Chapter 521: Phone Call
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
The next day, everyone expanded their search area along the perimeter of the missing fishing boat.
Finally, they saw the ship’s scattered remains and a few crew members in floating rings lying on the wooden planks and shouting for help.
Everyone’s eyes lit up and they hurriedly rescued them to the sh.o.r.e.
They had been floating on the sea for a day and night. They were thirsty, hungry, and completely exhausted.
After drinking a large mouthful of water, someone answered.
On the way back, the fishing boat encountered a dragon sucking in water. The fishing boat was instantly sucked in.
At that time, they were on the deck and were thrown out by powerful force, so they were lucky to escape.
The rest of the people in the cabin had sunk to the bottom of the sea.
Hearing this, the atmosphere became heavy. After a while, the subordinate asked w.a.n.g Qiong, “General, should we continue searching?”
w.a.n.g Qiong looked at the endless sea. “Search! Continue searching! If they’re still alive but did not receive any help, how desperate would they be?”
“Yes!”
Another search and rescue ship returned. The relatives of the crew stood up again and looked over excitedly, hoping to see their husbands and sons on the ship.
As the search boat docked, five familiar figures appeared. Everyone was in an uproar. “Found them, found them!”
They were happy for a moment, but when they learned that only five people had returned, other than the relatives of the five crew members who were still smiling, the others cried.
w.a.n.g Qiong consoled them. “We definitely won’t give up on the search and rescue. Please don’t worry.”
The people and the boat had sunk to the bottom of the sea. How could they be alive?
Everyone knew that it was impossible, but they still held on to their last hope. What if they survived?
When Bai Wutong heard that the ship had sunk and only five people had been found, and that 18 people were still missing, a story suddenly appeared in her mind. It was the Robinson Crusoe.
What if they were swept away and happened to land on a deserted island?
The exact number of islands around Baye had yet to be completely calculated.
Bai Wutong, w.a.n.g Qiong, and the others went to the surrounding islands to search. After searching for about ten days, just as everyone had completely lost their confidence and the Imperial Court was preparing for the follow-up compensation, Ah Mi brought Song Benhua to look at the starry sea. They coincidentally saw three missing crew members who were trying their best to row the self-made raft towards the sh.o.r.e.
Ah Mi and Song Benhua hurriedly saved them from the boat and heard them say, “There are still ten people on the island waiting for everyone to save them.”
Previously, they had been trapped on another small island. The island was especially small and did not have any fresh water for human survival, so they worked together to build a st.u.r.dy raft and rowed it to the current island.
There was water on this island, and the fruits and vegetation were relatively abundant. They gathered some and prepared to go ash.o.r.e, but they realized that the direction here was the opposite of the mainland. Bamboo rafts could not travel across.
For safety, they could only wait patiently and hope that the Imperial Court would discover them.
Just like that, half a month pa.s.sed, but the Imperial Court did not come. They finally had a chance to travel in the direction of the wind.
Hence, it was decided that three people who were the best at swimming would go back and report first before coming to save them.
Coincidentally, the ship encountered Ah Mi and Song Benhua.
Song Benhua took out a drawing book and marked the location of the island. He brought the three of them back and quickly reported it to w.a.n.g Qiong.
The survivors appeared again and Carefree City was in an uproar.
All io people on the island had been brought ash.o.r.e, and five of the crew members were still missing.
Their family’s hopes were dashed again. They sat on the ground in grief and cried, “Can G.o.d tell me where my son is?”
“Can you give me a message so that 1 can find my son? Boohoo…”
Everyone could only comfort them. Perhaps one day, their sons would return, just like these people.
This incident made Bai Wutong realize that she had to speed up the development of the communication tools.
When the ship went out to sea, Bai Wutong had already noticed the weather changes. If she had had communication equipment at that time and informed everyone to return quickly, the tragedy of the five families might not have happened.
With a convenient way to communicate, everyone could remain in contact no matter where they were.
The principle of a telephone was to conduct electricity. The spiral would emit noise and simulate the fluctuating sound waves of the current to achieve transmission.
After Bai Wutong made up her mind to let everyone develop the communication equipment as soon as possible, she went back and designed a transmission box that was mainly made up of speakers and receivers.
Although it was very simple, Bai Wutong had to work busily in the laboratory of the Great Empress’ Residence for a long time. She did not even have time to eat.
Chu Tianbao knocked on the door and imitated the male protagonist from the movies. “Baby, it’s time to eat.”
Bai Wutong did not turn around. “I’ll be right there.”
Chu Tianbao stood at the door and urged her silently.
Bai Wutong looked at him helplessly and put down the transmission box that was just short of completion. “I’m coming.”
After dinner, Bai Wutong plunged into the laboratory again. Chu Tianbao watched quietly from the side and did not disturb her.
Bai Wutong exclaimed, “Done!” Before Chu Tianbao could ask, Bai Wutong placed the receiver beside Chu Tianbao’s ear. She picked up the speaker and shouted softly, “Husband ~”
Bai Wutong’s voice came clearly from the receiver. Chu Tianbao’s eyes lit up and he blurted out, “You invented a phone?”
Bai Wutong smiled. “Yes, this is the original principle of the phone. If we modify it, we can eventually use a wireless phone, smartphone, and so on.”
Chu Tianbao sized it up curiously. Bai Wutong explained in detail to him, “Try the transmission device in the room at the end of the corridor and see if you can hear it.”
Chu Tianbao did as he was told, keeping his ear over the transmission device as he walked to the room at the end of the corridor.
“Darling, Tianbao, can you hear me?”
Chu Tianbao subconsciously replied, “Yes.”
Only then did he realize that this was only a transmission device and not the phone Bai Wutong had given him. There was no bilateral communication for the time being.
Chu Tianbao and Bai Wutong stuck their heads out at the same time and couldn’t help but smile.
“You can hear me?”
“Yeah.”
That day, Bai Wutong brought the device to the research laboratory and provided the blueprint for the wireless phone. She asked He Jinchuan to be in charge of the device and popularize it to thousands of families as quickly as possible.
The communication distance of the simple transmission box was only dozens of meters. If they wanted to expand the range of communication, they had to rely on the construction of signal poles.
Apart from getting someone to speed up the production of the phone requested by Bai Wutong, He Jinchuan brought people to build the poles in Carefree City.
Everyone was curious about what he was doing. When He Jinchuan thought of his life after the popularization of telephones, he couldn’t help but say proudly, “The Great Empress has developed a magical way to communicate. You can hear the voices of your friends and relatives from thousands of miles away.”
As soon as these words were spoken, the scene fell silent for a moment.
Even if Bai Wutong was powerful, it was impossible for her to be so powerful.
Shouldn’t G.o.ds be the ones who could do this?