It took several days to smooth things over with Huang Yun's colleagues. The colleague, Cai Xusheng, wasn't actually very familiar to her. She only considered him because they had been a go-between during a furniture purchase a week prior. During this time, Jiang Ling's secret was exposed by Jiang Wenwen.
"Wow, leave one for me to play with!" This "little kid" had never seen this kind of weapon before, and she couldn't let it go for a while, and the unwashed gun oil was spread everywhere by her.
"Okay, okay! But you are only allowed to play with the gun, not load bullets into it!" Jiang Ling was fed up with her harassment and had to raise the gun above her head in a gesture of surrender.
"What's the fun in not loading bullets?" The guy became more and more demanding.
"I still have a use for my bullets!" Jiang Ling hurriedly stopped this dangerous behavior. She didn't want to be invited out for tea before she'd been living underground for more than three days. "Rather than that, why don't you check online how to use it first!"
Finally coaxing Jiang Wenwen away, Jiang Ling breathed a sigh of relief. Her father's body had shrunk, and his mind had also become childish, which frightened her. Could the physical aspect have such a profound impact on the mental?
While waiting for news, Jiang Ling wasn't idle. After logging into the website using her own terminal, she discovered the benefits of having A-level permissions. This so-called permission was essentially the military's internal network. Unlike the world before she traveled through time, this special network was searchable.
In this era of the Internet of Things, it is too difficult to build an independent network alone. It is more efficient to hide it in the dark and protect it with more advanced technology. Moreover, this method can be expanded in wartime to include the entire domestic network.
Level A clearance clearly provides access to more information. Jiang Ling quickly obtained a map of the entire metropolitan area's underground world, as well as a map of surface radiation levels. She discovered her station was surrounded by several yellow circles, with the nearest green area being a small city fifty kilometers away. This surface map was last updated a week ago. According to military officials, they plan to update it annually to predict changes in surface radiation levels.
As for the underground map, it's actually quite regular. This is because it's all man-made and well-planned. The central station is located at the center of the map, followed by six circular lines, three inside and three outside. These smaller stations are connected by smaller lines. Several major stations in major cities are also connected by two or three important lines, marked on the map with yellow lines.
Overall, it resembled a giant spider web. Because there were so many stations, they were numbered and named. For example, Station 3 on the second ring road of Shanghai was called SH0203. Jiang Ling roughly estimated that there were hundreds of medium-sized stations alone. The initial design of the larger stations even included underground gardens. However, since the plant mutations hadn't been identified yet, these underground gardens could only be used to transplant a few mushrooms that had been confirmed to be safe.
Imagining this vast underground labyrinth, Jiang Ling had to reevaluate her travel plans. Even traversing these important routes, let alone covering the entire region, would likely take years. She already lamented the workers who risked their lives to build these lines. To construct such a massive system in just a month, their dedication and sacrifice deserved to be remembered by everyone.
She finally decided to explore the "remote areas" first. Judging by the janitor at the ration store, those places offered more adventure value. He spoke with great enthusiasm about those places. Her station was actually in the heart of the underground system. Simply commuting to the central station would only take several days of subway travel. That would defeat her purpose.
"Jinling is a good place, let's make it the first stop. This way I only need to go all the way west, crossing a river in the middle. There are green zones and red zones. Hmm~ There are eleven large and medium-sized stations and several small stations where I can stop along the way. Okay!" She marked a broken line on the offline map, but she didn't know what the situation of this route would be like.
"Jiang Ling! I know!" The little girl's voice outside the door scared Jiang Ling so much that she almost dropped the terminal in her hand. Jiang Wenwen pushed open the door and held up her terminal to show off: "I know how to use it!"
"What have you found?"
"I found the video I could use, and it was filmed before the war!"
"Are you sure it's the same gun?" Jiang Ling saw that the weapon displayed on the screen was completely different from the three in his box.
"Yes, although it looks different, the structure is the same! I've taken it apart and put it back together several times! Only the shell is different!"
"What?" Jiang Ling noticed that Jiang Wenwen's hands and face were covered in oil. "No, stay away from me! If you act like this, be careful or Mom will come back and scold you."
"What? Yeah! I'll go wash up first!"
Jiang Ling felt that she would never be able to clean it. In her memory, gun oil had to be cleaned with gasoline. It was really tiring to have this old man. She had forgotten how she had turned him into this.
Jiang Wenwen used the circulating water from the bathroom to wash until Huang Yun returned home, but the oil stains were still not completely washed away. In the end, this guy got a scolding.
"How old are you mentally? Why are you still acting like a child?" Huang Yun used a scrub brush and industrially synthesized alcohol and gasoline to scrub her body. Screams erupted from the bathroom. But Jiang Ling didn't feel bad at all. She said that peeling Jiang Wenwen's skin off was the quickest and most effective way. She'd grow back in no time anyway.
After a while of tossing and turning, Huang Yun came out of the bathroom with a rosy face after exercise. She was wrapped in a bath towel, and a little kid with red ears followed behind her.
"What's the situation?" Jiang Ling asked his father.
"My skin is so smooth~"
“???”
Huang Yun changed into pajamas and came out of the room and said, "I got the information you wanted!"
"In a couple of days, you can go to the rest stop between Districts 2 and 3. My colleague said there's a flea market there every now and then, and it's not far from here. Why don't you take your dad with you? What did she say she wanted to buy? Something called a cassette tape?"
"But I won't give you any points! There are so many things to spend money on at home, and I haven't even gotten the replacement for the refrigerator I wanted before!"
"I understand. I will take good care of her!" Jiang Ling promised her mother solemnly, and at the same time turned around and glared at Jiang Wenwen.
In response, Jiang Wenwen made a face.
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