Wasteland Code Survival

Chapter 764 hospital
The ringing of the phone was obviously aimed at Qi Lin - this office building is a standard low-rent housing, and the space between the floors is very thin. With Qi Lin's hearing, he can naturally hear that there are no ringing phones upstairs and downstairs. Only on this floor, when he was just approaching this room, did the phone ring.

This is really weird and a little too much, okay?

However, when those crappy routines in domestic low-quality horror movies were actually staged in reality, Qi Lin couldn't laugh at all.

Could it be the mastermind again?
Qi Lin subconsciously looked up at the end of the corridor...but he forgot one thing. Although this office building is very tall, it is a low-quality building with low rent. It would be nice to have a bottle of fire extinguisher. As for surveillance cameras, sorry, there are no such things at all.

There are only two surveillance cameras installed at the front door and the corner of the lobby, but those two cameras have long been scrapped.

This call...is it answering or not?
Qi Lin stood outside the door of this real estate agency for more than a minute, but the ringing of the phone never stopped...

According to the rules of Huaxia communication operators in the old days, generally speaking, if there is still no one answering the phone after 60 seconds, it will be automatically hung up, and the person who made the call will also hear the familiar Chinese-English bilingual machine Tone "Sorry, the user you dialed is temporarily unanswered, please try again later..."

However, the sudden ringing of the "early midnight bell" does not seem to be subject to this restriction. It has been almost 2 minutes now, and it is still ringing "jingle bells" all over the place.

But that's right... Where is there any communication operator now... And this call is not made through conventional means at all!

Taking a deep breath, Qi Lin pushed open the door of this "Xinda Real Estate Agency Co., Ltd.", and walked in...

The room was very messy. There were six desks in total, two of which were turned over on the ground. The small coffee table was covered with various messy contracts, materials and leaflets, and the ground was full of waste paper and garbage.

It was a red telephone, covered with a thick layer of dust, on one of the tables in the back—now, without the sound-blocking door, the phone's ringing became even more piercing.

Qi Lin walked over and looked at the screen on the phone—although the small LCD screen was dirty, there was no sign of damage, and it could still emit a faint yellow-green backlight.

Qi Lin was not in a hurry to answer the phone, but he wanted to see what the calling number was.

However, when he cast his eyes on the phone display screen, he couldn't help but cursed himself "idiot" in his heart - "Caller ID" is a value-added service that belongs to the communication operator, not the telephone that comes with it. Yes, there are no communication operators in the wasteland now, so naturally there is no caller ID.

There are no numbers on the display, just a long string of asterisks.

齐麟留意了一眼电话显示屏上面的日期和时间，这是大部分电话机都自带的功能，只见日期显示的是1900年1月1日0时3分。

1900年1月1日0时0分这是旧时代市场上大部分电子万年历的初始时间，而当电子万年历断电时间过久之后，再次开机便会被重置成这个初始时间。

In other words, this phone was actually turned on after Qi Lin stepped into this floor...

Qi Lin looked along the line behind the telephone, and he suddenly found that the telephone line of the telephone had been unplugged, but the power plug was still plugged into an aging terminal block.

The plug of the wiring board is inserted into a socket in the corner.

When entering this office building, Qi Lin had already tried to turn on the light switch, but the light did not turn on, that is to say, the building was in a state of power failure.

Since it is a power outage, why does the phone ring? !

Although there may be a battery inside the phone, with the quality of this civilian-grade battery, if it is not removed from the phone, it will be considered good if there is no leakage in the past three years, let alone the phone can be turned on.

Qi Lin seemed to have remembered something, turned around and walked to the door, and pressed the two switches next to the door frame - "click", nothing happened, the lights did not turn on, and the ventilation fan did not start to rotate.

Then, he picked up the phones on the other tables, but these phones couldn't be activated at all, only the one in the corner was still ringing.

Qi Lin now has two choices, one, answer the phone, and two, unplug the wire.

He can basically confirm that the phone's power source comes from a certain circuit inside the building. Unplugging the wire will definitely make the phone quiet, but if he does this, will he miss something important...

After weighing things up and down, Qi Lin lightly pressed the dusty hands-free button on the phone.

Although he had been prepared for a long time, Qi Lin still felt a dull pain in his eardrum when the harsh buzzing sound came from the loudspeaker.

"Damn...why is this again?!"

This beep sound is almost exactly the same as the distress signal received by the radio before... No, no, it is different. The distress signal has only three characters, two of which are repeated, and can be distinguished at a glance, but now this The frequency change in a segment of beeps is much more complicated!

This is a brand new frequency, not the previous international distress signal!

Resisting the uncomfortable feeling of wanting to vomit, Qi Lin immediately increased the speed of the energy-gathering vortex, and silently analyzed the information hidden in the beeps.

Four dots signal, this is the letter "H";
Three long signals, this is "O";
Three dots signal, this is the "S"...

The difference between the first three letters and "SOS" is only one signal. No wonder Qi Lin thought it was that strange distress signal at first.

The fourth letter is point long point, which is "P";
The fifth letter is two short dots, "I";
The sixth letter has only one long signal, "T";
The seventh, one point one long, this is "A";
The eighth is a little bit longer, this is "L", and it is also the last letter in this Morse code.

The frequency of this buzzing sound is that these eight letters are repeated continuously, and if these eight letters are connected...

That happened to be a common English word - even a primary school student, as long as he wasn't the kind of guy who failed the English test, he could basically recognize its meaning.

"'Hospital'… the hospital? Is that implying I'm going to the hospital?"

(End of this chapter)