Tang Yue was stunned.

The voice was so familiar to him that he thought he was hallucinating.

Tang Yue jumped up and turned around, the old cat was standing in the airlock room, exuding a trace of cold air all over his body, it obviously had just stepped into the gate of Kunlun Station, covered with mud and sand, very embarrassed, and the decontamination system could not be cleaned.

Tang Yue stretched out his hand and pinched the old cat's ears, his fingers trembling slightly.

"No need to touch it, really, alive." The old cat grabbed Tang Yue's hand, and then slapped the latter's cheek, "Does it hurt?" You're not dreaming either. ”

"You...... You ......" Tang Yue opened his mouth, he had thousands of words and thousands of questions to say in this second, but a thousand words were blocked in his throat, and he couldn't say anything.

The old cat stepped into the hall and closed the door to the airlock chamber.

The cat walked under the light Tang Yue realized that the old cat was not smooth on the way, the old cat was still a white cat with very soft fur when he left, but when he came back, it had become a wild cat rolling in the mud and sand, the hair all over the body was unkempt, and a large area broke and fell off, revealing the polymer material skin underneath, and the beard that it regarded as life was all broken, like a wounded soldier who had just gotten off the line of fire.

The old cat is panting heavily, and it is using air to cool its body, which means that it is at full power and is approaching its limit.

Tang Yue stood in front of it, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, his eyes were sour.

He didn't know if he should go up and beat it or hug it at this time.

"Don't cry, what does a big man look like when he cries?" The old cat waved his paws, "At this time, you should be like the tough guys in those movies, and say with a smile that you are late." ”

Tang Yue held back his tears and nodded.

"You're late, you've been late for days, you the fuck know?"

The old cat took a step forward and "stretched out his hand." ”

Tang Yue stretched out his hand as he said.

The old cat put a small black chip in Tang Yue's palm, "This is the Intel TCU1524M temperature control processor, this is the last one in the world...... Keep it safe, be sure to keep it, and remember to put it on the OGS when the time comes. ”

Tang Yue nodded.

The old cat was only done here, and he took a step forward, and with a "dang bang", the old cat's left arm fell to the floor.

Immediately after that, the old cat tilted its body and fell to the ground.

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"Don't move, the hair on the back of your head is bald." Tang Yue straightened the old cat's head and used a comb to help it groom, "I'm trying to help you cover up these bald patches...... Otherwise, it's just too ugly. ”

The old cat is sitting in a chair and is charging.

It ran out of the last bit of power when it returned to the Kunlun station.

"What the hell did you do? Why Was It So Long Missing? Tang Yue glanced at the mirror, "For so many days, Mai Dong and I have exhausted all means to find you, radio and telescope, but we can't find where you are. ”

The old cat was carrying a broken left arm in his right hand and was doing an examination.

"That's a long story."

"It's okay, I have time anyway." Tang Yue shrugged, "You say slowly." ”

"You can't find me because I'm not on the ground at all, but underground." "I found the Cheromet rover on the third day of my trip, but on the way back, something went wrong and we encountered a huge crater of quicksand, and I fell into the crater with the rover. ”

Tang Yue was taken aback.

"The bottom of the pit is very deep, the vertical pit wall is as high as two or three stories high, and the communication antenna of the Martian stray dog has been broken, but fortunately, the power system can still be used."

"And how did you climb out of the pit?"

"Climb out of the pit? No, I didn't climb out. The old cat shook his head, "It's impossible for a Martian stray dog to climb out of the bottom of such a deep and steep pit, I drove the rover to walk underground—yes, there is a huge space underground, enough for the rover to pass through, like a tunnel, like the remains of an ancient underground river, do you remember the walls I encountered on the way to find the Chelome?" ”

"Yes."

"I thought it was a natural landscape, or it could be the remains of intelligent beings, and if it was the latter, then the underground tunnels could also be some kind of fortifications." The old cat said, "But time is urgent, I didn't have time to carefully investigate the tunnel, after all, I have to rush back to Kunlun Station, but the tunnel has many branches, it is a huge underground tunnel group, or a staggered underground dark river system remains, the path is intricate, like a maze, I lost the navigation of the space station and satellites, and can only guess the direction with the data in myself and the Martian stray dogs." ”

The old cat's description is an understatement, but Tang Yue can imagine the hardships involved, driving alone in the car under the ground where he can't see his fingers, and if he doesn't pay attention, he will be completely lost in the dark.

In the end, it is an old cat, and he is not panicked, and he may be desperate in this desperate situation.

"What about electricity? What about electricity? Tang Yue asked, there is no sunlight underground, how do Martian stray dogs and old cats themselves recharge?

"Sink into the pit." "There are often potholes in the roof of the tunnel, and the sunlight will shine through the holes, but only around noon is there enough sunlight, and the underground space is so narrow that you can't fully unfold the panels, so the charging speed is very slow, which is why I am so late for so many days...... I had to stop and charge a lot. ”

"You escaped the underground labyrinth at the end?" Tang Yue held the comb and peeled off the mud and sand mixed with the cat's hair little by little.

"Yes, the result was obvious, but I got it in the wrong direction, and I groped underground for two whole days, hitting a lot of walls, and drilling a lot of dead ends, before I found the exit." "But this exit is completely off the right track," replied the old cat, and it is not on the route of the Chelome's landing site back to Kunlun Station, but fifty kilometers northwest of Kunlun Station...... I was also confused when I first came out, but in the end I relied on the stars to navigate to confirm my position. ”

"And this hand ......"

"Broken." The old cat shook his broken hand, "When I first fell, it wasn't so serious, I did a simple repair, but then I did a lot of heavy work, carrying battery boards, carrying stones, carts and so on, and the damage became more and more serious...... Fortunately, it persevered to the end, and only now did it completely break. ”

"Can it be fixed?"

"Xiu Xiu, life and death are fate." The old cat smiled, "But the top priority is to fix the temperature control system of the OGS cabinet first...... Did you make this tent for tomato seedlings? ”

"Yes, but it failed, the tomatoes all froze to death, if you come back a few days later, I will go to see the Buddha." Tang Yue pressed his hands on the old cat's shoulders and moved the mirror over, "Come and see, how is the effect?" ”

"On the top of the head, on the top of the head, there is a handful of hair up there, are you blind Tang Yue?"

"It's called Silly Hair."

"Stay with your uncle, you will stay!"

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"Good morning, Tang Yue, how is the germination of tomato seeds...... Cat...... Cat cat cat cat ......"

"Good morning, Miss Mai Dong, what are you crying about? Don't cry, don't cry, don't cry......"