Die on Mars - Chapter 239

c238 Day 335 (1) The largest event in human history

“Let’s swing the oars and the boat push the waves -”

Martian stray dogs galloped across the desert, and the old cat sang loudly. Even the thin atmosphere of Mars could not stop the old cat from filling his brain with the magic sound.

“Shut up.” Tang Yue shouted angrily.

The old cat glanced at him and continued to look forward, “If you don’t want to be disturbed by anything, the best way is to blend in and sing with me. Can you sing? Chinese people all sing this… The beautiful white pagoda is reflected on the sea, surrounded by green trees and red walls——! The boat floats gently in the water, and the cool wind blows in front of it——! ”

Tang Yue expressed his full disdain and did not want to collude with Lao Mao Hang.

“Go away, I won’t sing with you!”

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ten minutes later.

“Even if your destiny is torn apart!”

“Destiny is full of twists and turns!”

“Even if fate threatens you, being a human being is boring!”

“Don’t shed tears and feel sad, let alone give up. I would like to accompany you forever in my life——!”

Tang Yue stood on the passenger seat, waving his hands vigorously like a symphony orchestra conductor, and making an epileptic sound to the world around him, “Ah oh – oh oh oh oh oh oh -“, The first song “Red Sun” by Hacken Lee was sung in a melody, as if he was a superstar performing on the street in a convertible. The Martian stray dog ​​took him across the desolate desert, but in Tang Yue’s eyes, there were huge crowds of people on both sides of the road.

“I have fallen down so many times and shed tears on rainy nights!”

“I have to go through all the twists and turns in my life!”

Tang Yue sang loudly, but he didn’t know whether he was singing in Cantonese or Japanese.

The old cat was shaking its legs while harmonizing. The singing voices of the man and the cat were perfectly matched. One man was sawing the legs of the bed, and the other cat was beating the gong. They complemented each other and enjoyed it.

Finally, Tang Yue sang the last line of lyrics in a broken tone, and Lao Mao applauded fiercely.

“I just said you have talent.”

Today was the second day after leaving Kunlun Station. Old Mao estimated the distance and found that the straight-line distance between them and Kunlun Station was more than fifty kilometers. Early in the morning, Tang Yue and Lao Mao got up and packed their bags. They first charged Mingguang Kai and Lao Mao themselves, and then moved the solar panels onto the stray dog. The road was very uneven. The rover did not have anti-seismic suspension. Tang Yue sat on the The passenger seat rippled with vibrations.

Tang Yue took out the map from the storage compartment and unfolded it. He looked at it sideways and vertically, but couldn’t understand it for a long time.

The map drawn by the old cat can only be understood by it.

“Is this a map of the Yixi Plain?” Tang Yue pointed to the crooked lines on the drawing, “What are these lines? Contour lines?”

“No,” said the old cat, “you took it down.”

Tang Yue turned the map around.

Still didn’t see anything.

“You should at least indicate the direction, legend and scale. A usable map must also have a coordinate network and orientation data.” Tang Yue frowned and complained in a low voice, while looking around, hoping to find any conspicuous landmarks. “But what exactly are you drawing…”

The old cat glanced sideways.

“Oh, you got it wrong. That’s not a map. It’s the result of a simulation calculation.”

“Simulation? Simulation of what?”

“The distribution area of ​​the crash debris of the United Space Station.” Old Cat said calmly.

Tang Yue shook his hand.

“It is impossible for an object as large and solid as the United Space Station to be completely burned in the atmosphere. A large number of debris will fall to the ground. I have thought about collecting the debris of the space station and at least giving it a home.” Old Mao continued, “But it is very difficult. Unfortunately, the place where it crashed is too far away for us to find it.”

“When…did you draw it?”

“The day after the space station crashed.”

Tang Yue stared blankly into the distance. Beyond the horizon beyond his sight, the charred remains of the space station were scattered on the desert.

“If I can win the lawsuit against them…can the United Space Station come back?”

“I don’t know.” The old cat shook his head.

“The letter said that if I win, all my losses will be compensated. The United Space Station must be included in it? All living and non-living things in the United Space Station should be included, right?” Tang Yue asked, “Those gods Such high-dimensional wisdom will extract the frame before the space station crashed and rewrite this history, old cat, don’t you think so?”

“I don’t know, Tang Yue… don’t ask me, I don’t know anything.”

The old cat looked very depressed.

Tang Yue was a little disappointed. He knew that Lao Mao couldn’t give him any answer to this question, but he still hoped to get a positive answer.

But this time the old cat told the truth again.

“I’m sorry Tang Yue, I can’t give you any answer. You are Estragon and I am Vladimir. We are all waiting for Godot, but none of us know what Godot is.”

“In Waiting for Godot, isn’t Godot hope?”

“No,” said the old cat, “it was never hope.”

Tang Yue leaned on the back of his chair and looked straight ahead. In front of him was the endless rock and gravel. They were approaching the end step by step. What would be waiting for him at the end of the Mars stray dog’s journey? What about him?

The old cat couldn’t give him any answer. Even if the words in this letter were true, then Tang Yue would have to face a god-like intelligent civilization and defeat it.

The former sounds incredible, and the latter sounds like wishful thinking.

A powerful intelligence with the ability to interfere with or even manipulate time. How could Tang Yue defeat it?

This may be a journey destined to fail – Tang Yue has been mentally prepared for this for a long time. He thinks that Lao Mao is also prepared, but no one has said it.

“If I fail, am I the biggest sinner in human history?”

The old cat was silent for a few seconds.

“Yes.”

“You can help me excuse myself at this time.”

“I don’t need to excuse you.” The old cat said, “Because no one can blame you, and you don’t have to be responsible to anyone. On this issue, unless you can successfully save the earth, you will be a sinner in whatever you do. In fact, you can just ignore this letter and live your own life, burn this inexplicable letter, and the world will return to normal immediately. Have you heard of the trolley problem?”

Tang Yue nodded, “That question about ‘there’s an innocent passerby tied to one side of the railway track and five naughty kids tied to the other side of the railway track, and I just happened to be passing by carrying a toilet pusher’?”

“Yes.” The old cat nodded, “Unless you are a superman and can lift the train and throw it out, otherwise your action is a mistake, and your inaction is also a mistake. What should you do at this time?”

“What can I do…”

Tang Yue sighed.

“Probably go home and use the toilet.”