547 had long hated the organization that controlled his destiny, and he had been hoping that Charlie could find the location where his own line of dead soldiers was stationed so that he could rescue his wife, children, and family members at the same time. So, he naturally would provide his full cooperation to Merlin.
Merlin nodded, and without talking too much nonsense, he went straight to the point and said, “The immediate task at hand is to find a way to determine the location of your residence on the map. Before that, I wonder if you have any valuable clues that you can share with me?”
547 shook his head and said, “Chief Lammy, to tell you the truth, I’ve been thinking about this issue for a while, but the organization is extremely cautious and didn’t leave me with any valuable information at all.”
Merlin smiled slightly, took out the major natural disaster data that he had sorted out, and asked him, “547, how old are you this year?”
547 hurriedly said, “Chief Lammy, I should probably be between thirty-six to thirty-eight years old this year.”
Merlin asked curiously, “How did you calculate your age?”
547 explained, “There is a kind of ‘calendar’ that is quietly recorded among the dead soldiers. We recorded time roughly based on our own work and rest, but there is no absolute reference standard, so there are still some errors.”
Merlin nodded and said, “Let’s count it as thirty-eight years old, then.”
With that said, he sorted out the major natural disasters in the past thirty-five years, and as he was looking at the data, he asked, “Have you ever moved or changed your place of residence from the time when you were born to the last time you left the residence?”
“No.” 547 replied, “The place where I was born is an underground fortification, and I don’t know where or how deep it is. I haven’t moved in so many years.”
Merlin asked again, “As far as you can remember, have you ever experienced a very strong and big earthquake?”
“A big earthquake?” 547 thought for a moment and said, “There was a relatively strong earthquake, but that was many years ago.”
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