Mai Dong crashed into the outer wall of the Eagle spacecraft, and the lander gliding along the inertia was hit sideways, which, although not very strong, still caused the Eagle spacecraft to deviate from its original trajectory.

The girl subconsciously clinged to the handle of the hatch.

She had just taken the risk of lowering the air pressure inside the spacesuit, a decision that proved prescient, as the spacesuit was less bloated than before, making it easier for her to move her hands and feet. Mai Dong clutched one hand tightly on the doorknob, and the lander flew away from the United Space Station with her, getting farther and farther away from the super arm.

The girl couldn't hang the rope directly on the big truck, but she jumped on it.

The girl was panting and weak.

The leap just now had almost exhausted all her strength, and now Mai Dong didn't even have the strength to raise her hand - moving outside the cabin, any movement required several times more strength than under normal circumstances.

She is really tired, hungry for several days in a row, and continues to be in a state of anxiety and insomnia, physically and mentally exhausted, she has hardly rested in the last twelve hours, has been cooperating with the old cat's work, God knows how this girl survived, she is just a weak scientific research worker, never did any physical work.

The only link between Mai Dong and the United Space Station is the safety cable, a thin nylon cable that is 500 meters long, and the Eagle spacecraft flies at a speed of about five meters per second, and it takes less than 100 seconds, or one and a half minutes, to cross these 500 meters.

Mai Dong twisted the last bit of strength in her body, clasping the handle in the cabin, her fingers were sore and stiff, but she still didn't dare to relax, her helmet was tightly pressed against the bulkhead of the Eagle spaceship.

The other lock of the safety rope, Mai Dong, failed to grasp it, and it accidentally flew out, and the lock was floating not far away, the crimson rope like a slender twisted snake.

The girl struggled to reach for the lock.

But the safety rope was as slippery as a loach, and Mai Dong's gloves drifted away when he touched it, and he couldn't reach it.

She tried three times and failed, but the rope slowly drifted away...... Mai Dong turned his head to look at the United Space Station, and the super arm was already fifty meters behind him.

The safety rope on her body was five hundred meters long, and once the lander flew this distance, Mai Dong would be pulled down by the rope, and she had to buckle the second safety cable to the Eagle ship within a minute and a half.

There was silence in the headphones, thinking that the old cat and Tang Yue both knew that it was a critical moment, so they didn't dare to disturb loudly, so they could only wait for the news with fear.

Mai Dong pressed his head to the inside of his helmet, gasped for breath and rested for a few seconds, turning his head to stare at the red safety rope.

The rope is a soft and slender thing, the force situation is very complicated, it floats in a vacuum, the force is transmitted along the internal structure, the slightest disturbance will cause a great impact, the trajectory of the movement is extremely difficult to predict, Mai Dong failed several times in a row, did not dare to waste any more strength, can only rest while waiting for the opportunity.

"Miss Mai Dong, you are now one hundred and fifty meters away from the United Space Station." Old cat reminder.

Mai Dong nodded.

Float a little closer...... Float a little closer......

Mai Dong struggled to straighten her hand, and the lock floated a meter away from her, twisting and turning, but refusing to come any closer.

"Miss Mai Dong, pay attention, you are now two hundred meters away from the United Space Station."

Damn it...... You'd better drift closer!

Mai Dong was anxious, she could feel that her body was getting weaker and weaker, and her limbs were gradually sore.

The last of her strength was being drained from her body little by little.

"Miss Mai Dong, you are now three hundred meters away from the United Space Station." The old cat said in a solemn tone, "Miss Mai Dong, can you hear me?" ”

"Yes...... Can hear ......"

Mai Dong tried again, and the buckle of the safety rope floated past her index finger, and she couldn't grasp it.

The safety rope connecting the extravehicular suit to the Joint Space Station was gradually straightened, and the five-hundred-meter-long rope slowly unfolded in a vacuum.

"Miss Mai Dong, you are now four hundred meters away from the Joint Space Station." The old cat was very anxious, "You have twenty seconds at most, haven't you deducted it yet?" ”

The girl was sweating profusely.

Mai Dong stared at the floating lock, the lock floated two meters away, was pulled by the safety rope, and then slowly floated back, this lock just went back and forth in periodic motion, back and forth about 20 seconds, the farthest it was more than two meters away from Mai Dong, and the closest was half a meter away.

"Miss Mai Dong, you still have ten seconds!"

Mai Dong counted the seconds silently in her heart, and the lock was moving back.

"Miss Mai Dong, you still have eight seconds!"

The girl stared intently at the gadget, which was just a metal buckle with a long rope attached to it.

"Miss Mai Dong, you have six seconds left!"

Mai Dong took a deep breath.

At that moment, everything was silent, and the old cat's voice suddenly moved away.

The lock floated to the closest position to Mai Dong, and was about to turn around and float back again.

The girl relaxed her grip on the hatch slightly, which extended her reach by two centimeters, and then Mai Dong reached out with all her strength and held the lock firmly in her palm!

Mai Dong grabbed the lock, turned around and slammed it on the hatch of the Eagle spaceship, clicked, locked!

The safety rope is suddenly taut!

"Mr. Cat——!" Mai Dong shouted with all her strength, and she was really hoarse and hysterical.

"Roger! it! Ship Eagle, come back to me——!! ”

The old cat jumped up and slapped the button fiercely.

The girl finally exhausted all her strength and could no longer hold on to the lander, which had reached the limit of the safety rope in its flight distance, and the straightened rope dragged her off the Eagle ship.

Mai Dong looked at the lander and slowly moved away, lying quietly in the spacesuit, floating in the boundless vacuum, she was so tired, all the sounds were far away, her body seemed to be melting, blending into the surrounding void, only consciousness remained.

An inexplicable silence and warmth slowly flooded her, as if she had returned to the beginning of her life, turning into a fetus and returning to the amniotic fluid of her mother's womb.

For the universe, human beings may be the unopened fetus in the amniotic fluid.

Through the glass mask, Mai Dong saw the bright stars in the sky.

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Kunlun Station.

There was a dead silence in the hall.

The old cat sat motionless in front of the workbench, his heart hung in his throat, he ordered the safety cable to be recycled, but whether the safety cable can pull the Eagle spacecraft is still a problem, theoretically this rope can withstand a huge pull of more than ten tons, it is fully capable of lifting a large truck with eight wheels in the rear, but the theory is only a theory after all, no one can make a presumptuous assertion before the results come out, theoretically the probability of the Eagle spacecraft system computer bug is still 1 in 10,000.

The motors on the Joint Space Station were spinning, methodically recovering the safety rope, and the moment Mai Dong hung the rope on the Eagle spacecraft, a huge pull force acted on the thin rope, and the elasticity and toughness of the rope were suddenly pressed to the end, and the two-centimeter-wide safety rope was pulled to a thickness of only a few millimeters.

The lander slows down under the pull of the rope, which is not in the direction of the axial direction since the rope is fastened to the handle of the escape hatch.

The Eagle ship lost its stability under the sudden pull and began to roll.

This is the final hurdle...... As long as the safety rope can survive this hurdle and hold on until the lander slows down to zero, it will be able to bring the Eagle back.

Minutes and seconds passed.

There was silence in the communication channel.

The old cat prayed in his heart, praying that this rope would not be as uncompetitive as the broken computer of the Eagle spaceship, and that the Eagle spaceship and Mai Dong would come back safely.

The screen shows that the motor is working normally, but the motor is unable to sense the state of the safety cable, and it may have retrieved Mai Dong and the Eagle spacecraft, or it may have taken back a broken rope.

I don't know how long it took.

There was a "rustling" sound in the headphones, and the old cat woke up suddenly, only to realize that it had just been in a daze.

This was followed by Mai Dong's faint voice.

"Cat...... Mr. Cat? ”

"Well, I'm listening." The old cat's face became more and more solemn.

"I ...... We ......" Mai Dong smiled, her face was very pale, but very happy, tears welled up from her eyes, Mai Dong shook his head, crystal tears floating in the helmet, reflecting the bright sun.

"We've got it."