Mai Dong put his hand on the glass and stared at the incubator, a faint green reflected in his dark and translucent eyes.

The first tomato seedlings have finally sprouted.

The little thing poked its head out of the medium at some point, silently breaking through the hard seed coat, the seedling was only a few millimeters high, two pale green leaves, crisp white rhizomes, gently vibrating with the air flow of the ventilation system, and the girl's gaze also came alive.

Mai Dong was pleasantly surprised to find this little creature during a routine inspection in the experimental cabin, and then he followed it and floated here for a long time.

Mai Dong has a small area in the Hope experimental module, and a batch of Arabidopsis, tomatoes and lettuce are planted in the incubator to verify the feasibility of plant cultivation in long-term space missions, the short-term goal of this technology is to provide astronauts with fresh vegetables, so that they can completely get rid of all evil, and the long-term goal is to build a self-circulating ecosystem in the spacecraft and provide technical reserves for the future human migration spacecraft.

However, the latter is obviously an overly long-term goal, and mankind has never built a reliable small ecosystem so far, and it may be when the technological tree of controlled nuclear fusion is pointed out that the self-circulating ecosystem can take the first step...... But even controlled nuclear fusion is still 50 years away.

Mai Dong exclaimed silently.

The second life in the United Space Station was finally born, this may be the third life in the universe, Mai Dong was shocked by its fragility and beauty, she felt that life was really the most delicate thing in the world, this small tomato seedling was less than a centimeter tall, but in its bean-sized body, there were hundreds of millions of cells working together, water was pumped from the roots to the leaves, light and carbon dioxide were participating in photosynthesis, everything was in order, just right.

Compared to this seedling, the United Space Station in which I am located is simply a rough and crude house.

She really wanted to tell Tang Yue and the old cat the news immediately, but unfortunately the contact was interrupted at the moment and the call was not answered.

"I should have given you a name......"

Mai Dong slowly circled in front of the glass incubator, pinching his hair, "What should I call you?" Xiaofan? Eggplant? Konishi? How about Midori? ”

"Little Midori...... Little Green ...... Well, the name Midori is nice. Mai Dong raised his eyes and looked at the bulkhead above his head, and nodded leisurely, "Then it is decided, from now on, your name will be Runtu!" ”

The girl solemnly stretched out her hand and pointed to the tomato seedlings in the glass incubator, her two dark eyes wide open and her expression serious.

Half a minute later, Mai Dong couldn't hold back anymore and clutched his stomach and laughed.

The girl smiled and laughed, her voice slowly lowered, she floated in mid-air, a meter away, looking at the seedlings behind the glass in a daze, her eyes lowered, and her gaze suddenly became lonely.

"Runtu, Runtu, thank you for coming with me......" Mai Dong stepped forward and gently held the glass box and put his forehead on it, "But we won't live long, so ah...... You have to grow up quickly, grow up quickly, grow super big, super big, so big that the box can't shut you up, the experimental module can't shut you up, the space station can't shut you down, can you understand what I'm saying? ”

Tomato seedlings gently flutter in the air current.

"You nodded." Mai Dong smiled, "You promised me, remember that you promised me!" ”

She gently pushed the bulkhead, passed through the hatch of the docking section of the cabin, and left the Hope experimental module, Mai Dong still had something to do.

She's going to write a suicide note.

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“Plan B！ We need Plan B! Tang Yue crawled out of the Mingguang armor, sweating profusely, and the clothes on his body were already soaked, "Is there a Plan B?" ”

Only one rendezvous and docking can be attempted, and the probability of success is less than five percent, and this road will definitely not work.

They can't gamble with Mai Dong's net worth and life.

"Prambi? Not all the time there is a Prambi. The old cat leaned back in the chair, rolled his eyes, and said in his heart that I am not a robot cat, and this kind of thing is in the pocket of Planbi?

Wait a minute.

It does seem to be a robot cat.

"But this road will never work! You can only do one rendezvous, and the probability of success is only five percent, five percent! The possibility of me graduating from high school and being admitted to Tsinghua University is higher than this! Tang Yue slapped the table excitedly, "If we don't have Prambi, we're still playing fart?" ”

"The probability of successful docking is only 2.477% at most, where is the five percent?" The old cat spread his hands, "And I think the probability of you being admitted to Tsinghua University is less than 0.5 percent." ”

"What?" Tang Yue glared.

"What are you? Think I'm underestimating your high school academic performance? ”

"No, no, no, no, I don't mean this, I have a 5% probability of being admitted to Tsinghua University, this is what my high school class teacher said, his original words are, 'If 8 million candidates across the country all hand in blank papers, Tang Yue, you have a 5% probability of going to Tsinghua University'...... I mean, what's going on with the previous 2.477%? Didn't you say that the docking success rate was 5%? ”

"I told you before that there was a 5% probability, that was in the case of successfully entering the parking orbit, and now even the first step into the orbit has failed, do you still think there is a 5% success rate?" The old cat said, "What do you mean by your high school homeroom teacher's words?" Why do 8 million candidates across the country have handed in blank papers, so you have a 5% chance of going to Tsinghua University? What about the remaining ninety-five percent? ”

"You mean, we're only 2.477% hopeful now?" Tang Yue was taken aback, "The remaining ninety-five percent?" The remaining 95 percent must be issued by the Ministry of Education saying that the results of this examination are invalid. ”

"That's right, we only have 2.477% of hope left." The old cat nodded, "Can the college entrance examination results be invalidated?" ”

"If there is only one person named Tang Yue in the whole country who answers the question, and everyone else has handed in the blank papers, if you are the Ministry of Education, let alone invalidate the exam, you should commit suicide by seppuku......" Tang Yue sat in the chair, he didn't want to talk to the old cat about this stupid topic about the college entrance examination anymore, he knew that he would not be able to get into Tsinghua University in his life.

If he can get into Tsinghua University, why do he have to go to Mars to work hard? Hungry? He had long since gone to Wall Street to enjoy the rotten capitalist life of high society.

Tang Yue slowly covered his face.

The likelihood of success is getting lower and lower.

What is the concept of 2.477%?

A hundred attempts, less than three successes.

The old cat stared at the computer on the workbench and was silent for a few seconds, "You have to recognize our current situation, the Eagle spacecraft failed to enter orbit, it is about to crash, there is not enough propellant, the contact is interrupted, and there is no guide...... This 2.477% success rate is already a miracle. ”

Tang Yue was stunned for a moment.

The old cat is indeed right, the probability of 2.477% is not too low, but too high...... Tang Yue suddenly understood this, and his scalp suddenly tingled.

The Eagle spacecraft failed to enter orbit, the lack of propellant, the contact was interrupted, the unguided was unguided, any one of them was enough to destroy a space mission, so many unfortunate things all came together, so that Tang Yue caught up, according to common sense, it was absolutely dead and dead, they should have failed a long time ago, but why is there still a glimmer of hope for 2.477%?

Something was holding up this faint hope, like the last candle in the night, stubbornly refusing to extinguish it despite the storm.

"What is it?" Tang Yue raised his head.

The old cat turned his head, "Huh? ”

"What is it? What exactly is our 2.477% hope in the end? Tang Yue asked, "What is maintaining the final success rate?" ”

The old cat leaned over, raised a paw and pressed a few keys on the keyboard, a window popped out, Tang Yue came over to see, above is the main structure of the payload compartment of the Eagle spacecraft, the huge first-stage rocket engine and propellant tank have been thrown away, which makes the lander look shorter by more than half, and the rest is the command module, cargo compartment and the upper stage rocket.

The old cat circled a box with his mouse and marked the spout at the bottom of the cargo compartment for Tang Yue to see.

The RD-0172 rocket is produced by the Russian Power Machinery Research and Production Complex.

Solid and reliable wool goods.

This is a very small rocket, and it is a very inconspicuous link in the entire chain of Mars landing missions, only responsible for the safety and security of the payload bay and the maneuvering orbit change.

If the Eagle spacecraft's Raptor 3D and 3C rockets are powerful cruise ships, then the RD-0172 is undoubtedly a small sampan, but now that the cruise ship has sunk, they can only rely on this small sampan as a last lifeboat...... Fortunately, this small sampan was built by a fighting people known for its violence and solidity, and with the double blessing of vodka and Pu Xiandi, the sampan may also be used as a tugboat!

"If we didn't have this engine, we would have had zero chance." The old cat replied, "It's the last 2.477%!" ”