Die on Mars

When Tang Yue woke up again, he realized that he had just passed out, and he didn't know how long he had been unconscious. Tang Yue tried to move and found that he was being hugged - someone was hugging his helmet.

Only then did Tang Yue realize that his posture had changed. He was lying on the sand before, but now he was lying on his back.

"woke up?"

Tang Yue was stunned and quickly raised his head. Through the mask of the Mingguang Armor, he saw a huge spherical head on top of his head. The round head was looking down at him - of course it was not an alien, but an old man. Cat spacesuit helmet.

Old Mao let Tang Yue lie half on his lap, hugging Mingguang Kai's helmet and looking down at him.

"Old cat?" Tang Yue saw clearly the cat's face in the glass mask of the other person's spacesuit and was pleasantly surprised, "You haven't hung up yet?"

"Uncle, if I'm late for another two hours, it won't be me, but you." The old cat leaned forward and pointed at the light-armored wrist.

Tang Yue lay on Lao Mao's lap, raised his left hand, and brushed away the dust on the wrist monitor screen.

The power of the life support system has dropped by more than half, and the Mingguang Armor is warning, with a small orange exclamation mark flashing.

The air pressure in the oxygen cylinder has also dropped significantly. There is less than 0.5 atmospheres of oxygen left in the main oxygen cylinder, which is approaching the alarm red line. The main oxygen cylinder in the Mingguang Kai life support system can store about 5 MPa of oxygen. , this much oxygen is enough for Tang Yue to be active outside the cabin for eight hours.

Tang Yue had been busy all day today, and the oxygen in the Mingguang Armor was almost exhausted.

According to the design, once the air pressure in the main oxygen tank of the Mingguang Armor drops to 0.4 atmospheres, the life support system can no longer deliver oxygen normally. At this time, the Mingguang Armor will automatically connect to the backup oxygen bottle, which is an emergency It only stores 1.2 kilograms of oxygen and can be used for no more than forty minutes.

What the old cat said was right. If it had arrived an hour later, all the oxygen and electricity in the Mingguang Armor would have been exhausted, and Tang Yue would have either frozen to death or suffocated to death.

Tang Yue poked the monitor screen with his finger and sighed.

"EVA is EVA. As expected, it's a normal scenario to run out of power."

"Is it normal to have no power?" Lao Mao didn't understand what this sentence meant.

"This is what I'm talking about." Tang Yue pointed to his chest, "EVA system, in addition to being the abbreviation of Extravehicular Activity system, is also the name of some kind of giant super humanoid weapon. That thing will go berserk once it runs out of power. "

The official name of the Mingguang Armor extravehicular spacesuit is the EVA system, and the full name is the Extravehicular Activity system, which is the extravehicular activity system, but just looking at the abbreviation, it looks like a very powerful secret weapon.

The old cat helped him up, and Tang Yue sat up, "How long have I been unconscious?"

"The time now is 11:20 pm. You may have been unconscious for about an hour. When I found you, you were lying on the ground." The old cat replied, "The wind speed began to decrease."

Although the wind speed had decreased, Tang Yue couldn't see any difference. The surroundings were still dark. The only thing he could see clearly was the old cat's face. This was because the light in his helmet illuminated the old cat's face. .

"The current wind speed is thirty-eight meters per second." Old Cat said, "But why did you run out? I told you to stay at Kunlun Station and not move around."

"I waited for more than an hour." Tang Yue replied, "You never came back... Then when I retracted the safety rope, I found that the rope was loose, so I came out to look for you, but why weren't you on the rope? You Did you untie the safety rope?"

The old cat nodded.

"The rope got tangled up in the gangway and couldn't move, so I unbuckled it."

"But you left for more than an hour and didn't come back." Tang Yue asked, "Why did it take so long? Half an hour each way?"

"I walked back and forth more than once because I almost lost my way." Lao Mao replied, "I missed Kunlun Station and walked forward for more than ten meters before realizing that something was wrong. When I turned around and came back to find Kunlun Station, I realized that something was wrong. You were not there, so I followed the rope to find you again... Fortunately, you had a safety rope tied to your body, otherwise I might not be able to find you."

Tang Yue breathed a sigh of relief.

The old cat is fine.

Everything was a false alarm. Speaking of which, during the last supply delivery, the most dangerous person was not the old cat, but Tang Yue... Tang Yue fell into a coma in the sandstorm, and the Mingguang Armor's life support system was almost exhausted. Energy, if the old cat didn't find him, Tang Yue would freeze to death in a coma.

He had a brush with death unknowingly, wandering around the hell gate before being pulled back by the old cat.

Mingguang Armor started to alarm. Tang Yue glanced at the terminal display. The pressure of the main oxygen cylinder had dropped below the red line, and the backup cylinder was connected to Mingguang Armor.

The air pressure inside the Mingguang Armor external suit is generally maintained at about 40 kilopascals, which is 0.4 atmospheres. This pressure is mainly provided by oxygen cylinders. Once the backup cylinder is activated, the forty-minute countdown begins.

"Let's go, let's go back. You still have forty minutes of oxygen left."

The old cat pulled Tang Yue and crawled back with difficulty along the safety rope.

The old cat climbed in front, and Tang Yue followed behind it. They were both strung on a rope, one behind the other, as if they were climbing Mount Everest.

After being unconscious for more than an hour, Tang Yue finally recovered some of his strength, "Have you delivered the last box?"

"Delivered." Old Cat replied. "All the supplies have been firmly tied into the cargo hold of the Eagle spacecraft. They are all arranged properly and are just waiting for launch."

"Don't you need to check more?"

"We've done everything we can."

Tang Yue felt a little relieved. They finally got this step done. The 400-kilometer express delivery was finally packed. This was probably the most difficult express delivery in history... If it weren't for this damn sandstorm, the situation would have been different. It won't become so troublesome. It's really unpredictable.

"When will it be launched?"

"There are a total of six suitable launch windows during the day tomorrow. My original launch time was 8:30 a.m.... But now this plan can be completely scrapped." Old Cat shook his head, "Under the current circumstances, There is no point in planning ahead, we have to watch the wind speed, when the wind speed decreases and when to launch."

"Fifty meters per second?"

"Fifty meters per second is the design limit." Lao Mao said, "Of course, the lower the wind speed, the better. It is best to be below thirty meters per second... Below thirty meters, you can be more confident. If If the wind speed can drop to this point, we may be able to restore communications with the Joint Space Station."

Tang Yue nodded.

"Recover quickly, that little girl in the sky is probably crying now."