Chapter 3 two

The subway rumbled and shook. Now I am sitting on an empty bench with a cigarette in my mouth, stretching my neck and looking around in the left and right carriages. There are only sparse figures after a long distance.The one sitting closest to me should be a female officer of the Space Strategic Command. I can only see the white hem of her uniform skirt, and the sharp calf line under the skirt, as if a sculptor simply cut it out of plaster with a big axe. of.A pair of cheetah-like calves.I guess this girl must be much better than me in carrying heavy cross-country. Lin Lan always wears such a uniform, what is she doing now?

I pull my phone out of my pocket, a Motorola L7, and turn on the screen.I want to send her a text message.I'm going to Longyang Road Station, and it's estimated that I'll have to wait for half an hour. During this time, I have to do something, such as waiting for someone's text message. "what are you doing?" It sounded like a harassing text message looking for trouble, I deleted them immediately after typing these four words. "I finished the analysis report in New Delhi and stayed up all night. Damn, I was really exhausted." I thought about it and deleted it.Why should I report my work progress to Lin Lan?She is not my sister.My old lady said that no matter how hard a woman speaks, she will eventually like a man who is stronger than her, so don't dump them too much.I asked my mother why she likes my father who is a teacher, and my mother said that you don't look at his posture on the podium, he is commanding a hundred thousand troops.

"It's really annoying. When the dust cloud comes, it's as cloudy as the night." This is still nothing to say. It's so hard, I can't even write a text message.I felt a little tired, so I leaned there holding my mobile phone, and a new video about subway safety was playing on the opposite LCD TV.The protagonists are, as always, Monkey King and Zhu Bajie.Sun Wukong, a rebel, is portrayed in this short film as a knowledgeable, patient and steady boy. He educates Zhu Bajie that if he is attacked by the light flow in the subway, he should immediately hide in the corner of the carriage.Under the bench is the best place, because even if something falls, it can't hit you, and you need to use your mobile phone to make constant emergency calls.

Who did the bench save?According to the calculated results, the energy density in those optical streams can be compared with that of a hydrogen bomb.If the bubble defense interface is broken down, our fate will not be better than that of New Delhi.At that time, the dust from the whole of Shanghai floated over the East China Sea, and it would still turn into a gray rain.Some of the ashes are mine, and some are Lin Lan's. I stared at the LCD screen and started thinking about it. What is the name of the CEO of Focus Media?Jiang Nanchun?Well, it's the name.I think this man must be very depressed now. Since the beginning of the war, all his LCD TVs in high-end office buildings and subways have been requisitioned by the military.And this happened less than a year after he annexed Juzhong Media, the biggest competitor, and was preparing to enter the Korean market with great ambitions.

Of course, the CEOs of other Nasdaq-listed companies are also not happy. It is said that they often gather to play mahjong in empty offices, and bet on the stocks they hold in each game.But this is not a gamble, because the Nasdaq is closed indefinitely, and these stocks cannot be delivered for cash at all.And the future of entrepreneurial companies... who knows, maybe they will die tomorrow. At one time, the celebrities on these rich lists were all my idols. I graduated from Peking University, and my dream is to become an actuary on Wall Street. In the year of the college entrance examination, I looked over the universities and majors that I could apply for more than a dozen times. I figured that in our poor place, the score line was extremely high. It is pure nonsense to want to be admitted to Peking University and finance. .At this time, I found out that there is a special model actuarial class in the Department of Physics. My cousin on Wall Street read the courses set up by this class and said that this major is better for finance, so I applied and was successfully admitted.

For four years, I studied the original "Economist" and "The Wall Street Journal" while taking the GRE exam.My cousin patted his chest and promised to get a letter of recommendation to recommend me to study finance in Columbia. His old connections are all in the department. However, everything changed drastically during the year of graduation.My grade director held my graduate admission letter from Columbia University and looked at me through glasses as thick as a bottle for a long time, which made me feel hairy, and then he said earnestly: "Jiang Yang, have you considered Have you been drafted into the army?"

I said without hesitation that I hadn’t thought about it. Aiding Tibet sounds better. I have always wanted to go to Bajiao Street. The grade director did not speak, but took out a copy of an additional document I signed before I was admitted, and handed it to me, saying: "Your major has confidentiality restrictions, and you cannot go abroad without special approval from the Central Military Commission, and you can only be assigned within the army. " Dazed, I opened the document I had signed myself, realizing that I had been on board four years earlier.Peking University actually has a secrecy major directly in charge of the Central Military Commission.

It wasn't until I joined the Defense Strategic Command of the PLA's Space Strategic Force as a reserve member that I realized that I had been fooled.In fact, this so-called model actuarial class, the core goal of all its courses is to cultivate technicians with balanced defense bubbles.I was surprised to find that the syllabus drawn by the key points of the exam emphasized by the teacher in class all pointed to a big bubble, how to calculate the energy density on its surface, and how to maintain its balance. At that time, this kind of huge bubble defense had not yet been launched in any city on the earth, but all countries were training technicians for it.

The cousin I most want to complain about has no chance to hear my complaints anymore, he has fallen with New York.Before the war started, he had just obtained his own independent office on Wall Street. He stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows and took a photo with his chest up and sent it to me, looking very high-spirited.It is not known if he is still alive now. The subway vibrated, and the lights went dark for a moment and then turned on again, and I came back to my senses. Scratching my head, I wrote a text message and sent it out: "I'm going to Pudong Airport now, passing flowers and trees, do you want me to bring you some flowers?"

The screen of the LCD TV suddenly switched, and the spokesperson of the city government looked serious: "Now there is a news break, the city government issued an emergency notice: From 2:00 to 4:00 this afternoon, the Nanpu Bridge will be closed for a short time, only for licensed vehicles. Drivers who plan to pass the Nanpu Bridge are asked to detour." Then the subway announcement sounded: "Passengers, passengers, this subway will stop running at People's Square Station. Please bring your belongings and prepare to get off the train." The subway immediately started to slow down, and there was a buzzing in my head: the house leaked and it was raining continuously, and Liang Kang was going to enter the quarantine gate at 3:50, so he couldn't catch up now.As soon as the car stopped, I stooped and rushed out. People's Square Station, the busiest station in the past, was empty and there was no one to be seen. I rushed through the ticket gate at a speed of 100 meters, and the sound of footsteps echoed as if chasing me behind.

I got out of the exit of Raffles Plaza, and the light outside has recovered a lot.The area of ​​the dust cloud was not large, and it moved very fast. Now it has passed, and the rest is the rain cloud formed by the condensation of fine dust.What looked like night when the dust cloud arrived, is now just cloudy. Every 10 meters along the entire People's Avenue, there is a military policeman wearing a standard trench coat, with a miniature submachine gun under his armpit, and a convoy of military trucks is slowly passing by.It seems that this is a "licensed vehicle", a 30-ton flatbed truck, and I don't know what heavy equipment it is. "Comrade!" I gave a military salute to the nearest military policeman, "I have an urgent task to cross the river, how can I be the fastest?" The military police looked at me up and down: "The bridge and the tunnel are closed, please take the ferry across the river." ferry? In short, it was not the time to complain, so I ran out of breath to the bank of the Huangpu River, where an emergency channel leads directly to the water.I ran over to take a look, and there were seven or eight small flat-bottomed barges parked there, with an army green sign of "requisition" hanging on the bow. I jumped on one of them and shouted like an ancient knight being chased to nowhere: "Hurry up! Hurry up! I want to cross the river!" "The ship was requisitioned by the army, take out the certificates." I took out my ID from my coat pocket and shook it: "Hurry up! I have a mission." "You are a reserve officer." The man on the ferry was very stubborn. "It's raw rice or rice!" I said, "Let's go!" The fox's fake tiger's power played a role.Several people on the barge looked at each other, the uncle on my boat seemed to be the leader, and waved: "You guys wait here, I will send him there." The barge moved very slowly, the uncle steered the rudder, and I sat in the bow. This is the first time I’ve been floating on this famous river since I came to Shanghai. From here, you can see the spike-like Oriental Pearl TV Tower in the front, and the imperialist building of the Peace Hotel in the back. They are all far away from me. It looks very open.Shanghai is no different than Beijing where I went to school. There are too many tall buildings, and it is rare to see such a large sky. At this moment, I suddenly feel adrift. The boat shook, and suddenly I felt that the speed and the direction of the wind had changed.I jumped up and took a closer look at the direction of the water flow at the bow of the boat, and I was sure it was right. The boat suddenly drifted to the left, and the water on the entire river was speeding up to flow there. I looked in that direction and was taken aback.Suddenly a huge opening opened in the calm water, about 300 meters away from us.It was as if a hole was opened under the water, and all the water flowed there and then poured in, forming a huge funnel, which in turn tended to form a vortex. "Damn! What's going on?" "Is it the main gun from Shanghai? It's okay. After a while, its muzzle gate will be closed, and we will be able to get on the ship." The uncle said carelessly, as if he didn't care much.I saw that he turned off the engine and didn't care about the rudder. He fumbled in a blue backpack next to him, and after a while he found a box of lunch. "The point is not that Shanghai's main gun is not the main gun, your ship is about to fall into the hole!" I almost fainted from his anger. The motorless ship was gliding toward the mouth of the huge funnel at a speed far higher than its normal speed, so that in a minute we would fall into the hollow. "Let's drop the anchor, are you prepared for this, and dare to take the boat on the Huangpu River?" The uncle put down the lunch box nonchalantly, picked up the iron anchor and sank into the water. The anchor was dragged a short distance, caught, and the boat shook in the rapids, but finally stopped.I sat on the bow of the boat and watched tremblingly as the water slid past the side of the boat, while the uncle took his boxed lunch and sat down to the helm. When he opened it, there were still green peppers.I can't stand it, the ferry is so cool these days. The black metal wall slowly rises from the water, isolating the water flow, and glowing with a formidable light.The water gradually calmed down.I stood up and looked at the huge muzzle not far away. Its diameter reached 40 meters, and the thickness of the metal tube wall exceeded 1 meter.The terrible "Gustav Cannon" of the World War II era is undoubtedly just an ear pick in front of it.A whole regiment of troops is now in the basement below the gun hull, operating this terrible weapon. Shanghai main gun, the greatest significance of this thing is that it has never been fired.Its existence is a deterrent. After all, it is something left by the Alpha civilization, and it is not something that our current technology can achieve. The Alpha Civilization is the first extraterrestrial civilization that humans have come into contact with. Its first dialogue with humans dates back to 1975.How it connects with human beings is a top secret, and people like me have no way of knowing, but it is recorded in the document that it is the first alien civilization to enter the earth circle. Alpha civilizations have shown their existence in many ways.For example, the Morse code received by the radio astronomy telescope, and the "messenger" - among the children born in 1975, the proportion of abnormal brain development has increased significantly, and a considerable number of them have been sleeping for a long time, and have never opened their eyes since birth. open your eyes.But their existence is very meaningful, and most of the information transmitted by the Alpha civilization comes from their sleep talk.No one taught them the language, yet these people spoke advanced technologies that surpassed the progress of our civilization by an unknown amount.They are called "messenger".Now these people are sleeping in a nutrient solution pool in a mysterious place, serving as a communication bridge between the Alpha civilization and the earth. The Alpha Civilization said that the development of civilization on the earth did not actually evolve from single-celled organisms; the Alpha Civilization also expressed disdain for our most developed mechanical civilization, and they believed that this civilization had no way out and would definitely encounter a bottleneck in the near future; They also say that the "ancient technology" that still exists on this planet far exceeds our current technological level, but they also say that the door of ancient technology cannot be opened easily, so it means that we can only suffer from poverty sitting at the door of the treasure house. Sometimes I think that the intelligent creatures of the Alpha civilization are like those selling strength pills, and they talk for a long time, but they are still empty words. But the Alpha Civilization predicted the arrival of a second guest - the Delta Civilization. On February 15, 2007, the space forces and heads of government of various countries were waiting for news from the astronomical observatory.This day is the "advent day" predicted by the Alpha civilization, and this day is a total solar eclipse.When the moon's shadow slowly covered the sun, the disaster appeared: in addition to the circular moon shadow, there was another long and narrow shadow across the sky, which could be observed with naked eyes by people from Mohe to Moscow. Delta Civilization, it's really coming. It was actually a huge air carrier, the longest axis reaching a quarter of the moon's diameter.The absorption of light radiation on its surface prevents us from capturing it at night, and it is revealed during a solar eclipse, casting a huge shadow on the surface of the earth together with the moon.Because it orbits low at the Moon, the two shadows overlap, resembling an oversized lollipop. The heads of state gathered in New York for a summit in horror. Countless magic sticks in history have predicted the end of the earth, and it turned out to be a story of "wolf is coming".When the Nostradamus could no longer get along, the wolves really came. Different from the Alpha civilization, the Delta civilization came directly as a destroyer. The Alpha civilization predicted this big trouble in a godlike tone, and those children who were sleeping in the nutrient solution opened their mouths in unison and said: "Shadows fall from the sky, you will suffer the greatest destruction, and you can fight and wait for the light to come." The chairman of NASA’s committee saw this grand event with his own eyes, and couldn’t bear this great prophecy between science and theology. He insisted on waiting until the Delta civilization really came. His values ​​​​completely collapsed, and he is said to have gone to a small temple in Tibet. He became a monk and became a lama, and began to study Tantric philosophy. Fortunately, the Alpha civilization is not just content to be a god for fun, the information they convey contains advanced weapons that span the ages. The bubble defense system is one of them, and it is currently the only equipment capable of resisting the main guns of the Delta mothership, just like the defense interface that is currently stretched over Shanghai.This layer of bubble-like interface can completely isolate the city from the outside world, even the main guns of the secondary main ships of the Delta civilization cannot penetrate it, let alone predators.However, it will also be disordered under high-intensity attacks. My job is to balance the energy density of the entire interface.Such powerful defense facilities were only installed in a very small number of large cities, but what was strange was that the Delta civilization didn't take the opportunity to attack small and medium cities, and all their attacks concentrated on the places where bubble defenses were set up.Bubble defense is like honey, and these alien life forms are attracted to it like ants.The People's Liberation Army's high headquarters in Lanzhou was not protected, but it was safe and sound. It is said that everyone still wants to get out of the bunker every afternoon to bask in the sun. Confinement field artillery fire is an offensive weapon that can directly damage the secondary mothership.The Shanghai Cannon is a restricted field cannon.The first firing of the Confinement Field artillery was in New York. The New York cannon was about 120 times more powerful than the Shanghai cannon, and it destroyed two Delta subcarriers and 215 Predators in a single bombardment.This good news was once exaggerated to the point that the earth has already mastered the core technology to deter delta technological civilization.But just two weeks later, the New York fort sank into the ground. For the first time, the fall of the New York fortress made mankind feel that a disaster was imminent, and the support given by the Alpha civilization was not omnipotent.And according to the information of the Alpha civilization, this unimaginable giant mothership is just a small one in the space exploration army of the Delta civilization... I am now sitting on a small barge, the wind is blowing, the water flows slowly under my feet, and the ferryman is eating his boxed lunch. I turn on my phone and there are no new text messages. Lin Lan, what are you doing now?