Chapter 40 The Light of the Kingdom of Darkness Part 1
Unlike the Aston Martin that was speeding forward on the A1 highway, Gu Tie's vehicle did not advance a single step forward. "Rumble, rumble, rumble..." The vertical shield machine used diamond blades to crush soil and rocks. Swallowing soil crazily, roaring towards the center of the earth like a giant beast sinking into the abyss of the sea. The small nuclear reactor drives the steam turbine unit to provide an astonishing 5,000 shaft-end horsepower for the excavation system. The noise is roaring, and the blades change due to friction. In the red heat, this terrifying machine dug out a tunnel with overwhelming force, and then flooded the tunnel with rolling waves of mud.
Riding in such a vehicle is not a pleasant experience. Compared with the Aston Martin DBK sports car's exquisite hand-stitched calfskin interior, B&O twenty-four-speaker sound system and four-zone automatic air conditioning, the only thing in the TBM can be called The only comfort equipment was a sizzling loudspeaker. Gu Tie kept moving his buttocks in the smooth plastic seat. The entire shield machine produced crazy resonance, and people sitting on the seat felt like iron. The jumping beans in the pot kept jumping. Gu Tie felt that his underwear was about to be worn out, and his buttocks became red and swollen. With a frown on his face, he leaned into Aziwei's ear and muttered: "My dear Wei, Don’t you think this is too painful? How about we look for cotton pads or something, even a toilet gasket?”
"What did you say?" Rainforest Flower glanced at him, her cold gray-blue eyes not falling on the Chinese face at all, "It's too noisy here, I can't hear clearly, don't disturb me, I don't think something is right. , there are enemies nearby..."
"Nearby," Gu Tie shouted, pointing to the top of his head and then to his feet. There was an observation window covered by transparent tempered glass on the ceiling and floor. The window below was a hell with raging heat waves and flying sparks. The knife wheel could be seen. Cutting through hard rock produces a dazzling sickle-like line of fire. You can also see the super-hard cast iron grinding balls of the secondary crushing device reciprocating like red fireballs, grinding small pieces of rock and mud into powder. You can also see no blue sky and white clouds from the overhead window. The mud wave sprayed by the winch system rose into the air twenty meters, and turned into a torrent of mud rolling down. The thick, dark, and dirty mud rain fell overwhelmingly, making people feel desperate, "Where is it nearby? Qi Wei, stop being nervous, you will grow old quickly," Gu Tie shouted in Qi Wei's ear.
Flower of the Rainforest ignored the noisy man. Her long silver hair was suspended in the air, like a group of Medusa snakes dancing around. Gu Tie was rejected, and turned to Xiao Liping in frustration: "How long will it take before we arrive?" Where is it? Even if you take the subway, you have to sign up for a station. What if I get off at Guomao and accidentally take you to the apple orchard? ...More importantly, when we get to the next base, we What are you doing, sitting in the basement eating compressed biscuits, drinking air-conditioning condensation water, looking at old magazines and listening to your series of lectures on 'Marxism-Leninism in China', waiting for the end to come?"
"Can't hear you," Xiao Liping gestured to indicate that the noise was too loud, and simply ignored Gu Tie's question. Gu Tie snorted angrily, grabbed the keyboard on the console and started typing. This shield machine adopts The original 64-bit core processor bus system is used, and all six operating positions can log in to the graphical interface to control the machine's operation. Although Gu Tie is an omniscient person in the quantum network era, he actually played with traditional computers for a period before the "Genesis" network became popular. Without any effort, he brought up the system console and entered the hidden command interface. It took him a minute to obtain the system administrator rights of this UNIX-based operating software. However, he did not play any pranks. He just opened the screen on Xiao Liping's screen. A huge dialog box popped up, completely covering the graphical interface, with five big words written on it: "I am very dissatisfied."
"Okay, I understand," Secretary Xiao sighed and turned the chair around, "Give me some time, I want to complete a turn. Once the direction is not controlled well, the cutter wheel will be damaged by the rocks. If it gets stuck in the middle of the formation, it will be completely destroyed. It’s over, no one will come to rescue us, we will die alone in the middle of the earth, rusting, decaying, and becoming a pile of strange fossils with indistinguishable shapes over thousands of years.”
"You are sick of being so lyrical. Hurry up and turn your back, I'm so annoying," Gu Tie yelled amidst the deafening noise.
Xiao Liping input a series of instructions to the console, and then pressed the red button on the joystick, "squeak, squeak, squeak..." The cutter wheel in front of the shield machine moved a slight angle on the gyro axis, and the machine dug into The direction immediately changed, and everything in the carriage began to shake violently. Gu Tie's center of gravity tilted obviously. Fortunately, he was firmly trapped in the chair by the four-point safety belt. The shell of the shield machine made a squeaking deformation sound, and the output power meter Suddenly it entered the red zone, showing that the machine was under heavy pressure. As Xiao Liping's finger pushed the joystick, the rotation speed of the cutter wheel gradually accelerated, and the shield machine turned a sharp 70-degree turn and became nearly horizontal. The ground was dug horizontally, and the floor turned into a wall. The three people were hoisted up by safety belts, with their feet pointing in the direction of the hatch.
At this moment, Azwei's eyes suddenly opened wide: "There are indeed enemies," she unbuckled her seat belt with a flick of her fingers, jumped deftly to the bulkhead, squatted down and grabbed the rotating door with both hands. The handle, "No," Gu Tie exclaimed, quickly loosened his seat belt and jumped to the woman's side with a bang, "What are you doing, eldest sister, there is nothing outside, just a big pile of mud, as soon as you open the door, here It will be filled with soil and we will be completely ruined,"
Xiao Liping said: "According to the program setting, the hatch cannot be opened while the TBM is running, but this woman may have really felt something..."
Gu Tie held Aziwei's waist hard so that she could not reach the hatch, "Nonsense, how else can you be so desperate? Come up with a way to investigate quickly, night vision, thermal imaging, radar, whatever, as long as there are enemies. Find them and kill them."
"Humph," Secretary Xiao was amused, "Look where we are. Those investigative methods you mentioned are useless underground. The only ones that work are metal detectors and solid-state sonar. The former We can only judge whether there are metal products nearby. The latter can only be used in completely solidified deep soil. You can find a way for me."
Gu Tie scolded: "I thought this was a very awesome machine. Who knew it could do anything but drill holes? Black Olive Branch didn't give any gifts. For example, the aunt in the neighborhood committee could understand the instructions and could blast with one shot." Drop a socialist hyper-realistic weapon from the street office,"
Xiao Liping turned his right hand, and the assault pistol appeared in his hand: "Be realistic, rely on yourself, Comrade Gu Tie. Even if the opponent is the Son of God, tracking it under such harsh conditions will definitely consume a lot of money. It is possible to fight."
"In movies, characters like you usually die after saying this, brother," Gu Tie curled his lips.
Since entering the TBM, the loudspeaker with poor contact has been playing a vague saxophone song. Xiao Liping said that it is the default working background music. The huge noise produced by the TBM will make people drowsy. Music helps the operator concentrate. At this moment, the music suddenly stopped for a beat. This was not a noise discharge caused by a virtual connection of the speaker power cord, but a manifestation of the interference of the sound signal in the system. Gu Tie's internal A guy with a very sensitive metronome. He hates jazz and likes rock music because the rhythm of the former is so loose that it hurts, while the latter always maintains a steady drumbeat of bang bang bang bang even if he screams, roars and throws the guitar. This tiny little The pause was transmitted to the ears, causing the dangerous nerves in the Chinese body to immediately become active. Every hair on his body felt the strange charge in the air. "Cover your ears," Aziwei's silver snake hair was about to react. At that moment, he hugged Rainforest Flower into his arms and pressed the woman's ears tightly with his thick arms.
Xiao Liping did not hesitate. He fully trusted Gu Tie's judgment. He released his seat belt with a click. Xiao Liping fell straight to the bulkhead. He took off his coat in the air and covered his head and face. "Plop," he fell to Gu Tie. On the body, the coats wrapped the heads of three people.
"Zi..." All surfaces in the cabin vibrated weakly almost at the same time. "Ping ping ping ping," more than a dozen LCD screens exploded. Several glass observation windows were also covered with spiderweb-like cracks. The cans thrown in the lockers The drinks exploded one after another, and the plastic seats shook violently and began to break into pieces.
The lights dimmed because the lamps burst at the same time, but the emergency explosion-proof lights provided limited lighting. After the invisible wind blew by, Xiao Liping opened his coat, stared at Gu Tie and Azi Wei, and pointed Their faces said, "Bleed, you,"
"Holy shit, your orifices are bleeding, Lao Xiao," Gu Tieze screamed.
"What did you say," Azvi said.
"What did you say?" Gu Tie turned around and said, startled again: "You are bleeding too. Wherever you are injured, wipe it quickly..."
"What are you talking about?" Seeing the two people in front of him wiping each other's nostrils, mouths, and ears with blood, and moving their lips without making a sound, Xiao Liping immediately realized that he had lost his hearing. "It's an ultrasonic weapon," he grabbed Gu Tie He opened his arms and said word by word, "The enemy is nearby, most likely in the safe space at the tail of the shield machine. The machine changed to horizontal excavation to reduce his pressure, and he must turn again immediately."
Gu Tie stared at his partner's lips and understood every word that Lao Xiao said, "I know, let's delay the time, and you can control it manually to make the machine turn." He roared at the top of his lungs, unable to hear his own words. The voice, and I don’t know if Xiao Liping understood what he meant, "... on,"
Putting his hand around Aziwei's waist, Gu Tie took out his pistol and shot the glass window at the end of the cabin to pieces.