Die on Mars - Chapter 238

c237 Day 334 (5) Humanity’s joys and sorrows are not mutually exclusive

Tang Yue and Lao Mao sat back to back on a rock, looking up at the sky.

“I think we are like gypsies.” Tang Yue said leisurely, “wandering around with a caravan.”

Above his head was a dark sky made of velvet. The entire starry sky seemed to be turned upside down, shrouding Tang Yue and the wasteland he was in at the bottom of the bowl. The rocks and desert under the night sky were glowing red, like silent burning. of coal seams.

This is a breathtaking sight, a burning planet under the cold night.

Here, the small becomes smaller and the grand becomes grander.

“I’m not a gypsy.” The old cat held the star chart in his hand and counted the stars in the sky one by one. “I’m a gypsy cat… Have you changed your compressed gas bottle?”

“It has been replaced a long time ago.” Tang Yue patted the life support system behind him. The Mingguang Armor’s compressed gas cylinder ended its historical mission this evening. After the oxygen was exhausted, Tang Yue replaced it with an emergency oxygen production unit. Outside the Mingguang Armor cabin The suit has a reserved oxygen candle port, and Tang Yue can carry it on his back.

The emergency oxygen production system is a 60 cm long cuboid with a high degree of integration. The solid alkali metal chlorate is sealed in a cylindrical metal container, plus an electronic ignition switch and a gas compression filter device. The design is quite compact. , as long as Tang Yue opens the protective cover and pulls the ring under the cover, the chemical will decompose under the action of the catalyst to produce oxygen. The oxygen will be humidified and filtered and enter the Mingguang Armor mask.

The carbon dioxide exhaled by Tang Yue will be absorbed by lithium hydroxide in the circulation. The status of the carbon dioxide absorption system will be directly displayed on the terminal of the Mingguang Armor wrist. Green means the situation is good, and red means the drug is close to being exhausted.

“Have you found them?” Tang Yue asked.

“Found it.” Old Cat lowered his head and ticked the star chart.

“Is the direction accurate?”

“Of course it is accurate.” Old Cat replied, “Tomorrow morning we will continue to move thirty kilometers northeastward, and tomorrow night we will correct the deviation again to ensure that we can reach the coordinate location exactly.”

“When I was on Earth, I learned how to look at the stars, but unfortunately I have forgotten them all now.” Tang Yue said, “Old Wang said it doesn’t matter if you forget, since we no longer need such primitive methods to identify directions… It’s actually not difficult, just find the North Star.”

“But there are no obvious road signs on Mars like the North Star.” The old cat leaned lazily behind Tang Yue and pointed at the night sky with its forelimbs straightened out. “Did you see that big cross?”

“Big cross?” Tang Yue turned his head.

“In the sky to your left, do you see it? That bright big cross is Cygnus. The world’s most famous giant black hole Cygnus X-1 is there. It is a very strong and huge X-ray radiation source, the Milky Way. A rotating lighthouse inside.”

The old cat pointed it out to Tang Yue. Tang Yue looked in the direction of the old cat’s toes and discerned a curved cross among the stars.

“You connect the swan’s head with the star closest to it in Cepheus in a line. The midpoint of this line is north.” The old cat said, “The direction we are facing now is north, so the left side is west. , Kunlun Station is just to the southwest of us… Did you see that stone? Kunlun Station is in that direction. If you accidentally get lost on Mars, just walk in that direction and keep walking until you can go home. ”

Tang Yue sighed, “Old Cat, we no longer have a home.”

The old cat blinked.

“We are aliens.” Tang Yue said, “We are strange alien creatures of unknown origin living on Mars. No one can find us, no one can understand us, no one can understand us.”

“Human beings’ joys and sorrows are not the same.” said the old cat.

“Sadness and joy are incompatible.” Tang Yue said, “I used to think wildly, it would be great if emotions could be equally shared. Then no matter how sad it is, as long as it is equally divided among ten thousand people or one hundred thousand people, Distribute it to a million people…On average, each person only needs to bear one millionth of the sorrow, and from then on there will be no more crying in the world.”

“But there is no smile anymore,” said the old cat.

Tang Yue stared blankly at the stars. Occasionally, he would imagine that the United Space Station was still in the sky, passing over his head.

“It’s getting late, it’s time to go rest.” Old Mao nudged Tang Yue, “You have seven hours to sleep. Mingguang Armor’s normal working time is eight hours. You must get up an hour in advance to recharge… The time now is ten o’clock in the evening, and you must charge the Mingguang Armor before five o’clock tomorrow morning.”

Tang Yue yawned and glanced at it.

“What about you? Don’t you need to charge it tomorrow morning?”

“I’ll look at the stars again.” The old cat sat on the stone.

Tang Yue got up and went back to sleep. There was a sleeping bag in the Martian Stray Dog’s experimental cabin, but the sleeping bag was only used to pad the floor. Tang Yue couldn’t get in while wearing the Mingguang Armor.

They cannot sleep outdoors. The temperature on Mars at night will continue to drop, and will drop to minus 80 degrees Celsius in the second half of the night. Such low temperatures will increase the power consumption of Mingguang Armor’s temperature control system, and even increase the power consumption – and An isotope thermoelectric generator was brought into the experimental cabin. The RTG’s continuous heat dissipation can maintain the temperature in the cabin at around zero. Compared with the outside world, this place is undoubtedly a paradise where spring flowers bloom.

Tang Yue climbed into the experimental cabin and closed the door.

The old cat sat on the stone, with the star catalog spread out on his knees.

This cat sits for a long time like a statue. Cats are such strange creatures. Sometimes they squat on the windowsill without moving, and their eyes suddenly reveal a light that no one can understand. Maybe it is inexplicable melancholy or strange. Silent, at this time you may even suspect that they have intelligence similar to humans. They usually walk and jump on walls and roofs, looking at human society from a high position.

Of course, the old cat can’t jump on the roof. Its short and fat body will probably smash through the roof. The cats will think that a meat bomb tank has fallen from the sky, and then they will fly like dogs and cats.

But it feels that it is an elf like other cats.

The squat elves are also elves.

No rebuttal accepted!

Suddenly there was a shooting star overhead, and it flashed briefly. The old cat blinked, and it was time to go back to rest. The temperature was getting lower and lower, and low temperature was also a harsh environment for it, which would greatly shorten its lifespan.

The old cat patted his butt and went back to open the outer door of the experimental cabin. The airtight cabin had two doors, similar to the airlock. The old cat climbed in and closed the outer door before opening the inner door.

The light in the small experimental cabin was dim, there was no light, and it was almost pitch black. Only the indicator light of the Mingguang Armor emitted a faint green light. Tang Yue sat on the ground leaning against the cabin wall, tilting his head and already asleep. There was no sleeping bag on him. on the floor, but held him tightly in his arms.

The old cat climbed in, turned around and locked the hatch, then came close to Tang Yue’s body, slowly curled up into a big fur ball, and closed its eyes.