Fall on the 280th day (5).
Night.
Tang Yue lay on the bed tossing and turning and couldn't sleep.
Outside the door, there was the sound of the old cat crackling and slamming the table, mixed with swear words that Tang Yue couldn't understand, what "your ancestors are on board" and "Niang Xipi", if nothing else, it is the computer that is burdened again.
This is a grumpy and foul-mouthed robot cat.
Tang Yue thought silently.
During this time, the old cat often worked all night, and it drove Tang Yue to sleep and guarded the workstation to process the data by himself.
Tang Yue wanted to get up to help but was pressed back, in the words of the old cat, if you don't die suddenly, you will be a great help.
"Girl, did you sleep?" Tang Yue asked softly.
"Nope." Mai Dong replied in the headphones, "It's not time for me to go to bed yet, the sun is still bright outside the window, and I'm eating." โ
"Every time I talk to you, you're either eating or looking for something to eat." Tang Yue adjusted the angle of the headphones slightly, pillowed his head with his arms, and looked at the white ceiling of the crew compartment.
"Because I'm hungry." The girl's voice was slurred, and she didn't know what she was chewing, "In order to maintain sufficient physical strength, you must replenish energy in time when you are hungry, this is what Mr. Cat advised." โ
After Mai Dong finished speaking, he also took a big sip of water.
Listening to Tang Yue's envy.
"What about Mr. Cat? Has it rested? โ
"Nope." Tang Yue glanced at the door curtain of the crew compartment, and the light came in through the gap in the zipper, "It's still fighting wits with the computer, the old cat has been working until dawn with wires plugged in recently, and it is too difficult to let Orion 2 enter the atmosphere safely, there is too much data to process, and the HP workstation is considered to collapse." โ
"Thing, I watched a movie today." Mai Dong said, "Roman Holiday. โ
"Is it the movie Audrey Hepburn?" Tang Yue knows very little about these old movies full of art in the last century, and he loves special effects blockbusters with strong visual stimulation, such as the repeatedly rebooted Transformers series and the completely fantasy Marvel movies, but Audrey Hepburn's name is really thunderous, this actress who has amazed the world for an entire century is one of the few Western actresses whose names Tang Yue knows, the others being Marilyn Monroe and Vivien Leigh.
Tang Yue remembered the name of the female lead, but the male lead actor couldn't, and to be honest, he felt that the male lead of Western movies in the early last century looked like Clark Gable no matter who he was.
"Yes." Mai Dong said, "The heroine is Audrey Hepburn. โ
Reading books and watching movies are one of the few ways for the two to rest and relax, compared to books and movies, games take more time and energy, Mai Dong is not much interested in games, and Tang Yue doesn't touch the game much after clearing the "Elder Scrolls 5" Supreme Gold Remastered Version.
Since there was no one else, Tang Yue and Mai Dong could only exchange their thoughts with each other after watching the movie, Mai Dong said "My Fair Lady" and "The Shawshank Redemption" to Tang Yue, and Tang Yue said "Transformers: Invincible Iron Bull vs. Yuan Shi Tianzun" and "Resident Evil: Li Sanguang's Revenge", both sides nodded for a while, mmmm.
"How's the movie?" Tang Yue asked.
"I didn't pay attention."
"Didn't notice?"
Mai Dong nodded, "I didn't pay attention to the plot of the movie. โ
"If you don't pay attention to the plot, then what are you paying attention to?"
"The sun, the air, the streets, the trees, the city, and the pedestrians." "Rome is a beautiful city," he replied. โ
Tang Yue has never been to Rome, nor has he seen the movie "Roman Holiday", he doesn't know if the city of Rome is beautiful or not, but Audrey Hepburn is very beautiful.
"Sometimes I think that even if I become a tree, growing in a grassy valley and soaking up the sun, it will be very pleasant." Mai Dong said, "Do you know Sanmao's poem? If there is an afterlife, you should be a tree and stand in a posture of eternity, without joy or sorrow. โ
"Half in the soil peaceful,
Half fluttered in the wind.
Half sprinkled with shade,
Half soaked in the sun.
Very silent, very proud.
Never rely on, never seek. โ
The girl's voice was soft, like her own soul drifting in the wind and landing nowhere.
"This kind of movie is too literary and not suitable for me." Tang Yue muttered, "I like tension and excitement, Mai Dong, have you watched "Chainsaw"?" โ
"Horror?"
"It's not a horror movie, it's a relatively old series, but there are new movies released two years ago, Mai Dong, let me tell you, this movie is old!" Tang Yue said, "There are many parts in this series, and they are filmed like ketchup without money, splashing everywhere with a bang. โ
"Ketchup?" Mai Dong was stunned, "There is a lot of ketchup?" โ
"Yes."
"Okay, I'll check it out next time."
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Old Cat: Did you pit that girl to watch "Chainsaw"?
Tang Yue nodded.
Old Cat: And then?
Tang Yue: Now she keeps telling me that she thinks she's not the only one on the space station.
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"Are you asleep?"
"No, what about you?"
"Nope." Tang Yue opened his eyes, "I'm probably suffering from insomnia." โ
As soon as Tang Yue closed his eyes, the approaching comet and the falling Orion II spacecraft appeared in his mind, he didn't dare to set up a flag, but Tang Yue couldn't stop his brain from thinking wildly, he would even dream of the crashed and burning Orion spaceship, in the dream the old cat's calculation was wrong, the engine failed, the propellant tank leaked and exploded, Mai Dong desperately begged for help in the channel, and he couldn't do anything.
He could only watch as the flames engulfed the ship, the voices in the communication channels faded away, and the huge fireballs disintegrated in the high-speed fall, scattering debris across the Martian wasteland.
Finally, he woke up from his nightmare, covered in a cold sweat.
Every time Tang Yue would subconsciously call Mai Dong, he only calmed down after the latter responded.
"I fell asleep for a while, but I woke up again." Mai Dong said, "I had a dream. โ
"What dream?"
"I ...... I dreamed that the plan failed and the Orion spacecraft crashed. Mai Dong was silent for a few seconds, "I was sitting in the Eagle lander, there were flames on all sides, and I saw the Orion engine burning and falling out of the window...... I wanted to contact you and Mr. Cat, but the communication was cut off, I couldn't reach anyone, I didn't know what to do, and I kept falling. โ
There was deep fear in the girl's voice.
"It's just a dream." Tang Yue comforted her, "It's okay, girl, it's just a dream, sleep well, and you have to continue working when you get up tomorrow morning." โ
"Uh-huh."
Mai Dong stopped talking and tried to sleep.
Tang Yue opened his eyes, although he coaxed Mai Dong to sleep, but he couldn't sleep himself, Tang Yue turned his head and glanced outside the door curtain, and the old cat's voice came faintly: "Dead!" Mother Xipi, you give me a dead machine again! โ8)