Die on Mars - Chapter 228

c227 Day 332 (2) Come out

“pliers.”

The old cat squatted at the cabin door, frowning, and stretched out his paws like a surgeon.

Nurse Tang squatted beside it and pressed the pliers into the old cat’s paws.

“What… is this?” Tang Yue asked in a low voice, “A postcard? An envelope? Or an advertising flyer? Which planet has such a developed and arrogant certification business that it even handles it on Mars?”

There was no Martian as expected in the airlock, but there was a flat white card on the floor, like a postcard or an envelope. It was lying quietly on the other side of the threshold. In the eyes of the old cat, this thing was the same as an atomic bomb. horrible.

It clearly doesn’t belong to anyone at Kunlun Station.

“It’s not necessarily the person who applied for the certificate. Have you ever seen the person who applied for the certificate handing out flyers? They all print their mobile phone numbers directly on the wall. Judging from the behavior of knocking on the door and running away, it may be a pornographic advertisement jammed under the door. ”

Old Mao carefully picked up the suspicious card with pliers and turned it over. There was no eye-catching “certificate” on the other side and there was no disheveled and posing female green-skinned alien. This made Tang Yue and Old Mao At the same time, he breathed a sigh of relief. It was the first time for human civilization to come into contact with the outside world. If it were a small advertisement inserted under the door, it would be too frightening. It would be more logical for a Star Destroyer to arrive in space.

“This is an envelope.” Tang Yue said.

The old cat nodded, and after careful inspection, it was indeed an envelope, but there was no writing on it, and no stamps. In today’s era, envelopes are quite rare antiques, because no one would communicate in such a primitive way as sending a letter. Only the post office still retains the business of sending letters.

“Specimen bag.” The old cat stretched out its paws again.

Tang Yue handed it the plastic specimen bag.

The old cat stuffed the envelope into the specimen bag and sealed it, and then put the bag into the box. The old cat was very cautious when dealing with suspicious objects of completely unknown origins. It even put on a spacesuit for each of its robotic cats. It’s a pity that there is no body armor in Kunlun Station. If there were, Tang Yue believed that he would wear it.

“No one is allowed to have direct contact with it until it is confirmed that it is absolutely safe.” Old Cat said, “A safe distance must be maintained.”

Tang Yue nodded.

Now he is the only one in Kunlun Station, there is no one else.

The old cat went out with the specimen box and went straight into the garage. He wanted to carefully analyze the origin of this envelope. The instruments in the Mars Stray Dog Experimental Cabin might come in handy.

Tang Yue also followed – Lao Mao originally asked him to stay away as much as possible, because no one knew what the envelope was made of. It might carry a deadly virus, it might have high radiation, or it might even be made of pure antimatter? Once an antimatter envelope with a mass of more than ten grams is isolated from the outside world, once it comes into contact with any matter in the universe, the mass will be completely converted into energy. The explosion of this envelope will be equivalent to ten Hiroshima mushroom bombs.

So Tang Yue didn’t run away either.

What a fart.

If the other side’s civilization is really capable of sealing up antimatter at will and making it exist stably, then it would only take a snap of one’s fingers to kill it.

The old cat locked himself in the geological experimental cabin. Before closing the door, it turned around and warned Tang Yue for the last time that the next work might have devastating consequences. If you don’t want to die, try to stay away, but Tang Yue couldn’t drive him away. The cat finally had no choice but to let him go.

The door of the geological experiment cabin was closed, the lights were turned on, and Old Cat was fully armed and went to work. Tang Yue leaned against the garage and stared at Old Cat’s shadow.

The old cat worked on it for more than three hours in total, which was no easier than a surgical operation. It finally opened the door and jumped down, holding the cabin suit helmet in one paw and the envelope in the other.

Tang Yue sat outside and waited for more than two hours. When he saw the old cat coming out, he quickly approached him and asked, “How is the situation?”

The old cat gave him a push.

“Go back and talk.”

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Laomao and Tang Yue each held a flashlight, like two archaeologists studying cultural relics.

The envelope was placed on a plate, and the sealed specimen box and plastic bag had been removed. It was placed on the table, nothing unusual, just ordinary.

“What material is it made of?” Tang Yue asked, “What’s its origin?”

“Looking at the results of the spectrum analysis, it is mainly composed of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, with hydrogen being the most abundant and carbon and oxygen about the same.” Lao Mao replied, “There are also very small amounts of sodium ions and sulfur.”

“speak English.”

“Sugar.” Old Cat said, “Its main material is sugar, which is a carbohydrate.”

“Candy?” Tang Yue was surprised and asked subconsciously, “You mean this thing is edible?”

“What to eat? Why do you think so much about eating?” The old cat squinted his eyes, “This is cellulose, a type of polysaccharide, which is the main component of plant xylem. Do you eat wood scraps and bark? In layman’s terms…”

The old cat pulled out a piece of used scratch paper from under the table, shook it, and then patted it on the edge of the envelope.

“The ingredients of these two things are exactly the same, there is almost no difference. Cellulose is the main component of wood pulp paper… This envelope is the most common and ordinary paper envelope on the earth. It has no viruses, no radioactivity, and It’s not antimatter.”

Tang Yue was slightly surprised.

He had just experienced the second most bizarre encounter in human history—the most bizarre being, of course, the evaporation of the earth.

So Tang Yue was mentally prepared. No matter how weird or crazy this thing was, he wouldn’t be surprised, but the old cat told him that it was just a very ordinary envelope, and it was the same as the most common paper envelopes on the earth. The envelopes make no difference at all.

“Exactly the same as paper envelopes on Earth?”

“Yes.” Old Cat nodded.

He was stunned for a long time, then jumped up and knocked over the chair without caring.

“Tang Yue?”

Tang Yue ignored the old cat. He opened the airlock door with force and stumbled out.

“Tang Yue! Tang Yue!” The old cat grabbed the envelope and chased it out.

Tang Yue put on the heavy Mingguang Armor, pushed open the hatch, and stood panting in front of the Kunlun Station, facing the dark wasteland and the bright starry sky on the horizon.

“Hello–!”

Tang Yue took a deep breath and then roared loudly.

“Come out—! Come out—!”

“I know you’re right here——! Come out——! Get the fuck out of here——!!”

Tang Yue shouted until he was hoarse.

“Come out——! I’ve found you! Stop fucking hiding! Come out——! I beg you… I beg you, come out…”

“Please…please…please…”

The old cat stood in the airlock, watching the man shouting with all his strength, trying to convey his voice to the whole world, but the roar could not travel far before dissipating in the thin and cold air. Tang Yue slowly bent down, With his face flushed and breathing heavily, he sat on the threshold of the hatch.

“Please, please help me…”

Tang Yue murmured to himself, tears falling down.

The old cat sighed, walked over from behind, patted him on the shoulder, and handed the envelope over.

Tang Yue turned around.

“Open it and take a look… There is something in the envelope, it should be for you.”