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

Tomcat and Tang Yue were taken aback.

“Long press the reboot button.”

“I know it’s that, but… I can no longer find the button.” Mai Dong raised the torch as the white light swept across the darkness. From time to time, strange shadows would flit past the light cone. The girl felt as though she was sitting at the bottom of the ocean. The weak light from the torch couldn’t reach far into the dark seawater. And those random items that didn’t seem to follow any pattern or shape were the deep-sea fish that were loitering about. They looked ferocious and terrifying.

Mai Dong had lost her bearings. The core module’s layout had been completely destroyed by the accident. Nearly all the control panels were damaged from the violent impact. Mai Dong could find the control panel of the computer system, but at that moment, all that was left was a bunch of broken power cables.

Tomcat and Tang Yue were taken aback.

This outcome was reasonable, but it wasn’t something they had expected. To the astronauts on the United Space Station, the terminal instrument was the only way to control the complicated system that was the space station. A button corresponded to a subsystem. The complex array of control logic had been hidden underneath the panel by engineers, presenting a clean and minimalistic option that was obvious at a glance. This was akin to Windows personal computers. Without the Graphical User Interface, 99% of the users in the world would be left helpless in the face of complicated commands.

Mai Dong was facing such a situation. The dummy-proof Windows system wasn’t available. All that stood before her was a mess.

She took a deep breath before breaking out into a violent fit of coughing.

The oxygen in the Crystal module was thinning. She had no choice but to take deep breaths to replenish the oxygen her body needed. However, the air was filled with smoke. The more she breathed, the worse it was for her respiratory tract.

“Mr… Cat? Tang… Tang Yue?”

Tomcat sat in front of the computer, staring blankly.

If the space station’s computer system couldn’t be rebooted, then the follow-up rescue and restoration work couldn’t unfold. It never expected to reach an impasse at the first step.

Tomcat was desperately thinking of a solution.

Mai Dong was gasping over the comms as her coughing worsened. Her voice was becoming weaker and weaker.

Damn it! Tomcat clenched its paw. Is there really no solution?

Think of something!

Quick! Think of something!

There won’t be any time left if you don’t!

“Get lost!” Tang Yue carried a large stack of paper in his arms as he rushed over and kicked Tomcat away. The latter was sitting on the chair as it spun far away. Tomcat turned its head in puzzlement. “Tang Yue? What are you… Can you reboot the system?”

“Don’t forget what’s my job!” Tang Yue shot a glance at it, his gaze filled with contempt. He slammed the paper heavily on the desk and said, “Mai Dong! Listen to my instructions from now on!”

“You are only a mechanical and electrical engineer,” Tomcat said in a daze. Tang Yue wasn’t a programmer. He was basically a computer idiot, so how was he to resolve the problem?

“Don’t talk nonsense! What’s wrong? Are you looking down on a mechanical and electrical engineer? I don’t understand the logic behind the computer, but is its electrical control logic any different from a Volkswagen Passat?” Tang Yue wore the earpiece as he held a pen in his mouth. He laid out the paper on the desk. “What do you do when a Passat stalls? What do you do when the space station has a broken circuit… Lass, listen to me. I’ll teach you a way to reboot the computer without needing to long-press a button!”

Tang Yue paused. This was what he was best at.

“Hot-wiring!”