The old cat helped Tang Yue replace the oxygen cylinder and battery in the life support system of the Mingguang armor, and then helped him put on the extravehicular suit, Tang Yue moved his hands and feet, took a deep breath, and carried the antenna on the floor.

The antenna is very light, and the hollow aluminum alloy tripod can be lifted by Tang Yue with one hand, like a vertical microphone.

"Just put it at the door of Kunlun Station." The old cat stood in front of Tang Yue, stood on tiptoe to hold the latter's mask, and emphasized again, "Don't go far, and then stay where you are and listen to my command." ”

Tang Yue nodded, indicating that he understood.

“Good Luck！”

The old cat patted him on the shoulder, Tang Yue carried the antenna, dragged the black cable, and clicked towards the hatch of the airlock room, looking at the back as if it was a bear carrying a stick.

Before the launch of the Eagle spacecraft, they had to get in touch with the United Space Station and get Mai Dong ready, although the lander had the ability to dock automatically, there was no guarantee that there would be no problems with the launch in such bad weather, so everyone had to be prepared.

The original Ka-band communication antenna of Kunlun station was set up on the edge of the garage, which is a signal receiving antenna that can automatically turn to track the target, which can ensure that the direction of radio waves follows the space station or relay satellite movement, but this sudden sandstorm disrupted everything, and the old cat knew that the antenna must have been blown over, but they were busy transporting supplies before, and they couldn't spare time and energy to take care of it.

It is unrealistic to repair the antenna now, Tang Yue finally picked up a life from the outside, and if he goes out, he will be sent to death.

So the old cat simply found a replacement.

A purely manual old antique.

The old cat sat back in front of the workbench, put on the headphones, pulled the keyboard and mouse over, and while detecting the signal strength and wind speed changes of the communication channel, he constantly adjusted the signal band with one paw, and pressed the headset with the other paw, listening attentively, like an underground worker listening to the radio under the lamp in the dead of night.

The old cat hoped to find some meaningful signal in the endless white noise, but unfortunately, in addition to screaming and screaming, it sounded as if there were demons dancing in the storm outside, and thousands of female ghosts were crying in unison.

"Old cat, I'm in place." Tang Yue's voice sounded in his ears.

"Roger." The old cat quickly replied, "Listen to Tang Yue, you now stand the antenna in front of the door of the airlock, and then pick up the cable plug of the antenna." ”

"Plugs? Where's the plug? Plug...... Got it! Hell, it's so windy at the door, this plug is flying everywhere, I'm going to have to catch it...... I can't bend down, wait, wait, wait, I'm going to bend down and grab it, it's a USB port. ”

"That's right, it's a USB port, it's the data cable of the antenna, you look to your left now...... On the bulkhead to the left of the airlock hatch, there is a data interface, which is lit. ”

"I saw the data port, and it was right next to me, but there's already a data cable plugged in here." Tang Yue said, "I don't know where this wire leads......

"That cable is the data line of the original communication antenna of Kunlun Station, you can unplug that cable now and plug in your own." The old cat instructed, "After plugging it in, see if the indicator light on the antenna is on." ”

After a while, Tang Yue replied: "It's lit."

At the same time, the screen in front of the old cat's eyes displayed "New hardware connected", which means that the antenna was successfully connected to the computer of Kunlun Station.

"Now you turn the parabolic antenna to the southeast and turn slowly, not too fast." The old cat gave the command, while carefully testing the signal of the communication system, "At this time, the United Space Station should be in that direction." ”

Tang Yue leaned against the hatch of the airlock chamber, he locked himself on the hatch with a safety rope, he held the bracket of the antenna with both hands, and began to rotate slowly, although the old cat could not accurately locate the location of the joint space station, but the latter was a spacecraft that operated periodically in orbit after all, it flew around Mars along a fixed trajectory, as long as the orbital parameters of the space station were known, the old cat could easily calculate the position of the space station at any time.

"Is there a signal?"

"Nope." The old cat stared at the screen, "Keep turning." ”

"Is there a signal?"

"Nope."

Tang Yue raised his head and looked at the sky in the southeast, the old cat said that the United Space Station was in that position now, but Tang Yue couldn't see anything, and it was pitch black in front of him.

"Adjust the angle of the antenna a little bit higher, about five to ten degrees."

"Five to ten degrees ......" Tang Yue muttered while adjusting the direction of the antenna, "I suddenly feel like I'm repairing a TV." ”

"Fix the TV?" The old cat frowned.

"When I was a child, the TV set in my hometown in the countryside was like this, when there was no Internet and digital TV, the TV was connected to an antenna, which looked like a drying rack, with a penny rack on a high place, we all called it a TV stand." Tang Yue said leisurely, "It's really very, very old, even in a small village as remote as my hometown, TV stands are almost extinct." ”

"That's the Yagi antenna." The old cat said.

"I don't know what it's called, anyway, we all call it a TV stand, and the TV stand is a very bad thing, and the signal often goes wrong, so the TV show is often blurry." Tang Yue continued, "When we encounter the problem of unclear TV playback, we generally use two tricks, one is to shoot, shoot desperately, shoot TV, and shoot until it is clear." ”

"The other is to go out and turn the TV stand, one person stays in the room and stares at the TV, and the others come out to adjust the direction of the TV stand, and the TV stand is generally supported by a long penny, so we turn the penny at the bottom, and while turning the penny, we shout to the room, 'Is it clear?' If the person inside replied 'I don't know', then we kept spinning until the person inside shouted 'clear', and then we stopped and quickly ran back to watch TV. ”

The old cat nodded.

"It's kind of like that."

Tang Yue didn't know why he recalled these, some pictures suddenly jumped into his mind, the original vague memories suddenly became clear at a certain moment, in the furious and dark wind and sand of Mars, he could actually remember a summer vacation afternoon many years ago, the cicadas on the trees were hot and noisy, he sat in his hometown room with a popsicle, and the color TV on the table played the old TV series "Huanzhu Gege" and "Young Bao Qingtian".

Thinking about it, Tang Yue can even hum a few lines of the theme song, such as Huanzhu Gege's "The sea can be dry and the stone can be rotten, the sky can collapse and the ground can be cracked, we hold hands and hold hands", and the young Bao Qingtian "A blue sky on his head, a belief in his heart, not young and ignorant, but not afraid of challenges" or something.

"Stop!" The old cat suddenly roared.

Tang Yue didn't move.

The white noise in the headphones suddenly lowered, and the murmur of electricity like the howl of a female ghost disappeared abruptly, and a faint voice with a weak trembling voice with a crying voice emerged from the dark silence.

"This is the United Space Station, the four hundred and fifty-first call to Kunlun, please answer if you receive it...... This is the Joint Space Station, Mr. Tang Yue, Mr. Cat, can you hear us...... Mr. Tang Yue? Mr. Cat? ”

The old cat breathed a sigh of relief.

Finally got in touch.

It pressed and held down the headphones, "Miss Mai Dong, this is Kunlun Station, I'm an old cat!" Can you hear me? ”