Chapter 106 - Sol Hundred and Eleven, The Mother Who Urges You To Wear Thermal Underwear (1/2)

Chapter 106: Sol Hundred and Eleven, The Mother Who Urges You To Wear Thermal Underwear

“Tang Yue?

“Mr. Tang Yue, what’s wrong?

“Tang Yue, wake up!”

When Tang Yue opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was Mai Dong’s tear-stained face.

“Tang Yue, you’re awake? Are you alright?” Mai Dong was stunned before rejoicing and crying tears of joy.

She had been worried sick.

The past few hours could have been described as some of the worst few hours of her life. Mai Dong could only watch helplessly as Tang Yue lay there in the airlock, making her imagine that he had suddenly suffered from a stroke, a cerebral hemorrhage, or a heart attack.

From what she could see, Tang Yue was in urgent need of medical help for him to collapse, but the only person aware of that was hundreds of kilometers in orbit.

For an instant, Mai Dong wished to find a cellphone to call the emergency services but realized that she was marooned alone in space.

Mai Dong felt desperate.

She could only cry out Tang Yue’s name repeatedly, there was nothing else she could do. This was no doubt excruciating torture for the girl.

She believed that she was helplessly watching Tang Yue’s life slip away and that the man would lie there forever.

There was no one else on Kunlun Station, and the camera was fixed. If Tang Yue was to die in the airlock, his corpse would remain on-screen forever.

A white wall, a circular-shaped hatch, and a bulky white figure would combine to form this post-modern Surrealist picture of death as though it had been produced by the hands of a master like Salvador Dalí.

“I…” Tang Yue frowned.

“What happened to you?”

“I fell asleep.” Tang Yue sucked up the drool hanging from the corner of his mouth.

…

“How… How long was I out for?” Tang Yue had a throbbing headache. When he looked at the time on his wrist, the Radiant Armor’s control terminal indicated that it was twenty minutes to seven in the evening. He had headed out at around seven that morning, implying that he had been out for nearly twelve hours. It was likely a result of him working continuously for two days under intense stress. He was just too exhausted, and when he tripped when heading out in the morning, just the mere act of closing his eyelids was enough for him to fall asleep until he woke up.

Tang Yue had been in a deep sleep, so deep that Mai Dong’s voice had become hoarse from shouting through the earpiece. Yet, she had failed to wake him up.

While Tang Yue had a great sleep, Mai Dong had been sick with fear. Through the screen, she saw Tang Yue motionless on the ground, and that only made her believe that something had happened to him.

Tomcat had already disappeared silently, so if Tang Yue got into trouble, it would leave Mai Dong completely alone.

Mai Dong was on a space station that was four hundred kilometers away. Apart from reeling in anxiety, there was nothing she could do.

She had been desperately calling out Tang Yue’s name, but the latter lay on the ground like a dead pig. Furthermore, he lay there for more than ten hours. Mai Dong had searched through the entire space station, but couldn’t find anything that could be of help. Towards the end, she began crying out of anxiety. Being at the end of her tether, all she could do was hug Ah Q and pray for a miracle.