It was 1:07 a.m. Beijing time.

"Victor, Victor......"

Victor dreamed that he was lying comfortably in the sun in a chair on the balcony, and that his mother had called for dinner twice, but he just wanted to sleep, so there was a knock on the door, and his mother kept calling his name.

I don't know how long my mother shouted, but he finally woke up a little from the stupor of the nap and was about to get up to eat, but found that his body couldn't move.

The blanket on his body seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, and Victor remembered that his muscular muscles were desperately trying to get up, and finally felt loose, and even the air became fresher.

"Mommy, Mommy!"

"You're awake, great, great, Victor."

Victor opened his eyes and saw a woman's face.

Christina Koch was lying on the ground, pressing her mask and his mask close together, vibrating to transmit sound.

"Am I asleep? Koch, I'm sorry I couldn't help you, I'm so ......"

"No, no."

Koch's voice sounded over the radio and in the mask at the same time:

"You almost died, you just fainted from low oxygen concentration, do you remember?"

Victor frowned and began to recall, only to realize that his head hurt like a pinprick in a pin, but the memory slowly returned to his mind.

At that time, Koch had been calling for nearly two hours in a row, and he was physically exhausted, and he couldn't see any reaction for a long time, so he decided to save himself.

It was impossible to climb up, so Koch risked being stoned to death and walked out along the route of the cave to the lander that had been smashed in:

It was a large, long cavern, and the lander smashed in through the entrance and began to glide for a long distance before stopping and breaking overhead in what is now a higher terrain.

Koch went for about half an hour but found that it was still too deep in the ground to find a way to get there.

When she returned, she found that Victor was unresponsive, and at first she thought he was asleep, but when she got closer, she found that Victor's spacesuit was flashing a red light, which was a warning that the oxygen concentration was too low.

It stands to reason that an astronaut would warn other astronauts when something is wrong in their suit, but now the device is clearly broken, just as the oxygen that should have lasted six or seven hours is running out for some reason.

Koch desperately managed to make a small gap to check on Victor's spacesuit and help him open the spare pipes, which restored the oxygen supply.

Victor, who knew that he had been dangling in the ghost gate, was in a cold sweat, and his concentration dropped because of the high mental pressure and exhaustion, and he actually fainted without noticing, which was really too dangerous.

"Koch, have you found your way out?"

"No, I didn't find the place where I came in, and I didn't dare to go any deeper."

Koch shook his head sadly, Rao's trained mental quality couldn't help but be a little decadent now.

"The Aurora 3 astronauts are definitely already resting, they have just made a splash in front of the whole world, and then they are content to eat and sleep......"

"Don't say that about Koch, they must have found something abnormal, maybe they are looking for us in conjunction with NACA, we have to keep going, we have to continue, continue to call for help, there is no radio signal on the moon, our call for help will definitely be found.

Think about Reed, and Jeremy, and 400 million people, and although we did have a little accident, we still set foot on the moon, right? ”

“……”

Koch sighed and pulled himself together again, climbed back to the top of the lander, and then held the shoddy antenna high in the air, checking that the batteries were okay and ready to continue sending signals.

The two of them were chatting non-stop, and the failure of Victor's spacesuit was also a wake-up call for her, and the slightest negligence was likely to cause a sudden death, and the lander kept tumbling during the forced landing, and the ghost knows what it had broken.

But after all, it has been more than ten hours without rest, and the sleepiness of the two is getting heavier and heavier, and the frequency of conversation is slowly decreasing imperceptibly.

I don't know how long it took, Koch's hand holding the transmitter didn't move, only his fingers shook slightly, and the whole person was already tilting to the side, and when she was about to fall, she suddenly came back to her senses and grabbed an edge and corner.

The "Blue Moon" is more than ten meters high, and if it falls, even the gravity of the moon will cause serious fractures.

Koch gasped and looked up, and then saw the monster with red one-eyed and green hair at the entrance to the cave above.

14 crouches at the edge of the hole, looking for the location of the remaining astronauts and checking if they are alive.

Because it has now entered the moonlit night and lost its visible light, it turned on the active infrared headlights on its chest and the low-light night vision device inside the mask, which looked like a moving red and green light in the dark.

These two types of vision can be much clearer than lights.

Although Koch was taken aback, the psychological quality of the astronaut made her not scream, but trembling and turned on the high-powered searchlight on her head.

This time, a slightly thin astronaut figure appeared.

The other party also gestured because of her lights, and Koch was stunned for a moment before he realized that he asked her to turn on the public channel radio.

"Excuse me, which Artemis II astronaut are you? (English)"

The voice was a slightly younger male voice, and the grammar was clearly Asian—to be exact, only Chinese people could speak such a long and cumbersome English.

"I'm Christina Koch, Artemis II mission payload specialist, and my companion is Victor Glover, a lander pilot who is buried in the rubble below.

Please help us, Victor's spacesuit is in trouble and could die at any time, we have been forced into a cave, and the communication system is almost completely destroyed......"

I don't know if I've imagined the current scene in my mind too many times, but Koch can't stop saying it when he opens his mouth, but it's all valuable information rather than emotional catharsis.

And on the ground, the translator who had just spoken to her through 14 quickly made translation sketches in his notebook to extract key information.

In just a few minutes, the command center imagined the tragic experience of the "Blue Moon":

Dropped to half, various electronic systems have crashed and cannot be used, the attempt to enter the orbit failed, the engine stopped, and the external suspected explosion caused a serious shift in the center of gravity.

But what is even more unfortunate is that the forced landing area happened to smash into the cave and then slid along the cave, except for the internal cabin with protection in place, the exterior was almost completely destroyed, it can be said that the ground team is still quite powerful, at least Victor can open the hatch smoothly and come out.

(End of chapter)