The road to technology

Chapter 816 Self-cultivation of actors
"clear."

Sighing secretly, Shang Shaojian decided to follow and play his role well.

Following Weber to the office in the temporary camp, Shang Shaojian saw that the temporary tented office was not big, but well-equipped.

The left and right hands who enter the door are all lined up with rows of computers. The staff are either sitting in front of the computers to work, or walking back and forth to pass files, everything is in an orderly manner.And there is a relatively large table in the middle, on which are some printed pictures and some written documents.

"Mr. Colonel, let's talk about your current progress first. We need to evaluate your previous work before we can determine how to proceed." Walking to the file table, Yue Yuanzhou said first.

"Please wait a moment, Dr. Banks is in charge of this matter recently." Colonel Weber nodded, and then shouted to the civilian staff in the office: "Hey, Townsend, go and call Dr. Banks."

"Alright sir." Townsend responded.

Taking advantage of this gap, Yue Yuanzhou glanced at the documents on the desktop, and saw a crescent-like image printed on many papers, and there were many glitches around these crescent-shaped patterns, just like the effect caused by splashing ink.

"These are the characters written by aliens, right?" Yue Yuanzhou asked.

"Yes, sir, but if you want to understand what they mean, you need to wait for Dr. Banks to come. She is an excellent linguist." Weber waved his hand and explained.

"Well, then wait."

Yue Yuanzhou said wait, but he couldn't be idle, so in the moment he couldn't be idle, he peeped through all the information on the US military computer about contact with aliens.

Out of caution, Yue Yuanzhou didn't rashly peek at the creatures inside the twelve alien spaceships, but the American computer had images of these creatures.

These alien creatures have seven long limbs, and the long limbs radiate from the surroundings to the center in the standing state. A drum hanging on the axis is their torso. The overall shape is extremely symmetrical, and any of the seven limbs can be used as an arm. Or feet, but normally they walk on four legs with the other three curled up on one side.

From the video data, Yue Yuanzhou saw that there were no obvious joints on their seven limbs, but they moved freely and very lightly.There is a circle of eyes around the barrel-shaped upper end, and there are a total of seven eyes corresponding to the seven limbs, without eyelids.

"Heptapod? Is this what these people named the extraterrestrial creature? The name is quite impressive, and it also comes with a 360° viewing angle. It seems that this species does not distinguish between front, back, left, and right. It will be difficult for these creatures to understand if orientation words such as front and rear appear in the dialogue." Yue Yuanzhou secretly said.

He has seen many different types of races, so he can quickly see some information from the physical characteristics of this creature.

At this moment, the door of the temporary tent was opened, and then a woman and a man walked in one after another.

The woman has fair skin and is in her early thirties, but she seems to be overworked and looks haggard.The man is about 36, with a cropped cut, clean and neat, his eyes reveal the confidence unique to a physicist, and he looks very energetic, but at this time there is a little worry on his face, especially when he looks at him inadvertently. Especially when the woman next to him.

"Colonel, who are they? We have already made great progress. If you do this, it will undoubtedly slow down the speed of deciphering. You can't do this. Give us a little more time." Entering the temporary office, the woman walked directly in front of Weber and said.

Apparently she thought that Yue Yuanzhou and Shang Shaojian had sent someone from above to pick her and Gailey up, just like she had come to take over the previous job.

"Dr. Banks, you misunderstood. They are not here to replace your work, but to guide. Oh, that's what the above said, but I personally think it is more appropriate to use 'assistance'." Weber spread his hands with a dark face , expressing his helplessness and indignation.

He didn't like two people coming, they were still two Asians, but he had no choice but to curse his boss's head was caught by the door silently in his heart.

"Assist?" Dr. Banks asked Zou Mei: "So you are physicists? Mathematicians? Or linguists?"

"It's guidance."

Shang Shaojian on the side suddenly emphasized that he seemed to have entered his role. "Next, please briefly describe the results of communication with aliens so far so that we can formulate the next step."

When nothing happened just now, Shang Shaojian looked at his work card. Although he was speechless by the card, as a navy with excellent psychological quality, he chose to enter this role.

Crab special!

Gary Donnelly cursed inwardly, he hated this kind of layman meddling in expert affairs the most, but even Weber couldn't do anything about it, so he couldn't say anything, unless he picked up the burden and quit.

"My name is Gary Donnelly, Ph.D. in Physics." Gary, who had an MMP in his heart and a smile on his face, introduced himself.

"Louise Banks, majoring in Linguistics." Dr. Banks had no choice but to introduce.

Seeing this, Shang Shaojian said without blushing, "Shang Shaojian, dispatcher of the UN special operations."

"This is Mr. Yue Yuanzhou, uh. Yes."

Seeing that Shang Shaojian didn't know what to say, Yue Yuanzhou interjected, "Expert in the study of extraterrestrial civilizations."

"Ok."

Banks shrugged, then walked to the table in the middle of the temporary tent, picked up a piece of paper with the heptapod characters printed on it, turned to look at Yue Yuanzhou and the two who appeared out of nowhere, and began to introduce his recent research with Gary helplessly. results.

"In the previous stage, we communicated with them orally through loudspeakers, but this method is generally aimed at pure oral language without writing. Later, I thought that they should also have written expressions like us, so we began to explore them through writing. language, using digital video cameras, and large television screens.

We display the written text on the big TV screen, and then use the camera to film the text they wrote, hoping that they will do the same according to our method.As it turned out, we succeeded. "

Dr. Banks, holding up the paper with one hand and gesturing on it with the other, continued: "We call them heptapods, and that's their writing, Qiwen! So far, we've confirmed that seven There is a writing system in the language of Limb Barrel."

"The heptapods are advanced civilizations. How could there be no writing system? Even if they develop to the point where they don't use writing, they will still have writing. This is the basic law of the development of civilization in the universe." Yue Yuanzhou pursed his lips and said, "Okay Yes, you continue."

He asked Banks to continue, mainly to let her tell Shang Shaojian, because he had just scanned a little and already knew the results of the US side.

Banks was a little upset because he thought Yue Yuanzhou was belittling her professionalism, so she decided to make some points: "There are two ways of writing in heptapods, and their writing and speaking are two separate languages. Their spoken language is marked as 'heptapod language A', and their written language is marked as 'heptapod language B'."

Before she finished speaking, she was interrupted by Shang Shaojian who had been listening carefully: "You mean, it's like the writing system of classical Chinese in Chinese and the modern colloquial language we use today?"

Banks obviously didn't expect Shang Shaojian to ask, she was stunned.

(End of this chapter)