Ultra-high frequency radio waves, or ultra-short wave wireless signals, are too close to the transmission distance compared with low-frequency and long-wave signals, so transmission towers and relay stations must be established, and transmission towers and relay stations must be built on higher terrain, otherwise it is easy to block the signal.

Astronomical Point and Sanctuary Bay are important highland strongholds in the Karakoram and are ideal locations for the establishment of transmission towers and relay stations.

Since the people of the Immortal Nation claim that they occupy Immortal Bay, their transmitter tower must have been built in Immortal Bay, and the Astronomical Point should be a relay base station for their broadcasts.

But Lin Xuexi still decided to go to the astronomical point to have a look first, because going to Immortal Bay also passed by the astronomical point.

On the way, Lin Xuexi finally couldn't suppress her strong curiosity, she felt very strange when she heard Horod, a pseudo-gentleman from the sun never set, speak fluent Chinese, but out of politeness, she never asked, well, it is really not easy to remain polite after such vicissitudes.

But when she saw the video message from the country of immortals, she realized that this was by no means explained by one or two Chinese generals who liked Chinese culture that appeared occasionally. Everywhere there is text in the video, it is Chinese, and the people in the video, regardless of skin color, all speak in Chinese, and even the narrator female voice is in Chinese, which is somewhat unusual and intriguing.

It was still the Hope that answered her, and Holod was sullen at this time because of her "pseudo-gentleman", and had no time to repay her grievances with virtue.

"After the 22nd century, due to the rapid rise of China's international status and the fact that China's population accounts for more than a quarter of the world's total population, Chinese has gradually replaced English as the world's largest language. Since the discovery of particle fusion, the world's economic capital and productivity have shown a blowout phenomenon, most citizens have more than ten nationalities, the cohesion and appeal of the country and the nation are gradually weakening, this situation is becoming more and more intense, extreme individualism and singleness have become the mainstream of society, people call this period the era of independence. In the middle and late stages of the independent era, the great integration of races in the sense of the world was completed, the mixed race accounted for more than 70 percent of the total population, racism gradually died out, and even the family began to gradually withdraw from the stage of history, and the vast majority of people pursued an unfettered and free life, and went to all parts of the world to study, travel, make friends and explore as they pleased, without being bound by family and friendship. China, compared to other countries, is safer and more tolerant, homosexuals and even pagans will not be discriminated against here, so China has always been the first choice for young people to travel and play, middle-aged people to start a business and invest, and elderly immigrants to spend their old age in peace, and learning Chinese is also a prerequisite for these, but Chinese nationality is the most difficult in the world to apply for, and it has always been. ”

Lin Xuexi is a little envious of these people who were born hundreds of years late, because the living state of the independent era is out of her reach, she wants to get rid of her relatives and friends, get rid of those overzealous fans, so she set herself a thousand-year travel plan, she can even imagine how angry and disappointed her relatives and friends were, how heartbroken her fans were, and how those Internet trolls abused and slandered her, but she still persevered.

This earth turns the same way without anyone.

Even now, she wants to get rid of these two people around her, and be alone and quiet, thinking about something, or being in a daze.

She felt that she should have depression, she was glad that she didn't want to be cured, this loneliness that no one could talk to was the best gift she received when she woke up in this strange world, and she enjoyed this loneliness.

The Hope landed smoothly in an open field near the astronomical point, and after briefly scanning the surrounding environment to make sure that there was no danger, the three of them changed into mountaineering suits in the cabin and walked out.

These mountaineering suits are tough and wearable, and can be used as bulletproof clothing, of course, provided that they are fired by conventional weapons. At the same time, it is also very warm, carrying two small oxygen cylinders on the back, which can effectively reduce altitude sickness, and the dense material makes it also block a large amount of radiation.

As far as the eye could see, there was a blanket of snow, and shoes creaked when they stepped on it. After the war, the global temperature has not recovered after 20 years due to the influence of nuclear winter and haze, and the average annual temperature is about 4 degrees Celsius lower than before global warming.

Following Hope's prompt, they quickly found the source of the video, a weather tower towering over the 5390 heights. Outpost 5390 is named after its altitude of 5390 meters, and is the highest point near the astronomical point, and the people of the Immortal Country have changed the weather tower into a signal relay station.

Outpost 5390 still has some dilapidated buildings, and there are no human or beast tracks nearby, and it has been a long time since there were any visitors.

The Meteorological Tower and the buildings below are plastered with propaganda posters of the Kingdom of Immortals, as well as slogans and slogans against Achilles' rule.

Finding no valuable information, the trio returned to the Hope and flew towards Fairy Bay.

Sanctuary Cove is so close to the astronomical point that Hope arrived almost in the blink of an eye. But for the sake of prudence, Lin Xuexi still decided to land on the side of the road about two kilometers away from Immortal Bay and walk over.

"'Crossing' and 'exploring' bases are our biggest secrets, and they are also an important bargaining chip for mankind to rebuild civilization, and we must not reveal our identities until we are uncertain about the political position of the Immortal Country." Lin Xuexi felt that she had to inform the two companions in advance, so as not to let them slip out. "We need to redesign our identities so that the people of the Immortal Kingdom don't suspect us."

"I think we can disguise ourselves as fleeing survivors." Horod suggested.

Their heads are covered with transparent airtight helmets, which are closely attached to their hiking suits, and from a distance they look very comical, like giant light bulbs that can walk. These transparent helmets are insulated from the air but not from the sound, and they are amazing, I don't know what material they are made of.

"I don't think so." Wen Xiu said. "There is no way that a fugitive can come to such a remote and dangerous place on his own, right? Besides, do we look like refugees now? She habitually tried to lift her glasses, but her fingers were blocked by the helmet and she had to give up.

The three of them looked at each other, and it seemed that the explanation of the refugees really did not work.

Holod said, "Do you have a better explanation?" ”

The two women frowned and thought for a while, and finally, Lin Xuexi raised her head and patted the weapon on her waist and said, "Let's go, let's see the situation first, it's really not good, and it's still there." ”

High-tech weapons made Lin Xuexi have blind confidence in himself, and he also misestimated their strength.

When the muzzles of dozens of black holes were pointed at them from all directions, Lin Xuexi realized how wrong he was. Obviously, their weapons were centuries apart, but in this situation, the Quantum Gun didn't have the slightest advantage over the regular weapons in the opponent's hands, except that it allowed her to kill two more people before being shot into a hornet's nest. The quantum gun in Wen Xiu's hand didn't even have time to open the insurance.

After leaving the stealth coating shrouded by the Hope, they were discovered by the radar of the Immortal Country almost instantly.

Lin Xuexi put down the weapon in her hand and raised her hands to show surrender, she had doubts about the bulletproof ability of the mountaineering suit she was wearing, and she didn't dare to try, after all, she still had two companions, and she felt that the two sides could sit down and talk calmly.

But they seem to believe that they are the chosen ones sent by Achilles, and no matter how much they deny them, it will be useless.

They were bound up in a huge open-air wire cage filled with a pungent stench, and the dirty snow was covered with black-brown blood.

On an iron frame not far away, a sharp iron hook hangs, and on an iron case below, rusty daggers and axes are placed.

Lin Xuexi closed her eyes, didn't dare to look any further, curled up in the corner and trembled violently, she just saw a tuft of hair under the iron frame, human hair, with a small piece of scalp on it, she didn't dare to imagine, it was terrible, beyond the capacity of her heart.

Many people gathered around the cage, pointing at them and judging them, apparently curious about their outfits, and using their enthusiasm for aliens on them, and a lot of snowballs and stones were thrown in.

Holod crouched there and whispered, while Wenxiu remained silent.

Lin Xuexi finally felt a little guilty, she didn't really care about her own safety, a long time ago, she had already looked down on life and death. But if someone else's life is threatened because of her decision, she will be very unhappy.

She still thinks in her heart that they were arrested by mistake for the Chosen One, and maybe she can solve the misunderstanding when someone on the other side comes to ask, but if she can't do it, she will tell them the truth, and believe that they will treat each other politely.

The people here are dressed in thick clothes, gloves and hats, and most of them have scarves around their heads and masks on their mouths, showing only two eyes, looking mysterious and eerie.

The onlookers gradually lost interest in them and became more and more scarce, until the last onlooker left, and no one came to interrogate them, not even torture.

The trio began to focus on the possibility of Hope being able to rescue them, and concluded that although the Hope AI had some learning ability, it was not autonomous, and the builders had set up a backdoor program for it in order to make it completely loyal to humans: if it acted against the will of humans, the core chip would automatically burn. So every one of its actions requires orders and authorizations, that is, it cannot be counted on at all.

It was getting dark, and the wind was blowing again, and the warmth of the mountaineering suit was obviously not enough here, and the three of them had not eaten anything since they woke up, and they had not even drunk a sip of water.

After half a day of worrying and campaigning for the future of humanity, they snuggled up to each other and spent the first night after being reborn hungry, cold, and terrified.

But this is only the beginning of suffering.

Early the next morning, several men armed with various murder weapons came to the outside of the iron cage, led by a bloated white man with the gaze of a falcon-like eagle, a huge scar extending from the left eye socket to the right cheek, almost cutting off the bridge of the nose, and obliquely cutting the whole face into two uneven hideous pieces.

"Welcome to the Land of Immortals, I am the king of this place, James Banrien, and now, I can tell you who you are and what you want to do." He took off his hat and put it on his chest, and even bowed slightly to make himself look less hateful.

The title of king seems abrupt and ridiculous in this post-apocalyptic world, but Lin Xuexi and the others are not in the mood to laugh now.

Lin Xuexi had to take off his helmet and salute back, and said solemnly: "Dear Mr. King, I think there may be some misunderstanding between us, we are not the chosen ones, you imprisoned us here for no reason, I am very disappointed and angry about this, this is an inhumane kidnapping, I hope you can give us a reasonable explanation." ”

"Oh, of course." Ben Ryan raised an eyebrow, "Of course I know that you are not the Chosen One, because there are no women among the Chosen One."

He sat down on the wooden chair he had brought with his subordinates, crossed his legs, and struck the hard snow stuck to the soles of his shoes with a large saw-bladed knife he had brought.

The men brought by Ben Ryan gathered around in an orderly manner, without making a sound, which made the sound of the back of the knife hitting the sole of the boot particularly harsh.

He raised his eyelids and saw the rusty iron hooks and axes over there, and said with some emotion: "No one has been up the mountain for several years." He swallowed two puffs of saliva with difficulty, took off his gloves, and slowly lit a cigarette, giving his men a look during the process, and then continued to smoke leisurely.

After they seized these two weapons that they didn't know how to use at all, they traced the footprints of Lin Xuexi and found a strange-shaped spaceship, but no matter how they used all means such as cutting and blasting, they couldn't destroy even a millimeter of the surface of the spaceship.

After Ban Ryan learned about it, he personally went to investigate, thinking that even with the current level of technology of the Alliance Organization, he was far from being able to build such a sophisticated spaceship, and he didn't know where these three people were, and under the suspicion and fear, he didn't dare to take further drastic actions, of course, after Lin Xuexi took off his helmet, his mind changed again.

"Who are you? Why did you come to our Immortal Country? One of his men asked, one of the few in the group who, like Ben Ryan, did not cover his face, with a dirty, curly black-brown beard and a low, hoarse voice that resembled the rock singer of a certain era.

Lin Xuexi felt that this was a good opportunity to clear up the misunderstanding, and hurriedly said: "We have no malicious intentions, we are from Fermi Company, our equipment is broken, we need manpower, we need your help." Her tone was a little impatient, but her attitude was extremely sincere.

"Fermi!" Ben Ryan almost exclaimed, as far as he knew, after the war, Fermi's factory, warehouse, laboratory, etc. were all destroyed and burned, and the personnel of Fermi were also judged by the angry righteous people, and now after 20 years, a few people actually came to drive the spaceship and said that they were from Fermi's company, how can people not be surprised.

There was a little commotion around the world, and the whole world knew that Fermi had been destroyed, and hundreds of thousands of employees, hundreds of scientists, and even cleaners and security guards were driven to the streets, playgrounds, basements, and slaughtered. Even if there are a few fish that have slipped through the net, how can they dare to say so blatantly that they are from Fermi?

Ban Ruien took two puffs of cigarette, narrowed his eyes, and asked Lin Xuexi and the others, "So, how do you prove it?" ”

Lin Xuexi took out his identity card and passed through the gap in the iron cage, "This is my identity card, just find a device that can scan." She couldn't wait to say that she really didn't want to spend even half a minute in this dirty, smelly place.

A person wrapped in black cloth carefully handed Lin Xuexi's identity card to Ban Ruien, without saying a word, it could be seen that he was very obedient to Ban Ruien, or rather afraid.

Ben Ryan took the card and glanced at it lightly, and said in a mocking tone: "Friends, please don't forget your current situation, you are not qualified to negotiate conditions. ”

Then he threw the card directly on the snow and said in an extremely arrogant tone: "Believe me, I am not interested in your identity, it makes no difference to me who you are. ”

Lin Xuexi was very angry by the other party's contemptuous attitude, and said in an accentuated tone: "I don't understand, Your Excellency the King. ”

Wen Xiu sneered on the side and continued, "Don't you understand, Xiaoxi? I can see it all, what bullshit fairy country is, it is a complete trap, what the last pure land of mankind, all fucking despicable lies and traps! They deceive the homeless and the homeless, and the Confederacy may be bad, but they are certainly worse. ”

Blood-stained iron hooks, sharp axes, foul-smelling iron cages, hairy scalps, and even human heads in the snow in the distance, with a long section of trachea and cervical vertebrae attached to it.

Wen Xiu found out about this very early, but she didn't dare to say anything, she was afraid that Lin Xuexi wouldn't be able to bear it, but things will always go bad like Murphy's Law, she can't watch Lin Xuexi, a stupid white sweet, being played by a monkey, and the truth will not become more cruel because it is told.

"I want to congratulate you! Beautiful lady. Although your guess is not very accurate, it is very close to the truth. Ben Ryan had a faint smile on his face, but he looked a little evil at this time.

"What are you doing to trick those people into coming?" Lin Xuexi may have realized something a long time ago, but she never wanted to believe it.

Ben Ryan grinned, revealing disgusting black and yellow teeth, "You'll find out soon." ”

He stood up, took out the key to the cage and threw it to his men.

The bearded man rushed into the cage with several men, and then Holod was forcibly taken to another adjacent cage.

Lin Xuexi and Wen Xiu were grabbed by several people, tearing off their clothes, they screamed, cursed, struggled, and bitten, but to no avail, their strength was too small.

Lin Xuexi has always been a pessimist full of misanthropy, once had suicidal thoughts, everyone said that there was nothing important except death, but when she really needed to die immediately, she sadly found that she could do nothing but cry.

Lin Xuexi was pressed to the ground by Ban Ruien, and there was cold and biting dirty snow under her, she had no strength to resist and began to accept her fate.

In her past and present lives, she had never been so desperate as she was now.

However, Wen Xiu didn't know where the strength came from, and suddenly rushed out from the side, throwing Ben Ryan to the ground, her long nails sank deep into Ben Ryan's face, and the middle finger of her right hand slashed into Ben Ryan's eye socket, and blood splattered out.

Ben Ryan howled in pain and rolled on the ground, but Wen Xiu's fingers slammed into his eye sockets as if they were growing on his face, and he even wondered if this finger would go straight through his eyes and into his brain if he used to push it harder.

The subordinates around them panicked and tried to pull it, and the king let out an inhuman scream, and his subordinates did not dare to pull it again.

Finally, in another scream, the victim and the abuser were finally separated, at the expense of one of Wenxiu's arms.

After the sharp scream, Wen Xiu's arm was cut in half by the sharp blade, and under the huge pain, a happy smile flashed on Wen Xiu's face, which made people shudder.

Then, the miserable king was carried away and bandaged for treatment, Wen Xiu was dragged out, the iron cage was re-locked, and there was an extra arm and a few pools of blood on the dirty snow.

Lin Xuexi curled up in the corner with her hands on her chest, listening to Wen Xiu's screams from time to time, trembling.

Lin Xuexi may have imagined the worst-case scenario and outcome before coming out of the base, but the cruelty of reality is often beyond people's imagination.

The three of them had lived in a relatively peaceful, peaceful and affluent society, and some cities in China had a tendency to stay open at night, but even at the peak of human civilization, there was still terrorism in the world, but it was so far away from their lives that they could not imagine why someone in the world could hurt others for no reason and lose their humanity to an outrageous degree.

Especially Lin Xuexi, although she likes to do the worst in everything, but in the face of people's hearts, she has always speculated with the greatest kindness, of course, this is undoubtedly a very high and beautiful character in the peaceful and prosperous world, but in the post-apocalyptic society that has survived nuclear war, nuclear winter, nuclear radiation and resource shortages, etc., cannibalism is no longer a rhetoric and metaphor used for irony and needlework in textbooks of some eras, human civilization seems to have suddenly regressed to the primitive society of tens of thousands of years ago. It is even worse than primitive societies, after all, most of the tribes of primitive societies do not feed on their own kind.

When it was almost dark, someone threw a dirty blanket into Lin Xuexi, and then quickly closed the cage door.

When it was darker, Lin Xuexi bit the corner of the blanket in his mouth and made a deep cut on his left arm with his right fingernail. Blood dripped down her clenched fists and onto her ankles, her teeth clenching desperately at the blanket, trying not to let her pain sound.

Finally, she took a small chip from her arm, carefully pushed the switch on it, and buried it in the snow beneath her.

It was a tiny signal transmitter that had been hidden on her for many years, and she didn't expect it to come in handy one day, though that hope was still very slim.

Then, she was left to her fate.