Chapter 295 Strange Flashes
The red light, which symbolizes the life of the person wearing the monitor, is still on, which means that its owner is safe.
It can only monitor whether the person is alive and cannot monitor more information. This is a temporary technical limitation.
After all, the high-volume information transmission technology has been cut off for more than 400 years, and it is not so easy to pick it up at the moment.
Therefore, the information that can be transmitted back through the sensor is limited. One is the relatively accurate life feedback, and the other is not the real-time map location.
It stands to reason that the red light symbolizing life will always be on...or either on or off, and it will not flicker.
The voltage of their research center is absolutely stable, and the light will not flicker due to voltage.
Is it an illusion?
But the researcher is sure that he is absolutely not hallucinating. In that moment, within one or two seconds, the five red lights symbolizing the entire team flashed twice quickly.
Now it's back to normal...
After hesitating for a long time, the researcher raised his hand hesitantly, and shouted to Minister Leacock without looking back: "Minister, I seem to have found a problem here just now."
"What's the problem?" Minister Leacock's voice sounded far away with the dull sound of leather shoes stepping on the floor.
"Just now, this light seemed to flash twice."
"Seems?"
The researcher gritted his teeth lightly, and said firmly, "It just flashed twice, I'm sure."
"Pah, pah, pah!" Minister Leacock came to the researcher's operating table, stretched out his hand and tapped a few keys on the table. The data stream reflected fluorescent green light on his glasses. His eyes quickly scanned, and a slightly puzzled expression appeared on Minister Leacock's face, "I didn't find any problems..."
"Is the signal not stable enough?" Someone next to him put forward his own opinion.
Looking at the data stream in front of him, Minister Leacock crossed his chest with one hand and pinched his chin with the other hand to think, "It's not impossible..."
The signal base station has just been established, and it is normal that some old technologies have not been fully picked up.
And it is not impossible that some natural phenomena that occasionally occur in nature interfere with the signal.
In the past few hundred years, everyone has used local area networks with short distances and limited transmission rates. It is normal to encounter some problems in the restart of the technology tree in this regard.
"Continue to observe first, and don't let go of any doubts." Minister Leacock ordered.
Not long after, another researcher's voice sounded again in a corner of the quiet room, "I just saw the light flash twice."
Another team.
"I saw it too." Another researcher's voice was firm.
With the charge of their teammates, they also believed in the results they observed.
Minister Leacock frowned and ordered coldly, "Record the time."
"Yes!"
...
"I found it too."
"I saw it too..."
As time passed, the voices rang out.
The same thing happened to the red lights that symbolized the lives of the members of the ten teams.
Minister Leacock seemed to be waiting for this moment. He stood in the middle with a serious expression, "Call up all the logs of the flashing time."
While waiting, Minister Leacock muttered softly, "Location..."
In a moment, the large display screen in the center of the room received the summary data transmitted from each computer - that is, where the team members were located on the map when the red light flashed.
Of course, it was not very accurate.
Now there is no precise positioning of global satellites, and the distance calculated by other means is only a rough and fuzzy collection when displayed on the map.
'Not on the same line? '
The speed of the ten teams' advance was far and near. After all, everyone was responsible for different areas, and the terrain was naturally different, and the straight-line distance after departure was also different.
"See if there is a center of the circle with a midpoint."
"Pah!"
The operator heard the sound and operated twice, and the simulated circles flashed one by one, trying to bring all the position collections together.
But it failed easily.
"Is it the influence of some natural minerals?"
Some natural minerals in the wild have a natural shielding effect on electromagnetic signals, and it is normal to have some fluctuations when passing through the affected range.
In short, there are too many influencing factors, and it is impossible to make a judgment based on this small amount of information.
‘When the team comes back this time, please ask the military to dig deeper in these locations...’
Minister Leacock made a decision and ignored this matter.
“Continue monitoring and report other situations as well.”
…
Swaying in the car, Bai Er suddenly lost his concentration and subconsciously looked back in the direction of the base.
Just now, he felt that some connection between him and the base was suddenly broken, but this kind of inspiration that seemed to be instantaneous flashed by, and there was no basis, it was purely a mysterious "feeling".
“We are almost at the nearest marked location.” Tiger took the map and identified everyone’s current location.
The places with tunnels left by sandworm activities were marked, and this was the first stop that everyone needed to explore and contact.
No matter how much information you read, it is not as good as witnessing it with your own eyes. Even the traces left by sandworms can make everyone establish a more practical understanding of it.
“Look! In front!”
The eagle sitting in the co-pilot has the best eyesight and can find the faint traces of pits on the horizon from a distance.
"Buzz!" Dashan stepped on the accelerator, and the tires quickly kicked up gravel and rushed towards the nearest trace of sandworm activity.
"Swish!" The huge car body slowly stopped, and five agile figures jumped down from the edge of the cabin very high above the ground.
The five people came to the pit left by the sandworms and formed a circle, and looked down together...
"Turtle~" Dashan was the first to exclaim.
The big hole was bottomless, and even the sunlight could not penetrate the dark depths. It was winding and deep, dark and unpredictable.
The first thing to guess was the depth, and then there was spare energy to observe more details-
The edge of the hole was not smooth, and the whole was not a perfect circle, but a slightly flat ellipse.
The brown sand and gravel did not look like a tough rock structure, but where the sun could shine, silver "threads" could be seen attached to the sand and gravel, like the residue of some secreted mucus after it dried.
Looking at the big hole in front of him that was big enough for two or three soldiers to pass through at the same time, Bai'e's mind seemed to have a picture of the sandworm that had dug out this tunnel and was moving rapidly through the dark underground, accompanied by a rapid whistle.
"Click~" The sound of a metal mechanism sounded in his ears.
The teammates decided to go down and take a look.
Dashan and Hu had thick ropes tied around their waists, and the other end was hung on You.
She was the master of field tracking and searching in the team, and she was petite and light. In case of emergencies, Dashan and Hu, two strong men, could pull her out directly with a single pull. She was the most suitable candidate.
The tunnel was not straight, and the winding walls gave You plenty of leverage. The fully armed You went under Dashan and Hu little by little under the rope, gradually going deeper into the depths that were difficult to observe.
"How is it?"
The short-distance walkie-talkie was of course available, and Hu asked softly after You disappeared from sight.
"It's a bit dark, the smell... a bit strange, nothing else." You's clear, cold and buzzing voice sounded in Bai'e's headset.
"The wall is very hard. These silver threads should be the secretions of sandworms. They rely on this sticky secretion to fix the tunnel."
"Keep putting it..."
"I found a broken bone blade."
"Put it again..."
"Not long enough..." Hu reminded softly.
"Oh~" You's voice was dull for a moment, as if making a final observation, "It probably collapsed in the distance. Their secretions seem to degrade naturally over time, and the tunnel will not exist forever."
"Direction...towards the south, about 15 degrees west."
"Okay, pull me up."
Naturally, everyone would not follow the tunnel dug by the sandworms. That would be too dangerous. After all, the underground is not the home of humans.
Confirming a general direction is the primary purpose.