Planetary Museum

Ignorance is a bliss.

This is what Wu Xiaoqing heard from Shen Changwen. Once, when he was discussing technical solutions with Yevgeny, Wu Xiaoqing and Xu Yan were in a daze, and Shen Changwen said it to Yevgeny in English.The search and rescue team translated it.

Shen Changwen said this unintentionally, but it left a deep mark on Wu Xiaoqing's heart.At that time, he was still fighting the landlord with Wang Youquan and Xu Yan. After hearing this sentence, he put down the playing cards and picked up the exercise book full of red crosses again.

Ignorance is the greatest crime.

This is what Yevgeny said, and it is used to talk about these immortal cultivators who have ascended to heaven.He went to ask the search and rescue team, and the search and rescue team said that there was nothing wrong with it.

Wu Xiaoqing also felt right.

If it is said that Wu Xiaoqing got the most important experience from this mission, no, from these few missions, it would be this sentence.

Wu Xiaoqing could feel that even educated people like Yevgeny and Shen Changwen would unconsciously reveal a sense of inferiority in front of the search and rescue team. Wu Xiaoqing can still recall the first time he saw Shen Changwen When he was looking at the superconducting coil, his eyes almost popped out, and the eyes he looked at Wu Xiaoqing seemed to see aliens; the same was true for Yevgeny later, all the arrogance, when he saw the aliens in the cabin , After the missile that appeared out of thin air, the whole person almost became demented.

He hadn't fully understood their great shock before, but after this mission, he did.

Rather than saying that they are shocked, it is better to say that they are afraid, inferior, and desperate.

This is a kind of subconscious fear in the face of great power, as if human beings in ancient times encountered an irresistible beast in the wild... This kind of fear penetrates from the depths of the genes, and then quickly permeates the reason, and the reason is also helpless After that, it became despair.

But their situation can only be said to be ignorance, not ignorance - they clearly understand what they are facing, and realize that they do not know this brand new and strange thing.

In these two scenes, the one who is really ignorant is actually Wu Xiaoqing, who was complacent at the time.

Wu Xiaoqing only knew that these two people were stupid, but he didn't know why they were stupid.He himself is just an executor, what does superconductivity mean, what does a portal mean, what does a nuclear missile mean... He may know a little bit ignorantly, but if he really wants to elaborate, it's a mess.

How similar is this to the situation of these flying people.

During this period of time, Wu Xiaoqing has seen a lot of flying people in the space station, and he has intuitively seen the helplessness and pity shown by the ignorant when facing the cold reality.

These flying people have lived a carefree life all their lives. For them, the ups and downs of life are at best a failure in a certain life, and finally died in a battle—at worst, they can be reborn and continue to live.Even if he messes up to the end and doesn't even have a flying sword in his life, he can live his life leisurely, at least he won't be hungry.

But after the power tower was blown up and the aura was cut off, almost all flying people faced mental breakdown and despair.

In their eyes, the whole world seemed to have completely changed overnight.

In fact, Wu Xiaoqing has never experienced this kind of feeling.

However, the difference from them is that the changes in his world are all in this better and positive direction—the former Wu Xiaoqing was completely unable to imagine the life of primitive people, the life of people in the feudal era, and even more so. Not to mention the lives of people in this trapeze world.Because of the mission, he has experienced it again and again, and every experience has completely subverted his worldview.

But Shen Changwen was the same as him, went through three missions, but there was no unexpected emotional fluctuation from the beginning to the end.

Because to some extent, he knows some basic laws of how the world works.Even these worlds don't know which corner of the universe they are in.

Take Flying World as an example. Immediately after seeing the flight data of these people, Shen Changwen was discussing the propulsion mode they might adopt, and held meetings with the search and rescue team to do various verification tests.

In their eyes, there is no mystery in this world - even if the phenomenon seems incredible, they can always be patient and find the principle behind the mystery.

This is the confidence given to them by knowledge, and this kind of confidence makes Wu Xiaoqing extremely envious.

So after this, he desperately wanted to make up for this through learning.He feels that he is still very young, and he is not stupid - as long as he studies seriously, he will definitely have results soon.

This idea is a fantasy of most people, especially when they are young, that there are infinite possibilities in their bodies, which they can release whenever they want.

However, after two or three months of continuous study experience, Wu Xiaoqing gradually began to realize a cruel fact.

He is stupid.

According to Yevgeny, high school physics does not require any foundation at all.The so-called junior high school mathematics is replaced by an ordinary smart child-master it within one month, basically understand and use it in two months, catch up to the level of similar students in three months, and have no problems at all.

Yan Yan and the make-up teacher Wu Xiaoqing hired basically said the same thing.

Wu Xiaoqing had always felt that he did not study well because of his poor foundation.As long as he lays this foundation firmly...

Now Wu Xiaoqing began to understand that it was not.

Even if it is a basic problem, then this basic problem has already foreshadowed some problems.

Would a smart child have such poor grades in junior high school that he would completely abandon himself in his studies?

Maybe, but it's definitely a small probability.

The real fact is that the knowledge in junior high school is actually very simple for "smart" children in the true sense, and they don't need to study hard in class. Many people can even master it by themselves just by reading the textbook.

Wu Xiaoqing recalled his life in junior high school, indeed, there were not many such people in his class.In the end, they all successfully passed the high school entrance examination.

The senior high school entrance examination is like a sieve, which screens out those who have reached a certain standard in terms of intelligence and hard work, and enter the next round of study.

Wu Xiaoqing was screened out by this sieve.

Wu Xiaoqing used to think that it was because he didn't bother to study.

Now he knew that it was impossible.Maybe he subconsciously realized his own incapacity very early on, so he pretended to be disdainful on the surface-this kind of disguise has been going on for a long time, and even he began to believe it.

This kind of cognition made Wu Xiaoqing, who had always been careless, began to feel uneasy.

He began to realize that there was a problem in his life, and this problem, he probably couldn't solve it by himself.

Fortunately, he also has a search and rescue team.

For any problems that arise during the execution of the mission, the search and rescue team will always have a solution.

Wu Xiaoqing was the most important part of the search and rescue team, and the search and rescue team naturally made arrangements in advance for possible changes in his psychology.

"Brother said, I can have an operation," Wu Xiaoqing told Shen Changwen, "will it make me smarter?"

"What is the principle of the operation? The search and rescue team didn't say anything?"

Wu Xiaoqing shook his head: "Brother said that these technologies do not exist on the earth, and they need to be kept secret from us."

"Are there any side effects?"

"Brother said that the biggest side effect is becoming too smart..." Wu Xiaoqing said, "Smart people often suffer."

Shen Changwen was stunned by this sentence for a few seconds, then he nodded: "He's right, if you really want to become smarter, you won't be so happy in the future as you are now."

Wu Xiaoqing shook her head resolutely: "Then I'd rather be unhappy...and don't want to be viewed as a fool by you."

"Fool? No way," Shen Changwen said, "It's just simple."

"I can't even understand what you're saying, I can't even understand what you've translated, so what if I'm not a fool," Wu Xiaoqing said, "I've become a little smarter, at least I can help you a little bit more when performing tasks in the future. "

"So you've already decided?"

Wu Xiaoqing didn't answer, but nodded slightly.

Shen Changwen didn't say anything, he resented his surgery, but he had no position against Wu Xiaoqing's acceptance.Of course he knows Wu Xiaoqing's conditions. A person who struggled even in junior high school mathematics will have to face a lot of high-tech problems in his future work... Shen Changwen can imagine that the tasks they will perform in the future will definitely become more and more difficult. high end.Not to mention that Wu Xiaoqing felt that his IQ was not enough, Shen Changwen and Yevgeny didn't think so.

In front of the search and rescue team, they are actually fools.But they are all a little smarter than Wu Xiaoqing, and this kind of smartness is largely a kind of conceit.

Yevgeny is addicted to alcohol, so this kind of conceit is even less, and Shen Changwen himself - he knows very well in his heart that he opposes any surgery on his brain, which is purely an emotional confrontation.

He can accept the failure of the confrontation with the search and rescue team, but the reason why he cannot accept this failure is that there are problems with human physiology.

This is the plot of almost all Earthlings—no matter how bad our specific lives are, our possibilities are always there.This possibility is inscribed in our genes, within our biological fabric.Our inability to take advantage of this possibility is just our individual failure, but as a human being, the power of this possibility exceeds everything else.

Yes, even search and rescue teams.

This is a kind of identity complex for one's own species. Shen Changwen doesn't know if there is a professional corresponding term in psychology, but he sums up his own mental state, and that's what he thinks.

Without surgery, he is still a pure earthling, a human being in a completely natural state, and he can be proud of everything he has achieved—because it is also the achievement of human beings.

And after accepting it?What is he?From Shen Changwen's point of view, all future achievements are nothing more than charity from the search and rescue team.

But for Wu Xiaoqing, this psychological obstacle does not exist at all.