Planetary Museum

There is such a sentence in Rao Xin's novel - the sign of a person's maturity is when he starts to reflect on himself.

The biggest reason for a person to introspect is because he is dissatisfied with the status quo or the future. An immature person is dissatisfied, and will turn his eyes to the surroundings, to the world, which includes all his environment, family, friends, work... But a mature person is always looking at himself.

Because mature people know that in this world, the only thing a person can change is himself. If you want to change the status quo or the future, you can only start by changing yourself.

Wu Xiaoqing in the past actually had this kind of vague cognition when he started to try to learn.However, his conditions at that time were not enough to support him to complete such a difficult transformation.

What Wu Xiaoqing has done can only be regarded as a mature attempt - but if there is no search and rescue team, he may need to try for a long time.

This sentence in Rao Xin's novel is to bring out the next proposition.

He said that the sign of a civilization's maturity is often the time when a civilization begins to self-examine.

In this sense, the current earth civilization is simply like Wu Xiaoqing of more than a month ago.I also started to try to read more books and study more... But in the end, when I did the questions, I was still in a mess.

To be honest, the former Wu Xiaoqing couldn't stand at the height of the entire civilization to see the planet he lives on and his own way of life.

Not to mention him, even if Wu Xiaoqing was sent to the United States to become the president, he didn't have time to worry about any civilization... The earth has always been a pragmatic civilization, which is the same as Wu Xiaoqing before - no money to spend to borrow, If you can't borrow it, go to cheat, if you can't, then sell it, and if you sell your property, you can borrow usury... In the end, you can't pay back the money - Wu Xiaoqing is better than the presidents at this point, anyway, I have never heard of the presidents being forced to jump into the river by their creditors - —How many people were hanged.

In this regard, Wu Xiaoqing is still a bit of a bachelor.

The earth civilization in reality is actually a more thorough rogue than Wu Xiaoqing.

People with eyes can see that this kind of earth civilization is inevitably in crisis—although, in the glasses, the earth civilization seems to be very safe.

If there is anything about being smart that makes people uncomfortable—that is, gradually losing patience with the stupidity of this world, and even finding it unbearable, is the biggest symptom.

On this point, Rao Xin obviously felt the same way as Wu Xiaoqing.That's why he wrote so many novels—generally speaking, people who write novels hold their words in their stomachs, making them extremely uncomfortable, and finally spit them all out to refresh themselves.Of course, if you can earn some money by the way, it will be even more enjoyable.

Rao Xin obviously has his own clear imagination of the ideal civilization, or the specific form of utopia.

These imaginations are of course completely groundless, because with the technological level of human eyes, they have not yet come into contact with any alien civilization.In other words, it has been contacted, but humans themselves have not noticed it at all-such as search and rescue teams.

But these imaginations are convincing to a certain extent.

This kind of convincing power does not mean that certain details of the imagination are supported by evidence. In a realistic sense, Rao Xin's novels are completely full of loopholes.

After all, Rao Xin himself is just an ordinary college student. It is impossible for him to go to the alien planets one by one and come back to write a report, and he does not have a collection team to take him on missions. His grasp of technical details is not as good as that of professional personnel. .

This kind of persuasion is more of a formal beauty, just like mathematics, which is deduced from several axioms that are also imagined... Finally, a magnificent mathematical edifice is constructed.

Rao Xin's "Utopia" building is not yet grand. Before coming into contact with Qinglan Consulting, maybe he himself hadn't seriously thought about how to express the alien civilization he knew and imagined rigorously. ——After all, if you just write novels, you will be more casual.

But after Qinglan Consulting gave him a large sum of money and asked him to specialize in this matter, Rao Xin started to really treat this matter seriously as a scientific research project.For this reason, he also specially consulted some university teachers, and carefully made some understanding on research-type topics.

Basically, in the materials in front of Wu Xiaoqing, all the problems were designed by Rao Xin.

Regardless of the right or wrong of this design, Wu Xiaoqing has only performed a few missions, and when it comes to understanding civilization, he doesn't necessarily understand a lot.

According to Wu Xiaoqing's view of the number of civilizations in his glasses, one obvious fact is certain—there are massive civilizations in the entire universe!And many of these civilizations will have crises... And this kind of crisis is very necessary to save the civilizations to which the search and rescue team belongs.

And the search and rescue team asked themselves to talk to Rao Xin, so it was natural to understand - Rao Xin's research has very important reference significance, no matter whether this meaning is positive or negative.

Looking at it now, it’s more of a positive one—although the search and rescue team didn’t mention a single word, the search and rescue team supported Rao Xin in this project, kept Rao Xin in the company, and even translated Rao Xin for himself. The text of the materials... Obviously, in the eyes of the search and rescue team, these things have a special meaning.

And this kind of meaning has a great relationship with their next mission—no, it is very likely, it is this mission.

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When arriving at the space station, Wu Xiaoqing found that everyone else had already arrived.

Wang Youquan was right next to the teleportation point. It seemed that he had just come here not long ago, and he was trying to operate the flying sword with his mobile phone.Wu Xiaoqing directly helped - after all, he had a lot of practice experience before.

On the way in, Wang Youquan, who usually seldom talks, started talking: "The negotiation over there is over! Get back six batteries in one go! It's that kind of anti-matter!"

Wu Xiaoqing groaned, but was not particularly excited.In fact, Wu Xiaoqing had discussed this with the search and rescue team when Yan Xiu and the others set out—the so-called Nine Great Sects had completely lost the initiative, and with the former head of Sanmai Daoist, surrendering was a matter of course.Of course, it’s okay if you don’t surrender... Yevgeny is sitting here, ready to drop a second nuclear bomb at any time.

The search and rescue team has already prepared for the worst, that is, they will not be able to get even a single antimatter battery. With this battle, after defeating the nine major factions, they can also organize the Ascension to Heaven Realm after the power tower is restored. All of them, use them as a source of electricity - let them recharge the antimatter battery.

Of course, this mission will definitely be greatly delayed, maybe three to five months longer... But compared to the risks of the Nine Great Factions, this is still acceptable.

What really moved Wu Xiaoqing was the second news that Wang Youquan said-the search and rescue team found a huge space with a cloaking device.

According to the speculation of the search and rescue team, the secret of the rebirth of this civilization, as well as the secret of the automatic repair of the power tower—even the secret of the automatic repair of outer space, is likely to be hidden in this invisible space.

"The place is very big and dark... like a big water tank," Wang Youquan poorly described the appearance of the invisible space. "The search and rescue team said that they can still hear voices."

"Sound?" Wu Xiaoqing glanced at his glasses, but the search and rescue team didn't speak to him—it seemed that he was still on Earth.

The task was successful, and naturally the large number of pre-orders for *** would be interrupted immediately, and the battery production line would also be stopped immediately-an extra hour of delay would cost tens of thousands of yuan.

Although the search and rescue team has money, it is not rich enough to use money for nothing.Dealing with these temporary transactional problems is the top priority for the search and rescue team.

And here, for the search and rescue team, it is actually just an end.Since the search and rescue team disrupted his reading arrangement and asked him to come to the space station, he obviously wanted him to perform this task in person—his glasses are also the best helper for observing such invisible targets.

Shen Changwen, Yevgeny and Xu Yan were all there, and the two professors were discussing the issue excitedly at the moment, while Xu Yan was listening stupidly, unable to get in a word.After seeing Wu Xiaoqing and Wang Youquan, he immediately shouted: "Come and have a look! Another new discovery, the old Maozi just saw it, this thing can be used as an invisibility cloak!"

What Yevgeny discovered was actually not surprising. Wu Xiaoqing had discovered it before.

After the mobile phone of the short-haired guest was sent back to the space station and the images inside were analyzed, Yevgeny soon discovered a fact—that is, the wave-like optical phenomenon is not the vibration and distortion of the air itself.

Yevgeny, as an expert in missiles, is very familiar with the characteristics of air. It is not impossible to produce such visually perceptible light waves in the air, but without exception, it requires huge energy.

For example, when airplanes and rockets are propelled, the strong heat energy will cause a significant density difference in the air, forming small-scale refraction, causing stratification in space, and even traces of waves.

But if it's just a cold flying object like a flying sword, rotating at a low speed and in a small range-it's almost impossible to have such a consequence.

Yevgeny's hypothesis that the cloaking device is a soft membrane-like material has now been partially verified.

Under his command, the short-haired man quickly cut the target area with several other flying swords, and then wrapped the sword in a plastic bag and sent it back intact.

Shen Changwen has just made a careful observation of several specific areas under the microscope - using special dyeing techniques, they have successfully observed that on the surface of the flying sword, there is a very small amount of subtle and unknown materials remaining on the flying sword - not sure It is part of the sword body.

Judging from the structure level of these materials, they are obviously not the ordinary dust that Shen Changwen and others have known in Shengtian territory.

The stealth principle of this material is still unclear at the moment, but the basic properties of this material have been confirmed - the material is very light, very soft, with a mesh structure, it is easy to be cut and rebonded - look at the appearance Like a solid, but with the properties of a liquid.

The material is completely transparent in its undyed state—it has exactly the same refractive index as air.That is to say, if these things were floating in the air of Trapeze World, they would hardly be noticed, let alone studied.

What the two professors are discussing now is the conjecture of the hidden principle of this material—transparency and invisibility, which can be said to be completely opposite in terms of requirements.Invisibility requires complete occlusion of reflected light from the target area—not just occlusion, but faking an identical background.

"On Earth, there are two main scenarios for cloaking materials..."

"The first is to find a way to forge hidden information - just like a chameleon, completely integrating itself with the environment to achieve invisibility."

"The second is to let the light refract, put the light behind the invisible object in front of it in some way, and change the direction to shield its own light."

"The former is widely used, but it can only be said to be camouflage. The latter is true invisibility, but there are almost no mature things." Although Shen Changwen majored in materials science, working on low-temperature materials must not have much to do with these things The relationship, coupled with the level of knowledge of the people listening to his explanation, can only be said in a relatively superficial way.

In comparison, Yevgeny is more imaginative. After seeing Wu Xiaoqing, he greeted Wu Xiaoqing and made a judgment: "Based on my understanding of this civilization, I think it is more the first one you said. A kind—but not a disguise."

"Wu Xiaoqing, I remember you once described the machines that create hallucinations... This may inspire us to study this issue."