Chapter 25 The First Point of Time Slows Down
Next, Bai Yang turned on the IC725 shortwave radio and contacted BG4MSR. Sure enough, the other party had been waiting for him on 14255.
"BG4MSR, BG4MSR, this is BG4MXH. I have prepared a time capsule and plan to send it to you in two days. I hope you can receive it. If you can receive the time capsule, then I will believe everything you said. OVER."
"BG4MXH, time capsule?"
"BG4MSR, it's a stainless steel can that can be sealed. You can put things in it and keep them for many years. I need you to provide an address and give me a QTH that can keep the time capsule safely buried for twenty years without damage. Can you do it? OVER."
"A safe place...let me think..."
"BG4MSR, your voice doesn't sound good, weak, is there something wrong? OVER."
"Oh... sorry, my stomach hurts a little."
"Stomachache? Are you sick? BG4MSR, do you have medicine? OVER."
"It's nothing, just period cramps."
"It hurts..." Bai Yang pinched his hands. As a simple male high school student, he had never considered that girls would have such a problem. Bai Yang hesitated to speak, "Then...then then then then you have that...that..."
He hesitated for a long time.
"sanitary napkin?"
"……Yes."
"Oh, yes," the girl replied, "I don't need it."
Bai Yang breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that he didn't need to go and help buy it.
"BG4MSR, BG4MSR, let's get back to the point. I need you to provide a safe enough place to bury the time capsule, understand?" Bai Yang continued, "I remember you live near Alfalfa Garden Street? Then it's best to find a place nearby to ensure that it can be safely in your hands, OVER."
This place can only be found by the girl, because only she knows which parts are still intact and which parts have been completely destroyed.
There was silence in the channel for a few seconds, and then the other party spoke.
"BG4MXH, do you know Plum Blossom Villa?"
Bai Yang was stunned and almost jumped up in shock.
Of course he knew about Meihua Villa. Not only did he know about Meihua Villa, he lived here!
"BG4MSR, I know Plum Blossom Villa, OVER."
"I live in Meihua Villa. Meihua Villa has remained intact in my time and has not been seriously damaged. So you can find a place in Meihua Villa to bury a time capsule. OVER."
Bai Yang was speechless for a long time.
She actually also lives in Plum Blossom Villa. Isn't this too much of a coincidence?
Isn't this really some older sister in the neighborhood playing a prank on me?
Bai Yang tried hard to think, but he didn't realize that he knew such a neighbor.
"BG4MXH?"
"I'm here... BG4MSR, this is BG4MXH, let's check the location. You live in Meihua Villa, so you should be familiar with it. Let's pick a location. If you and I both think it's feasible, we can bury the time capsule there." Bai Yang replied, "What do you think? OVER."
"Okay, OVER."
"BG4MSR, the main gate of Plum Blossom Villa, just enter from the gate on Alfalfa Garden Street, facing the lawn on the left side of the pedestrian and bicycle lanes in the community. There is a row of propaganda boards on the lawn. Do you know? OVER."
Bai Yang was very familiar with the layout of the community. He had just passed that road after school today.
"I know the lawn. It's very tall grass now, but there's no billboard. OVER."
"Where's the bulletin board?"
"It's gone. It must have evaporated. OVER."
"What about the tree on the lawn? Is it still there?"
“Trees?” There was a pause in the headset. “There are no trees.”
Entering from the gate of Meihua Villa, there is a security booth in the middle, with two wide driveways on both sides of the booth, and pedestrian and bicycle paths on both sides of the driveways, all paved with small white square tiles. Outside the sidewalk is a green belt with lawns and sturdy camphor trees with lush branches and leaves.
Bai Yang closed his eyes, and the familiar scene naturally appeared before his eyes.
"Where's the tree?"
"It probably evaporated along with the billboard. OVER."
Steam...evaporate.
My goodness, that's a really scary word to use.
"BG4MSR, do you know what disaster happened on Earth that year? OVER."
"Well...it happened when I was very young. I don't remember it clearly. I just remember being led around by my teacher. There was a red night, a black moon, and huge shadows crawling between the tall buildings. I didn't know what they were or where they came from. The world was in chaos during those years. Most of the time I hid in deep sewers or air-raid shelters and rarely came out to the ground." The girl said, "During that period, I could hear rumbling sounds at night when I slept, like thunder. The teacher said it was the army."
"And then?"
"Later... one day, it was a sunny day, the teacher took me out of the underground, but we were the only two left in the whole city." The girl continued.
"Where is your teacher?" Bai Yang asked, "Where is she now?"
"Buried downstairs."
Bai Yang was stunned.
"BG4MSR, you said there were giant shadows crawling between the tall buildings. Where are those things now?"
"They disappeared. They disappeared after all the people died."
Bai Yang sat in a chair in a daze. He originally thought it would be some super-large natural disaster, such as melting icebergs causing rising sea levels and flooding the land, or a global super-strong earthquake causing a large-scale tsunami or volcanic eruption, or even a global nuclear war breaking out, with nuclear bombs flattening cities - but these worst-case scenarios in Bai Yang's eyes were far less horrible and weird than what BG4MSR described.
There was no way she was talking about a natural disaster.
At this moment, Bai Yang could only hope that the girl was teasing him. He had spent so much time, energy and money, but he would rather it all be in vain and the time capsule would not be received by anyone - as long as he could prove that the other party was lying, that would be the best result.
What is the probability that everything BG4MSR said is true? One in a quadrillion, no more.
With such a low probability, I wouldn’t hit it, right?
If you really get it right, you should buy a lottery ticket and guess the multiple-choice questions in the college entrance examination next year with your eyes closed.
"BG4MXH? BG4MXH? Should we continue looking? OVER."
"Okay, okay, let's continue looking. Let's go a little further in and come in through the main gate. At the end of the driveway is a flower bed full of purple-leaved barberry and red-flowered loblolly. Behind the flower bed is the community square, and there is a white corridor on the square for walking and cooling off. Did you know that? OVER."
"I know, it's overgrown with weeds. OVER."
“Is it well preserved?”
"OVER."
"The land hasn't been plowed by anything, has it?" Bai Yang asked, "or had a big hole blown out by an explosion or something."
"No."
"Okay then, I'll bury the time capsule there, but I can't tell you the exact location until I'm done burying it."
Logically speaking, the other party is a person from the future - if she is really a person from the future twenty years later, then in her era, the time capsule has been buried and waiting for twenty years. BG4MSR can even go dig up the time capsule tonight, although Bai Yang has not buried the time capsule yet.
This is what Bai Yang thought at first.
But when it came to the operational level, he realized that this was impossible.
Because he himself doesn't know the exact location.
Digging a deep hole in the community lawn to bury the time capsule is undoubtedly an act of vandalism. It cannot be done in broad daylight, otherwise the security guard will catch you. You can only do it secretly in the dead of night, and you have to be careful not to be discovered. So you have to be flexible. If conditions do not permit, it is possible to temporarily change the burial location. In this case, how can Bai Yang inform the other party of the exact location in advance?
Only after he buried the time capsule and the dust settled did he have the exact location information of the capsule.
This was the first time that Bai Yang realized the key point of time delivery, which is also the first necessary element, that is, at least one of the two parties must have accurate information, which includes accurate time coordinates and space coordinates.
But what happened later proved that he had thought the problem too simply.
(End of this chapter)
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