Die on Mars - Chapter 256

c253 Day 342 (3) All the arrogance in the world

No one knows whether they can reach the coordinates within eight hours. Normally, the Mars rover does not work for more than two hours a day. Old Cat is optimistic about this. It believes that even if it consumes two hours on the vehicle, Then the remaining six hours are enough for them to reach their destination.

Tang Yue monitored the time and power at the same time, but it was not just the Mingguang Armor that needed power. The old cat also consumed power. For them, the power of the battery was the health bar. The moment the blood bar returned to zero, the game was over.

If this were a game, it would undoubtedly be on hell difficulty.

“Our current speed is twenty-seven kilometers per hour, which averages out to seven meters per second. Every time your heart beats, we will move forward six meters.” The old cat’s voice came from the headphones, even though he was sitting there Next to him, Tang Yue still couldn’t see its face clearly. The huge amount of sand and dust in the air blocked all light.

“Then if I make my heart beat faster, can I make the car go faster?”

“Obviously it can’t be done. Although the heart is a powerful power source, it is a pity that it cannot drive the motor of the Mars rover.” The old cat’s pupils shone slightly in the darkness, “Six kilometers! We have just crossed six kilometers. The last centimeter, and now there are still twenty-four kilometers left from the target!”

Tang Yue clutched the frame of the car tightly, the electronic watch on his wrist beating every second, and the helmet visor was filled with low-frequency wind noise.

He counted silently in his mind. Every second that passed, the rover would move forward seven meters. The old cat’s driving style was quite ferocious, obviously squeezing the last performance potential of the stray dogs on Mars. The stray dogs led them into the sand. From the pit, he rushed out at extremely high speed, and the flying sand and stones fell on Tang Yue’s helmet visor.

“Seven kilometers!”

“Seven kilometers.” Old Cat’s voice followed, “There are still twenty-three kilometers left.”

“Battery?”

“There is still plenty of power left.” Old Cat replied, slightly dimming the brightness of the car lights.

“I’m asking about your battery level!” Tang Yue said loudly.

The old cat was stunned for a moment.

“My battery is also very sufficient. It will definitely last longer than the Mingguang Armor. You can rest assured about this.”

“Since you lasted longer than me, I have something to ask you! Listen!” Tang Yue leaned over and yelled into the old cat’s ear, trying to drown out the noise with his voice, “Wan If I don’t survive until the end, if the Mingguang Armor runs out of power and can’t find the target, then the rest of the trouble will be left to you.”

“Don’t talk nonsense! You are the plaintiff! I am just a driver. Have you ever seen a driver litigating a lawsuit on behalf of the plaintiff?” Lao Mao refused, “This is your responsibility, don’t put your responsibility on me. ! My responsibility is to deliver you to your destination safely! Your responsibility is to complete what you should complete!”

“But I, the plaintiff, will die on the way!” Tang Yue said, “If the plaintiff is hit by a car, the driver will have to get on, and where are you as the driver? You are a lawyer! You are just a lawyer who happens to be able to drive, and your job is to drive. , he just happens to be a lawyer who has been driving a car all his life!”

“Let me tell you, if an animal quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, and looks like a duck, then it is a duck!” The old cat said, “My job is to drive and I have been driving all my life. Then I Just a driver!”

“No, don’t run away from reality, old cat, look into my eyes, you are a lawyer!”

“You are the one who needs to face reality, Tang Yue, I am just a driver! I can’t even remember the laws…”

“Po! Po-po-po-!”

The old cat slammed on the brakes to slow down, but it was too late. The Martian stray dog ​​drove up the dirt slope, passed the highest point, and all four wheels were airborne at the same time.

“Don’t you look at the road when you drive?”

“You asked me to look into your eyes!” The old cat was furious. The stray dog ​​landed heavily along the parabola and almost overturned. The rover did not have a strong anti-seismic suspension, and the body structure made a sharp whine during the impact. Tang Yue’s All the internal organs were churning violently.

“You can draw Mickey Mouse and Mario. As long as you can draw Mickey Mouse, you will be a good lawyer.” Tang Yue said, “Listen, the letter said that I am required to be present in person. None of us know that you are a cat. Whether they admit it or not, they don’t know what the specific procedure is, so you can take my body with you… If it’s too heavy, take off the Mingguang Armor. If they don’t admit it, then you can put my body there. , blocking their doors with banners!”

“Where did you learn how to petition?”

“I had already thought about the slogan on the banner, and I just wrote, ‘Alien dog thieves have no conscience, I will live and die with the earth, give me back my life!’, bilingual in Chinese and English.”

“If even the power of the Mingguang Armor is exhausted, then the remaining power of mine will at most help you dig a hole to prevent you from dying in the wilderness. I am afraid that such a complicated operation cannot be done.” The old cat shook his head, “Don’t think too much. , there are not so many chances, we will definitely be able to successfully reach that damn coordinate…eight kilometers! There are still twenty-two kilometers left to the destination!”

The weather was getting worse and worse, and the air became more and more like a thick cloud of ink. Tang Yue held a small emergency light in his hand and looked around. It was a completely dark world, with neither the sky nor the ground visible. They seemed to be running in an Impressionist oil painting. The painter gave up all precise shapes to refine the majestic spirit. He splashed ink wantonly and painted sharp, rough and crazy lines on the paper, which were storms. .

If there really is such a painting, then Tang Yue and Lao Mao must be invisible. The only thing the audience can see is the wind frozen on the paper, the sharp sand in the wind, and the weak dim light in the darkness. , in the palm-sized area that the light can illuminate, the shadow of a raised hand will be outlined.

“Nine kilometers! Twenty-one kilometers left!”

“Ten kilometers! Twenty kilometers!”

“Eleven kilometers, nineteen kilometers left!” Tang Yue shouted, “Why does the stronger the wind get, the more my heart wanders! It’s like a trace of dust, dancing freely with the wind!”

“I want to hold on to the firm yet scattered courage in my hands! I will become a giant! Step on my strength and my dreams!”

“Twelve kilometers! Eighteen kilometers left!”

“Thirteen kilometers, seventeen kilometers remaining.”

“Blow and blow, I’m not afraid of my bare feet! Blow and blow, it doesn’t matter if you disturb me!” The old cat also hummed, “Look at me smiling bravely, look at me waving bravely!”

“Fourteen kilometers!”

“Fifteen kilometers!”

“Sixteen kilometers!”

“Seventeen kilometers!”

“All the arrogant lives in this world will bloom in the storm.” The old cat said, “Eighteen kilometers!”

“Nineteen kilometers!”

“Twenty kilometers!”

“Twenty-one kilometers!”

“Twenty-two kilometers!”

“Twenty-three kilometers!”

The Martian stray dog ​​is heading forward in the storm, and the remaining battery power is rapidly decreasing. At this moment, the temperature in the storm has dropped to minus 60 degrees Celsius. The low outside temperature is obviously not a friendly environment for the battery. The battery power changes from green to yellow and finally enters In the red zone, the center console has started to alarm, but the old cat still steps on the accelerator and does not let go. It can be seen that the old cat is squeezing the last bit of power from the rover. It continues to reduce the brightness of the lights, but refuses to slow down at all. .

It wants to get as close as possible to the destination before the stray dog ​​ends its life.

“Twenty-four kilometers!”

“Twenty-five kilometers!”

“Twenty-six kilometers!” Old Cat gritted his teeth, “One hundred meters! Two hundred meters! Three hundred meters! Three hundred and fifty meters!”

The Martian stray dog ​​couldn’t hold on anymore. It had been running overloaded for too long in a low-temperature and harsh environment. The remaining power of the battery had reached the bottom. The axles and motors both made abnormal noises, and it crawled forward one hundred meters and one hundred meters.

This hard-working old dog finally came to the end of its life. Unfortunately, it did not get a perfect destination and ending, and could only be abandoned in the endless dark dust storm, and was eventually buried by the wind and sand.

The Martian stray dog ​​slowly came to a stop in the darkness, and the bright car lights gradually went out.

Lao Mao unbuckled his seat belt and patted Tang Yue on the shoulder, “We’ve arrived at the station, get off!”

“Have you arrived at the coordinates?”

“No, Mars Stray Dog has arrived at the terminal, we should change trains.”

Tang Yue was a little surprised, changing trains? What car to transfer to?

“Take bus No. 11!”