Abyss Express

Across the aisle, Jiang Xueming hesitated for a while, and finally asked slowly, "This is the most exciting part of what you said?"

Bu Liuxing's big watery eyes were full of innocence: "Yes! Otherwise?"

Jiang Xueming asked, "Did you talk to her about anything else?"

Ah Xing: "We talked."

Jiang Xueming: "What did we talk about?"

Ah Xing: "I almost forgot."

Jiang Xueming: "."

The [Phantom Sun] outside the window shines on Bu Liuxing's face, making this kid very innocent, and with his thick eyebrows and big eyes, he has a feeling of innocence.

Jiang Xueming took a deep breath, pressed the inexplicable pain in his lower abdomen, managed his expression well, and continued to ask questions patiently.

"Think about it, Ah Xing, and recall it carefully. I know the situation was chaotic at that time. You also said that the faceless lady stabbed her tentacles directly into your face, as if inserting a mobile hard drive into your face. As if the USB port on your face is sending you data, you should think about it carefully."

"Understand! Understood!" Ah Xing leaned on his chin and began to think hard.

Jiang Xueming: "How about I remind you? Looking for a feeling?"

Ah Xing asked enthusiastically: "Then why don't you hug me? It's like Mrs. Faceless is hugging me. I don't feel that scene."

Jiang Xueming: "Get lost."

"It's fine if you don't give me a hug." Bu Liuxing pouted, with an aggrieved look: "Why are you so fierce?"

After a long time, Ah Xing slowly and seriously talked about the things in his memory.

"To be honest, I really can't remember all the jumbled information. Because it flooded into my head in a flash--

——Brother Ming, when we were young, we had to learn to read and write. We had to climb up year after year, move forward step by step, and read one book after another. This is the truth, right? "

Jiang Xueming: "Yes."

Bu Meteor clutched his forehead, trying to think back.

"But Madam Faceless gave me a USB flash drive to transfer data. The information is all illogical and out-of-order pictures. I dare not say that I can understand it, and I can remember not much."

While talking, Ah Xing started to have a nosebleed

Jiang Xueming was in a complicated mood, and he kindly handed over a pack of tissues: "Thanks for your hard work. Ah Xing, the capillaries in your nose burst, don't be too nervous, this symptom is very common in psychiatry, if your hippocampus And the cerebral cortex has undergone drastic changes in a short period of time, remembering or forgetting many things, these violent brain activities will also make you nosebleed."

"Do you often go to the psychiatric department? Brother Ming?" Ah Xing took the tissue to wipe his nosebleed.

Jiang Xueming sat back beside Bu Liuxing: "I just know a little bit."

Bu Liuxing continued: "My nosebleed, it's not the reason you said, you're wrong, just now when I was reminiscing, I thought of Mrs. Faceless's slippery legs, and then..."

Jiang Xueming sat back at the small table across the aisle.

Ah Xing asked, "Why are you sitting so far away?"

Xueming replied, "Go ahead and drink when you're thirsty."

"Ah, I'll take care of my brain." Bu Liuxing rubbed his temples, his posture was as smart as a rest, and suddenly lit up the small 16-watt light bulb that supplies power to his brain, "I thought of it!"

Xue Ming kept silent, just taking notes with his notebook.

He heard Ah Xing's voice suddenly sinking, as if he was seriously describing the past many years ago.

"In a very, very long time, almost before the age of the dinosaurs, ninety-six golden eggs fell from the sky."

Ah Xing's eyes reflected the light of the sun, and he calmly narrated the chaotic picture in his mind.

"These golden eggs come from Procyon in the constellation Canis Minor, and their parent star is about to die, and Procyon has also changed from the light of the light of the parent star civilization to a dark red fireball that brings death.

Kana Korekalong

It is difficult for me to pronounce this name with human vocal organs, this is the mother star race of the Faceless Lady.

In the chaotic memory, she wants me to call her Canaan, and use this name to call her and her people.

These Canaanites escaped to Earth from the dog Canis in an attempt to re-establish a new home in the land.

But their physical bodies can't stand the earth's environment at all, no matter the air pressure or gravity, let alone the ancient viruses that evolved along with the biosphere.

These Canaanites can only maintain the original golden egg form to protect their fragile flesh."

"Wait." Jiang Xueming interrupted: "You mean, those egg-like things are not the spacecraft of these aliens? They are the aliens themselves?"

Bu Meeo nodded and said: "Originally, their physical bodies are very fragile, just like cells in a petri dish.

Let’s use a metaphor—if we look at our human body, every inch of our skin and every hair is counted as a life, and we know how to think and express our emotions.

These Canaanites have a lot of cilia and light-sensitive cells, as well as electrical signal recognition organs. They are like [water] with life, and they gather in ever-changing shapes.

Some individuals have a Canaanite community with a unit of tens of billions, and there are also Canaanite individuals who act independently. "

Bu Liuxing took a sip of coffee and explained leisurely.

"When the Canaanite civilization was facing extinction, they decided to stuff the entire civilization into thousands of golden eggs.

They simply don't have the technology to travel faster than the speed of light. The parent star's energy is scarce, and the thermonuclear technology has not been ignited.

The [golden eggs] they use are actually the product of their own mimetic talent. Because the size of the Canaanite creatures is very small, they imitate other natural creatures in the biosphere of the mother planet. It used its own body to create a ceramic-like shell with high temperature resistance and strong airtightness. Start wandering into the universe.

In the end, there were ninety-six golden eggs. After a long journey, they grew solar sails as the wings of the golden eggs. They used the gravitational slingshots of various stars to accelerate them. Like stubborn snails, they climbed to the earth like luck.

The faceless lady we saw once had more than 55 million little Canaans on her body. "

Jiang Xueming: "Ever?"

"These Canaanite eggs have been on the earth for countless years." Bu Meteor murmured: "When the Canaanite creatures came to the earth, it was a time of dire straits, and it was difficult for them to adapt to the strange star of the sun." ——

——In addition to the vegetation environment of the earth itself, the balance of carbon and oxygen is broken again and again, and extreme climates will occur every million years.

The Canaanite creatures had just finished hibernating from the space travel, and immediately hid in the relatively stable deep sea bed when they arrived on the earth, and then fell asleep, looking forward to a more stable environment.

During the Kani flood period, the entire earth became a water ball, and a heavy rain fell for a million years.

Before that, insects also began to curb the wanton growth of plants, and the earth's environment finally stabilized.

In the bottomless sea, the Canaanites survived for hundreds of thousands of generations, experienced disasters of continental shelf and plate movement, and escaped earthquakes, volcanoes and changes in water temperature. It seems to be looking forward to a good day, but things are not that simple.

They rest and thrive in golden eggs whose shells have long since been replaced by organisms.

Different from the original Canaan of Procyon, they originally existed in the form of half energy and half living organisms. But the energy body is vulnerable to the harsh magnetic field environment of the earth and special solar activities.

In order to adapt to the environment, when the new generation of Canaanite creatures left the golden eggs, they used their mimicry talent to become pure carbon-based species on the earth, which looked like colorful sea slugs. but."

Bu Meteor changed the subject.

"Having a stable physical body also means that the new generation of Canaan can no longer return to the golden egg. This is a one-way evolution and is irreversible.

After the end of the Carni Pluvial Period, these Cenozoic Canaanites became fossil samples of some mysterious creatures in human history textbooks.

Mother Earth's capricious and bad temper is like a cruel stepmother, she will not take special care of this group of alien intelligent life at all.

The Canaanite creatures left in the golden egg follow the earth's geographical chronology, after going extinct again and again——

——The last group of creatures that left the golden eggs and kept their carbon-based bodies was the Faceless Lady in Fangfeng Settlement. And the inhabitants of the settlement. "

Jiang Xueming frowned: "If these Canaanite creatures have wisdom, why are they like that?"

"Because their civilization has been broken down—to be precise, the things that pop out of the golden eggs have little to do with Canaanite creatures." Bu Liuxing explained: "The Canaanite creatures of Nanhe San originally possessed half energy and half matter. The flesh of them, their reproduction method is to exchange information and materials, producing an effect of one plus one far greater than two."

Ash snapped his fingers.

"For example, if two groups of this kind of creature exchange some units of the group with each other, they can immediately grab energy from the natural environment and increase the value of more Canaanite creatures.

It's like something out of nothing, this is the talent given to them by the fertile natural environment of their home planet.

Likewise, they don't need any medium to store history, neither words, books, nor music. Their half-energy, half-material body is the best information storage tool, like a biological computer, and the huge group of Canaanite creatures is the computer cluster network.

However, the rules on Earth are different.

More than a hundred years ago, the last batch of Cenozoic Canaanite creatures that came out of the golden eggs lost their energy bodies when they fixed their physical forms, and then completely forgot their own racial history. Only a very small number of individuals still remembered The past events of the stars in tens of millions of years.

The Faceless Lady is one of the relatively complete ancient Canaanite life groups. She chose to leave the golden egg during the first industrial revolution of mankind, and chose the human form as her physical form, trying to create an intersection with human beings.

She has been to study in London, learning about human history and culture, and using her racial talent to influence the brains of other humans around her, making her an outlier look ordinary enough and inconspicuous enough.

In order to keep her memory, her transformation was incomplete, so most of the ancient consciousness remained, and she could change her physical form at will, just like a group of sticky cells. For this, she paid a terrible price. Seventy percent of the Canaanites on her body died, and she had to avoid the sun and strong magnetic and electric environments all the time.

She learned the folklore of humans, tried to marry another Canaanite in the herd, and had children with the genetic sequence of the double helix.

But unfortunately, after her husband left the Golden Egg, he was accidentally infected with the brand of Vita, amputated a leg, but it was useless, and his condition became more and more serious. Ma'am, sunburned myself with UV headlights, right in front of the workbench, we've seen that prosthetic leg. "

"No wonder I can't see any books." Jiang Xueming said with relief: "Only a few photos on the wall, they don't need words."

"Speaking of which, this matter is quite romantic." Bu Liuxing said with a smile: "When Mrs. Faceless talked about these photos with me, she felt very happy.

For the Canaanites, a fixed form of life is meaningless, and it is difficult for them to understand that an intelligent life will be trapped in a cage of a physical body throughout its life, but

But when taking a picture with her husband, the two of them have to stand in front of the camera for 30 seconds, and neither of them can move until the flash of the spotlight is on.

These thirty seconds of companionship made her feel like a treasure, because her husband was about to leave her and return to the embrace of the star realm.

When the Canaanites die, they say that energy and thoughts return to the astral world, from nothing to being, and from being to nothing.

From the photos, she could see the reflection of herself and her late husband in the world. The thing that made her ecstatic was that she was like a thief who stole sweet memories from the astral world and didn't give them back in full. "

Jiang Xueming thought about the residents of Fangfeng Village.

"What about the empty-eyed, primitive-like residents in the settlement?"

Bu Meteor thought for a while, sorted out the chaotic memories in his head, and then replied.

"The Faceless Lady is taking care of them. The clothes on these humanoid creatures are woven stitch by stitch with her dexterous tentacles.

More than a hundred years ago, the Faceless Lady spent a lot of manpower and material resources to go underground, and hid the remaining golden eggs in this underground seabed with sweet sea breeze. The environment here is very similar to the environment where she was born, with volcanoes Activity and geothermal heat, which can provide relatively stable heat energy to the golden egg, is a good nursery bed.

It is cloudy and rainy here year after year, and there is no direct sunlight.

Her supposed husband was also born here and then fell ill.

Later, she thought that the earth's environment still needed to evolve, and it was still too early for the compatriots in the egg to become a habitable planet.

But it's amazing to say that with the paradigm of the Faceless Lady, when the station's engineering team arrived here, it also awakened some of the Canaanite creatures in the golden egg.

They followed suit, and began to try to [be born] in human form, and they were not so honest——

——But as Canaanite creatures, these new-generation larvae are too young.

Leaving the shackles of eggshells and the support of the group consciousness, they were fixed in their physical form at the moment of incapacity, and then lost all their memories.

The result is what we see, like half-witted apes. Except for the physique similar to that of the Faceless Lady, it can basically be regarded as a new species.

Madam Faceless also plugged them into USB a few times, as she did for me, but the ports didn't match up for these infants, so we also saw that the residents could speak, in all kinds of languages, but very It is difficult to express the complete and specific meaning.

The blood of the deep-sea era still flows in their bodies, which is the blood rich in copper ions in the mimetic marine organisms, that is, the blue blood we see.

Simply put, these aliens can no longer be called aliens. In order to adapt to the continued survival of the earth, it almost paid the price of the extinction of civilization, forcibly transforming itself irreversibly into pure carbon-based organisms native to the earth, which is to protect animals. "

"And then?" Jiang Xueming brought the coffee to his lips, and asked curiously, "That's all she chatted with you? What happened afterwards?"

Bu Meteor: "I slept with her."

"Pfft!——" Xue Ming sprayed A Xing's face with a sip of coffee.

Bu Liuxing wiped his face, and explained nonchalantly: "She made the move first, I'm very reserved, and it's a pity that I don't need to use the grappling technique I just learned last month.

Seriously though. Her only request is that in order to adapt to human society and allow compatriots to obtain better mimic bodies, she needs more DNA samples. "

Jiang Xueming held back for a long time, always feeling a little bit out of breath.

Finally choked out a sentence.

"Is this how you treat animals?"