Day 342 (8) This is my homeland
The old cat didn't move.
Tang Yue didn't move anymore.
One man and one cat just lay on the ground for a long time.
"Old cat?" Tang Yue turned his head with difficulty to see if the old cat was hanging.
"Hey, hey, hey, hahahaha......" The old cat laughed on the sand, laughing so hard that his body trembled, "Tang Yue, did you always think that I wrote that letter?" Have you always thought that these were all moths that I had done? Was it a boring scam I designed? To prolong your life? β
Tang Yue was stunned for a moment.
"Yes."
"It's a pity, it's a pity, it's really embarrassing, I'll tell you Tang Yue, this time...... You guessed it wrong! Miss by a mile! The old cat shook his head, grinned through gritted teeth, and stretched out his paws forward.
In the darkness, it touched the ladder.
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"One! Two! Threeββ! Hard! Get up to me! β
The old cat tried his best to push Tang Yue up the gangway.
"Hold on! Use your breastfeeding strength to hold on! Make the most of your feeding! The old cat yelled, "Raise your left foot!" Lift your left foot! One, two, three! Stomp on β good! Steady on! Now raise your right foot! Right foot! Which is the right foot? β
Tang Yue was in a semi-comatose state, delirious, and his eyes were almost blind, he followed the instructions of the old cat, reached out and climbed the ladder, the connection between the brain and the limbs became fragile and erratic, the instructions given by the brain, the arm can sometimes receive it, sometimes it can't, he feels that his nerve cells are as garbage as the radio in the Kunlun station, and the packet loss is serious during data transmission.
The old cat asked him to use his strength to eat milk, but unfortunately Tang Yue didn't have the strength to eat even if he had milk now.
"It'...... Is it here? β
"In! Continueββ! One, two, three! Up! β
The old cat gritted his teeth and used all his strength to push Tang Yue up a level, and the weight of the latter and the Mingguang armor of nearly 100 kilograms was all pressed on the old cat's body, and it also reached its limit.
It stands to reason that the old cat's power is also about to run out, but for some reason it is still so powerful, pushing Tang Yue up level after level.
"What is it...... Is it a spaceship? β
"Yes!" The old cat climbed up a notch, gasping for breath, the cooling system in its body was overloaded, "Yes...... Do you remember what I saw the last time I went out? I thought I was wrong, but I wasn't dazzled, that's what I saw! It's right over our heads right now! Levitated in mid-air! Fly very low, very low! β
"Yes...... How low? β
"Less than three stories tall!" The old cat climbed on the gangway to rest for a while, and in order to lose weight, he took off his spacesuit, and his fur was covered with ice crystals, "lower than the height at which a helicopter hovers...... Damn, it's not a human thing, I can't see the engine, there's no rotors, there's no vents, there's no tail flame, there's no airflow, how the hell is it levitating there? Isn't it in Newton's hands? β
Tang Yue raised his head with difficulty, and his eyes suddenly turned black, dizzy, and almost fell.
The old cat held him up underneath, and slowly exerted force against Tang Yue's Mingguang armor with his shoulder.
The next moment, there was a crisp sound, and the old cat slipped suddenly.
Tang Yue and the old cat both fell down sharply, but fortunately, at the last moment, the latter stubbornly buckled the gangway, stopped the momentum of the fall, and stopped Tang Yue, the two of them are like mountaineers climbing in a blizzard, there is no safety rope, and they can only help each other on the vertical and steep icefall.
"Hold ββ! Steady"
The old cat squeezed out two words from between his teeth, and it pushed Tang Yue back little by little, and Tang Yue grabbed the ladder again.
"You...... What do you think? Old Cat ...... Old cats? β
"Leave me alone."
"I just heard ......," Tang Yue turned his head to look down.
"Leave me alone." The old cat's voice came out of the headphones, "Climb up...... Crawl! Keep climbing! β
The old cat said that the height of the spaceship was less than three stories high, that is, less than nine meters high, but Tang Yue subjectively felt that he was climbing the Burj Khalifa.
"I can't do it, old cat......" Tang Yue stopped, leaning on the ladder exhausted, he could only keep himself standing on the ladder with all his strength, Mingguang armor itself is not suitable for climbing high, Tang Yue no longer has the extra strength to climb up, his hands and legs have long been frozen and he can't bend, and it is difficult to even speak, "I really can't do it." β
He can't do it, and neither can the Mingguang armor, and the electricity and oxygen have bottomed out.
The old cat didn't speak.
What answered him was a huge force, that force supported Tang Yue's thighs and back, Tang Yue was pushed up alive, he was surprised that the old cat got so much strength, and was about to ask out loud, but the question was blocked in his throat by the old cat's roar.
"Shut up! Left leg! Hold on! β
Again, a huge force.
"Right leg!"
"Left leg!"
"Right leg!"
"Left leg!"
Finally, Tang Yue's hand touched the hatch, and he grabbed the edge of the hatch.
"Old cat...... I touched it. β
Tang Yue was pleasantly surprised.
The old cat stopped, and bent down the gangway, its mouth open and let out a heavy wheezing sound, mixed with a sharp scraping noise.
"Tang Yue...... "The old cat whispered, "Best of luck with you." β
It roared and pushed Tang Yue with the last of its strength, and Tang Yue climbed into the hatch with its strength, rolled to the side, and lay down on the floor of the spaceship, panting.
Tang Yue was lying on the floor, his body limbs seemed to be out of his brain, Mingguang Armor detected that the external environment was suitable for survival, and quickly opened the external circulation, what was surprising was that the air here was completely breathable for humans, and the temperature was a comfortable twenty-five degrees Celsius.
The circulatory system poured air into the mask of the Ming Guang Armor, and Tang Yue, who was close to suffocation, finally regained a little strength, he struggled to turn over, crawled over little by little, and stretched out his hand towards the hatch.
The furry paw was still clutching at the gangway.
"Old cat...... I...... I'll pull you up...... Let's go together...... Let's walk ......"
Tang Yue grabbed the cat's paw and pulled it up.
Tang Yue was suddenly stunned.
It's a broken arm.
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Tang Yue lay on the floor weakly and paralyzed, before falling into a coma, he saw the dark storm under him gradually turn brown-red, at this time Tang Yue realized that he had been rising, after he boarded the spaceship, the spaceship quickly rose in altitude silently, it flew so smoothly, so quietly, there was no noise, no vibration, almost a uniform rise, so that Tang Yue didn't realize that he was moving.
The air thinned out, so did the dust storms, and the sunlight gradually pierced through the wind and sand, revealing a dim brownish-red glow.
The spaceship took him through the storm and the atmosphere, Tang Yue's eyes were half open, and suddenly the bright sunlight fell on his face, and finally he saw the sunlight again, the sun rose from the end of the clouds, like sitting on a train through a long tunnel, and the moment after leaving the tunnel, the sunlight fell on your face with the shadow of broken leaves in the forest.
Tang Yue looked below, the dark brown dust storm rolled like a boiling soup pot, getting farther and farther away from him, soon the ground was no longer flat, it gradually turned into a huge arc, the sand and atmosphere were just shallow veils covering this arc, and then they slowly rolled in and contracted in Tang Yue's eyes, and finally Tang Yue saw the distant horizon - this fiery red planet, which was once again completely absorbed by Tang Yue.
On the 342nd day of the alien star, Tang Yue once again saw it in its entirety.
That beautiful and cruel Red Planet.
He lives, he lodes, he hates, he flees from the planet.
Mars!
Mars!
Tang Yue struggled to turn over, facing the sky on his back, facing the bright stars.
He held the broken cat paw and the wooden picture frame tightly in his arms, opened his mouth, and wanted to say something, but his dry throat could no longer make any sound, Tang Yue's lips cracked, scarlet blood slowly flowed into his mouth, and tears overflowed his eyes and slipped down the corners of his eyes.
Tang Yue closed his eyes.
I'm going to die,
On a starry night,
Please bury me.
Don't ask me where I'm from,
Thousands of miles away,
Don't ask me where I'm going,
The future is endless,
Don't grieve for me, don't weep for me,
One day,
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.
When that day comes,
Please bring my eyes,
Through the long river of hundreds of millions of light years,
Reaching the end of the universe,
You'll see that dim blue dot,
Here,
Please banish my soul.
If you're going to ask,
Where is this?
Looking at the vast land of 150 million square kilometers,
I'll tell you,
This is my homeland.