Masha: "Laxative Lai, it's your turn."
Baiquan laughed out loud and slapped his knees with his hands.
Shelley came up to Masha with a sour face.
"Let's go to the main body of the car and give you the desert treasure hunt that I promised you."
"We want to see the pyramids, not the dry desert."
While the League Secretary was complaining, Masha brought the car back to the real world.
For some reason, the desert under the sunset actually looks a little beautiful.
Shelley opened the car window, leaned half of his body out of the car, sat on the window frame and observed the sky.
Anyway, she was Ifrit, and she probably wouldn't die if she fell off the car, so Masha didn't bother to warn her.
"The sun is so red." Cai Shi looked out the window and said softly.
Masha also looked at the sunset.
The desert reflected the light of the setting sun and looked like a frozen sea.
The sky above the sea was orange-red, and it looked like the sky was burning.
Baiquan: "Where is the pyramid?"
"I don't know," Masha said, taking out the GPS locator he had brought with him, "Let me see, we are here..."
Baiquan: "Won't using this expose our position?"
"No, because the GPS locator does not emit radio waves itself, but receives signals from multiple GPS satellites and calculates the current location through algorithms. Therefore, the GPS locator will not expose the user's location. In principle, it is impossible, so it is widely used in the military field."
Before Masha finished speaking, Baiquan pointed to the front, the pyramid!
Masha and others looked ahead together.
It was indeed a pyramid, but it was a pyramid floating in the sky - no, to be precise, the image of land appeared in the sky.
"Mirage?" The League Secretary was the first to make a judgment.
"It looks like it." Masha was amazed. "But in this situation, who knows if it is something else. Let's drive towards the mirage and see what's going on."
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It’s noon, time to vote!
I'll remind you again at 12 o'clock at night.
Chapter 522: Mirage in the Night (Part )
Masha was galloping towards the sunset - no, he was galloping towards the mirage under the sunset.
Chihiro seemed to be in a good mood. She looked at the mirage in front of her and hummed Jolin Tsai's "Mirage".
As soon as she finished reciting the prelude of the song, the League Secretary hummed the harmony of the prelude.
Masha teased, "You two, if you keep doing this we'll soon start speaking Lin language."
"Look, you don't understand Lin language!" The League Secretary who was originally in harmony spoke up, "You should say 'If you do this, we will soon start speaking Lin language'~"
Chihiro was not affected by the topic and continued to hum Jolin Tsai's "Mirage".
Although Qianxun is a ballet dancer, she can sing very well. Masha, who has not listened to Jolin Tsai since Jay Chou stopped writing songs for her, actually had the urge to go to XX Cloud to download the original version and listen to it.
Cai Shi suddenly laughed and said, "I thought you would start singing Desert Camel right away, Senior Brother."
"I'm not that unromantic. You may not believe it, but I do have some appreciation for music. One of the main reasons I like Soviet songs is that they sound good."
"I believe it. Why not?" Xiao Shi asked back, "Brother, you always have good taste in music."
Baiquan: "What is a desert camel?"
"A song." Masha answered briefly.
Baiquan: "Funny?"
"Well...it's actually quite nice, but the most popular comment online is that this song depicts the feeling of Zhang Fei and Li Kui holding hands and riding bicycles in the desert, and the wheels are square."
Baiquan laughed: "So it's just a funny song."
"No, believe me, it's not funny, it's quite serious." Masha said seriously.
"Then sing for me." Baiquan began to launch his best offensive, "Just think of it as a consolation for me who really knelt on the washboard for two hours today."
"You deserve to kneel on the washboard. Who asked you to give Xie Lai a laxative?"
Shelley frowned and said, "I always feel that the pronunciation of the word 'xue' you just said is weird. Are you playing a pun?"
"Absolutely not." Masha patted his chest and said.
Then, in order to prevent Shelley from asking more questions, he began to sing "Camel of the Desert" - when this song was at its peak, it seemed that people were listening to it wherever he went.
Baiquan listened to Masha singing and started shaking his legs.
"It's surprisingly good. I really thought it would be a weird song, but it turned out to be a very authentic exotic rock song."
Masha shrugged: "That's right."
"It's all because of that comment you mentioned that was the most popular online. I misunderstood." Baiquan simply put the blame on Masha.
"How should I put it? The reason why the previous comment became popular is mainly because it summarizes the temperament of the song. The humor is secondary."
As Masha spoke, the car drove up a hill along the road.
Masha slowed down and looked at the sunset in the distance which was already half beneath the sea of sand, and the mirage that still refused to disappear.
"Why do I feel like this mirage is unusual?" Shelley muttered, "Could it be caused by supernatural powers?"
"What's the point of creating a mirage?" Masha asked. "If it was a mirage created by a newly awakened person, we could just track the reaction of the local superpower response department."
Masha pointed to the device on the dashboard and said, "Even if the communication is encrypted and I can't read the content of the communication, I can get a lot of information through the frequency of radio communication.
"This device is a gadget that monitors the density of radio communications nearby. If the mirage was the work of a newly awakened esper, the nearby communications would have exploded long ago."
Many times there is no need to decipher the opponent's codes or anything like that. The electronic warfare department and the intelligence department can also deduce a lot of information through the frequency and total amount of radio wave emissions.
Shelley: "So that's what you used to tape the instrument panel?"
"Yes, I modified it using an electronic dog and other gadgets, and the effect is pretty good. I think we can develop a children's toy, and the way to play is to use this thing to find the agents hiding around you."
"This thing can't be sold. Who would have the time to play spy games?" the league secretary complained.
Masha shrugged.
At this time, the sun finally set.
However, the mirage still remained in the sky.
"Oh my goodness." Masha had just sighed when the device on the dashboard that he had just introduced to the girls sounded an alarm.
Apparently, just now, the density of radio communications in the entire nearby area had increased explosively.
The League Secretary frowned and said, "Is this alarm sound the proximity alarm in the Gundam?"
"Yes, I originally wanted to use the music that was used on the battleship of Longde Bell to inform everyone of the battle preparations."
"So, now we can be sure that the mirage was created by a person with super powers?" Shelley asked.
"No, the mirage remains even after the sun sets. This phenomenon itself can cause an explosive increase in communication density."
"After all, it's a mirage that can appear at night." The League Secretary shrugged and said, "Think about it carefully. Mobile phones are so popular now. Can this little gadget you made really detect the sudden increase in the enemy's communication density? Wouldn't the enemy's communication be drowned out by the background noise caused by mobile phones?"
Masha shook his head: "No, it's a typical pipe dream to think that mobile phones can surpass military-grade communications.
"Just now, because the sun had set and the mirage was still there, many Egyptians must have turned on their phones to tell their relatives and friends about the news. But you see, the indicator light on my machine is still green, which means that the surge in mobile phone traffic has not interfered with official communications."
"How do you know which channel is used by the military and police?"
"I don't know, but if the transmission power of a certain signal source is obviously higher than that of other signal sources, it must be the military or the police. No civilian would have the time to use such a high transmission power."
"That makes sense."
"I'm always reasonable."
After Masha finished speaking, Shelley gently pinched his shoulder.
"The helicopter formation behind is approaching." Shelley said.
Masha turned his head and looked behind him. Although there was still some daylight and the desert terrain did not have any objects on the ground to block his view, Masha still could not see the helicopter formation that Shelley mentioned.
But Masha did not confirm with Shelley again the existence of the fleet that was about to pass overhead.
He drove the car directly into the shadow of the earth.
What followed was a full fifteen minutes of waiting. Finally, a fleet of twelve Mi-24 aircraft roared over the heads of Masha and his companions, flying towards the mirage in the distance that was still standing stubbornly in the night.
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It’s 12 o’clock, time to vote!
Tomorrow morning at 7:30...
Chapter 523 Worthy of Egypt (Part )
"The plane in the past was a Hind, a Soviet-style equipment, belonging to the Egyptian army." Masha.
"This means that the supernatural power management agency of the jurisdiction believes that this mirage is not a natural phenomenon." Shelley said, "What type of female deer did you see? The one with power armor racks?"
"Four of them are," Masha answered immediately. His instantaneous memory was his strong point. "Sixteen power armors in total."
"This is the standard Soviet configuration, one veteran with one psychic. The district administration should know that there are Coptic psychics lurking in this area, and there must be follow-up psychic troops on the way."
Chihiro: "That's strange. Masha just said that this is not a phenomenon caused by a superpower."
"I have just said the basis for my judgment. If the phenomenon was caused by a superpower, the military and police communications in the vicinity would increase explosively at the beginning. But this did not happen. The increase was mainly in civilian communications. Most likely, ordinary people who witnessed the strange phenomenon were busy tweeting.
"Of course, my statement is not rigorous, because it is very likely that the Egyptian side simply did not detect the super power fluctuations. It could still be the masterpiece of a super power person."
Masha paused and sorted out his thoughts. "I guess the current situation is probably that the local district does not take this seriously, but the Soviet advisers stationed in Alexandria take this matter very seriously and directly dispatched troops through the Egyptian upper echelons to check the situation."
Shelley glanced at the instrument that Marsha had taped to the dashboard with yellow tape.
"That makes sense. I was wondering if your thing was broken."
"You look at me and you are disgusted by my stuff because it is unsophisticated. You have a preconceived prejudice against it." Masha shook his head. "If you ask the Chinese, they will definitely tell you that this yellow tape is the guarantee of combat effectiveness. They will also say that it is a pity that the thing is too small and does not need a colorful plastic woven bag, otherwise the combat effectiveness will be stronger."
"Huh?" Shelley felt the culture shock for a moment and could not understand what Marsha said at all.
The same goes for Baiquan and Xiaoshi.
Baiquan pulled Xiaoshi's hand and said, "Sister Kikuri, you understand Chinese culture the best. What's going on?"
Xiao Shi looked embarrassed: "Uh... yellow tape... maybe it has something to do with the Yellow Turban Army? The colorful plastic woven bags... maybe they symbolize colorful auspicious clouds?"
Masha was shocked. Could it be explained this way?
Xiao Shi was about to continue explaining to Baiquan when Masha spoke.
"Well, guess what I saw."
The girls looked at each other.
Masha raised his head and looked at the sky.
"We are now below the mirage."
The girls' reactions were clearly divided into two camps. Those who didn't understand the principles of mirage were wondering why Masha looked so shocked.
The girls who understood the principles of mirage were just as shocked as Masha - because a mirage, to put it simply, is a virtual image produced by the refraction of light. Virtual image, virtual image, literally means that the thing does not exist.
When you try to get close to a mirage, you will often find that you are beyond the refraction area and suddenly you can no longer see the wonders in the sky.
To use an inappropriate analogy, a mirage is like a paper wife. It looks beautiful from the front, but once you try to get close to it, you will find that it is only a thin layer and your original appearance is completely unrecognizable.
And now, Masha is "below" the mirage.
"You, can still see it?" the League Secretary asked, "So, are you looking at the side view of the pyramid and the Sphinx that we just saw, or..."
"What I saw was the bottom, the bottom of the pyramids and the Sphinx, looking up from below. This thing is three-dimensional, very much like the holographic projection in science fiction movies."
"Wow, if this wasn't done by a person with super powers, then could it be a surprise that the Americans prepared for Egypt using technology?" Chihiro asked.
"No, I think this is a naturally occurring supernatural phenomenon, an illusion. As for why it is an illusion of the pyramids and the Sphinx, it may be accidental, or it may be..."
