In the desolate Gobi Desert, the strong westerly wind blew yellow sand flying all over the sky. There was no green color at all, and no sign of animal activity. It was lifeless.

This is a restricted area of ​​life.

"Woo~~" The sound of a train whistle brought the entire Gobi Desert to life.

A steam locomotive with billowing black smoke roared out of the yellow sand sky.

In the Gobi Desert where birds and animals are extinct, human industrial civilization still exists.

The speed of the steam train was very slow, clanging and clanging as it headed deeper into the next door.

Stretching hundreds of miles deep into the Gobi along the railway track, an oasis suddenly jumped into view.

In the oasis, a series of buildings are looming. The exteriors of the buildings are all earth-yellow like yellow sand, blending in with the surrounding trees. From a distance, it is impossible to detect the human city in the oasis deep in the Gobi Desert.

In this small town where buildings are generally four-story buildings, huge slogans painted with red paint can be seen everywhere facing the street: "Emancipate the mind, seek truth from facts, unite and look forward", "Practice is the only criterion for testing truth", "

Science and technology are the primary productive forces”…

In some remote areas of the town, there are still some slogans that have been mottled: "Sailing the sea depends on the helmsman", "Down with the American imperialism and defeat the Soviet revisionism", "All reactionaries are paper tigers".

In the center of the small town, there is a large square on the front of a building that is much larger than the surrounding buildings. In the center of the square stands a tall white marble statue of Chairman Mao waving. On the pedestal under the statue is written "Sailing the sea depends on the helmsman, dry leather"

@life depends on *** thoughts.”

On the top of the building, a huge slogan "Emancipate the mind and seek truth from facts" was erected.

At the door of the building, there are several signs with black characters on a white background, the largest of which reads "404 City Management Committee".

Yes, this is Dongfeng City, code-named 404.

A city that cannot be found on any publicly released paper map, electronic map, city list, license plate number, telephone area code, or list of cities that Taobao can deliver.

Code-named 404, a small city at the prefecture level.

404 City only has a code name, not a name.

Insiders have their own names for this city they have lived in for many years. Some call it Dongfeng City, some call it Hongqi City, and some even call it Science and Technology City. This is just because this city that does not exist in the outside world contains the top cities in China.

technical field.

China's most advanced nuclear technology research, most advanced missile technology, most advanced satellite technology, most advanced nuclear submarine technology, etc. can all be found in this city.

Although the town is small, it is very impressive.

It not only gathers the top authoritative experts in various high-tech fields across the country, but also the top technical workers in China. Even the logistics staff are the top!

From the skilled masters with two bombs and one star, to the ninth-level fitters who make the most precise parts by hand, to the most amazing top chefs in Guanshengyuan, to the model salespersons on Nanjing Road, you can see them everywhere in this city.

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Viewed from the sky, the entire city, including the periphery, covers an area of ​​no more than eight square kilometers. The core living area is less than two square kilometers.

Although the sparrow is small, it has all the internal organs. Even the public security bureau, land bureau, post office, etc. are all there.

There is even a prison with only two cells in this city.

Our story begins with this prison, which took nearly twenty years to build before welcoming its first guest.

This guest is only sixteen years old!

He himself is not old enough to be sentenced, but he may face the death penalty...

~~~Divide~~~Cut~~~Line~~~~

As the sun rises, everyone in the base starts a new day's work. The only criminal suspect in the prison, which is less than five square meters, is still sleeping.

In the meeting room of the Management Committee Building not far from the prison, the anger was so oppressive that it was hard to breathe.

On both sides of the long conference table, on the left side sat a row of military cadres wearing large caps with round Bayi cap badges on their hats and red-backed gold five-pointed star epaulettes on their shoulders; on the right side sat a row of military cadres wearing four pockets.

Administrative cadres in Zhongshan uniform.

Everyone present, whether military personnel or administrative cadres, all had serious faces.

At one end of the long table, a middle-aged man in his early fifties, wearing black-rimmed glasses that covered half of his face and white-washed four-pocket canvas overalls, raised his head and gritted his teeth at the leaders.

Said: "Chief, no matter how much damage Xie Kai causes to the country, I am willing to compensate him. He is still a child..."

"Compensation? How to compensate? Xie Jianguo, do you know how big the country's losses are this time? How can you compensate for millions of economic losses with your salary of more than two hundred yuan?" said a skinny man in his fifties.

The senior cadre interrupted Xie Jianguo's words with a stern look on his face, "This is sabotaging the country's military industry! How can he be irresponsible just by saying that he is still a child?"

The officers remained calm. An old general sitting opposite Xie Jianguo turned his head and looked at the top person in charge of the base next to him.

Xie Jianguo ignored the person who interrupted him and looked at the two leaders opposite him with a hopeful look on his face.

"He is indeed very young, but what he lost this time is the only top-notch CNC machine tool in our country. The matter has alarmed the logistics headquarters and the general equipment department..." The old man next to the old general sighed and said softly.

"Chief, I will repair those CNC machine tools as soon as possible." Xie Jianguo said urgently.

"Repair it? How to repair it? How difficult is it to get these CNC machine tools? As a technician in charge, don't you know? Millions of precious foreign exchanges have been spent, and the Americans did not provide any technical information! How to repair it?" the skinny cadre asked sternly.

"If it can be repaired, will you not be able to come up with a plan for a few days? Will you alert the head of the Central Committee?"

Xie Jianguo remained silent and lowered his head.

The old man at the head frowned and stared at the skinny cadre again, "Secretary Sun Jiadong, let's listen to what Comrade Xie Jianguo has to say first. He is the technical person in charge and understands the situation."

"Chief, the production tasks are heavy now, and these CNC machine tools bear the heavy responsibility of finishing key parts of new rockets and satellites..." Sun Jiadong said eagerly. "There were problems with several CNC machine tools before, and they have not been solved. Now,

All of them left his son paralyzed and unable to use..."

He did not believe that Xie Jianguo had the ability to solve these CNC machine tools.

He is even less willing to take responsibility.

"How long will it take to solve it?" the chief asked Xie Jianguo.

When Xie Jianguo heard this, his hopeful eyes dimmed.

How long will it take to resolve?

He doesn't know.

If it is not resolved, not only will his only son's future be lost, he may not even be able to save his life.

Xie Kai, who was sleeping in prison, finally woke up quietly.

When he just woke up, he had a splitting headache and looked around confusedly.

"Didn't I get drunk last night? Shouldn't Mao Zi and Xiao Er take me home? Why are I here? A hotel?" The surrounding environment was unfamiliar. Xie Kai gradually regained consciousness and realized something was wrong.

The room he was in had walls on three sides and no windows. On the side with the door, there was a steel railing door thicker than your thumb.

The deep memory gradually overlaps with the scene in front of me. Why does it look like the prison in Dongfeng City?

An idea appeared in Xie Kai's mind, but he finally shook his head and shook the idea away with a wry smile.

Like movies and online novels, go back to the past?

Xie Kai thought it was too nonsense.

"No, I must be dreaming! I didn't do anything, how could I end up in a detention center..."

I kept thinking about what happened the night before, but I couldn't remember it clearly.

I drank it all!

I only vaguely remember that my brother Mao Zi, who we grew up with, wanted to buy a house last night because his son was getting married. The couple, who had worked for more than 20 years, couldn't even get enough savings for a down payment. They came to him just after they were released from prison, and the brothers pooled their money to help open the house.

The waiter of the food stall owner was drinking and complaining.

It seems like there was a fight in the end?

Why did the fight start?

Xie Kai patted his head, trying to figure it out, but couldn't remember anything.

While drinking, Mao Zi complained that he had devoted half his life to national defense science and technology work, but in the end he could not even raise the down payment for his children to buy a house in a big city.

The grandson of the waiter seemed to be cursing, saying that young people are not as good as they were when they were young, and they were determined to contribute to the cause of national defense science and technology and devote their lives to it, but instead they aspired to become a star, a big boss or something like that.

It is a true reflection of society that those who make missiles are not as good as those who sell tea eggs.

Laughing at poverty but not prostitution, and focusing on money has become the values ​​​​of most people.

Money is everything that measures a person.

What can people who work in technology, especially those at the grassroots level, do with a salary of three to two thousand a month? Maozi’s son lives in the capital, and the house price is tens of thousands per square meter. With the combined salary of the couple, without food or drink, they can buy about

Two square meters...

How did the fight end?

"Are you awake? I've been worried for a while. If I had known, I wouldn't have let the fat guy come in to drink with you!" A deep voice sounded outside the iron railing door, interrupting Xie Kai's memory arrangement.

Following the voice, a middle-aged policeman in an 83-style police uniform wearing a large-brimmed hat, olive green, red floss in the middle of his trousers, and two red collar patches on his neck was looking at Xie Kai with a wry smile, "What do you want?"

If you still don't wake up, I will have to take you to the hospital. I can't bear the thought of anything happening to you in here."

The person in front of him felt very familiar to Xie Kai, but he couldn't remember who he was for a while.

"Why, you're so drunk that you can't even remember me? You said the same thing happened to you. You had nothing to do, so you had to mess around and destroy the entire precision workshop of Hongqi Machinery Factory. This incident alarmed the capital, and later

People from the headquarters and the general logistics department are here and are discussing how to deal with you!" The middle-aged policeman saw Xie Kai staring at him with a dazed look on his face, frowned and cursed.

Alarmed the after-installation headquarters and the general logistics department!

Xie Kai's memory instantly surged forward like a flood that opened the floodgates.

It was this day that changed his life and that of many people.

October 19, 1984, was an extremely ordinary day. For Xie Kai and others, as well as the families of people related to him, this day changed the future.

"No, this is a dream!" Xie Kai didn't believe that he could really be reborn and start over.
Chapter completed!