Chapter Eighty-Four, Popular Science
For several days, Yang Fan stayed in a military guest house and was interrogated over and over again......
So far, Yang Fan feels that only by cooperating with the country can there be a way out, of course, his answer about some future things is cautious, except for the general direction of the earthquake and reform, he almost didn't say anything else......
In the early morning of July 8, in a private house on the eastern outskirts of Beijing.
A snow-white handsome horse is wrapped in a slender six-wheeled RV, covered with small strips of grass-green triangular cloth, which is both mysterious and psychedelic and a little pleasing to the eye........
The horses and carriages were just delivered yesterday by the cars of the refractory plant.
"Be careful on the road!" Xu Qian took Yang Fan's hand and said, "Don't be reckless, the situation is critical, just warn!"
"Don't worry, I never do things that I am not sure of!" Yang Fan smiled and comforted her, "You tell Xiao Feng that they don't have to follow too closely, so as not to startle the snake........ It will take at least half an hour for them to break my tortoise shell!"
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"Drive!" the big white horse pulled the RV all the way east.
In addition to Yang Fan in the RV, there were two people from the internal affairs team, an Jidong who was about 30 years old, and Jiang Canghai, who was 42 years old this year, both of whom were from northern Hebei and were very familiar with the local road conditions, so they took turns driving the carriage.
In addition to the three people each carrying a pistol, there were three five-six types and three crossbows, crossbow arrows and bullets were enough, and it can be said that the whole carriage was armed to the teeth......
Along the way, the carriage walked unhurriedly, and everywhere he went, Yang Fan called to the best local restaurant to eat, called the best wine and food, and kept toasting the two of them, moving "Uncle Hai" and "Brother Dong" incoherently, a kind of pride for the death of a confidant....... they didn't know the specific plan, but they were ordered to protect Yang Fan all the way and obey Yang Fan's command. But Yang Fan knew that according to the plan, they were afraid that they would be dead, so he felt very guilty in his heart, and just wanted to make up for some regrets with his meager efforts, which was also a matter of no choice, and someone had to sacrifice everything.......
Three days later, the carriage entered the TS territory.
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On the morning of July 11, the periphery of the TS Western Suburbs Market was full of people.
"Cubs?" someone outside asked.
"There is a hundred-year-old Wang Ba, who can understand people's speech......."
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The crowd gathered around a carriage with a large wooden tray next to it, and in the shallow water of the large wooden tray there was a large old turtle and three small turtles.
A seven-year-old boy is talking to an old turtle.
"Old Wang Ba, can you understand what I am saying?
The old turtle who was stretching his neck nodded unexpectedly.
"Old Wang Ba, give a salute to the fathers and brothers of TS!"
When the old turtle heard this, he put his two forelimbs together, and struggled to stand up with his two hind limbs, as if he was about to bow his hand, but he only stood at a sixty-degree angle and fell again, causing everyone around him to laugh........
Finally, the boy said, "Old Wangba, can you write a few words for your father and brothers?"
As he spoke, he took out a piece of white paper, a brush and a bottle of "ink" and placed them on the edge of the wooden plate.
Everyone was nervously looking forward to .......
The wooden plate is not high, I saw that the old turtle slowly stretched out its long neck, bit the edge of the white paper and slowly dragged it to the wooden plate to soak in the water, and then stretched out its neck to bite the mouth of the bottle of ink, and poured it into the water tray, and the purple and blue ink was suddenly soaked in the water in the wooden plate.........
There are words in the blank paper! Everyone's eyes are wide open, it's amazing!
The little boy stepped forward and spread out the paper, and held it up above his head and circled it around for everyone to see:
"...... at 3 a.m. on the 28th of this month"
What is this turtle fairy prophesying?
There was a lot of talk.
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Then two more adult men handed out a copy of the printed material to the crowd, one for each person.
Those who are literate read it on the spot: "Popular Science Knowledge ......."
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This small leaflet similar to that issued by the shopping mall in later generations was compiled by Yang Fan, with more than a dozen practical life knowledge in line with that era in front of it, and the latter is focused on the knowledge of earthquake prevention:
*It has been exactly 10 years since the Taiwan earthquake, and we must learn a lesson from it, be prepared for danger in times of peace, and take precautions!
TS is located on the North China Fault Zone, and scientists in China have found geological anomalies recently........
Now let's look at some common earthquake precursors:
Many animals have particularly sensitive senses in certain organs, and they can know the occurrence of some catastrophic events before humans. As for the visual, auditory, tactile, vibrational, and balance organs, which play a major role and which play an auxiliary role in judgment, it may be different for different animals. The physical and chemical changes (vibration, electricity, magnetism, meteorology, abnormal water radon content, etc.) associated with earthquakes can often cause some sensory organs of some animals to be stimulated and react abnormally.
For example, a variation in gravity in an area may be felt by some animals through its balancing organs, and a vibrational anomaly may be detected by the hearing organs of some animals. Before the earthquake, the underground rock formations were already moving slowly and creeping day by day, and there was a strong friction between the fault planes, so some people thought that the frictional fault planes would produce a kind of low-frequency sound waves that were only a few to ten times per second, which were lower than what human hearing could feel. Humans can only perceive sound waves more than 20 times per second, while animals do not. Animals with very sensitive senses will be frightened and agitated when they feel these sound waves, so that winter snakes emerge from their burrows, fish leap over the water, pigs and cows jump in circles, and deep-water fish or unfamiliar schools of fish in shallow waters. Abnormal phenomena such as chickens flying and dogs jumping. There are many types of animal anomalies, including large livestock, poultry, burrowing animals, hibernation animals, fish, and so on.
In addition, the well water and spring water should be particularly vigilant if it is muddy, bubbling, turning flowers, heating, discoloring, changing taste, rising suddenly, falling suddenly, and suddenly drying up or gushing out of the spring!
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Yang Fan listed many examples based on the information on the Internet in later generations, and the leaflet ended with (100-year-old turtle prediction: July 28 at 3 o'clock in the morning...... )
After handing out the flyers, the three of them packed up their props and left in a hurry!
For several days, the trio worked in several major high-traffic markets in TS every day, and at one point they were taken to the police station, where they were released after a phone call.......
For a while, the whole TS was talking about this magical old king, but they didn't care much about the impending disaster, but many people knew about the episode at three o'clock in the morning on July 28.
In the meantime, some people have debunked that this is a trick of rice soup writing and iodine wine to show words, but more people are willing to believe that it is a century-old turtle apparition!
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On July 14th, the China Earthquake Group Survey and Group Prevention Work Experience Exchange Meeting was held in TS. W, a senior researcher on earthquakes, asked to speak at the conference. Z, the deputy director of the National Earthquake Administration at the time, who presided over the meeting, did not agree, but later received a phone call and agreed again....... W spoke at the meeting to inform the earthquake of "from July 22nd to August 5th, there may be an earthquake of magnitude 5 or higher in TS and * counties", it is rumored that this W was still a little vague about the specific location of the epicenter, and the scope was too large, which is one of the reasons why Director Z did not agree with his statement.
On July 20, the content of the meeting was officially distributed to all units, so the situation began to change fundamentally, and people began to think of the warning words of the century-old turtle.......
Many people solemnly wrote on their home calendars and on the walls: "July 28 at three o'clock in the morning!"
The butterfly's wings flapped!
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