Sixty hours have passed since the old cat went missing.

Tang Yue stayed up all night again, looking haggard and his eyes bloodshot.

Tang Yue and Mai Dong used the topographic map in Kunlun Station, centered on the location where the old cat might have overturned, and expanded the search area, but still found nothing, Mai Dong's method failed, and they had to continue the heavy sequential scanning and brute force search work, Tang Yue threw the searched images in a folder, and now there are more than 3,200 photos in this folder.

No one knows where the old cat is, it disappeared inexplicably like the earth, and disappeared when he woke up, watching the time pass minute by minute, Tang Yue wore headphones, guarding the communication system all day long, and did not dare to let go of the slightest signal, but the old cat did not even send a comma again.

The situation is getting more and more severe, at first Mai Dong could comfort Tang Yue, but now even Mai Dong himself is silent...... The two of them buried their heads in the vast sea of image data, except for comparing the images and no longer talking, they didn't dare to imagine what the problem happened to the old cat.

Mai Dong looked at the screen full of documents, the most terrible ending may be buried in these thousands of pictures, but no one dares to mention it, as if it will become a reality as soon as it is mentioned.

It's like a scratch-off gamble, you scratch off the ticket in your hand, and it may be safe and sound, or it may be a car crash or a cat died.

Tang Yue shrunk into the chair in front of the table, wrapped in a thick blanket, shivering from the cold.

He had maintained this position all night, like a statue, Mai Dong could only see Tang Yue's eyes and fingers moving every few seconds, the latter curled up like a koala to reduce heat loss, the indoor temperature of Kunlun Station had been at minus ten degrees Celsius, and the hall was full of hoarfrost.

The isotope temperature difference generator stands in the center of the floor, except for Tang Yue himself, this is the only heat source in Kunlun Station, there is a circle of toilet barrels around the RTG, Tang Yue has no extra energy to take care of the seeds and fertilizer at the moment, and now the tomato planting plan has to be postponed, he can only put the generator there, let the stool brothers ferment themselves and ask for more blessings.

“3277…… 3277......" Tang Yue stared at him and muttered to himself as if chanting.

He clicked the mouse, "3278, Mai Dong, look at this picture, is it my illusion?" How do I feel that this picture is not normal. ”

"That's right, it's your delusion."

"What about 3279? The man's instinct tells me that there is something unusual about this picture. ”

"A woman's instinct tells me that this picture is unremarkable."

"Well, listen to you, your instincts are better than mine." To be honest, Tang Yueshan wanted to try metaphysics when he was exhausted, giving full play to Mai Dong's female intuition, and asked her to poke casually on the map to see if she could poke the location of the old cat, but in view of this probability, it was too low - the corridor drawn by Tang Yue was one hundred and ninety square kilometers, and the area of the Martian stray dog was only thirty square meters at most, and the chance that Mai Dong could poke the old cat with a poke was only six three hundred and thirty-three thousand.

Mai Dong may not be able to poke the old cat for the rest of his life.

Tang Yue continued to bury his head in chanting, "3280...... 3281……”

"Tang Yue, Tang Yue? You can drink saliva and take a rest......" Mai Dong was very worried about Tang Yue's state, he didn't sleep for several days, his hair was unkempt and his beard was unkempt, his work and rest were extremely irregular, and his expression was extremely haggard.

"Oh." Tang Yue nodded, but there was still no sign of moving, his eyes stayed on the computer screen, "Mai Dong, what did you find over there......

Before he finished speaking, Tang Yue coughed violently, as if he was a serious patient with tuberculosis, leaning on the table as if he was about to cough out his lungs.

The continuous violent coughing emptied the air in his lungs, and Tang Yue couldn't even cough up in the end, he couldn't change it in one breath when he opened his mouth wide, and his face was flushed.

"I'm sorry, I'm ...... I've got to get a drink. Tang Yue's voice was hoarse, he waved his hand, and shrunk down with a blanket to pour water, the sink was placed on the edge of the RTG, if there was no isotope temperature difference generator, the fresh water would have froze long ago.

Tang Yue took a cup, bent down, and carefully scooped a little fresh water, a shallow layer could only cover the bottom of the cup, but the cup trembled before it reached his mouth, his frozen stiff fingers slipped, and the cup fell to the floor with a clatter, and the water spilled all over the ground.

"Holy! My water! ”

Tang Yue hurriedly leaned down and knelt down, sucked up the water that had been spilled on the floor, picked up the cup again, stretched out his tongue and slapped the bottom of the cup...... He really feels sorry for his own water, Tang Yue's daily limit of water consumption is only 1.5 liters, and it is not enough to drink it, not to mention that it is also used to brush his teeth, wash his face and clean his body, and it is a great sin to waste a milliliter.

At that time, the great poet Tao Yuanming did not bend his waist for five buckets of rice, it was really a bright wind, and a milliliter of water could make Tang Yue's five bodies fall to the ground.

After confirming that there was no waste of fresh water, Tang Yue straightened up contentedly, inexplicably feeling a sense of satisfaction that he had made a lot of money.

"You...... You okay? Mai Dong was dumbfounded.

"After drinking some water, I'm much better now, I'm refreshed and full of strength now." Tang Yue took a deep breath, choked on the biting cold air, and coughed violently.

"Tang Yue, you need to rest!" The girl put on a straight face, "You have to rest!" Leave the work to me, you! Right now! Instantly! Lie down for me! ”

"Okay, okay, when I finish reading this batch of photos again, I'll rest immediately." Tang Yue agreed, "I know my physical condition best, you don't have to worry, I can still hold it." ”

It's dawn, the sun is up, and it's time for him to go out and carry the panels.

Tang Yue hung the life support system on the wall, unzipped the Mingguang armor, and then bent down to get in, without the assistance of others, it was a very tossing thing to put on and take off the Mingguang armor alone, Tang Yue felt that the joints of his body were frozen hard, not only cervical spondylosis but also a herniated disc in the waist, stretching his legs and reaching out like an old man.

Tang Yue clumsily put on the Mingguang armor, buckled and locked the life support system, connected all kinds of messy pipelines, checked that there was no problem, and the green indicator light on his wrist lit up.

After putting on the bright light armor, it warmed up a lot, and the exhaled water vapor fogged the mask.

"Mai Dong, I'll go out and move the solar panels, and you continue to investigate." Tang Yue waved his hand, "If you find anything, remember to notify me." ”

"Are you really okay?" Mai Dong also waved his hand.

"No problem! I'm strong now, and I just want to go out and run 5,000 meters! Tang Yue smiled and gave a thumbs up, turned around and unscrewed the door of the airlock chamber, walked out majestically, and then tripped on the edge of the hatch and fell into the airlock chamber.

"Tang Yue!" Mai Dong exclaimed.

She watched as the bloated back fell into the airlock, motionless, never able to get up again.