From Almighty Scholar to Chief Scientist

Chapter 497 Special number?Sudden mission to Mars
After finding these mysterious characters hidden in the ancient Mayan script, Lin Xiao was not in a hurry to leave here, but waited for Liao Cheng to find a domestic linguist who understood the ancient Mayan script.

There are many well-known linguists in China, but there are very few people who understand ancient Mayan characters.

After all, this is also the script of ancient civilizations abroad, and it is a problem for domestic people to start preliminary learning, let alone the various ancient classics that are necessary to study ancient script.

Therefore, there are only a handful of domestic masters who have researched in this area.

So, not long after, Liao Chengcheng found a retired Linguistics professor at Renmin University of China through various channels and relationships, named Ji Yang, who is now 83 years old.

Then, Liao Cheng contacted Ji Yang through online video.

"Professor Ji, hello, hello."

After connecting the video, Liao Cheng greeted him politely.

The old man on the opposite side of the video also nodded, and said with a smile: "You are Mr. Liao introduced by Professor Tao, right? Professor Tao said that you want to ask me about the deciphering of ancient Mayan writing?"

"Yes." Liao Cheng said, he did not use his real identity when contacting, but temporarily asked for advice as a private researcher.

"This ancient text comes from the Mayan ruins in Mexico. You may have seen it before. I heard that when you were young, you often went to foreign ancient ruins for investigation, and you also went to the Maya."

"Of course." Ji Yang said with a smile: "This is such an important place as the Mayan ruins, of course I have to visit it with my own eyes and do some research."

When Ji Yang was young, that is, around the 60s of the last century, he studied ancient linguistics abroad, and then gradually became such a master figure, who has been conducting archeology and research in various ancient relics abroad. It was not until the 90s of the last century that the various characters of those ancient cultures gradually weakened, so they chose to return to China to teach.

To some extent, this Professor Ji can also be regarded as a great explorer.

At this time, Liao Cheng also smiled slightly, and then said: "That's really great, Professor Ji, then please take a look at these photos."

Then Liao Cheng took out several photos taken by their team members and sent them to Ji Yang.

The photo that Lin Xiao found was mixed in, this is also to avoid making Ji Yang suspicious.

After Ji Yang received the photo, he picked up a pair of reading glasses from the side and looked at it slowly. The other people present also kept silent and did not speak.

Soon afterwards, Ji Yang began to say with a smile: "Mr. Liao, it seems that you should still be a beginner in the study of ancient linguistics. The things in your first photo are very simple..."

Then Ji Yang began to tell what the Mayan text in the first photo meant.

Professor Ji deserves to be well-known, but after reading it for a while, he easily translated most of the contents above.

Of course, there are still a few texts that have not been fully deciphered, but this is not a big problem. After all, nearly one-fifth of the content of Mayan texts has not been fully deciphered, so there are some parts that Ji Yang does not know. Not surprising.

In this way, the translation of one photo after another passed, and finally came to the fifth photo, that is, the one containing the mysterious characters.

However, Professor Ji Yang, who was working on the deciphering work very aggressively before, frowned tightly at this time, and then said, "Mr. Liao, did you take this photo yourself?"

Liao Cheng replied: "No, in fact, these photos were taken by some friends of mine who traveled there, and then they sent them to me."

"Travel?" Ji Yang raised his head, glanced at Liao Cheng, and then said with a smile: "The content in your photo is a little bit hard for me."

"In other words, as much as half of your text here belongs to an unsolved mystery in the Mayan text."

Hearing Ji Yang's answer, Liao Cheng was taken aback, "An unsolved mystery in the Mayan script?"

The other people present were also taken aback, and Lin Xiao also frowned.

"Yes, many of the characters here are unsolved mysteries, and their magic is that they show a combination of phonetic characters and pictographs."

All the people present were shocked, pinyin?Also combined with hieroglyphs?
Pinyin text, that is, expresses the meaning of the text through different forms of letter combinations, and English is a kind of phonetic text.

However, Maya writing is a kind of hieroglyphic writing. Why did phonetic writing appear in hieroglyphic writing?

No matter how you think about it, this is a bit too magical.

It's like writing Chinese characters mixed with a few words of English, it seems like there is some big disease.

Of course, there is another thing that everyone present attaches great importance to is that their previous guesses about the form of those mysterious characters were pinyin characters.

After all, there are only 77 kinds of mysterious characters in total, and the 77 kinds of characters are arranged and combined to form various mysterious character strings, which are difficult to understand. This is also very likely to belong to the phonetic characters. form.

But now the old professor Ji Yang said that the text on this photo showed the form of pinyin characters. Could it be that the ancient Mayans really knew these characters, and then formed Ji Yang The combination of hieroglyphs and phonetic characters in the professor's mouth?
Liao Cheng obviously thought of this, and then immediately asked: "So, does Mr. Ji Yang know how to translate this kind of Mayan alphabet?"

Ji Yang smiled and said: "I know, but I don't know much, and there are only a few of them."

Liao Cheng's eyes brightened, and then he said, "Professor Ji is also invited to impart knowledge."

However, at this time, Professor Ji said: "It's okay to tell you, but Mr. Liao, you are a little dishonest."

Liao Cheng frowned and said, "Professor Ji, please tell me about my dishonesty."

Ji Yang said: "You said that this photo was taken by your friend after traveling there, but I don't know that this photo should belong to the closed area of ​​the Mayan ruins, and you need to have relevant permits and qualifications to enter , if I'm not mistaken, this photo should be taken by you in an underground ruins in the ancient city of Chichen Itza, right?"

"I remember that the underground ruins are in a pothole. Because it is inconvenient, it is not open to ordinary tourists."

"And you guys should have filmed there, right?"

"In addition, I also heard that a few months ago, a cultural exchange group in our country reached a cooperation with Mexico, and then this exchange group went to the Mayan civilization ruins in Mexico?"

Hearing Ji Yang's words, many people present widened their eyes immediately, good guy, they were exposed like this?
In particular, Professor Ji was able to tell where the photo was taken based on the photo?

This can only be done if you are familiar with the ruins of the Mayans.

And this Professor Ji Yang actually knows about the exchange group.

Liao Chengpo was also surprised, and then he said with a smile: "Since Professor Ji Yang has also seen it, then I don't need to talk nonsense. Now I officially invite you to join us."

For Liao Cheng, they don't have to worry about revealing their identities at all. After all, they serve the country and are state officials, so it's not something shameful.

Of course, before fully telling Professor Ji Yang their identities, they also need to wait for Ji Yang to agree to join them.

But Ji Yang didn't expect that after exposing the lie that Liao Cheng just told, he didn't show any panic expression at all, instead he directly turned against the customer and invited him to join?

"Mr. Liao Cheng, please tell me first, who are 'you'?"

Liao Cheng smiled slightly and said: "Professor Ji, I can't say too much now. I can only say that we belong to the National Security Bureau and what we have to do is to serve the country. As a linguistics Masters in this area are likely to be able to help us."

And now Ji Yang is even more confused, "National Security Bureau? Serve the country? You serve the country, why do you want to find me, an old man in his 80s?"

"Professor Ji just needs to say whether you are willing to join us."

After thinking for a while, Ji Yang finally nodded and said, "Okay, I want to see what secrets you guys are up to."

Then Liao Cheng smiled and said, "That's good. Since that's the case, Professor Ji, I'll let our national security personnel pick you up now. After you arrive, introduce us face to face."

Hearing Liao Cheng's words, Ji Yang quickly asked, "Pick me up? Where are you going?"

"You will know when you come later."

Liao Cheng said with a smile, and then he hung up the phone.

Then he looked at the people present, and said with a smile: "Okay everyone, let's celebrate first, we are finally joining a 'Chief Lin' in linguistics."

Everyone present laughed.

In this way, a few hours passed, and that Professor Ji Yang was sent directly in front of them.

At this time, Ji Yang's old face was also full of surprises. Obviously, during the process of getting down from the top just now, he had no doubts at all, and was completely convinced by such a mysterious place.

"My God, if my grandson finds out that I've come to this kind of place, I'm afraid he will have to pull my beard to come too."

Entering the meeting room, Ji Yang saw Liao Cheng and recognized him. After all, he had been talking with Liao Cheng just now, so he recognized him quickly.

And the next moment, he saw Lin Xiao beside Liao Cheng again, and his eyes widened suddenly: "Is this Lin Xiao's chief scientist?"

Lin Xiao nodded with a smile and said, "Professor Ji, hello, it's me."

"I really didn't expect that I can still see you here." Ji Yang said with emotion: "If my grandson knows about this again, I'm afraid I will have to pull a few beards again."

"That kid admires you very much, and because of you, Chief Lin, he is now studying seriously every day, and his grades in school have improved a lot."

Lin Xiao smiled and said, "I'm also very happy to hear this kind of news."

"Ha, that's good." Ji Yang laughed, and then said without nonsense, "Okay, you came to me, don't you just want me to help decipher the Mayan text, show me the photos, let Let me recall."

Hearing that Ji Yang directly entered the topic so simply, Liao Cheng nodded, and then handed the previous photo to Ji Yang.

And Ji Yang took out the glasses case from his arms, took out his reading glasses, and began to look at the photos.

Then, he said: "In this photo, based on the arrangement of these characters, I can temporarily analyze that the more than 100 characters in it represent ten words."

"Just like English words, words made up of multiple letters, so are the Mayan writing on this."

"And according to what I know... the general meaning of these words is 'what kind of number'."

Hearing Ji Yang's words, everyone present was stunned.

"What kind of number?" Liao Cheng asked with a frown.

"Yeah." Ji Yang nodded, "It means a special number... well, since I don't know a few of the more important words, I don't know what is special about this number for the time being. "

"And about that, I might ask another friend of mine."

"I went to the ruins of the Mayan civilization with my good friend, and he did more research on Mayan writing than I did."

"Then trouble Professor Ji."

"Hehe, you don't need to thank me, after all, I have joined you now, so of course I have to do my best." Ji Yang nodded and smiled: "But now, can you also let me know what your purpose is? "

"Of course." Liao Cheng nodded, and then briefly told Ji Yang their purpose.

After Ji Yang heard it, as an old man in his 80s, he was shocked by the news for a while and couldn't keep his mouth shut.

The mysterious stone on the moon?
And the mysterious ruins on the earth?
In the end, he couldn't help but said: "I didn't expect that I, an old guy who has studied ancient linguistics all his life, would be able to come into contact with such things before I was almost buried."

"Director Liao, tell me now, what do I need to do?"

Liao Cheng smiled and said, "Professor Ji just needs to help us try to decipher these mysterious characters."

"Okay, this just fits my major." Ji Yang nodded immediately and accepted the task.

"Then, everyone, let's continue our work now." Liao Cheng nodded, and then announced.

Others nodded and left the meeting room, including Ji Yang, and some staff took him to his office.

At this time, Liao Cheng said to Lin Xiao again: "By the way, Chief Lin, there is one more thing I need to tell you."

Lin Xiao nodded, "What's the matter?"

Liao Cheng said: "First of all, congratulations to Chief Lin for successfully researching the Tianren aerospace plane, which can be regarded as an important part of our Yueshi Division's space layout."

Lin Xiao smiled and said, "The main reason is the magic of YB-1."

Liao Cheng smiled. Of course he knew that although the material of the moon tablet was very powerful, it was mainly due to Lin Xiao that he could research it.

However, he didn't say much about it, and then asked: "According to the report given by Chief Lin, the Tianchao actually has the ability to go to Mars?"

Lin Xiao nodded and said, "Yes."

The nuclear fusion engine adopted by the Tianren has a super endurance. Going to Mars is completely an easy problem.

"That's good." Liao Cheng nodded, and said: "Last time, the conjectures of you and the three academicians Zhang Ming received the attention of the higher authorities, so we are now preparing to send the Tianchariot to Mars mainly completes two tasks, the first is to leave three Mars rovers and three artificial satellites on Mars."

"The second mission is to leave a rover and an artificial satellite on the two moons of Mars."

Lin Xiao frowned, "Do you want the satellites of Mars too?"

"Well." Liao Cheng said: "Since we found the moon tablet on the satellite of the earth, maybe there is also on the satellite of Mars?"

"I see." Lin Xiao nodded slightly, but then asked, "Why the next window period? Can't it be next time?"

Liao Cheng shook his head and said, "It will take at least six months to prepare so many probe vehicles and satellites, and the next window is not long."

However, Lin Xiao shook his head at this time, and said, "No, for the Tianchao, the window period is not March and April of 2029, but July and August of 2029."

Liao Cheng was taken aback, "What?"

Lin Xiao smiled slightly, "Because, for the Tianren, it only takes two months to travel 5500 million kilometers from Earth to Mars."

……

After leaving Yueshi Division's headquarters, Lin Xiao couldn't help but smile. Thinking of Liao Cheng's shocked expression just now, he felt amused.

In his report on the Tianchariot, he did not write about the maximum speed that the Tianchariot could achieve, because he was afraid that if he wrote it down, it would scare people.

As long as the Tianchao continues to inject hydrogen pills to cause nuclear fusion explosions, the speed of the Tianchao will only become faster and faster.

As long as it can carry infinite hydrogen pills and has enough time, it is not a problem to accelerate to sub-light speed.

Of course, if it is a reasonable speed range, it is about [-] kilometers per hour to [-] kilometers per hour.

This speed seems very incredible. Of course, there is no need to be too surprised, because 16.7 kilometers per hour is equivalent to 5.5 kilometers per second, which is only equivalent to the third cosmic speed, which is slightly faster than the second cosmic speed. [-] kilometers per second.

And the spacecraft starting from the earth must reach at least the second cosmic speed to escape the gravity of the earth and then reach Mars.

In other words, other spacecraft that have traveled to Mars will at least reach a speed of 11.2 kilometers per second of the second cosmic speed, which is almost equivalent to 40320 kilometers per hour.

But unlike other rockets, other rockets need to follow the most fuel-efficient path if they want to go to Mars, so for this kind of rocket, they do not use the straight line method, but follow the Hohmann transfer orbit method to arrive , whose path is a curve.

It is also because of this that it takes a long time for ordinary rockets to go to Mars. Otherwise, according to the shortest distance from Earth to Fire of 5500 million kilometers, and the speed of the second universe is 11.2 kilometers per second, it will take about 56 days to get there. Far from needing six or seven months.

As for the Tianchao, since the fuel is not a problem, it can go directly to Mars in a straight line, so excluding some acceleration and deceleration time, the Tianchao can easily reach Mars within two months .

Because of this, Liao Cheng immediately made a decision. In June of this year, they launched the Tianchariot to go to Mars.

"In that case, wouldn't we have a space race with the Americans?"

And let the Americans run for three months first?
Thinking of this, Lin Xiao smiled again. The American Saturn [-] will take about six months to reach Mars.

But the Tianchao only needs two months.

At that time, which country will be the first to leave footprints on Mars, but it may not be the Americans.

At this time, Lin Xiao was already looking forward to it.

But then, he recalled Professor Ji Yang's interpretation of the mysterious text in the Mayan ruins.

A special number?
What would it be?
What you need to know is that according to records, the Mayans had relatively high attainments in mathematics, and they were the first civilization to use "0".

However, in that Mayan text, what special number would it be worthy of their records?
In the end, Lin Xiao shook his head, and then gave Xiaomi a task, which was to let Xiaomi try to decipher other undeciphered Maya characters.

Maybe it will help them.

And Xiaomi also readily accepted the task.

……

In this way, time passed quickly.

Three months later.

The moon landing mission of the Tianren is about to begin.

Of course, there is also the American Mars Project to start.

The time difference between these two events was less than a month, and they immediately attracted the attention of the whole world.

Is the moon landing plan here powerful, or the fire landing plan over there?
(End of this chapter)