Die on Mars - Chapter 252

c250 Chapter 341 (1) The Myth of Sisyphus

Today is the penultimate day before arriving at the destination. The Martian stray dog ​​stopped to recharge after advancing thirty kilometers. Tang Yue still climbed up to look at it, but couldn’t see anything.

“There are still the last thirty kilometers left.” Tang Yue looked up at the sky, which became increasingly gloomy, “but still can’t see anything.”

“Of course you can’t see anything for thirty kilometers, but you may not be able to see anything for three kilometers.”

This long journey is finally coming to the end. No matter what monster it is in the end, it will eventually meet Tang Yue.

They were getting closer and closer to the coordinates of 88.2 degrees east longitude and 17.6 degrees north latitude. On the large-scale map, Tang Yue and the target position were even close to each other. Every time the old cat unfolded When looking at the map, Tang Yue thought he had arrived, but the old cat waved his paws, pointed ahead and said there were still a few days to go.

Tang Yue sat on the stone, watching the sun slowly setting above his head. He found that he was becoming more and more like being in a daze. He often sat in silence on the edge without saying a word or moving. The old cat thought that he was thinking about something. , so I didn’t bother him, but in fact Tang Yue knew that he was just in a daze, staring at the distant horizon or a certain stone for a long time. As soon as he came to his senses, the afternoon slipped away like this.

Wilde once said that being alive is a rare thing in this world, because most people just exist.

Tang Yue tapped his heart gently.

“The wind and sand are still getting stronger.” The old cat waved his paws and scratched in mid-air. It couldn’t feel the flow of air. The atmosphere was too thin and even the cat hair on its body couldn’t be blown. But the old cat could The wind speed is judged by the turbidity of the air. “In the foreseeable next few days, the weather should continue to worsen. I think tomorrow may be a severe haze day.”

“Will it affect us?”

“It won’t have much impact. Tomorrow is the last thirty kilometers. We fully charged the stray dog’s battery today, and we can reach the destination directly tomorrow without any need to recharge.” The old cat replied, “It doesn’t matter how bad the weather is. ”

“Does that mean that by the time we set off tomorrow morning, the historical mission of these solar panels will have been completed?”

“Yes.” The old cat nodded, “We don’t have to take them with us when we set off tomorrow.”

“No.” Tang Yue said lightly, “You will still need battery panels when you return. Their historical mission is not over yet. They will only complete their mission when you no longer need them… Actually, I don’t think you need to Return immediately.”

“What’s the meaning?”

“You can take the rover and battery panels to travel around Mars.” Tang Yue replied, “If you still remember the landing locations of those probes, you can even go and see them. Opportunity should still be on the Endeavor meteorite Let’s go there.”

“Oh, I can’t find Oppy.” The old cat spread its paws, “She is really too far away. They are in the southern hemisphere, and we are in the northern hemisphere.”

“Oppy?”

“Opportunity, she is a young girl in the eyes of those at NASA.”

“She should be an old lady now.”

Tang Yue returned to the experimental cabin and finished his dinner. The sky outside the window had completely darkened.

There were no other lighting tools in the cabin. In order to save electricity, Tang Yue turned off all the lights. The only light source was the small solar emergency light bulb. Tang Yue placed the emergency light in the center of the experimental cabin, leaned against the bulkhead, and sat cross-legged on the floor. He couldn’t lie down and sleep normally while wearing bright light armor. Tang Yue had been sleeping sitting up for so many days.

The hatch was opened and the old cat got in.

Every night the old cat looks at the stars and doesn’t come back to rest until late at night.

Occasionally, it will say that observing the sky at night can predict misfortune, good or bad fortune. For example, “The lucky star rises in the southeast, suddenly turns bright red, and shines for several days, which is good luck.”

Tang Yue: Speak in human language.

Old Cat: Supernova explosion.

The old cat climbed into the experimental cabin, turned around and closed the inner door and locked it. Half of Tang Yue’s body was illuminated by the dim light, and the other half was hidden in the darkness. There was a thin mist on the glass mask. They seemed to be crowded together. The Eskimo in the igloo lit a small whale oil lamp. The old cat lay down opposite Tang Yue and found a comfortable position to curl up in a ball.

The space in the experimental cabin is small, and the old cat took up most of the space by lying down there.

Tang Yue reached out and poked its belly.

“What are you doing?” The cat turned around and rolled his eyes.

“Are you fatter than before?” Tang Yue asked, “I remember you weren’t so fat when we first met. Why are you getting fatter?”

“Am I fat?” The old cat raised his head and glanced at himself. He was silent for a few seconds, and then used his claws to close his waist and butt flat on the floor. “I still weigh a hundred pounds. I have always weighed 100 pounds.” This weight has never changed. Is one hundred pounds heavy?”

“But your standing height is less than 1.5 meters. You are only about 1.4 meters tall…about 1.46 meters?”

“Who said my height is less than 1.5 meters? My factory height is completely within the standard of 150 centimeters, which is 1.5 meters. It is definitely not the 1.46 meters you said. Between 1.5 meters and 1.4 meters There is an essential difference. One meter is one meter when rounded up, and one meter when rounded off is two meters.” Lao Mao retorted, “There is a full meter difference between the two.”

Tang Yue’s eyes became more suspicious.

“Don’t believe I’m two meters tall? Keep your eyes open and watch.”

The old cat stretched its body, pressed its two front paws against the inner wall of the experimental cabin, and then stretched its body like a noodle. It tried hard to reach the cabin door with its hind legs. Tang Yue watched the cat’s body stretch longer and longer. The longer it gets…the next thing is a crisp crunching sound.

Ouch, damn my old waist.

The old cat instantly rebounded and curled up into a ball, shivering.

Make you a monster.

You broke your waist.

Tang Yue adjusted his sitting posture, rested his head on the Mingguang Armor helmet, smiled and closed his eyes.

The old cat snorted and noticed that Tang Yue had fallen asleep and was motionless. He quietly climbed up and crept into Tang Yue’s arms, curled up into a big ball of hair, and closed his eyes.

They have ten hours to rest before the sun rises tomorrow.

In this long and quiet night, Tang Yue had the same dream repeatedly. In the dream, he arrived at the place marked on the letter, but the destination was not a grand and tall court like the Burj Khalifa, nor was there any weird spaceships and The little green man was alone in the tomb that he didn’t know who set it up there. Tang Yue wanted to see the writing on the tombstone clearly, but he always returned to the starting point when he got close to the tomb.

Tang Yue tried every means to see the epitaph clearly. He didn’t know how many times he had walked this road in his dreams. Some were as short as a moment, and some were as long as a year.

In the dream, the old cat sneered and said this is a Möbius strip. Do you know what a Möbius strip is?

Tang Yue finally fell to the ground due to exhaustion and slowly crawled towards the tomb. The old cat stood on the tombstone and laughed loudly. It had never shown such a ferocious expression. It looked more like a wolf than a cat. The cat laughed and shouted at him:

This is a Möbius strip!

Do you know what a Möbius strip is?

Do you know what the myth of Sisyphus is?

This is a cycle! It’s an endless loop! This is an endless cycle that you can never get out of!

Tang Yue woke up with a start, opened his eyes, and was covered in cold sweat.

He took a deep breath in the darkness. Tang Yue still remembered this bizarre and strange dream, but he didn’t know why he had such a dream. Was it because of the anxiety of arriving at the destination?

It was still dark inside the experimental cabin. It seemed that it was still at night and it was still dark. Tang Yue might not have been asleep for long. He fumbled to turn on the emergency light and looked around. Tang Yue saw the piles of There were canned and bottled water, as well as an isotope thermoelectric generator, but the old cat had gone somewhere, and the experimental cabin was empty except for him.