It was 16:00 pm on November 5th in Warsaw, Poland, and 14:00 pm on November 5th in Greenwich Mean Time. Gu Tie was lying on the bed and logged into Genesis Network again. Ed continued to sit in front of the room while watching boring variety shows. , while escorting his Chinese partners, after receiving Gu Tie's promise to help him regain his country, the Poles never calmed down from the excitement. He grabbed the phone receiver on the table several times and put it down again and again, obviously wanting to She shared the good news with someone, but was afraid of revealing her location, like a thirteen-year-old boy who locked himself in his room while his parents were at work and anxiously tried to dial **.
Gu Tie habitually calculated the meeting time as ten o'clock in the evening according to the East Eighth District of Beijing time. Fortunately, he saw the international time display on the TV screen. He hurriedly explained a few words to Ed, lay down and connected to the Internet. Pure Land waved his hand to break open the space, and he stepped into a pure white world, with white ceilings, white walls, and white floors. White diffuse light illuminated the room from all directions, and a line of crimson numbers jumped in the air, "I'm coming It's late," Gu Tie waved his hand shamefully, and the six people looked back at the same time, "It doesn't matter," Xiao Liping pushed up his glasses and stood up, "We have just gathered together," in the underground room of a small courtyard in Beijing, "The Betrayer" In a rare moment, all of his friends appeared. Except for Xiao Liping, everyone else was just a phantom on the quantum network.
Gu Tie walked up to everyone, patted Xiao Liping on the shoulder, and the two sat on the floor. The Chinese looked around at the six partners, "Finally, I can see everyone. It's only been a month since the last meeting, and it feels like a long time has passed." A lot of things have happened during this time. I have never been so busy in my life. Do you feel this way?"
"What are you busy with, Adam," the short, fat yellow woman nodded to him.
"Well... I can't tell for a while," Gu Tie sighed softly.
The stubbled Caucasian man coughed and looked at Gu Tie inquiringly: "Adam, can we start the meeting now?"
"Of course, you are the convener, Sakir," the leader of the betrayers said, appearing to listen.
Sakir didn't say much, stood up and clapped his hands: "November 5, 2052, 14:00 GMT. This is the second meeting of this month. I am the convener of the meeting, so I will use English to talk. First of all, ,As usual, please indicate your organization name and true identity,"
"NASA's crazy routine..." Gu Tie muttered secretly, Xiao Liping glared at him from the side, and the cold eyes behind the tortoiseshell frames immediately made him slump.
According to the order in which they were seated, the seven people from the "Betrayer" organization reported their identities and codenames:
"Shamsher, Zuni Farha Comancher, director of the Western Institute of Anthropology and Behavior at California State," said the Indian woman with two pigtails.
"Lemuel, Andrew Larsson, scientific research investor, executive director of the Research Fund of the Norwegian Computing Center, Energy Technology Institute, and Veritas Research Office," said the handsome Nordic man with blond hair.
"Israfil, Xiao Liping, Chinese government official," said the bookish Chinese man wearing old-fashioned glasses.
"Adam, Gu Tie, I don't know what I do. I just run around all day, you know," said another Chinese man with messy black hair, bright eyes and a warm smile.
"Matriel, Rasish Andrea Nantsimitowi Aminand Ryanand Hebe Okoronkwo, President of the Central African Republic, Minister of Defence, Free Cross Party Party Chairman, I will not elaborate on the other titles..." The little black man in pink pajamas and a goose-yellow pom-pom nightcap finished reading the extremely long name, picked up the Mickey Mouse mug, and took a big sip. Abuja Distilled Liquor.
"Sakir, Rick Williams, American astronaut," said the convener of the meeting, an unshaven, stocky man with flaxen hair.
"Jakir," a dark figure squatting on the ground said calmly.
Gu Tie leaned into Xiao Liping's ear and asked quietly: "Is Jakir the person or an agent today?"
"I didn't know," Minister Xiao glanced at him angrily, "Who told you to recruit this weirdo? He often misses meetings without mentioning anything. He can't even tell what he looks like. I should say, even whether he is human or not. I don’t even know,”
"Relax, relax," Gu Tie stuck out his tongue and patted Xiao Liping's arm: "I don't know why, but I think Jakir has a particularly good temper. Besides, this guy has also helped a lot, hasn't he? Over the years, he has been very helpful to him. My suspicions should have been cleared up long ago. This dark faceless man is a good and trustworthy partner."
Minister Xiao turned his head and simply ignored him.
Sakir nodded indifferently and cleared his throat: "Hello everyone, the reason for convening this meeting is that I found some clues about the countdown numbers. You may know that the reason why I was absent from the last meeting was because I was on the moon. The orbital base carried out the NASA 'Bottle' mission for three months and launched 30,000 probes carrying information about human civilization into outer space. Oh, Adam, are the permissions for sharing files open?"
Gu Tie looked at Xiao Liping. Minister Xiao nodded slightly without comment, "It's open," the owner of the space snapped his fingers.
Sakir looked around at everyone: "Okay, the general information about the drift bottle mission has been passed on to everyone. The confidentiality level of this information will not attract the attention of the CIA, so there is no need to worry about security issues,"
Gu Tie opened the rather large document and took a look. The complex data, charts, videos and three-dimensional models immediately gave him a headache. He secretly observed the others. Except for Remiel, who was concentrating on studying the physical model, everyone was absentmindedly working quickly. Flipping the pages, even Xiao Liping was pretending to read, his eyes not focused on the virtual document at all.
"Hey, Lao Xiao, tell me about the current situation in China," he snickered and poked the person next to him, "and how is the little girl doing now?"
"GTC's new routing group has been partially activated. Now the party and government agencies have basically restored quantum network communications and are gradually returning to normal. Little girl...she actually sneaked into the government compound the afternoon before yesterday and made a scene in my office. , By the way, she is in your courtyard now, playing chess with Lao Zhao. Lao Zhao asked her to win two out of three games with one horse and one cannon. If she wins, she will move her bedroll to live with you. Xiao Liping pushed up his glasses and pointed to the top of his head, "If you can't find a way to comfort this little girl, this little girl is about to go crazy. But having said that, your Quantum Angel Fund has just released its third quarter financial report. The profit rate is at a record high. Mr. Young Master, the shopkeeper, you are really lucky."
Gu Tie said with a smile: "What a good fortune, I have the vision of a bole, and I noticed at a glance that the little girl is a good talent in the fund. Don't be jealous. I left you shares in Quantum Angel. It's really good if everyone is good." "
Xiao Liping made a face: "Don't talk nonsense, how can a state cadre do that?"
"Haha, Lao Xiao, you are so funny," Gu Tie laughed loudly and patted the other party on the shoulder.
"Everyone has a general understanding," Sakir said. "In fact, it is very simple. It is to throw the detection module out like a slingshot. Before this, the farthest man-made object launched by humans was September 5, 1977. Voyager 1 was launched, an 815-kilogram nuclear-powered unmanned outer solar system space probe. It has visited Jupiter and Saturn and provided the first high-resolution clear photos of their satellites, 2012 On June 14, 2020, NASA announced that after a 33-year journey and a flight of approximately 17.7 billion kilometers, the Voyager 1 probe is now close to the edge of the solar system. Of course, as of 2022, the nuclear power battery will be exhausted. At that time, he still did not fly out of the Oort cloud (the spherical cloud at the edge of the solar system),"
No one said anything, everyone was waiting for the American astronaut to get to the point.
"The following matter is highly confidential. Even I only had the right to know after being selected to participate in the 'Bottle' mission." Saki paused and said solemnly: "In 2031, Voyager 1 Suddenly several short pieces of information were sent back. NASA believed that it was because the solar panels on the detector were accidentally activated. Of course, due to the distance, the signal was received more than twenty hours after the detector sent the signal. Then, something strange happened: the message received by Cape Canaveral was sent from a distance of 140 AU from where Voyager 1 should be. In other words, the outer solar system probe deviated from its planned orbit. It sailed 20.9 billion kilometers in an unknown direction in 9 years. This is an impossible situation. What changed the flight direction of Voyager 1 and accelerated it to an incredible point?"
Gu Tie became interested and sat up straight: "2031... It's this period again. I know that many such mysterious events happened between 2023 and 2036. At the same time, scientists died mysteriously. I suspect that my biological father also died at this time. Passed away, but as of now, no definite clues can be found. Genesis Network seems to be completely insulated from this matter, and no trace can be found."
Xiao Liping added next to him: "I can prove that I used considerable force to investigate Gu Tie's biological father, but the information I obtained was quite limited. Even with my confidentiality level, I could not open up the scientific field during this period. top secret files, the government seems to have put some kind of seal on this time period,"
The dark figure sitting aside and unable to see his face said calmly: "Yes, the seal, this secret is directly related to the countdown number,"
"What are you talking about? Tell me in detail, Jakir." Gu Tie looked at this strange partner anxiously. However, the seventh member of the "Betrayer" closed his mouth and refused to speak any more.