Speaker 1: Hello. I hope somebody is listening. This is a distress
Speaker 1: call from university. It's a message. Someone must be trying
Speaker 1: to send a message to the city, and the only
Speaker 1: thing we're able to perceive from here is the sort
Speaker 1: of resonance is that you hold sport. Is someone actually
Speaker 1: out there listening. I need to get to I need
Speaker 1: to get to the roof. I need to hear it again.
Speaker 1: I don't think the radio can pick up on it,
Speaker 1: so you probably can't hear it. But it's there, ever
Speaker 1: so faint. As soon as people wakes up, I'll ask
Speaker 1: them again to help me decipher it. It has to
Speaker 1: be a message. Nothing else makes sense. I do hope
Speaker 1: the city isn't interfering with it so much that it's unrecognizable.
Speaker 1: It must be such a strong signal to get past everything.
Speaker 1: Even if it's this quiet. The fact that I can
Speaker 1: hear it at all is a miracle in itself. I
Speaker 1: wonder what it is, who's sending it, and why why now,
Speaker 1: after all this time, have I just not been listening.
Speaker 1: There's a saying that you can only find the hope
Speaker 1: that you're looking for if you're stuck in your despair,
Speaker 1: if you're not trying to change things, then all the
Speaker 1: help in the world can come at you and it
Speaker 1: won't make a difference until you embrace it. Maybe I've
Speaker 1: been stuck in my despair. Maybe I forgot to hope.
Speaker 1: It's scary, you know. I don't want to get hurt
Speaker 1: if it turns out that I was wrong, But maybe
Speaker 1: it's necessary. I'm not getting anywhere if I don't take
Speaker 1: a leap of faith, So for once, I'm choosing to hope.
Speaker 1: It's a message now that is. We've been working on something.
Speaker 1: I just don't want to say anything until we were
Speaker 1: sure it was going to work. We're building an antenna,
Speaker 1: not a fancy one by any means. We're kind of
Speaker 1: having to make do with what random scraps we find,
Speaker 1: but hopefully an antenna that will help us pick up
Speaker 1: on the signal we can barely hear. I don't even
Speaker 1: know how to describe it properly. It's like the faintest
Speaker 1: melody that you can sort of make out from far away,
Speaker 1: and you can tell it's something, but you really wouldn't
Speaker 1: be able to describe it. Are the notes high or low?
Speaker 1: Is it slow or is it fast? You don't entirely know,
Speaker 1: but you're sure that it's there. Like waking up from
Speaker 1: a dream and trying to remember it. That's what hearing
Speaker 1: the sound feels like. The hope is that if we
Speaker 1: place our antenna on one of the rooftops where the
Speaker 1: sound is easiest to notice, we can find the signal
Speaker 1: without too much struggle, and then we can amplify what
Speaker 1: we're struggling to hear right now. Of course, people can
Speaker 1: hear it a lot better than me already. The problem
Speaker 1: is they don't talk or write, so it's kind of
Speaker 1: a hassle to communicate. They obviously understand a lot of
Speaker 1: what I say, more than they let on, I bet,
Speaker 1: but I must admit that I'm not as good as
Speaker 1: understanding them. We're almost unbuilding the antenna. I will report
Speaker 1: back as soon as we're ready to go if this works.
Speaker 1: I know it isn't you, February, but I like to
Speaker 1: imagine it is somehow that you've been reminded of me
Speaker 1: and track me down to this inescapable city, that you're
Speaker 1: trying to send me messages over the walls, and spend
Speaker 1: days and nights pacing wondering what I'm doing and who
Speaker 1: I'm with. I know you have your own life now,
Speaker 1: and so do I, but that doesn't stop me from
Speaker 1: missing you. We're back. What's support? I hope you're listening. Well, Actually,
Speaker 1: if I'm right, then someone is listening the person sending
Speaker 1: the signal that we're about to try and to code
Speaker 1: together with beetpoop, which means there might be more of you.
Speaker 1: Are you ready to go? Buddy? All right? Here goes nothing.
Speaker 1: It's working. Look beepoop it's working. Yes, yes, we need
Speaker 1: to adjust it. Sorry, old support. You probably can't hear
Speaker 1: over the radio just yet, but we're picking up a signal.
Speaker 1: I'm going to try and tweak it so it's more
Speaker 1: easily decryptible. There. I think I've done it. Listen carefully,
Speaker 1: can you hear it? It's real? It's real. Now, we
Speaker 1: just need to figure out what it means. What's that? Okay? Echo?
Speaker 1: M I guess you're right. Boop. It does sort of
Speaker 1: sound like an echo. It's repetitive at least, yeah, an echo.
Speaker 1: You're really good at this. Okay, hang on, I've got
Speaker 1: an idea. You're just gonna have to trust me on this.
Speaker 1: I think I hope it will work to quote the echo.
Speaker 1: We're backing up on. Maybe then we can even try
Speaker 1: to trace it back to its origin. Can you imagine,
Speaker 1: after so long, we could have a way to reach
Speaker 1: the city, We could reach the outside, We could be
Speaker 1: free in a roundabout way, just to communicate with real
Speaker 1: people outside the city would be But I can't get
Speaker 1: ahead myself, one step at a time. First, to crypt
Speaker 1: the signal, I'm sorry to say. For that, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: need all the power that I can get, which means
Speaker 1: cut off the broadcast for a while, however long that takes. Okay, Well, goodbye,
Speaker 1: old Sport. I'll be back soon to report on what
Speaker 1: we discovered. Perhaps then we'll have discovered you see you
Speaker 1: on the other side.