Planetary Museum

On the first day of the first lunar month, Qingtian Building.

"Search and rescue team, happy new year." It was only after 6 o'clock, and it was dark outside.When I came all the way, I didn't see many people on the road.When entering the gate of the building, Wu Xiaoqing did not see the guard.

For the search and rescue team, this is a rare clean time.

Although the property services of Qingtian Building are very average, the surrounding government agencies are very enthusiastic, especially after Qinglan Consulting took the initiative to file tax returns a year ago.

First, a district leader came to give instructions on the disorderly parking here.

Then came the firefighting, took the initiative to put a few fire extinguishers, and held another fire drill—because I heard that they are a consulting company, and they seem to be like Internet companies, and they all store expensive data, for fear that a torch just now Give it to a company that has made a certain scale.

Before the Chinese New Year, the police station in the district also came to have a look, and felt that the security work of the building was not in place—planning to install a patrol point next to the guard room after the Chinese New Year.

After the new year, if Wu Xiaoqing wants to go in and out at night often, he has to make up some solid reasons in advance.

"Happy New Year." The new body of the search and rescue team is useless in the space station because it moves on foot.Most of the time, he communicates with Wu Xiaoqing on the computer or through glasses in the space station.

Only on earth, in this small warehouse, would the search and rescue team use his clumsy body to walk a few steps back and forth inside.When Wu Xiaoqing came in, he was wandering in this small space.

It has been more than half a year since I bought this robot. Because it is a laboratory product, Wu Xiaoqing has replaced some key parts several times.But there is still a lot of noise when walking.Compared with the noise, the real voice of the search and rescue team seemed low, as if they were answering Wu Xiaoqing vaguely and casually.

It was very cold, and the search and rescue team was afraid of getting hot, so they didn't turn on the air conditioner.After Wu Xiaoqing waited for a while, he felt the cold air creeping up his trouser legs.He saw that the search and rescue team didn't seem to be in a hurry to let him into the space station, so he went to boil himself a cup of hot water.

"Wu Xiaoqing," the search and rescue team controlled the body and returned to a corner of the warehouse. As the indicator light on the robot's brain dimmed, it meant that the search and rescue team's consciousness had returned from the inside of the robot's body to the computer in the room. The air conditioner turned on automatically, and the water heater that boiled the water was cut off. "The water was boiled, and the temperature is just right for drinking."

"Are you still boiling water?"

"Burn it for Yevgeny, prepare it for his departure."

"Oh." Wu Xiaoqing nodded.

Yevgeny originally agreed to come to Wang You's family for a New Year's Eve dinner together, and he agreed to it before.But when Yevgeny didn't show up at the end of the day, Wu Xiaoqing knew that there must be something wrong in the space station.Since the search and rescue team didn't call them, it means that this matter has nothing to do with them - there is only one explanation, that is, the aircraft that collected fuel came back early.

Yevgeny was the only person in the entire space station who wanted to see what the aircraft looked like when it came back. The others were not so curious. Even Shen Changwen and Wu Xiaoqing saw the picture in the replay of Yan Xiu’s memory. , After understanding the basic principles from the search and rescue team, I lost interest.

The aircraft came back early, which explained two problems:

First, everything in Ascension Realm is normal, because the speed of the aircraft’s return and return is controlled by the search and rescue team and the robot administrator. Only after the search and rescue team believes that the security situation in Ascension Realm has been completely idealized will they come back early Decide.

The second is that the external conditions of the artificial planet Ascension Realm are all normal—that is, the crisis has not spread outside the Ascension Realm.

The search and rescue team once had such worries, because the planet to which the Ascension Realm belongs is only a part of the entire ecological chain. Since there are spaceships flying out to get fuel, there must be corresponding manufacturing and storage points.

Although according to the administrator, it is impossible for people to live in other places, but judging from the mysterious yearning for the "Void Transformation Realm" of most people in the Ascension Realm, it is not ruled out that some people have been to these other places.If the environment in other places is also damaged...then their mission will become complicated this time.

It now appears that such a situation did not happen.

"How many days until the end?"

"For 56 hours, Yevgeny has already watched the whole process, just when you celebrate New Year's Eve... now you are rushing back."

"Then, why did you call me here..."

"Next mission."

Hearing this word, Wu Xiaoqing picked up the water glass and took a shallow sip.

The temperature is just right, not too hot, but when you drink it, you can feel the warm heat from your mouth to your stomach.The hot water let the tension in his whole body relax a little, but after a few seconds of relaxation, his legs couldn't help but began to shake again.

"Don't get excited now," said the search and rescue team. "For the time being, I can only tell you that I have basically confirmed my intention to carry out this mission, but I still need to investigate the specific method."

Wu Xiaoqing nodded: "If you have something to say, just say it."

"Other things I can't tell you in detail, but one thing is clear," the search and rescue team said, "We will be separated this time, and you need to act alone."

Wu Xiaoqing was silent for a while: "Can I?"

"I don't know," the search and rescue team said, "because your part of the mission may be the least informative among the three missions."

"Three tasks?"

"I'll explain to you in detail, so I told you before that the situation this time is very complicated. The other two tasks will be taken care of by Shen Changwen and Yevgeny... For the specific details, we should wait until the New Year is over and ask them to come together Discuss. I am asking you here to do a simple test. Take a look at your phone."

Wu Xiaoqing turned on the phone and looked, and found that the phone was automatically receiving a software.

All of Wu Xiaoqing's permissions, including computers, mobile phones, company accounts... are shared with the search and rescue team.

Among these things, especially mobile phones, are actually used by search and rescue teams most of the time. Wu Xiaoqing's most common operation when using mobile phones is to help plug in the power to charge when it is out of power.

Most of the time, the information on his mobile phone is forwarded to the glasses in the form of subtitles. After a long time, Wu Xiaoqing often forgets the fact that he owns a mobile phone.

Now, sending a file to Wu Xiaoqing alone on the mobile phone is obviously an abnormal signal.

Because according to the confidentiality principle of the search and rescue team, all information that may be related to the mission is strictly confidential. Even if it needs to be discussed, the source of the information will be strictly controlled by the search and rescue team, usually only displayed, not saved.

Not to mention the mission information directly provided by the search and rescue team, even the relevant information that is closely related to the mission within Qinglan Consulting will be managed according to the company's top-secret management standards.

After the mission is over, all the data will only be kept in one copy with the search and rescue team, and other copies of the data on the company's computer will be completely deleted by the company's technical department-direct physical destruction of the hard disk.As for paper materials, they will be thoroughly shredded inside the company and then completely incinerated.

After the file is decompressed, it is about 100m long, and it contains ordinary excel files and audio files, which have not been professionally protected.But after opening it, Wu Xiaoqing soon realized that the contents of these materials were not generally sensitive.

There is a huge table in excel, drop-down, with a total of five columns.

Two of the columns are easy to recognize, Chinese and English.Wu Xiaoqing saw the first Chinese word, which was Hello, and the first English word, hello.These two words are on the same line, and the meaning is obvious, that is the same meaning, translated between different languages.In the third column of this row, a long string of numbers appears, which is a combination of only 0 and 1 numbers.That probably meant some kind of machine language, and in the fourth column, a completely unfamiliar character appeared.

Wu Xiaoqing tried to copy the characters and then searched, but found that each of the last characters was a picture posted.

The fifth column is the link to the audio file. After opening it, Wu Xiaoqing heard a strange and clear pronunciation coming from the phone.This voice is Wu Xiaoqing's own voice—that is to say, it was recorded by the search and rescue team.The pronunciation is short.

After briefly learning Russian with Yevgeny for a few days, Wu Xiaoqing briefly learned about the main languages ​​in the world, including the languages ​​mainly used by several civilizations in the three missions they had come into contact with before. .

In this mission, the language analysis of Ascension Realm was specifically brought up at the project consultation meeting, and it also played a key role in the final decision-making.

Wu Xiaoqing knows that to understand how well a civilization understands the world, the very simple and crucial step is to first understand their language.

The Ascension Realm was once considered to be a civilization higher than Earth, because their technology had too many places that people on Earth felt incredible, but through the analysis of the language of this civilization, it was finally determined that this civilization was superficial.

This principle is easy to understand. Looking back at the history of earth civilization, in fact, from ancient times to the present, along the way, when knowledge is constantly exploding, the complexity of language itself is also constantly evolving.

This point can best be explained by the amount of English vocabulary - in the "Alphabetical Table of English Words" published in 1604, the entire book is only 120 pages, and the entire vocabulary is no more than 3000, because the amount of information in ancient life is very small , 3000 words are basically enough.

In modern times, the commonly used vocabulary is close to more than 1. Counting the more than 6 words that are not commonly used, the vocabulary of native English speakers will reach 60.The Oxford English Dictionary contains more than [-] English words—most of which are special words that are only used in professional fields.

At that time, the research results on the language of the Ascension Realm showed that the average number of words used by these cultivators was no more than a few hundred-this is almost the level of primitive civilization.Such a small vocabulary, on the one hand, is of course due to the shallow civilization, and on the other hand, to a large extent, it is also because the living environment in the Ascension Realm is too monotonous.

Wu Xiaoqing paid attention to the drop-down button on the far right of the file, it was very small.

This shows that the entire file is very large.

The entire file is not arranged according to the initials commonly used in dictionaries. Wu Xiaoqing can see that the way of arrangement is obviously the efficiency of the use of these words themselves.For example, hello in the first line, and then down, it is name, title, code name, friendly, civilized, dangerous...

Wu Xiaoqing browsed the two pages briefly, and all he saw were more words, each of which was the same as above, with corresponding parts.A Chinese, followed by a string of English, followed by a string of numbers, then a picture, and finally an audio.

Wu Xiaoqing suddenly seemed to realize something, he directly controlled the button manually and pulled it to the bottom.

Among the five columns, only the string of numbers in the third column still exists, but the other four columns have disappeared.

Wu Xiaoqing stretched out two fingers, pointed at this string of numbers and the blank fourth column respectively and asked, "I'm afraid they are the targets we need to save."