"Can you see anything?"

"Sand, endless sand, and stones." Tang Yue stepped on the chair, leaned out half of his body from the wheelhouse, and held the frame with his hand, like a lookout on an ocean sailing ship, "I can see the wind blowing from our northwest, do you need a left full rudder?" ”

"No, I don't." The old cat sat in the experimental cabin with a screwdriver in his mouth and repaired his broken claws, "I have already pointed out the marker for you, you just let the stray dog go in the predetermined direction." ”

Tang Yue sat down and grabbed the steering wheel, the Martian stray dog crawled slowly at turtle speed, and the old cat pointed out to him that the marker was a large piece of basalt in the distance, half-buried in the soil, I don't know how big the volume is, the exposed part is at least two stories high, and it is just on the way of the Mars rover.

As the saying goes, Wangshan runs a dead horse, Tang Yue drove the Mars rover towards it for a long time, but he didn't get close.

"It's not going to be a mirage, is it?" Tang Yue muttered.

Mirages are common in the deserts of Earth, but there is no evidence that Mars can produce this phenomenon as well.

However, mirage is essentially the result of light refraction in the atmosphere, and its cause is quite simple, as long as certain conditions are met, a mirage may form anywhere, so Tang Yue deduced that this thing is definitely not unique to the earth.

"It's not a mirage." "The atmosphere on Mars is so thin, the temperature is too low, and the sunlight is so weak that it's hard to have such a high refractive index of light, and you feel like you can't get close to it all the time, just because your eyes and brain miscalculate the distance, and in a desert where there is no reference, it's hard to accurately judge the size of an object, and it's hard to estimate the distance." ”

Tang Yue squinted his eyes, he thought that his eyesight was quite good, a pair of kryptonite dog eyes had never been myopic or astigmatism since childhood, and he thought that when he was selecting the Orion crew crew, Tang Yue was able to fight his way out of the layers of encirclement and stand out among the young engineers from Beihang Harbin Institute of Technology and Western University of Technology, a very important reason is that he is the only one among all who does not wear glasses.

The central visual acuity measurement uses the Lan's table, that is, the C-type ring table, and Tang Yue is at a distance of five meters.

"Don't believe me? How far do you feel you are from the marker? The old cat asked.

"Hmm......" Tang Yue pondered for a moment, "Eight hundred...... A kilometer bar. ”

"Actually, that stone is at least two kilometers away from you." "It's much farther away than you think, so you have the illusion that you can't get there." ”

The old cat blew the fur of the severed limb and placed it on the floor, frowning.

A broken claw is nothing to it, it won't bleed or go into shock anyway, but it's not a good sign.

The old cat is well aware that its body is aging, and according to the normal design, it should also reach the end of life, it is part of the first phase of the Mars landing program, and everything in this stage will be retired and abandoned in the following days, including Orion 1 and 2, including Martian stray dogs, and old cats.

Over the past year, it has overloaded with too much work.

Today is the sixth day.

Ninety kilometers away from the destination.

The old cat connected the severed limbs to himself, the limbs are indeed detachable, this it didn't lie to Tang Yue, but the claws can't support hot swapping like a USB flash drive, broken is broken, the joint joint is no longer strong, from now on, this arm may not be able to do any heavy work.

It was lying on the edge of the porthole, its cat face pressed against the glass, and looking out of the porthole, its expression suddenly became lazy and tired, and it looked motionless at the passing wasteland, like a child with its face pressed against the window glass.

"Tang Yue." The old cat muttered.

"Huh? I'm here, what's the problem? ”

"Look to the left, there's a rock down the hillside, do you see it?"

"See, what's wrong?"

"Do you think it looks like a small dried fish?"

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When the sun rose to its highest point overhead, the old cat measured its altitude angle again with a sextant.

"How?" Tang Yue moved the solar panels down piece by piece, panting, "Are we on the right track?" ”

"Generally fine, but further confirmation requires knowing the longitude, and if we go another thirty kilometres in this direction, we will reach the fourth anchorage we are scheduled to be." The old cat sat on the roof of the car, raised his paws and pointed forward, dangling his two short legs, "That's the last mooring point before officially reaching the target, cross it, and the destination will be in front of us." ”

"It's a pity that stray dogs have limited battery life." Tang Yue unfolded the panel, "If it can be a little stronger, I'm afraid we have already arrived at this time." ”

"After all, it is not used for long-distance transportation, as a short-legged dog, it is not easy for it to hold on to this point, and the next rover can meet your requirements, and it is said that its name is Chitu." The old cat said, "What is the situation with Mingguang Armor?" ”

"The Mingguang armor is working normally, and there are still three-quarters of the oxygen reserves, and judging from the current consumption rate, it can hold on to the end." Tang Yue waved his hand, "Don't worry. ”

The old cat condescendingly watched Tang Yue back and forth, moving the panels out of the car one by one, stopping to rest every once in a while, this is a heavy physical work, although the solar panels are not too heavy, but they can't hold a large number.

The old cat wanted to come to help, but was stopped by Tang Yue.

If you have a disability, please sit down obediently.

Don't come to help.

Excuse me, when the solar panel and the arm fall to the ground at the same time, which one will you pick up first?

The old cat was helpless and had to give up.

"I will die." The old cat said.

Tang Yue was stunned.

"What did you say?"

"The poem that Lao Wang once wrote." The old cat said leisurely, "I will die at night, when the stars shine." ”

"Lao Wang, that rough man can still write poetry?" Tang Yue was a little surprised, Lao Wang is a tall and strong man in the Northeast, born in Wing Chun in elementary school, can fight with bears, if he didn't later enter the army and become a pilot, he himself said that he might become a strong party on the rivers and lakes, Lao Wang usually speaks with this temperament: What about it? What do you see? Give me a little bit to the side! **Cub, what's your big belly? Two benches by one?

Can such a person still write poetry? He won't break the pen?

Isn't this the same virtue as Zhang Zongchang and Zhang Dashuai?

Daming Lake, Ming Lake is big, there are toads in Daming Lake?

"Middle-aged people, old and young, life is stressful, midlife crisis is coming, there is always a time of sentimentality." Lao Mao said, "Lao Wang once told me that he dreamed of becoming a poet when he was a child, and he always believed that life was more than just a hard time, but unfortunately he was beaten by his father, and his spirit immediately returned to normal." ”

"I will die,

On a starry night,

Please bury me. ”

The old cat chanted leisurely.

Tang Yue was stunned.

It's really not a cannon bombarding the.

"When the spring breeze blows,

Bright flowers will bloom on the dead wood,

You must come and see me,

When that day comes,

There will be kingfishers with wings spread on my tombstone,

Cast a patch of sunshine. ”