Chapter 149 The Red Sun Rises in the East
At 10:20 pm on January 1, 2041, there will be a 4-hour countdown before the nuclear bomb is expected to be unlocked.
"BG, I'm here." Banxia knelt on the ground panting, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and spoke while holding the walkie-talkie on the shoulder strap of her backpack. "I have a bad feeling that the thing might be nearby. I have to speed up."
"Got it. Be careful and make a quick decision." Bai Yang's voice came from the radio. "Have you found it? Miss, OVER."
Banxia successfully found Miss Qiu, who was still in the same place as when she came to see her last time. She was still the same as before, lying in a pile of rubble and covered in dust. This thing had been there for many years without anyone moving it, like a stone.
The girl took the key from her pocket, bit off the plastic seal with her teeth, and touched the control window on the nuclear bomb.
"I'm going to insert the key now."
Banxia inserted the key into the socket with force, then put it to her ear. A few seconds later, she patted the nuclear bomb like she was patting a watermelon, and put her ear to it again. This time there was movement. Through the composite shell, she could hear a "buzzing" sound coming from inside the nuclear bomb, as if a motor was turning. Then there were more and more complex sounds, the sound of metal friction, the sound of a buzzer vibrating, and the timer starting to work - this nuclear bomb that had been silent for many years was gradually reviving.
It worked, the girl was surprised, the key worked.
Next you need to enter your password.
"Miss, you are the only one who knows the password."
Still the same sentence.
Everyone told her that she was the only one who knew the code, but Banxia was a little confused. She had no idea. How did she know what the code was for this nuclear bomb?
Touching the six-digit mechanical password wheel, Banxia frowned. Which six digits would they be?
Is it someone's birthday?
Or some secret code?
As the girl thought, she carefully pushed the code wheel and observed the numbers on it in the moonlight.
Suddenly there was a "click" sound and Banxia was stunned.
She found that the roller she was pushing was locked and stopped at the number "8". No matter how hard she pushed it, she couldn't move it. Banxia was a little surprised. She immediately tried to push the second roller, and when it rolled to the number "0", there was another "click" and it was locked again.
Banxia described this situation to Baiyang, who was equally surprised.
"Obviously, the password is generated only after the key is inserted. Before the key is inserted, the password does not exist at all. That's why the people from CNNC say that only one person knows the password." Zhao Bowen stood behind Bai Yang, his hands on the back of his chair. "The person who inserted the key knows it."
Bai Yang's eyes widened.
"Manually entering the password is only for manual confirmation of unlocking the nuclear bomb. Unlocking the nuclear bomb is an irreversible process. Once it is turned on, it cannot be turned off." Zhao Bowen continued, "I told you that this nuclear bomb was designed to avoid using sophisticated microelectronic structures as much as possible. Many functions have to be implemented by primitive methods."
"Traditional Chinese medicine?" Bai Yang turned his head.
"Yes, it's a simple method, very simple, more simple than you can imagine. For example, its safety mechanism, you might think it uses some advanced confidentiality algorithm, but it actually uses a spring." Zhao Bowen explained, "Yes, it's the spring used to wind the clock. According to the description of China National Nuclear Corporation, when they designed it to this stage, there was only a small space of two centimeters square. They had to use such a large space to design a safety mechanism. The whole team was so worried that they couldn't sleep. Later, someone noticed his son's spring toy when he came home, and then he had an idea to use the spring."
"How do you use the clockwork?"
"They use a tightened spring to lock the key socket. The spring is made of a special alloy and it takes many years to loosen after being tightened." Zhao Bowen explained, "The most reliable method is often a purely physical method, blocking the socket before the set time arrives to prevent outsiders from inserting it."
At this time, the girl's voice sounded in the headset:
"BG, all passwords have been entered."
"Password input completed." Bai Yang repeated.
Zhao Bowen clenched his fists suddenly. He was not the only one waiting for news. Everyone was waiting for news that would come 20 years later. They were even more nervous than the last time the Long March 5 was launched. The entire team had been working overtime for so many days without sleep or food just for this moment.
The six-digit mechanical password roller was locked, and the final generated password was 802547.
Banxia breathed a sigh of relief, and the red "off" on the control window turned green "on", indicating that the nuclear bomb was successfully unlocked.
"BG, unlocked successfully."
The time now is ten twenty-five at night.
The actual unlocking time of the nuclear bomb was only three hours different from the estimated unlocking time in the command plan. The schedule set by Lao Zhao and his team was quite accurate.
"Leave there now, young lady. The unlocked nuclear bomb will be ready to be triggered in six hours." Bai Yang said in a steady tone, "You have six hours to complete all follow-up work and then move to a safe area. OVER."
"receive."
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After returning to Meihua Villa, Banxia needed to switch the radio's data link to the two wireless cameras in Xinjiekou and transmit the video data captured by the cameras back to the Nanjing Command Center in 2020. They had done tests the night before, and the working status of the two cameras was quite unstable, with intermittent signals, sometimes non-existent. But at this time, no one could ask for better results, and they could only give it a try.
The two cameras have been at the intersection of Xinjiekou for 144 hours. They have been working non-stop for nearly a week, transmitting the captured images to the wireless router, which then broadcasts them aimlessly. If someone receives them, they receive them, and if no one receives them, they just forget about it. They charge every morning when the sun rises, and charge while they work until sunset. After nightfall, their battery can only last for four hours at most.
"BG, I'm going to switch links and will go into silent mode."
"Got it, OVER."
"Let me confirm one last time. From now on, I will move to the underground bunker. After the nuclear explosion occurs, I will stay away from Meihua Villa and stay in the safe zone for a week. I can only come back after a week, right?"
"Yes."
This means that Banxia will be out of contact for a whole week. She switched the data link of Icom725 to the wireless camera before the transfer, and she can only come back and make the changes a week later.
"Be careful, Miss." Bai Yang couldn't help but remind him again, "If there are any unexpected situations, you can come back early to restore contact. OVER."
"Then you'd better pray that I don't come back early." The girl smiled.
"Have you found a temporary base?"
"No, I don't have the time." Banxia said, "I'll just walk and look."
"Be sure to pay attention to safety and observe the environment. Try to avoid traces of large wild animals. Also, don't drink raw water in the wild. Filter it and boil it before drinking..."
Bai Yang's mind was in a mess and he said whatever came to his mind.
"I know, I know. I only have six hours. If you keep nagging, there will only be four hours left."
There was silence in the channel for a few seconds.
"See you in a week."
"See you in a week." The girl smiled, "73."
Bai Yang was stunned. She actually remembered to say 73 when saying goodbye, but she never followed these rules.
Banxia hung up the call, unplugged the microphone, and connected the peripherals of the image transmission system to Icom725. From now on, this radio station would receive the camera signal. After the signal switching was completed, she climbed to the roof, put down the shortwave antenna, and reinforced the whip antenna to prevent them from being damaged by the impact of the nuclear explosion.
Banxia put on her bag, bent down to pick up Mr. Huang, put him on her shoulders, and stroked his furry little head:
"Let's go, Mr. Huang, we need to move temporarily."
"Mom and Dad, I'm going out. Please take good care of the house."
The girl carefully closed the door of the room and the door of the house, went downstairs, looked up at the dark residential building, and then pushed her bicycle to the underground parking lot. According to the guidance of the expert group, the girl should hide underground in the event of a nuclear explosion, and the underground parking lot of Meihua Villa is a good shelter, safe and familiar. She will hide in the underground shelter until the nuclear explosion occurs, and evacuate the community after the nuclear explosion, and go to the temporary residence of Nanjing Agricultural University or Nanjing University of Science and Technology to avoid possible radiation contamination, and can only return after a week.
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Everything is ready, only the east wind is missing.
The mines are laid, waiting to be triggered.
Looking back, even Zhao Bowen himself could not explain clearly how such a complex and grand plan was implemented step by step. Although he was one of the main driving forces, it still seems incredible to him now that such a big project has really come to this step, and the nuclear bomb has really been delivered and successfully unlocked. As the saying goes, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. The people in the command center worked hard every day, and when they looked up, they realized that they had already traveled a thousand miles.
This is a milestone.
The girl completed all the work under such difficult conditions. If the command center cannot execute the plan perfectly, it would be unworthy of its reputation as an elite team.
As soon as it was light the next day, Wu Wei drove the car downstairs. Zhao Bowen pulled Bai Zhen and Wang Ning in, and without saying a word, drove all the way to Rensheng Plaza.
"Is the nuclear bomb in Rensheng Plaza?" Wang Ning asked.
"Yes, it's right under our car right now." Zhao Bowen didn't even raise his head, his fingers clacking on the keyboard, "Different time coordinates, same space coordinates."
"If it explodes, can we turn into light?" Bai Zhen asked.
"Yes, at this distance we will all turn into light." Old Zhao nodded, grabbed the phone from the console and clamped it between his ear and shoulder, "Hello? This is Zhao Bowen, transfer to extension number 04."
There were seven or eight people in the car, sitting in two rows back to back, with an operating table, a monitor and a telephone in front of each person. Lao Wang was really surprised when he was pulled into the car. He wondered if these people had secretly mastered some space compression technology. The car looked ordinary, but the interior space was surprisingly large, like a mobile communications command center. It looked like a Wuling Hongguang from the outside and an KJ-500 from the inside.
Lao Zhao said that they were transferred from the military region for special modification and were affiliated with the combat detachment.
Such a big gray van is parked in the busy Rensheng Plaza. Hundreds of thousands of people pass through this busy intersection every day. In broad daylight, no one would have expected that the broken van that would be fined by the traffic police for illegal parking actually has a different world inside: an elite team is struggling to save the world in the downtown area.
“Frequency hopping.”
"receive."
"Password 645288. Repeat, 645288."
"14425."
The crisp sound of keyboards mixed with short instructions in the carriage, the blue backlight of the computer screen was reflected on the glasses of people's glasses, everyone was concentrating on their work, and Wang Ning's voice suddenly poked a hole in the solemn atmosphere:
"Are you hungry? I asked Xiao Zhu to order takeout. What do you want to eat?"
A few seconds later, everyone in the car took off their headphones and turned their heads.
"What do you want to eat?" Wang Ning rubbed his hands. "Local Zhejiang cuisine? Sichuan cuisine? Or barbecued skewers?"
"Don't you have Meituan?" Bai Zhen asked, "You let Xiao Zhu do everything. Is he, the office director, responsible for ordering food for you?"
"I'm busy, aren't I?" Lao Wang said as he picked up the phone, shook it, and then clipped it around his neck, took out a pen and a small notebook, "Working!"
"Beef with Crossed Legs, this is good." Zhao Bowen said, "There are several restaurants nearby, and they are all good."
"Okay." Lao Wang nodded and reached out to dial the number on the console. "Hello? This is Wang Ning. Please transfer to Line 06... Yes, that's right. Hello? Xiao Zhu, please order us a meal. Have you had lunch? Have you? It's good that you have. Please help order two servings of cross-legged beef, two trays of crab roe soup dumplings, and some grilled skewers... Wine? Forget about the wine. We are working, not having a dinner party. Just get some coconut milk for drinks."
"The money is credited to the headquarters' account."
After saying this he hung up the phone, clean and carefree, especially the last sentence, it really made people feel refreshed.
The people around didn't say anything, but they could sense the faint contempt. Perhaps everyone couldn't stand Wang Ning, the bastard boss.
Half an hour later, Xiao Zhu appeared outside the car door carrying two large food boxes and knocked on the car window with his head.
The meal arrived and the working group took turns eating in batches.
Zhao Bowen, Bai Zhen and Wang Ning were squatting beside the wheel with lunch boxes in their hands, mumbling as they ate. With disheveled hair, thin cheeks and unkempt clothes, they looked like three migrant workers who had come to the city to work. The security guard at the Life Insurance Plaza took one look and thought that the three of them squatting at the door of a busy building eating lunch boxes was really an eyesore and wanted to chase them away.
However, before they could get close, they were stopped by plainclothes police officers who appeared out of nowhere.
The security guard was shocked by the ID inside the other party's coat. He looked up at the backs of three people squatting on the curb eating lunch boxes. Their unkempt temperament suddenly became unfathomable.
"How many plainclothes police officers are there around here?" Wang Ning asked.
"Who cares? Will it affect our meal?" Bai Zhen pouted and stuffed a soup dumpling into his mouth. "When do we start our next plan?"
"At night, after 7 o'clock, we will start as soon as we can connect with the signal from the other side." Zhao Bowen replied, "The camera can work for four hours after dark. It will be dark at 6 o'clock, so we will start at 7 o'clock and have three hours of surveillance time."
"What if I can't squat?"
"Then we'll continue to wait for it tomorrow." Zhao Bowen said, "Unless our luck is really bad, the possibility of waiting for it is very high. Xinjiekou is the area where swordsmen are most active. The simulation results of the computer team tell us that the probability of waiting for it is 70%."
"Your guess had better be reliable." Bai Zhen spat out a small piece of meat bone on the ground. "If your guess is wrong, then the whole plan will be in vain."
"It's as reliable as the Riemann hypothesis." Zhao Bowen said in a low voice with an expressionless face.
"The Riemann hypothesis has not been proven yet," said Wang Ning.
"The lack of proof does not prevent us from using it. My guess cannot be proven, which does not prevent us from using it either." Zhao Bowen said as if it was a matter of course. "As long as I can catch Big Eyes, it doesn't matter whether my guess can be proven or not. It doesn't matter if the cat is black or white, as long as it can catch mice, it's a good cat."
“Is this scientific?”
"Of course it's scientific," Zhao Bowen said. "As long as you can get results, who cares how you put the data together?"
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Seven o'clock that evening.
"Attention, all departments and nodes. I'm Zhao Bowen. This is the last routine inspection."
"Group One reports, everything is normal."
"Group Two reports, everything is normal."
"Group three reports, everything is normal."
"This is the command center, everything is normal." This is Lian Qiao's voice.
The huge and sophisticated machine of the Nanjing Command Center began to operate. Everyone was a gear, and the gears meshed with each other, sparks flying during the rotation.
Lao Zhao stood in the command vehicle and looked at his watch. "Everyone, please pay attention... countdown is five seconds. Countdown is five seconds! Five! Four! Three! Two! One!"
"The signal is connected!"
The signal was connected, and the moment the order was issued, a data link spanned twenty years. The computer screens in front of Bai Zhen and Wang Ning flashed at the same time. If it weren't for the noisy snowflakes jumping on the black background, the two almost thought that their computer screens were black.
This is a very long video data transmission link. The two wireless cameras installed in Xinjiekou are the source. They transmit the image signal to the wireless router, and the wireless router transmits the signal to Icom725. Icom725 transmits the data to twenty years ago and finally distributes it to all departments. The two cameras are marked as No. 1 and No. 2 respectively. The signal receiving terminal of No. 1 is the computer in front of Bai Zhen, and the signal receiving terminal of No. 2 is the computer in front of Wang Ning.
The two men stared at the computer screen in front of them. They would keep staring at it until the camera battery ran out tonight.
"It's so dark, I can't see anything clearly." Bai Zhen said, "I should have gotten an infrared camera earlier."
"Are we just going to keep watching like this?" Wang Ning asked.
"Yes."
The task of the two deputy team leaders, Wang Ning and Bai Zhen, was to stay in the car and stare at the screen all the time, and not leave their positions no matter what happened.
Zhao Bowen stood between the two of them, looking down at his watch from time to time. As time passed, beads of sweat oozed out of his forehead one by one, and soon his clothes were soaked with sweat. Old Zhao unbuttoned his collar and took two deep breaths. There were no windows in the car, and the air-conditioning temperature was set very high, blowing out hot air endlessly.
No one spoke in the crowded command vehicle, and the breathing of the seven people rose and fell.
Up to now, all the work that everyone can do has been completed. There is nothing more they can do. Everything from now on is left to luck.
This behavior is like setting up an infrared camera in the wild to photograph the Siberian tiger. You can make all the preparations, but whether you can get anything in the end depends on the tiger's mood.
Bai Zhen opened his eyes wide. He could barely make out a huge, dark shadow in the video. It was a tall building across the intersection. Apart from that, there was nothing else that could be distinguished. The effect was similar to that of covering the lens of a Nokia N95 phone with his fingers and then pressing the shutter. The only thing that reminded Bai that he was watching a dynamic video was the noisy noise on the screen.
The situation Wang Ning faced was slightly stronger than Bai Zhen's, probably because the imaging quality of Unit 2 was better than that of Unit 1. Wang Ning stared at the screen for more than 30 minutes and soon couldn't hold on any longer. A normal person couldn't focus on a meaningless and severely out-of-focus black screen for more than half an hour. Old Wang's eyes began to jump on the snowflakes, trying to capture them.
But the game of catching snowflakes could not be sustained for too long. At 8:20 in the evening, Wang Ning closed his eyes for more than ten seconds.
"My eyes are sore."
Lao Wang rubbed his eyes. He is old and can’t look at the screen for a long time.
"Find someone to take over. My eyes are sore." Bai Zhen stood up and pushed Zhao Bowen onto the chair. "Old Zhao, it's your turn. Let's take turns on duty. Each of us will squat for 30 minutes."
So the three of them took turns keeping watch.
They stared at a deserted Xinjiekou through two worn-out cameras they found in a garbage dump.
Zhao Bowen watched for thirty minutes, and then Bai Zhen took over.
"I seem to see something." Bai Zhen said, "A colorful band of light... um, the screen is blurry."
"If I can't squat tonight, I'll have to squat again tomorrow night. When will this end?" Wang Ning said, "My screen is also distorted, and the signal is not stable."
"After all, it was gathered from a garbage dump, so we can't expect too much from it." Bai Zhen turned his head and said, "It has been able to keep working until now, so it can be said to be still strong and healthy."
"Old but still strong?" Wang Ning said, "This is called coming back to life."
"What brands are these two cameras? I'll buy some and store them when I get home. Who knows, they might be useful in the future." Bai Zhen said, "The yard in my hometown has already started construction. We're digging a basement."
"Is it the three-defense standard?" Wang Ning asked.
"Three-defense standard." Bai Zhen closed his eyes and rubbed his eyebrows with his fingers.
"This signal is really bad..." Wang Ning sighed, leaned forward and patted the monitor, "It's terrible, the upper half of my screen is red."
A pat always works, no matter when.
After Lao Wang tapped the button, the signal was restored immediately and the distorted screen disappeared.
"Strange, the red screen is gone, why is there still a red dot..."
As Wang Ning was about to reach out to pick at the red spot on the screen, his finger suddenly stopped in mid-air.
Then his fingers began to tremble slightly.
Bai Zhen behind him slowly leaned back and said in the same trembling voice:
“Out…out out out out it appears!”
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The eye-catching red circular spot appeared on the screens of Wang Ning and Bai Zhen, and they realized at the same time that it was the swordsman's eye.
At 9:15 in the evening, the swordsman finally appeared.
“It’s staring at me.”
The two said in unison.
Before Bai Zhen and Wang Ning could feel surprised, they were knocked to their chairs and unable to move. The people who were stared at by the big eyes became stiff in the body. This is the behavior of animals when they encounter their natural enemies. The brain becomes rigid under the state of intense stress.
A hand squeezed Lao Wang's shoulder hard, and Wang Ning shuddered. Zhao Bowen was standing behind him, staring at the monitor.
“Is it staring at you?”
Zhao Bowen licked his lips and whispered.
"Yes..." Wang Ning swallowed, "Staring at me."
"Where is Lao Bai?" Zhao Bowen asked.
"Staring at me too."
Bai Zhen's low voice sounded behind him.
There was a dead silence in the carriage. Everyone put down their work and turned to look at the two monitors. On the screen, the deep red eye was getting bigger and bigger.
It is difficult to understand how it does this. The perspectives of Unit 1 and Unit 2 are not parallel, and the Swordsman has only one eye, yet it can look directly into two cameras at the same time.
Zhao Bowen said softly: "Use your brains."
Wang Ning and Bai Zhen began to tilt their heads as they were told, sometimes to the left, sometimes to the right, and the magical phenomenon that Zhao Bowen had expected appeared - although they were facing a video shot by a camera, a flat-screen monitor, and the images broadcast by a closed-circuit television, the big eyes in the video began to move following their movements.
"It's following me." said Wang Ning.
"It's following me." Bai Zhen also said.
Wang Ning and Bai Zhen's movements were not synchronized. When Wang Ning tilted his head to the left, Bai Zhen was moving to the right, but in their eyes, this big eye was tracking them at the same time.
"It's following me too." Zhao Bowen stood there and turned to ask the others in the car, "What about you guys?"
Everyone has the same answer.
“It’s following me.”
Zhao Bowen's back was soaked with cold sweat, his hands and feet were cold and his scalp was numb. He didn't know whether to be terrified or excited. He was excited that his conjecture was fortunately confirmed before the Riemann hypothesis was confirmed. He was terrified that once the conjecture was confirmed, the swordsman would become an existence far beyond human imagination.
"Keep an eye on it!" Lao Zhao ordered.
But Big Eyes didn't want to play with them anymore and it quickly disappeared from the camera's field of view.
This made everyone in the command vehicle a little confused and bewildered. How did this thing run away?
"Where did it go?" Bai Zhen asked.
Zhao Bowen stood there, turning his head to look towards the west, motionless.
"Old Zhao?"
Zhao Bowen suddenly grinned. The laughter was abrupt and cold, which scared everyone in the car. They had never seen such a hideous and terrifying smile in their lives.
Zhao Bowen said in a ghostly voice:
“It’s coming for us.”
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The swordsman came to find Zhao Bowen, or to be more precise, he came to find Lao Zhao, Bai Zhen, Wang Ning and everyone in the car. He locked onto their location, which was at Rensheng Plaza.
This long minute or more made everyone in the car hold their breath, even though they were in Nanjing in 2020, with a constant stream of pedestrians and vehicles outside the window, and that scary big eye was actually lingering twenty years later.
“It’s coming.”
Someone murmured something and everyone looked up at the roof of the car.
"Don't... don't scare me..." Lao Wang's voice trembled.
Human intuition always stands out clearly when facing a swordsman. This is probably the common feature of animals when facing natural enemies. They know that it is really coming.
There was deathly silence in the carriage, and everyone felt creepy, as if the big eye was approaching from a distance. It climbed up a nearby tall building, then lay on the car, like a giant spider, and looked inside through the car window.
"You... guess what it's going to say next?" Bai Zhen was sweating.
Old Zhao laughed dryly again with a ghostly voice: "Where are you? Come out... give me the fruit..."
"Give me the fruit—"
At 9:25 p.m., the image signal on the monitor was interrupted.
It was later identified as the moment the nuclear bomb was detonated.
No one moved after the signal was interrupted. Wang Ning and Bai Zhen still stared at the monitor stiffly.
I don't know who asked first:
"Did it explode?"
Someone responded in silence:
“It exploded.”
Zhao Bowen sat down slowly, his hands and legs shaking uncontrollably.
"If that nuclear bomb was really under our car, a small sun would have appeared at Xinjiekou by now." Lao Zhao said, "You must be curious about how Miss Qiu triggered the detonation. In fact, it was voice control. The fuzzy voice recognition component is in the key. The decryption team conducted a careful natural semantic analysis of the swordsman's language and selected five high-frequency words as a comparison library, namely 'I', 'find', 'you', 'of' and 'fruit'. As long as Miss Qiu, who is in the ready state, hears three of these five words, the detonation will be immediately triggered."
"This is the only way we can do it. It doesn't require any manual remote control, and it can accurately identify the enemy and ensure that the swordsman is within the killing range. It requires luck, but fortunately it succeeded." Zhao Bowen continued, "It should have succeeded. I don't think anything can survive in the center of a nuclear bomb explosion... If this thing can survive in the center of a nuclear bomb explosion, then we will be helpless..."
"Also, don't you think it's incredible?" Zhao Bowen spoke faster and faster, even gesturing with his hands. "It can actually look at so many people at the same time, and it can look at you through the network cable and the screen. Part of the reason is that it has more than one eye. I guess the swordsman has an infinite number of eyes. The number of its eyes depends on the number of outside observers. No matter how many people there are, no matter from which angle, even if you surround it in a 360-degree circle, or even form a big ball and wrap it in the center of the ball, it can still look at every observer."
"What does this mean? It means that it does not follow the rules of our universe. Obviously, there is a mechanism in the swordsman, or even a logic, an irrational logic that ignores the laws of physics and even mathematical rules. This logic is 'the observer is the observed'. For that monster, the two are actually the same thing." Zhao Bowen chattered in the silent carriage, "This is unreasonable, as if it was forcibly stipulated, as if... as if a supreme and powerful hand wrote the two on the blackboard and forcibly drew an equal sign between them."
"Thinking further, it changes the underlying logic of information acquisition. When you obtain the swordsman's information, the swordsman also obtains your information. When you know the swordsman's location, the swordsman also knows your location. This is why humans will find it difficult to escape the swordsman's hunting in the future. Any means of counterattack will be exposed in front of them. In theory, one swordsman can target 7 billion people at the same time, not to mention 25 million swordsmen. "
Zhao Bowen grabbed his hair with his hands, and his voice became more painful.
"Thinking further, are swordsmen only the type we have seen? It has the ability to make sounds, so there is no reason not to use this. Maybe there is a type of swordsman that will lock onto you when you hear it speak. There may even be something more unreasonable. As long as you know of its existence, it must know of your existence, regardless of whether there is a direct connection between the two of you..."
With a "click", the car door was opened.
Old Zhao was startled and looked up. The dim light from the street lamp outside fell on his face, making him look thin and sallow.
"Old Zhao! What are you still doing sitting in the car?" Bai Zhen leaned against the car door and shouted at him.
“I, I, I…I…I…”
Zhao Bowen looked around and found no one in the car. It turned out that he had been chattering to the empty car.
After the signal was interrupted, the command vehicle drove back to Meihua Villa. The working group in the car had already dispersed to handle the follow-up work. Old Zhao asked Bai Zhen and Wang Ning to go upstairs first, and he wanted to stay alone in the car for a while - Zhao Bowen came to his senses then, he had been sitting alone in the car.
After Bai Zhen and Wang Ning went upstairs, they were busy all night. It was almost four in the morning and Zhao Bowen still hadn't come up. Bai Zhen guessed that this man might have slept in the car, so he came down to check.
"How are you? Are you okay?"
Bai Zhen reached out to help him.
Zhao Bowen shook his head, climbed out of the car, and his legs went weak and he almost fell to the ground.
"It's over." Bai Zhen supported him, "The mission is over."
Zhao Bowen took a breath, pushed him aside and went upstairs.
"Also, do you know the exact time of the nuclear bomb explosion?" Bai Zhen asked from behind, "We are writing a report and need to set a specific time. It is very important and will be recorded in history."
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The exact time of the nuclear bomb explosion was 9:19:58 p.m.
Probably no one can get a more accurate number than this. Banxia lay on the floor of the underground parking lot, leaning against the wall, holding Grandpa Huang in her arms, holding a pocket watch in her hand, counting the time second by second.
Uncle Huang was very well behaved. He slept in my arms without moving at all.
Starting from seven o'clock in the evening, Banxia entered the sheltering state. She maintained this posture for more than three hours. Banxia was very nervous. The nuclear bomb could explode at any second, but the plan did not clearly state that it would definitely explode tonight. It could be tonight, tomorrow night, or even the night after tomorrow. She still had a little expectation in her heart.
With every passing second, Banxia would say to herself that there would definitely be an explosion in the next second.
Until 9:19:58, the moment after the second hand of the pocket watch stopped ticking, the ground shook before Banxia blinked.
Miss Qiu exploded.
Banxia found it hard to imagine what a powerful force that was, rolling silently from the ground, as if it was going to overturn the earth. She subconsciously closed her eyes and used her ears to listen to the movements around her, but the next moment all the sounds in the air disappeared. The girl's eardrums were stinging, and the pain went through the ear canal into her brain, causing severe tinnitus and weakening her hearing.
After a tenth of a second of silence, there was a deafening explosion, and even the intense tinnitus could not be suppressed. It felt as if the pillars supporting the sky collapsed, and then the sky collapsed.
If someone bravely stands on the roof of a building in Meihua Villa and looks west at this moment, he will see a flash of light as strong as a spotlight in the air, followed by a tiny purple sun rising among the tall buildings. It only takes 0.01 microseconds for its volume to expand from zero to a diameter of 300 meters. The violent chain reaction forms a spherical field in a very short time. Within the field is the most powerful force that humans can control. Everything swallowed by the strong light will evaporate from the earth.
This is the first second after the nuclear explosion.
In the second second, strong vibrations spread along the ground to the entire city of Nanjing, and destroyed all buildings within one kilometer of the explosion center in the next three seconds. In the third second, the hypersonic shock wave had reached Purple Mountain. The moment the nuclear bomb exploded, it created a temperature of tens of millions degrees Celsius. The air was instantly blown up ten thousand times, sweeping across the world with unstoppable force. That was the boundary visible to the human eye. The water vapor in the air liquefied under the huge pressure, like a white wall pushing over.
At the fourth second, the sun collapsed and turned into a scorching and silent fireball, sweeping up strong winds and huge amounts of mud and sand. The air produced intense convection here, absorbing cold air from the ground, heating it into a high-temperature jet that rushed into the sky. Mud, dust and smoke covered the ground like water flow, and the water flow turned into a whirlpool, which rolled up to form a towering column of smoke.
The earth-shaking noise finally came at the fifteenth second, but before that you had already witnessed the end of the world from afar.
Banxia huddled in the underground parking lot, and everything in the outside world had nothing to do with her.
The noise of the nuclear bomb explosion lasted very briefly, which was a little beyond her expectations - Bai Yang described nuclear weapons as so terrible, she thought the result would be a devastating collapse of the earth, but in less than a minute, Banxia could not hear any sound. Meihua Villa was five kilometers away from the center of the explosion. Apart from light, sound and vibration, nothing could reach this place.
She would have to hide here for at least another two hours.
The time now is 9:25 pm.
I returned to the ground at 11:30, took my equipment and supplies and went straight to NNU or NUST, and came back a week later.
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The exact time of the nuclear bomb explosion was 9:19:57.476081537419008 seconds later, 198247008538540874521457 Planck times.
No one can get a more precise number than this.
This is the data obtained by the swordsman.
At that point, the energy in the air began to rise, and in the next long 0.047 seconds it rose to 100 million times its original value.
This is very unusual.
This indicates that a star is about to be born here.
It believes that such a thing cannot happen in this universe that follows the law of conservation, but no one can say for sure, not even the mother machine, not even the mother machine of the mother machine. After all, this universe follows the law of conservation while also loving incompleteness and embracing change. Its love for uncertainty is far stronger than that of other universes. In the past extremely short 10 billion years, it has witnessed the birth and annihilation of tens of thousands of stars, and the life and death of those stars are so fast that it cannot react.
In the next long 0.047 seconds, the swordsman thought slowly.
It's a pity that it didn't come up with any conclusions.
It is not designed for this. As an agricultural machine, it is not good at thinking about problems. This problem can only be solved by the mother machine. The mother machine possesses all the wisdom of seven billion people on this planet, and the mother machine of the mother machine possesses the total wisdom of seven hundred billion civilizations. It is said that there are still mother machines above the mother machines of the mother machines.
So it handed the problem over to the mother machine.
Although it doesn't expect it, it still hopes that the mother machine can give an answer.
Stars are another great creation alongside wisdom. They are the brain cells of the universe. Hundreds of billions of brain cells make up nerve fiber bundles, trillions of nerve fiber bundles make up blocks and cortexes, and all blocks and cortexes form a whole in ultra-high dimensions. The brilliant flickering of billions of stars symbolizes that the universe is actively thinking. There is no doubt that it is thinking, and the time span of its thinking spans the end of everything. It would be a great problem that exhausts all things.
The swordsman watched the birth of a star.
It still misses the bird nests hanging on the tall buildings and the herds of bison and elk on the road. These days, it has been tirelessly going back and forth to build nests for the small animals, rescuing them from the ditches, and trying to teach them knowledge - all this will end in 0.047 seconds.
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At 11:30 that evening, Banxia left the underground parking lot.
She was stunned for a moment.
Banxia was standing in the community. Miss Qiu was watching the explosion five kilometers away that raised a huge amount of dust. The air seemed foggy, and the breeze carried the smell of heat and something burning. She raised her head, her raincoat and hat fluttering in the wind.
Red is the main color of this world. The clouds are blood red, the tall buildings are blood red, the trees, flowers and plants are also blood red. The sky is very bright. It is clearly close to midnight, but the light is as bright as four or five in the afternoon. Is this also caused by a nuclear bomb explosion?
Banxia faced west, the direction of the nuclear bomb explosion, but suddenly she noticed a light coming from the east, illuminating half of her cheek.
It was getting brighter and brighter around, as if the sun had suddenly risen at 11:30 p.m.
The girl turned her head in surprise and saw a red sun rising from the east.
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(Author’s idle words: I keep my word and say it’s a 10,000-word chapter!
In addition, the friendly recommendation time: recommend the free science fiction short story "Fire the Arms" for love. )
(End of this chapter)
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