Mai Dong sat on the commander's seat, fastened his seat belt, adjusted the back of the chair and slowly leaned back to an anti-load position.

"How does it feel?" The old cat asked.

Mai Dong stared at the bare top plate - there was originally a control panel and a monitor here, but it had just been completely removed by Mai Dong, and all the eye-catching holes of all sizes were left after the display and buttons were removed, and there were still traces of white glue and messy wires that had not had time to be cleaned up.

Next, she needed to cover the holes with a large sheet of plastic.

The girl took a deep breath, "It's dark...... It was quiet. ”

The Eagle lander has been completely de-energized and has no lights, the only light source being the LED lights on the sides of the spacesuit helmet.

The protective baffle outside the porthole is also closed, and the lander at this moment is a closed and narrow metal box, which will be uneasy for ordinary people to stay in this kind of place, but only a closed iron shell can protect Mai Dong's life, and in the violent landing impact, this shell should be as strong as possible.

The life support system had stopped working, and the noise of the fans and extractors could not be heard, and Mai Dong wore noise-canceling headphones, but the sound of collar and hair rubbing still entered her ears along bone conduction.

She looked around, tiny dust floating in the pillars of light of the LEDs.

"The commander's chair seems to be a little bigger than ours." Mai Dong patted the arm of the chair, "It's the first time I've sat in the captain's chair. ”

"There's a red lever under your chair." The old cat said, "Can you touch it?" ”

Mai Dong turned his head and reached under the chair to grope, "Pull rod? Well, I touched a handle...... More than one, on both sides, with safety bolts locked. ”

"Yes." The old cat nodded, "You try to hold it." ”

Mai Dong held the lever in his hand.

"Is it convenient?"

"Hmm...... It's okay, but it's a bit strenuous in this position. Mai Dong sat down in his chair, his hands tightened, and tried to exert himself.

"It's the switch for the emergency disengagement system, it's a purely mechanical transmission, so it takes at least thirty Ox to pull them." Lao Mao explained, "The left is the emergency disengagement switch of the docking mechanism, and the right is the start switch of the escape hatch. ”

"On the left is the interface switch."

"Yes, on the left is the interface."

"On the right is the escape hatch."

"That's right, there's the escape hatch on the right." The old cat said, "The escape hatch is on the bulkhead behind you, and the order of use of these two switches is as follows: when landing, you need to pull the lever on the left first, so that the Eagle lander can get out of the crashed Orion in time, and when it is safe to land, you pull the right switch to blow open the escape hatch and quickly leave the lander." ”

"First left, then right." Mai Dong repeated.

"First left, then right."

"But how do I know when to pull the lever?" In other words, Mai Dong didn't know if it was time to get out of the cabin, but the timing of the departure could not be delayed, and there would be problems sooner or later.

"You don't have to worry about this, we're in control." "We'll be in touch with Orion II's computer, and it will let you know when it's time to leave...... Miss Mai Dong, during the whole landing process, you only need to do the part of the operation that you are responsible for, and everything else will be solved by me and Tang Yue, and there will be no problems. ”

"I see." Mai Dong nodded.

"Is there a problem with the seat belt?" The old cat asked, "This landing will be very violent, and the seat belt must tie you firmly to the chair." ”

"Yes...... How violent? ”

"Hit it right on the ground, then bounce up, then hit the ground again, bounce back up." The old cat said, "Until the kinetic energy is exhausted, Miss Mai Dong, you must be careful not to let the seat belt strangle yourself, and do not crash into anything, you must protect your spacesuit, and there must be no damage, this is your only life support system." ”

"But my spacesuit can only work for eight hours at most."

Mai Dong unbuckled his seat belt and disengaged his body from the seat.

"Yes." The old cat was silent for a few seconds, "Tang Yue and I will find you within eight hours, and I guarantee with Tang Yue's net worth and life, we will definitely find you within eight hours, Miss Mai Dong." ”

Mai Dong sneered.

"Why use Tang Yue's net worth?"

"Because I don't have a net worth." The old cat shrugged.

"But Tang Yue doesn't have much money." Mai Dong said.

"As the last human on Mars, he has the right to claim sovereignty over the whole of Mars, and even over the entire solar system." The old cat said lightly, "Tang Yue has nothing now, but he also has everything, he is the supreme king and the last person in this lonely uninhabited kingdom. ”

"What kind of king am I? My people have only fifteen tomatoes, fifteen carrots, and a few barrels of fermenting fertilizer, and what king have you ever seen whose daily job is to pound manure? ”

A second-class muttering got into Mai Dong's headphones.

"Then you can take care of your tomatoes and carrots, and when they are ready, they will be able to help you make a lot of dung." The old cat said.

"Old cat, are you stupid?" Tang Yue's voice rang out, "If tomatoes and carrots can become essence, they must be delicate and long-legged beautiful girls, how can they be allowed to pound the dung he......"

Mai Dong silently cut off contact.

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After watering the plants, Tang Yue sorted out and archived the "A Brief Examination on the Development of Modern Art Genres", and called up the observation data of the space station telescope.

Once a day, he checks on Comet Tomcat-Tang-Mai, a massive object with a diameter of 30 kilometers with a core that will cause the worst impact in the solar system of the century, and the old cat predicts that it will crash into Mars, releasing the energy equivalent of the explosion of 5200 billion nuclear bombs, destroying everything within a radius of 1,000 kilometers, and producing a shock wave that can tear off half of Mars's crust.

Mars has not suffered such a violent impact for more than three billion years, and four billion years have passed since the era of the Great Impact in the solar system.

"Has the comet's impact point been predicted?" Tang Yue flipped through the photos one by one, and the continuous exposure of the telescope took a deep-field photo, and at this distance, the tail of the comet had begun to glow, but it was not obvious, like a hazy and thin mist.

"More than half of the workstation's processes are doing this, otherwise why do you think it crashes so often?" "At the moment the comet is still 1.7 AU away, so far away, we can only be sure that it will hit the target, but the point of impact is not known." ”

"It's better not to hit us on the head."

"It shouldn't be so unlucky." The old cat said, "Give you a pistol, you won't be able to hit the target from 50 meters away, let alone 200 million kilometers away......

"Stop, stop! Don't set up a flag anymore! Please, shut up, your mouth is like a light. ”

"As long as the comet's landing point is 2,500 kilometers away from Kunlun Station, I am confident enough that Kunlun Station will survive." The old cat said.

"What about secondary disasters?"

"It's a matter of luck." The old cat rotated the pen in his paws, "I told you before, three points return to vitality, seven points depend on hard work, and the remaining ninety points are luck, if you are lucky, you will live for a while, if you are unlucky, you will live for a while, so many ways to die, you can pick one at will, crash to death, stone to death, freeze to death, suffocation, starvation, dehydration and death, which one do you want?" ”

"I want to die of old age."

"Tang Yue, you have grown up, you have to learn to distinguish between reality and daydreams."

"I want to die."

"Go out and nibble on the mud, as long as you eat enough, you'll kill yourself, but constipation is very uncomfortable."

"Then I'll choose to be angry, old cat, you should be angry with me."

The old cat brewed for a moment.

"Tang Yue, you single dog." 8)