Chapter 186 - Sol Three Hundred and Twenty-Two, An Electrical Engineer Saving the World (1/2)

Chapter 186: Sol Three Hundred and Twenty-Two, An Electrical Engineer Saving the World

An extremely weak voice sounded over the earpiece.

Tang Yue and Tomcat jolted to attention as they lunged forward to grab the earpiece.

“Tang Yue… Mr. Cat? Can you hear me?” The girl’s voice was very weak. The signal was unstable with lots of static.

“Yes, yes, yes! Mai Dong, we can hear you! We can hear you!” Tang Yue was overjoyed as he trembled with excitement. He and Tomcat had believed that the space station must have crashed. “Wh-wh-what’s the situation on your side? Are you alright? How’s the space station?”

Tomcat took up position and got into the zone. It stabilized the communications signal. Clearly, Orion II’s collision had nearly destroyed the entire space station. On the ground, the computer had even determined that the space station had crashed. But thankfully, the Crystal core module wasn’t on the same planar axis as Orion II. After losing control, Orion II had begun spinning and sliding, equivalent to hurtling across space from above Mai Dong. Hence, the Crystal had survived the disaster.

“I… I’m fine…” Mai Dong’s voice was intermittent.

Mai Dong had regained consciousness some time ago. When she woke up, her surroundings were almost pitch-black. The computers on the space station had stopped working and the temperature in the module was extremely low. Furthermore, there was a slight lack of oxygen as well as the pungent smell of smoke. Perhaps the life support system had gone offline, leaving zero ventilation in the module. But thankfully, there wasn’t a loss of pressure. The Crystal was the most important and also the heaviest module of the space station. It had a fully metallic inner shell, making it extremely resilient.

Items were flying around at random in the darkness. Cables, pen, paper, and computers had hit Mai Dong on the arms and head. She moved away the damaged indicator panel that was floating in front of her and found her way to the emergency toolbox to take out a tiny torchlight.

With the torchlight, she activated the independent backup communications system. This was a low-powered, half-duplex communications system. It came with independent batteries and was the size of an ordinary phone battery. It didn’t rely on the space station to provide its power. Under such circumstances, it was the only tool that could be used to communicate with Kunlun Station.

“Miss Mai Dong, please give a sitrep of the space station.” Tomcat’s voice was heavy and solemn. Its mistake had indirectly caused the present situation. Now, it was trying its best to redeem it.

“It’s very dark in here… All the systems are offline… The computer… There’s no reaction from the computer…”

“Can’t you make the signal more stable?” Tang Yue leaned over.

“There’s no way of making it more stable.” Tomcat clenched its teeth. “This is a problem with the space station. All systems are now offline. We have already lost all control of the space station. No command is of use.”

“Mr. Cat… Cat…”

The signal was intermittent and the static could at times drown out Mai Dong’s voice. The quality of transmission was terrible.

“Mai Dong!”

“Miss Mai Dong!”

Tang Yue and Tomcat yelled at the same time.

“Mr… Mr. Cat… What should I do? I…” Mai Dong’s voice vanished in the static once again.

“Damn it!” Tomcat slapped its thigh in anger. “Miss Mai Dong! Can you hear me? Miss Mai Dong?”

There were a few seconds of static before Mai Dong’s voice sounded again.

“I can hear you.”

“Listen up, Miss Mai Dong. You need to reboot the space station’s computer system! You have to reboot the computer system. Only with it operational can the other systems be restored to normal. We need to be able to interface with the space station’s computer to determine the damages.” Tomcat was nearly shouting through the microphone, afraid that Mai Dong couldn’t hear it. “Do you copy?”

“Roger that. But how do I reboot it?”