Chapter 24 When you receive this letter, I will be dead
That night, the time capsule bought on Taobao arrived.
The brown paper box is stuffed with white pearl cotton to cushion vibrations. When you open it, it looks a bit like the inner shell of a thermos bottle at first glance. It is cylindrical with a shiny stainless steel shell, but in fact it is much stronger than the inner shell. It is 20 cm long and about 8 or 9 cm in diameter. When standing up, it is about as tall as a mineral water bottle. It has lids on both sides, and each lid is fastened with eight bolts.
The time capsule also comes with two wrenches and a shovel, so it is fully equipped, with everything from closing the coffin to nailing it down to burying it.
Use a wrench to unscrew all the bolts on one side and remove the lid. You can see the rubber sealing ring under the edge of the lid and the empty interior. The volume of the time capsule is only 0.6 liters. Bai Yang can put his clenched fist in it, and it can accommodate the middle of his forearm.
This is the smallest time capsule. The larger one costs more than 80 yuan, and the largest one costs more than 200 yuan. Bai Yang is too poor to afford it.
Can this thing really stay buried underground for twenty years?
Bai Yang knocked gently on the outer shell of the time capsule. The smooth stainless steel reflected the light. He squeezed it hard, but it didn't move. It was quite solid.
Not a can.
He suspected that this thing was made of a thick seamless steel pipe. A ten-centimeter diameter stainless steel pipe was cut into many sections, and each section could be made into a time capsule. It only required a lid to be put on each side and screwed on with bolts. The structure was quite simple and there was no black technology involved.
Wow, a thing like this is sold for sixty-eight, that’s really easy money.
Bai Yang thought that if he couldn't find a job in the future, he would go to Taobao to sell time capsules.
From today, twenty-one years from now, it will be the era of BG4MSR. If she really lives in that era, according to the girl, the earth will encounter a world-destroying disaster in the next twenty years, and all humans will be extinct in this disaster. Bai Yang finds it hard to imagine what kind of disaster can completely wipe out the entire human civilization. Is it the great flood in the Bible? Even an asteroid hitting the earth would not be so serious.
He weighed the slightly heavy stainless steel capsule in his hand, unsure whether it could withstand the attack. The manufacturer of the time capsule probably designed it as a souvenir for fun, and never thought of letting it shoulder the responsibility of protecting the relics of human civilization and resisting a devastating disaster.
But this is the best equipment Bai Yang can get.
What should I put in this capsule?
Because the volume is quite limited, not many items can be put in it - except for the tritium tube used as a time indicator, Bai Yang hopes to put something useful in it.
He sat in the chair and looked around.
What to eat?
Such a small capsule can't even hold a few compressed biscuits, and can only hold two buckets of instant noodles at most, but not a whole bucket of Master Kong's pickled cabbage beef noodles.
Drink?
It's even more impossible. Liquids are difficult to preserve. If they leak, the capsules will be ruined as well. Besides, the other party is not short of water. Bai Yang shook his head.
What about medicine? There should be a shortage of medicine in the apocalyptic world.
"Mom! Where are the medicines at home?" Bai Yang got up, put on his slippers, walked on the wooden floor, opened the door, and shouted towards the living room.
"It's under your bed." Mom was sitting on the sofa watching TV. "Why are you looking for medicine?"
"Xiao Di La."
Bai Yang pulled out a plastic basket from under the bed. In the basket were the family's common medicines, including cooling oil, wind oil, dexamethasone ointment, as well as fluoxetine, ceftriaxone, ibuprofen and amoxicillin. He put the medicines into a plastic bag and then stuffed it into the time capsule, which fit perfectly.
Okay, just send her some medicine.
Let her suffer a little.
Bai Yang was very satisfied. The finished drugs produced by the modern pharmaceutical industry are in a very stable state. Although the instructions state that the expiration date is twelve months or thirty-six months, as long as they are kept away from light, water and high temperatures, they can be preserved for many years and should still be usable after twenty years.
What else do you need besides a time indicator and medicine?
Bai Yang looked at the remaining volume in the time capsule, then took out a piece of fruit candy from an unknown year from the drawer under the desk and threw it in.
Give me another candy.
You can't just suffer the consequences, you have to give them some sweetness too.
Finally, a little sense of ceremony is needed and a letter should be written.
Bai Yang then took out a piece of white letter paper, unscrewed the pen cap, hesitated for a few seconds, and then wrote on the paper:
“Dear Ms. BG4MSR:
By the time you read this letter, I will be dead."
These words sound like the last words of a hero in a movie who saves the world alone to his family and friends before the final battle. They are a bit heroic and unexpectedly touching.
Of course, according to what the girl said, she was indeed dead after twenty years, and the last person left in the world.
“This is a letter from a deceased person. It has traveled through twenty years to reach your hands. When I wrote this letter, you might not have been born yet, and when you received it, I was no longer alive.
What does a person's world look like? A Confucius Temple, Xinjiekou, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics Affiliated High School and Yueya Lake Park without people, a Nanjing without people, then there would definitely be no college entrance examination, no math test papers, and no "Small Questions Crazy".
Besides, I would like to know how I died, and if you receive this letter, I hope you will tell me the cause of my death, and the cause of death of others, if you know it. "
Writing letters to people from the future seems outrageous no matter how you look at it, but Bai Yang remembered that the great scientist Hawking once did a similar performance art. In 2009, he held a party for people from the future. Hawking secretly chose a room as the party venue, but did not send out the party notice until the day after the party. If people from the future had the ability to travel through time, they could arrive at the party venue the day before the notice was sent out.
The result is undoubtedly that Hawking waited in that room all night. It is not known whether the people in the future do not have the ability to travel through time and space, or they did not see Hawking's notice. So, can Bai Yang's letter be received by the people in the future?
"——Of course, if the cause of my death is too tragic, I hope you will consider it and not tell me too bluntly, so as not to cause me too much mental pressure. Twenty years later, I will not even be forty years old. I feel deeply sorry when I think that the world will lose such a young and promising person.
I wish you good health, never forget to bring an umbrella when it rains, and never eat ginger when eating braised chicken, 73. "
Bai Yang paused, and finally signed:
"The BG4MXH who is communicating with you at this moment, who was in the past 20 years."
When the tritium tube arrived, he sealed the letter and the tritium tube into a time capsule.
Then bury it underground and let it sit for twenty years.
(End of this chapter)
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