Chapter 126 The Disappearing Bridge

The First Base is the safest secret room in the urban area of ​​Nanjing. If there is any place safer than it, it is only the Second Base.

There is a data center in each of the two bases. It is a gift sent by people to the future and the only witness and recorder of the doomsday disaster. The two bases will go through the disaster and survive to the end, becoming the only database that Banxia can access in the post-apocalyptic era.

This is a large-scale reconnaissance operation, and the scout will move forward alone as time goes by. Human beings will perish in the disaster, but the base will not perish. It will go through the long time and loneliness and wait for the person it has been waiting for. The command hopes that it can solve all the mysteries and find a glimmer of hope for survival.

The so-called PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is just like this.

What Banxia had to do was very simple. She only had to enter the base and wake up the dormant computer.

The only action is to poke the button.

If one poke doesn’t work, poke twice.

Once the dormant base is awakened, it will immediately enter working mode. The awakened system will deploy a high-gain satellite antenna and upload all data to the relay satellite.

It's a fool-proof operation from beginning to end. Once you've dealt with the girl, you can go home. When you get home, switch the radio to satellite mode and you're done.

"Really just poke it?"

"Just poke it." Bai Yang nodded. "Although the server database and other things are very complicated, they have simplified the actual operation. Miss, you should see a very eye-catching button after you go down. Hit it hard and it will turn on. OVER."

Bai Yang recalled what the engineering team said when they described it to him. They said there was no need to worry about not being able to find the power button, nor was there any need to worry about the operation being too complicated. The guys in the engineering team patted their chests and guaranteed that the button was very eye-catching, really very eye-catching, and even a blind person could find it.

(Bai Yang still underestimated what the engineering team meant by "eye-catching". In fact, after Ban Xia entered the first base, she saw a red button as big as a rice bowl.)

"There won't be another step of entering codes, right?" Banxia asked.

"No, the engineering team assured me that all operations will not exceed the three categories of poking, pressing and hammering." Bai Yang replied, "The IQ required for operation cannot exceed nine years old. Animal behavior experts have evaluated it and they believe that trained monkeys can complete all steps. OVER."

"What about untrained monkeys?"

"Untrained monkeys can be trained in the base." Bai Yang said, "Miss, where are you now? OVER."

"I think I'm almost at Yixian Bridge, but it's too dark outside tonight. There's no moonlight at all. Do you know how dark it is here? I'm stretching out my hand now. If my hand were longer, I wouldn't be able to see how many fingers I have."

Banxia slowed down her pace. She walked on the curb, unable to see what she was stepping on. The asphalt road was covered with black mud, animal feces and rotten broken branches. Banxia judged what she was stepping on by the sound and feedback after stepping on it. The soft one was mud, the one that was hard at first and then became soft was feces, and the one that made a "crackling" sound was a branch or wood. The surroundings were so quiet that no sound could be heard. The sound of stepping on the broken branches was particularly clear and transparent in the air.

Banxia had never traveled so far at night. She carefully observed the surrounding environment. There were many scrapped car shells along the way. At night, they all turned into unclear black shadows. Banxia felt nervous every time she encountered them. Normally, Zhongshan East Road was a frequently traveled avenue and the girl was quite familiar with it, but once it got dark, it was like a different city.

Is the building in front the Nanyuan community?

Or fifty-five?

There was a tall black shadow standing there in the distance. It was not clear through the lush leaves. To see what it was, one had to go downstairs. The familiar city of Nanjing was covered with a layer of black gauze, and Banxia could not recognize it.

"BG, how long do I have?"

"Seven minutes, OVER."

Banxia slowly breathed a sigh of relief, stopped and hid behind a burnt-out car shell, squatted on the curb, tapped the soles of her shoes, and tightened the shoulder straps of her backpack.

"BG, can you sing a song for me?"

Bai Yang was stunned.

The plan was to report the time every five minutes, but apparently no one followed this rule. Banxia never stopped talking since the start of the operation. She said that it would be really scary to walk alone in the wilderness at night without finding someone to talk to.

"I won't be afraid if you sing."

"Uh..." Bai Yang hesitated, "Miss, what do you want to hear?"

He wondered if the girl was going to sing a song like "Blue-faced Dou Erdun steals the imperial horse——" according to her usual singing style.

Don't make a fuss. Who knows how many people are monitoring this conversation. This is almost a public channel. If Bai Yang were to sing a song in the public channel, "Blue-faced Dou Erdun stole the imperial horse, red-faced Guan Gong fought in Changsha--", someone would call the headquarters the next second and tell them that they are all on the same side and not to speak a word.

"Sing this." Banxia hummed a tune, "Can you sing it?"

"meeting."

"Then you sing!"

Bai Yang scratched his forehead in embarrassment. He didn't say that his business also included this.

But he sang it anyway:

"I can catch the moon. I will use countless dreams to prop up countless oars."

"Use courage and wisdom as my oars,"

"Rowing the moon boat into the distance."

"I don't remember the lyrics after that, Miss."

The girl on the other end giggled and clapped the microphone on the stage to show her applause.

Bai Yang lamented in his heart, "My reputation in this life."

"Miss, where are you now? OVER."

"I should be at the Panda Building." Banxia looked at the blurry, dark building from afar under the night sky. "After the Panda Building, it's Yixian Bridge, right? I'm almost there."

"Yes, turn right before Yixian Bridge and enter Longpan Middle Road, then go straight along Longpan Middle Road. You still have three minutes, OVER."

"Understood. Turn right at Yixian Bridge and get onto Longpan Middle Road...wait."

The girl's voice suddenly changed.

"What's wrong?" Bai Yang suddenly became alert.

"No... No, this doesn't look like the Panda Building..."

The girl was confused, surprised and bewildered.

“Not the Panda Building?”

"Wait, let me get closer, maybe I'm seeing things, weird, it doesn't look like the Panda Building... Let me get closer, closer, no, BG!"

The girl's voice suddenly changed.

"This is Nanjing Library! BG, this is Nanjing Library!"

The tall glass curtain wall of Nanjing Library was still clearly visible in the night, and Banxia walked downstairs of Nanjing Library without realizing it.

That's going too far!

Banxia subconsciously turned her head and looked back. Where was Yixian Bridge? Had she already passed Yixian Bridge?

She suddenly realized that she had gone too far. In the pitch-black night where she could not use her eyes to locate herself, she misjudged her speed and was not sure whether she had walked four or five kilometers.

She didn't know when she started to misunderstand the road signs, but maybe she had done so a long time ago.

It was not only Banxia who made a mistake. The command center also made a mistake. They thought that Yixian Bridge was an obvious marking point, but this bridge would no longer exist in the future. Due to the long time and lack of maintenance, it had been blocked and filled up. Standing on the bridge at night, one could not tell that it was a bridge, and this was not visible on satellite images.

Banxia was determined to find the bridge, so she hurried on her way, walking along Zhongshan East Road. She passed the Yixian Bridge without realizing it, and thus passed it in a daze.

The safe area drawn by the computer team is two kilometers away from Xinjiekou within forty minutes. It is exactly two kilometers from Xinjiekou to Yixian Bridge, which means that as long as Banxia turns at Yixian Bridge, she can avoid the big eyes.

But at this moment she went deeper into the range of Big Eyes' activities, walked another kilometer forward, and arrived at the bottom of the South Library.

Nantu is only one kilometer away from Xinjiekou.

Standing downstairs of the Nantu Building, you can see the roof of the Xinbai Building in Xinjiekou.

Banxia couldn't see the Xinbai Building in the night, but she knew it was there because she could see the dark red eyes high above, glowing like a firefly.

(End of this chapter)