That night, it was the last time Zhang Tongmeng saw the old chief. At the same time, it was also the first time he met the man named Ning Hanqing.
Ning Hanqing secretly helped the Communist Party before the founding of the People’s Republic of China, and became a recognized red intellectual after the founding of the People’s Republic of China. In this mission, he became the highest person in charge, and everyone called him Captain Ning.
Zhang Tongmeng and everyone went by car to a place called Changning, and never saw Ning's history again along the way. Until they transferred all the people from a village, they had to enter a gorge the night before. The old intellectual with sharp eyes like a lone wolf found him.
He said, it's time to explain to you the mission of this trip.
He looked at Zhang Tongmeng's young face and said, "Are you 23 years old this year?"
Zhang Tongmeng replied loudly: "Report that Captain Ning is 23 years old!"
Captain Ning nodded: "It is a good age to serve the people, and the mission level of this trip must have been told by the old chief. You were elected by the Southwest Military Region. Don't let the organization down."
"Don't let the organization down!"
"Okay." Captain Ning said: "Sit down. At the same time, you must also know that this project is related to national security. Many of the contents are at the forefront of domestic and international scientific research. Ordinary people have not even heard of it. Yes. So the organization hopes that anything that you can’t understand, firstly, is not allowed to be questioned, and secondly, not allowed to be spread out."
Zhang Tongmeng stood up and gave a straight military salute: "Guaranteed to obey the organization's arrangements! Guarantee to keep state secrets."
Captain Ning said again: "Sit down. There are so many oral confessions. There are still several written agreements in the organization that need to be signed. This is a necessary guarantee for young people."
"Yes!"
After signing several agreements, Captain Ning asked the guard at the door to stand a little further, and then continued: "Our recent research has reached a more critical stage. The specific process cannot be explained to you, but the organization needs you to add a possibility. Decades of experiments have proved to us the possibility of information fragments in the human brain’s memory that can be transmitted to the outside through transfer stations."
"Excuse me, what kind of information fragment is it?" Zhang Tongmeng asked.
Captain Ning looked into Zhang Tongmeng's eyes: "We need you to use decades of time to reproduce all the fragments that you can recall in your memory and the fragments that still exist in your subconscious to the transfer station, waiting for future generations to receive. "
"Where is the transfer station?"
Captain Ning stood up and said, "The transfer station may be in the depths of the canyon. Comrade Zhang Tongmeng, are you ready?"
"Report to the captain! Always be prepared! Guarantee to complete the task!"
After this conversation, they began to go deep into the canyon. Along the way, Zhang Tongmeng saw the weirdness of this project.
When the gorge was foggy, they encountered Dabo's walking corpse. After dawn, they discovered a base secretly built by the Japanese on the canyon's mountain wall.
Captain Ning went up to check in person, expanded and remodeled this base, and carried a few containers in the convoy.
Later, they discovered the ruins of a city where the team camped. After a few days, after a fierce argument with the archaeological team, Captain Ning believed that this city was not the final destination and should continue to go deeper.
When I went further, a second city appeared in front of my eyes.
Then came large-scale exploration activities. They encountered an insect infestation and found a way to avoid the insect infestation. As long as you calculate the regularity of the emergence of insect infestation, you can enter the tent in advance.
Zhang Tongmeng was stationed in the ground camp, watching the soldiers lined up into the underground, coming and going to transport equipment, and crawling out every night exhausted. Captain Ning would go down in person every day. After he came out, he would quarrel with the geological team and the archaeological team.
Zhang Tongmeng doesn't understand what these intellectuals are arguing, but it must be a major matter related to party and state secrets.
When the last day came, Zhang Tongmeng didn't know that this was actually his last day on the ground.
Captain Ning asked him to join the team. Along the way, he saw the remains of a declining nation. In the end, they walked underground for nearly a day and climbed to a building on the edge of the abyss. Entering the intricate cave inside the rock wall, Captain Ning took the map drawn by the military and led Zhang Tongmeng through it.
Only then did Captain Ning tell him that it was the last step of the project at this moment. The two of them walked to the deepest part of the maze, and Zhang Tongmeng finally saw clearly what Ning Chang said was the so-called "transfer station".
It was a huge sarcoma with countless tentacles around it and went deep into the caves. In addition to the network of fleshy hairs used to lay eggs, this blood-red sarcoma also had countless hairs with thick hairs.
Ning Hanqing pointed to the sarcoma and said: "We finally decided to call him the maternal body. You have to know that the life of this underground nation is closely related to the maternal body. There is a reason why the underground nation regards it as a god. But their gods have been basically studied by me. Thorough, there is still the last step, you need Comrade Zhang Tongmeng to complete it."
In the end, Captain Ning explained what Zhang Tongmeng needed to do: "You need to stay here for a few years, or three or four years, and you need to let the mother take your memory fragments every day."
"Guaranteed to complete the task!"
"Maternal information tentacles will enter your cranial cavity through your ears, nose, and throat. You need to keep recalling things in your life every day. What you can remember, what you can’t remember, or even what you’ve long forgotten, needs to be organized. You keep reminiscing in order to pass the memory fragments to the mother."
This is what Captain Ning gave to Zhang Tongmeng.
When they were standing next to their mother and preparing to leave, a loud noise suddenly came from the outside world.
Zhang Tongmeng didn't know what was going on, but he noticed that Captain Ning's face suddenly turned pale, and this old intellectual, who was incapable of anger and anger, suddenly fell into a certain shock.
Finally, he whispered: "Comrade Zhang Tongmeng, I am afraid that only you can stay here for this mission. The organization has prepared daily necessities and living areas for you."
Zhang Tongmeng snapped a salute: "Guaranteed to complete the task!"
Zhang Tongmeng stayed here in the end. When Ning Han left, he told him that maybe three years or four years, the organization would come back to continue this task, and ask Comrade Zhang Tongmeng to work hard and take good care of his health.
For the next three years, Zhang Tongmeng will feel severe headaches every day. He knows that this is the activity of the maternal information tentacles in his brain. He lives in the dark every day. He recites ** quotations aloud by himself, recalling the troops. What happened, recalling childhood memories that have long been shattered into bits and pieces.
This is an extremely long loneliness.
When the phone that Captain Ning had prepared for him suddenly rang, he thought that the mission was finally over.
As everyone knows, this is the beginning of the long second stage. (End of this chapter)