Another day of search activity has passed, covering almost all areas from the eastern northwest to northern China, and then to northeastern China. Local governments and public security departments have also set up special teams to go deep into less populated areas such as rural areas and mountainous areas to mobilize the masses
Conduct ground investigation. But even so, there is still no news.
Li Zhanxiong knew that such a large-scale search had never been carried out in these areas before. His confidence was losing little by little.
At the same time, he also thought of a question: If the Tang Long crew and their Z-9 had been destroyed by the "cloud body", then why did the "marginal space" send a message saying that they landed in the North China Plain? Could it be that they really
Entered another parallel space?
He hesitated again and again, and finally made up his mind and picked up the phone to call Gao Tianjun.
"Immediately ask Eisen and Jacob if they can contact the 'marginal space' and find the specific location of the helicopter. Also, what does the pattern that looks like the word 'rainbow' in Oracle bone mean?" Putting down the phone, Li Zhanxiong locked himself in the office, becoming more and more angry as he thought about it. He felt that he was about to collapse due to this incident. For an uncertain piece of information that seemed simply ridiculous to outsiders, he actually
He used all the resources from the air force to the local government, but if he returned in vain, he would not be able to explain it to his superiors. Now, he has even given Gao Tianjun instructions that violate scientific principles, and he doesn’t know how he will be laughed at in the future! p>
Half an hour later, Gao Tianjun called. He reported to Li Zhanxiong: Both Aisen and Jacob were convinced that the helicopter had landed in another parallel space, but this parallel space was still on the earth, which is what Ai Bin said was in the North China Plain.
Somewhere. Therefore, as long as he knows the longitude and latitude coordinates there, Jacob can help the search and rescue personnel get in.
"What does 'still on earth' mean?" Li Zhanxiong was puzzled.
"Parallel spaces may exist anywhere, both in space or other planets, and on the earth itself, but we cannot grasp and observe them, nor can we actively enter them. The immortal people under Jacob have the freedom to enter and exit the parallel spaces on the earth.
Ability, but it requires coordinates. Now I have asked Jacob to try to hypnotize Eisen to see if I can get the coordinates of this parallel space."
After talking to Gao Tianjun, Li Zhanxiong immediately called the communications staff and asked him to pay close attention to the frequency used to communicate with the helicopter. Even if a word or code appears, he must not let it go!
"There are two people in our church who have mastered the ability to freely enter parallel spaces," Jacob said to Gao Tianjun. "One is Katz and the other is Lawrence. Only Lawrence can help you now."
"Is this the captain who piloted Flight 4577?"
"Yes. But please don't hold any grudges against him. You have completely trusted me now. You should also give Lawrence the same trust."
"Is he here?"
"Unfortunately, he has been avoiding the CIA's tracking since the missing flight. He is now in Muscat, and I have notified him to fly over today."
"That's good! You just said that the CIA has been tracking Lawrence. Can he get rid of it? Is there anything we need to do?"
"No. Thank you! Lawrence is capable of getting rid of them." Jacob changed the topic, "What we have to do now is to find the location of the helicopter as soon as possible."
"Ai Bin, what is he doing?" Gao Tianjun complained. "Since he knows that the helicopter landed somewhere in the North China Plain, why can't he tell us the coordinates?"
"That's because Ai Bin is in another parallel space. He can only perceive their environment, but cannot locate them beyond the space."
"And that strange pattern... Oracle?... It's so puzzling!"
Tang Long found that there were very few branches and firewood within nearly a kilometer of the landing site. They needed to continue to expand the scope and search for firewood further away.
In the afternoon, Tang Long and Li Hui set off north. They cut a long cable from the helicopter and took it with them, intending to use it to bundle more firewood and then drag it back.
Tang Long had been using the hands of his watch to identify the direction. He knew that in such a wilderness without obvious markers, it would be easy to go astray if you did not know the direction. Due to the scarcity of trees, they had to walk while encountering obstacles along the way.
The large and small branches were gathered together so that they could be picked up on the way back. Before they knew it, Zhi 9 had disappeared from their sight.
After walking a few kilometers to the north, Li Hui, who was walking in front, suddenly pointed in the distance and shouted excitedly: "Captain, there seems to be someone in front of you!"
Tang Long took a closer look and saw that about seven or eight hundred meters ahead of them on the left, there was a faint team with several carriages traveling from east to west. Looking more carefully, he could vaguely distinguish the people walking in the team.
Carrying something like a spear; those carriages were composed of two horses pulling a smaller carriage, with a driver standing on the carriage, and a flag on the back end. The team was shrouded in a thin layer of mist
, looks like a gray shadow, and the color of the clothes and flag cannot be clearly seen.
"That is indeed a team!" Tang Long judged, "but it is definitely not an army."
"Maybe it's a rural opera troupe." Li Hui waved his hands and shouted loudly to those people: "Hey--hey--" Maybe because the distance was too far, no one in the team looked in their direction, but
Continue to move forward in a hurry.
Tang Long and Li Hui ran towards the team while shouting. They found strangely that even after running for a long time, the distance between them and the team did not change. It always remained at seven or eight hundred meters. p>
Tang Long stopped running and called to Li Hui: "Wait! Something seems wrong!"
Just when they stopped to hesitate, the team in front disappeared without a trace, leaving only the thin layer of white mist!
"Strange! Those people were clearly there, why did they suddenly disappear?" Li Hui said in confusion, "Could it be that what we just saw was a mirage?!"
"Maybe it's just a mirage! Let's go over there and have a look."
The two continued walking forward for a few hundred meters and found that there was actually a dirt road about two to three meters wide running east-west. Horseshoe prints were still visible on the road, as well as two deep ruts.
"These are the ruts of carriages. Maybe the team of people just passed by this road." Li Hui pointed to the west and said, "We follow the ruts and maybe we can find the village!"
Tang Long looked at the two directions where the rut extended and said: "Looking from here, no buildings can be seen within at least three kilometers. Let's go separately, you go east, I go west, and each of us will go forward.
Walk two kilometers and take a look. If you still can't see anything, don't go any further and come back immediately. The sun will set in more than two hours, and we can't let Xu Xin there alone."
"Okay!" After Li Hui finished speaking, he waved to Tang Long, turned around and walked eastward along the rut.
Tang Long searched to the west. Not far away, he found something shining in the grass beside the road. He stepped forward and saw that it was a copper product, dark red in color, like the head of an ancient weapon, a bronze gun.<
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Tang Long squatted down to identify it carefully, and saw that there were several hieroglyphs engraved on the bronze sword, but he could not understand it. Several holes were drilled into the root of the bronze sword, and fine hemp ropes were worn inside the holes. They were broken and loose.
It was loose, probably because the long handle that was originally tied to it had fallen off and disappeared. He picked up the bronze gun and felt it was quite heavy. He had seen something like this in an exhibition of cultural relics of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, but
They were all bronze products, and the surface had been rusted. Unlike the current one, which was made of red copper and was almost as bright as new.
He guessed that the team just now was a film and television crew or a performance team in a rural area, and this bronze gong was a prop they left behind. But when he thought about it, he felt something was wrong - the props were usually made of plastic, so how could they use real copper?
To produce? Firstly, the cost is high, and secondly, if you make a mistake during the performance, wouldn’t it hurt someone...
Tang Long and Li Hui walked along the track for a kilometer or two on both sides, but found nothing except the bronze dagger. They returned to the place where they originally separated to meet up.
Li Hui saw the bronze gun brought back by Tang Long and said with a wry smile: "Captain, we have been searching in this wild land for three days. Although we did not find anyone, we found the thing used by this person after all.
It’s somewhat of a comfort!”
The two of them sorted out the firewood on the ground and tied it into a bundle. Li Hui carried it on his back and returned to the landing point. Along the way, they continued to carry piles of firewood they had picked up in the past, and finally gradually gathered them into a large bundle. They used
Tie it up with the long cable, and then pull the other end of the cable together to drag it back. This is indeed much more efficient than one person carrying a bundle back.
The sun has already set, but there is still the afterglow of the setting sun on the horizon. From west to east, the color of the sky changes from red, to golden, to light yellow... and finally transitions to azure, which is very clear.
Tang Long was thinking as he walked. He thought of the "super solar eclipse", the red "cloud body", the group of people who disappeared strangely in the afternoon, and finally the man who was fastened to his waist at the moment.
That Bronze Ge... the more he thought about it, the more uneasy he felt. Especially what Xu Xin said at noon, "Did we travel through time?" Although it seemed like a joke, it was very similar to the reality they encountered. He was very familiar with the words from Hebei
The situation from Qinghe to Dezhou, Shandong, was completely different from what they saw in front of them! But what exactly is the problem?
"Bang!" A clear gunshot came from the front. They immediately became alert, raised their heads and looked forward, and could vaguely see a small black dot in the distance.
"Our Z-9! That's where the gunfire came from!" Li Hui shouted.
"There's a situation! Go back quickly!" Tang Long immediately quickened his pace and rushed forward.
But they soon discovered that they couldn't run because they were dragging a large bundle of firewood.
"Bang!" There was another gunshot from the other side.
"Don't worry about the firewood yet! Hurry!"
The two threw down the firewood and ran forward...
After Tang Long and Li Hui left, Xu Xin continued to fiddle with the communication equipment in the cabin. She felt that since all the instruments on the plane had failed, it might be better to simply remove the backup battery and connect it to the intercom separately, so that the power could be used intensively.
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Throughout the afternoon, she repeated the call to the walkie-talkie over and over again. Although she could not hear any reply or even any sound in the earphone, she continued to call. She prayed in her heart, hoping that her call would be successful.
Break through the invisible "barrier" that isolates them from the outside world, and be received by the base, or by some radio amateur...
For a moment, she seemed to hear a short "click" sound coming from the headphones, but it quickly disappeared, or there was no sound at all, which was just her illusion.
Regardless of whether it was an illusion or not, she regarded this as a great spiritual sustenance. It was like a lonely survivor in the vast sea who found a small black dot appearing at the end of the distant sea and sky. That was hope! The sky gradually darkened, and the earth was shrouded in a terrible terror.
Xu Xin leaned back in her seat for a while to relieve the fatigue caused by tension. Suddenly, she seemed to hear some kind of movement outside. It was an extremely subtle and incomparable movement. She immediately cheered up,
Listen carefully.
After a while, she really heard a sound outside, and she was convinced that the sound came from the side of the fuselage, like someone or an animal rubbing against the metal of the fuselage shell.
She was shocked: This was definitely not the sound made by the captain and Li Hui! They would not make such a prank-like noise. They would definitely greet her loudly first!
She touched the pistol on her waist and carefully looked out from the cabin door. At a glance, she caught a glimpse of a dark shadow at the tail of the plane and its pair of glowing green eyes!
"Wild wolf!" She took a breath and took a step back.
The wild wolf seemed to have also seen Xu Xin. It raised its head, exposed its fangs, and let out a low roar.
Xu Xin quickly pulled out her pistol, held the handle of the gun with both hands, and pointed it at the wild wolf. However, her rationality told her that she could not shoot hastily unless it was absolutely necessary. Now she was alone here, and it was already dark outside.
The situation is unknown. If there are other wild wolves nearby, the 9 bullets in the pistol magazine are not enough to ensure self-defense. "I hope this wild wolf doesn't see me, maybe he will leave after a while." However, Xu Xin soon discovered that this was just her wishful thinking. The wild wolf jumped up with a roar, put its front paws on the hatch, and opened its mouth toward her. She could almost smell the smell coming from it.
The bloody smell exhaled from the wild wolf's mouth...
"Bang!" Xu Xin shot the wild wolf between its eyebrows. It howled, as if it had been hit hard by some force, and then bounced back and fell to the ground.
Xu Xin leaned over and took a look, and saw that the wild wolf was curled up on the ground motionless. It had obviously been shot to death. She jumped out of the cabin, holding the pistol tightly, walked up to it, raised her foot and kicked it gently to confirm that it was dead.
, and then he breathed a sigh of relief.
Unexpectedly, before she could relax, she heard another roar from behind - there were a pair of green light spots more than 20 meters away from her!
Xu Xin knew that it was too late for her to retreat to the cabin at this moment, so she quickly crouched down and raised her gun to aim. The wild wolf jumped up and, as soon as it was said, it was just a stone's throw away from Xu Xin.
At this moment, she decisively fired again. The wild wolf was shot in the abdomen and rolled to the ground. Then he got up, screamed and limped away.
Xu Xin did not dare to stay outside the cabin anymore. She hurriedly got into the helicopter, closed the door, and sat inside, shivering and terrified.
After a while, Xu Xin heard continuous gunshots coming from nearby, and at the same time, she heard Tang Long shouting: "Xu Xin, Xu Xin! Where are you?"
Xu Xin burst into tears of joy. She opened the hatch and saw Tang Long and Li Hui, back to back, shooting in all directions. In the darkness, there were countless pairs of green dots approaching the helicopter.<
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Xu Xin shouted desperately: "Captain, I'm here!"
Tang Long pushed Li Hui: "Go in quickly, I'll cover you!" He continued shooting at the approaching wolves. Several wolves were shot and fell to the ground. The wolves behind them fled in panic, but they only stayed.
After a few seconds, he rushed forward crazily.
Tang Long quickly boarded the helicopter and closed the hatch with force. The wolves quickly surrounded the fuselage. Some even stood upright, raised their front paws and scratched the fuselage, roaring non-stop.
"Everyone, check the bullets!" Tang Long said hurriedly.
"I have 7 rounds left!" Xu Xin replied immediately.
"I only have 4 rounds left!" Li Hui said.
Tang Long took off the magazine, touched the two remaining bullets inside, and then silently loaded it back. He pressed his face to the left porthole and looked outside, then moved to the right porthole to check.
, said: "The situation is not good! There are at least 20 wolves outside! We can't get out!"