At about 7 o'clock on Saturday night, Dongzhou South Station, spacecraft control center.
Wang Kai, the shift leader who had just swallowed cold medicine, was sitting on his office chair with some weakness, looking at the raging lightning outside the window, his right eyelid couldn't stop twitching.
"Long!"
"rumble!"
"Rumble!"
He reached for the intercom on the table, pressed the intercom button, and called: "Ding Anci, Ding Anci, this is Wang Kai. Please reply if you hear me."
When I release the intercom button, there is no sound at all on the intercom.
Wang Kai turned the volume to the maximum, repeated the call several times, and even called other colleagues. Except for the "hissing" noise coming from the receiver due to signal interference, there was no response.
"Why!"
At this time, a burst of intermittent sounds came from the intercom.
"...I...was...Ci...returning...to..."
The analog signal walkie-talkies uniformly configured by the spacecraft department are easily affected by thunderstorms. For example, today, if there are too many thunder and lightning, the walkie-talkies will shut down.
Not long after, colleague Ding Anci came in with a cup of hot tea and said with a smile: "Wang Kai, what do you want from me? The intercom signal is not good, I can't even hear what you said."
"Hey, nothing's wrong. It's just that there's thunder outside, and my heart is pounding. I always feel like something bad is going to happen."
Ding Anci followed Wang Kai's gaze and looked out the window, sighing: "This lightning strikes one after another. I have been in Dongzhou for so many years and I have never seen it a few times."
Wang Kai pursed his lips, feeling uneasy in his heart: "Old Ding, why don't you go around and check out the fire-fighting facilities, just in case."
Ding Anci lowered his head and took a sip of tea before agreeing.
At this time, the computer in front of Wang Kai suddenly emitted a series of warning sounds, and then the computer screen began to flash red, yellow, and green colors alternately without any pattern.
Wang Kai was so surprised that he threw himself in front of the screen and stared at the track circuit displayed on it.
Ding Anci was also in a panic when he saw this. He stood behind Wang Kai and looked at the computer screen, complaining: "Wang Kai, what's wrong? What happened?
Hey! There are not many people in the station at night, and I don’t know anyone to look for! The equipment was just upgraded last year..."
"Don't make any noise first!"
Wang Kai, who was already feeling uncomfortable due to a cold, was suddenly irritated when Ding Anci kept talking in his ear.
"Red light strip!"
Wang Kai pointed to the red corner of the terminal display and said solemnly: "Contact the Donghai dispatch station immediately and report the situation."
"Okay, okay."
It was the first time for Ding Anci to encounter this kind of situation, and he was anxious, but he also knew that when something happened, he should be the first to report it to his superiors.
He took the walkie-talkie on the table and started switching channels.
"Hey! Use your phone!" Wang Kai shouted.
…
That night, an electric spacecraft numbered 333 traveled quickly and steadily on the established track, only about ten kilometers away from its destination Dongzhou Station.
The pilot wearing blue overalls looked ahead and sat upright in the cockpit at the bow of the ship.
Although the fully automated intelligent navigation system basically does not require the driver's personal participation, for him who has just obtained the spacecraft pilot's license less than two years ago, he is currently responsible for the safety of the hundreds of passengers behind him.
The responsibility is not light.
He took out his mobile phone and glanced at it. There were voices and pictures sent by his wife. Needless to say, the voices were some trivial matters for parents. As for the pictures, it was almost his son who was going to enter elementary school in the second half of the year.
Thinking of this, the driver's lips couldn't help but curl up.
He is nearly forty years old. He originally wanted his wife and son to live a better life, so he studied hard at the "advanced age" of his thirties and finally completed his transition from flight attendant to driver through a series of examinations and training.
's transformation.
The driver put the phone back into his pocket, preparing to reply to his wife during the short pause when he arrived at Dongzhou Station.
If you're lucky, you might even be able to have a video chat with them.
The electric spaceship sailed into the tunnel. It was so dark outside the window that nothing could be seen, which made people feel a little breathless.
The pilot squinted his eyes and stared ahead. Years of work experience told him that the temporary "blindness" that occurs when the spacecraft exits the tunnel will cause visual differences.
"call!"
The spaceship drove out of the tunnel at once.
It was night outside, and the blindness was not particularly serious.
At this time, the pilot discovered that an electric spacecraft was traveling slowly and synchronously not far ahead of the established track.
In a flash of lightning, he immediately pressed the brake button!
The ship's speed slowed down slightly.
The driver turns on the manual operation mode, holds the brake handle on the right side of the driver's console with his right hand, and pulls it back hard.
The handle doesn't move at all!
He gritted his teeth and jumped forward from the side, his chest directly pressed against the blunt brake handle. He firmly held the brake handle with both hands, trying to use the weight of his body to shake the extremely heavy manual brake.
Feeling the rapid decrease of the ship's speed, his stiff body relaxed slightly, and he raised his head and glanced ahead.
However, darkness filled his eyes.
"boom!"
...
At about eight o'clock in the evening, it rained heavily and there was thunder and lightning.
A sudden heavy rain forced Chen Shu, who did not bring an umbrella, to stand under the eaves of a shop on Jiefang Street to avoid the rain.
He touched the new outfit he had just bought at Yintai in the afternoon, looked at the Chanyun Commercial Building just around the corner, and still couldn't bear to walk home in the rain.
I took out my mobile phone, prepared to check TikTok for a while, and then slowly walked back after the rain stopped. Anyway, today is Saturday, it doesn't matter if it comes early or later.
At this time, the mobile phone screen lit up, and the team leader Li Da made a call.
"Hey, Li Da, what's going on?"
Chen Shu answered the phone and looked at the still-continuous rain outside and the numerous puddles on the ground, and suddenly had an idea in his mind.
After a while, he can call a Didi taxi to take him directly to the underground parking lot of the commercial building, and then return to his home upstairs through the parking lot. In this way, apart from getting a little rainwater when he gets in the car, the back will be clean.
He just bought new clothes and shoes in the afternoon, and he really didn't want to get them wet or dirty.
"Chen Shu, return to the team urgently."
Chen Shu's heart skipped a beat, maybe something big had happened.
Phone,
On the phone, Li Da's voice paused for a while, as if he was also digesting the order he had just received. Then he slowly said the reason: "Two electric spaceships collided from a viaduct on the Yangyi Street side."
Chen Shu couldn't hold it steady and almost dropped his phone from his hand: "It's impossible. This spaceship travels on a single track, how could it possibly collide?"
"I don't know the specific situation. The order I just received is to assemble the team and set off for the scene immediately."
"I understand, I'll be right over."
Chen Shu hung up the phone, his eyes a little dull, and he couldn't digest this shocking news for a long time.
The spacecraft was traveling very fast and carried a large number of people. If the two ships collided, I don't know how many people would die.
As if in a dream, a few minutes ago Chen Shu was standing under the shop along the street, worrying about getting his clothes and shoes wet on the way home. An urgent call to return to the team put an end to his worries.
After putting away his cell phone, he strode towards the underground parking lot of Chanyun Commercial Building across the road.
He had to drive to his unit as quickly as possible.
There must be many trapped people waiting for them to save their lives.