In the middle of the night, Tang Yue woke up and leaned out of the bed to test the temperature.

He got up and put on his clothes, opened the curtain of the crew compartment, and the biting chill seeped in, and Tang Yue shivered fiercely.

The Kunlun station was dimly lit and silent, and the communication system was still on, but Mai Dong was not in the crystal cabin, so he should have gone to sleep and rest. The plastic greenhouse is propped up on the floor of the hall, the plastic film is covered with blankets and fabrics, and the white and dazzling light of the high-pressure sodium lamp shines through the cracks in the blanket.

The computer on the desktop has a black screen, and the clock is flashing red second by second.

Tang Yue walked over and squatted on the edge of the greenhouse, through the misty plastic film, he could see the sink on the floor, the sink was planted with tomato seedlings, the white radicle was buried in the soil, and a pale green delicate leaf stood tenaciously in the air.

Tang Yue stared at the tomato seedling for a long time, and unconsciously began to be fascinated, he suddenly understood why Mai Dong named this vegetable, he had always thought that he was a superior creature with intelligence, far away from the animal kingdom, and it was not comparable to inferior plants, but this was actually the high hat that humans put on themselves. Being in the Martian wasteland, facing the entire universe alone, Tang Yue realized that he was no different from a small tomato seedling.

If the universe had supreme intelligence, would it think that Tang Yue was higher than tomatoes?

In the eyes of nature, life may not be high or low.

"As is customary, I should also give you a name." Tang Yue said to the tomato, "What's it called?" Washington? Roosevelt? Kennedy? Or Nixon? ”

"There it is!" Tang Yue thought for a moment and slapped his thigh, "From now on, you will be called Zhang Wuji!" ”

The tomato seedlings are silent, and I don't know how to feel.

Another small bud that had already emerged was named "Yangdingtian" by Tang Yue.

Tang Yue leaned into the greenhouse, hugged the two sinks tightly in his arms, and warmed the tomato seedlings with his body, he was worried that the isotope temperature difference generator and high-pressure sodium lamp would not emit enough heat for the plants to withstand the long cold night on Mars.

Tang Yue sat on the floor, hugged them, and whispered while trembling, "Wuji, Wuji, you have to grow up quickly...... Hurry up and grow up, hurry up and blossom, hurry up and bear fruit, your master Golden Retriever Lion King Xie Xun is still in the hands of the old bald donkeys in Shaolin Temple, waiting for you to save ......"

The high-pressure sodium lamp casts the man's shadow on the plastic sheet, and he hugs the sink tightly as if holding his own child, the only lone lamp in the dark Martian desert, tiny and bright.

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"This is the United Space Station, call Mr. Cat, please answer if you receive it...... This is the United Space Station, call Mr. Cat, please answer if you receive it. ”

The Mars Joint Space Station swept over the Ihidi Plain at an average speed of 3.5 kilometers per second, the high-gain communication antenna pointed to the surface, and the girl's voice was captured in the form of vibrations by the carbon film inside the electret, converted into an electric current in the electrodes, amplified and converted into a high-frequency electromagnetic signal, through which it was broadcast towards the surface of Mars.

Vacuum cannot transmit sound, but the good thing is that electromagnetic waves do not need a medium, they can carry information through the void and reach great distances.

Mai Dong pressed the headphones.

"This is the Joint Space Station, call the Kunlun Station, please answer if you receive it."

"Kunlun Station received."

"Tang Yue, the satellite photo has identified No. 7750, we have searched an area of 15.5 million square meters, and we still haven't found anything, do we want to continue to search?" "Mr. Cat can't be found, and the Cherome probe can't be contacted." ”

"You definitely can't contact the Chelome, because it needs to be shut down during transportation, so the old cat turned it off at the beginning, and he can't receive any instructions." Tang Yue sighed, "That cat, it must have eloped with a Martian stray dog, maybe even a litter of kittens has been born now...... But we'll have to find it, and if the cat doesn't come back, I'll have to get used to living alone. ”

Today is the sixth day of the old cat's disappearance.

To be honest, Tang Yue may not be able to live alone, he has food, fresh water, electricity, and two pots of tomatoes, as long as time passes, when Zhang Wuji Yang Dingtian and Wudang Seven Heroes grow up, Tang Yue's scurvy can be solved, and he can live for at least another year.

Tang Yue and Mai Dong both wanted to find the old cat, although they might not be able to do anything if they found it, they still insisted on seeing the cat alive and the dead cat when they died.

"Tang Yue, how are your tomatoes growing?" Mai Dong asked, "Are the temperature and light fully guaranteed?" ”

"It's growing very well." Tang Yue turned off the decontamination system, opened the hatch of the airlock room, and stepped into the lobby of Kunlun Station, "Do you want to take a look?" You are an agricultural expert, can you give some advice and guide the work? ”

Tang Yue took off the Mingguang armor on his body, put on his clothes, and rubbed his hands happily, as if he wanted to see his infant son.

"Look fast, it's too cold outside, they can't stay long."

He lifted the plastic film, took out the sink in the greenhouse, wrapped it in an insulated blanket, and leaned in front of the camera, Mai Dong also leaned over, she could see five green seedlings planted in the brown-black soil, she couldn't judge their growth through the screen, but judging by the verdant color, the seedlings were indeed vibrant.

"Let me introduce you to you, this oldest and best growing plant is the eldest brother, whose name is Zhang Wuji...... You look at its leaves. Tang Yue pointed to Mai Dong one by one, "This one is Song Yuanqiao, this one is slightly whiter Yu Lianzhou, the name of this one on the side is Yu Daiyan, and the last one is Zhang Songxi...... There are also Zhang Cuishan and Yin Li Ting, but they are in a separate basin. ”

Mai Dong nodded slowly.

She thought that Tang Yue's level of name would be higher than herself.

Now it seems that he is also a wreck.

"How long will it take for these little ones to grow up?"

"If you can keep the temperature and the light, two months at most, they will bear fruit." Mai Dong replied, "Those tomatoes you have are all very good varieties, the same model I grew on the space station. ”

Tang Yue took the sink around in his arms and lifted the seedlings high, as if he had seen the green stems and leaves and bright red fruits. Tang Yue had never thought in his life that growing tomatoes would be an exciting thing, and for the first time he understood the feelings of the old farmers who stood on the ridges of the fields and watched the crops harvest.

"That Zhang Wuji seems to be a little crooked, you can help it straighten it out." Mai Dong pointed to the sink, "In case the root system will not develop well in the future." ”

Tang Yue stretched out his finger and gently pushed Zhang Wuji.

With a very slight "click", Zhang Wuji's most conspicuous and pleasing green leaf suddenly broke and fell on the soil, Tang Yue and Mai Dong were stunned.

"What's going on?" Mai Dong asked, "Are you using too much force?" ”

Tang Yue's face became solemn, he waved his hand to signal the girl not to speak, he immediately moved the sink back to the greenhouse, nervously checked Zhang Wuji's situation, he knelt on the floor, and gently touched the young tomato sprouts with his fingers.

It doesn't feel right.

Tang Yue increased his strength slightly, pinched the stems and leaves of the seedling, and he soon found that the tomato seedling was hard and brittle, and it did not look like normal cell tissue when pinched.

Tang Yue held his breath and tried to peel off the skin of the seedling with his fingernails. The moment he peeled the seedlings apart, his heart sank suddenly...... The fracture was rough, and even tiny ice ballast could be seen, and the water in its body had long since been frozen, and the seedling looked verdant, not because it was full of vitality, but because its corpse was frozen at the moment when it was at its most vigorous.

It's like a fruit in the refrigerator.

Tang Yue hurriedly checked the other seedlings in the sink, Song Yuanqiao, Yu Lianzhou, Yu Daiyan, and Zhang Songxi, but each one was exactly the same as Zhang Wuji, and none of them were spared.

It would be the same way, the distance between several seedlings is only a few centimeters, and if one plant freezes to death, the rest will have the same result.

Tang Yue pulled them all out of the dirt and put them in the palm of his hand, the corpses of Zhang Wuji Yang Dingtian and the Wudang Seven Heroes were cold, they should have been dead for a long time, maybe a few hours ago, or even frozen last night. Ultra-low temperatures have condensed the water in their bodies into ice in a very short period of time, and the expanding ice crystals destroy all cellular structures, and these plants are too dead to die.

Tang Yue put down the sink in a panic and went to look at the other sink to see if Yang Dingtian and Zhang Cuishan were still alive.

"Tang Yue? Tang Yue...... How's it going? ”

Mai Dong watched as the man suddenly collapsed on the floor, as if he had lost all his strength.

Tang Yue held all the dead seedlings in his hands in silence, his eyes were blank, he couldn't find the focus, he didn't understand what was wrong, he had obviously done very complete thermal insulation measures, he didn't know why these little lives were frozen to death, how could this be? How so?

"Tang Yue?"

Tang Yue turned his head, didn't speak, and smiled slightly at Mai Dong, whose heart shrank suddenly.

Tang Yue's gaze was complicated, it seemed that he was sad and helpless, and he seemed to be discouraged.

The gaze seemed to say, "Look, girl...... This time I really did my best.

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(Author's gossip: The interaction of the heart is valid for a long time until the end of this book.) ）