Die on Mars - Chapter 259

c256 Day 342 (6) Try your best to breathe

“Tang Yue? Tang Yue——!”

The old cat yelled.

It lifted Tang Yue’s upper body up and leaned on its legs. Tang Yue was lying in the bright light armor, staring with eyes full of bursting bloodshot eyes. At the same time, his mouth was slightly opened. His facial muscles had solidified, and there was still fear and disbelief on his face. , like a person who unfortunately drowned.

“Hell, hell, hell, hell…Tang Yue, just wait for me to save you now, I will come to save you now…”

The old cat took off his helmet, reached around the life support system behind the Mingguang Armor, opened the cover, unplugged the emergency oxygen unit with a click, then grabbed the oxygen tube and took a big sip, and then pulled Tang Yue up. With his wrist, he stabbed Mingguang Kai’s control terminal.

“Open the mask!”

Mingguang Kai refused to execute the instruction and at the same time a warning popped up: Dangerous operation! The external atmospheric environment is not suitable for survival!

“Open the mask!”

Mingguang Kai continued to refuse to execute the order.

“Damn it, why are you doing so much trouble…Enter emergency control mode! Can’t you understand the cat talking? Force open the mask! Force open!”

The old cat clicked hard on the terminal screen.

“Dangerous operation! You are trying to open the mask, which may cause serious decompression consequences. Do you want to continue?”

“continue!”

The lock of the Mingguang Armor’s mask opened, and the old cat immediately pushed up the mask glass. In just a few seconds, the air in the Mingguang Armor instantly leaked out. The old cat put his paws through the Mingguang Armor’s helmet and groped around. Hold Tang Yue’s chest – the Mingguang Armor is a semi-rigid structure, and the upper body is a hard shell that cannot be pressed. The other claw lifted the back of Tang Yue’s head, blocked his nose, and then leaned over to seal his mouth.

breathe!

Breathe, Tang Yue!

Breathe hard!

The old cat blew oxygen into Tang Yue’s respiratory tract while pressing the latter’s chest. As a robot cat, the blower used to dissipate heat and circulate air in its body was far more powerful than the lungs of ordinary people. The oxygen quickly poured into Tang Yue’s trachea and filled the latter’s alveoli.

The old cat felt Tang Yue’s heart, which was still beating weakly. When the old cat performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation, it would also stimulate the contraction of the heart. Every time it pressed hard, it would cause venous blood to flow back into the ventricle.

Breathe hard!

Breathe with all your might!

Breathe!

Breathe!

The old cat stood up and took another big gulp of oxygen, then buried his head again. The force of pressing the chest became stronger and stronger. It did not dare to stop for a moment. The old cat could feel that the young man’s vital signs were getting weaker and weaker. It slowly flowed away from my own claws.

The Mingguang Armor was in a depressurized state, and the low temperature of minus 90 degrees Celsius outside was attacking the extravehicular suit. They slowly got in, taking away Tang Yue’s body temperature and life bit by bit.

Hypothermia is as deadly as lack of oxygen.

“Breathe! Tang Yue, breathe… Breathe for me, bastard!”

“Breathe! Please, breathe!”

Tang Yue lay motionless in the Mingguang Armor. The water vapor in the spacesuit condensed into a layer of white frost within a few seconds after the pressure was lost. Tang Yue’s hair and beard were covered with fine ice particles, like He aged forty years overnight. Snowflakes condensed from carbon dioxide fell on his face and the old cat’s shoulders, and soon fell into a pure white patch.

Tang Yue’s body temperature is getting lower and lower. Old Mao cannot continue to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation and artificial respiration on him endlessly. If this continues, Tang Yue will soon freeze to death.

The old cat gritted its teeth. It pressed one hundred and twenty times in one minute, an average of twice per second.

But Tang Yue still didn’t react.

The old cat looked at Tang Yue’s lifeless eyes and suddenly realized that in Tang Yue’s subconscious, he might not want to wake up again. After waking up, Tang Yue would have to face the cruel reality of cold despair and endure loneliness. A person has to endure endless suffering and continue to trek exhausted into the long dark night. Rather than suffering such inhuman suffering, it is better to just sleep.

For him, living is the source of pain.

The frequency of the old cat’s chest compressions gradually slowed down, and it hesitated. It didn’t know if it really wanted to drag Tang Yue back to this hell on earth again.

He was tired enough.

He was in enough pain.

Why not let him have a good sleep?

“The blame lies with Asimov, who told me that I cannot sit idly by while human life is threatened.”

The old cat whispered, and took another big mouthful of oxygen, poured it into Tang Yue’s lungs, then pressed the chest with force to let it enter the circulation, and finally raised its paw and slapped Tang Yue hard on the face.

“The earth has recovered! Lao Wang and Ophiopogon japonicus are back! Damn you, please come back to life——!”

Tang Yue’s body limbs twitched, his facial muscles moved, and his pupils suddenly shrank. Tang Yue woke up from a deep coma, and then began to cough violently.

Lao Mao poked the oxygen tube of the emergency oxygen unit into Tang Yue’s mouth and held him down. “Don’t move, don’t move! Listen to me, take a deep breath! Take a deep breath!”

Tang Yue held the oxygen candle and breathed hard, gasping for air and shivering from the cold.

Old Mao asked him to hold his breath, stuffed the emergency oxygen unit back into the Mingguang Armor, then closed the mask and adjusted the air circulation flow and heating power of the Mingguang Armor to the maximum.

Tang Yue collapsed weakly on the ground and rested for a long time before he had the strength to speak. He had just come back from the hell gate and survived.

The old cat also breathed a sigh of relief.

“Acute carbon dioxide poisoning.” Old Mao said, “The carbon dioxide absorption tank of the Mingguang Armor has been exhausted, and the carbon dioxide in the environment of the extravehicular suit has increased sharply. Normal people exposed to such a high concentration of carbon dioxide will go into shock within half a minute. and respiratory arrest.”

Tang Yue sat on the ground silently.

“Without the carbon dioxide absorption tank, from now on you can only open the external circulation every once in a while to release high-concentration carbon dioxide to the outside world.” Old Mao continued, “You have to pay attention when the carbon dioxide concentration reaches five percent. Yes, concentrations higher than this may cause poisoning.”

“How far…are we…?” Tang Yue asked softly.

“It’s not far.” The old cat replied, “Less than a kilometer.”

“Okay… okay… let’s continue…” Tang Yue put his hands on the ground and tried to stand up. His legs went weak and he fell to the ground again. He could no longer squeeze out any more strength.

“I’ll help you.” The old cat crawled over and put Tang Yue’s arm around his shoulders. The latter supported the old cat and slowly straightened up. The soles of his feet slipped in the sand several times, but finally he stood firm.

“The direction…is…right?” Tang Yue lowered his head and his voice was very weak.

“That’s right.”

The old cat supported Tang Yue and walked forward step by step, stumbling.

“We’re almost there, Tang Yue… just hold on, hold on one last time! We can crawl across such a close distance.”