Planetary Museum

For the previous three missions, before the execution, the search and rescue team made Wu Xiaoqing fully prepared.

A weapon of self-defense, a tool of necessity, a currency of exchange, or a supply of aid.

Among them, the most prepared one was naturally the last time. The time he went to the Ascension Realm, his "spaceship" that could be controlled by his mobile phone alone exceeded the sum of the materials prepared for the previous two missions.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month, the team has already started preparations for this mission.

Yevgeny and Shen Changwen's language team is now in place, and Qinglan Consulting has rented a doomsday club in the countryside of San Francisco—a holiday apartment converted from an abandoned missile silo, which is said to be able to withstand nuclear bombs.Of course, renting this club is not because of any terrible attack on the earth, but simply because this place is suitable for keeping secret.

Unlike in the past, a large amount of project data was stored in the space of the search and rescue team, and he was completely responsible for the confidentiality work alone.But this time, because of the particularity of the mission—the search and rescue team could only follow up one of the three missions, and it was tentatively decided to be Yevgeny, the one in the binary language.During the entire mission, they were separated from each other—it was completely impossible to go back to Earth when they wanted to go back to Earth, and to go whenever they wanted, like the previous few times.

To put it bluntly, there may be doubts about whether their lives can be saved after they appear - although the search and rescue team has already speculated that the probability of them being killed as hostile elements is less than [-]%.

Two percent doesn't sound like much, but it's not zero after all.

Yevgeny and Shen Changwen are now in the company dormitory every day, practicing the languages ​​​​of these two unfamiliar civilizations, and storing some commonly used languages ​​in their mobile phones as needed—if they are unable to speak out due to nervousness after sending them over , You can release goodwill through the playback of mobile phones.

The content of these pre-prepared speeches is of course conceivable-"We have come in peace and sincerity", "We have no malice", "Please take us to your consul", "We can help you, about This war"... something like that.

The difficulty of this language, compared with the ordinary languages ​​on the earth, has to be said to be very difficult.The most striking point is that this language has obvious tonal changes—Chinese also has it, but Chinese has only four tones, but this strange alien language has a total of 9 tonal changes, which leads to the fact that once this language Speaking of it, it feels like singing.

In Shen Changwen's words, learning a word from them is like learning a song.

Phrases with different meanings sound like a mishmash of different songs—and, at the same time as they are mixed, the language of civilization seems to require slight variations in pitch between sentences for a certain aural effect of the whole.

After just two days of practice, Yevgeny asserted that the operas and music born out of this civilization must far exceed those on Earth—their sensitivity and coordination requirements for sound are too high.It can almost be said that every long dialogue can be regarded as a professional composer to arrange the music.

After Shen Changwen and Yevgeny had learned it by themselves, they had to teach Xu Yan and Wang Youquan. At the same time, the two professors also gave them "political counseling" at every turn.

These two people have always wanted to be on their own, and now, their chance has come - during the mission, if Shen Changwen and Yevgeny have an accident and cannot perform their mission duties normally, the two of them need to be on top.

It is impossible to expect these two to fully understand the mission. Wang Youquan is following Yevgeny and the search and rescue team, so there is nothing to worry about on their side—the search and rescue team will mainly be in charge of their group as a guide, and Wu Xiaoqing's glasses will also temporarily Lend them this group to use.The group that Xu Yan and Shen Changwen stayed in was a bit serious - now Xu Yan is receiving special guidance from the search and rescue team every day, and he will determine with him one by one how to deal with various accidents and dangers during the entire mission.

"You are likely to be regarded as captives, or spies from Civilization C. All the electronic equipment on your body may be considered to be creations of Civilization C because of their different principles. Therefore, you must have a detailed understanding of all the electronic equipment on your body. The basic operating principle of electronic products. What is the storage medium of the mobile phone, and how to prove that the mobile phone will not be manufactured in c civilization?... Remember, this semiconductor element has not been widely used in b civilization, which is unique to the earth His technology-this is also the most favorable evidence for you to prove your identity...His manufacturing principle, memorize this row of chemical formulas, it is not complicated..."

"Most of the weapons of Civilization b are mass weapons driven by electromagnetic waves. These weapons look similar to guns on Earth, but the energy density is not the same thing at all-don't expect any bunkers, or speed up to avoid, or even hide in It's not safe to be underground either. As soon as you're targeted, put up your hands and surrender - many of their weapons are automated. Remember, when you hear such a voice, or these text warnings, stop all actions immediately... In short, as long as you see They, you don’t want to make any moves... Raising your hands and surrendering is a surrendering action on Earth, and it doesn’t apply to b civilization, don’t be smart..."

"If you need food, remember to show them those pictures on your phone - what they give you is not edible. A lot of protein that they can digest normally is a deadly poison to you... the food you carry with you You can’t feed them either. Don’t drink water, just drink pure distilled water—they like to add some ‘additives’ to the water to adjust the flavor, and there are huge risks for humans...”

"Don't rush up their cars and boats, especially spaceships—you've been on Feijian before, and I'll tell you that the acceleration of spaceships of Civilization b is more terrifying than Feijian, and the acceleration of gravity exceeds more than 30 g! b All the military bodies of civilization are specially modified and optimized... If you sit on it, the spaceship starts for 1 millisecond, and you will become a meatloaf!"

"They also have a tradition of using brain-directed devices to play games-but it's not suitable for you, unless you want to perform watermelon burst-if you must use it, you can only use the corresponding equipment developed specifically for you."

……

Everyone became busy. In the whole team, only Wu Xiaoqing, who was always the busiest, was now free.

Among the five-person team, only Wu Xiaoqing did not need to do any preparations—because the civilization A that Wu Xiaoqing had to face was a civilization comparable to or even higher than the civilization of the search and rescue team itself.

The civilization of search and rescue teams has died, and search and rescue teams are but the last embers of this civilization.But the a civilization that Wu Xiaoqing needs to face this time still exists safely and peacefully.

For every mission in the past, the timetable was determined by the search and rescue team-they would only start the mission calmly after ensuring that the preparations were completed.But this time, it is largely controlled by this a civilization.

The search and rescue team can directly reach the galaxy where b civilization is located through teleportation technology, but relying solely on the technology of the earth, they cannot guarantee that they will not be killed by either side of the war as an enemy at the moment of appearance.The best way for them to intervene in this war is to provide an opportunity for Civilization A—this opportunity is best proposed when Wu Xiaoqing contacts Civilization A.

It can be said that the success or failure of this mission depends on the results of Wu Xiaoqing's contact with Civilization A.

"The way civilization a contacts you is the same as we and those saved civilizations... For advanced civilizations, the cross-dimensional teleportation technology is just a basic means of transportation."

"Since they can find me through my signal, they must know you and all our decisions... So you don't need to do anything now, and you don't need to make any preparations. The other party will definitely talk to you in some way Get in touch... Remember, don't panic, always understand your mission, this is the most important thing." ——The search and rescue team's only explanation to Wu Xiaoqing is this statement, besides, in the recent period, almost all of them There is no connection.

Wu Xiaoqing came to the company's office in the morning as usual, read a book, and was in a daze.Due to the needs of the mission, the dinner parties for the past month have been almost postponed, or the search and rescue team will do it for them.

In the afternoon, Wu Xiaoqing is usually free to move around.Sometimes I go out and look for libraries and museums to gain some knowledge and relax my mind. Sometimes I go to the square or the gym to go for a run by myself and be in a daze.In the past, Wu Xiaoqing looked very busy all day long, but his head was actually idle, and he looked tired, but his heart was always empty.But now it's completely reversed, he has nothing to do, but his mind is always thinking about various problems uncontrollably.

This kind of thinking is completely unconscious. Sometimes when he thinks of a specific question, he will suddenly want to know the answer to a certain question as if he is suddenly fascinated - he will read books, try to find the answer by himself, and even more so More often, he will try to call many university professors introduced by Shen Changwen - get answers directly from them.

Eighth day, ninth day, tenth day...

Wu Xiaoqing's life is as peaceful as water. He has been looking forward to being contacted by the other party, but the mysterious A civilization has never appeared.

Valentine's Day, Lantern Festival...

Shen Changwen and the others have practiced their language to a certain extent. Now when Wu Xiaoqing goes back to the dormitory every day, he can hear the four of them singing in a chorus.

Wu Xiaoqing didn't specifically learn this language, and didn't know much about it, but from the melodiousness of their "singing voices", it can be heard that they have mastered it more proficiently than before.

Of course, they are more proficient in the operation of using mobile phones to play voices-the search and rescue team specially found a programming team to program specific voice commands for short sentences commonly used in mobile phones.When needed, they only need to say this command to the mobile phone-they can let the mobile phone speak the corresponding sentence on their behalf.This is also considered to be the most concise and easy to use translation software.

February passed in a blink of an eye, and before I knew it, it was March again.

Preparations for the second part of the Rescue series have already begun, and Wu Xiaoqing has also made several appearances specifically for this matter.For specific work such as casting and filming, the search and rescue team can participate in the name of a teleconference. It is no longer necessary for him to be there in person to "play" himself. gimmick.

The underground office station in San Francisco, USA, is also officially in operation with the deepening of the translation project - the office station keeps in touch with the dozens of people who came to Qinglan Consulting and was left behind at all times, and they are used to sort out and search for them. They keep translating data of.Based on these materials, Qinglan Consulting started more detailed research around the world——as the research results continued to emerge, the civilization status of b civilization began to be presented to everyone bit by bit.

Among them, the simplest and easiest to trace is the source of b civilization.

Very similar to the earth, b civilization originated from the ecological evolution of the planet itself.The only difference is that the galaxy where b civilization is located has many more planets suitable for life than the earth. Among the galaxies with a total of 15 planets, more than 7 are suitable for life and reproduction.