A quiet atmosphere flowed between the blazing sun and the slowly surging earth, and Alex and Ryan began to talk, as they were now each other's only dependence.

"Is there anyone on Earth looking up at the sky and missing you?" Alex asked.

Ryan didn't know how to answer, and his words became a little hesitant, and even though he tried to pretend that he didn't care, there was inevitably a faint sadness in his words.

He talked about his brother and family, he talked about his estranged relationship with them, he mentioned that he missed the call for the birth of his nephew/niece, all in an email. However, he did not reply because he did not know what to say.

And when Ryan asked, "What about you?"

Surprisingly, Alex, who constantly emphasizes "I have a story" today, and even Alex, who can be ridiculed at will about her ex-husband's cheating, remained silent at this time and did not say a word.

The two of them drifted slowly through space, gradually approaching the International Space Station.

From afar, Alex began to assess: Soyuz 1 had vanished, Soyuz 2 had a damaged surface, and the parachute had been opened and could not be used as an escape pod.

To add insult to injury, Alex's jetpack is running out of propulsion gas, and Ryan's oxygen level is almost zero, making the landing of both men a big problem. But now there is no time for hesitation and hesitation, either give it a go or end there.

The whole picture is starting to become majestic again:

The massive International Space Station occupies a third of the screen and hovers on the left, while two white dots the size of a grain of rice are slowly gliding closer to the blue and green Earth in the background.

The entire screening room involuntarily held its breath again.

Alex began to approach the ISS with propulsion gas, but was unable to slow down because there was no gas, as if there were no brakes on top of the traffic jam that continued to accelerate, forcing Alex and Ryan to crash into the space station.

First Alex grabbed the handle, but Ryan was unable to control his body, implicating Alex to continue to rotate, and then Ryan grabbed the handle, but Alex who followed couldn't control his body and collided head-on with Ryan, causing the two people to lose their support points again, and in the continuous impact, the connecting cable broke like this.

Both men were trying with all their might to grab a fixed connection point, any connection point, one that would be able to counteract their own acceleration.

But both failed.

Eventually, after a tumultuous jolt, Ryan's ankle got tangled in the parachute's line and came to an upside-down halt, but Alex still couldn't find the connection point, so he staggered towards Ryan, who stretched out his right hand with all his might, trying to grab Alex.

The fingertips of the two men grabbed like this, but before they could tighten their fingertips, the powerful acceleration of inertia separated the two men again, and Ryan fluttered like a drowning man trying to grab the connecting cable on Alex's body, and at the last moment, he grabbed it!

"Yay!" The whole process was so turbulent and thrilling that the screening room couldn't help but let out a low cheer of celebration, but then he kept his mouth shut, and he didn't even dare to let out the atmosphere, because Alex continued to slide into the abyss.

Alex's acceleration inertia is too great to stop, and he even starts sliding again with Ryan, and the scattered paracords are not enough to support the weight of the two people's bodies, if Alex doesn't let go, both of them will leave the space station together-

Without propulsion gas, they would not have been able to return to the station, and could only float through the universe until they suffocated when their oxygen was completely depleted.

Alex already knew her fate, and she was the one who was more familiar with the universe, so she took the lead in calming down, "Ryan, let it go." Alex whispered, a smile still on his face, and his voice had regained its calm.

But Ryan still refuses to compromise.

Alex began to tell the story again, "Ryan, do you remember the question? I used to have a daughter. That year, she was playing hide-and-seek in kindergarten, slipped until she hit her head, and then left. It's a terrible story, with no ups and downs, and it's just an understatement, "If she's alive, she'd be seven years old this year." ”

The description was extremely simple, but it showed the pain and struggle in the depths of her heart vividly, Alex seemed to see the pain in the depths of Ryan's eyes, and she then said, "Ryan, work hard, it's just ...... Step up your game. ”

After saying that, Alex put his left hand on the buckle, she could see Ryan shaking his head gently, his eyes bursting with despair and fear, helpless eyes made the iceberg's mask melt and disintegrate, but unfortunately, Alex knew that he had to make a choice, "It's not up to you, and likewise, it's not up to me." ”

Ryan pleaded, his fingers struggling to constrict, trying to save Alex's life with what was left of his strength, against the oppression of the entire vast universe.

Alex knew that Ryan would not give up, so she was the only one who chose to give up, so, under Ryan's gaze, she opened the buckle like this, and Ryan's slightly trembling call came from her ears, "Alex." ”

Just a call for a name, Alex's eyes couldn't help but be misty, and a smile appeared, "You'll go back, Ryan." You will. ”

Then, taking a deep breath, Alex let go of his right hand before Ryan could continue to speak.

"......" Ryan just quietly stared at Alex who was getting farther and farther away, a "no" was stuck in his throat, after Alex's body weight was released, the reaction force made Ryan slowly glide towards the space station, the distance between the two people was getting bigger and bigger, and his despair was getting bigger and bigger.

"I got you. Ryan muttered softly, repeatedly, the helplessness and confusion became smaller and smaller in the background of the universe, as if the whole world had been shattered and the sky was falling apart, but there was no sound or movement in the universe, and the insignificant sense of dust penetrated the screen and rushed to the face.

……

There was no sound in the screening room, both inside and outside the screen, and every audience member looked at Lan Li's clear and translucent eyes, the light projected in the depths of his eyes was telling him to fall apart, even if he survived, he was worse than dead.

What's even more terrifying is that the cold and vast universe doesn't care at all, and the humility and insignificance of life reach the extreme at this moment.

Matthew Dunlop stared at the big screen quietly, as if he could find his own shadow in Lan Li's pupil reflection, just a look, no lines or expressions, the kind of emotional transformation and life perception that went deep into the bone marrow and injected into the soul seemed to have told the vicissitudes of life in just one second.

Before I realized it, my eyes couldn't help but reddened slightly. That pure to the extreme touching and shock, with a kind of power that penetrates the back of the paper.

……

In the panic, Ryan finally came back to his senses, his body crashed into the space station, colliding between different outer walls, making people dizzy, and then driven by the sense of survival, he reflexively grabbed a handrail, and finally calmed down the direction and center of gravity temporarily, but his brain was still blank, and he couldn't think at all for a short time.

As he walked away, Alex remained calm, "Ryan, can you hear me?" but Ryan didn't answer, "Did you get it?"

"My carbon dioxide level is alarming. My carbon dioxide level is alarming!" Ryan just felt like his brain was starting to overheat and couldn't even think.

Alex was still commanding, "Listen, you need to get into the space station. Do you see the airlock?"

In the case of lack of oxygen in the brain, Ryan's vision and reaction began to become sluggish, and he could vaguely see Alex who was gradually moving away, which seemed to have become the size of a fist, which made Ryan regain his spirits, and under Alex's guidance, he knew the next steps to survive:

Because Soyuz-2 is too badly damaged to return to Earth, he needs to drive Soyuz-2 to the Chinese space station on the west side, and then look for the Chinese rescue capsule Shenzhou and return to Earth. Even though he never actually drove the Soyuz Two, only on a simulator, he crashed on every simulated landing.

"Tomorrow this time, you'll be back at Lake Zurich and tell everyone this thrilling story. Alex still had the heart to joke, "Did you get it?" but he didn't hear the answer, "Ryan, did you get it?"

Ryan gritted his teeth and climbed towards the hatch of the space station step by step, "I'll drive Soyuz Two to you." ”

"No, you can't. ”

"I'm going to pick you up. ”

"No, I'm too far away from you. ”

"I'll go over and save you. ”

"I don't think I'll be able to catch this boat. Ryan, you have to learn to let go. I want to hear you tell me you can do it. Please, Ryan!

"I can go back. Ryan was so out of breath that he was almost out of breath,

"Want to hear the good news?" Alex still walked through space, "I'm about to break Anatoly's record, and it could hold for a long, long time." Pretty cool for a female astronaut, isn't it? Whoa, whoa, hey, Ryan, you should see the sun over the Ganges. It's shocking. ”

The western cowboy music played again, and Alex's voice was gone forever.