Chapter 142: Safe, Safe, and Fucking Safe
The return capsule was two meters high, with its lower half buried in the soil. In the moonlight, it looked like a huge, burnt black cone. To be honest, if Bai Yang hadn't explained it to her, Banxia wouldn't have recognized what it was. Identifying the command module of a manned spacecraft requires knowledge of aerospace engineering, which the girl didn't understand at all. Over the years, she had passed by the return capsule countless times, and every time she thought it was an unexploded bomb warhead.
A small stone drew an arc in the air, fell into the pit with a "thump", bounced up and rolled away.
There was still silence in the air.
Ten minutes later, a small head popped out from under the concrete slab and looked around cautiously.
"BG, I'm in position."
Banxia took a deep breath and slowly crawled out from the ruins.
Leaving Plum Blossom Villa without sufficient intelligence and heading to the ruins of Life Plaza to check the spacecraft and nuclear bomb was a very risky act, but everyone felt that it was worth the risk.
The girl jumped into the pit and walked through the shallow pit carefully and quickly. The impact crater was large and shallow. The ground sank into a large circle with a diameter of nearly 100 meters. The return capsule was in the center of the pit. When Banxia got closer, she realized that the shell of the return capsule was originally white. The heat-insulating tiles were burned by high temperatures when re-entering the atmosphere. When it landed, it was already a large black lump, half buried in the soil. Unknown small green round leaves grew sporadically in the pit and also climbed to the top of the return capsule along the small ditch where the rain flowed, and a small bright yellow flower bloomed.
Banxia walked around the return capsule, and only then did she discover that the capsule was severely deformed when she got to the back, probably due to a collision with a building when it fell. The outer shell was severely cracked and sunken inward. Looking inside from the side door, the interior was already burnt. A fire must have occurred after the spacecraft failed to land, and the hanging cables were so brittle that they turned into powder with a pinch.
The girl bent down and crawled in, her feet stepping on a thin layer of mud. The space was spacious and filled with a musty smell of earth. She looked up and around. This was a good shelter. She thought there would be many animals living here. Sure enough, when she looked down, she saw rotten bird feathers, broken eggshells and feces of unknown animals. It was obvious that this place was very busy in the summer.
No one else in the world knows what this is except her. Banxia stretched out her fingers and tapped the dark inner wall. After scraping off the dried dirt, she could see the silvery-white metal. This thing was older than her, but from another perspective, it was launched only three days ago.
"Nuclear bomb...where is the nuclear bomb?"
She needs to find a nuclear bomb and a key.
Bai Yang said that the nuclear bomb was placed in the command module, which was a dark red sphere slightly larger than a basketball and very heavy. The key was placed in a plastic sealed box. The key was a slender and smooth metal insert, three centimeters long and two millimeters thick.
But now there is nothing recognizable in the cabin. Everything has been burned into a black mass. Animals live here all year round, biting everything that can be bitten to pieces. Under the current circumstances, the delicate and fragile key must be completely destroyed and can no longer be counted on. Banxia has to find the nuclear bomb and confirm that it is still effective.
It is very simple to confirm whether it is effective, just check whether the structure is complete. A complete structure means it is effective.
"BG, can you hear me?" Banxia leaned against the wall, with the radio antenna pointing out of the cabin door. "I searched the interior of the spacecraft. The spacecraft is in a terrible condition. There is basically nothing left here, and I didn't find Miss Qiu either."
"Miss, this is BG, received, OVER."
"I'm going to search outside the ship next, wish me luck."
"Good luck, OVER."
The search area became larger as we went out. There was sparse, withered yellow grass growing in the pit, as high as the knees. There were also large pieces of construction waste scattered around, including broken bricks, broken steel bars, and solidified cement. A thick beam more than ten meters long was inserted diagonally into the ground, like a huge rusty sword. Pinellia stood alone in the grass, its shadow moving inch by inch with the moonlight.
The night wind blows, bringing the salty smell of sea water.
"A red ball... a red ball..."
Banxia muttered, her eyes scanning the ground.
She had been to this place many times, but she had never seen any crimson spheres. If there were such things, wouldn't they be very conspicuous? She searched back and forth, fearing that she would miss any clues.
"Is there really a red ball here?" The girl tilted her head and talked to herself, walking forward step by step.
"oops!"
I don’t know what I stepped on, my foot slipped, and Banxia almost fell flat on his face.
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Command center.
The electronic clock on the coffee table was counting down. There were still 48 hours left before the planned unlocking of the nuclear bomb. Bai Yang was anxiously waiting for good news from the girl, while others were nervously discussing the key transmission plan. As soon as they got to work this morning, the project team urgently remade a key. At this moment, this thing was placed on the coffee table. It was really small, three centimeters long and one centimeter wide. It was really thin, two millimeters thick, made of metal, like a special USB flash drive, lying quietly in the sponge. You couldn't see anything special from a distance, but you could observe the fine lines on its surface when you got close to it.
The project team said there was a chip inside, which was top secret. If it was lost, everyone would be sent to jail.
Bai Zhen immediately took two steps back and said, "This matter has nothing to do with me. I know nothing. You guys can do your thing. I'm just passing by... I'll go and see what's going on with my son."
He pushed open Bai Yang's bedroom door and asked, "Son, how is the situation over there, Miss? Have you found the nuclear bomb?"
There was no light in the room, and the computer screen was the only source of light. Bai Yang was wearing headphones and supporting his head, his back motionless.
"son?"
Bai Yang's back suddenly trembled, and Lao Bai immediately closed the door, wondering if he had disturbed him.
Then he heard a long sigh in the room, and Lao Bai became more and more convinced of his thoughts. At the same time, he wondered if it was not a good idea to entertain himself during work hours? Although he was under great pressure recently and needed to vent, this was understandable...
Before he could think about the worse, Bai Yang's voice came from the bedroom:
"It's done!"
Bai Zhen pushed the door open again, "Did it work?"
"It's done." Bai Yang leaned back tiredly, leaned on the back of the chair, slowly took off his headphones and exhaled slowly, "News from the eldest lady, we found Miss Qiu, the structure is intact, no damage was found."
"Great!" Bai Zhen was overjoyed.
Bai Yang slowly turned his head, with his back to the light source, so his facial expression could not be seen clearly, only his eyes still had a little light.
Bai Zhen was overjoyed, but when he saw his son's eyes, his joy was washed away by the cold water. For some reason, his body suddenly felt a little cold. Old Bai opened his mouth for a long time and asked, "Are you sure the nuclear bomb is effective?"
"Confirmed that the nuclear bomb is effective."
Bai Yang nodded. This was a very happy event. He wanted to laugh, but he couldn't.
"The chip is very fragile and cannot withstand high temperature, high pressure or strong impact." The nuclear project team sat in the living room and ate melon seeds. The so-called top-secret nuclear weapon key and a large bag of Cha Cha melon seeds were piled together. "We must deliver it safely to the MSR, and the success rate must be 100%."
"That's impossible." Wang Ning shook his head. "Do you know the three laws of slow time?"
"Know."
"If you want to avoid the filtering mechanism of this world, you must first put it in a state where it is almost lost and cannot be found. This is the first step of time delivery, and this risk must be taken." Wang Ning said, "The tighter you hold it in your hands, the less likely it is to reach its destination, and the more the world will go against you."
"These are not the problems we need to solve." The nuclear project team acted as the client very straightforwardly. "We are only responsible for providing the key. It is your job to successfully deliver it."
Wang Ning thought to himself, wow, there is no such thing as Party A forever in this world, and those who are Party A will eventually be tormented by Party A.
The Nuclear Task Force concluded by reiterating their request:
Safety!
Safety!
It's fucking safe!
(End of this chapter)
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