Planetary Museum

It took Wang Youquan a whole day to roughly understand what Yevgeny said.

About the digitization of consciousness, and the difference between Wu Xiaoqing and Wu Xiaoqing's memory replica.

In his three views of being a dutiful and honest earthling, the aliens' actions like this are really...too much!Outrageously too much!

This is simply the true and false Monkey King in Journey to the West. The problem now is that there may not be one six-eared macaque at all, but two or three... Theoretically speaking, as long as the federal government is willing, this number can be infinite.

"This alien is really bad!" Wang Youquan felt resentful and frightened, "Wu Xiaoqing and the others don't know about this yet?"

"Maybe we already know it, maybe we haven't yet... But whether we know it or not, we have to inform them, and we have to send them a copy of this contact letter, indicating the source."

"Professor Ye, do you suspect that this may be a bait deliberately released by the federal government?" Wang Youquan said, "Send a fake Wu Xiaoqing to gain our trust?"

"No, it's okay if it's fake, but I'm afraid it's real." Yevgeny's eyes were a little out of focus, as if he had thought of something more terrifying, "If the three of them are really controlled by the federal government, but They themselves don't know... have you ever heard of a brain in a vat?"

Wang Youquan shook his head.

So, Yevgeny spent another full hour explaining this concept to Wang Youquan, and then spent half a day to make Wang Youquan understand this concept.

After fully understanding, Wang Youquan felt even colder all over.

"Their current situation is almost typical of a brain in a vat," Yevgeny said. "We have to contact the search and rescue team as soon as possible... Since they can contact us through the intelligent body, maybe this is the case." It was time to contact the search and rescue team."

After he finished speaking, he paused for a moment, and looked at Wang Youquan again: "What about you, tell me, your intuition. Do you think they are credible?"

Wang Youquan regained his composure, walked to Yevgeny's side, re-read all the documents carefully, and carefully recalled his experience with Wu Xiaoqing and the three of them.

"It seems to be true," Wang Youquan said. "I don't dare to judge Professor Shen's. He is a professor. But Wu Xiaoqing and Xu Yan's words are quite reliable."

"Xu Yan's words are reliable?" Yevgeny looked at Wang Youquan curiously, he really wanted to hear how Wang Youquan came to this conclusion.

"Yes," Wang Youquan said, "Although this person's mouth is broken, his brain is still stubborn... Otherwise, he would not have been tricked into doing pyramid schemes. Before we came to this mission, we had chatted many times. He is so afraid of death. Now that they are in such a situation, if he can still pretend that he is not afraid of death, it will be very suspicious, and now I think it is quite normal."

Yevgeny nodded. From a personal point of view, he and Wang Youquan had the same thoughts.

But as he said just now, even if their judgment is completely correct, it does not mean that this contact is completely normal.Whether Wu Xiaoqing and the others understand their own situation is still a big question.

Yevgeny sent their questions to the search and rescue team by radio. Three hours later, they received a confirmation call from the search and rescue team, but they did not give an intentional answer in the message—apparently they were also Hesitate about this question.

At this time, there was a knock on the door, and Wang Youquan and Yevgeny looked at each other—what the hell, who else would knock on the door here?

There was a knock on the door again, and Yevgeny noticed that the knock did not come from the vibration of the door itself, but from a simulated sound coming from outside the door.

"Can I come in?" Sure enough, it was the voice of the avatar of Zhiti.

"Yes." Wang Youquan went to open the door.

"I'm sorry," the other party said after coming in, "I have a little understanding of your civilization's information, is it because my way of knocking on the door is not right?"

"No, it's us..." Yevgeny thought for a moment, "We're not used to it... You're so polite. Actually, you don't have to be so polite."

"Since politeness can make you feel comfortable, it is necessary," the figure of Zhitai walked back and forth in the room, and then said, "Your communication seems to be over?"

"Yes, thank you for this confidence."

"Are we considered friends now?" Zhiti replied, "Before you asked to visit our production process, I have completely considered it, and I can agree to this request."

"You... agreed?" Yevgeny felt a little incredulous.

"Yes," said the intelligent body, "I think, for a civilization that can travel freely in the universe, this incident in our galaxy may be just a farce to you. If possible, I will I still hope that your civilization can take a closer look at this farce - if we have done something that is not in place, I hope to get your criticism and correction."

Since meeting Zhiti, Zhiti's attitude towards them has always been relatively indifferent, and the two sides only maintain a basic communication.Before this, Yevgeny and Wang Youquan were told that they could only stay in this room and could not go out for a step. ——Of course, the intelligent body fully understands the euphemism in the language and culture of the people on earth, and the reason for house arrest is that it is difficult to achieve a thorough atmospheric simulation outside.

But now, Zhiti suddenly lowered his posture so low, which made Yevgeny a little puzzled for a moment.Maybe this has something to do with the news from Wu Xiaoqing and the others?

These are not what Yevgeny can figure out now.

But one thing is certain, that is, visiting the production process of the intelligence body will definitely have absolute benefits for the execution of the entire rescue mission.Don't say it's because of this, even if it's just to satisfy Yevgeny's personal curiosity, he will agree.

As far as a 65-year-old man is concerned, Yevgeny's current physical condition is not bad, especially after undergoing surgery, some of the original minor problems on his body are now gone.

After the son's matter was satisfactorily resolved, the bondage from family relatives also disappeared.If there was no such thing as a search and rescue team, Yevgeny could imagine that he would be like many old people, making a few bottles of vodka every day in his own home, watching the world undergo more and more changes in front of the TV, and at the same time Let your body age day by day...

Maybe one day, I will suddenly die suddenly due to excessive drinking or other physical problems.For a Russian, this can be regarded as a very happy ending, and it is also the possibility of the end of his own life that Yevgeny once imagined.

But the appearance of the search and rescue team allowed Yevgeny to stay for a while when his life was about to come to an end.

At the end of the last mission, Yevgeny went to see the return flight of the Ascension Realm spacecraft alone. Yevgeny can still clearly recall the appearance of that spaceship in his mind. From the telescope, he saw the huge The aircraft passed through the "membrane" of the Ascension Realm, and gradually slowed down. When it finally stopped in front of him, he could even hear the violent beating of his heart in his chest.

In fact, in his original plan, he was not prepared to join the search and rescue team, even if he saved his son and cured his alcohol addiction... In the depths of his heart, he still has a pure love for the search and rescue team. "idealism" maintains subconscious vigilance—people who have experienced the former Soviet Union and then experienced the disintegration of the former Soviet Union often maintain vigilance against "idealism".

But after the task of Ascension Realm ended, Yevgeny still changed his mind.

Back on the earth, my life is almost waiting to die in a hut. Compared with it, contacting other civilizations and seeing what other civilizations look like with my own eyes... Obviously there is an important attraction for Yevgeny.

From the beginning to the present, this mission has always been a mystery to Yevgeny.

Federation, ai, intelligent body... the more you hear the conceptual nouns, the more blurred the image behind these nouns.

This is the gap between civilizations, a fact that cannot be changed.

It's like if you explain the order of the feudal era to people in the slave era, they may find it difficult to understand. If you explain capitalism to them, you may feel that this is a daydream. The nonsense that only people would say.

Before the mission, when learning about the two civilizations of Federation and Intelligence, Yevgeny had such an illusion—as if he was the primitive man from the slave era.

A primitive man who knows nothing can truly understand what is slavery only when he sees a slave owner waving a whip at a slave for the first time; only when he sees a farmer paying rent to a landlord can he understand what is a feudal system ;Only when you see countless money, orders, countless workers and products on the production line, will you know what capitalism is...

The reason why the federation and intelligence have always been so mysterious is simple, because for this kind of advanced civilization, the lowest level of civilization has been carefully encapsulated and completely invisible, just like a completed room. In a well-decorated house, people can only see gorgeous lights, exquisite walls, soft carpets when they walk in... and the support under the floor, the pipes in the wall, the wires on the ceiling...such technical details, They are all carefully hidden, and there is no chance to see them at ordinary times.

As far as the federal civilization is concerned, what they have seen and learned the most so far is their virtual world, but in the entire virtual world, they have no idea how this world works-how much does it cost to maintain such a world? electricity?How much labor?How many other social resources... Not to mention Yevgeny and others, even the federal consul and his team can't fully figure it out.

As for the wisdom body, it is even more mysterious. Whether it is in the eyes of the people of the Federation or their earthlings, the image of the wisdom body seems to be a god-his "existence" can solve almost all the problems of a civilization.With a high concentration of thinking, they can understand to some extent, but how to coordinate countless production lines so that they can produce enough warships for military use... This is too curious.

Yevgeny and Wang Youquan were taken out of the door, where they got on an aircraft, which was fully autonomous, and the driver was the intelligence body.

Not far after flying out, the two earthlings could not feel gravity.The house they lived in before became a small dot in the dark, the only light shining, and this dot was making regular orbital movements around a circle.

Yevgeny knew the environment here when he came, and he made some guesses, but after he came out this time, many details of his guesses were overturned.He asked the intelligence body differently: "Are we in the core of the entire planet?"

"No, it is not," replied the agent, "you are in the outer regions of the planet.

"But we don't feel gravity at all!"

While talking, Yevgeny suddenly saw a few bluish-white lights appearing in the black background outside the window. These lights seemed to be very far away from them, but the brightness of the light itself was very strong, so Extra eye-catching.

Those lights stayed on the distant black background for more than ten seconds, and then disappeared, just like a few earthworms that suddenly crawled out of the soil before a summer thunderstorm, or like a person closing his eyes, the eyelids A crawling visual imprint left in an instant.

Very faint, but extraordinarily noticeable.

Yevgeny looked around the porthole, and then he noticed that at the end of the surrounding field of vision, such blue and white traces kept appearing and disappearing in different places, disappearing and reappearing, the scale is so large that it enters over time This is completely beyond Yevgeny's imagination - those blue and white lights seem to weave a giant net in the entire dark world.