Chapter 125 The Only Path
After dark, the temperature dropped and it was windy. Banxia came out of the unit door and pulled up the collar of her sweatshirt.
I stood at the door of the building and looked up at the sky. It was a little gloomy and I couldn't see the moon.
It is estimated that it will take three hours to walk from Meihua Villa to the Zitai office building. The command center suggested that she take Route 2 and try to avoid the Xinjiekou area. The so-called Route 2 is to go along Zhongshan East Road to Yixian Bridge, turn right, go north on Longpan Middle Road, turn left at Beijing East Road, and go directly to the Zitai office building near Gulou Park. The total distance is about eight or nine kilometers.
They walked on straight roads, which was the command center's requirement. The routes had to be as simple as possible. Firstly, the dark routes at night were too complicated and easy to get lost. Secondly, the paths in the jungle were unsafe. 2040 can be said to be the year with the highest vegetation coverage since the birth of the city of Nanjing. Looking down from the sky, it was almost a city growing in the jungle. Before the big eyes appeared, it was already full of crises.
"Miss, this is the command center. Are you leaving? OVER."
"Let's go." Banxia hung the radio on the shoulder strap of her backpack, holding a flashlight in her hand. She turned around and closed the door of the power grid. "Contact me in five minutes."
Reporting the location every five minutes is the communication frequency agreed upon by both parties. Banxia needs to report the location continuously so that the command center can grasp her exact location.
On the other hand, the command center is also predicting the location of the big eye.
At 18:41 this afternoon, the precise location of the Big Eye was on the roof of the New Century Building, but it is a moving object after all and will not stay there motionless. According to estimates by telemetry satellites, the length of time that the Big Eye stays on the roof of the high-rise building is uncertain, ranging from ten to fifty minutes.
The longer the time goes, the greater the probability that the big eyes will move.
The computer team has a set of estimation algorithms. They believe that within twenty minutes, the activity range of Big Eyes can be limited to a circle with a radius of one kilometer centered on Xinjiekou. Within sixty minutes, its activity range can be limited to a large circle with a radius of two kilometers centered on Xinjiekou. After sixty minutes, its activity range cannot be predicted at all.
It is exactly two kilometers from Xinjiekou to Yixian Bridge.
"That is to say, Miss, you must reach Yixian Bridge within forty minutes, and then go north along Longpan Middle Road." Bai Yang said, "Can you make it within forty minutes? OVER."
"Yixian Bridge...Where is Yixian Bridge?"
Banxia was jogging with her bag on her back, tilting her head to talk on the PTT walkie-talkie on her shoulder strap.
"Panda Group, OVER."
"Where is the Panda Group?"
Bai Yang scratched his head.
"It's a bridge. When you get there, you'll know there's water flowing under it. It's the only bridge you'll come across. Remember, turn right when you come across it. Remember? OVER."
"Okay, I remember. I'll turn right when I see the bridge." Banxia nodded. "How far is the bridge from me?"
"Three kilometers."
"Then forty minutes is enough."
Banxia was traveling in the dark when she tripped over something. She stumbled and turned her head to see that it was a pile of cow dung as dry as stone.
The teacher once said that we should not go out when two moons rise, but tonight there was not a single moon to be seen.
It was very windy outside, and the wind made a whistling sound on the microphone of the walkie-talkie. The strong wind noise made Bai Yang feel that she was not in Nanjing city, but in the base camp of Mount Everest.
The only advantage of a cold winter is that there are fewer flies and mosquitoes. Reptiles and arthropods are quite sensitive to changes in temperature. Once the temperature drops, they all become lazy. Most of the deadly creatures in Nanjing belong to these two categories. In the absence of medicines and serums, if you are bitten by a poisonous snake, you will die.
"BG, it's so dark outside." Banxia said, "But I don't dare to use the flashlight... I think I may have arrived at the Ming Palace. I saw the crashed fighter plane behind the gate."
"Okay, do you need a break?"
"No need, I still have plenty of energy!"
Banxia jumped up and down.
"Okay, Miss, you have to stay alert at all times. OVER." After saying that, Bai Yang took off his headphones, turned his head and shouted outside: "Ming Palace!"
"Ming Palace." Old Zhao repeated while holding down the intercom.
There were many maps in front of him, of modern Nanjing, of future Nanjing, flat and three-dimensional, all spread out on a large display. A thick blue line started from Meihua Villa and went along the road all the way to Drum Tower Park. This was the girl's planned route. At this time, BG4MSR's location was marked at the ruins of the Ming Palace.
On the north side of the map, there are two huge red circles of light, the big one inside the small one, and the center of both circles is Xinjiekou. That is the estimated activity range of the Big Eye. The circle with a diameter of one kilometer is darker in color, and the circle with a diameter of two kilometers is lighter in color. The computer team now believes that the Big Eye is active within this big circle, and the area of this circle is as large as 13 square kilometers.
The computer team repeatedly warned Zhao Bowen that it would become increasingly difficult to predict the range of Big Eye's activities as time went on, and they would no longer be able to give a safe range one hour after the telemetry satellite confirmed its position.
"There are so many tall buildings in Xinjiekou. I hope we can lure it to stay here for a while." Bai Zhen said, "There are IFC, World Trade Center, Xinhua Building, etc. You can go there and have a look. Why are you in such a hurry to leave?"
"Where might it be stationed north of Xinjiekou?" asked Lao Zhao.
"Going north from Xinjiekou, the next stop might be Junlin International and Golden Eagle." Wang Ning pointed in a circle, "Going south, it might be Bank of China and China Construction Bank, but it's hard to say, there are too many buildings in this area."
"The inner ring east line is the boundary. Beyond that line, there are many tall buildings. People's Life Insurance, Shangmao Century, New Century Plaza, they are all over there, all skyscrapers." Bai Zhen sat at the side and typed on the keyboard. "It would be convenient if we could use satellites. A satellite scan would show everything clearly."
"Even if we can use satellites, they will only pass by once every hour. Besides, they can only see big eyes, not people." Wang Ning reminded, "Satellites can't help much."
Old Zhao pressed his eyebrows hard.
"To be honest, her long-distance communication system has not been tested to reach a distance as far as Gulou Park. Can it hold up?" Bai Zhen suddenly remembered, "What if she loses contact halfway through the journey?"
"What can we do?" Wang Ning spread his hands. "The conditions are limited, so we can only make do with it. It all depends on luck."
"Does she know where the entrance to the first base is?" Bai Zhen asked.
"I know." said Zhao Bowen.
"Where is it?" Lao Bai and Lao Wang asked.
"I can't tell you." Old Zhao glanced at them.
"As the deputy team leader, don't I have the right to know?" Bai Zhen was very dissatisfied.
"No." Zhao Bowen said, "Your son knows. If you have the guts, ask Yang Yang to tell you."
Bai Zhen snorted and said nothing more.
Bai Yang knew that the entrance to the first base was under the manhole cover. He told the girl so, but he didn't know which manhole cover it was under.
In fact, even the construction team didn't know which manhole cover was the correct access. During the initial construction, a total of six identical deep wells were dug. After the construction was completed, the six deep wells were sealed with concrete at the same time.
However, this is not true. Only a very few people know that there is a well that has not been truly sealed. It is the only way to enter the First Base, but no one knows which well it is.
Because it is randomly selected by the machine.
"That's going to be a bit difficult to find," Bai Zhen said.
"When we set barriers for the world, we are also setting barriers for ourselves," Zhao Bowen said. "How can it be so easy to resist the interference of this world?"
(End of this chapter)
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