Ten Billions of Stardust on the Wire

*November 11 at 27 o'clock

It was almost 9 o'clock in the morning when Wang Yang and others arrived at the base station of the Eastern Signal Tower. The decoding sent by An Qi was correct, and the abandoned base station equipment was successfully started.

Wang Yang didn't know how many people died on the way from the [Danger Shelter].He, Meng Liang, Zhang Youbei, and the three groups led by a retired veteran, Lao Xing, completely lost contact for a long time on the road, and did not confirm the safety of the Fourth Army until they climbed to the top of the mountain.

Once the old signal tower is restarted, the surrounding electronic equipment will be affected. Amidst the noisy electric current, the four people hold their breaths and concentrate, their heartbeats stuck in their throats, and their four hands are placed on the launch joysticks of their respective [Stardust] interference.

"The countdown is three seconds!" Wang Yang said.

Scenes of the purgatory world outside the window of the base station floated in front of my eyes, the waves of fire were raging, and the figures of people were distorted and melted.Fragments of the crashed plane, splattered corpses, minced blood, fragile screams, and the trembling of the ground under their feet were all crushed in the pungent smoke.

"three--"

Wang Yang saw the child wrapped in a blood-red raincoat lying on his lap, holding a long-legged rabbit in his hand, staring blankly at the sky.His face was exactly the same as he remembered.

"two--"

Wang Yang suddenly thought of Yu Linyuan.The back figure standing outside the window sill in the snowy night, ignoring the abyss [-] meters below his feet.He stands firmly on the fragile line of fate like a steel wire, not afraid of life or death.

"one!"

Simultaneously pull down the launch joystick in all directions! !

silence.silent.

one second—

two seconds—

three seconds...

Wang Yangti's heartbeat stopped in his throat.silence.The sound of explosions outside the window was still there.

Useless.

[Stardust] The plan...failed.

The tense string in Wang Yang's mind broke.

The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. He thought he was mentally prepared for this.He hugged his head and squatted against the wall, the tinnitus sounded like a straightened electrocardiogram

"Team Wang? Team Wang!"

When Wang Yang heard someone calling him, he hugged his head tightly.He is no longer a "team Wang"! The position of the head of the E district bureau was removed three years ago!

He is just an ordinary police officer, he is not worthy of that "team bark"!

He can't even take care of his own brother!How is he worthy!

"Team Wang! Wang Yang!" The shouting middle-aged woman slammed Wang Yang's hand covering his ear, her nails almost digging into his flesh.

Wang Yang looked back in a daze, having the illusion of seeing his high school head teacher—triangular glasses framed, bench-top short hair with a few white hairs that couldn't be concealed, and semi-permanent eyebrow tattoos that revealed an ominous blue-black color.

The middle-aged woman pointed to the operation screen: "I just checked the equipment parameters, and there is a problem with the antenna of our signal tower."

"The downtilt angle of the antenna is not enough, it can't cooperate with the other three towers, and the signal coverage is not enough, so it doesn't work," she gestured to the model of the tower crown.

"It is reasonable to say that there is an electronic downtilt adjustment system, but this tower has been abandoned for too long, and no one maintains it. Most of the top of the tower is rusted. Now the only way to adjust the downtilt is mechanically."

"Mechanical debugging..." Wang Yang knew nothing about signal tower maintenance.

"It means to find someone to go up and break it manually," said the middle-aged woman with two lines of law around her mouth.

"Climb...up?" Wang Yang looked up at the spire of the tower in the thick smoke. This tower is 1800 feet high, which is nearly 550 meters in conversion.

"Yes. Climb up." The middle-aged woman was very sure.

Wang Yang nodded. He spread his palms and looked at his worn bloody gloves, and said, "Okay, I'll do it."

I'm a policeman, whoever I don't want to go to!Wang Yang took a long breath and said to the middle-aged woman, "I'll leave it to you to calculate the downtilt angle data. I really don't know how to do that."

The middle-aged woman smiled kindly, and the more she looked, the more she looked like the head teacher of a high school.

"Team Wang! I'm going up the tower too!" A young man raised his arms and shouted.His face was stained by soot, and one ear was bleeding, but Wang Yang recognized him as the young man who followed him up the signal tower mountain, Tang De'an of the General Administration Team.

One more person, one more guarantee, in case you fall...

"Okay," Wang Yang agreed.He smiled at Tang De'an, the smile was a little tired, and there was a gentleness in the tiredness.

They fastened the safety rope and climbed up the ladder hanging outside the signal tower. The metal of the ladder was seriously corroded, and the smell of blood and rust on the gloves could be smelled through the mask.The ground became far away, and only the endless smoke and dust remained in the field of vision, as if in a desert.

Wang Yangbie took a deep breath at the beginning, he was afraid of heights, otherwise when Yu Linyuan stood outside the windowsill of his house that day, he wouldn't be so terrified.He tried not to look around, concentrating on his hands and feet.

Yu Linyuan also once stood at a high place to breathe, and the light clothing material was floating in the cold wind, half blue, half pigeon blue, and the silver bells rustling all over his body.He is obviously a clown on a tightrope, but he has the aura of a ballet dancer looking down on all living beings.

Wang Yang didn't dare to close his eyes. When he closed his eyes, his mind was full of Yu Linyuan standing on the steel wire.

Did he never know how to be afraid... Standing at such a high place... Wang Yang couldn't help thinking.

Tang De'an climbed very fast, and the distance between the two kept shrinking. He gasped through the respirator and shouted: "Come on, Team Wang! It's still a quarter away! We'll be there soon!"

"How about I go up first, Captain Wang, take a break? The cut on your back is bleeding!"

If Tang De'an didn't remind him, Wang Yang almost forgot the injury on his shoulder blade. Every climbing movement would pull the wound, and Wang Yang was already numb.He didn't stop, "I'm fine, keep in shape, keep going."

Every time he climbed a level, the fiery ground receded, and the demonic cloud of aircraft oppressing his head was getting closer and closer. Wang Yang could almost see the alternately flashing red warning lights under the wings.

Simply the transmitting antenna is not at the top of the tower, but on the upper plate of the tower.When the two arrived, they clung to the trunk of the tower, which was only as thick as a bucket. They seemed to be able to feel the tower shaking slightly in the explosion on the ground.Wang Yang was a little dizzy, he couldn't remember how long he hadn't eaten.

"Team Wang, let me do it," Tang De'an buckled the safety buckle of the safety rope on the ring support of the tower body, took out the maintenance tools tied to his body, and operated it skillfully.

"Are you from the General Administration?" Wang Yang asked.

"Yes," Tang De'an replied, his man on hand quickly cleaned up the rusted part.

"Which branch of the General Administration is it? Maybe I know your captain," Wang Yang said.

"Squad 307."

Wang Yang nodded, "Xiao Tang, what's your police number?"

Tang De'an paused his hands and grinned at Wang Yang, "Wang team suspects me?"

Wang Yang was silent for a moment, then said, "There is no one named Tang in Team 307 of the General Administration."

He took advantage of the brief Q&A to check the link in Team 307 of the Public Security Bureau, and there was indeed no such person as "Tang De'an".Regardless of whether Tang De'an temporarily made up a team number or police number to fool him, from the moment he hesitated, Wang Yang decided that he was lying.

At that time, the crowd was divided into four groups, and those who joined Wang Yang's "tower attack team" at the beginning all reported their identities.Although the scene was chaotic, as long as Wang Yang heard it, he remembered it in his heart.Tang De'an was very active and dared to rush to the front. Wang Yang was very moved, but at the same time he felt a little puzzled.

A policeman can have no name, but he can't have a police number. That is the glory of being a people's policeman in his life.At that time, the other police officers who joined all shouted their own police numbers, but Tang De'an shouted his name.

Wang Yang's intuition is very accurate, he feels that he has not wronged a good person.

Tang De'an did not refute, he continued with the work at hand, adjusting the antenna according to the calculation result of the middle-aged woman.He wiped the sweat from his forehead and shouted into the pager: "It's all done! It should work this time."

His voice was very loud, as if he was afraid that the operators of the base station below would not be able to hear him.The earphones were filled with a crackling noise.

Tang De'an turned back to face Wang Yang, and sighed softly: "Captain Wang, have you ever thought that the reason I revealed my name is that I want you to remember me!"

After the word "I" exited, Tang De'an shot like lightning, and a thin silver light pierced through the air!Wang Yang subconsciously blocked, dodging Tang De'an's attack from the side and rear.The ring radius of the movable platform on the tower body is less than the length of two feet, half of Wang Yang's body is already hanging outside.Tang De'an is also half hanging outside.

Wang Yang suddenly realized that he had blocked the attack with a table knife just now, probably the one that Yu Linyuan tied to his arm to facilitate his escape when he was thrown into the garbage dump by Yu Linyuan before.

And what Tang De'an held in his hand was a syringe!Empty syringe!

If Tang De'an wanted to sabotage the attack on the tower, he could have done it long ago. He didn't have to wait until he climbed the signal tower to start, let alone help repair the antenna.He actively climbed the tower and followed me all the time... Could it be that his target is only me? !Who ordered this child to do this... Wang Yang is puzzled.

There was a faint silver light floating on the two-inch-long needle of the syringe. Being injected with a tube of air in the blood vessel was a very painful way to die. Wang Yang would rather jump off the tower.

"You're going to kill me."

Tang De'an shook his head sincerely, "Captain Wang, I just want to take something from you—"

Before the words finished, Tang De'an actually flew over!The whole person is completely out of the tower body!

Seeing the situation, Wang Yang hugged the tower stem, and when Tang De'an was about to fall off the tower, he turned around and grabbed Tang De'an's safety rope.Wang Yang yelled: "You don't want to die!"

How can you be as virtuous as Yu Linyuan... so high and still jump down!They are not afraid of death!

You are still young, what can't you say!Whoever ordered you to do this must have an explanation.If you admit death and fall to your death for no reason, what will your family members, your parents, brothers, sisters, they, they think...

Wang Yang recalled the cyber gangsters he had encountered fighting with knives on the street when he was working in the E District Bureau.He has said many times about criticizing and teaching, and Wang Yang will be very happy once someone corrects his evil ways.He really couldn't bear to see Tang De'an ruin his young life.

But this time Wang Yang didn't have time to speak, he felt something was wrong, there seemed to be a tingling pain under his stomach, a cold stinging pain.He searched along the stabbing pain, and found a fresh blood stain on his abdomen!The blood spread quickly, outlining the wound on the abdomen.

The syringe in Tang De'an's hand is full.

And he was holding Wang Yang's table knife in the other hand, the tip was bloody, "Captain Wang, has anyone ever told you that your heart is too kind, and a person with too kind heart cannot be a good policeman."

The blade in his hand pressed against the safety rope, and the rope broke, and it was Wang Yang's one that broke.

Wang Yang fell from the high tower, and the red taillights of the sky-filled aircraft flashed alternately, like a group of discordant stars.Wang Yang closed his eyes and stretched out his limbs. It turned out that the high place is windy.

Wang Yang...

Blue Mill, Yu Linyuan witnessed everything.

The immersive effect of the holographic live broadcast was very realistic. Wang Yang fell from the tower and became a blurred point in the smoke. Yu Linyuan wanted to reach out and grab him, just like Wang Yang once dragged him back from the edge of the abyss outside the window.

But he couldn't catch it, not at all.

Too far. Between Area A and Area M, it's too far away.

Wei Qingyu didn't shoot when Yu Linyuan left the sofa, because there was no need to control him anymore.Wei Qingyu dragged a three-dimensional imaging syringe in his hand, it was the one in Tang De'an's hand!

"Tang De'an is Z357, just like Z01, Z03, and Z09, a bionic human derived from [Wei Qingyu]'s system," Wei Qingyu threw the syringe to Yu Linyuan, without hesitation.

He said before that it was easy to get the key from Wang Yang, and it turned out to be true.

"The storage medium of the second restricted key is in it, and it takes about 3 minutes to crack it. Wang Yang may never know that he was so important in his whole life. He is the container of the key."

The projected syringe floated in the air, and it was filled with a light yellow translucent liquid like plasma drawn from Wang Yang's body.

Container, using a living person as a container... Yu Linyuan felt sick.

"...Why is that thing in his body?"

Wei Qingyu was aggrieved by Yu Linyuan's stare, "You should ask Wang Zicheng this question. He is your creator, he created a part of me. At the same time, he also created Wang Yang."

Wang Zicheng...created...Wang Yang? !