Mountains and seas have a home

Chapter 162

Li Chongyan heard the sudden stop of the phone hanging up on the other side, and there was a thin buzzing sound in his ears again. It was the sound from the laboratory outside the wall. He was as busy as ever, and he could hear who was shouting loudly, who Whispering, who is thinking about silence.

The mobile phone was thrown on the table, rolled over, slid to the edge of the table, hit the ceramic cup, and almost fell.Li Chongyan stood in front of the huge window with his waist supported, pacing anxiously, his lips were tight with anger, and his teeth were biting painfully.

There was a knock on the door suddenly, Li Chongyan brushed his hair back, and responded, the secretary bypassed the screen and potted plants and walked in: "The joint meeting will be held in half an hour, and representatives from NASA and the Washington Time Bureau have entered the waiting room." room."

Li Chongyan turned his back to the secretary, he didn't want the secretary to see his expression.Looking at the launch tower outside and the engine undergoing ignition test, he nodded and replied: "I see, I'll go there right away. You go out."

The sound of distant footsteps and the crisp sound of the door lock came from behind, and the shadow of the potted plant was cast on the screen, just blocking a clump of small flowers above, and the faint shadow seemed to be about to bloom.Li Chongyan turned his chair around and sat down. Seeing a pile of manuscript papers scattered on the table in front of him, he suddenly felt disturbed. With a wave of his hand, he threw all the papers aside, and spilled them all over the floor, some of them just floated to his feet.

Li Chongyan cursed something, leaned his head on the back of the chair, and raised his hands to cover his eyes.After a while, he turned on the computer to enter the internal system of the time bureau, and quickly entered a series of numbers in the box, followed by the name of the head of the executive department.

His hand was hanging on the confirmation button. As long as he made this call, he could order the head of the executive department to immediately send someone to bomb the Gang Rinpoche mountain area and razed it to the ground.He also doesn't have to worry about being arrested or prosecuted because he has plenty of valid reasons for doing it.Li Chongyan raised his hand, but he never knocked it down. At that moment, he was suddenly restrained by some emotion.Finally, he put down his hands, moved the computer aside, and sighed lightly while propping his forehead.

The sound outside suddenly quieted down, and after a while, it became lively again, like the tide, slapping Li Chongyan's ears.He closed his eyes and thought deeply about his own affairs, thinking of his young self, and thinking of any snowy night many years ago, without end.

Suddenly there was an earth-shattering loud noise outside, and he looked back in shock, seeing flames and smoke billowing in the distance, and the glass was illuminated orange-red.

The engine ignition test started, and the flames spewed out and caused the earth to shake. The thick smoke was blocked by the outer protective cover, and it piled up higher and higher, just like a cumulonimbus cloud before a summer rainstorm.The intense fire light illuminated a small half of the sky and was reflected in Li Chongyan's eyes.

He heard the ticking sound of the clock on the table, and knew that the cancer cells in his body were growing wildly.The deafening roar of the engine cannot cover the footsteps of time running. Human technology has developed to the point where it can surpass time, but it is still helpless against certain diseases.

Two minutes later, Li Chongyan turned the computer around and pressed the OK button after the entered number.After waiting for a while, someone connected over there. Li Chongyan stood in front of the window in silence for a few seconds, and said: "Transfer an independent track to the special warfare team that is currently performing missions in the Gang Rinpoche Mountains. The coordinates have been sent to the central computer of Xinghe. , the password command is XHMIT-2-FA, and the execution number is TZ100103568."

"But at present all our independent tracks are applied to the 'retrospective plan', there is no spare."

Li Chongyan leaned on the railing and lowered his head to step on the heels. He touched the white and soft beard on his chin, and his eyebrows pressed above his eyes, making him look melancholy and hesitant.After hesitating for a long time, he replied calmly: "I know, then divert one from 'Backtracking'."

"This will definitely have an impact on the ongoing backtracking plan, and they are using all the orbits now. It seems that the situation there is a bit tense."

"I know, I know, I don't need you to remind me." Li Chongyan frowned in pain, and slammed his fist on the glass with his right hand, "Just do as I say, there are my people on both sides, and neither side can Give up. Also ask the development team to write a new track program, right now, right now, right now!"

"......receive."

The call is disconnected, and the computer returns to the initial interface.Li Chongyan looked at the time. There were still 15 minutes before the meeting. The laboratory was a long way from the conference center. He knew he was going to be late.The ignition test outside is coming to an end, and the smoke is a little smaller.

Li Chongyan sat in the chair for a while, stroking the bridge of his nose with his cold hands, he opened his mouth, his eyes were misty with water vapor, his throat was tight, and he was choked up, making him flustered.He couldn't speak, and didn't know what expression he should make. Fu Yangxia's voice floated beside his ears like the moonlight on a spring night.

The secretary outside came in to urge him once, Li Chongyan stood up and tightened his tie, then picked up the suit jacket next to him: "I don't understand, Fu Yangxia, I really don't understand you, how can I understand you... ...oh my god, how did it come to this..."

He pulled his coat and hurried out the door, his gait was still as vigorous as before, his expression was peaceful and handsome. The growth of the years made him grow more beautiful, and the corners of his eyes were piled with wrinkles, but it didn't make him look old. People from NASA and the Washington Time Bureau still Waiting to see him.

The central computer of Xinghe received the coordinates sent by Li Chongyan. After the staff entered the secret order and execution number, the track monitoring on the screen changed immediately.After Xinghe's assessment, Orbit [-] was selected for transfer, and the satellites in the sky began to change orbits immediately.

"The transfer process has started, and the 'Galaxy 300' and its orbiting satellites have entered the stage of reorientation. The preparation time is about 15 seconds, and the estimated time for the complete transfer is 120 minutes. The data in the orbit is being cleared and transferred, and the blank period is [-] Second."

"How long will it take for the new track to be written?"

"It takes about fifteen days to write it and pass the test and put it into use. You know, it's a huge and complicated job, because every track we have is unique because of safety issues, and that means Start from scratch."

"I know...I know." The minister rubbed his forehead on his elbow and sighed softly, "I can only ask you to act faster and pray for their safety. God, please end this crisis soon Bar."

"We passed the sloping tunnel safely without encountering any danger. It's very quiet here, not even a single bug, and it looks too clean." Fu Zhong continued to say on the intercom, his voice was not loud, soft and tossing, "The front There is an upward path."

Wells stopped suddenly. He raised his hand to signal the people behind him to stop moving forward. Fu Zhong put his elbows on the ground, gripped the handle of the gun, and was ready to shoot at any time.The mountain flower was at the back, so he immediately leaned sideways and put his back against the cave wall, aiming his gun at the passage above.

"What's going on ahead? Why did you stop suddenly?" Fu Zhong asked Wells in a low voice. He reached out to check the wire rope around his waist and confirmed that it was intact. "Hey, Wells, can you hear me?"

Wells didn't answer. They didn't use electric lights for safety. The tunnel was pitch black, and they could only use night vision goggles and infrared sensors.Fu Zhong glanced at the thermometer, the air temperature dropped a lot, and the humidity was also high.He waited silently for a while, feeling the air move slightly, forming gusts of wind, blowing from the darkness ahead - which meant that there was an exit ahead, or a considerable space for the air to circulate.

Fu Zhong kept a posture without moving, Wells was in front of him, and he crawled quietly, as if he was feeling something.In the dead silence, Fu Zhong heard a faint and continuous sound, like the sound of running water in a mountain stream, thin and long.

Shanhua also heard it, and he and Fu Zhong looked at each other.Wells turned his head at this time, pointed upwards, and made a wave gesture, indicating that there was water passing above, and the sound was coming from above.

The "Black Bee" sent an image, and the passage was a few meters ahead, and the angle was sloping upwards, and the slope was a bit steep.The end is not sealed concrete, but a door. "Black Bee" detected that the size of the door panel can allow two people to pass through at the same time, and the material is tungsten carbide.

Ji Yao arranged for people to leave on the ground, and he had to let some people evacuate first and go to the "new place".All the experts, scholars and non-executives left, and Ji Yao left only a small team.Geng Shuming asked the tall assistant to stay with the commander, and Ji Yao readily accepted.Ji Yao liked this assistant named Gao Yanwen very much, and they also talked a few words about the concept of the molecular smasher.

Zhu Min rejected Ji Yao's proposal to let him go. He sat on the box and fiddled with his medicine bottles and syringes without moving.Zhu Min said that he was a medical worker, and if he was injured, he had to save someone.

Dawn packed his suitcase and books—he never forgets to bring his books and unfinished manuscripts with him wherever he goes—followed at the end of the line, looked back when he was leaving, Zhu Min was clasping his hands Standing next to Ji Yao, quietly gestured goodbye to him.

Zhu Min stomped on his heels with a smile, shook his legs, and wrapped himself tightly in the camouflage jacket that Professor Geng Shuming lent him to keep out the cold at night.He raised his hand to build a pergola, and watched the team go deep into the woods. Thick grape vines were hung on the branches of tallow tree in disorder, hanging down to form a natural curtain, blocking all the figures.There is a smell of ripe wild grape juice in the woods. It is so sweet and greasy that it makes people panic, and there is also a bit of rancid smell, which is not pleasant.

"So many grapes, it turned out to be a grape ditch." Zhu Min touched his nose and said, "I didn't find it when I came here yesterday. Are there any bears nearby? Bears like to eat wild grapes the most, and they swallow large bunches whole. "

Ji Yao turned around from a correspondent, holding the tablet in his hand, and took off the earphones: "Can you say something auspicious, dead pig? Remember to get the gun when the bear comes, bastard, do you know where the gun is?"

Zhu Min moved his hands sideways to make way for him, and said with a smile, "I know, I know."

"0578, 0010, David Wells, what's going on next? Why is there no sound, can you hear me? Please reply if you receive it, please reply if you receive it." Ji Yao ignored Zhu Min, and he put on the earphone again Asking questions into the microphone, and talking sideways with the correspondent in a low voice.

There was a small noise in Fu Zhong's earphones, and then Ji Yao's voice appeared. He pressed the pager on the side of the helmet and replied: "We are about to reach the end of the passage, there is no danger. We heard the sound of running water. There's another door."

Commanding the image to pop up on the screen, Ji Yao folded his arms and looked up at the rendering of the model, then turned to ask Gao Yanwen next to him: "What do you think is the sound of water?"

"It may be an underground underground river. Because we have detected a large area of ​​carbonate rock formation below, there may be a huge dissolved cave with a long depth, and there may be a cave biome in it." Gao Yanwen saved the file in his computer Call it out and show it to Ji Yao, "The intricate underground river system is divided into the first, second and third floors, and a waterfall is formed at the connection between the floors. It is a huge three-dimensional space."

After reading these documents, Ji Yao nodded and said, "You should have handed it in earlier, this is very important information."

"We haven't finished the exploration yet, we just made a rough estimate, and we haven't measured the specific depth and area of ​​these underground caves, and we haven't even figured out the direction of the river." Gao Yanwen said a little embarrassed, "After all, we just passed by here, Don’t know so well, so we haven’t explored that very deeply. Maybe not helpful.”

"No, you can't think that way. Even a little information plays a vital role on the battlefield, not to mention that you are not a little information." Ji Yao raised his hand to stop him from speaking, "You have to put yourself in the Look at it on the battlefield."

Gao Yanwen didn't speak, he stood with his hips slanted and looked at the images and data on the screen, and greeted Xinghe casually.He called Xinghe goodboy, because Xinghe's avatar looks like a smart and beautiful boy, and Xinghe is forever young.

"Don't try to compare logic with this computer, he will kill you to pieces." Ji Yao joked, and he glanced at Gao Yanwen, "Xinghe is not a goodboy, he is a bad boy, a full-fledged war machine."

"Xinghe can think, so Xinghe is a human being." The artificial intelligence said, "Xinghe is not just a war machine."

Ji Yao uploaded Gao Yanwen's file to the command system and superimposed it on the map. He glanced at Xinghe's face and said with a raised mouth, "Can you think that you are a human? No, your thinking is a little too naive. Humans have their own emotions, but you will never have them. Humans will make real and correct decisions based on their emotions, but you only make decisions based on data analysis. So Xinghe, don’t try to be human, and don’t try to Beyond human."

After he finished speaking, he raised his eyes to stare at Xinghe, his eyes were sharp because of the smile on the corner of his mouth, and added: "Human beings are insurmountable, forever."

Xinghe closed the wheat, his host probably has started logical reasoning and in-depth thinking about Ji Yao's words, but this is not what Ji Yao cares about.He was issuing instructions to the three people underground, and then moved the command platform to a place a little further away from the well.

Shanhua smiled, moved against the stone wall, and said, "Why are they starting to talk about Xinghe's transformation into a human being? Where did he go? But he's right."

"What?" Fu Zhong turned around and asked. In front of him, the molecular melting robot was working on the door lock. This little thing is really sensitive and convenient.The door lock glowed slightly red in the robot's hands, its molecules were all scattered, and it also disintegrated.

"Human beings are insurmountable." Shanhua repeated in a low voice. He untied and tightened the wire rope again, his eyes revealed a faint light in the darkness, "Forever."

Fu Zhong bit his lips and smiled, he pulled the bolt of the gun, put it on his waist, retreated to the door, leaned against the stone wall and reached out to fist-bump Shanhua: "I can't go beyond."

The door lock was about to be corroded, Wells and Fu Zhong leaned against the cold stone walls on both sides, aiming their guns at the door.After the robot finished the program, it automatically returned to the quartz tube, turning into a cloud of amorphous particles.

Fu Zhong and Shanhua bounced off the protective shield and crawled on the ground. Wells was reporting the situation: "The door lock has been opened. We are observing the situation and waiting for instructions. The 'Black Bee' detector passed through the door opening, and it went behind the door." I hope you don't run into any trouble."

Wells drew a cross on his chest, and then took a breath, he probably remembered the bad things he had encountered when he was in "Tunnel Rat".He called God's name, then tapped Fu Zhong and Shan Hua's shoulders twice, and said, "God bless you too."

Shanhua suddenly felt that this old American man was not so annoying.Fu Zhong propped up his knees and gestured to them for good luck, and slowly moved to the door. He quietly waited for the black bee to transmit the image data.Because the passage slopes upwards, the door is like one of those floor trap doors common in cellars, and you have to lift your head to climb it.

The sound of running water has become louder, but it is still not far or near, gurgling, sometimes heavy, sometimes soft.Wells leaned against the rock wall and listened carefully. He was able to deduce the terrain inside by the change of the sound of the water flow. This was his skill.

"The river is flowing down, with a large drop, waterfalls have formed in some places, and there may be deep pools below, and the sound has become thicker." Wells said, "There is more than one river, there should be many layers underground, all washed away by the water Messy. Be careful, cave creatures are not easy to deal with."

The image came from the black bee, and the image was also transmitted to Ji Yao's screen. He stared at the screen for a while, and Zhu Min stood beside him and said, "It's stairs, steps made of stones. Where do these steps lead? ?”

Ji Yao didn't speak, he slowly leaned over the back of the correspondent's chair, watching the image from the black bee become clearer and clearer until it fully revealed its original appearance - the steps built with a whole piece of granite, going all the way up Extending upwards, it seems to be spirally coiled.

"Stairs." Ji Yao said, he said two words without any doubts, as if confirming something, "Stairs...someone has been here, no, many people, many people have been here here."

Fu Zhong stuck the muzzle of the gun out of the door opening, and he threw a fluorescent stick up, but there was no movement.He asked Shanhua to turn on the ionization equipment, and soon, a halo slowly emerged from the darkness above, floating above his head, with a tail similar to an aurora, and the air glow spread to both sides.

The ionization intensity is not high, and the light is only a faint, looming mass, slightly illuminating some surrounding objects.Fu Zhong guessed the location of the steps based on the image from the black bee, and he was able to see the scene above through the night vision device in the weak light.

"We turned on the ionization equipment and sent out a test light, but we didn't encounter any attack. It should be a big cave, but not even a bat flew over it, which is not normal. Commander, the biofeedback value is really 80% Is it? I haven't seen any life form other than the three of us so far."

"Galaxy never makes mistakes." Ji Yao said, "The feedback values ​​of the three machines are all 80%, and this value has an upward trend. Just after this door was opened, this value soared to 92%. Look, now It's already 92.4 percent."

Shanhua clenched the gun in her hand, turned her eyes around Wells and Fu Zhong, then looked at the dark hole, and said: "That means the inside is almost full of creatures. Cave creatures, They're not easy to deal with."

"Should we go back along the original road now? That's not possible." Fu Zhong's gun barrel turned around along the hole, "There are steps on it, built of granite, and spiral upward. We have to think about it. Who built the steps here, where does it lead."

"We have to think about it." Wells pointed to his temple, shrugged, patted his knees, arched his back and moved under the door panel.

The mountain flowers strengthened the degree of ionization, and the light became a little brighter, leaking in through the hole on the door panel.It was still very quiet outside, the sound of the water fluctuated from far and near, sometimes it felt like it was right above the head, and then suddenly went away in the next second.

Ji Yao thought for a long time, during that time he did not speak, the three correspondents kept reporting the situation to him, and Ji Yao paced back and forth at the bottom of the screen.Xinghe's evaluation results are all listed, but the degree of danger is actually not high.Zhu Min pursed his lips to read those evaluations, Gao Yanwen found a mound of dirt and sat down to deal with his unfinished map creation work, and occasionally looked up at Ji Yao.

"What are you hesitating about?" Zhu Min asked, "It seems that the risk is not high, and they can take the next step. There are steps in the underground cave. Whose handwriting is it? We have to investigate."

"You've changed your mind now? You were the one who stopped me before, and your mind has changed quite quickly. But we have to think carefully, and don't just rely on those evaluation data." Ji Yao shook his head, he took off the earphones, and looked at the conductor A certain interface jumping on the screen, "I have a bad feeling, but I can't explain it clearly. This is not a good sign. I am always worried, because the following are my executives, the choices I make to their lives."

"What kind of bad feeling is it?"

"Everything is too unusual. This well, the tunnels under the well, and even the steps built by humans, whose works are these, and who built them? What are they built for? What is hidden inside? We can't figure it out. "

"So today is an excellent opportunity. Even if it was built artificially, Geng Shuming said that the well has existed for more than two years, so it is impossible for people to go down the well. People cannot survive in such a bad environment for so long. It’s not leeches. There is no great danger without people, and the other creatures are enough to deal with three of them, and they are all A-level executives. They are very strong and very intelligent.”

Ji Yao touched his lips, his fingers trembling slightly, and he could see that he was trying to restrain his anxiety: "I know, I trust them, they are all excellent. I'm just... I'm just a little worried , you know, I'm afraid something will happen to them."

"Oh, no, you should say something auspicious at this time, Santu. You can't say that something happened to them. You have to think in a good way. God will definitely bless them and save them from danger. Isn't it? That's how we came all the way .”

"I don't know when you converted to God, your God is really diligent." Ji Yao brushed Zhu Min's shoulder, held the gun in his hand, and glanced at him, "I don't understand why you keep trying to persuade I'll let them continue. But I advise you to get your guns and ammunition ready, and if something really happens later, we may not be able to take care of you."

Zhu Min smiled, walked to the side to open the box to pick up equipment, and said, "Are you planning to let them continue? Are you afraid that something will happen later? There are only three of them down the well."

Ji Yao straightened his back, and the interface of the weapon system suddenly appeared on the screen. He slid four missiles into the launch channel: "Don't contradict yourself, big pig, you just said they can deal with it. Just like you said Yes, I believe in them, and I also believe in us, including Xinghe. Xinghe has many powerful weapons, and our firepower is fierce and invincible.”

As soon as he finished speaking, he put on the earphones to allow the three of Fu Zhong to take the next step, and at the same time ordered Xinghe to open the missile launcher, prepare the primary and secondary barrels, and remove the ground-penetrating bomb "Mole" from the arsenal take out.

Gao Yanwen was sitting on the side, when he suddenly heard a humming sound, and only when he looked up did he see two missile pods rising from the ground behind the podium, and the top covers had been opened.There are also strangely shaped spherical and jagged bombs, all of which seemed to appear out of nowhere and were pushed out of the warehouse.

Such a battle made him a little scared, even though he had already seen the style of the time bureau fighting, and he was there when he encountered the three-headed giant snake last time.Gao Yanwen found an open space next to Lin Cheng to sit down, the two of them always felt a little safe sitting together.

Fu Zhong received Ji Yao's order, and also heard Ji Yao's voice arranging the deployment of weapons, and switched the private channel: "Why are so many weapons deployed? Is there any trouble on the ground?"

"No, no, the ground is very safe, no trouble to find us." Ji Yao replied, he made his voice sound as gentle as the wind, "These are the firepower equipped for you, if you encounter trouble down here, remember to call Report. Whatever it is, I'll give them some shells."

At the end, he paused for a moment, and added: "Be careful. Send a signal if something happens, and I will immediately blast the surface to save you."

Fu Zhong replied with a smile, "Got it", and then kissed him through the walkie-talkie.Fu Zhong believed in Ji Yao almost instinctively, and he also believed in himself, including his teammates.

"We will not be defeated." Fu Zhong said softly. He clung to the edge of the hole, kicked his feet on the stone wall, propped himself up, and then quietly flipped out the door panel, and patrolled around the hole, " will not be surpassed."

He pulled Wells and Shanhua up, and the three of them formed an array back to back. The ionized light above their heads was suspended, like a group of fireflies, and the soft light made this darkness not too lonely.After Fu Zhong pulled out the door panel, he felt the boundless emptiness inside, and the loneliness that penetrated into the bone marrow.It seems that this piece of darkness has sucked up the loneliest emotions in the world, sealed them up here, and fermented them year after year.

He seems to have walked into the dark corner of someone's heart, and here is the sadness and loneliness that he boiled over the years.These emotions that were tortured to the point of madness by time enveloped the three uninvited guests at once, got into the bone crevices, and felt chills one after another.

After confirming that the surrounding area was safe, they stepped onto the granite stone steps.Going up step by step along the spiral stairs, the left side is a steep cliff with jagged rocks and large drops of water.The more you go up, the more humid the air is, the air is so wet that you can grab water in your hand.