"This is the Martian Stray Dog, United Space Station, please reply if you receive it."

"I'm the Joint Space Station, Roger, Good Morning Mr. Cat."

"I've found the Cherome probe, repeat, I've found the Cherome probe, the lander is intact, the rover is nowhere to be found, but it should be within a few kilometers radius, I'm going to search for its location, can the Joint Space Station help?"

"I'm afraid not, Mr. Cat." Mai Dong replied, "I can't get in touch with the rover, the high-precision telescopes and cameras in the space station are all in the Dawn module, and they have been damaged along with the module." ”

"Hell."

On the afternoon of the third day, the old cat finally arrived at the landing site of the Chelomé probe, and found the lander in a semi-buried state, which landed on a flat ground, the size of a round table, with a black metal casing and silver insulation standing out against a brown-yellow background.

The probe's solar panels were unfolded and covered with a layer of sand, presumably because the storm three months ago swept away most of the dust, allowing the panels to relight and the computer to recharge, which allowed the probe to wake up from its long sleep.

When the Chelome probe came to Mars, it was two parts, an immovable lander and a movable rover, the lander was a landing platform, responsible for carrying a small rover, and the lander was folded when it was in the rocket fairing, and the rover was wrapped with a battery board, and the battery board was opened after a successful landing to release the rover.

The rover was no longer found, and although the old cat estimated that the little thing should not be able to run far, it could not search for a small detector within a radius of several kilometers without the assistance of the space station.

"Mr. Cat, what's the status of the detector?"

"I'm checking."

The old cat stood next to the probe, wrapped in plastic sheeting and tightly wrapped, like a Bedouin in the dust.

It cleared the sand from the Cherome and cleaned it up little by little, and the original appearance of the probe was gradually revealed before the old cat's eyes, and the old cat felt that he was acting as if he was archaeological, like archaeologists carefully cleaning the soil from the bronzes in the ancient tomb with a brush, and it was also excavating the relics of a civilization that had disappeared.

Sweeping away the dust, the old cat even saw that one of the indicators on the probe was still flashing, despite being an old guy from eight years ago, the Cherome was still brand new as if it had just walked out of the laboratory yesterday, even the screws were smooth, and the aging rate of the machines was greatly slowed down on the dry and oxygen-deficient Mars, and they could be stored here for many years.

The old cat saw the Cherome again, and the last time they saw them was on Earth.

"Old man...... See you again, you really haven't changed at all. The old cat sighed and sat down against the detector, "Do you know that your hometown has blown up?" ”

The Cheromet stood silently on the deserted beach.

"You don't want to say anything about hearing such bad news?" The old cat turned his head, "If you're sad, flash your lights." ”

The detector's indicator light flashed a little.

"I knew you were sad."

Meeting another compatriot from Earth on this distant planet is also considered a foreign acquaintance, whether it is an old cat or a Chelome, you should be happy, and a wanderer who lives in a foreign country meets an old friend from his hometown, there should be endless words, and the old friend brings him news of his hometown, good and bad, and tells you that his hometown has blown up.

The Cherome stood alone here for eight years, forgotten by its makers, and according to the normal plot, it should have stood like this for another eight years, eighty years, eight hundred years, until the sky collapsed and the earth was old.

If it weren't for the damage to the temperature control processor of Kunlun Station, even the old cat would not come to it.

"How, you ask?" The old cat muttered, "I don't know how it blew up, anyway, it's gone, and there is no trace left, I don't know why...... It's not a gamma-ray burst, it can't be a gamma-ray burst, and you can't play like that with a gamma-ray burst. ”

"The people from your hometown?" The old cat then murmured, "Don't you hold a grudge against them when they left you here alone?" If you want me to say that they have forgotten about you a long time ago...... Oh no, even if most people forget about you, there will always be people who remember you, the person who wrote the program for you, the person who screwed your wheels, the person who stayed up all night to help you get funding, those people are your parents, you are their children, how can they forget their children? ”

"But they're all gone now." The old cat said sullenly.

"You've been here for eight years, have you seen anything new? Like the battle between Optimus Prime and Megatron or something? "The old cat and the detector sat side by side, looking into the distance, lonely and desolate as far as the eye could see.

Mars is really a very boring world, and you can't even find a place to focus your gaze as far as the eye can see.

"Fortunately, you are short-sighted, and if you can see the whole world clearly, I'm afraid you will be disappointed."

The old cat sat on the ground, the sun passed slowly over his head, and the breeze lifted the fine sand and fell on the old cat, and it shook off the plastic sheet covering its head and shook off the dust.

It is not in a hurry to act, the Martian stray dog has run out of power, it is parked two kilometers away, it is charging, the old cat will not continue to act until the evening, drive the rover over, load the probe, and finally go home.

Out of the humanitarianism of the same machine, the old cat actually wanted to find the rover and bring it back with him, so as not to leave it alone in this barren world, but the rover has run away without a shadow - the scientists of the Russian space agency have equipped it with a powerful motor, which can make the rover run like a racing car on the land of Mars - it still holds the Guinness World Record for the fastest speed of a human vehicle on an alien planet.

In the words of the chief expert of the Chelome mission, "Our probe is going to surpass the Americans in every way, and speed is just the beginning!" ”

It is believed that the next aspect could be firepower.

The old cat weighed it and had to give up the search rover, and the Kunlun station was still waiting for it to go back and replace the temperature control processor, and it couldn't delay for a minute.

"I'm going to take you out of here and to Kunlun Station." The old cat turned to the Chelomé and said, "Because ......"

The old cat hesitated, it didn't know how to explain its reasons, it couldn't say that it had come to pick your parts, that would sound like a bad plan, like a black hand dealer who illegally bought and sold organs.

"Because there is a severe uremia patient in Kunlun Station who urgently needs to replace his kidneys, you are the only one who is suitable on the entire Mars." The old cat quickly found a reason, "So we have to ask you to save people, and I hope you can donate your kidneys to people in need...... It's useless for you to ask for that stuff anyway, right? ”

The Chelome stood silently in the sand.

"If you promise......," said the old cat, "flash the light." ”

The detector's indicator light flashed a little.

"Hahahaha, I knew you would say yes!" The old cat enthusiastically slapped the Cheromet probe, "What a warm-hearted probe, worthy of the bold Slavic nation haha......"