"Old cat? Old cat, can you hear me? Tang Yue got up and tried to contact the old cat, "Where are you, old cat?" Can you hear me ......."

Tang Yue was suddenly stunned.

He saw the time on the control terminal on Mingguang Armor's wrist.

7:23。

7:23 a.m.

Tang Yue subconsciously turned his head to look at the porthole, he thought that the time was still in the early morning of the second half of the night, and it was not yet dawn, so it was dark outside the window, but the clock showed that the time had reached seven o'clock in the morning...... Why hasn't the sun risen by this time? It's not a polar region, and there's no long polar night.

"Can I hear you, are you awake?" At this time, the old cat's voice came out of the earphones, and then the hatch was opened, and with a dull click, the old cat came in from outside, Tang Yue noticed that it had put on the cabin suit, and the old cat took off the helmet, "How did you sleep last night?" ”

"I slept okay, but a fat thing of 100 pounds pressed on my legs and numbed my legs...... What's going on? Tang Yue pointed out the window, "Why isn't it dawning yet?" The sun goes out? The end of the world? ”

"Come out." The old cat put on his helmet and stretched out his paws to pull Tang Yue, "Just see for yourself." ”

"Nothing?"

"No problem."

Tang Yue followed the old cat out of the experimental cabin, and landed cautiously, it was really dark outside the cabin, almost unable to see his five fingers, Tang Yue raised his head and looked around, through the glass of the Mingguang armor mask, he could see that this was not night, because the darkness was not above the canopy, but close in front of his eyes, just outside the glass mask, only a few centimeters away from him, Tang Yue felt that he was immersed in ink, and he could not see the slightest sunlight.

Tang Yue turned on the headlamp of the Ming Guang Armor, and the pillar of light shot out less than five meters away, the pitch-black air was a turbid reddish-brown color in the light, and the dust was stirred by the violent air current.

"This is what you call smog?" Tang Yue turned his head to look around.

"Hmm...... Severe haze. The old cat replied, "The air quality today is indeed a bit bad, even worse than I thought." ”

"Your family's haze is this virtue? Covering the sky and the sun, you can't see your fingers? Tang Yue glared, "Does your family live in the chimney of the coal kiln?" ”

"Did you know? Let me tell you that I grew up with a hard life, and I was sold to a black coal kiln in Shanxi Province less than five months after I was born, working day and night, and the black-hearted boss didn't pay for food......"

"Say something useful!"

"Well, to be honest, I didn't expect it to be so serious, the atmosphere is extremely turbid, and I can't see a little bit of sunlight, I got up half an hour before you and tested the battery board once." The old cat stood beside Tang Yue, "Obviously, when we were sleeping last night, the dust storm passed over our heads, and it was covered with a huge amount of sand and dust, covering the surface of Mars like a thirty kilometers thick blanket, and the sunlight couldn't get in at all. ”

"How long will it last?" Tang Yue stretched out his hand and opened his palm in the darkness, "I can't feel the wind." ”

"It's hard to say how long it will last, it could be a global storm, three years without wind, and half a year at a time." The old cat replied, "It's normal that you don't feel the wind, the range of the dust storm is very large, but this does not mean that the wind speed is very high, such a thin atmosphere, you wear such thick gloves, of course you can't feel anything." ”

The old cat and Tang Yue touched the body of the Martian stray dog, and walked forward step by step, Tang Yue turned off the headlamp of the Mingguang armor, and the old cat pinched the small light bulb in his paws, and held it above his head, emitting a faint light.

"What's next?" Tang Yue asked.

"Everything is going according to plan." The old cat walked ahead, "I said that the weather conditions will not affect our progress, but it is just a night walk." ”

"Can you still find your way with this visibility?" Tang Yue was a little surprised.

"It's as if we can find our way with high visibility." The old cat snorted, "Anyway, it's a blind cat looking for a dead mouse, what's the difference between dark and not?" ”

The old cat finally exposed his completely unreliable face, what sextant, what star catalog, what latitude and longitude are all fooling Tang Yue, a layman, he has always been a blind cat, looking for a dead mouse in the desert.

Tang Yue was dumbfounded.

"You, you, you, you!"

"What are you?" The old cat spread out his paws and grinned, "That damn broken letter casually threw a coordinate and let us find it, the vast desert, hundreds of kilometers, we don't have any reliable navigation equipment, what do we use to find it?" Look for it with your head? It was just a matter of luck...... If you're lucky, you'll run into it, but if you're unlucky, you won't be able to touch it. ”

Dead cats are not afraid of boiling water.

Tang Yue can't do anything with the old cat, he knows that the old cat is telling the truth, whether it is a sextant or a star catalog, relying on visual inspection can only point out the general direction after all, and it is impossible to achieve such high precision as GPS.

Tang Yue and the old cat walked to the front of the car and climbed into the cab one after the other.

The ventilated cab on all sides is no different from the open-top, Tang Yue groped and sat down, fastened his seat belt, the old cat put the small light bulb on the center console, the dim light illuminated the wooden photo frame in the dark, Tang Yue glanced at it more, the smiling faces of the Orion crew crew were still bright, but they were getting more and more distant.

The old cat started the engine of the Martian stray dog, and the indicator light on the control panel lit up, showing that the rover's battery was fully charged, and there was still 96% of the remaining power.

"Do you know which direction to drive? This ghost weather ......" Tang Yue stretched out his arm forward, an arm's length distance, he couldn't see his palm anymore, he simply put his hand into a pool of thick ink, how can he drive with this kind of visibility? Won't you go headlong into a ditch?

"Go ahead." The old cat said lightly, "I'm driving, you're still not at ease?" ”

The next moment, the headlights of the Martian stray dog lit up, like two sharp swords piercing the darkness, that moment was dazzling, Tang Yue subconsciously squinted his eyes, slightly surprised in his heart, he had never gone out on a mission at night, and he had never turned on the lights of the Mars rover, he didn't expect that the earth would equip this old dog with such two powerful kryptonite eyes.

"When did I roll over the car?" The old cat looked ahead, looked indifferent, stepped on the accelerator hard, and a set of smooth movements to start the acceleration and rotate the steering wheel like a cloud, it was really an old driver who drove a bumper car.

The rover shook slightly and began to accelerate.

"Hey...... Wait a minute! Stop the car! Old cat parking! Tang Yue suddenly remembered, "Solar panels!" The solar panels are still on the ground, and they haven't been installed! ”

"I know, I don't." The old cat put the steering wheel and continued to accelerate, "Throw away everything that can be discarded, give up all the burdens, anyway, this storm has been blowing for more than half a year, and it is useless to keep the solar panels, and in the last thirty kilometers, we will travel lightly!" Straight to the Yellow Dragon! ”