We Live In Nanjing - Chapter 139

Chapter 139 I have seen this thing

“Failed.”

The girl leaned back in the chair, looked up at the ceiling in the dark, and puffed out her cheeks.

“What’s next?”

“Wait two months, wait for the second nuclear bomb to be ready, and launch it again.” The person in the headset replied, “This is the only way, the time lost in the universe is slow and there is no way to retrieve it, OVER. ”

“Two months… It will definitely rain in two months.” The girl said.

“rain?”

“Spring will come in two months, and it will definitely rain heavily.” Banxia explained, “Then the camera I put on the street will be damaged by water.”

Poplar supports the forehead.

There is still this crop.

How can this be done? I had to reassemble the two cameras at that time, and even reassemble the nuclear bomb. What are two small cameras?

“In addition, the direction of the wind blowing here will change in two months, and then it will not be the northeast wind.” Banxia added, “Will this affect the plan?”

Poplar sighed in the sky. .

He couldn’t hold back about this. Fortunately, he was just a correspondent, not planning and decision-making. Presumably at this moment, the number of decision-makers in the headquarters was too large.

An operation failed, and the mess left behind was numb when it was cleaned up. Zhao Bowen scolded people hysterically. After scolding, he still worked honestly. In desperation, the headquarters could only divide the project team into two groups, and one group cleaned up the mess. , a group of people worked overtime to advance the second launch.

Last night, the recovery of the nuclear bomb failed. Tonight, the three of them will not go home at night. They don’t know where they went to the meeting. They didn’t come back after one o’clock in the morning. For the materials, it is conceivable that there was another sleepless night in a meeting room of the Provincial Party Committee or NTU. Forsythia was sorting documents in the living room, lighting the lights and fighting at night, and fell asleep while fighting, lying unconscious on the coffee table. , or the mother carried her to the sofa and covered her with a blanket.

are too tired.

Everyone was exhausted.

It is difficult to say what is still supporting them to persist. When a person is tired and dizzy, he must not think about the future of mankind. What is the future of mankind? Does having a pillow matter? What’s more, most people in the headquarters have given up hope for the success of the plan, but no one dared to say that defeatist ideology is absolutely not allowed in the project team, but some words can be seen from the eyes even if they don’t say it. After reading it, someone privately told Zhao Bowen that the superiors were discussing whether to gradually shift the focus to military preparations. The implication was that they were no longer optimistic about the actions of the Nanjing headquarters.

Bai Yang asked Uncle Zhao if I could be of any help?

Lao Zhao smiled weakly: Let her be happy.

Aspen nodded.

Lao Zhao added: Also, make yourself happy.

Compared to the frustrated guys in the headquarters, Pinellia is much more open-minded, probably because she has been living in a ruined world, no matter how bad the situation is, how bad can it be?

So in the end it was Pinellia who comforted Poplar in turn:

“BG look, it’s actually pretty good to live here, you’ll get used to it, maybe you’ll like it.”

“Yes, of course I will get used to it, Miss, I am dead in your world.”

“…Oh.”

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On the night of the third day after the recovery failed, that is, on the evening of December 29, the spacecraft still showed no signs of returning. At this time, even Forsythia had to admit that the mission was likely to fail and Miss Qiu was lost. In the vast space, as Zhao Bowen said, it will either arrive on time or never.

Bai Yang became more and more frustrated, and he kept talking about some meaningless bullshit, such as “It will be over in five years, do you think I should go and enjoy life”, “If you have five years left, you will do What?”, and “Miss, are you afraid of death?” and “How to face death bravely.” Even my father couldn’t understand it. He didn’t want his son to become a Socratic philosopher. , Dad said that if you really have nothing to say, please confirm the details of the task to her again.

So Bai Yang took the tablet and recounted the details of the mission to the girl. These jobs were supposed to be done after the spacecraft was successfully recovered, but now the mission has failed, and idleness is idle.

They entered the video call state so that Pinellia could see the pictures.

“This is the Long March No. 5.”

Bai Yang held up the photo of Chang Wu, stopped for a few seconds in front of the camera, and then held up a blank piece of paper with the above six words written on it.

“The spaceship is installed here.”

He then used a pen to draw a circle on the head of the fairing of the Changwu rocket, and marked it with arrows and words.

“This is a spaceship, and the nuclear bomb is installed in the spaceship.”

Bai Yang replaced the photo of the rocket with a spaceship, and the white and clean new generation of manned spaceship stayed in the dust-free workshop, as if giving a presentation in PPT.

“This is a nuclear bomb.”

Ms. Qiu is a dark red sphere. In the technical information provided by China National Nuclear Corporation, its size is marked as 36.6 cm in diameter and 19 kg in weight, which is slightly larger than a basketball.

But the internal structure is much more complicated than a basketball. The outer composite shell, buffer lining, internal safety locking mechanism, explosive lens, detonator, reflector, nuclear charge, and neutron source are layered on top of one another. Topol can’t explain these things because he doesn’t understand either.

“This is the key.”

The key looks like a small USB flash drive, but it is actually an electronic key. The key will be placed inside the spacecraft and will be launched with Miss Qiu. Quan Zuo is a dowry given to her by her family. To ensure the safety of a nuclear bomb, the project team spent a lot of effort designing a rather complicated locking mechanism—Ms. Qiu has double security of password and key. To unlock the nuclear bomb, you must master both the password and the key. Insert the key first and then enter the key. The password, and the password only the girl knows what it is.

“Only I know?”

Five minutes later, the video call was replaced by another person, and the girl appeared in front of the camera, holding a flashlight and a cardboard with a question on the cardboard.

She brought the question over to Bai Yang, and after a few seconds buried her head to write a new sentence:

“But no one told me the password.”

She wrote several lines in a row:

“Answer my question quickly.”

“Substitution! Substitution!”

“Now it’s your turn.”

Signal sending and receiving switch, Bai Yang wrote on the tablet:

“I don’t know, that’s what they say anyway, they say: when you see it, you know what to type.”

“From red to green, the unlock is successful.”

“When the specific details can be communicated, I’m tired of typing so many words.”

“I’m done, switch!”

The signal transmission and reception are switched again, and the girl is ready for a bunch of questions:

“How do I get into the spaceship?”

“Does the spaceship have a door lock? Does it have a key or password?”

Bai Yang used his little finger to dig his ears, thinking to himself, what is the use of asking these questions, the spaceship can’t come back, and now I don’t know where it’s planted.

But he still answered with pictures and texts:

“This is a spaceship.”

Topol drew a big circle on the photo of the new manned spacecraft, specially framed the command module, and then entered the text under the picture:

“The spacecraft you see now is complete, including the command module and the service module, but it won’t look like this when it returns, only part of it will re-enter the atmosphere – note, the module I circled is the return module, The nuclear bomb is placed in it, it is the part that returns to Earth, and when the spacecraft lands, the hatch will automatically pop open, and there is no need to manually open it.”

“The spaceship in this picture is so clean that it will be scorched by the heat as it enters the atmosphere, wait, I’ll find you a similar picture.”

Bai Yang searched on Baidu and searched for a photo of the Apollo spacecraft’s return capsule, which was burnt to black, and showed it to the girl.

“That’s pretty much what you see.”

I do my best.

Topol sighed secretly.

The    mission has failed, so what’s the use of talking about it? Just like Patriarch Bodhi taught his grandson monkey to fish for the moon in the water and look at flowers in the mirror, in fact, the moon cannot be fished, and the flowers cannot be picked.

The    signal transmission and reception switched again, and the bright eyes of Pinellia appeared in the camera. She blinked, not knowing what she was recalling, and after a while, she raised a piece of paper from below:

“I’ve seen this.”

(end of this chapter)