Chapter 50: Hitting the Wall Three Times
"I told you so! I told you so!" Bai Yang was so disappointed that he patted the back of the sofa. "Uncle Wang, what did I tell you? There are two key points to pay attention to when sending a time capsule. You must follow the double-blind principle. If you don't pay attention, it will most likely fail. What happened? It failed as expected, right?"
"That shouldn't be the case." Wang Ning frowned and tried to get up. "You guys wait here. I'll go see if there's something wrong."
“No, no, no, no, no.” Bai Yang hurriedly stopped him and pushed him back, “Uncle Wang, you can’t go. If you go and dig it out again, there will be no hope.”
Seeing that Wang Ning was about to make the same mistake as himself, Bai Yang hurriedly stopped him.
"But even if I don't dig it out, the girl over there won't be able to find it, right?" Wang Ning sat down again, a little puzzled, "She can't find the capsule, is it because I dug it out?"
"It may not be you." Zhao Bowen sat on the sofa opposite. "According to MSR, there will be a world-destroying catastrophe in the future..."
"What kind of disaster is it?" My mother was bending over to clean the table. When she heard their conversation, she turned around and asked, "What level is the level of world destruction?"
"The world-destroying level means that all people are dead." Zhao Bowen replied, "All of humanity is extinct."
My mother laughed when she heard this, probably thinking that these three grown men were still talking like children at their old age.
She shook her head and went into the kitchen carrying a pile of plates.
"Let's continue. When the apocalypse comes, human society will face a huge upheaval, possibly a global war. Based on the information we have so far, this is very likely." Zhao Bowen crossed his legs. "Yang Yang, that girl clearly told you that there were fighter wreckage on the street, right?"
Bai Yang nodded.
"And burned-out tanks and armored vehicles."
"It was a huge scene. You can imagine how chaotic the social environment was at that time." Zhao Bowen continued, "Under such circumstances, how can you ensure that the time capsules you buried will not be dug out? Including Lao Wang, Lao Bai and you and me, anyone who knows the exact location of the time capsules may steal them halfway."
Wang Ning stroked his chin and frowned.
"Why would I steal them?"
"Just because you don't do it now," Bai Zhen interrupted, "doesn't mean you won't do it five years from now."
"Is my will so weak?"
"This has nothing to do with willpower." Bai Zhen said, "You don't know what kind of situation you will face."
There were wrinkles between Lao Wang's eyebrows and he pinched them hard. The failure of the first experimental plan made him lose face. Director Wang, a leader without a committee, was actually not as good as a senior high school student.
"Don't be anxious. We haven't believed what the MSR girl said yet. Don't jump to conclusions." Lao Wang got up from where he fell. "We don't know whether it's true or not."
"It's a bit risky to bury 10 capsules in one place. Once they are discovered, they will all be caught," Zhao Bowen said. "I think it might be better to bury them in different places."
"I'm going to try again." Lao Wang became more and more courageous.
"Okay, explore again and report back!" Bai Zhen waved his hand, like a general in the central army, standing still.
The first experiment failed, and Wang Ning attributed the reason to the fact that the time capsules were not buried deep enough or hidden enough. He immediately purchased a second batch of time capsules and started the second experiment within the next three days.
Every failure makes you wiser. This time Wang Ning no longer puts all his eggs in one basket, but instead puts ten eggs in ten baskets.
During the three days, Wang Ning and Bai Zhen drove around near Meihua Villa and took note of any suitable places they found. Fortunately, Bai was an online car-hailing driver and Wang was a super idle boss who liked to slack off, so they had plenty of time to wander around outside. Zhao Bowen, on the other hand, was not so idle. He had to go back to school early in the morning and came here after get off work in the evening.
If the first experiment failed because the time capsule was discovered and stolen during future social unrest, then Wang Ning would bury all ten time capsules separately this time. All ten capsules hidden together would be caught in one fell swoop, so I would put one capsule here and one capsule there. Even the buryer himself would not be able to remember all their locations, so there would always be one or two that would escape the doomsday disaster.
After a day of investigation, Wang Ning and Bai Zhen, exhausted, returned with their notebooks.
He put the notebook that recorded all the planned locations on the coffee table, and asked Bai Yang to check the locations one by one with BG4MSR on the other end of the radio. Those that were confirmed to be save would be circled, and those that were confirmed to be destroyed in the disaster would be crossed out. Finally, he pointed to all the circled maps in the notebook and said: Let's bury the capsules in these places!
Bai Yang shrugged without saying a word.
Uncle Wang wouldn't listen even after hearing what he said. He guessed that these people would have to bang their heads against the wall three times before they would turn back, so he let them do it.
It’s not your own money anyway.
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As expected, the second experiment still failed.
None of the ten time capsules were delivered to the girl. Although Wang Ning carefully selected the burial sites, the girl couldn't find any of them, which made her spend the whole day in vain.
"This is unscientific." Wang Ning was puzzled. "Ten capsules were buried separately, why didn't any of them arrive? Xiao Yang, are you sure?"
"Confirmed."
Bai Yang sat aside and ate noodles.
"Then why can't she find the time capsule?" Wang Ning asked, "Is there not enough? Try using twenty capsules next time?"
"I think we need to change our thinking. Ten capsules won't work, and twenty capsules probably won't work either." Bai Zhen pondered, "It's useless to just hide. If what BG4MSR said is true, the world will experience a crisis of human extinction, and the social chaos will be beyond the imagination of all of us..."
"Old White! Hang the clothes in the washing machine!" Mom shouted in the room.
"Hey, here I come!" Bai Zhen stood up immediately, turned around and continued as he walked, "The social chaos during that period will be beyond our imagination. Just like my son said, unless you throw it into the lake, it will be difficult not to be found..."
"Old White!" Mom raised her voice.
"Coming, coming." Bai Zhen quickened his pace and trotted into the balcony.
After watching Lao Bai's back disappear on the balcony, Wang Ning and Zhao Bowen withdrew their gazes. When their eyes met, they couldn't help but sigh that Xiaowen was really a heroine who had trained Lao Bai to be obedient.
"No need to hide it, let's fix it." Wang Ning changed his method, "Use concrete to cast the time capsule into the building, this should be safe."
Bai Yang thought that the ideas were indeed the same.
I thought so at first.
"Yang Yang tried this before," Zhao Bowen said, "but he also failed."
"How did Xiao Yang do it?" Wang Ning asked.
"I dug a hole and poured white glue into it," Bai Yang replied, "but it failed and the capsules were not delivered."
"White glue? White latex?" Wang Ning was stunned. "How can you use that stuff? It will become useless if soaked in water for a long time. If you bury it underground and expose it to wind and rain, it will definitely not last more than 20 years. I plan to use concrete, reinforced concrete to cast the capsule. This will definitely work."
They sent Zhao Bowen again.
Associate Professor Zhao went to the property management of the residential complex with a certificate issued by the School of Physics of Nanjing University, and said that the country's major plans depend on you and me. Now there is a major scientific research project and we hope you can cooperate. We want to dig a hole behind the stone doorplate with the four big characters "Meihua Villa" at the entrance of the residential complex and bury a vibration monitor inside to monitor the changes in the activity level of the continental plate where the Nanjing urban area is located. We suspect that the other side of the earth is using the continental shelf oscillator to attack us, and we must monitor it closely in order to counter it.
The community expressed that they are willing to devote themselves to scientific research and national security, even if it means sacrificing their lives.
So Wang Ning and Bai Zhen called for a drilling rig and dug a hole behind the huge stone tablet that was three meters high and seven or eight meters long. They buried the time capsule in it, poured in concrete, and laid tiles on it.
Lao Wang pushed it hard and found it was solid as a rock. He said there was absolutely no problem.
——You know what, there is really no problem now.
Banxia found the tile as instructed. After smashing the tile, she saw cement. There was no doubt that the time capsule was inside.
Then she pounded concrete all day and couldn't dig it out.
(End of this chapter)
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