Returning from the abyss

Chapter 537 Communication Signal
Lu Ning came out of the spaceship. At this time, several team members who were resting not far away turned their heads and looked over.

"Hello." The unidentified person said to Lu Ning, "I think we can communicate."

"Have you talked just now?" Lu Ning glanced at the four team members beside him.

"It's good for us to know a little bit about daily conversations," Longmai said. "He's not low in intelligence, but he's not that hostile either. He even agreed to give us some samples for testing, which I think Yang Hao would be happy to see." .”

"In that case, what should we call you?" Lu Ning focused on that person, "If you already know some of our language, please choose a name for yourself."

The man nodded, and after thinking for a moment, he said, "You can call me Tai."

"Okay, Ty, can you tell us why you're at the Rangers' place?"

"It's hard to describe, someone must have set me free. It was an unintentional move, I'm grateful. But I don't know the way out, there is no instruction to use it. I read books, there is no pronunciation, I create my own pronunciation, but still no use illustrate."

"Do you have a concept of time?"

"I have the concept of using a certain fixed period as a ruler, and I can count it." Tai nodded.

"So how long have you been awake?"

"According to the unit and your division, 15 days and 22 hours in August [-]. Time is always moving forward, minutes and seconds should not mean much to you."

This time point basically coincides with the loss of contact with the advance team at that time.

"Do you know how to control the instruments at the Ranger?" Lu Ning asked again.

"I need to study, but the Rangers don't leave school supplies. I don't try because it's dangerous," Ty said.

"Are those things dangerous even for you?"

"I can feel the vitality, ferocious, uncontrollable. I can deal with one, two. If there are many, I will die." Tai Weiwei shook his head, "I know you are afraid, and I am the same. Life is not extraordinary, and I will be afraid."

"Is there any extraordinary life?" Longmai asked.

"Extraordinary life does not exist. The mortal world accommodates the mortal and does not allow it to exist."

The crowd was silent.

"I will send you to a place next, and the people there should know how to arrange you. Do you have any opinion on this?" After a while, Lu Ning asked him.

"Okay, I want to understand the world." Tai nodded.

During the return flight, except for some necessary exchanges, everyone was silent. They blindfolded Ty, even though they knew that the effect of doing so would not be great, but they did so.Lu Ning did not go back to the outpost first, but crossed the equator line and flew to the location given to her by NE-002.

The location of Outpost 4.

According to NE-002, the first five outposts were all carefully selected locations, except for the missing No. 1; the No. 2 outpost is located in the deep sea and has huge ocean resources. Outpost No. 3 stands on the highest mountain of the phantom star, and has a weather monitoring system known as the "Eye of the Planet". The No. 4 outpost is located near the equator, rooted in the extremely deep underground, and its lowest point has penetrated into the mantle. It is an outpost for detecting geological changes of the entire planet.The No. [-] outpost is located in the polar region, not only to conduct experiments under extreme conditions, but also to change the magnetic field of the planet through pole interference.

Of course, this seemingly very important point of natural evolution will not be let go. No. 3 has been retrieved by DU-001, and No. 011 belongs to two teams with not so eye-catching numbers, NE-015 and NE- [-] reconstruction.

The terrain was flat, and there was even a landing pad. After the landing craft landed here, four or five people came out of the outpost soon.The camouflage here is like a crater, and it is generally impossible to think of it as a building.

"Greetings, Comrade DU-003." A person numbered NE-011 gave a military salute to Lu Ning, who seemed to be either the captain or the deputy.

"Hello." Lu Ning took Tai off the spaceship. Tai was still looking around curiously. After the blindfold was removed, he had been looking at the world curiously.

"This is the target who needs to be managed temporarily?" NE-015 next to him with his arms crossed said with great interest, "I heard that he is very intelligent?"

"I can understand your words." Tai smiled at the two, "I'm going to live here next, right?"

"As you can see." Lu Ning sighed silently, "Mr. Tai... has learned our language through our conversation during the short voyage. Although he is not yet proficient, the conversation is no problem. .NE-002 must have told you some related matters, so I don’t need to repeat them. If you have any other questions, please ask them quickly.”

"Okay!" NE-011 said loudly, "Then, what kind of food does this Mr. Tai usually need? What is the living environment like? Do you have any special physiological needs?"

Lu Ning couldn't answer, but Tai took the initiative to speak: "I can adapt to and digest most organic matter. Please keep the ambient temperature between minus 120 degrees and [-] degrees. It can be dry or humid. Please provide me with some materials for reading." I don’t have any breeding needs or special diseases, please rest assured, I will try not to add to your troubles.”

Ty's language has become increasingly pure, and his polite attitude combined with his rather aesthetic body configuration makes it impossible to feel bad for him.

This guy……

Lu Ning looked at him again, and then said to those people: "Just in case, let's record the emergency communication. We all know the importance of Tai, and he is only allowed to live here temporarily."

"Okay." NE-011 nodded seriously, "Everything is in accordance with the rules and regulations! Mr. Tai! We will guarantee your rights here! According to the laws of the alliance..."

"Okay, okay." NE-015 patted him on the shoulder, "You don't need to make such a set of things, just take care of him. I'll send the communication to the captain right now."

Soon, Lu Ning received two communication numbers. She recorded these on her terminal, saluted, and then turned and walked back to the spaceship.

"Miss, we should meet again in the future." Tai said in a pleasant voice from behind, "I look forward to meeting you again."

"..." Lu Ning did not answer, walked back to the spaceship, and sat in her seat.

"What's the matter, captain? Was the handover smooth?" Spades asked.

"It's ok, but that Ty saw my gender."

Through the thicker spacesuit, the opaque helmet, and the voice that was confused by the electronic sound, Tai still could see her gender. Does this mean that he has some special means of observation?

"You're worried." Tie Mei said.

"Anyone can see that. There are too many doubts about Tai to make people not worry. His high intelligence is enough to make him equal to those monsters that only exist in people's fantasies. We can't even judge his goodness." and evil." Lu Ning started the spaceship.

"It is our instinct to be in awe of the unknown, otherwise the alliance would not be so cautious in exploring aliens." After Longmai said this, the spacecraft officially took off and returned to the outpost.

The night has come, Tianmuyi came to the sky again, but this time it was pitch black.The position where the spacecraft is now is exactly in the position of a lunar eclipse, if the huge secondary star can be regarded as the moon.

Of course, lunar eclipses and solar eclipses are uncommon sights on many planets, because there is not a huge size gap between phantom stars and Tianmuyi. Excited at the age, so when Lu Ning found that the surrounding light was very dark, he turned on the auxiliary navigation system, and then let the screen display the actual projection of the sky, and casually enjoyed the scene of the huge lunar eclipse.

"Oh! It's a lunar eclipse." Tie Mei seemed to be in a better mood, "My home planet doesn't have satellites, so I can only find such scenes online."

"Planets with satellites may not be visible." Clarinet said quietly, "I have been to a planet where the sky is always covered with dust, and people must wear protective clothing with filters, even at home. Even so , the average life expectancy of people there is 40 years old, and most of them die of pneumoconiosis and other diseases. Let alone a lunar eclipse, the moon can’t be seen, even if there are seventeen satellites around.”

"So miserable?" Spades had gradually gotten used to the clarinet's way of speaking that disrupted the atmosphere.

Lu Ning thought for a while, and probably understood something, and sure enough, the clarinet continued to speak.

"Mining planet, do you understand? It is basically used for mining, but it is impossible for the alliance to build automatic mining stations on every planet, and those private companies can't afford the money. Most importantly, someone needs these The jobs exist."

"Alas..." Tie Mei sighed, obviously knowing something inside.

"Who would need it?" On the contrary, Spade was a little confused, "Those companies? Because it's cheap?"

"It's the people who live on the mining planet." Clarinet said, "They need jobs. The cost of living on the mining planet is extremely low. A set of C-level protective clothing can be used for ten years if you are a bit stingy, and that is the biggest consumption in their life. There is no cost to live, and you can live well by digging a cave. These people don’t have any special skills, and they know that this may be the case in this life. Although mining is considered cheap labor, the salary level is actually not low. Even if you can only work for 20 years, use The money saved in 20 years can also send a junior to receive education on a medium-sized planet.”

"Sounds like a gamble." Spade said, "Trade your own health for the future of the next generation? Wouldn't it be good if you were in the mood to do something yourself?"

"Because it can't be done." Clarinet sneered, "Their lives are painful, as long as they live in pain, they still want to live like this, because they don't want to die. Therefore, this kind of shortening the pain also gives themselves a comforting fantasy The profession has the soil for survival."

"I... can't understand this kind of person." Spade was stunned for a moment, "If life really comes to a point of despair, I will take the initiative to end it."

"They also can't understand why you can choose to die so simply." Clarinet leaned on the chair, "Of course it's difficult for people to understand each other."

"That's the end of this topic." Lu Ning cut off the conversation at the right time, "It's better for you to pay more attention to your surroundings. It's not that the spacecraft has a complete detection device, so you don't need to be vigilant."

Spades hurriedly said: "What you say doesn't hinder the work of your eyes, right? Captain, you see, I can even see the small bright spots on the surface of the secondary star, and I can notice such details."

"Small bright spot?" Lu Ning frowned, "During the lunar eclipse, the light of the stars can't reach Tianmuyi, where is the small bright spot? Tianmuyi itself is not a luminous star."

"Captain, I saw it too." Long Mai said while sending a screenshot to Lu Ning, with a bright spot circled in red on it.

Compared with the entire Tianmuyi, this bright spot is really very small, and it can even be regarded as a small piece of imaging error left on the screen.But since Longmai said it was a bright spot, it obviously has a definite basis.

"It doesn't exist all the time. According to the video records I used before, the bright spots appear for 12 minute and 5 seconds each time, then disappear for [-] minutes, then appear again, and the cycle occurs. The relative position on the auxiliary star is the same , it is not a screen display problem, and it can penetrate the phantom star cloud layer, it must be a strong condensed light source, and it is most likely not natural light."

"5 minutes interval..." Lu Ning looked at the image on the screen and said slowly, "The interval between the military's emergency contact signals is this length."

She zoomed in on that image, and zoomed in on the live camera settings, tracking the area.The bright spot has disappeared, but according to Longmai, it should appear again soon.

Sure enough, after waiting for a few minutes, bright spots appeared again.In the zoomed-in image, it appears to be a shape that is rapidly changing shape.

"It's an artificial product." She nodded, and exported a piece of data from the terminal, which was the password text version used by the former military department about 60 years ago. This thing has been updated many times, this time Because the task is special, it will be stored in the terminal.

The codec program started to operate, and carried out image recognition based on barely recognizable bright spots, and then slowly derived meaningful sentences.

【We are in Tianmuyi, we are watching you.Return to the voyage and inform the alliance that the advance team has been destroyed, and there are unknown dangers in the phantom star, it is not suitable for emigration, and do not come back. 】

This text was presented on everyone's screen, and after a moment of silence, Lu Ning spoke.

"Looks like we've finally figured out where the missing Outpost 1 is."

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Outpost No. 10, where Mo Ningyan is located, has been completely remodeled, and it is even difficult to find the prototype of the outpost.

There are nearly 20 people coming and going here. Similar to Lu Ning, some scattered remnants have also been collected here, and they are busy issuing instructions to the robot.

On the ground floor, the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth floors have been completely transformed into a huge integrated factory. Mo Ningyan is walking in the middle of this factory, and beside her are some metal pipes that look the same as those in the Ranger ruins. , neatly lined up, but without that translucent metal technique.

The number of arrangements on this layer alone is close to a thousand.

The army of Mo Ningyan is about to be born here.

(End of this chapter)