Mountains and seas have a home

Chapter 179

"What?" Ji Yao put down the telescope in his hand and let the fox jump out of his arms. After pulling up his clothes, he walked to the executive's position and stood in front of the fixed telescope mirror mount to adjust the angle of the lens barrel. The gray field of vision Sure enough, there is a black forecastle floating up and down.

He frowned and turned his body away to look far away. The thick fog wall was connected with clouds, and the sea water was so fresh that it was almost impossible to see the color.The soaring mist caused by the magma flowing into the sea was still drifting aimlessly, and this layer of mist made Ji Yao's eyes gloomy.

"Continue to observe and record the submarine's route and speed. It should be floating up to observe now. If the observers on board are smart enough, it will find us immediately." Ji Yao turned from the mirror stand, "The coordinates are sent to the master console, pay attention to the submarine The missile bay and torpedo bay on the top, keep the communication unblocked."

The fox limped and sniffed in the snow, occasionally sticking out its pink tongue to lick the beard around its mouth. It was soon covered with snow from head to toe, and the black fluff on the tips of its ears faded.Ji Yao tied the scarf tighter, leaned over to pick up the fox, and entered the locked door.

"All on alert. A submarine was found 72 kilometers away. The position is 0-1-5. The current speed is 29 knots. The boat carries a large number of thermonuclear weapons." Ji Yao issued an announcement to the walkie-talkie, and carried the fox into the main console, "Whistle The station reports the situation, and the electrical signal monitoring station reports the situation.”

He pressed the alarm switch of Xinghe, the red light in the base came on, and the executive who was sitting and resting in the cabin hurriedly put on his hat and raised his gun and went out: "Damn it, it's a battle alarm again! Hurry up! We'll give it to the commander Look! Let him take a good look!"

"Report from the outpost. The speed of the submarine remains unchanged, 29 knots. The direction of navigation remains unchanged, and there is no sign of weapon attack. The observation is ongoing. A single boat, not a group of submarines. No warships have been found on the sea surface, and there is no danger in the air."

"Report from the electrical signal monitoring station. The electrical signal has been strengthened, some signal flow is disordered, and the external electronic transceiver equipment is slightly disturbed. There is an electrical signal interference device on board, and the stealth device is not turned on. 'orange'! The signal is getting stronger!"

The main control station is in the state of preparation for battle, Ji Yao is standing in front of the screen of Xinghe, the electrical signal monitoring station is transmitting images, and one of the fluctuating signal frequencies is particularly eye-catching, with the word "orange" marked on it.A scanning picture of the submarine structure jumped out on the screen directly in front, and correspondent No. 2007 reported: "The 'Belloberg', which matches the structure of the Type 094 submarine produced by the Gnaard Military Factory in 190, is equipped with a [-]-megawatt nuclear reactor and ballistic missiles. Combined launch system with flying missiles. The boat carries a hydrogen bomb and an atomic bomb."

"With so many nuclear weapons in hand, what does it want to do?" Ji Yao asked softly, he was observing the movement of the submarine through the video from the sentry telescope, "'Belloberg', the white god in Slavic mythology... ...the god of light and the sun."

"Commander, this is all the information about the nuclear submarines produced by the Gnaard Military Factory in 2007. No information about the 'Belloberg' has been retrieved. The information shows that there is no submarine named 'Belloberg'." After completing the database search, Xinghe said, “Only one ship, Chernabog, sank in the Bering Strait during a deep-diving mission in March 2010. The cause of the sinking was a sudden electric fire underwater. The air regeneration unit was burned, causing seawater to flood in."

Ji Yao slid over the photos on the screen, as well as some news reports at the time.Slowly grinding his fingers, he zoomed in on one of the photographs, where the forecastle was painted in white letters, short for "Chernabog."He tapped the screen lightly and said, "This is the Black God, the god of darkness and sorrow. Like 'Belloberg', he is a male god in Slavic mythology."

"The weapon console reports that the weapon system is turned on, and it is in a level-[-] alert state. The level-[-] strategic strike weapon requests permission to be granted. The trajectory of the level-[-] and level-[-] strike weapons has been set, the enemy's location is clear, and there is no electronic interference."

"Level [-] authority will not be granted for the time being." Ji Yao stared at the submarine sailing at a constant speed in the waves. Its black cross-shaped forecastle revealed the white-painted abbreviation of "Belloberg". A statue of Poseidon in a deserted garden, neglected for years.

A man in a brown vest walked into the main console. He was wearing a slightly bulky quilted woolen overcoat, which made his head especially small. was doubled.The man took off the wool cap on his head, straightened his messy hair, and saluted Ji Yao. He walked with a figure of eight, and the heels of his round-toed boots were badly worn.

"Are you an engineer at the Gnard Military Factory?" Ji Yao shook hands with him, and his eyes fell on the logo stitched on the chest of his coat, "I heard that many weapons in the base have been damaged to varying degrees, you must be tired these days broken."

"This is my job, Commander, I have a mission to follow you here." The man withdrew his knuckle-protruding hand and pressed it on the fleece cap, "The damaged weapon has basically been repaired, and it was sent from above the coordinates." A lot of new ones have been replaced.”

Ji Yao stood on the edge of the table to process the instructions on the screen. He lifted his right leg slightly and stepped on the slightly higher crossbar below, which could relieve the pain a little.Hearing this, he looked at the engineer, deleted an instruction, and said with a smile: "It seems that we can continue to fight for a long time."

After speaking, he stepped aside a little, asked the engineer to stand aside, showed him the information transferred by Xinghe, and asked: "These are the list of nuclear submarines produced by the Gnaard Military Factory in 2007. This is the list of nuclear submarines we scanned. The structural information of that submarine."

The engineer put his hat back on, and took out a pair of glasses from his coat pocket. The lenses and frames were very small, and they were clipped on both sides of the bridge of his nose.He leaned over to look at the structural diagram on the screen, took out a pen and drew a circle on the joint missile launch system of the submarine, and said: "This ship in the sea is Type 094, DF094, which officially entered service in 2008, and is still in the sea in 2009." You have seen it in the military parade, you should have seen that military parade? It was really a great military parade, and I still remember it very clearly. According to the data given by the Gnaard military factory at that time, the underwater endurance of the DF094 nuclear submarine The maximum reach is 22 nautical miles, and the underwater self-sustainability is 60 to 90 days. That is to say, the submarine usually only comes up once every two months after it goes into the water. .”

"How often is the fuel in the nuclear reactor replaced?" Ji Yao asked while supporting his waist. His pelvis was broken, and now he still has a little difficulty in moving after being connected with a metal frame. "Based on the conventional configuration of the submarine at that time?"

The engineer raised his hand and wiped the tip of his nose. The brown beard on his chin trembled a few times, and replied, "Every five to ten years. This five to ten years is calculated according to the time of our era. If it is converted to here Time, probably one to two years."

Ji Yao understood what the engineer meant. On the earth 46 billion years ago, time passed extremely slowly, and the alternation of the morning star and the moon was about four days away.He looked at a forecastle in the binoculars that was always not far or near, and the submarine was always sailing on the surface with a constant speed.

"Then what do you think about this submarine? The 'Belloberg', a ghost submarine not on the military factory list, suddenly appeared in my executive's binoculars, fully loaded with nuclear weapons, coming towards us gone."

"Oh, God, does it carry hydrogen bombs and atomic bombs?" The engineer saw a list of weapons listed next to the scan, "I don't know what's going on, commander, this is a ship that shouldn't appear Submarine here. But there is no doubt that this is a masterpiece of human beings, it will not be some alien, and the style of aliens will not be so low-level. There must be a captain and crew on the submarine. We can try Let’s get in touch with them. After all, in this kind of broken place, as human beings, we shouldn’t distinguish ourselves from the enemy.”

Ji Yao didn't look at the engineer's face, he pulled a chair beside him and sat down, and pressed his hands weakly on his knees to relieve the pain a little.The fox has been wagging its tail around his feet, occasionally leaning over to sniff the engineer's round-toed leather boots, biting his trouser legs for a while, and then returning to Ji Yao's side.Ji Yao lowered his hands and stroked the fox's ears and neck. The fox sat on the ground, raised his chin and stretched out his tongue to lick Ji Yao's palm until the skin was wet.

At this time, Fu Zhong suddenly remembered, although Ji Yao knew that he shouldn't think about these things at this time.No matter how bitter or uncomfortable the feeling of longing is, it is also faint, just like a person who has been hungry for a long time smells the smoke from a distant kitchen. Although he is happy, he knows that it is not his own.

If he is around, his gentle voice will definitely come from the earphones, although it is not within the scope of combat needs.Ji Yao was addicted to that voice, and he also knew when he was addicted to it.When Fu Zhong recited Pushkin's love poems at such a close distance for the first time, those tones and words all turned into the autumn breeze blowing away the smoke, and came to his ears, and came to his heart where no one had ever set foot. a piece of pure land.

But where is he?Everywhere he looked was his face, and he couldn't be seen when he woke up from sleep, and he couldn't come back even though he traveled thousands of miles with the help of Xinghe's eyes.It was as if he had never appeared before. Everything before was just a dream. There is no such person as Xiang Xin in the world, and there is no number 0578.In a blink of an eye, his face changed into another person's appearance, into the appearance of any person in the base, but he couldn't change his original appearance.

Ji Yao's breathing began to become rapid, he covered his mouth and panted softly, his upturned eyelashes made his eyes twisted and painful.Heart cramping, like a pair of iron pliers digging, the suffocation of drowning came from behind again, the cold sweat was colder than the 27 winters he had experienced, the cold penetrated the bone marrow, ice needles pierced from the body, lingering There was a hazy mist, dripping with blood.

"Commander..." The engineer saw that Ji Yao was panting heavily with his mouth covered, his fingers were convulsed, and his eyes were trembling like drowning. "Commander, are you okay? You look a little bad."

"It's okay, I'm fine." Ji Yao moved his hands away, trying to make himself look normal, his eyes were big and beautiful, his eyelashes were upturned, and they were covered with water, "I'm fine, you don't have to worry, you should Think about this submarine, Engineer."

The engineer saw that Ji Yao blinked his eyes twice, but instead of fading the watery light, the end of his eyes became more and more red, and finally the entire eye sockets were sunk in such a blush.Ji Yao couldn't hold on any longer, he pressed his chest, and could feel his heart beating violently through his uniform and coat, like a mad rhinoceros.He opened the door and hurriedly left the main console under the watchful eyes of all the executives. The severe pain in his legs and pelvis forced him to hold on to the wall to walk.There was a bathroom next to the main console, he opened the door to go in, and turned on the faucet.

The cold water washed down, Ji Yao put his hands under the water to shower, a burst of extreme cold spread from the tendons in his hands to every part of his body, he shivered, then lowered his head and splashed water on his face, good To cover up the tears that gushed out in the last second.

His eye sockets were redder than pomegranate blossoms in May, and against his pale skin, the redness made him look both weaker and stronger.He looked up at himself in the mirror, the water slid down the edges and corners of his face, his lips were soft and beautiful, but they were always tight.

Feeling slightly better, Ji Yao wiped off the water on his face, combed his hair neatly, and put on his hat again. A silver eagle tree emblem was sewn on the black hat.He wiped off the water droplets gathered under his chin with the back of his hand, swallowed his dry and sore throat, and opened the door to go out after recovering his normal expression. It stopped in place, it didn't appear to be submerging. It was flashing its lights at us and the first word was 'hostage'."

"Commander." The guard executive at the main control station stood at attention and saluted. Ji Yao tucked his scarf tightly and entered the main control room sideways. He took a marking pole from the table as a cane, walked to the front of the control station and sat down .

The engineer gave way to Ji Yao, looked at him worriedly, and asked softly: "Are you okay? I heard that you started working immediately after waking up, but you can actually rest."

Ji Yao didn't answer. He was putting on the earphones and turned to smile at the engineer. There was no emotion in that smile, but it contained answers to many questions.The engineer didn't ask any more questions, and Ji Yao continued to bow his head to receive the news sent by Xinghe.The fox jumped onto the high platform and stood at the window to look out. It stood in a place that did not block the human line of sight, looking motionless at the sea fog and the slanting sky in the distance.

Zhu Min entered the main console a few seconds later. He is a medical officer and can come in and out freely, and no one stops him on the road.Zhu Min was wearing a borrowed coat, and the crooked belt indicated that he had just experienced a flurry of dressing. The medical officer's hat was tilted to one side, but he insisted on not falling off, and a few strands of hair fluttered from under the brim of the hat. The ground is scattered on the forehead, and a loose bun is pulled low behind the head.

"Did you just experience a fight? Dr. Zhu Min, you will be punished for confinement for fighting in the base, I hope you can pay attention to this." Ji Yao said, "Take care of your appearance, this is the rule. Wear your hat properly , no one likes a doctor with a crooked hat."

After putting down the suitcase, Zhu Min began to tidy up his clothes, turned up the hem of the clothes, revealing a line of mending marks with poor stitching, and said, "Dawn was helping me mend my clothes just now, and I heard you calling me before I finished mending, damn Yes, that's all I can do."

Ji Yao looked up at Zhu Min, pointed to the two scars on Zhu Min's cheekbones and forehead, and asked, "You haven't answered me yet, what's wrong with your face? Could it be that you helped the mechanic repair the weapon and got hit?" ? Not quite."

Zhu Min raised his hand and wiped a few strands of loose hair behind his ears and combed most of his hair together, then rolled it up and stuffed it into his hat, with a trace of displeasure in his eyes, he replied: "I was accidentally greeted with a fist in a chaos. Arrived, so it became like this.”

"Oh, that's terrible." Ji Yao said, and he turned around, "It must be a lot of strength to beat you like this. During the days when I couldn't manage you, you were really careless. But you both Did you forgive him?"

"Of course, Commander, let's clear up our suspicions. After all, it's not a big deal. It's just that I accidentally took two fists. I can deal with it. No one is more magnanimous and kind than me. Well, let's not talk about it. It's important to do business." Zhu Min changed the subject.

Ji Yao ignored Zhu Min, Zhu Min came here just to help him deal with some emergencies, otherwise it would be very difficult for everyone.Zhu Min focused on preparing the medicine. He sat on the seat specially prepared for medical officers, fiddling with the needles and medicine bottles in his hand, occasionally looking at Ji Yao's back.

"The first word is 'hostage', what kind of hostage?" The executive next to him asked Ji Yao, who straddled his hands behind his back, an elbow away from Ji Yao, "Does he mean that we have hostages in their hands? Or are there some of them among us?"

"Do you think there are enemy insiders among us? No, it's impossible, don't forget where we came from, this submarine is not our property." Ji Yao said, clasping his fingers, looking at the screen The signal light on the submarine is flashing, "The second word is 'fuel', it seems that they are really in trouble. Xinghe, how many people are there in the submarine? Report the distribution."

"One person." Xinghe replied, "Only one human being has been detected so far."

The engineer immediately retorted: "It's impossible, Commander, there can't be only one person on the submarine. There must be at least 120 people, which is the standard requirement for DF094-class nuclear submarines. Unless that person has 120 hands, but this is obviously nonsense talk."

"Of course, I understand. I understand as much as you do. After all, there are more than 50 people in this room. Xinghe, continue to detect. There is not only one person in a submarine. The others must be hidden somewhere. Find them." come out."

"Commander, we have to think about it, who is that person? Is that really a person? This is the earth 46 billion years ago. There is no one living here. Where did this person come from?"

Ji Yao turned his head to look into the executive's eyes. He spread his hands on the table, the arc of his eyes started with a pause, then pressed down, and finally ended with a lingering stroke.Ji Yao's beautiful eyes always make people feel very oppressive, as if all the stars in the universe are condensed on the top of the head: "This is the earth 46 billion years ago, and this place is deserted, so how did we get here? Since we can Get here, why can't others? You have to think about it. Don't think too highly of us, we've only just taken the first step."

"The third signal flash, 'SOS', is a distress signal." The sentry shouted, "The submarine has found us. It is calling for help. It may be due to low fuel. It is traveling at a low speed of 15 knots. Commander, Are we going to respond with flashing lights?"

Ji Yao didn't answer right away. He lowered his eyes and thought for a while, then asked the engineer next to him: "How much fuel do we have? Is it enough for the submarine to replenish?"

"If the supply of the zero coordinate instrument is constant, I think a submarine is more than enough." The engineer wiped the sweat from his forehead, he was probably too nervous, "If it is really because of insufficient fuel that we are calling for help , then they are really the ones favored by the god of luck, maybe the god of light and the sun."

"It's 'he', not 'them'. There was only one person on the submarine, a person who could be called a human being. This is the second detection result of Xinghe, and the biofeedback value is very low. Look at its fuel tank. It is almost Out of stock, poor Belloborg."

As soon as Ji Yao finished speaking, Lin Cheng's figure appeared from behind the door. He wrapped himself in the overcoat of the executive department, tied a heavy belt and metal buckle around his waist, and the leather boots on his feet made him no longer light.After putting down his computer box, Lin Cheng pulled off the scarf covering the lower half of his face, cursed the cold weather, coughed and reported to Ji Yao: "Commander, a new stream of information has appeared, and it's on the submarine." orange', remember? That damned naughty orange, now it's on the submarine."

"Oh, that's really naughty." Ji Yao said, he watched Lin Cheng slide the computer screen in front of him, and a striking red dot appeared inside the submarine's life-saving bell, "Is it finally sure this time? Then It seems that we need to meet that submarine."

"All on alert, first-level readiness. The long-range automatic defense system is on, and the short-range defense is on standby. No. [-] and No. [-] anti-submarine missiles are ready. The sentry, flashing lights, agrees to help them, but asks them to turn off all weapon systems on board .”

"Received." The light on the sentry post lit up, piercing through the thick fog, forming an obvious beam of light, which flickered on and off regularly, "The submarine flashed its lights for the fourth time, it wanted us to turn off all the monitoring systems, and when it appeared Before our monitoring range."

There were discussions at the main console, and Ji Yao leaned on the back of the chair in a posture that ordinary people would not find comfortable. In fact, he wanted to reduce the pressure on his right leg.Lin Cheng stood in front of the computer, covered his mouth and coughed until his face flushed, and then he said in a nasal voice: "He knows us very well and knows the maximum range that our surveillance system can capture, so The sub has been hovering outside that range. How did the man on the sub know this?"

Ji Yao didn't speak. He seldom participated in the discussion of the people below. He was always silent and looked confident, but he could always make an accurate decision in the end.He stared at the rolling white waves on the screen for a while, then suddenly said, "What if I don't turn it off?"

The sentry tower quickly converted his words into light and emitted it, and then received the answer from the opposite side: "Hostage."

The discussion at the main console suddenly fell silent, and the fox jumped down from the high platform, licked its front paws, and limped slowly among the crowd.Ji Yao was attracted by the fox, his expression was extremely calm, higher than the snow mountain, his thoughts were all hidden behind the ice and snow.

"The hostage? Where did the hostage come from?" The engineer took off his wool cap and put it on again, rubbing his cold palms to relieve his current anxiety. The beard on his chin was stiff because of too much tension that's it.

"Lincheng." After a short silence, Ji Yao suddenly turned off the galaxy analysis system of the whole base, and said with a sideways head, "Go to turn off the external monitoring, cut off the connection with the coordinate instrument outside, and guard the port to prevent them from forcibly opening it. "

"No, Commander, this is not acceptable. The backtracking plan is directly monitored by the General Administration, and all of our surveillance videos will be transmitted from Xinghe to the main computer of the General Administration. If the monitoring is suddenly cut off artificially, this is a violation of regulations, and we will be punished. heavy punishment."

Ji Yao raised his eyes to look at Lin Cheng, and the feeling of oppression came one after another with the movement of raising his eyes, like a chain entangled Lin Cheng's limbs: "A heavy punishment is heavier than going to a military court. Punishment?"

"If we really cut off the monitoring and prevent the coordinator from being forcibly opened, then we will not be greeted with flowers and ribbons, but judges and prison guards." Lin Cheng coughed, his protruding Adam's apple rolling up and down, "Including you, Commander."

"Yeah, including me, I will also go to jail, maybe I will be shot, and I will definitely be sentenced to a heavier sentence than any of you. But we have to do this, we have to meet the other party's requirements, because we have hostages In the hands of the other party. There are many reasons for the disconnection of the monitoring. A surprise EMP attack is enough to paralyze these electronic eyes. This is the earth 46 billion years ago, and anything can happen. But if the hostages die, we will meet It is the catastrophe of extinction, what you can't imagine, you can't even imagine."

"Hostage? Who is the hostage? A ghost submarine that we have never met suddenly took our people hostage? Absurd!" The executive next to him said excitedly, "We can't be fooled by it, or by the people in the submarine , no matter who is inside!"

"We should launch anti-submarine missiles now. They are ready to launch, and they are waiting for your launch permission. We have powerful firepower and can deal with a fleet of ships. It is just a Bellberg, and no one will blame it for sinking us."

"We came with the highest order from the United Nations, which clearly stated that our mission is to find the source of the cavity and destroy it. Submarines are not within the scope of our mission at all. Let's ignore it and avoid unnecessary trouble."

Ji Yao showed the computer to everyone, zoomed in on the internal structure of the submarine, and said: "It is fully loaded with ammunition, 12 submarine-launched ballistic missiles, enough to turn our base into a pile of scrap metal. It even has a hydrogen bomb And the atomic bomb, when it will be launched depends on his mood. After all, this is the earth 46 billion years ago. This is a deserted place. That is when the nuclear bombs show their talents. Shouldn’t this make us cautious? You ask me who is the hostage? Don't you know that one of us has been missing?"