Mountains and seas have a home

Chapter 174

"I heard you guys have been discussing in it for so long, isn't anyone looking suspiciously at the time bureau itself?" A voice came from the hatch, and then a light figure leaned over, "The time bureau, or the army, or It's both, well whatever the hell it is, they've been here. And the laborers, organized and brought in, this complex, this embankment and port, they're masterpiece."

"who are you?"

"Can't you recognize that I'm wearing an executive uniform? 0779, Lin Cheng, the executive and commander's special profiling expert." Lin Cheng wiped off the drops of water on his chin, and the tip of his nose turned red. His clothes were soaked and he was in a panic, "Where is the commander?"

"He's in the emergency cabin, and he hasn't woken up yet. But he will definitely get better. You can see that he was still so calm and strong when he was commanding at the main control station just now." Geng Shuming answered him.

Lin Cheng didn't speak, he stared at Geng Shuming's eyes for a while, as if he wanted to see something unusual in them.After that, he nodded very lightly, his eyelashes drooped, and he nodded his toes: "Well, he will be fine. I was not at the main console just now, so I don't know what's going on, but I think he must be like you said So calm and strong. I know him pretty well."

After speaking, he closed his lips tightly, showing a dejected and gloomy expression, then put the heavy metal box in his hand aside, and wiped the water stains on the box with his sleeve.Geng Shuming stood up and walked towards him, asking, "Why did you come here? This is a geological platform."

"There was water in my cabin, the wind broke the glass, and the rainstorm all rushed in. I am now under emergency repair. Fortunately, I rescued my computer, because the commander ordered me to monitor all suspicious electrical signals. I have to The task must be completed." Lin Cheng licked his chapped lips due to excessive tension and exhaustion, "So I came to the geological platform to borrow a place."

Geng Shuming poured him a cup of hot water, Lin Cheng took it and covered it, shivering.An executive next to him brought him dry clothes, and Geng Shuming changed Lin Cheng's clothes: "You went to the commander as soon as you came in. Did you find anything? There is a problem with the electrical signal?"

Lin Cheng took a sip of hot water, wiped off the water stains on his lips with the back of his hand, took a deep breath, exhaled and said, "'orange', do you remember this word? Earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis and storms have destroyed many Fewer transmitters, but below sea level, there's an unusually steady stream of information that hasn't been damaged. I noticed it earlier, but I can't detect its exact location. Below sea level, the continental shelf? The continental slope? Or the ocean floor? I don't know."

"Why can't it be detected? Since it can be confirmed that it was launched from the water, it must be able to find a source, just like you can locate those launchers. This should be very easy, expert Lin."

"Don't call me expert Lin, I'm not an expert, please use this name for the real scholars among us." Lin Cheng opened the box and set up eight screens, "I used Galaxy's positioning system, and I still found Not the exact location. Isn’t it, Xinghe?”

Xinghe turned his eyes to Lin Cheng, and replied: "Yes, sir, I will testify for you. Xinghe's positioning system cannot find out its exact location, but Xinghe knows that he is not blind."

"Of course, boy, your eyes are brighter than any of us." Lin Cheng sat down in front of the computer, a map appeared on the middle screen, and the ocean was covered by a large red ripple. He looked back at the people in the room, "Did you see it? This is the positioning result. The entire water area is emitting signals, and of course we can't find the specific location. You know, Xinghe never makes mistakes, so this is not an easy task."

"The entire water area is transmitting signals, there is no transmitting point, and the frequency is very stable, how can this be done?" The female expert stood beside Lin Cheng, leaning over to look at the data on the screen, "I don't understand, look It appears as though each water molecule is a source of emission."

"I can't figure it out, ma'am. I've been thinking about it for days, but I still can't figure it out. This signal was discovered not long ago, and it suddenly appeared on my computer. I can be sure that someone opened a Strange launching device, deliberately let me see."

Gao Yanwen just stuffed Shao Zhesheng's wet clothes into the dryer, turned his face to look at the screen for a while, and frowned: "If he deliberately wants you to see him, it means he wants us to notice him, so why not?" Let you find the specific source of emission? This is very strange."

"Yes, sir, there is nothing more confusing than this. Now I am surrounded by a group of thinking people. It seems that I have come to the right place. I am lucky. With the help of your bright minds, everything will be solved. It can be easily solved." Lin Cheng said.

"No, Lin Cheng, please allow me to call you that," Geng Shuming said, "We are just geologists, and we don't know much about the principles of your field. So we just express our doubts and may not be able to come up with professional solutions plan."

"Having doubts is a good thing. Only one question after another can stimulate the motivation to solve the problem. We must keep thinking about it, so as not to let our heads grow rusty. This is what the commander taught me. He knows a lot."

Geng Shuming wiped his glasses and put them on again, his skin became rosy again: "Oh, indeed, this is an undeniable fact. But what about the colleagues you work with? They study the same field as you, Maybe they'd be more helpful."

Lin Cheng stopped his fingers, tilted his head, seemed to be sorting out his words, and then said: "My job is to be an executive, then a profiling expert, and then a hacker. I'm not really serious information Technical staff, so you know, there's a subtle feeling to it, like you feel like an amateur explorer is just a layman in geology. Now the commander can't wake up, so I will encounter An expected little annoyance."

"But the commander trusts you. He has given you full responsibility for the monitoring of electronic signals. It can be seen that he has high hopes for you. The commander never makes mistakes when choosing people. His eyes are as sharp as an eagle's."

"Then maybe he is the only one who trusts me." Lin Cheng shrugged, "I used to be a hacker, doing some small things...Of course, I'm not afraid of anyone among you reporting me. Even if it wasn't because of the commander , I will do the same in order to retroactively plan."

The sky became darker and darker, and the weather station sent a notification that the center of the cyclone had landed, and a real hurricane was about to sweep across the mainland.The strong wind tore the billowing smoke and steam from the eruption into strips, fell from valleys and high cliffs, and then emptied away quickly.A large group of thick fog rushed in the rainstorm, like white smoke rising from the mountains and forests, and at the same time, it was accompanied by a dull, hoarse, and bleak sound of wind, hitting everyone.

Geng Shuming seemed to have received some kind of secret encouragement, and the enthusiasm that a scholar full of fighting spirit should have was rekindled in his eyes. At this time, no storm could knock him down.Geng Shuming pinched the cup with a slightly rough hand and said, "For the purpose of going back to the plan."

"To go back to the plan." Everyone at the geological platform replied in unison, like countless echoes, "To the hero."

Their voices were transmitted to the meteorological station, the biological station, the weapon launch platform, the weapon control platform, the information data collection and processing platform, the electrical signal monitoring and tracking platform, and the main control station through the Xinghe broadcast. All the people in the base stopped their movements and stood up straight. Body: "Respect the hero."

"When all people are united in one mind, Mount Tai can be shaken; but when loyalty and righteousness come, they are angry with bullfighting. When the Lord general kisses me, he is better than his parents; when he violates military orders, he is not free. When orders are clear, rewards and punishments are trustworthy; when he goes to water and fire, he dares to delay Keep?"

They sang in unison, and the fog drifted to engulf the bright base, as if a fog were dimly glowing.Even such manic storms and natural noises could not prevent their songs from rising into the heavens and echoing in the ancient universe.

"Now we are all your colleagues and partners." Geng Shuming pressed Lin Cheng's shoulder and said, "Every staff member at the geological platform will provide you with help within their ability."

The executive officer at the geological platform asked Lin Cheng: "You just said that the Time Bureau or the army came here, and they brought a lot of labor. What's going on? I've never heard of such a thing."

"Then that's another matter, something even more incomprehensible than the 'orange' in the sea." Lin Cheng moved his chair a little and let the computer screen out, "The Time Bureau officially blocked the news about this, It's normal if you don't know, and I didn't know at the beginning. Until I followed the commander, I got some information. The parties involved are my friends, one is Chen Wei, and the other is He Luan. When you go to the time bureau You can find it on the list of editors."

Lin Cheng inserted the memory into the computer, recalled the files inside while talking, and then instructed everyone to put on the earphones, saying that he did not want to play the recording outside.The content of the recording is He Luan telling the story of his father ten years ago, and there are also some audio intercepted during the call.

"Did you hear that, my friends? I haven't disclosed this information, but the commander knows it. At the beginning, the commander suppressed the information in order not to cause unnecessary suspicion and panic because he couldn't find enough evidence. But Now that the complex is here, the dam is up, and don't forget those damn KGB guideposts on the tree trunks, I think there are some things that need to be known. It's all here, if it's because of leaks If you want to arrest me for a crime, then go ahead.”

Shao Zhesheng took off the earphones, brushed his hair, and said, "It mentions the building of the dam, is it this dam? We'd better find out. According to the time in the recording, it was ten years ago, that is, Between 2009 and 2011."

"When the ground retreated, I followed the commander and stayed where I was. A large amount of C-4 explosives were buried underground, mixed with metal nitrogen. You know, metal nitrogen was only developed in 2009, which means that someone came in 2009 and later. Pass here. What is even more surprising is that the front badge of the Executive Department of the Time Bureau is engraved on the explosives, that is, black and white wings. Friends, take a look here, and with the information provided by Lin Cheng, I think we may have confirmed this Guess."

"The Time Bureau has been here before." Gao Yanwen said this sentence in a declarative tone, as if it was a matter of course, "But when we first joined the backtracking plan action group, what I heard was—"This It’s us, and it’s the first ultra-long-span traversing operation for human beings.” Even the media reported it like this. Who will tell me, is it because I heard it wrong, or what’s going on?”

No one spoke, and a gloomy atmosphere suddenly grew wildly in the cabin, probably they were experiencing the first peaceful moment since the storm broke out.The gust of wind prowled outside the base like a ghost with huge wings, looking for an opportunity to take advantage of, making a terrifying and monotonous whining sound.

"Who is spreading rumors here?" An angry and stern voice broke the silence, causing everyone's nerves to tremble, and liberated them from the gloomy and oppressive atmosphere, "Who is it? Stand up!"

The figure of Colonel Yue appeared in Lin Cheng's line of sight, and the executive officer stood at attention and saluted him. At this time, the not tall colonel stood in front of Lin Cheng with a funny expression like an angry little boy on his face: "Just now Are you deliberately spreading false information?"

Lin Cheng stood up from his seat, pulled off the blanket on his body, and raised his hand in salute: "Sir, that's not false information."

"Do you know what you are doing? You are fabricating facts and misleading the masses." Colonel Yue accused loudly, and he looked very angry, "You suspect that the Time Bureau is hiding something from you at this moment? What do you want to do? Disturb the morale of the army , and then start an uprising?"

"No, sir, I'm just stating some facts that most people don't know. It's just stating the facts. We need more information to solve the problem." Lin Cheng's voice didn't sound calm, "I'm not doubting the time bureau, more There was no uprising."

"What problem are you trying to solve, soldier? Soldiers just need to obey the orders of their superiors, not think about it. What problem is the retrospective plan to solve? Is the source of the void! And what are you doing now? Discuss here ten years ago Who has been here?"

An angry look flashed across Lin Cheng's usually indifferent face, his lips were tightly lined, and his gaze was fixed on Colonel Yue's eyes.Geng Shuming stood up at this tense moment and said, "Sir, Expert Lin is only sharing information. He has only been here for a few minutes."

"Shut up, professor, please obey the discipline." Colonel Yue interrupted Geng Shuming, and turned his gaze to Lin Cheng's face, "Soldier, answer my question just now!"

His voice was raised by one degree, Lin Cheng had to straighten his back even more, moved his jaw, and said, "Of course, Colonel, I know the purpose of the retrospective plan, and I also know why we are moving forward."

No one in the geological platform dared to speak, the wind and rain outside were talking and laughing loudly, the sea roared outside the dam, milky white steam spewed out from the crater, and the land was broken into several pieces.The wildfires were extinguished by the heavy rain, leaving behind bare and blackened tree trunks, as well as the dead bodies of animals all over the mountains.

Colonel Yue put his hands behind his back, and stared at Lin Cheng's face with a look and expression that he thought was majestic, but he didn't. Suddenly he saw the listing card on Lin Cheng's chest, he reached out and fiddled with it, and said, "You are a telegram. Someone from the monitoring station? Why are you here?"

Lin Cheng told his story, rolled his Adam's apple, and said, "The commander ordered me to be fully responsible for the monitoring and tracking of electrical signals, and I have to complete the task."

"Go back to where you should be! Immediately!" Colonel Yue didn't listen to Lin Cheng's words at all, he was like a domineering lion, "This is not your playground, nor is it a place for you to lobby. Go back! Execute immediately!"

Lin Cheng rolled his eyelashes, glanced at Colonel Yue's face, knocked his heels together, and replied, "Sir, please allow me to ask a question."

"what is the problem?"

"Have the two missing executives been found? 0010 Wei Shanhua, and 0578 Fu Zhong."

Colonel Yue obviously couldn't hold back. It was a shame to say that he hadn't completed a certain task in front of his subordinates. He had to use forced anger to cover up his embarrassment, and shouted: "We are doing our best! Search for survivors, they will always be found! Unlike you, who left your post without permission and chatted with others here! Please go back to your cabin immediately, and don’t leave without permission!"

Lin Cheng seemed to smile coldly, but he didn't seem to be smiling at all. He didn't look at Colonel Yue, he put his heels together and saluted: "Yes, sir!"

He quickly put the computer back into the box, put on the executive hat, took the clothes that Gao Yanwen had just taken out of the dryer for him, thanked Geng Shuming, wiped Captain Yue's shoulders and left the geological platform .The colonel's hair was plastered in locks on his forehead, and the moisture on his face made him look like he was sweating profusely.He stretched out his hand and stroked his hair back, then put on his hat, and looked around at the people around him, no one paid any attention to him, they were all doing their own things.

The colonel couldn't find a place to get angry, and he didn't want to go out quietly like this, so he tugged at the hem of his coat vigorously, fastened his belt with a loud noise, and finally walked out the door with his boots stomping. There was a knocking sound on the ground.

"Colonel Yue has a really bad temper. It's not okay to go on like him."

"He used to work on a submarine as a deputy captain, but he retired later. I heard that he failed at the top position, and he was stimulated, so his temper became very bad. You know, the higher you go, the more intense the struggle. It fell off accidentally."

"After all, it's very cold at the top. Now the commander can't wake up. He is the biggest officer in the entire base, and everyone has to listen to him. But I don't think he leads very well."

"He looks funny."

"Like an angry child."

"Maybe give him a steel ball to roll around."

"Say a ball."

Everyone laughed, and quickly forgot the little things just now, and re-entered the work of the geological station.Shao Zhesheng put on the earphones and sat in front of the computer. Gao Yanwen helped him adjust the parameters of the detection wave transmitter, and everything was in order.The center of the cyclone is getting closer and the rain is heavy.

After Colonel Yue went out, Geng Shuming put on his gray-blue jacket and went out. He saw Lin Cheng who had already walked to the other end of the corridor. He was turning a corner with a suitcase and disappeared from sight.Geng Shuming followed in a hurry, turned the corner, and Lin Cheng stood at the top of the stairs with his back turned to him.

"Expert Lin."

"Don't call me Expert Lin, Professor." Lin Cheng checked his pockets, turned around, his shoes were soaked with water foam, "If you think it's impolite to call me by my first name, you can call me Lin like others Six, or Xiao Liu, I like to call it like this."

Geng Shuming also clasped his hands, quickly slid his glasses up a bit, nodded his toes and said, "Okay, Xiao Liu. It may be a bit inappropriate for me to ask this, but were you waiting for me just now?"

"Of course, professor, I won't stop if I don't wait for someone." Lin Cheng said, "I know you will catch up. I know what you think in your heart, for example, you are thinking now 'Where is he going? That's not the way to the telegraph station at all'."

When Lin Cheng spoke, he looked into Geng Shuming's eyes, or he saw the thoughts in the professor's mind through these eyes.Geng Shuming was stunned for a while, then smiled faintly, pulling the thin wrinkles at the corners of his mouth: "I know what you are capable of, after all, we have worked together before. You can read minds, and you can also see whether others can't see you through profiling. Arrived in the past. Xiaoliu, I admire you very much, and I also believe in you."

"Thank you, Professor, not many people say that, I will remember you. So did I guess right? Indeed, I am not going to the monitoring station, I am going to the place where the biologists work. There is a man there , I think it is necessary for you to meet."

Geng Shuming followed Lin Cheng down the stairs and said, "Aren't you afraid that Mr. Captain will go to the biologist later and arrest you on the spot?"

Lin Cheng walked briskly down the stairs, nodded to the oncoming executive, took off his hat and put it on his chest, and said nonchalantly, "Professor, don't forget my ability. Guessing that he must have just come over from the biologist's inspection. I also smelled an unpleasant potion smell on him, which further confirmed my guess. I don't like him, at least Chief Ji won't be like He also yelled at his subordinates and wouldn't tell me to go back."

"The commander is indeed different from ordinary people. He is loose and free but has strict discipline. He is willing to accept different opinions and encourages us to think, no matter what issues we think about." Geng Shuming said, "Maybe because he is young, always full of passion and enthusiasm Free."

"There is a reason for his high status at such a young age, Professor."

Geng Shuming nodded with a smile. Surrounded by the wafting smell of chemicals, there were more people in white coats: "Who do you want to take me to see?"

Lin Cheng stood in front of a glass door with the label "Temporary Laboratory and Specimen Storage" on the door. He looked inside and then knocked on the door lightly: "Professor Yang Qihua, Global Union for the Study of Unknown Organisms China district president."

"Should I discuss unknown creatures with him? But I didn't find any creatures." Geng Shuming whispered, gesturing, and someone was coming to open the door.

Lin Cheng didn't speak, the glass door had been swiped open from the inside, it was someone he didn't know, Lin Cheng thanked him politely, and then said Yang Qihua's name.Yang Qihua put down the scalpel, wiped his hands with a cloth before turning around, his face expressionless.

"Who are you? What can I do for you?" Yang Qihua asked, his fingers resting on the operating table, on which a red creature was fixed.Lin Cheng walked in, only to realize that it was an injured fox, most of its fur was scorched, and it was dying.

Geng Shuming briefly introduced himself, and the two shook hands politely. Lin Cheng said, "I came to ask Professor Yang some questions. But it seems that the professor is very busy and needs to treat a fox. Is this a new creature?"

"It's not a new creature, it's just an ordinary red fox, the one you think of." Yang Qihua stood by the operating table, stretched out his hand and gently stroked the fox's head, "It looks ugly, doesn't it? This little guy, actually very beautiful."

Yang Qihua looked at the fox's bright eyes and smiled, and let out a gentle laugh. The fox lay docilely and moved its ears occasionally.Lin Cheng stood aside and said, "This is the ancient earth, and it is obviously a creature of our time. Professor, there is something wrong with it."

"Of course, I know. No one knows better than me." Yang Qihua wiped his hands and walked out the door with his pockets in order not to disturb the researchers in the laboratory. "This fox was carried by my student, come here It was almost dead when it was born. It is said that it was found next to the commander when he was rescuing him, and the commander kept holding it, so he rescued it along with it.”

After he finished speaking, he took a look inside. A researcher was cleaning up the blood on the operating table. Yang Qihua looked at the clump of hair on the fox's ear and said softly, "It's so lucky."

"Professor, is there anything in common between this fox and the dragon crawling last time? I don't think I need to remind you, you must have noticed the unusualness."

Geng Shuming stood by and didn't speak, he knew that he should keep silent at this time.Yang Qihua looked back at Lin Cheng, leaned against the glass curtain wall, and said, "Indeed, the two are too similar. They shouldn't appear here. I know what's going on with the dragon crawling, but this fox, I don't know." knew."

"Created out of thin air?" Lin Cheng said, "Just like what you saw here, the crawling dragon was created out of thin air, maybe it came here too?"

Yang Qihua smiled, his thin nose looked cold, he took off his glasses and held them in his hands, and said, "I know you are trying to trick me, Expert Lin. And you must want to tell Mr. Geng next to you Yes. It seems that it is no secret that I have been here before, and you are all eager to learn something from me. I don’t understand, what do you want to know? I told you, I told you in advance I'm back, and I don't know anything about it."

"And what about everything you've been through? That dam and the complex, it must have been built before you returned? Who brought you here, and what happened? Professor, you need to understand when this is , we need your information."

"Well, damn it, I don't know what's going on, when I boarded the reentry module, the dam, the complex, the port, it wasn't finished. I can't believe the one that was left I can't fucking believe a small group of people can do this big project! I'm as skeptical as you are."