"I won the bet. You owe me a meal. I wonder how much a bowl of fried liver at that restaurant costs now. The price is so high. There is a lot less small intestine in it. Ah, I really miss it. It feels like taking a sip of wine with Baozi. Although Erguotou is spicy, it is still much stronger than tuna vodka..." Gu Tie said, narrowing his eyes.
A blue vein appeared on Lao Xiao's forehead: "I'm not kidding you, Gu Tie. Those three lines may be false alarms from the thermal infrared system. How to determine the identity of the intruder. How to determine that it is a trustworthy person."
Gu Tie laughed and tapped his temples with his knuckles: "Old Xiao, Old Xiao. Some things are not so interesting to talk about. Turn off the heavy particle emitter. Don't waste electricity. Once the electricity It’s several cents... This should be considered industrial electricity costing more than one yuan per unit.”
When Xiao Liping was about to have a seizure, Gu Tie stretched out his hand and made two gestures in the air. The gesture sensor system recognized this operation and pulled out the three-dimensional model on the screen to enlarge it. "Here. Let's look at it now." He rotated the model nine times horizontally. Ten degrees. From this angle you can see six orange lines around the channel.
"Six lines." Lao Xiao said coldly.
"Okay. I'll turn back and take a closer look. Now," Gu Tie said.
"Change back to three lines." Lao Xiao said.
"Brother, you are not paying attention at all. Look, there are three dots above and below the line." Gu Tie said with a smile. "There is no reason that Israphel, the traitor, can't even read the simplest Morse code." Bar."
Lao Xiao opened his eyes wide: "You mean...---...this is the 'SOS' in Morse code. This is too far-fetched. To say it is the noise of the thermal imager is still... It’s more reasonable…”
Gu Tie snorted: "You are always so suspicious. This is not noise. It is the high-heat trace left by the bullet when it hits the soil. The .357 Magnum bullet fired by the 6-inch barrel Monty Python revolver is in You can advance three to four meters in low-hardness soil. I believe the length of each line is within this range."
"Someone shot in the mud-filled tunnel in order to send an SOS signal to us sitting on the other side of the monitor." Xiao Liping murmured. "Have you ever thought about the possibility of this happening?"
Gu Tie said calmly: "Of course. First fire three shots. Turn 90 degrees and fire three shots. Then turn back to the original position and fire three shots. Viewed from the front, it will form a '...---...' Erse code. This is the best way to communicate when normal communication is not possible. As of now, I can answer your first question: the intruder is the ghost. Because this method was told to me by the protector of the ghost. .It is said to be a section in the Ghost Warrior Tactical Manual. Information is exchanged through bullet trajectories in a blocked and disrupted battlefield environment." He stretched out his hand to rotate the model. "Then, if you look at it from the side, the bullet marks will become '--- ...---' encoding. That makes sense too dude."
"OSO." Lao Xiao sneered. "What's the point."
"To answer your second question: These guests are people I know." Gu Tie raised his eyebrows and said: "In the ghost's tactical manual, the Morse code of 'S' is three parallel lines. If you look at it from the side, It will form the shape of '-...-' instead of the current '---...---'. '-...-' is a meaningless separator in the encoding table. And ' ---...---' means OSO. Speaking of these three letters, can you think of anything?"
Lao Xiao stared at him: "No."
The corners of Gu Tie's mouth slowly turned up: "During a very boring journey, I told the idle people in the carriage that we might as well set up a unique contact method. If one day there is a critical moment and we cannot communicate normally. We will send out such a variant SOS code. When viewed from the side, it will become OSO. And Oso is a relatively popular expression in Italian. It means 'IDare'."
Xiao Liping said: "So."
"This is what the blonde kid said. She said that she is not afraid of all challenges for the highest ideal. 'IDare.' Of course, you can also understand OSO as OSole Mio. My sun. That is the name of the legendary most powerful circus in the world. Everything A dream place for jugglers, magicians, clowns and animal trainers. After all, that guy has ordinary Italian blood..." Gu Tie opened his arms happily. "That's right. These are the guys from the Glorious Circus. Ghosts. A few partners of the Polish branch of the organization. Although they are not strong enough or smart enough, they are just the kind of pawns that can be discarded casually after being used. But along the way, they are the only ones who have devoted everything for my survival. .Admit your failure, Lao Xiao. Open the door for me and let those guys in... If you are still a pure man who keeps your promises."
Xiao Liping hesitated for a few seconds. Then he let go of the control handle. "Buzz" The heavy particle cannon joystick slowly sank into the console. The lights in the room became brighter. The behemoths lurking at the top of the building fell into a deep sleep again. " I will first send out my eyes to confirm your guess."
"Of course. Don't keep the guests waiting too long. No matter how they got here, they must be half dead."
"Bang bang." The shell of the 13th area of the ring building opened. A dexterous worm-shaped robot was shot into the soil. It turned on the ultrasonic ring cutter head, quickly dug through the rock layer and crawled towards the cube room. The picture taken by the "eye" was It was displayed on the screen. Thirty seconds later, it dug through the outer wall of the tunnel left by the vertical shield machine and entered a piece of turbid and dark mud. Thirty LED spotlights all over the eyes were turned on, illuminating the mud into half. Transparent and pale white, it swam flexibly in the muddy water and quickly reached the yellow domain of the three-dimensional model.
"...What the hell is this."
"This is what you call a glorious circus."
The two men were stunned at the same time. What appeared on the screen was far beyond their expectations. Even Gu Tie, who firmly believed in the identity of the visitor, felt guilty. His eyes illuminated a huge dark brown object. It looks like a jujube pit magnified thousands of times. The surface is covered with uneven textures. The texture is like the shell of some kind of plant seed. There are quite a number of flagella at the end of the jujube pit. It seems that the swing of these flagella provides the energy. Motive force to move forward. However, most of the flagella are necrotic at this moment. The date core is slowly descending in the mud by inertia.
Xiao Liping controlled his eyes and circled the date core several times. Sure enough, he found several small holes made by bullets. The bullet holes were blocked by mud and could not see what was inside. "It's strange. This layer of shell appears on sonar and infrared detectors." It is close to transparent. In other words, the conductivity is consistent with the stratigraphic structure. This can already be regarded as the category of active invisibility. Is it the latest type of submersible equipment?" Lao Xiao said to himself with a gloomy face. He couldn't help but fumble again. Weapon system. Gu Tie quickly stretched out his hand to stop him. "Ouch, please relax, okay? No matter what this weird walnut is, just crack it open and get out the person inside. I suggest blowing up the cube room. In the middle of the ceiling, let the big walnuts fall down first, and then explode the next piece. Use our shield machine to smash the walnuts open."
Xiao Liping glared at him: "What do you think of the security of the base?"
Gu Tie laughed and said, "Come on. You didn't build that big room. You really thought you could declare your sovereignty by planting a national flag. Anyway, once the enemy attacks, the cubic room has no defensive meaning at all. Most of your weapons They are all deployed from the central channel, right?"
"No. I won't destroy that room." Lao Xiao turned his head and ignored him. "The mud in the tunnel will pour down in large quantities, causing a lot of trouble. I will launch two more eyes and use laser cutting equipment to cut the shell of that thing. Cut it open...disclaimer in advance. If the person inside is not from the Glorious Circus..."
"Please do it. I won't stop you."
"very good."
"Bang bang. Bang bang." The two worm robots shot into the dark crust and squirmed toward their destination. The three eyes quickly converged around the date core. They were combined with a special type of robot as the core and became one A bloated cylinder 1.5 meters long and 50 centimeters in diameter. "Hissing..." A large amount of white smoke arose as the mud boiled. A red-hot cutting mark appeared on the surface of the date core. Gu Tie knew that the robot used a high-power carbon dioxide laser. .The carbon dioxide laser in the 10.6um far-infrared wavelength range cannot be observed by the naked eye. The movement of the laser beam can only be captured from the spread of the cutting trace.
"Control the depth. Don't burn the people inside." Gu Tie couldn't help but remind him.
"There is no penetration. The average thickness is about 18 cm. The cutting allowance is 0.5 cm." Lao Xiao replied calmly.
Laser cutting was performed simultaneously with the slow sinking of the date core. When the cutting stroke approached a circle, the tip of the date core lightly touched the resin ceiling of the cube room.
"It's about to be opened." Xiao Liping said.
"Do something for me. Let the LED lights in the eyes display a message. Otherwise, those guys will drown in the mud." Gu Tie said.
"Hiss..." The cuts merged. The carbon dioxide laser stopped working. The three eyes were separated. The upper part of the jujube core was lightly hit from the side. "Bang. Bang. Bang." The third impact... The thin connecting part was broken in the middle. The date core split into upper and lower halves. Mud immediately poured in to fill the space inside.
"Hold your breath." Eva issued this command a few seconds ago. The thick mud came overwhelmingly with a powerful impact. She curled up and protected her head with both hands. Suddenly she felt a light appear on the side of the goggles. It was difficult. She adjusted her posture. The little Loli saw a line of silver words shining dimly in the muddy mud.
"Come this way. Open the door. There's a rope...your dearest Chinaman."