The whole team returned to the central console, Meng Feng's aftereffects from the electric shock were better, but his neck still twitched involuntarily.
The space was brightly lit, and several people gathered around the console, Lai Jie said: "Everyone hold on tight, we are going to turn over."
Lai Jie took out Zheng Feihu's card, swiped on the upside-down console, and raised his head to announce the security password.
System electronic female voice: "Identification, Colonel Zheng Feihu, chief instructor of K3 of the United Front Work Department, please enter your command."
Lai Jie said: "Destructive emergency in the sixth district, disaster response inquiry."
System female voice: "Testing, a major accident. The suggested operation steps are as follows, one: close the secondary seawater baffle in the whole area, and start the water injection process in the east area."
"Two: Turn on the water pump in the west area, and the gravity system and the vortex chamber will advance at the same time."
"Three: Activate the life-saving buoyancy airbag and restore the level. Throw away from the recoil operation room."
Rai Jie said, "Are you ready?"
System female voice: "Check the power system, please wait."
The light in the red and green areas is intricate, showing the extent of the damage of the entire sixth district under their feet. A topographic map is spread on the wall, surrounded by sonar maps of undulating seabed mountains.
Rai Jie said, "Let's begin."
"No." Liu Yan immediately said: "The order is cancelled, and the plan is revised."
System female voice: "Please enter the modified part."
Liu Yan: "The final order, get out of the recoil control room."
"What do you mean?" Reiji turned his head and asked.
Liu Yan signaled to wait a moment, and held his breath until the reading reached 100%, and the female voice from the system sounded again: "There is no better solution."
Liu Yan: "Look for secondary solutions."
System female voice: "None."
"What do you mean?" Lai Jie said, "Let's get started."
Liu Yan nodded slowly, and Lai Jie said, "Execute the plan."
Lai Jie entered the password again, and after a brief silence, a female voice from the system sounded: "The energy storage of the recoil safety brake failed."
Liu Yan said: "Forcibly start."
Female system voice: "Insufficient conditions, communication failure, unable to force start."
Liu Yan: "..."
Everyone realized that something was wrong, Liu Yan finally said: "Keep the recoil chamber, and force it to start in self-destruct mode."
System female voice: "Warning, warning, the current position is at the edge of the Guina Trench. After the self-destruct mode is activated, the United Front Work Department will lose its balance and fall into the Guina Trench. According to the calculation of the falling speed, the airbag cannot be released and will fall to the bottom of the trench."
Meng Jianguo was the first to understand.
Meng Jianguo: "Will it fall into the trench during the operation?"
Liu Yan nodded, pressed a button, and looked down at the screen on the bottom of his feet: "We are now less than one kilometer away from the edge of the trench, and the process of flipping... will cause more than 70% of the sixth area to turn over the trench and finally fall down .”
Everyone was silent, and the survivors in the corner stood up one after another, chattering:
"Can't float to the surface?"
"What are you doing?"
"Did the system go wrong?!"
"Quiet!" Li Yaomin said loudly.
Lai Jie said: "The airbag will be released when it is turned over."
Liu Yan glanced at Lai Jie and said, "No, it takes time to inflate the airbag. During the falling process, the airbag will gradually inflate, and the airbag will be lowered and flattened by the sea water, and finally... fall, the entire sixth The area was completely destroyed."
Meng Jianguo: "The first plan can be implemented, what went wrong?"
Liu Yan took a deep breath, his voice unsteady.
"If you turn on the... energy in the recoil turbine chamber and reverse propulsion, you can temporarily maintain balance. When the sixth area falls towards the bottom of the trench, the speed will slow down. Until the energy inside the turbine chamber is exhausted, the system will automatically throw Drop the entire turbine chamber, and use the recoil force of the last little bit of time to just reach the balance between buoyancy and gravity."
Meng Jianguo: "Can't remote command?"
Liu Yan: "No, the communication between the turbine room on the first floor and the central control platform has been cut off. And it is also very dangerous... If there is a slight deviation in the calculation, it will eventually..."
Meng Jianguo: "How much time does the overhaul take?"
Liu Yan looked into Meng Jianguo's eyes: "There is no way to repair it... the cable is outside, the first floor is where the octopus attacked first, the entire cable was pulled out, and it was completely destroyed."
Many people gradually understood.
"In other words, manual control is required," Raige said.
Liu Yan nodded and said: "It can only be controlled manually, and...after entering the steel bridge, the waterproof door must be closed. This is a unit made by imitating the technology of the former Soviet space station... change the fuel injection to turbo propulsion, and finally in space Center throws off the entire propulsion section…”
Meng Jianguo glanced at the map, recognized the red corridor, and said, "It's acceptable, Liu Yan, you are in charge of the central command. Others will protect him."
Meng Jianguo turned around, and Lai Jie said, "Stop! Who told you to go?"
Meng Jianguo said: "This is an order, wait here, Lieutenant Lai Jie."
"Jianguo." Li Yaomin said: "I understand, one person needs to be sacrificed to control the turbine room, right?"
Meng Jianguo nodded.
Zhang Min who was sitting in the corner got up when he heard this, and stepped forward, "What's going on? Is there no other solution?"
Meng Feng, Liu Yan, Lai Jie, Wen Qiege, Li Yan, Xie Fenghua, Li Yaomin, Meng Jianguo, Zhang Min and Caesar Ming surrounded the center of the console.
Li Yaomin said: "Can a small robot be used to operate it?"
Liu Yan said: "No, the process is very complicated, and there are no robots."
Li Yaomin said: "Jianguo, let me go."
Zheng Qi in the corner stretched his neck to look around, noticed something, and asked, "Mom! Where are you going!"
Li Yaomin said: "It's okay, Mom is going to turn on the machine, and I'll be right back."
"No." Meng Jianguo said in a deep voice: "Yaomin, you can't go, Feihu is waiting for you. I am the oldest here, and they are all children in their twenties."
Li Yaomin said: "Jianguo! How can you sacrifice yourself as a general? Where has your consciousness gone?! My son is one of the trapped people. In order to ensure that he returns to the surface of the sea alive, I have an obligation to go too. "
"I'll go." Lai Jie said: "I am the person in charge of this mission and also the commander. Everyone present must obey my orders. Sergeant Meng Feng, hand over the captain's position... From now on, you will be the captain of the Hurricane team."
Li Yan said, "No, boss, let me go."
"You all have vaccines worth six million dollars." Li Yan smiled and said, "My chances have already been used up. It is most reasonable for me to go. Don't fight... Feng Hua, don't cry, look, I want to be Hero... don't cry..."
Lai Jie said angrily: "I only have one life left! Li Yan, I order you to stay! You will get married when you go back!"
Li Yan said: "Liu Yan, where did you go?"
Meng Feng said: "Liu Yan."
Liu Yan hummed, without much response, Li Yan said: "Go through the corridor?"
Liu Yan no longer cared about the console, turned around and glanced at everyone, and said, "Determine who will go first, otherwise don't think that I will tell you what to do. Without my command, even going into the turbine room is useless."
"Master, you can't go." Meng Feng said in a deep voice: "Have you handed over the captain's position? Now I have the final say, right?"
Lai Jie: "You... Meng Feng!"
Meng Feng patted Liu Yan's head and said: "I cooperate with Liu Yan the most tacitly. I'll turn on the turbine. Liu Yan, you can direct here."
"No!" Meng Jianguo roared angrily.
At that moment, everyone around stood up, one or two of them looked very dazed.
Lai Jie said: "Listen, everyone listens now, I am the commander of this operation..."
Meng Feng: "It's already me."
Lai Jie: "Don't interrupt! Who here has no relatives? No lover? You are not afraid of the pain of your relatives? How will you support them in the future?"
"Let's follow the principle of sacrifice, first screen out those who have relatives." Lai Jie said: "Secondly, those who have value are screened out, and those who have vaccines are screened out. So, finally, I don't talk, okay, don't talk, Let's say goodbye, don't cry... Liu Yan, tell me where to go."
Wen Qiege, who had been silent in the corner, came over and said, "What is the principle of sacrifice? I haven't heard of it. No matter how many lives there are, draw lots. Non-staff personnel have nothing to do with you, so don't make trouble."
He was holding a box with five balls of paper in it.
"Yaomin." Meng Jianguo pressed Li Yaomin's hand and said in a deep voice, "Go back to your son, you are a non-staff member."
Li Yaomin: "Feihu didn't come, I did it for him. You can't let the children die..."
"Stop talking!" Meng Feng said, "Master, it's none of your business!"
Meng Feng stepped forward and took a ball of paper and shook it: "This lot belongs to my father."
Meng Jianguo said: "Put it back!! Meng Feng!"
Meng Jianguo couldn't help saying that he reached out to fetch the ball of paper, Wen Qiege moved aside with the paper box, and said, "General, your chance is gone, what about Meng Feng's?"
Liu Yan also took a ball of paper: "I caught this for Meng Feng. Either of us will be randomly drawn, and I will stay behind. Meng Feng will go."
Lai Jie looked at Wen Qiege, Wen Qiege smiled and said: "Catch it, you won't be disappointed."
Lai Jie nodded, and silently took a ball of paper.
Li Yan also took one, and Feng Hua, with red eye circles, leaned on his shoulder and cried loudly.
Li Yan put his arms around his shoulders and comforted him softly.
There is also a ball of paper in the box.
"Let's open it." Wen Qiege picked up the last ball of paper and said politely, "Who will open it first?"
Lai Jie opened the ball of paper, blankly, frowned and said: "What's going on? Brother Wen?!"
Wen Qiege smiled, made a "shh" gesture, and said, "Finish all the opening first."
Li Yan handed the ball of paper to Xie Fenghua, motioning for her to open it, and it was blank.
Xie Fenghua fainted, Li Yan hurriedly said: "Fenghua!"
He hugged her to the wall, touched her forehead, Wen Qiege's eyes followed Feng Hua, and then turned to look at Meng Feng.
Meng Feng and Liu Yan hugged each other tightly.
"You drive first." Meng Feng whispered.
Liu Yanyi was in front of Meng Feng's shoulder, Meng Feng hugged him and shook him, Liu Yan opened the paper ball, blank it, and threw it away.
Meng Feng opened the ball of paper, it was blank.
"Brother Wen." Liu Yan turned his head sideways, his eyes shifted from the note in Meng Feng's hand to Wen Qiege's eyes, his voice trembled.
Wen Qiege had a pleading look in his eyes, tears in his eyes, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, as if he was very happy. He shook his head imperceptibly towards Liu Yan, as if begging him not to say anything.
Wen Qiege rubbed the ball of paper with his slender fingers, opened it, and there was a heart-shaped symbol inside.
"It's me." Wen Qiege took out a letter from the pocket of his military uniform, glanced at everyone, and handed it to Meng Jianguo.
Meng Jianguo took it, Wen Jige turned around, faced them, and walked slowly backwards.
"Goodbye, Brother Wen." Zhang Min said.
"Goodbye." Wen Qiege nodded and said, "Brother Min, thank you for teaching me so much."
Lai Jie shouted: "No! The one just now doesn't count! Draw lots again! He cheated!" Lai Jie chased after him, Wen Qige turned sideways, ran up the steel bridge, and shouted: "Meng Feng, help me catch him! "
"Brother Wen!" Lai Jie shouted, "You can't go!"
He grabbed Wen Qiege, Wen Qiege suddenly hit Lai Jie's temple with an elbow, knocking him unconscious, then hugged him, and slowly put him on the ground.
"Liu Yan, goodbye! I have redeemed my sin!" Wen Qiege shouted from a distance: "Li Yan! I wish you a happy new marriage! Treat Feng Hua well! Boss! Meng Feng! Come on!"
Liu Yan shouted: "Brother Wen! Are you doing magic tricks?!"
Everyone understood at that moment, Wen Jige ran into the turbine room.
"The turbine chamber power flow is on."
Silt and sand flew up on the bottom of the sea in an instant, and all the water pumps buzzed at the same time, making loud noises.
The United Front Work Department buried in the deep sea slowly turned upside down again, with more than half hanging over the edge of the trench, and the floor tilted towards the west. After the entire sixth district was restored to level, it fell towards the Guina Trench.
Feng Hua opened his eyes.
The recoil force of the turbine chamber opens.
The huge sixth area slowly descended above the bottomless trench, and the water erupted from the turbine room could not stop pushing this giant, and the lights were turned on, illuminating the deep seabed rift with a radius of ten miles.
The sixth area continued to fall, and six large airbags were released from the top floor, inflating slowly, like a snow-white parachute, and like a huge balloon on an ark airship in the last days.
Wen Qiege pressed the last button, and there was a loud bang, and the entire bottom of the sea trembled uncontrollably. A jet of airflow was ejected from the turbine chamber in the opposite direction, pushing the United Front Work Department to a high place, and then slowly fell in the dark trench.
Wen Qiege finished the task, walked to the edge of the turbine room, opened the Bible through the glass window, glanced at the white letter spread in the middle of the book, and the beautiful handwriting, then looked up, watching the sixth district slowly drifting towards the sea.
"Brother Wen." Liu Yan whispered, "Goodbye."
Wen Qie's voice came from the communicator: "Don't tell her, Liu Yan, goodbye."
The turbine room fell into the trench, the communicator was cut off, only the rustling sound of the current remained, and then it was completely silent.
May 13, 2013.
21-year-old Wendi staged the last magic show with his own life. The greatest magician in history made a grand curtain call and left us to go to the lonely, cold deep sea alone.
When I tried to expose him, he begged me to "don't say anything" except to hand over a letter.
The letter said that a long time ago, he followed Lin Musen's orders and killed two people. Brother Wen still remembered their names, and he was always uneasy. Fortunately, Fenghua enlightened him.
He has no relatives in this world anymore. He listed his names and asked Meng Jianguo to find a way to find the family members of those two people—if these people were still alive, he would distribute his meager pension to them in two, and Apologize to them on his behalf.
Brother Wen, let’s go, you have not only redeemed your sins, but you are also greater than any of us.
Although your magic is only five paper balls, I will forever remember this most splendid performance ever.
The moment you spread your hands, the patterns on the paper are like thousands of fireworks blooming in the darkness. Let us see a ray of dawn between the stars and the sea in the long night of drifting ashes.
—Middle volume·Long Night of Ashes·end—