gentle collapse

I began to enter the tunnel with the technicians, and spent days and nights underground, struggling to calculate the remaining time.

On August 8, the detection machine issued an early warning: at the bottom of the excavation machine, there were only two kilometers of detectable rock layers left.And the deeper underground, it is impossible to survey the situation.Therefore, the planning department temporarily changed the route and adopted a T-shaped excavation route.Place the core command machine on a safe plane, and hang down the excavator to control the rails and avoid accidents.

On September 9, we broke through the last rock layer. The machine was suspended in the air, protected by a main shaft and twenty load-bearing ropes.An abyss appeared in front of us, and in the middle of the abyss, there was a silver light.We tried to see the inside of this deep pit clearly, but there was nothingness as far as the light could reach.

A mechanical grapple made temporarily was put down, approaching the silvery light.The hook dangled a few times and disappeared.The steel rope swayed a few times... A few seconds later, like a ignited bomb fuse, the silver light shot up quickly, burning everything.

I ran out from behind the control platform, took the chainsaw, and saw through the wire before the light swallowed everything.After the bright light swallowed up the length of the steel rope, it lay quietly on the surface for a while. There was no movement. I lowered my head to take a closer look.

"Be careful!" Sun Ke pulled me back, and I saw that the rocks around the light were disappearing rapidly, and the light fell down in the center due to lack of support.

Everyone present stood there with almost the same expression, and they didn't relax for a long time.

Everything that follows will be taken over by Liu Yuan's technology team, and I still play a dispensable role here.I don't understand anything, like a humanoid obstacle stationed here.I kept checking the information, trying to catch up on basic scientific knowledge, and I also attended all the meetings, following behind Liu Yuan, hoping to help her a little bit.Because, in the history written long ago, I can find a way to retrieve the traverser.

But I don't have any clue.

I touched my missing half of the sole of my foot, and sat under the lamp without thinking.That half of the sole of the foot was taken away by the silver light.At that time, after being pulled back by Sun Ke, I fell to the ground because of my unstable center of gravity. When I stood up again, I felt a little unstable.Strangely, my foot didn't bleed, and the skin on one half of the foot was closed and smooth, as if I was born with a deformity without the other half.

But it's not a big deal, stuffing cardboard and cotton in front of the shoes, and slowing down the pace of walking to deliberately hide my disability, no one can see my disability.

The important thing is, where did the devoured things go?Liu Yuan seems to have made a lot of progress. These days, everyone's emotions are very high, and some people have even been sleepless for several days.I can't stay there all the time, my parents will worry if I don't come home all night, and I have to visit Zheng Yi's mother and chat with her.

Although it was early autumn, the weather was still hot and dry. I lay back on the bed with a bunch of messy thoughts in my head.I used to work very hard to become a gentle person, not to complain about life, to have my own goals, and to live a good life in the future, but when I was cut apart, I was just a selfish person.I was so selfish that I almost ignored everyone around me.To be honest, I have never been particularly nice to anyone, I have a bad temper, and I have developed a stubborn fragile nerve, and I always look gloomy from time to time.That's it, there are also people who are willing to treat me well and treat me as a friend.

I was restless and unable to calm down, so I got off the bed, put on my coat, and ran to the laboratory.I don't have time to think about it and feel dejected. When I do something, I either have to work very hard, or I don't want to do it at all. Sometimes I regret why I didn't do my best.

I went straight into the tunnel, Sun Ke was not there, there was only one worker on night shift inside.

"Xiao Zhang, how's the situation?" I walked over and patted him on the shoulder.

"Why are you back again?" He flipped through the materials in his hand, his voice slightly tired, "Great progress, Professor Liu has determined the engulfing radius of the silver light, outside the radius, the engulfing speed decreases exponentially, and the period Longer. She explained that a collection point should be built ten meters away from the center of the silver light. By the way, you may not know that Professor Liu has already been able to use it. It's a good start. She just left, it seems that she doesn't plan to sleep tonight."

I looked down and saw that there was indeed a silver bracket protruding from the black hole, and it seemed that this was where the collection point was established.

I said to him, "Give me the information, go take a nap, and I'll watch over it for you."

He covered it with his hands and yawned, then nodded: "Then it's hard work for you."

I flipped through the newly added information, and it was marked: "Extreme speed devouring range: 15 meter, high-intensity radiation area: [-] meters..." There are some graphs and formulas behind it, and I can't see it based on my knowledge reserve How is the safe and efficient distance of ten meters derived?

I squatted by the reinforced hole, looked down at the light, and felt that it was hanging so quietly, looking a little gentle.I wanted to get close to it, even though the cardboard in my shoe reminded me that it was a terrible idea.

I turned the material over and drew a concept map on it.If another support is built on the opposite side of the already built mechanical support, a huge mirror is placed on one side, and the lighting device is welded on the top.The other party set up a telescope, like a periscope, using a long steel pipe mast and reflectors to increase its height, so that the scene inside can be seen safely in the tunnel above.

If nothing else, it should work.

The idea of ​​my device is too crude. When I talked with Sun Ke the next day, he called a person from the scientific research team to help design it. The device was quickly produced and put into use.

The machines placed by Liu Yuan at the collection point pushed the speed of research to an unprecedented peak, and good news came every day.My duty has become to observe the state changes of objects when they fall into the silver light. The pictures captured by the ultra-high-speed camera are projected frame by frame, and I observe them. In fact... there are no useful discoveries at all.

They have completely fixed the position, distance, and angle. Such observations are isolated and there is no comparative data.Together with Xiao Zhang, I adjusted the angle of the machine and set up a spherical mirror so that it can see the bright bottom.

Its bottom is pure black, and the image reflected there is covered with a layer of black mist.When pouring water into the silver light, there will be faint water ripples in the black mist on its opposite side.In order to find a breakthrough, I threw all kinds of things into it.A fish bone finally broke the deadlock.

I saw the moment when the fish bone fell, there was a live fish in the waves of the bottom, it only appeared for a few seconds, when its tail disappeared into the camera, I didn’t know what it meant .

But I know one thing clearly, that ray of light definitely didn't burn everything down, those things got inside, and some changes even took place.I wanted to go down and see it for myself, but this was met with opposition.Because it is easy to get in, but there is no way to get out.

But I am not afraid, because Sun Ke has seen me in the future, which means that I will definitely not be buried here.The established future gave me tremendous courage and confidence in an ambiguous way.As long as I don't die, I can come back with a discovery.

I looked for an opportunity, and in the middle of the night, I jumped down there alone.

There is... calf-deep water below, a bunch of machines that accidentally fell in order to survey the situation, they are intact, but they can't start.I climbed onto the pile of machines, took off my shoes, and rolled up my wet trouser legs.The sole of my foot is also back.

This is what a large library looks like, and the top of my head is not a silver light, but the ceiling.It's not at all like the place I was looking for.It doesn't have the slightest mysterious meaning, it is dusty everywhere, with a dusty smell.

I jumped down, waded to the bookshelf, took out a book, and flipped to a page. The content was so trivial that it made people drowsy. Write things in the way that elementary school students keep a running account.I put the book on the shelf, and walked down the aisle, and walked, and never came to an end.

It looks like there are only a hundred square meters here, but it seems to be able to extend infinitely in all directions.Books are like dormant fleas, which may leap towards me at any time.In fact, just walking in it made me feel oppressed.I looked at the bookshelf standing in front of me, as if the only thing that could provide clues now were these books.I frowned and pulled out another book.

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Lin An turned sideways, looked at the gray-black silhouette of Lin Jing's head, and said, "If one day I leave, all my things will be placed in the place we agreed on. The aluminum box is right next to me. under the desk."

Lin Jing understood what his younger brother was worrying about these days.In this era of traversing chaos, everything can fall apart in an instant.The relationship between people and others becomes delicate, and it is difficult for people to recognize their own value. Everything is like a plant floating in time and space without roots.

Lin Jing followed his words and began to explain: "My things are here." He knocked on the wall beside the bed, and there was a sound of metal knocking, "Do you remember where you put the keys?"

Lin An's voice was full of exhaustion, his head was full of uneasy speculation about the future, he said, "Remember."

Lin Jing remembered that when he was Lin An's age, he had the same thoughts as him, or more extreme.He is very different from Lin An. Lin An is cowardly and introverted, and has a natural indifference to external things, while he was a jerk in adolescence.He has always been relentless when it comes to fighting, and he doesn't stop when he sees blood.And then the retribution came... for no reason, his younger brother would often go home with injuries.

He can't beat children, he can only teach them verbally, but what's the use of that?Lin Jing looked at his younger brother who was covered in bruises all over his face and kept silent, so angry that he almost exploded.Later, he would run to the gate of the elementary school to pick up people immediately after school, and he stopped fighting with others.He didn't want to see other people huddled in a corner and being beaten silently, there would be Lin An's shadow on those people.

When Lin An was young, whenever he saw Lin Jing, he would raise his hands high, waiting for Lin Jing to lead him.His hands are very soft, when Lin Jing holds his hand, his heart will soften.He became what he is today, not so much that life has polished his edges and corners, so that he can only live in a gentle and helpless way, it is better to say that Lin An's existence has dulled his temper.

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The book fell, and my hand maintained a rigid posture. When I lowered my head, I looked through my fingers and focused on the book lying on my feet.Its cover is a city looming in thick fog, and its name is "Gentle Collapse".

I picked it up, stepped back, went to Row L, and found "The Naked Jacket".