"You've done a great job." Tang Yue looked at the cat's small back, "Old cat." ”

The old cat shrugged, said no more, crouched down and rolled the styrofoam in a paper shell, then tied tightly to a steel pipe, and it pieced together a pair of crutches from the scraps left over from the dismantled bed. After being on Mars for so long, Tang Yue and the old cat are all little experts in waste utilization, and they use the skin and fairing that have fallen off on the lander to make tables, chairs, benches, and large and small storage boxes.

"Without you, Mai Dong and I would not have survived until now."

The old cat turned his back to Tang Yue, his ears moved, but he didn't stop what he was doing.

"It's my duty." It whispered.

As the titular work assistant of Kunlun Station, the stationmaster in the substantive sense, the old cat also serves as a safety officer, it is responsible for assisting the crew and protecting their lives, after the disappearance of the Earth and Orion 1 spacecraft, the only people who need the protection of the old cat are Tang Yue and Mai Dong.

This cat is actually about to retire, Tang Yue called it an old cat, because this cat is really old, as a meritorious astronaut in the first phase of the Mars landing program, the old cat will get heroic treatment after retirement, and the world's major aerospace museums will open up its exhibition area, put its full-size replica model, and then engrave its great achievements on the label or display board.

As for the old cat, Ben Mao will live a leisurely life of retired old cadres, sitting in front of the courtyard and lazily basking in the sun at the mouth of the alley, and other masters while playing chess while pointing out the country, and the small fish are enough.

There is no doubt that the old cat is a space hero, its status in history will not be lower than that of the Opportunity Traveler Cassini, but it did not bury itself alone in the cold space like the heroic ancestors, it can have a good ending, and can return to the small novice village after going through hardships and hardships, and leisurely watch the younger generations embark on the road it came out of.

"My retirement," the old cat sighed...... "and the earth is gone." ”

"Your scheduled retirement time is the end of your next mission, right?" Tang Yue asked, "What do you want to do after retirement?" ”

"If Earth doesn't disappear, I'll retire at the end of the next mission and return to Earth with the newly commissioned Orion III spacecraft." The old cat replied, "After retirement, my original plan was to go around, have a drink with the President of the United States, the Prime Minister of Canada, the Prime Minister of Germany, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and then find a village to live in New Zealand." ”

"Looking for a Zhuangzi in New Zealand?"

Tang Yue was stunned for a moment, what kind of follow-up plot is this? Isn't it a retired old cadre at the mouth of the alley playing chess with the uncle? Why is it that all of a sudden the topic of capitalism has become a topic?

Old Cat nodded, "The New Zealand government promised early last year that they would give me a fifteen-hectare estate after I retired. ”

"Fifteen-hectare estate?" Tang Yue was surprised, and at the same time he remembered that the cat was not a Chinese citizen, although it spoke Chinese secretly, "How much is this worth?" ”

"About fifty million pounds? Or sixty million pounds? The old cat thought for a moment, "I'm not very sensitive to this thing, if it is converted into small dried fish...... Should it be fifteen thousand tons? ”

Tang Yue was dumbfounded, "You are actually so rich?" ”

He lived for more than 20 years, and in the end his net worth could not catch up with the toes of a cat, and he really lived to a dog for so many years.

"That Zhuangzi is not allowed to be sold, I have the right to use but not the right to change hands." The old cat waved his paws, "Actually, not only New Zealand, but a total of twenty-four countries in the world have expressed their intention to give me real estate or residence, and they don't mind that I have multiple citizenship and citizenship at the same time, so I actually have a total of forty-six fixed assets in the world, the largest of which is in the Republic of Nauru, they gave me an island, the most expensive of which is in Tongzhou District, Beijing, they gave me a 100-square-meter apartment." ”

Tang Yue then knew that he had been with the richest cat in the world for more than a year, this cat usually looks barefoot and not afraid to wear shoes, one person eats the whole family is not hungry, can be called the three gods of the new era, but who knows that it is actually a huge wealth of hundreds of millions, although on Mars they are all strange creatures of unknown origin, but as long as they return to the earth, the net worth of the old cat will be thrown away by 10,000 Tang Yue.

"Do you like the house very much?" The old cat asked.

"Objectively speaking, young people in China of my age like houses very much."

"It's a pity that the earth is gone, otherwise I'll give you a set when I go back, and I'll give you the most expensive set." It was difficult for the old cat to understand Tang Yue's thoughts, "The most worthless thing in this universe is actually the earth, and now the whole of Mars is yours, and you still miss the house of a hundred square meters on the earth." ”

"No, the most valuable thing in this universe is the land." Tang Yue said, "The space suitable for the survival of life is a priceless treasure. ”

"But judging from the apartment that Tongzhou District gave me...... the old cat muttered, a little puzzled, "it's not a space suitable for life." ”

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The old cat made the crutches and let Tang Yue try it.

"When you retire, who will replace you?"

Tang Yue walked back and forth in the hall with a cane, and asked casually.

"The successor will be more powerful, more powerful, and physically stronger." The old cat stood beside him, "Compared with the first phase of scientific research and observation, the second phase of the Mars mission has a lot of heavy work to do, there will be a large number of construction workers here, Orion 3 and 4 are twice the size of 1 and 2, they will bring a lot of materials, Kunlun station needs to be expanded, there must be exploration and collection of freshwater and methane resources, as well as technical verification of farms and self-circulating small ecosystems, there will be more astronauts here, so the stationmaster of Kunlun station will no longer be a cat at that time." ”

"If it's not a cat, what would it be?"

"Dogs." The old cat suddenly resented, "A stupid dog, it could be an Eskimo or a Samoyed, or even a husky." ”

"Why dogs?" Tang Yue imagined in his mind a dog walking upright and freeing his hands, wearing headphones to direct the spacecraft to land.

Isn't this really going to make the ship's commander die laughing in the cabin?

"Because the dog party in the Mars mission preparatory committee has finally overpowered the cat party." The old cat's resentment erupted, "Those fools spoke at the conference and said, 'The first animal that man sent to space was a dog, how can we forget their great deeds?'" How many years have they been in space? Forgot? That puppy named Laika is still watching you from behind your back! So the next Kunlun station master was established as a canine. ”