Planetary Museum

"Entering the questioning session," the search and rescue team reminded Shen Changwen, "Speak as slowly as possible..."

Wu Xiaoqing instructed Xu Yan by typing: "Looking down, they all have things like mobile phones... Many people also have pictures in their pupils, um, so does the consul. Xu Yan, stand up, walk back, and ask The consul who spoke to me yesterday is right behind you, in black."

"Electronic retina? Yes...it's very easy to do," the second consul immediately ordered people to activate the corresponding authority for Xu Yan, "but for the sake of keeping your identities confidential and the relevant laws of the Second Earth, it's not possible for the time being." You are allowed to speak."

"no problem."

Not to mention speaking, Wu Xiaoqing soon began to notice that it was very difficult for them to even understand what others were saying.

The visual interface of Shen Changwen and Xu Yan has always been monitored by the search and rescue team, which naturally includes the automatic translation of all texts.

Originally, the workload was not too heavy, but after Wu Xiaoqing opened the Internet, the entire translation progress immediately became sluggish.It used to be that basically as long as you read the text of the other party, all Chinese will appear in the corresponding area. Now the search and rescue team can only translate the general meaning-because there are too many contents.

"The first question is to ask us to reveal our true image, and we agree to that." The questioning session is still going through the process, and the first consul is speaking as a government representative, and begins to introduce the questions in this meeting Some rule questions.

And the search and rescue team already basically knew the general situation—at least it was much stronger than being attacked by surprise just now. Anyway, they now have a few more minutes of preparation time.

The image is really nothing to keep secret, because both Changxing and Changbai have met the real Wu Xiaoqing before, and the search and rescue team also believe that Changxing and Changbai must have fully explained their image after returning.

The biggest significance of releasing the images now is to offset a considerable part of the other party's doubts about them-doubts about their true alien identities.Undoubtedly, a real body, distinct from theirs, should greatly ease this doubt.

"What should I call you? I can't call you Mr. Alien—by the way, by the way, shouldn't it be okay to call you Mr.? Are you really a hermaphrodite?"

"You can call me Changwen. The translation is a relatively large text."

"Long... do you have such a surname?"

"Changwen is my first name, and my surname is Shen."

"Does this surname have any specific meaning?"

Shen Changwen shook his head: "I just asked you to ask one question, but I have answered two now."

"Sorry." The other party raised the communicator in his hand, and then projected the picture in it into the air like a three-dimensional projection, so that Shen Changwen could see it clearly.

"The first question I want to ask Mr. Changwen is on behalf of the 160 billion people in the Federation. They want to ask, can Mr. Changwen please disclose your normal physiological pictures. Now the whole network is circulating. You are a A huge creature nearly a hundred times our size, is it true?"

Shen Changwen nodded: "Indeed, the electronic tool in your hand... If possible, I can use this device of yours to project my personal [-]D projection."

The atmosphere of the whole square began to become lively. The questioner ran up from the bottom of the square quickly in front of everyone, and when he came to Shen Changwen, he handed over his communicator to Shen Changwen in front of everyone. In Shen Changwen's hand.

Before that, the search and rescue team had already found the basic method of using the communicator through Xu Yan's retinal network. Under the prompt of the search and rescue team, Shen Changwen quickly completed the operation.

A huge image of an earthling almost covered the entire height of the square on two floors, and the venue suddenly became noisy. Shen Changwen could even hear the exclamation of many people who couldn't help it.

Soon, the second questioner appeared: "Is this done according to the 1:1 body ratio?"

"Yes."

"But if you grow up to be as tall as you, how can your body bear it?" The other party questioned, "The height is close to two meters, and you still have to walk upright..."

"The gravity of our planet is not as high as yours. There is only one g, which is only 70% of yours."

"How can such a huge body survive?" The questions raised one after another seem to be based on the physiological state of the earth's people, "We just did a simple calculation. The amount of food you need to consume will be astronomical."

"There is a relatively big difference in the state of civilization between our two sides. I am afraid that both sides understand each other very well," Shen Changwen replied, "Food has indeed always been a long-term problem for our civilization, and it is even directly related to military and military affairs. survival of the species."

"But similarly, your civilization also has difficulties that we can't imagine, such as lack of oxygen. Because you have lived underground for a long time, lack of oxygen has always been a mysterious way of death for you in ancient times-it can even cause the entire city to die. People in cities die. But for ground-dwelling species, there are seldom such troubles."

As the questions and answers continued, Wu Xiaoqing noticed that the list of questions they had been paying close attention to was changing rapidly.Obviously, because of their good response, the doubts about their identities have basically dissipated. On the question list, many questions about the purpose of their visit are rapidly rising in priority.

"I am an astronomer from the Federation," said the 23rd questioner who was asking the question. The question he asked was not listed on the online ranking list. The search and rescue team judged that this question should be purely due to their own personal factors, " Since you claim that you are a civilization that has saved countless civilizations, can you provide some corresponding evidence to prove it? For example, the texts of all the civilizations that have been saved?"

"I'm afraid I can't satisfy you with this request," Shen Changwen first expressed a clear refusal according to what the search and rescue team said, and then explained, "This is very likely to bring you completely unnecessary trouble."

"It's just words. Could it be that these advanced civilizations you saved can create black holes just by words?"

Shen Changwen explained word by word: "If I tell you the text of your Federation to the civilizations living in the nearest star system, and then they use this text to communicate with you in some way, do you think it is a good thing for both parties? Good thing or bad thing?"

"Do you mean that all civilizations are in a default hostile relationship?"

"No," Shen Changwen spoke more slowly, "hostility is not enough to describe this danger! The relationship between civilizations is more like positive and negative matter. As long as they meet, they are bound to be annihilated!"

"But you are here now."

"Because we strictly follow many rules," Shen Changwen emphasized, "but not all civilizations can understand and implement these rules."

There is also a subtext that the search and rescue team did not say, but what Wu Xiaoqing just understood is that the huge price that such rules need to pay is not something that any civilization can afford.

……

The meeting lasted for more than four hours. After the end, at the invitation of the First Consul, they participated in the welcome banquet arranged by Second Earth.

Speaking of a banquet, the search and rescue team and Wu Xiaoqing knew very well that this must be the other party discussing how to deal with them and preparing to make a final decision.It is nothing more than two possibilities - cooperation and refusal to cooperate.

Both of these possibilities are within their acceptable range. Anyway, in the search and rescue team's plan, no matter whether the dwarf civilization likes them or not, they must stay in each other's galaxy until the mission is successfully completed.Just the teleportation function of the rescue ship itself can already guarantee that the other party can't really solve themselves at the level of violence, that is to say, at least they are still invincible for the time being.

Shen Changwen saw Changxing at the banquet, and the other party took the initiative to say hello to him, but did not discuss any specific topics.

For Shen Changwen, the banquet is almost a continuation of the questioning session just now, and the questions he encounters here are often more sensitive and complicated, and there are various traps in almost every question.

"Mr. Changwen, what is your civilization's view on intelligent program technology?"

"As far as the civilization you have known, has there ever been a procedural civilization with a real meaning?"

"What is your definition of civilization? What about life? Which is more important, life or civilization?..."

Faced with these unanswerable questions, the only thing Shen Changwen can do is to keep silent.Of course, if the other party is in a hurry to ask questions, Shen Changwen will throw back a few topics that are also sensitive to the other party: "What is the meaning of digitalization of consciousness? Why do some audience questions mention silicon-based civilization and carbon-based civilization?" ?”

"What is the current voter turnout rate in the Federation? What are the links in the president's impeachment process? How many votes count as passing?"

"In this war, what is the battle loss ratio of the Federation and the intelligence?"

After a bunch of unhealthy questioning each other, Shen Changwen finally got a moment of silence. He sat down in a corner of the hall, and at the same time habitually took out a communicator here, and began to read the news on it.

According to the search and rescue team, they are likely to be turned against each other next.

If it is really according to the model they imagined before the mission, to come to the other planet in a spaceship, and then work under the nose of the other party, Shen Changwen is still quite worried. Who knows that the aliens on this planet have research on torture. Is it deeper than the people on Earth...

But now, there is basically no psychological pressure on Shen Changwen and Xu Yan, because no matter what the other party tries, their bodies are still on the spaceship, and the only thing that keeps in touch with the other party is the use of high-frequency lasers to transmit information.

Both Xu Yan and Shen Changwen are going to take advantage of this rare gap to learn as much information as possible on the other party's network - such as the digitization of consciousness, and the third and fourth earths, and the second earth, what's the difference?Of course, you still need to understand their political model - at least you can try to find a few more collaborators.

A waiter carrying a drink paused briefly as he passed them, but left quickly.Because both of them are not used to drinking anything here - according to Shen Changwen, many drinks are similar to soapy water.

But after Shen Changwen raised his head, he found that the other party still left two bottles of drinks—before he thought about what this action meant, the search and rescue team had already noticed some details—there were words on the side of the bottles.

There is indeed a character, which is a character composed of some scattered water droplets. The most noteworthy thing is that this character is not a federal character, but a Chinese square character - run.

run?

Before Shen Changwen had time to understand what happened, he felt his eyes go dark, and then he suddenly opened his eyes as if awakened from a nightmare.

There is no appearance of a banquet hall in front of them. They have obviously left the game and are now back on the spaceship.Xu Yan came back almost at the same time, and the two asked Wu Xiaoqing almost in unison: "What happened?"

"The other party unilaterally cut off the network connection. In addition, we have detected more than a dozen lasers locking on to our spaceship. They should have declared war on us!"