Chapter 3: The Speed of Life and Death (Part I)

The secret that Zhao Lei discovered really made him unbelievable, and he was about to turn around and call his sister to take a look, but a sweet shout suddenly sounded outside the door: "Zhao Qian, I said that I would go shopping and watch a movie, why didn't I answer your call?" ”

As soon as the words fell, several beautiful girls pushed the door in, shouted "Brother Zhao Lei" affectionately, and surrounded Zhao Qian.

These people are all girls who are good friends with their sisters in the experimental middle school, and one of them is named Li Shiyan, who looks like a beautiful country and is a well-deserved school flower of the experimental middle school. Zhao Qian is also a rare beauty, but standing with Li Shiyan, she suddenly has only the share of red flowers like green leaves.

They are all top students in experimental schools, and they have been admitted to colleges and universities in advance, and they plan to go to the Yangtze River Delta for a seven-day tour after a while. Li Shiyan and her best friend Zhang Qianhui were admitted to the Department of Finance of the School of Finance and Economics of Sichuan Provincial University at the same time, and Zhao Qian was admitted to another university.

Li Shiyan is a Jiangnan girl, her hometown is said to be Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, and she lives in her aunt's house in Sichuan Province, her aunt is the department manager of the Sichuan Provincial Art Investment Company, and her home is only a few minutes away from Zhao Lei's house, but Li Shiyan lives in a mansion. These beauties often come to Zhao Lei's house, everyone is very familiar with them, and after greeting Zhao Lei's parents, they pulled Zhao Qian and ran away with a smile.

Zhao Lei shook his head with a wry smile, opened Google Earth, and completely entered the first data into the coordinate box according to the order written by patient No. 24. The hospital's etiological investigation clearly states that this data is a marker of the origin of patient No. 24's paranoia.

It was written on September 1, 2001 on the 24th, and according to the information provided in the medical records, the 24th had never had a habit of writing numbers before that. He turned out to be a painting fan, working in a food company in charge of propaganda work, after being laid off, he had no other skills except painting, and after he couldn't find a job, he was greatly stimulated, like suffering from autism, locked himself in his room all day, and eventually led to the separation of his wife and the boredom of his parents and brothers.

On September 1, 2001, his parents came to his house and told him to have dinner and gather with his siblings. The original intention of his parents was to persuade his relatives that he should no longer take the welfare money, but should find a job and reorganize the family to live a good life.

However, in the messy room, his parents saw the first string of numbers written by their son. At that time, he held the note and said "Go and save the world, there is a catastrophe". His parents were so angry that they left, and a few days later they sent him to a psychiatric hospital, where he stayed for more than ten years.

Zhao Lei is sure that the number before Patient E on the 24th is the map coordinates. But after e, there are ten to eleven digits, and Zhao Lei doesn't understand its meaning at all.

Confirming that the coordinates were entered correctly, Zhao Lei stared at the number after the coordinates a few times, "091107583201", feeling a little familiar, but he couldn't remember what it represented. He pressed the confirmation button heavily, as if a mysterious door had been pushed open by him, and his heart was full of anticipation and excitement.

Coordinates show that this is the ruins of a complex in Lower Manhattan, New York, USA.

Zhao Lei's eyes widened suddenly: Isn't this the World Trade Center of the United States that encountered a terrorist attack on September 11 more than ten years ago?

Psychiatric patient No. 24 predicted the 911 incident ten days in advance?

Paid Google Earth, you can see the license plate number, this street view from the latest update half a month ago. Near the ruins of the World Trade Center in front of Zhao Lei, a taxi with a mantissa of 911 was parked, and a teenager and a beautiful woman just got out of the car and closed the taxi door.

Zhao Lei, who was very surprised, hurriedly typed the keyboard and searched out all the information related to the 911 incident from Du Niang. He added a few punctuation marks to the number after the "e" in the first data of the mentally ill patient No. 24: 0911, 0758, 3201.

That's right, 0911 refers to the date; 0758, which refers to 7:58 local time; And the last 3201 is the final number of victims of the incident.

Oh, my God!

Zhao Lei's mouth couldn't be closed no matter what. The results of the investigation on the hospital were all signed, and the time when the mentally ill patient No. 24 was sent to the hospital was September 3, and the date of the first data that the doctor saw him wrote was September 4, and then the hospital completed the procedures of visiting family members and neighbors to confirm the symptoms of No. 24.

All procedures were completed by September 10. This means that before the 911 incident, the 24th had fully predicted the location, time, and number of victims of the incident. It's just that he doesn't know what this string of numbers refers to, but he subconsciously thinks that there is a catastrophe in the world that needs to be saved.

Zhao Lei immediately took out his mobile phone and dialed his sister's phone: "Qian'er, a major discovery, come back quickly, don't alarm others." ”

By the time Zhao Qian rode the battery car and rushed home like the wind, Zhao Lei had already completed the search for dozens of data in combination with the map coordinates and Du Niang search engine, his forehead was sweating densely because of excitement, his cheeks were red with excitement, his hands were trembling, and he was speeding up the decryption process.

"Look, No. 24 is not a mental patient, he is a genius, a great prophet who makes accurate predictions of disasters!" Zhao Lei didn't even have the kung fu to turn his head to look at his sister, his ten fingers were flying, and his eyes were staring at the screen.

Zhao Qian picked up the printed paper, Zhao Lei made a simple annotation next to each string of numbers, she only glanced at it a few times, and immediately moved to her father's hand, and Zhao Lei began to fight side by side - everything is speechless, the 24th mental patient does have some unknown prediction ability, since 2001, the world's major disasters, basically he accurately predicted.

For example, the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26, 2004, killed more than 200,000 people; For example, the Wenchuan earthquake of May 12, 2008, killed nearly 70,000 people. These events were written on paper days or even weeks in advance on the 24th.

It's a pity that the No. 24 mentally ill patient didn't know what he was doing, and he didn't know that under the numbers he wrote casually, there were countless fresh lives. If someone had been able to figure it out earlier, the entire course of history could have been changed.

The siblings soon discovered a pattern, before 2008, the number 24 mentally ill person could only predict a catastrophe with more than 1,000 deaths, so there were not many number strings. However, since 2008, his ability to predict small-scale disasters and emergencies has improved significantly, and by this year, he has been able to predict disasters involving more than 50 people.

This year?

The brother and sister glanced at each other at the same time, and suddenly screamed "ah", and turned up the messy desktop with both hands - there is an extremely important thing that has been forgotten, that is, when he was in the hospital, patient No. 24 had just written a string of numbers and handed it to Zhao Lei, and the number after the coordinates was 0502213083.

Obviously, 0502 refers to today, May 2; 2130, which refers to the time, should be 21:30. Then the last 83 should be the death toll.

Zhao Lei instinctively raised his wrist and looked at his watch, it was 20:30, and there was still an hour before the disaster.

What was the event that led to the deaths of 83 people? Where will the event take place?

Quickly entering the coordinates into the map, the brother and sister couldn't help but panic: the disaster actually happened at a five-way intersection on the outskirts of the city of Sichuan Province, half an hour's drive from their residence.

However, they were a little confused by the terrain, because there were no dense residences or buildings there, so why did a disaster happen that caused 83 people?

Earthquakes? But I didn't have any premonitions, not even a mouse crawled out.

Fire? What's more, it's just a five-way intersection, and there are no shopping malls or residential buildings nearby.

"Car accident! It must have been a car accident! The brother and sister screamed at the same time, and Zhao Qian immediately opened the website of the Chengdu long-distance station and carefully searched the long-distance bus before publishing. Zhao Lei picked up the phone, dialed the long-distance station, and asked about the long-distance bus in and out of the city.

The results of the enquiry showed that two long-distance buses passing through the section that night. According to the information provided by the station attendant, it is very likely that it will meet at the five-way road around 9:30.

On the shuttle bus into the city, including the driver, there are exactly 40 people; The shuttle bus leaving the city city, there were 41 people.

The total number of people is 81, which is two people short of the 83 number written by the number of mental patients on the 24th. Today's long-distance buses use global positioning systems, coupled with strict supervision on the road, it is impossible for the people on board to cheat.

So where are the two people who are missing? Could it be that the car accident also killed two passers-by?

"No matter what, this catastrophe must be prevented! Qian'er, immediately called Officer Liu and asked if the police could intervene in this matter. Zhao Lei scraped the tip of his nose with his thumb, kicked off the stool, pulled up his sister Zhao Qian and ran downstairs, threw the mobile phone to his sister, and started his father's motorcycle.

However, Officer Liu's mobile phone was turned off at an inopportune time, and no one could be found when he called the police station on duty. I want to call 110 to call the police, but I'm afraid that people will really treat them as mentally ill. Zhao Qian was a little at a loss for a while.

Zhao Lei tightened the accelerator: "Quickly contact the station and tell them that there may be a car accident, and it is best to ask the driver to slow down and not to meet at the five-way intersection/rendezvous." ”

With that, the two stepped on the motorcycle and shot into the night like an arrow.

Speechless all the way, but in the hearts of the brother and sister, there are two doubts at the same time, one is that it can now be confirmed that the No. 24 mentally ill person does have the ability to predict, but this time it is not accurate, and it has to be tested with facts. But in any case, his previous successful prediction alone is enough to prove the correct surname of Zhao Lei's previous research: people who have lost one-ten-thousandth of their genetic sequence and can recombine themselves have some kind of superpower;

The second question is whether the case of the bad surname that Officer Liu said in the afternoon refers to the car accident that killed 83 people?

If both are in line with expectations, then the Zhao Lei brothers and sisters, as the No. 24 mentally ill patient said, are doing great things to save mankind. It's just that at this time, they are really alone, because even if they call Officer Liu, how can he believe these things in a hurry?

Then go it alone, and get to the scene to see for yourself what happens!