The old cat locked himself and Tang Yue firmly together, and then took the lead to go down and open the bottom hatch of the cargo hold.

The moment he opened the door, Tang Yue was taken aback.

He couldn't feel it when he was in the cabin of the Eagle spaceship, but as soon as he opened the hatch, he felt the power of the storm...... The gangway was no longer visible, and it seemed to plunge down into a huge, pitch-black whirlpool, completely engulfed.

The storm carried the sand and dust whistling by, and Tang Yue began to beat the drum in his heart.

Does he really want to go down?

If you go down here, you'll definitely be dead, right?

The pride and ambition just now were completely vulnerable in the face of life and death, Tang Yue was full of pride when he just wore the extravehicular suit, as if he was the protagonist in those tough guy movies, with his strong courage to overcome public opinion, break through the obstruction of the old cat, resolutely implement the plan, and finally achieved perfect success.

That's how movie scripts are written.

The old cat shone a flashlight with a strong flashlight, and the white pillar of light shot less than three meters in the sandstorm, and it was pitch black three meters away.

"I'll go down first, and you'll follow me."

The old cat's voice came out of the headphones, and the tone was very steady, sounding not timid at all, with the power to calm people's hearts.

Damn, isn't the old cat a squire?

Why does it seem like he is the hero now, and he is just a cannon fodder passerby?

The old cat grabbed the gangway and climbed down little by little, seeing that the old cat disappeared into the sandstorm, Tang Yue took a deep breath and followed hard.

As soon as he left the cargo hold, the whistling in his ears poured in, the wind and sand scraped against the mask of the Mingguang armor, Tang Yue firmly grasped the gangway, looking left and right.

The darkness in a sandstorm is not the same as the night, the clear night sky can be said to be a transparent crystal, but the sandstorm is simply a dirty black ink.

The headlamp on the Mingguang armor was useless in this situation, and Tang Yue was actually no different from a blind man.

The pillars of light from the headlamps illuminated the sand and gravel in the airflow, and everywhere Tang Yue saw was a speeding flash of light, like an endless blizzard.

It was the first time he had acted in a wind of forty meters per second.

If this was the earth, such a strong wind would be enough to sweep Tang Yue into the sky.

"Hold the gangway steady." The old cat reminded, "We're going to start descending." ”

Tang Yue looked down and saw that the old cat was at his feet, and the distance between the two was less than a meter, but Tang Yue couldn't see the old cat anymore, and could only see the blurred pillar of light flashing under his feet.

The gangway moved, and Tang Yue could feel that he was slowly descending, gradually leaving the lander.

Two seconds later, the cargo compartment above his head was submerged in a pitch-black storm, and Tang Yue looked down and couldn't see the ground.

This gave him the feeling of falling into an abyss, unable to reach the world or the ground, as if there was a bottomless abyss under his feet, and there was no end to the descent of the gangway...... Tang Yue had never felt this way when he usually went up and down.

People are really prone to cranky thinking as soon as their eyes are blindfolded, even if they are only two inches above the ground, they can make up for thousands of feet in the sky.

The gangway was trembling slightly, and there was a loud clanging noise from nowhere, Tang Yue was really worried that the lander had been blown over.

A minute later, the descending of the gangway stopped.

"It's to the ground." The old cat said, "I'll go down first, and don't move." ”

Tang Yue nodded.

The old cat stepped on the rock, and then pulled the cable, "You can come down, you are half a meter above the ground now, slow down." ”

Tang Yue cautiously stretched out his feet and slowly stepped on the ground, he could only act according to the old cat's instructions now.

Tang Yue stood on the edge of the gangway blankly, unable to distinguish between southeast and northwest, Kunlun Station he naturally couldn't see it, the main station of Kunlun Station was more than a hundred meters away, Tang Yue didn't dare to run around, if the direction was wrong, he would be lost in the boundless Martian wasteland.

A claw stretched out in the darkness and grabbed Tang Yue's glove tightly.

"In this direction." The old cat shouted loudly, and he tried to raise his voice as much as possible so that his voice would not be drowned out by the noise, "Follow me!" ”

The old cat and Tang Yue were connected by a cable, which was like on a polar ice field, and the expedition members had to tie each other with ropes, so as to prevent anyone from falling into the hidden ice gap.

But there is obviously no ice gap in the Martian desert, and the old cat is to prevent Tang Yue from getting lost with him.

Visibility inside the sandstorm is almost zero, and getting lost is a dead end.

Tang Yue followed the old cat with difficulty, and followed suit.

The short distance of more than 100 meters from the lander to Kunlun Station seems to have no end at this moment.

"With the current weather conditions, do you think we can launch the Eagle tomorrow?" The old cat uses all fours and crawls the ground.

Tang Yue hesitated for a few seconds.

"But Mai Dong doesn't have time to wait." Tang Yue pondered and said, "I don't know when this damn sandstorm will pass, what if it doesn't stop for a month?" Are we going to wait a month? ”

"If this sandstorm doesn't stop for a month, then we don't have to worry about that girl." The old cat spat out a mouth full of sand and shouted, "We're all going to die...... In this case, the solar panels can't be charged, and the battery at Kunlun Station can't last for a month, and sooner or later you will freeze or suffocate to death, depending on which heating or oxygen runs out of energy first! ”

"So we don't have to wait."

Tang Yue held the cable and walked forward with difficulty.

"If the sandstorm doesn't stop, then we'll be finished together, and we might as well launch the lander as planned...... You said the Eagle could withstand the wind, right? ”

The old cat nodded.

"The lander is designed to withstand 50 meters per second of Martian surface crosswinds, which is a life-saving means left for you by those engineers on Earth!" The old cat shouted, its voice indistinct in the violent wind noise, "The Eagle Ship has the purpose of an emergency lifeboat, just to be in case of today's situation!" But this feature has never really been verified, and the Eagle has never lifted off in such bad weather before! ”

Tang Yue was silent for a few seconds.

"Old cat, you said it before, let me believe the in Jiuquan Center."

The old cat was stunned.

"I believe in those, old cat, you should trust them too." Tang Yue said, "Although these are not good people and don't pay back the money they owe me, they are still reliable!" They say they can carry fifty meters, that's fifty meters! ”

"But fifty meters per second is the limit!" The old cat continued, "If the wind speed exceeds 50 meters, then the lander will not be able to ensure the stability of the center of gravity!" There is a chance that the launch will fail! ”

The old cat stopped to rest for a moment, turned his head and shone Tang Yue with a strong flashlight.

"You'd better pray that tomorrow's storm won't continue to increase, so that neither you nor me, nor that little girl in the sky, will have a glimmer of life."