Chapter Eighty-Eight: Underground Base
Bai Tang followed the flow of people out of the airport, looking at the square in front of the airport and all kinds of pedestrians, and sighed in his heart that it was worthy of being the first national gate in China. Looking at the taxi stop where a group of people were crowded, Bai Tang turned around, let's take the airport express rail! Anyway, there is no hurry, it is better to go to the city to find a hotel to live first.
"Begonia!" Hearing his name called, Bai Tang stopped, turned around, and saw Tian Yuan running over panting, followed by a tall man, in his thirties, with long feet and long hands, and a strong breath.
"It's good to catch up." Tian Yuan took a breath of rude breath and apologized, "I'm sorry, I just came back from a mission." Good thing you haven't left yet. β
"Would you like a coffee break?" Bai Tang Jianyì, these two people looked tired, and their faces were tired.
"No need, the director is still waiting for us, let's go to the bureau first!" Tian Yuan took the two boxes in Bai Tang's hand, handed one of them to his companion, and introduced Bai Tang by the way, "It's my colleague, Zhu Xu." β
"Hello!" Bai Tang greeted the man with a smile.
Zhu Xu nodded and lightly replied with two words "hello".
"Zhu Xu is a stuffy gourd, don't you mind." Tian Yuan gave the box to Zhu Xu and led Bai Tang towards the parking station.
"I don't mind, someone like him is reliable!"
"Am I unreliable?" Tian Yuan made a sad expression.
"You can be trusted, and you won't be caught by the target." Zhu Xu stabbed the knife.
Tian Yuan glanced at the "target person" Bai Tang and said to Zhu Xu: "Believe me, even if your ability is higher than mine, you will be discovered by Bai Tang." β
Zhu Xu glanced at Bai Tang deeply and nodded: "You are right!" β
The girl in front of her looks no different from ordinary people on the surface, but in Zhu Xu's eyes, the girl seems to be integrated with the natural environment without any flaws. And how can a person who has no flaws let him overcome?
"Bai Tang, is your cargo consigned? Do you want me to find a big truck to pick up the order? Tian Yuan asked tentatively, "I thought you would come over in a flying machine!" β
"I don't want to be shot down by a missile." Bai Tang said, "The goods are in your hands, and you don't need a big truck to load them." β
"What?" Tian Yuan and Zhu Xu's eyes all bulged out, and they stared at the small box in their hands that was only one foot square, "Can such a small box fit a car and a spaceship?" You're not going to come with a model, are you? β
Bai Tang rolled his eyes: "I don't know, there are hovering cars and spaceships, and it's not surprising that there are space boxes, right?" β
No surprise! Tian Yuan was sad and angry, hovering cars and spaceships are all things in science fiction, and the sudden appearance in this world has scared him, forgive him for his small brain capacity, and he can't imagine that there will be any future products around him.
Zhu Xu glanced at Bai Tang deeply, this girl is really not an alien?
Tian Yuan drove a Passat, which was too ordinary in the capital where Ming cars gathered, but Bai Tang found that the car was remodeled, and the glass on the windows was tempered bulletproof glass. The car did not enter the city, and drove around the ring highway in the direction of Xishan. High-rise buildings were left behind cars, and the surrounding area became more and more uninhabited.
"Your headquarters won't be in the mountains, will you?" Bai Tang looked out the window.
"It's in the mountains, but it's not our headquarters." Tian Yuan took the cigarette butt off his mouth and popped it out of the window, "For the two things in your hands, the state has specially set up a research department, and we will go there now." β
After about two hours of driving, the car stopped in front of a large iron gate, and above the iron gate hung a sign: XX Environmental Testing Institute. Entering the gate, the courtyard is small, only a three-story red brick building, which looks very simple.
"Let's go!" Tian Yuan stopped the car and walked into the small building with Bai Tang.
Bai Tang followed the two of them leisurely, and her divine sense had already scanned Xiao Lou. The small building looked ordinary, but it was loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and there were no less than fifty armed guards hidden inside.
There was a table in the lobby, just like the front desk of a normal company, and a young woman locked her eyes on the three of them as they entered.
"My own people!" Tian Yuan and Zhu Xu each took out a card representing their identities and handed it to the front desk. The front desk swiped on a certain machine on the table to confirm the identity. While returning the card to the two people, he took out another card and handed it over.
"Thanks!" Tian Yuan took the card and handed it to Bai Tang, "This is a temporary pass, which is only valid for one day." β
"You can't get in without a pass, can you?"
"That's the highest level of defense here."
To take the elevator, you also have to swipe the card. Tian Yuan put the card in the sensing area next to the elevator buttons, and another row of buttons immediately appeared. Tian Yuan pressed the minus five layers.
"Without a passcard, the elevator would only be able to run on the first to third floors." Tian Yuan boasted to Bai Tang, but he did not treat Bai Tang as an outsider. As I said, I will do my best to win over Baitang.
"Pretty impressive." Bai Tang praised insincerely, and after visiting the underground black market of Getstar, Bai Tang felt that these were all pediatrics now.
The elevator door opened, and two people stood at the door waiting for Bai Tang and the three of them.
"Director!" Tian Yuan and Zhu Xu called out to the tall old man. To say that the old man is not true, the other party is just a middle-aged man in his fifties, and his mental outlook is better than that of a middle-aged man in his thirties.
"This is Comrade Xiaobai! Hello, hello! Ou Haosheng warmly shook Bai Tang's hands, "Sure enough, young and promising!" Thank you for your support for the country's scientific and technological development! β
Comrade "Xiaobai"? For the first time, Bai Tang felt that his surname was not very good.
"Director Ou, I'm not young, can you please remove the word 'small'?"
Ou Haosheng was stunned for a moment, and then he also found that there was something wrong with his title, and said with a smile, "Comrade Bai, Comrade Bai." Let me introduce to you, this is Comrade Zhao Nan, the head of the institute. β
Zhao Nan was a Sven man with glasses, about forty-five or sixteen years old, and shook hands with Bai Tang with a smile on the corner of his mouth.
"Comrade Bai, I've been looking forward to you for a long time!"
"You should be looking forward to what I brought, right?"
Zhao Nan smiled: "I look forward to it!" By the way, where is the thing? Do you want us to send a car to pick it up? β
"No, I've brought it all." Bai Tang pointed to the box in Zhu Xu and Tian Yuan's hands.
"Just these two little boxes? You're not bringing a model, are you? Zhao Nan and Ou Haosheng's reaction was the same as Zhu Tian's.
Bai Tang smiled: "Don't underestimate these two boxes, this is a space box, just the size of one foot, and the space inside is equivalent to the size of a building." β
"Space box?" Zhao Nan and Ou Haosheng cried out.
"Comrade Bai, do you sell this box?" reacted, Zhao Nan immediately hit the idea of the space box, and he must get the two boxes in his hands. Although he doesn't know much about space science, they can learn while researching.
"Not for sale." Bai Tang smiled, "Two boxes are for you!" β
"Good comrade!" Ou Haosheng happily patted Bai Tang on the shoulder, his hand strength was very big, if he had changed to an ordinary girl, he would have been patted down by him.
"Find a place to get the two things out!" Bai Tang smiled.
"Yes, yes, yes, I've wanted to see two treasures for a long time." Ou Haosheng echoed excitedly, and the other three men's eyes also lit up. As men, mecha can't resist the temptation for them.
"You'll have to find a spacious and confidential place."
"Come with me!" Zhao Nan led a few people to an electric car and drove inside.
"There's a lot of space underground! It wasn't built in a short period of time, was it? Bai Tang looked at the scene outside the car window, there was a road of about twenty meters at his feet, and on both sides were rooms like beehives.
"It's been three or four years since it was built, and it hasn't been used, that is, in order to study the information of hovercars and mechas, the state gave this base to Lao Zhao's research institute." Ou Haosheng said.
"If you build it, you can't use it, why build such a large underground place? It took a lot of financial and material resources, right? Bai Tang was very puzzled.
"Isn't this preparation for 2012? As a result, 2012 has passed, and there has been no major disaster! Ou Haosheng touched his head and said.
"The state still believes in the rumors of the 'end of the world'?" Begonia tongue.
"It's not a rumor." "Astronomers have found that the Earth has shifted by one point from its original orbit every year since 2012. This small deviation is imperceptible to human beings, but the environment on the earth has a huge impact, as you can see, in recent years, earthquakes, snow disasters, and tsunamis have occurred frequently, all of which are caused by changes in the earth's magnetic field. Not only that, but now the summer is getting hotter and hotter, and the winter is getting colder and colder, and if it goes on like this, I am afraid that the four seasons will disappear in the future, leaving only summer and winter, and the temperature difference between the seasons is huge...... The state is taking precautions in doing so. Every year during the harvest season, the state will purchase and store grain in a planned way. Even if the end really comes, the country's grain reserves can support everyone for five or six years......"
Zhao Nan interjected: "A friend of mine is studying soilless cultivation. β
"It turns out that the state has done so much when ordinary people don't know it!" Bai Tang sighed, "Are there many bases like this?" β
"If such a large project is built in large quantities, it will not be discovered by the people?" "There are not many such underground bases, only six in the country, respectively in the north, south, northwest and southwest, six large cities with mountains, each base can accommodate five million people. β
"Five million? There are more than a billion people in the country! If it's really the end of the world, what will most people do? A trace of anger rose in Bai Tang's heart, the number of places in the underground base is limited, and only those who have the right to have a way or have the money and ability can enter, right? If she is still a small citizen who has no ability, she is also one of those who are being abandoned. R1152