The sun rose, and Tang Yue dragged the cart and walked in the battery farm.

As the saying goes, if you don't die in a big disaster, you will have a blessing, but Tang Yue didn't see what kind of blessing he had - of course, the old cat said that it is also your blessing to pound the dung in ninety-nine-six.

Tang Yue said that he wanted to thank the comet for giving him the opportunity to make a lot of?

The old cat gave a thumbs up.

Tang Yue spread the solar panels on the barren beach, carefully brushed off the sand on the battery, and looked up at the sky, there is basically no concept of weather on Mars, because there is no complex atmospheric water cycle, 687 days a year, most of the time it is white and sunny, and there will be occasional wind and sand, and the very fine dust is swept into the atmosphere by the flowing air, making the whole day look gray, some like light brown haze.

When the Eagle spacecraft was launched, the dust storm encountered by Tang Yue's old cat was rare, and the storm on Mars is related to the seasons - because Mars is farther away from the sun than the Earth, and the eccentricity of the orbit is greater, so the seasonal changes on Mars are actually more obvious than on Earth, and with the rotation of the seasons, the ice sheet area at the poles of Mars will change significantly.

Of course, Tang Yue couldn't see this change.

Whether it's summer or winter, the outdoor climate of Kunlun Station is a virtue for Tang Yue...... The atmosphere with a standard pressure of one hundredth, the temperature at night is minus forty or fifty degrees Celsius, and the eternal drought and wind and sand, the problem of Mingguang armor is a dead end.

The old cat said that the last time they encountered the storm was just a small-scale cyclone, it was the normal activity of the atmosphere, and the really terrifying and fatal thing was the global superstorm, which only appeared once every three Martian years, which translates to six to eight years, and once Kunlun Station encountered this kind of super storm, there was no way to do it.

Even legendary old-timers like the Opportunity have been planted in the hands of a global storm.

Tang Yue and the old cat could only pray that the next storm would come as late as possible.

Tang Yue patted the sand on his body, dragged the car back to the garage, today's outdoor temperature is minus 20 degrees Celsius, no wind and no sand, the air quality is very good, 95 percent pure carbon dioxide, and 3 percent nitrogen, inhaling a mouthful of myocardial infarction.

Counting the days, today should be July 1, 205 in the Gregorian calendar on Earth, and it is the turn of winter and spring on Mars, and the most common thing at this time is a dry and windless sunny day.

The location of Kunlun Station is in the Northern Hemisphere, the spring and summer in the Northern Hemisphere are more than 40 days longer than the autumn and winter, and the spring that the Ihidi Plain is about to enter is as long as six months.

Spending every day in peace and tranquility has become an unattainable luxury.

"Tang Yue, your speed has slowed down." The old cat's voice sounded in the headphones, "It only took you two hours to complete your daily work before, but now it takes two and a half hours, is it too old to walk?" ”

"When did I slow down? Have I been doing well soon? Tang Yue pushed the small trailer into the garage, turned around, and cleaned the Chelome with an old brush, "What time are you looking at?" Standard Earth Time? Or is it when it comes to coordinating with Mars? ”

"Standard Earth Time, of course." The old cat replied, "One second is defined as the length of time that lasts for 919261770 cycles of radiation corresponding to the transition between the two ultrafine energy levels of the ground state of the cesium atom, the strictest and most standard earth time." ”

There are two timing systems in Kunlun Station.

In addition to standard Earth time, there is also a coordinated Martian time.

Coordinated Mars redivides the Martian day into 24 hours, so one second in Martian coordinated time is 27% longer than the normal one.

This method of timekeeping is generally only used by astronauts in their daily lives.

"I'm only twenty-seven years old, so technically I'm still young, right? They haven't reached the age of automatic withdrawal from the Communist Youth League. Tang Yue carefully maintained the Cheromet probe, sweeping the dust particles out of the cracks in its shell.

"But maybe you'll only be thirty years old." The old cat said, "Isn't twenty-seven already half in the ground?" ”

"Can you say something nice?" Tang Yue rolled his eyes.

"I said you can live to be thirty, isn't that a good thing?"

Tang Yue was stunned for a moment, and after thinking about it carefully, what the old cat said seemed to be fine.

"Okay, you're right, I'm old." Tang Yue sat on the ground with his butt and threw the brush in his hand, "I serve the old, from now on, these daily routines will be handed over to you, old cat, I, an old guy, will lie on the bed and wait for death......"

"What are you talking about, boy!" The old cat interrupted him with a loud shout, "How can you say such frustrating words at such a young age?" You haven't reached the age of retirement from the Communist Youth League, but you're still your successor! As the 6.5 billion heir to the great cause of socialism with Chinese characteristics, you should cheer up! ”

"Two hundred years ago, when the capitalists exploited the workers at the bottom, were you the same face you are now?"

"Nope."

"No?"

"This is the face of the capitalists at all times when they exploit the laborers." "You have recorded so much history, you should know this: they will draw a pie on a piece of paper and use it to motivate the laborers, but when people make this pie, capital will not hesitate to put the pie in their pockets, and the laborers will only get the oil on their hands when they make the cake." ”

"You exploitation cat."

"Don't take the class struggle as the key link at this time, and besides, why have I ever exploited you? I've never been in an employment relationship with you, because I've never been paid for your work. ”

"You've been upgraded from a landlord to a slave owner, haven't you? Mr. Cat, I think the melon skin hat robe and horse coat Beijing old cloth shoes are very suitable for you. ”

The old cat thought about the image.

"Is it an old man in a big mansion in Beijing's hutongs?"

"No, it's Kong Yiji." Tang Yue patted the Cherome beside him, straightened up, and picked up the brush, "There are four ways to write exploitative stripping, do you know?" ”

Tang Yue turned his head to look into the distance, where he had dug his own grave, Tang Yue was originally going to lie in that pit to meet death, but in the end, the comet did not hit Mars, and the dug tomb did not come in handy.

But Tang Yue didn't fill in the hole.

He was well aware that although the comet was far away, death was never far away.

The invisible ghost floated in the wasteland in front of Tang Yue's eyes, like vultures waiting for their prey to die and rot, they hovered in the air, and Tang Yue could see their shadows.

"Old cat."

"Huh?"

"When will the landing of Orion 2 begin?"

"Wait until Miss Mai Dong and I have finished the final preparations." The old cat replied, "Twenty hours later." ”

Tang Yue opened the hatch of the airlock chamber and bent down to get in, and the heavy airtight door "clicked" behind him, isolating all the desolation.

In this wasteland outside Kunlun Station, a silent spring has quietly arrived.