Once Upon in Nanjing-Chapter 23 - 10 The First Key Point of Time Slow Delivery

Next, Bai Yang turned on the IC725 shortwave radio and contacted BG4MSR, who was indeed waiting for him on 14255.

"BG4MSR, BG4MSR, this is BG4MXH, I have prepared a time capsule and plan to send it to you in two days. I hope you can receive it. If you receive the time capsule, then I will believe everything you've told me, OVER."

"BG4MXH, a time capsule?"

"BG4MSR, it's a stainless steel can that can be sealed, and things inside can be preserved for many years. I need you to provide an address, give me a QTH, where the time capsule can be safely buried for twenty years without damage. Can you do that? OVER."

"A safe location... Let me think..."

"BG4MSR, your voice doesn't sound too good, it's weak, is there a problem? OVER."

"Oh... sorry, I have a bit of a stomachache."

"Stomach pain? Are you sick? BG4MSR, do you have any medicine? OVER."

"No worries, just menstrual pain."

"Pain..." Bai Yang held the microphone, as a naive high school boy, he had never really considered that girls had this issue, Bai Yang hesitated, "Then... then do you have that... that..."

He stammered for a long time.

"Sanitary pad?"

"...Yes."

"Oh, I have those," the girl replied, "I'm not lacking in that."

Bai Yang breathed a sigh of relief; it seemed he wouldn't need to go and buy it for her.

"BG4MSR, BG4MSR, let's get back to the main point. I need you to provide a secure location where we can bury the time capsule, understand?" Bai Yang continued, "I remember you live near Muxuyuan Street? So it'll be best to find a spot nearby to ensure it can safely reach you, OVER."

Only the girl could find this place because only she knew which areas were still intact and which were devastated.

There was silence in the channel for a few seconds, then the other party spoke.

"BG4MXH, do you know Meihua Villa?"

Bai Yang was taken aback, so surprised he almost jumped.

Of course, he knew Meihua Villa; he didn't just know about it, he lived there!

"BG4MSR, I know Meihua Villa, OVER."

"I live in Meihua Villa, and Meihua Villa in my time is still well-preserved, not seriously damaged, so you can find a place in Meihua Villa to bury the time capsule, OVER."

Bai Yang was speechless for a long while.

She also lived in Meihua Villa, wasn't this too coincidental?

Could this not be a prank by some older sister in the neighborhood?

Bai Yang racked his brain but couldn't think of any neighbor like her.

"BG4MXH?"

"I'm here... BG4MSR, this is BG4MXH, let's verify the location. Since you live in Meihua Villa, you must be familiar with it. Let's pick a spot, and if both of us agree it's feasible, we will bury the time capsule there," Bai Yang replied, "How does that sound? OVER."

"Good, OVER."

"BG4MSR, Meihua Villa's main gate, the one from Muxuyuan Street. Entering from that gate, towards the pedestrian and bicycle path on the left, there's a lawn with a row of billboards. Do you know it? OVER."

Bai Yang knew the neighborhood's layout like the back of his hand; he had just passed that road after school today.

"I know the lawn, it's now covered in tall grass, but there are no billboards, OVER."

"The billboards?"

"Gone, probably evaporated, OVER."

"And the trees on the lawn? Are the trees still there?"

"Trees?" A pause in the headphone, "There are no trees."

Entering through the main gate of Meihua Villa, a security booth sits in the center, flanked by two broad driveways. Beside each driveway are pedestrian and bicycle lanes paved with white square tiles. Outside of the pedestrian paths is a green belt, where lawns are covered with thick camphor trees, branches heavy with foliage.

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Bai Yang closes his eyes, and the familiar scene naturally emerges before him.

"Where did the tree go?"

"Probably evaporated along with the bulletin board, OVER."

Evaporated.

Good grief, that word really sends shivers down one's spine.

"BG4MSR, do you know what disaster actually happened on Earth back then? OVER."

"Uh... It happened when I was very young, I'm not very clear on it, I just remember being rushed around by the teacher, and there were red nights, black moons, huge shadows crawling between high buildings, I don't even know what they were or where they came from. The world was very chaotic those years, and most of the time I was hiding deep in sewers or bomb shelters, rarely coming up to the surface." The girl said, "During that time, you could always hear booming sounds at night, like thunder, the teacher said it was the military."

"What happened later?"

"Later... One day, it was a clear day, the teacher took me up from underground, but it was just the two of us left in the entire city," the girl continued.

"Where is your teacher now?" Bai Yang asked, "Where is she now?"

"Buried under the building."

Bai Yang was stunned.

"BG4MSR, you mentioned huge shadows crawling between high buildings, where did those things go?"

"They disappeared, after all the people died."

Bai Yang sat on the chair, lost in thought. He had thought it might be some kind of major natural disaster, like glaciers melting causing sea levels to rise, submerging land, or a global super earthquake causing massive tsunamis or volcanic eruptions, or even a global nuclear war that flattened cities with nuclear bombs—but these worst-case scenarios in Bai Yang's eyes were nowhere near as terrifying and strange as what BG4MSR described.

She couldn't possibly be talking about a natural disaster.

At this moment, Bai Yang could only hope that this young lady was messing with him. He had spent so much time and money, preferring all of it to be a wasted effort, preferring that the time capsule never be received by anyone—as long as it could prove the other party was lying, that would be the best outcome.

What are the chances that everything BG4MSR said is true? One in a trillion, no more.

Such a low probability, he wouldn't be the one to hit it, right?

If he really did, he should go buy lottery tickets, or blindly guess multiple choice questions on the college entrance exams next year.

"BG4MXH? BG4MXH? Shall we continue searching? OVER."

"Okay, let's keep looking, let's go a bit further inside, at the end of the driveway from the main gate there is a flower bed filled with purple Cotinus coggygria and red Erythrina, behind the flower bed is the community square, and there is also a white colonnade for walking and cooling down, do you know it? OVER."

"I know, it's overgrown with weeds, OVER."

"Is it well-preserved?"

"Well-preserved, OVER."

"Has it not been plowed through or blown up into big pits?" Bai Yang asked.

"Hasn't."

"Then good, let's bury the time capsule there, but I can only tell you the exact location after I've buried it."

Logically, the other party is from the future—if she really is from twenty years in the future, then in her era, the time capsule has already been buried for twenty years, and BG4MSR could even dig up the time capsule tonight, although Bai Yang has not yet buried it.

That's what Bai Yang initially thought.

But when he really got down to it, he realized it was not feasible.

Because he himself didn't know the exact location.

Digging a deep hole in the residential lawn to bury the time capsule would undoubtedly be vandalism, not something that could be done in broad daylight, or he would be caught by the security, it had to be at night when all was quiet, and care must be taken not to be seen, so he had to adapt to the circumstances as needed, including possibly changing the burial site at the last moment—under these circumstances, how could Bai Yang inform her of the precise location in advance?

Only after he had buried the time capsule, and the dust had settled, would he have the exact location information.

This was the first time Bai Yang realized the key point of delivering the Time Slow Delivery, which also is an essential element: at least one party must have precise information, including accurate temporal and spatial coordinates.

But what happened later proved that he was still thinking too simply.