Chapter 55 Who doesn't want to become light?
"Sparrow, sparrow, crow received, crow ready to go."
Wang Ning put away his phone. He was determined to go all out and put aside his pride for the time being.
In order to ensure success, he even copied Bai Yang's plan exactly, and even used the same excuse for asking for help. There was no reason why he wouldn't succeed.
The heroic idea of self-sacrifice to save the world arose in his heart, and Wang Ning suddenly felt fearless. As the saying goes, a man remains a young man until he dies. Even though Wang Ning is old, his belly is big, his hair is thinner, his head is shiny and greasy, and young girls on the street will avoid him when they see him - but Lao Wang has always dreamed of becoming a hero.
Who doesn't want to become the light?
Thinking of this, Lao Wang straightened his back even more.
On the other side, Zhao Bowen received the news and assigned Crow to go to the designated location for the meeting.
Who is the real identity of Crow? We still don't know, Zhao Bowen has never revealed this person's identity to anyone since then. The only thing we know about Crow is that he appeared at an intersection in Qinhuai District on the afternoon of October 14, 2019. He was a tall man wearing a wide-brimmed hat, sunglasses and a mask.
Crow retrieved the time capsule that afternoon and headed to Crescent Lake as instructed.
The specific location of the hidden time capsule can only be chosen by Crow himself, and no one else in this era can know this location except him.
The second person in the world who knew this location lived twenty years later.
I have to say that the plan designed by Zhao Bowen, Wang Ning and Bai Zhen is much more thorough than Bai Yang's. Three cobblers are better than one Zhuge Liang, and three smart people are obviously better than high school students.
Wang Ning, Zhao Bowen and Bai Zhen have far more financial and human resources than Bai Yang. They have money and resources, and they are able to do their best in every aspect to increase the success rate of the plan.
Crow threw the time capsule into Crescent Lake, and then sent the location information to Zhao Bowen in the form of a voice note via WeChat according to instructions.
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"Ahhh, it's so hot, so hot!" the girl howled in the channel, "Why is this damn weather so hot? It's so hot and stuffy? The electric fan is blowing hot air, I'm about to be dried out. Isn't summer almost over?"
Bai Yang was wearing headphones and silently took out the air conditioner remote control and lowered the temperature by one degree.
"It's hot in autumn, it's hot here too, BG4MSR, but I have air conditioning, OVER."
“Send me an air conditioner!”
"I can't do it. OVER."
Banxia was leaning against the back of the chair with her long bare legs resting on the table. She was wearing only a vest and a pair of shorts, her hair was tied into a bun on top of her head, and the electric fan was whirring behind her. Even so, the room was still as hot as a steamer. Summer was so unbearable.
"I set four traps in the community today, one in the east, south, west and north," Banxia said. "It took me a lot of effort. I am so tired."
"Sister, remember to add OVER or finished after you finish a sentence. You always forget, OVER."
“I forgot.”
"Look, you forgot again, OVER."
"It's so troublesome. It doesn't matter if you don't add it. Anyway, you know I'm done. Also, who are you calling big sister? I'm obviously younger than you."
"You are nineteen, I am eighteen, you are older than me, OVER."
"No, no, no, you can't calculate it like that. You were born at the beginning of this century, almost forty years ago. You are more than twenty years older than me."
"Then what should I call you? Call you little girl? OVER."
Banxia frowned, bit her lips, and stared at the ceiling.
"No, no, no, at this age we should be considered separate. You are eighteen and I am nineteen. You can still call me sister, but you are not allowed to call me big sister—"
"Okay, instead of calling me Big Sister, call me Big Miss, okay? Let's talk about traps. How do you set a trap? Do you dig it? Dig a deep hole in the ground and then put some grass, leaves, branches, etc. on the hole? OVER."
"No, of course not. Traps are very difficult to dig, especially those that can trap large animals. One person can't do it." Banxia shook her head. "The most commonly used ones are elastic traps with ropes. Have you seen them? They are the ones that trap deer or roe deer. Once triggered, they will be trapped by their hind legs and hung up."
Bai Yang was a little surprised.
"How did you do that? OVER."
"Use a tree, either a tree or bamboo. Bend the trunk, but don't break it." Banxia held a stainless steel ruler in her hand, inserted it into the gap of the table, and slowly bent it with her fingers. "Willn't the bent trunk be elastic? Use a hook to pull it to the ground and fix it. Connect a noose to the hook. If an animal steps into the noose, the noose will tighten as soon as it is dragged, and the hook will be pulled off, and the trunk will rebound with a bang—"
She loosened her grip, and the ruler vibrated back and forth with a humming sound.
"It hangs the prey in one go. It's simple, right? This is the simplest noose trap. Do you understand?"
Bai Yang scratched his head. It sounded a bit complicated.
He was thinking about whether he really wanted to learn how to survive in the wild.
Maybe it will come in handy in the future.
If human civilization were to be completely destroyed and the remaining humans had to return to the era of farming and hunting, it would always be a good idea to master one more survival skill.
It is difficult for a normal person's brain to suddenly accept the concept of "world destruction".
Everyone is narrow-minded about things they have never touched. What is the saying "the blind man touching an elephant"? When facing something they have never seen before, everyone is blind. Everyone can only perceive the other person based on their own experience and the direction they can understand. The person who touches the trunk says the elephant is a strip, the person who touches the leg says the elephant is a pillar, and the person who touches the ear says the elephant is a palm leaf fan.
Everyone is looking at the leopard through a tube. Different life experiences give you different shapes of tubes. Some people use square tubes, so the leopard they see is square. Some people use round tubes, so the leopard they see is round. Is this actually correct? Both are wrong.
Now, when faced with a concept like Yog-Sothoth or Leviathan, Bai Yang's first feeling was not fear, not tension, not helplessness or terror, but no feeling at all.
Because this concept is too unreal and too huge, too far away from our daily life, the brain can't react to stress and adrenaline can't be secreted. There is no doubt that the destruction of the whole world is definitely the biggest crisis that mankind will face in history, but telling you that the world will be destroyed in five years is different from robbing you and putting a knife to your neck. Obviously, the latter can make your adrenaline rush.
But that ghostly Leviathan won’t stay suspended in the sky forever. When it actually enters your daily life, begins to change the world little by little, and makes you realize that it is real - then everything will be different.
Bai Yang had already touched the giant beast, and when he saw a little bit of its true face, he was almost crushed by its huge weight.
He couldn't experience the destruction of the world firsthand.
But he could imagine his parents, friends, and everyone around him dying tragically five years later.
This terrified him and made him desperate to save that terrible future.
"BG4MXH? BG4MXH? Can you hear me? Why is there no sound?"
"BG4MSR, I'm here, OVER." Bai Yang's thoughts returned to the communication, "BG4MSR, I'm under a lot of pressure now, OVER."
"So stressed that you say OVER twice in one sentence?"
Bai Yang was stunned.
"Why are you so stressed?" Banxia asked.
"Do I even need to ask this? In five years, the whole world will end, and everyone will die. I am almost desperate. OVER."
The girl groaned in silence.
The teacher said that people’s joys and sorrows are not the same.
As expected, she couldn't understand Bai Yang's feelings.
She was listening to a long-dead person panicking about an inevitable end.
This looks a bit funny.
But even more cruel.
(End of this chapter)
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