different from Tang Yue said that the lid was not opened so he did not know.

What was the old cat thinking when he was designing a rescue plan? It used completely false data to construct a plan that was impossible to implement, and then pretended to advance it step by step. It advanced so rigorously and meticulously that Tang Yue believed it was true from beginning to end.

It was probably already in despair.

He despaired earlier than anyone else.

Tang Yue still maintains the habit of wearing headphones at all times. Tang Yue turned over the last recording and listened to it over and over again. He listened without saying a word, without crying or making trouble, and with an expressionless face. The old cat did not disturb him. Tang Yue Do whatever you want, Lao Mao knows very well that this depression is temporary, time will eventually dilute everything, no matter how important and unforgettable people are, as long as time goes by, they will eventually be blurred in the years – this is The self-protection mechanism of the human brain.

But unfortunately, the old cat does not have this mechanism. No matter how long it takes, the crash of the space station seems like yesterday to it.

Every day when it wakes up from hibernation, it can recall that Ophiopogon japonicus told it yesterday to take good care of Tang Yue.

So it has to take good care of Tang Yue.

With a “click”, the door of the airlock opened. Old Cat dragged the heavy box into the door, and then broke the seal. The box was full of soft-packed cans. The Tianzhou 37 cargo spacecraft brought rich supplies. It The cargo was loaded according to the needs of six people. It contained everything from food, fresh water, and medicine. It was enough for Tang Yue to eat alone for a long time.

The old cat went back to unload the goods. He piled the boxes in the landing pad and then pulled the cart back and forth to move it back and forth in an orderly and unhurried manner. Except for food and fresh water, everything else was stored in the garage.

“Class A cans…sixty pieces.”

“Class C cans…eighty pieces.”

“Class E rehydration food, thirty kilograms.”

The old cat held a small notebook in his arms and counted supplies item by item, feeling as if he was an old farmer harvesting crops.

The Tianzhou spacecraft landed at ten o’clock in the morning. It started working at ten o’clock and worked until 8:30 in the evening. It went back and forth between the cargo spacecraft and Kunlun Station. It watched the materials gradually pile up in the hall and enjoyed it until the power supply was restored. Close to exhaustion.

The old cat plugged in the charging cable for himself.

“Old cat.”

Tang Yue’s throat was hoarse. He had not spoken for a whole day.

“Um?”

“I am pretty tired.”

“I lay down to rest when I was tired,” said the old cat.

Tang Yue shook his head.

“I can’t live anymore.”

The young man turned his head and looked at the old cat, who was surprised. Tang Yue’s face was pale and haggard, and he looked like he had lost half a kilogram – something had collapsed in his body.

“Old Cat, I’m really…that’s it for this.”

God knows how Tang Yue persists until now. The earth has disappeared. If it were another person, he would probably have a mental breakdown. But Tang Yue can still keep himself up and face a life that is getting worse day by day. It is said that he has a strong will and an optimistic attitude. Regardless of whether he has a single brain or not, he finally managed to prop up this small residence on Mars by himself.

But now even Tang Yue has reached his limit. The space station has crashed, Maidong has died, and his only spiritual support has collapsed. The world is vast, and he is finally left alone.

He will not survive for the sake of survival. In this case, living any longer is just endless torture.

The old cat was silent. It looked at the rich supplies on the floor. Ophiopogon japonicus once told it to take good care of Tang Yue, but if Tang Yue himself gave up on survival, what could it do? It couldn’t tie Tang Yue up and stuff food into his mouth with a mallet every day.

“Is the grave we dug before still there?” Tang Yue asked.

“exist.”

The conversation ended and no one spoke anymore. Kunlun Station was silent except for the clock beating every minute.

Tang Yue sat on a chair, and the light above his head cast his shadow on the floor. He was the last human being in the world.

The stars outside the window are unfamiliar.

The world is lonely.

“Dong dong dong!”

Three muffled sounds suddenly broke the silence. Tang Yue, who had been in a daze, was stunned for a moment. He didn’t realize what the sound was and where it came from. But in the next second, he thought he was hallucinating. , because he subconsciously looked over to follow the source of the sound and found that it came from the inner hatch of the airlock – the next second, Tang Yue turned back sharply to look for the old cat.

At the same time, the old cat also turned his head and stared at Tang Yue, both of them making sure that the other one was indoors.

Tang Yue and Lao Mao were both stunned, their eyes widened, and they communicated quickly and silently with their eyes.

Tang Yue: Hallucination?

Old Cat: Hallucination?

Tang Yue: Hallucination!

Old Cat: Hallucination!

Just as Tang Yue and Lao Mao were glaring at each other, there was another knock on the door outside the airlock, one after another.

“Boom! Boom! Boom!”