Chapter 227 - Sol Three Hundred and Thirty-Four, Star Chart (1/2)

Chapter 227: Sol Three Hundred and Thirty-Four, Star Chart

After Tomcat had finished singing Sailor, it sang Stars Lamp, followed by Familial Love, Path to Heaven, and Tibetan Plateau. It was like a retro radio, but Tang Yue didn’t have the power to choose the songs he wanted. All he could do was put up Tomcat’s hoarse voice that sounded like a defunct recorder.

As it drove, it kept belting out songs. And when Tomcat reached the lyrics refrain—”This is the Tibetan Plateau—Ohhhhhheeh!”—Tang Yue had no idea how he resisted the urge to jump off and escape.

After Tomcat finished singing Tibetan Plateau, Tang Yue imagined that it was finally going to stop.

But it began humming again.

Just as Tang Yue was about to say something, he was taken aback.

He was very familiar with the tune hummed by Tomcat. Tang Yue nearly hummed along with it as it was Tomorrow Will Be Better.

“Your singing has crossed a distance of 30 AU in two minutes. It’s 114 times faster than light,” Tang Yue said. “It’s definitely the fastest in the Milky Way.”

The Mars Wanderer continued driving for half an hour until Tomcat stopped pressing down on the accelerator. It braked and switched off the engine.

The Mars Wanderer only had 5% of its power left.

“That will be all for today. I’ve already driven for thirty kilometers. What’s next is to allow the Wanderer to be recharged.” Tomcat jumped off the vehicle and looked at the Sun before circling around to the trailer to unload the solar panels.

Tang Yue got off the vehicle and stood beside the Mars Wanderer’s wheels and surveyed the area. On a boundless desert covered in saline-alkali soil, there was nothing. He couldn’t even find a place to hide from the Sun. Thankfully, this was Mars. If this were Earth, he would definitely have suffered from dehydration and heatstroke.

They thankfully had the Wanderer. A transportation device in the desert was like a rescue raft; otherwise, it was nearly impossible to walk out of this dry sea of death by human means alone.

He couldn’t see Kunlun Station anymore. Tang Yue only knew the direction where it was, but despite looking far into the distance, all he saw was a dark gray horizon.

Tomcat unfolded the solar panels one after another and set them up on the ground. The forty solar panels they had, covered an area spanning half a soccer field when fully set up. The entire day was left to recharging. It was fifteen minutes past eight in the morning, and until the Sun set, Tang Yue and Tomcat would stay here, waiting for the charging to complete.

Tang Yue connected a transformer to the backup battery, pulled out a power cable and attached it to the Radiant Armor.

Not only did the Wanderer need to be charged, but so did Tomcat and the EVA suit.

The man and cat finished setting up the solar panels, and finally, Tomcat seemed to pull a magic trick, pulling out two campstools from the geolab.

Tang Yue and Tomcat each had one as they sat there with black power cables attached to their backs.

“When do we set off again?”

“Tomorrow morning,” Tomcat replied. “The charging needs at least ten to twelve hours. I estimate that we will set off at seven in the morning tomorrow. We will then head northeast another thirty kilometers.”

“We won’t steer off course, right?”

“It’s inevitable to go off course, but it will be fine as long as we correct it in time.” Tomcat returned to the driver’s component and rummaged for a chart which it gave Tang Yue.

Tang Yue glanced at it and found it filled with numbers. He didn’t understand anything other than the shortened English words: “Mon,” “Tues,” “Wed,” Thur,” “Fri,” “Sat,” and “Sun.”