History of Human Space Exploitation

Chapter 47
"Hey, sister..."

Yang Yi: "Hey, who? Sihan?"

Geng Sihan: "Yes...it's me...you...are you okay?"

Yang Yi: "Sister, what sister? Don't worry about me! Where are you? What's wrong with you? Why can't I get in touch?"

Geng Sihan: "No...no...I've been in touch with my sister?"

Yang Yi: "Contact a fart! The heavens testify, I have been looking for you for more than two months, tell me! Where did you go?"

Geng Sihan: "I...I'm out on a trip, I've found some very good...friends here, and I want to introduce them to you..."

Yang Yi: "What shit friend! I'm not interested! Where did you go???!!! Where are you now???"

Geng Sihan: "Sister...Xiao Yi, don't worry...Sister...I'm already back. I'm in the hospital now."

Yang Yi: "Why are you in the hospital? Which hospital are you in?"

Geng Sihan: "It's...it's nothing. There was a small...accident on the way back...a few hundred kilometers away from the city...the ambulance took me here...I've been here for several days , nothing...it's nothing serious."

Yang Yi: "Car accident??? Which hospital? Tell me quickly!"

Geng Sihan: "You...you love the hospital..."

Yang Yi: "I'll go find you now!" The phone was hung up.

Geng Sihan: "Sister...Xiaoyi..."

When he arrived at the hospital, Yang Yicai realized that he didn't ask Geng Sihan which department he lived in.After inquiring the name of his friend from the main station of the hospital, the other party gave the answer of "there is no such person".The number that Geng Sihan used to call her an hour ago has expired, and it is no longer possible to ask Geng Sihan for more details.

The anxious Yang Yi could only check every ward on every floor of the inpatient department of the hospital. Her hysterical eyes made the hospital security guards and nurses dare not stop her, but fortunately, she was always available when questioned. Tell the other party your purpose in a calm tone.Fortunately, this is a small hospital, and the inpatient department has only five floors, and each floor has only ten or twenty single or double wards. Not long after, Yang Yi had already seen all the departments and floors of the inpatient department , but there was no sign of Geng Sihan.

Holding her last hope, Yang Yi went to the bed area of ​​the emergency department. In a corner, she saw Geng Sihan, her roommate who had been “missing” for three months.

Seeing Yang Yi, Geng Sihan immediately got up from the hospital bed and stood beside the bed, and then stood there with a kind of "humility" that Yang Yi had never seen before, and at the same time it was very weird.

It is hard to describe Geng Sihan's eyes only as "empty".Her eyes, like the figure in the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch's "The Scream", seem to be painted according to a pair of punctured kaleidoscopes: the bottomless pupils are surrounded by fingers. Sharp, angular paper edges that poke at will.

Those eyes, combined with the cheap, unnaturally white foundation she put on her face, and the cheap dark red lip gloss she smeared on before going out, looked better than the yellow "skull face" in "Scream" It's weirder.

"Where did you go?!" Yang Yi asked before the other party could speak.

"I really saw it." Geng Sihan said tremblingly, as if he didn't hear Yang Yi's question.

"What did you see? I asked where you went?" Yang Yi asked.

"That..." Geng Sihan's voice leaked from the corner of his mouth, Yang Yi's rocket seemed to be hit on the beach.

"What this and that? Explain clearly?" Yang Yi was a little anxious, but he saw that Geng Sihan seemed to be a little out of order, so he didn't continue to ask the question at the beginning.

"I...I dare not say...give me a piece of paper, I'll write it for you...that's where I go..." Geng Sihan's left thumb, index finger, and middle finger trembled slightly, showing the gesture of holding a pen.

Hearing that the other party finally "heard" the question, Yang Yi let out a sigh of relief.She stretched her right hand to her waist, passed through the right shoulder strap of the backpack, then grabbed the left shoulder strap of the backpack with her right hand, and brought the dark blue bag to her chest.While picking up the notebook, she remembered something.

Yang Yi took off the ballpoint pen pinned to the case of the notebook and handed it to Geng Sihan, but the other hand caught the notebook and the pen with the left hand that he used to gesture and write just now.When Geng Sihan was holding the notebook with his right hand, and at the same time holding the pen with the thumb, index finger, and middle finger of his left hand and writing slowly, Yang Yi asked, "I remember you are right-handed?"

"Right...right-handed? What is right-handed?" Geng Sihan looked at Yang Yi blankly.

"Right-handed! It means that I remember that you are usually right-handed? Use your right hand to write, hold things, and hold chopsticks!" Yang Yi became even more impatient.

"Ah? Really?..." As if he didn't hear Yang Yi's impatient tone, Geng Sihan continued to write with his head down.

After finishing writing, Yang Yi took the notebook and looked at it, and couldn't help but gasped.

"Alder skin Ⅲ is the earthwork of the women's pavilion that lacks the winter air."

She could tell at a glance that it was written in Chinese, but it was strange no matter how she looked at it.It is also difficult for her to connect these eight or nine sloppy words and guess what they mean based on the "context".These words looked more uncomfortable than the threatening letters made of words and sentences cut from newspapers in the crime documentaries she had watched before. "What are you writing?" Yang Yi stared at Geng Sihan and asked.

"I...I dare not...to write out the name of that...thing...in its entirety, I can only write it like this...you...don't understand?" Geng Sihan's eyes seemed to be looking at something behind Yang Yi's right shoulder , said softly.

"I can understand a ghost!" Yang Yi thought to himself.But at this time, she has confirmed that her only friend should have encountered something terrible, and she seems to be the only person who can help her friend now.

Yang Yi shook his head, wrapped his arms around Geng Sihan's neck, who was half a head shorter than her, and pressed his ears against his friend's black hair, his heart was in a mess.Geng Sihan's hands were naturally hanging down. Although she twitched a little when she was hugged, she didn't feel it.

He helped Geng Sihan back to the hospital bed and settled down. While supporting him, Yang Yi found that this good friend, who was usually in good health, now seemed to have only the skeleton, muscles and skin necessary for survival.After spending half a day with Geng Sihan and telling her to take care, Yang Yi bid farewell to this strange friend.

Yang Yi put his hands in the pockets of his windbreaker, and walked home slowly with his head down.Facing his computer, Yang Yi wanted to search for something, or watch something related, but his mind went blank.The crooked words written by Geng Sihan in the notebook seem to be less than ten words, but because these words are so weirdly written, Yang Yi guessed several possible combinations, but he couldn't find an answer that satisfied him.

For the sake of his close friends since high school, Yang Yi decided to use the "stupid method" to start from scratch. "But this can only assume that Geng Sihan wrote in the order of her possible expressions. What if it is not? Alas... No, there is no way, I always have to work hard to find a way to solve this problem..." Yang Yi secretly made up his mind.

The first character is easy to guess. Adding a leather character next to the word clothes should be the word "bei".

Is the second word "Hui"?Still didn't write the word "face" on the head?Or is it directly 3 in Roman numerals?

The third and fourth characters are both clearly written, a word for "qi" and a word for "ow", the combination of the two characters is obviously a "bully" who is being bullied.But... is this what she really wants to express?
Although it is written obliquely, the fifth character is "dong" in winter, which can basically be seen.

The sixth character should be "Qi" of air, right?

The seventh "character" should feel similar to the first character next to the clothes, it should be a radical, next to the word gold.If it is connected with the group of strokes that look very similar to the character "se", it is a "cesium" character.Is this writing the periodic table of elements?Wait, if she really wanted to write something related to the periodic table, would the first one be "radon"?

Yang also knew that Geng Sihan was very good at science since they met, and she seemed to like chemistry very much.After entering university, although Geng Sihan majored in electronic engineering, which is more likely to find a job in the future, she still took chemistry as an elective, although many people don't understand such behavior... At that time, she chose to major in macroeconomics, and took general astronomy as an elective. Yang Yi, naturally supported his friend.For this reason, the two chatted on the phone for nearly two hours, praised each other for their maverick, and despised the unreasonable conservativeness of "others" by the way.

The eighth word after that, "soil"? "scholar"?"Dry" written backwards?Or dragged the "inch" or "cai" of the strokes?
The last one, is it "Wan" or "Fang"?If you follow the previous idea of ​​"Periodic Table of Elements", will the last two words be "Fang" added up?
"Best Guess", could these "ghost talismans" be "Tingfang bullied by III"? "This... still doesn't make much sense," Yang Yi was a little annoyed at himself.

Before he knew it, Yang Yi yawned.From going out to meet Geng Sihan, to concentrating on searching for possible clues after returning home, and eating some biscuits randomly in the middle, she has been in a state of mental tension for more than ten hours.In addition to receiving a call three days ago and hearing Geng Sihan's empty pleading for help, in the past [-] hours, Yang Yi only rested for more than ten hours.Gradually she couldn't support her eyes, her forehead was naturally placed on the arm on the desk, and she fell asleep on her stomach.

"Sirius, Alpha Canis Major: Right Ascension 06h 45m, Declination -16.42"

"Cepheid variable star, δ Cephei: right ascension 22h 29.2m, declination +58.42"

"M31, Andromeda Galaxy: Right Ascension 00h 42.7m, Declination +41.16"

"Lijiang National Astronomical Observatory: East Longitude 100.0151, North Latitude 26.4232"

"Seven Star Sea National Astronomical Observatory: XXX East Longitude, XXX North Latitude"

"East longitude...North latitude..."

"northeast……"

"North Sanqi, East!"

Yang Yi, who was sweating all over, woke up with a start. Does "being bullied by III" mean 37 degrees north latitude?Her mind was spinning rapidly.But... even if "Radon" is "East", what is the "Cesium Tingfang" behind it?

As of today, Geng Sihan has been missing for almost three months.After being unable to contact Geng Sihan for a month, Yang Yi already felt that something was wrong, and began to report the matter to relevant agencies, but the other party, as an adult who was almost 30 years old, could hardly attract too much attention.For the next two months, Yang Yi has been trying to find a way to find his best friend and only friend.

In the past two months, Yang Yi has sought help from many professionals, and to some extent he has received some assistance.Although Geng Sihan has returned, her state made Yang Yi suspicious, which strengthened his determination to find out where she went.At the same time, she told herself in her heart that this matter must be done with her own strength.

Yang Yi, who was contemplating to no avail, made herself a cup of black coffee, and while sipping the bitter black liquid, she continued to think about what "Cesium Tingfang" is.Before he knew it, a cup of coffee had already been eaten, and Yang Yi decided to get up and go to the hospital to see how Geng Sihan was doing.

Apart from the similarities in their habits, the similar family situation also made Yang Yi and Geng Sihan closer friends.Since their elders had left them a few years ago, they had little concern for the family, and they did not want to find another half of the opposite sex in recent years, so the two rented a two-story detached house on the edge of the city.

The first floor of the detached house is the living room, kitchen, dining room and the necessary "functional areas" for a "home".On the second floor are two suites of almost the same size, both with bathrooms, which seem to be originally designed as cozy cottages for two couples and one or two children.On the roof is Yang Yi's "treasure" - a [-]-inch reflecting astronomical telescope.

Apart from work, Yang Yi's hobby is to stay at home and look up at the starry sky through this telescope that is "at the top of the chain of contempt among amateurs" on the rooftop.Geng Sihan's hobby is to travel alone, often for a week or half a month.Back home, Geng Sihan knew that Yang Yi was not interested in green mountains and green waters or the customs of foreign cities, so he would not talk about his "knowledge" in front of others like other roommates, but would bring a little girl with him every time. The local souvenirs, gently placed in front of Yang Yi's bedroom door.

In order to preserve these interesting souvenirs, the special cabinet opposite Yang Yi's bed, occupying one-third of the wall width, has been carefully and conscientiously placed seven or eight out of ten positions.Every time when Geng Sihan goes out, Yang Yi sits on the edge of the bed and looks at these souvenirs bought from several tourist attractions, but maybe they are only produced in two or three places, feeling that he is also sharing the joy of his friends during the trip.

Three months ago, Geng Sihan just said hello to Yang Yi as usual, saying that he was leaving again.As usual, Yang Yi didn't ask the other party's destination, but only said something like "Be careful".During the three nights of No.20 when Yang Yi sat alone by the bed looking at these travel souvenirs, she felt that something was wrong...

(End of this chapter)