Chapter 67 One Word is Worth Ten Thousand Words
It was half past eleven that evening.
Bai Yang was panicked.
This is the first time in so many days that the other party has not come online on time. There has been no contact for nearly an hour, and no one in channel 14255 responded to the call.
The girl did not come as promised.
This morning, Bai Yang entrusted his father to go to Hongshan Forest Zoo. If you want to know where the expert who knows tigers best in Nanjing is, it must be in the zoo. The staff in the lion and tiger park deal with them every day. As soon as the tiger's butt sticks up, they know what kind of shit it is. So the father approached the keeper under the guise that his son was going to the zoo for internship. He made full use of his strength as a taxi driver who is good at chatting and making connections. He claimed that his son was a graduate of the Department of Zoology of Nanjing Agricultural University and would work at Hongshan Zoo after graduation. When the staff heard this, they thought, "Oh, isn't this an alumnus? Isn't this a junior?" So he told them everything he knew.
Bai Yang also called Zhao Bowen at the same time. Lao Zhao found the zoology teacher in the School of Life Sciences and Environment of Nanjing Forestry University, the School of Biology of Nanjing Forestry University found the School of Ecology of Beijing Forestry University, and the School of Ecology of Beijing Forestry University called the Cat Center in Harbin of Donglin University. Finally, they all recommended to find the Cat Alliance (CFCA). The experts of the Cat Alliance enthusiastically held a conference call with Lao Bai.
Zhao Bowen’s tactical retreat: What does it mean to have friends all over the world?
In one day, they searched for half of the cat research experts in the country.
So Bai Yang took a thick stack of information and sat down in front of the table, ready to give Banxia a thorough review of theoretical knowledge.
At 10:40 pm, Bai Yang started calling as usual:
"CQ! CQ! CQ! This is BG4MXH, do you hear me? If you hear me, please answer. OVER."
According to past experience, when Bai Yang lets go of the microphone, a girl's clear voice should pop up in the channel: "BG4MXH! This is BG4MSR!"
But not tonight.
Bai Yang glanced at the alarm clock on the table and thought that she might be delayed by something, so she might as well wait a while.
This wait lasted almost an hour.
Bai Yang's mental state changed from confusion to anxiety to distraught.
"CQCQ! BG4MSR? BG4MSR?"
"BG4MSR?"
"BG4MSR?"
This had never happened before. The girl was offline for a long time. Bai Yang waited and waited but still couldn't show up. His heart was immediately in his throat and he called his father immediately.
Dad immediately called Wang Ning's house.
Wang Ning, who is already in his old age, has a very healthy lifestyle and should go to bed at 11 o'clock. He was alerted by a call from Lao Bai. When he answered the phone, his face changed before he could even curse.
He rolled out of bed, put on his pants and coat, and ran out.
"Where are you going, Lao Wang, in the middle of the night?" the wife, who was woken up, shouted behind him.
"Something happened to that girl!"
Lao Wang also shouted.
girl?
What girl?
Mrs. Wang was stunned and jumped up.
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"No news? Can't get in touch? How long has it been?" The taxi stopped outside the gate of the community. Wang Ning was talking on the phone while he hurriedly stuffed the money to the driver. He pushed open the door and rushed down, not caring about the driver who rolled down the window and called him from behind.
"Hey! Hey! Come back!"
"No need for change! No need for change! Master, please keep it all!" Wang Ning had already rushed forward a long distance and turned back to shout.
The driver looked at his back as he disappeared into the night, holding the banknotes in his hand, a little dazed.
"Hey, this... this money you didn't give enough."
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"Old Bai, I'm already downstairs at your place," said Wang Ning.
"I saw you." Bai Zhen was standing on the balcony, talking on his cell phone, and looking down. "Is that your wife holding the rolling pin in the back?"
"What? I'm old..."
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It was twelve o'clock midnight and everything was quiet except for the brightly lit hall of the Amateur Radio Communications Emergency Command Center of Reverse the Future and Save the World.
Bai Yang is still calling on the channel.
Extremely anxious.
Every second of loss of contact means more serious consequences. The endless electrical noise in the headphones is like a bottomless pool, and calling is just like throwing a stone into the water, without causing any ripples.
But he could only worry in vain. Even if his father called Uncle Wang over, they would not be able to help at all. Not to mention Uncle Wang, even if everyone in the world was called over and squeezed into this room, they would still be powerless.
"Xiao Yang, don't worry." Wang Ning comforted him, "Maybe she fell asleep. She may have gone to bed early today."
"No." Bai Yang shook his head. He was very anxious. "We have an appointment. We have work to be completed tonight. Why would she go to bed?"
"Maybe she's too tired today."
"Yes, we may be able to get in touch tomorrow." Bai Zhen nodded, "It's no use worrying about it here."
"Impossible." Bai Yang repeatedly pressed the send button on his microphone. "We have to do something. Is there any other way to contact her?"
Faced with this question, Bai Zhen and Wang Ning both spread their hands.
Their meaning is obvious. What other means are there? The only way is the Icom725 radio on your desk. It is a divine weapon sent from heaven. It is a stroke of genius. It is the stone that Nuwa used to mend the sky and Gonggong used to strike Mount Buzhou in anger. It is a super-time and space communication radio station given by God to you that breaks through the framework of modern physics. What else can you expect?
If even it can't do it, then mere mortals are even more helpless.
Bai Yang was helpless.
Bai Zhen was helpless.
Wang Ning was helpless.
Seven billion people around the world are helpless.
Time is like a wall, blocking everything behind it.
What can transcend time?
"It's past twelve o'clock. It's getting late. Why don't you go to bed?" Bai Zhen took out his cell phone and checked the time. "We'll keep watch for you."
"I can't sleep with you guys in the room." Bai Yang refused, "I'd better stay here by myself."
"But how long will you stay?" Wang Ning asked, "Two in the morning? Three in the morning? Until dawn?"
"I can't sleep anyway."
Bai Yang drove the two out and closed the door tightly.
The lights were on in the living room. Bai Zhen and Wang Ning were sitting on the sofa in silence.
They also didn't believe that the girl from BG4MSR broke the appointment because she fell asleep. Survival in the doomsday world is difficult and dangerous. It is hard to predict which will come first, an accident or tomorrow.
Was it attacked by a wild beast?
If she was attacked by a Bengal tiger, she would be in great danger. At this moment, the girl's incomplete body might be torn apart by the beast, and other small animals would come to share the remains left by the tiger.
The radio in the room was ringing, someone was calling out in vain, someone was waiting for the girl, and downstairs the girl's hollowed-out, mutilated body was lying face up in the grass, being torn and dragged around by a pack of wild dogs. On the girl's bloodstained face, her two wide-open eyes stared blankly at the sky - such a cruel and terrifying scene appeared in both of their minds.
"Good things will happen to good people. Everything should be fine." Wang Ning said suddenly.
Bai Zhen was startled, then nodded, "Good luck will come to you."
"How about we go to Jiming Temple tomorrow and burn some incense for her?" Wang Ning said, "and ask the Buddha to bless her."
"Can Buddha bless people twenty years from now?"
Wang Ning couldn't say for sure whether the Buddha could bless people twenty years from now. At the end of the world, the Buddha himself might not be able to save himself.
Bai Yang was wearing headphones and speaking in a low voice.
"...BG4MSR, I have prepared enough information today, and I will teach you everything when you come back. Do you know how much effort we put in? I called Uncle Zhao, and Uncle Zhao went to find his high school classmates, and his high school classmates went to find his college classmates, and his high school classmates' college classmates went to find his former colleagues. We have searched all the top experts in the country."
"It took us a lot of effort to sort out all this information. Although this work was mainly done by my father, if it is not used, it will be useless."
"Miss, you are the hope of all mankind. God will give a man a great responsibility, and he must first make him suffer and work hard. You are destined to save the world. This is your destiny. How can you be defeated by some small difficulties? Stand up, there are seven billion people waiting for you to save."
"Become the light! Hero!"
"Masked Rider! Very new!"
"Avada eats the big melon--!"
"I'm telling you, young lady, my patience is limited. I will wait for you for ten more minutes at most, until one in the morning. If you still don't come by one in the morning, I will go to bed."
"It's one in the morning. I can wait for you for five minutes at most."
"It's five minutes past one. I can only wait for you for three more minutes at most!"
"Last three seconds!"
"three!"
"two!"
"one!"
"Zero point nine! Zero point eight! Zero point seventy-nine, zero point seventy-eight, zero point seventy-seven-nine..."
"Please, please say a word to me."
"Anything is fine."
"Tell me you're still alive."
Bai Yang slowly lay down on the table, looking at the black plastic shell of the microphone in his hand.
"Just say something to me. Is it hard to say something? Just say one word."
"Then I'll say one thing." As soon as the voice here fell, someone spoke in the headset. Bai Yang was stunned. "Wow - you finally finished talking. You can actually talk to yourself for more than ten minutes without stopping. Incredible, incredible. This is the first time I've seen someone who can talk so much like you. I know you have spent a lot of energy to prepare enough information, so thank you, thank Uncle Zhao, and your father, thank you and your whole family. I came back ten minutes ago, but you kept talking non-stop and holding the microphone so that I couldn't speak. I was waiting to see when you would finish talking, but I have been waiting until now. Brother, you are really a genius."
Bai Yang was stunned.
The person on the other end spoke so many words in one breath at an extremely fast speed, then paused to take a breath.
“Is that a sentence?”
(End of this chapter)
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