Chapter 29 Goodbye to You

Banxia sat against the collapsed pillar of the corridor until dawn. Weeds grew in the early morning sun and the breeze carried the smell of earth. All things were waking up, but the city was the only one that did not wake up, and would never wake up again.

The shovel and knife were thrown on the ground, and the girl looked down at her hands, which were covered in dirt and her joints were aching.

She raised her head and leaned the back of her head against the rough concrete pillar, staring blankly at the thick frame above her head. The lattice built by prefabricated boards in horizontal and vertical directions was hollow, and it was placed on the pillars to form a corridor. It could not shelter from wind and rain, but could be used for climbing vines. I thought that in the era when the world was not destroyed, the top of this corridor should have been covered with a thick green cover, which was the dense vines and branches of plants.

But now everything is gone. Half of the corridor collapsed and was burnt black. The world is full of weeds except this corridor, which is bare.

My hands hurt.

There were waves of stinging pain, and the index and middle fingers of both hands were red and swollen as steamed buns. They were like this from pushing against stones so hard.

I dug too hard, too hastily, and too frantically last night, and didn't even care about the injured hand.

She started digging at three in the morning and continued until six in the morning, digging for more than three hours. She turned over almost all the floor tiles. By the end, Banxia was in despair. She even felt that she was not in Nanjing in 2040, but in a parallel universe isolated from the world. Except for radio waves, she could not send anything out, and except for radio waves, no one else could send anything in.

Now she calmed down and began to think silently about what went wrong.

Where did that time capsule go?

Was he poached by someone in the past twenty years?

The girl sat on the bench, leaning against the pillar in a daze, with her legs together, her eyes lowered, and her thick eyelashes trembling slightly.

A sparrow came out from nowhere, jumping on the ground, tilting its head to look at the girl. It was furry like a ball. Banxia estimated in her mind how difficult it would be to catch it and bring it back to make soup, and then gave up the plan. Catching a bird requires a net, and it is too difficult to do it with bare hands.

Banxia had no idea about time capsule delivery. In her imagination, it was a simple process - both parties agreed on a location, the other party buries the time capsule, and then she digs it out.

It's that simple.

But this simple process proved to be unsuccessful.

This shows that time is not as simple as she imagined.

well.

Banxia sighed.

I can't think of it.

She has never been a very smart person.

Go ask the teacher.

The teacher knows everything, maybe we can get some inspiration from him?

The girl picked up the shovel and knife on the ground, got up, dusted off the dry dirt and dust on her body, and disappeared into the grass.

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That night.

Bai Yang finished taking a shower and sat down at the table without drying his hair. He rubbed the towel on his hair with one hand while turning on the radio.

We were exhausted this afternoon. After watching "The Captain" at Wanda Cinema, Brother Yan insisted on going to a cat cafe, so the three of them went to find a cat cafe - it's called a cat cafe, but it actually raises cats, dogs and ducks. In the cat cafe, Bai Yang met a proud British shorthair. When other cats were fighting over canned tuna cat food, the British shorthair squatted on the cat climbing frame, steady as a rock, with his eyes straight ahead. It was so proud that Bai Yang and others thought it was the store manager. Brother Yan said that these cats seemed to be raised by the coffee shop to attract customers, but maybe they were the owners. After closing the shop at night, they held a meeting to discuss today's business and which human was the most docile, and this British shorthair sat on the high cat climbing frame and spoke: Let me meow briefly...

Before Yan Zhihan could finish her words, the British Shorthair jumped down and knocked over the lemon tea brought by the waiter on the table.

He Leqin's pants were wet.

"BG4MSR, BG4MSR, this is BG4MXH, how is it? Did you receive the time capsule? OVER."

Bai Yang called out while holding the microphone.

"…What? No? No time capsule?"

Bai Yang was stunned.

"Sister, are you sure you dug in the right place? OVER."

"Yes, yes, it's under the long corridor in the community square, under the floor tiles, OVER."

"No?"

"Has it all been dug up?"

"BG4MSR, it's a stainless steel can, about the length of a mineral water bottle, OVER."

"Didn't see it?"

Bai Yang sat on the chair blankly, then held the microphone and said, "BG4MSR, please wait for me for a moment, OVER."

Then he took off his headphones, put on his pants and rushed out.

"Yang? Where are you going?"

"be right back--!"

After changing his shoes at the entrance, Bai Yang ran downstairs and hurried to the place where he buried the time capsule last night. He didn't even bother to step on the lawn and went straight across the flower bed.

He stepped on the floor tiles of the corridor and squatted down to check, panting. The place was still preserved in the state that Bai Yang had restored last night. After burying the time capsule, in order to prevent it from being discovered by others, he buried the soil very carefully, restored the floor tiles to their original state, and swept the ground clean... Bai Yang did not find any signs that anyone had touched it, even the shallow scratches on the tiles had not changed at all.

He sat on the bench, breathing heavily and wiping the sweat off his face.

No one moved.

The time capsule is still there.

Why didn't she find it?

Bai Yang walked home step by step, thinking as he walked.

Could it be that in the next twenty years, someone really will make a move and snatch this time capsule away?

What are the chances of this happening?

He had confirmed with BG4MSR that the community square had not been destroyed, no big pit had been blown up, and the ground had not been turned up, so the time capsule could not have been exposed to the public unless someone took the initiative to dig it up, but who would dig it up? Bai Yang carefully selected a hidden place, who would know that there was a time capsule buried there?

Bai Yang walked into the apartment building and slowly climbed the stairs.

He thought of some murders in which the murderers had buried the remains of the bodies underground for decades without being discovered.

Therefore, the probability of the time capsule being intercepted by someone is very small.

So the other possibility is very big.

That means the other party didn't dig at all.

As long as we use Occam's razor to cut off all unreliable speculations, the most reasonable result left is obvious - Poplar was fooled.

This is all bullshit.

It is impossible for the radio waves emitted by shortwave radio stations to travel through time and space (Einstein and Maxwell lay down with relief). BG4MSR lives in a building in Meihua Villa Community. This drama-loving sister just wanted to play a prank on Bai Yang, so she made up a story and played him around. Maybe at this moment she is leaning on the balcony and watching Bai Yang busying around with interest. What a bad taste.

Bai Yang was quite annoyed.

Looking back on these things now, whether it was this time capsule or the meeting more than half a month ago, it was so obvious that the other party was just acting. How could he have been obsessed with it before?

He felt very sorry for the physics teacher in the coffin. As a senior high school student who always passed the physics exams, he actually believed in such nonsense as trans-dimensional communication!

All the books I read over the years were eaten up by He Leqin.

Is it true that you become so confused as to lose your way when you hear the girl's clear voice?

I'm so ashamed that I wrote to her seriously.

Too childish.

So shameful.

Bai Yang covered his face.

Fortunately, no one else knew about this, otherwise it would have been a social disaster.

He sighed. That was it. When he returned later, the girl would probably reveal the answer. Even if she didn't, he would have to reveal it himself. There was no point in continuing this play.

He didn't want to keep company any longer.

What's the point of hiding in the dark and doing things? If you have the guts, come out and fight with bayonets tomorrow.

goodbye!

73!

Goodbye to you!

(End of this chapter)