Annihilation of the solar system

Cao Rui followed the pre-planned route and drove all the way to the downstairs of an old eight-story building. After parking the car in a shop, he and Zhang Jie arrived at the building carrying large and small bags of luggage.

A house on the top floor.

They came to the window of a room. Cao Rui opened the curtains and pointed at the three-story building with a large area below:

"You see this is your goal."

Zhang Jie saw a line of red words "Shadu Big Data Network Center" brightly lit on the building at a glance. At this moment, the power consumption restrictions after the crisis era made the entire city look particularly dim, but the building was still brightly lit.

The building makes it more conspicuous. They are just in a position where they can overlook the entire building at a close distance.

Cao Rui took out a monocular telescope from the suitcase and propped it up by the window.

"You use this telescope to monitor people entering and leaving this building 24 hours a day, and then check their information to see if there are any valuable clues."

Zhang Jie fiddled with the telescope and asked:

"How can I check this if I can't use the Internet?"

A smirk escaped from the corner of Cao Rui's mouth, and he led Zhang Jie to the living room. He found the box and used a knife to open the seal. He took out a thick stack of information from it and handed it to Zhang Jie:

"Who said you can't query population information without the Internet and smart devices? I printed all the population information of Shadu City and surrounding areas in paper form in advance and shipped it over in advance, with four large boxes."

Zhang Jie took the stack of information and smiled bitterly:

"That's it? Oh my God!"

Cao Rui continued to open other boxes:

"Otherwise, what do you think the photographic memory of people's faces that I often emphasize is for? Now let's test ourselves!"

After speaking, Cao Rui took out a satellite map full of marks. The red cross on the map marked several places where there were no roads or any signs on the map.

"I'm going to take a rest. I'll go to these places early tomorrow morning."

Zhang Jie looked at the place with a red cross drawn on the satellite map that looked like a human ear. It was also the site of a thousand-year-old city. She asked:

"Are these places all nuclear test sites in the 1970s and 1980s?"

Cao Rui nodded:

"Well, I've seen the satellite map. The place you're looking at now is the most suspicious. Satellite maps from the past ten years show that there is a large underground spring forming an oasis there. The oasis disappears every two or three years.

It happened again, I have to go and see it in person."

Zhang Jie frowned:

"These places are endless deserts, with temperatures exceeding fifty degrees in summer and minus ten degrees in winter. Who can hide in a place like that!"

Cao Rui turned around and walked to another room:

"I just want to take a look if I don't know. If I know, I won't be too lazy to bother, so I'll go and rest first. It's a thousand kilometers back and forth!"

Early the next morning, the fish belly had just turned white in Dongfang. In the shop on the ground floor of a residential building, Cao Rui was loading supplies into a dusty off-road vehicle. Several large oil barrels and drinking water barrels were stuffed into the back seat and trunk.

, backup power supply, food, medicine and vulnerable spare parts of the car. Cao Rui took inventory of the things, closed the car door and said:

"That's almost it. These things are enough for me to go back and forth to the oasis deep in the desert."

Zhang Jie said anxiously:

"There are no roads after more than a hundred kilometers away from Shadu. It's all a vast desert. How about I go with you? I'll take care of you if anything happens."

Cao Rui squatted down and inspected the car's tires and suspension and said:

"If you really go with me, we may not be able to come back. This matter is settled. If you remember what I told you, I can come back safely."

Zhang Jie spread her fingers and counted while saying:

"Remember! After your locator is turned on, it will record your position. If you don't receive your satellite call for 24 hours or receive a rescue signal, report it to the headquarters immediately. That's all!"

Cao Rui stood up and opened the driver's door and said:

"Stay in the house, keep an eye on the big data center, and pay attention to your own safety!"

Zhang Jie is still a little worried:

"I know. Um...but..."

Before Zhang Jie could speak, Cao Rui got into the car and closed the door. He said:

"Stop it, there's nothing to worry about. I know it in my heart. I can't go to die in vain, right? Okay, go and open the rolling shutter door. I'm the least likely to attract attention when I go out of the city."

Zhang Jie still wanted to say something, but she had no way to say it. She could only open the rolling shutter door as Cao Rui said. Cao Rui drove the car and quickly disappeared around the corner of the street. Zhang Jie looked at the traces of his disappearance and felt something in her heart.

She was so uneasy that even she couldn't tell whether it was for public or private reasons.

Cao Rui drove his car on the desert with flying sand and rocks, just like an ant crawling on the sand, looking small and insignificant.

After leaving the highway, Cao Rui was very cautious. He got out of the car every hour to check the status of the car, rested when he was tired, and ate when he was hungry. He did not force himself at all, because he knew that in the desolate desert, anyone

Mistakes in tiny details may cost you blood.

As the journey progresses, the desert gradually shows its ruthless and cruel side. The huge temperature difference between day and night makes Cao Rui and his car endure the test of the four seasons every day. The violent wind and sand often make it difficult for him to see what is in front of him.

Road conditions.

What's even worse is that there are no identifiable reference objects in all directions in the desert. He can only follow satellite positioning and the relative positions of the sun, moon and stars to judge whether he is driving in the right direction.

At dusk on the second day after entering the desert, the bloody setting sun hung on the horizon surrounded by a flaming sunset. The dazzling sunset light and the churning heat on the ground intertwined with the skyline, and a row of looming trees appeared at the end of the vision.

The giant black shadow looks like a row of migrating ancient giants from a distance.

Cao Rui increased his vigilance and accelerated towards the row of giant shadows. As the distance got closer, he gradually saw the true face of those black shadows, which were rows of strange Yadan rocks that had been severely eroded by the wind.

He looked at the car's odometer and checked the satellite positioning. He judged that he should have arrived near the oasis on the map.

The Yadan rocks so close at hand, reflected in the halo of the setting sun, glared at me like giant Pangu gods. This oppressive momentum made even a seasoned and steady agent like Cao Rui feel a little jealous in his heart.

fear.

He stopped the car and checked around the car as usual. The strong wind and sand of the desert blew on his face, as if someone was pricking his face with countless small needles, and the strong wind blew from the jagged rocks in front.

The dull "ooh" sound coming out of the array is even more frightening.

His professional acumen told Cao Rui that the answer he wanted was probably in the Yadan Devil City ahead.

He calmed down, took inventory of his equipment, took out an ordinary-looking capsule from his inner pocket, put it into his mouth, and drove into the maze-like stone circle.

The afterglow of the setting sun makes the difference between light and dark in the stone formation very abrupt, and the black is bright and the black is bright. It makes this stone city like a maze of black and white pieces of paper, which is scary.

Unknowingly, Cao Rui had penetrated deep into the hinterland of the maze. The sound of the car engine echoed among the boulders, mixed with the weird sound of the wind, and was as breathtaking as the deep roar of an ancient monster.

He turned on the car lights, slowed down, and drove cautiously among the strange rocks the size of small buildings. His eyes scanned every inch of the place in front of him like a printer's ink cartridge passing through the paper. He opened the email sent to Zhang Jie.

Satellite positioning signal.

After a while, all the electronic navigation equipment he brought lost their signals. Without the guidance of the compass and satellite navigation, he could not see the stars in the sky. Cao Rui relied on intuition to navigate the maze of Yadan landforms.

Almost an hour later, the night gradually enveloped me, and the heat wave during the day began to gradually become biting.

After passing a gravel field next to a huge boulder, the front suddenly opened up. Cao Rui looked along the car's high-beam lamppost and saw a low basin in front of him. All the strange Yadan rocks stopped abruptly at his current position.

, the afterimages of several poplar trees in the middle of the basin swayed in the wind, like monsters with teeth and claws teasing crazily in the dark edge.