Chapter 37: To the top of the tower
After a few hours of sleep, the soldiers on shift woke me up. I slept groggily this night, although my head still hurt a little, but my physical strength recovered a lot. The symptoms of similar poisoning before have completely disappeared.
I really don't know if the "fog" itself is not too toxic, or if the person who rescued me did some first aid measures. Either way, it's good news for me right now.
Chen Zaihai on the side was still asleep, snoring loudly. I didn't see Talia, maybe she was resting in another room, although she was a foreigner, and there was no reason for a woman to sleep with us.
This level has also been thoroughly inspected many times, and there is no danger. There is no need for everyone to sleep together, to be honest, the smell on our bodies can only be described as strong after running for so many days. Talia definitely couldn't stand the smell, though she wasn't any better herself
Sure enough, the next time I find a river, it is imperative to clean my body after getting fresh water, I thought to myself. Especially you Chen Zaihai! The smell of feet is about to catch up with the chemical weapons of the Japanese!
The problem of taste cannot be solved now, so it is better to start with the present. I asked for my watch from the engineer who changed shifts, and it will be dawn in a few hours, so I will stand on this shift first, and I will talk about it when there is any problem.
After patting myself to wake myself up, I walked out of the dorm where I was sleeping. Little by little, the glimmer of light from outside the tower came in, and I could see the corridor within a few meters more clearly. It's nice to have windows here, and if the flashlight continues to be consumed like this, Talia will definitely kill me
The hallway is the same as the tower, with concrete and that strange black color. I think from the outside, the lighthouse must have blended in with the night around it. Is that the purpose? Built in such a depression, with a pure black tower, is this lighthouse trying to hide itself?
This is a bit of a, isn't the purpose of the existence of the lighthouse to be conspicuous? Whose sign will make it invisible to others? Isn't that putting the cart before the horse?
I quickly shook this ridiculous idea out of my head and focused my attention on the vigil. That's right, this is the second-story accommodation area of the lighthouse, and from the moment I showed up here, it was a sign that there were people here.
Although we have searched carefully, there is no absolute security in this world, and anything can happen while we are asleep. The dusty floor was littered with footprints left over from our search.
Footprints covered almost the entire floor, and you can tell how nervous we were at the time. The entire corridor is distributed in a U-shape, and the area we are in is formally at the bottom of the U-shape, and at each end are the stairs of the lighthouse.
If something happens upstairs or downstairs, we can deal with it more calmly, and the long straight corridor gives us a long buffer time. The signs of life here are very obvious, and I saw a lot of propaganda posters and things like duty schedules for the Japanese army at that time.
In addition to these walls, there are many photos, the content of which is some boring military life and small group photos. The well-preserved of these things is surprising, some yellowed, but the picture is still very clear.
At that time, we all checked these old photos one by one, and found nothing. The reason is very simple: first, the content of these things is almost the same life photos, and second, there is no Japanese understanding between us.
I can't imagine how boring the military reporters who took these photos were. As you can imagine, this is a Japanese-occupied area, and it is very stable for the Japanese in normal times, and this is also reflected in the reporters accompanying the army. They can also take these life photos very calmly. When the guys on the front line are very busy, it is really uneventful, and I can even feel the boredom that the photographer wants to express from these photos.
The duty of the military correspondent was to document the details of the war, and many of these records became valuable evidence after the war. These did not seem to be of much use, and the Japanese did not take them away when they retreated.
I wonder if the Japanese really retreated? The state here is more accurate than retreating. Everything here, whether it's a bed, a kettle, everything indicates that there should be people living here.
If it weren't for the dust that has been piling up for decades, I would have thought they were just going out en masse.
While I was thinking about it alone, it was getting brighter. It seemed that the night had been fine, and I looked up to move my stiff neck.
As my gaze moved to the ceiling, I suddenly felt that this place was a little different from before. By the time I realized what was going on, the chill crept down my feet and went straight up my back, and the joke got bigger, which was impossible, right?
As mentioned earlier, there is an old power generation room underground, and it is impossible for the diesel generator to run with rust into iron lumps. So it stands to reason that the power has been out of power for decades, but yesterday we were using miner's lamps and flashlights for lighting.
Engineers always say that the power system is very troublesome, and unscheduled maintenance will definitely cause trouble. I don't know what kind of technology the Japanese have, but it doesn't make it possible to power it again anyway, right?
I rubbed my eyes vigorously to make sure I wasn't dazzled. That's right! It's always been pitch black, and now there are a few red lights scattered on the ceiling! Although not all of them are lit, eighty percent of those that don't start are broken.
I know this stuff, it's found in all kinds of military and important buildings. It is an emergency light in the event of a power system failure. I don't know exactly what happened, after all, I'm not a major.
But no matter what, this light is definitely not for us to cheer on at this time, something is going to fucking happen here! Whether it's artificial or automatic, it's not a good sign when this thing lights up!
In a panic, I woke up Chen Zaihai and ran next door to call Talia. In the chaos, I just thought that something was going to happen here, and no matter what, I had to act quickly.
Chen Zaihai asked me what was wrong in a daze, and Talia also rushed over with her hair crossed, and the engineers were at a loss one by one. I told them everything about what I had just encountered.
They panicked when they heard that the emergency lights were on, and we all thought about countermeasures with expressions that thought the end of the world was coming.
"Then I said chiefs," suddenly one of the engineers whispered.
The three of us didn't hear what the soldier said for a while, and we thought to ourselves how to deal with the situation. It wasn't until a few more engineers joined the conversation that we realized his presence.
"Chiefs, I think you're too excited, and the matter shouldn't be as serious as the chiefs thought." The engineer continued.
As soon as we thought about it, how could we forget about these engineers! They are the real experts in this kind of thing, and they are the ones who deal with these systems on a daily basis, compared to technicians like us who have only been exposed to a small number of instruments in their specialty. Whether it is erecting lines or laying roads, these engineers can be said to be proficient in everything. At that time, this wave of people were senior architects, electricians, mechanical manufacturing and other professional talents.
"Chiefs, we have seen this red emergency light many times, and we have installed it a lot with our own hands. In the power system, the emergency light is a device that will only operate when there is a problem with the main power supply and the power supply direction is changed to other equipment. The red color itself spreads very well and consumes very little power. In the case of power shortage, it can be a good guide for the people in the building. So now that the emergency light is on, it means that there is another set of power supply equipment here, and it is running now, and the chiefs seem to have confused him with the alarm." The engineer soldier's voice became quieter and quieter, as if he thought it was not good for us "leaders" to say something that we "leaders" did not know.
To be honest, we have explained this strange relationship many times. Originally, we were only basic technicians, and there was no difference between the military rank and these engineers, so it was unnecessary to call us the chief here. We're just a little better than these kids in the wind and rain in terms of treatment.
But these engineers stubbornly believe that we are the first to take it, so we know much more than these hillbillies, and the one who comes from Beijing is the chief, and Ivan tells himself to obey our orders, so we are the chief.
After a long time, we are too lazy to continue to correct these engineers, loyalty is a wonderful thing, sometimes it needs to be cultivated year after year, and sometimes it is directly sublimated from this feeling called worship.
But anyway, after listening to this passage, we finally calmed down. Thinking about it, from the first time I saw them, I subconsciously thought that this was a warning of something.
At that time, the Soviet Union and the United States and other countries were tense over the nuclear issue, and China itself was also developing nuclear weapons.
It is actually a very humiliating thing to panic like this in front of these engineers. The prestige built along the way is in danger of collapsing.
So we immediately calmed down and began to discuss the situation with the engineers.
According to the engineer corps, in addition to the power generation room downstairs, there is another set of power supply equipment, which is prepared for the first set of inoperability, and it is impossible to speculate what kind of equipment it is, and it is likely that it is above us. As for why the engineering corps was suddenly activated, the engineers are not sure. It may be that someone has turned it on while we are not noticing, or it may have been turned on automatically periodically. Unlike normal power supply equipment, emergency systems are designed to be on standby for a long time, they do not require frequent maintenance, and are very stable and reliable.
Theoretically, even after more than ten years, it is possible that there will be no damage. The little soldier just said that if there was a lighthouse power blueprint, things would be much easier. They have seen a lot of such drawings, and the settings of the power control system are clearly drawn on the drawings.
"Speaking of which, things haven't changed a lot. If you want to find new clues, you can only climb up again, whether it is a drawing or an emergency power supply, maybe it is on it. "Chan Zaikaido.
Talia said: "Chen Zaihai is right, we were originally going to go up to the tower, but now it's just another reason to go up." ”
I looked down at my watch, and it was exactly 8 a.m. sharp.
I wound up my watch and began to pack what I had at hand. It doesn't matter if it's Longtan or Tiger's Den, how do you know if you don't break through. Now that we are independent and disoriented, all we can do is move on.
Now that I think about it, was it really just a sense of responsibility to carry out the task? I think it's not just a sense of responsibility, but also a curiosity in my heart, what happened here? I must have wanted to know at the time
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