Chapter 136 - Arctic Sea (1/2)
Chapter 136: Arctic Sea
Translator: Lonelytree
“The numbers… they feel like coordinates toheavily inside the conference room The sky was still dark, and Gu Jun’s revelation appeared to carry palpable weight Gu Jun had spent a lot of his childhood studying his parents’ nautical chart They would have coordinates similar to this set of numbers on them The place he visited in his dream was an island in the ull, how it had traversed the various corners of the world in the name of scientific research Could this abandoned island in his drea its nautical journey?
“I believe they are the coordinates for that island in the dream,” he said
‘Nautical coordinates?’ Yao Sinian and Prof Qin’s expressions changed They knew not to treat Gu Jun’s ‘instinct’ lightly Before this, the researchers leaned toward the belief that the numbers were so order
“I will have everyone redirect their research down this new angle and try to figure out the coordinates” Yao Sinian nodded “This hypothesis has been brought up before, but with just 74, 31, and 12, it will only h to pinpoint an exact location”
To acquire an accurate coordinate of a location, one needed two axes: longitude XX°XX’XX” and latitude XX°XX’XX”
If it was for a zone as big as the Eastern State, then the axis would cover one degree to another degree: XX°XX’ – XX°XX’, XX°XX’ – XX°XX’
Furthermore, they needed to find out whether it was northern or southern latitude and eastern or western longitude The standard coordination fornate the four nautical directions Negative nuitude and southern latitude, with the number for latitude posited first So, if the set of nuical to believe they represented latitude, specifically latitude 74°31’12”, which was situated around the northern arctic ocean…
But without the longitude, they could not pinpoint the exact location In their previous research, Phecda had used a military satellite to scan the whole strip of land and ocean along the specified latitude, but there were too s to make a detailed search possible
“Ah Jun, why do you think there are no coordinates for the longitude?” Yao Sinian asked
Inspiration struck when Gu Jun wasrequires the Nightitude coordinate? It could exhaust hih the dream”
Once he said that, the faces of the people in the room chilled Prof Qin heavily said, “So far, every new number appears between each interval of up to a thousand patients, and the longer the illness progresses, the larger the number between each subsequent interval…”
Gu Jun’s heart sank If it was really part of some coordinates, howilling to part with the three other nu reveal this location? Was he hoping to lead people there? Why? Questions upon questions, and thewas, the price that they needed to pay for the answer appeared to be huy settled over the roo their sleep The exhaustion was particularly clear in Prof Qin and Yao Sinian’s faces, people in their advanced age The bags under their eyes were so heavy that it orrying Who kne h pressure?
After their ain He was assigned an isolated roo to standard practice, he needed approval before he could make contact with anyone It was not that Phecda did not trust him; they orried that he would succumb to madness like the other victims Gu Jun lay on the bed and slowly descended into slu inside him