Chapter 24 23. Unknown Exploration Team

I looked at Wang Sichuan, Wang Sichuan looked at me, then I looked at Pei Qing, Pei Qing and Lao Mao exchanged glances, and I looked at Old Tang again.At that time, I really hoped that there would be a person who didn't have that kind of inexplicable horror in his face, but unfortunately he didn't. Even the old cat, who has always been neither yin nor yang, was extremely pale. The phone kept ringing, because of the decay of internal parts, after a few rings, it became a very dull sound, as if someone was hiccupping, apparently the bell hammer was broken. At that time, a little soldier standing by the phone was so frightened that his face was ashen. At this time, he didn't move or move. He looked at us and his hands were shaking there. It was obvious that he wanted to answer it by reflex.

The bell rang for a long time, but no one responded. Everyone stood there stiffly. Obviously, this situation is beyond our ability to handle. We kept fighting until the ringtone was heard. At that time, we didn't know whether the phone was broken or stopped. In short, as soon as the weird sound stopped, we immediately breathed a sigh of relief. Several people looked at each other again, of course, it is impossible to pretend that nothing happened at this time, we just pretended that we didn't know anything and walked out.So several people went to the phone again, Old Tang turned his head and called a soldier over: "Xiao Zhao, have you ever been a phone soldier?"

The little soldier returned yes, and Old Tang said: "Look... look at this phone." The little soldier nodded, and just as he was about to grab the phone as he passed by, suddenly "ding ding ding", the bell rang again, but it scared us, the old Tang stepped back and drew his gun. This is the characteristic of soldiers who have practiced martial arts. We have met monk soldiers before. He was a leader in fights and he was good at shooting guns. The above is a conditioned reflex to draw a gun, which is very interesting. But at that time, no one could laugh. When several people looked at the phone again, Wang Sichuan became ruthless, saying who is afraid of whom?Going up, he picked up the phone and put it to his ear: "Hello!"

Deep in the dark underground crevice, in the secret ruins left by the Japanese, an old-fashioned telephone suddenly rang. This scene was much more horrifying than the content in the manuscripts at that time.So when Wang Sichuan suddenly picked up the phone, all of our hearts twitched. After Wang Sichuan fed him, he didn't speak, and waited for the other party's answer. This is a very scary thing, because you don't know where the call is from or what is on the other side. At that time, I very much hoped that it was the other engineers we sent out to search who found another phone and then caused a misunderstanding because of their playfulness, but after Wang Sichuan gave a hello, the voice we heard was not a human answer.

Everyone heard that strange sound at that time.It was a noise composed of a series of rapid static sounds and many indescribable sounds, like a person coughing at a high frequency. We took the phone over one by one and listened to it for a long time, but we couldn't figure out what it was. We didn't know what it was, but everyone knew that it was indeed a meaningful sound because it was regular. I believe that seeing this, the first reaction of all people is Morse code. This is because a large number of foreign adventure movies and novels have over-proclaimed the versatility of this simple code. It is true that in foreign countries, Morse code is an improvement. The skills of adventure survival, but in our time, the whole country went to and from school in Russian. It was not until I worked for two or three years, probably at the end of the 1950s, after the Sino-Soviet rivalry, that there were small classes. English education.

So don't talk about the concept of Morse code at that time, it is the abcd English that the code is attached to. Basically no one here knows it. Our basic English was learned in the workers' college during the re-education after the Cultural Revolution.Moreover, under the circumstances at that time, it is very unlikely that there is someone who can send out this kind of Morse code. (Although it is not Morse code here, there is a romantic anecdote about Morse code: as an information coding standard, Morse code has a long life that other coding schemes cannot surpass. Morse code is used in maritime communications. It was used as an international standard until 1999. In 1997, when the French Navy stopped using Morse code, the last message sent was: "Attention all, this is our last cry before eternal silence"! This is my Just saw it recently.)

The voice on the phone lasted for forty-five seconds and then disappeared again. Wang Sichuan hung up the phone and we gathered around the phone, thinking it would ring again. However, the phone did not ring for the next two hours. . Several people fell into a stalemate, and Lao Tang immediately asked all the nearby engineering soldiers to check the phone lines immediately, and asked Xiao Zhao, who had been a phone soldier, what happened. Here I want to explain this kind of phone again. This is what the phone soldier said at the time. I don’t know the structure of the phone if he doesn’t say it. The hand-cranked phone is actually a generator. The other end of his phone line, or It is another telephone, or it is a wiring room (it is also a telephone, but it has the function of transferring lines), as long as the joystick is shaken, the opposite side will ring. There is only one possibility for the ringing here, which is the telephone The line is powered on.If you can't hear the sound, it is likely that the external dry battery is dead. The wire can be stored for a long time, but the dry battery must have rotted.

However, the call distance of this kind of phone is relatively long, so it is really difficult to estimate where the other party sends out the current. This is nothing to say. Old Tang sent people to search along the telephone line. When they found it more than ten meters away, the telephone line was merged into the huge cable and extended to the depths of the cave. At this time, thank God, Old Tang found a materialistic reason for us, and it was very reasonable. He said that the wires in the cable must be mixed with the telephone wires. He sent someone to get the generator just now, it must be in When I was fiddling with it, the current suddenly increased, breaking down the insulation, and the phone rang.Those regular sounds may be static noise in the circuit.

When we heard it, we immediately felt that it made sense. Everyone wiped off their sweat and almost congratulated each other in relief. There is a reason, although it has not been verified, it is just a speculation, but it is better than inexplicable. At that time only Pei Qing did not accept this explanation, he was still staring at the phone, shaking his head at Old Tang, with an unfathomable expression on his face. Seeing his behavior, Old Tang felt strange, and asked him what he meant?Pei Qing looked at us again, and made a move that surprised us. He picked up the phone, and then carefully started to shake the joystick, gradually speeding up.

He actually called back! Then he put the phone to his ear, looked at us, put his fingers to his mouth, and made a silent motion. Later we described this incident as a call to hell, but we also didn't know where the call was going and who would answer it. I thank God for not scaring us more at that time. The silence lasted for about ten seconds, and the phone rang again, which was also an indescribable sound. Pei Qing listened for a while, then held the phone in front of us, asked us to listen to the continuous coughing sound, and asked, "Have you watched "The Electric Wave That Never Dies"?"