Earth Era

When Ye Luo told Wei Feng this sentence, Wei Feng was carefully looking at the layout of the pyramid through the dim light. ⌒,

This pyramid looks big from the outside, but the interior space is quite small, roughly equivalent to a house, and the rest of the place is blocked by something similar to metal, and you can't see what's behind. Wei Feng thought that there should be all kinds of mechanical equipment.

This pyramid probably relies on those mechanical equipment to maintain its operation until now. If the judgment of myself and the mysterious old man was correct, then this pyramid has existed for hundreds of millions of years. Without follow-up repairs and maintenance, even if the planet is in a vacuum state, it is impossible to maintain it for such a long time.

"There must be a complete set of maintenance and repair devices. They can use solar energy as an energy source, and then have the ability to repair themselves. The robot I just saw must also be independently manufactured by it." Wei Feng said silently. Thinking, "Judging from the state of that robot, its ability to operate seems to have been weakened a lot over hundreds of millions of years, so it can only rely on such a dilapidated robot to maintain itself. "

It is also in a vacuum state, so naturally there is no dust. It's just that the layout here still exudes a stale and shabby atmosphere. Standing here, Wei Feng felt like standing in a small shabby wooden house in the mountains that had not been inhabited for hundreds of years.

The rest of the layout is fairly bland, and there is nothing that makes Wei Feng feel incredible. Only one place caught Wei Feng's attention. It is in the center of the inner space of the pyramid. It is in the shape of a cuboid, more than one meter in length and only a few tens of centimeters in height, just like a table.

Just when Wei Feng was about to walk over to see what it was, the words after Ye Luo's translation came to Wei Feng's mind: "Guests from afar, if possible, I would like to do something with you. a deal."

Wei Feng was stunned for a moment, then stopped his footsteps. Then he said, "Excuse me, what is the deal?"

Wei Feng knew that whether it was the conversation between the robot and him just now, or this sentence at the moment. It is probably the artificial intelligence program made by the Martian civilization that was left over from hundreds of millions of years ago to maintain the operation of this pyramid. Judging from the sophistication and reliability of the program, Yeluo obviously cannot maintain operation for such a long time, even if there is sufficient energy supply and parts guarantee. The artificial intelligence here can run for such a long time, although after such a long time, it is very questionable how much function it has left, which has clearly demonstrated its advanced nature. no doubt. The original Martian civilization has surpassed human civilization at least in computing science.

"The content of this transaction is very simple. You are responsible for rescuing and maintaining the owner's survival, and I can give you some things. I think you must be very interested in these things." Ye Luo continued to translate the signal he received into Wei Feng could understand the words and played them out.

"Your master? Where is he?" Wei Feng asked, "What are you going to give me?"

"My master is here, it has been sleeping in the hibernation cabin for hundreds of millions of years." Ye Luo said, "What I want to give you is very important to break the "dead knot", because it is What our Martian civilization has acquired at the cost of the extinction of the entire civilization. It records a lot of very critical scientific data. If your civilization has not broken the dead knot, by analyzing these data. Your hope of breaking the dead knot will increase. At least half of it. Even if you have broken the dead knot, I believe that the key data obtained at the cost of the demise of a civilization will definitely be of great use to you. And... the price you need to pay is only to save life And to maintain the survival of my master. It has only one person, and it does not require many resources to maintain its existence. I believe that this is a very cost-effective transaction for your civilization. "

Wei Feng sensed obvious humility and even pleading from these words. This scene reminded Wei Feng of some similar scenes he had seen in film and television dramas before: a poor man in ragged clothes begged a rich man, hoping that the rich man could give him a piece of steamed bun, the price It is... from this moment on, the most important thing in oneself is his own life. will be under the control of the opponent.

Maintaining a living body naturally does not require much resource consumption, which is indeed not an excessive requirement. In contrast, the key scientific data that can break the knot cannot be measured by wealth or resources. And now, this intelligent program that has been running for hundreds of millions of years is begging for itself. I hope I can accept the trading conditions it proposes.

"Captain, I have made some simplifications in the translation information just now. In their original information, they explained a certain situation at length, and after my translation, I confirm that those extensive explanations are the same as ours. The "dead knot" that I think is actually the same concept. So I directly used the word "dead knot" instead." Ye Luo said.

Wei Feng nodded and said, "Translate my words to them and ask them why they want to do this deal with me."

After a while, Wei Feng's question was answered. Ye Luo said: "Your civilization can cross the long space between the stars to come here, which is enough to prove the strength of your civilization. And... even if your situation is similar to ours, it does not break the dead knot. , a single-person interstellar voyage that is only made by gathering the power of all civilizations... With the key scientific data we provide, your civilization can also break the deadlock and gain technological advancement, so that you have In order to save and maintain my master's ability to survive. So, as long as you can come here, you are a qualified trade candidate."

Wei Feng said, "Aren't you afraid that I will lie to you? What if I take your scientific data but refuse to fulfill my previous promise?"

This time Wei Feng encountered a long silence. It took a long time for the AI ​​to answer: "We're just betting on a hope. Because... the maintenance of a person's existence requires very few resources, which is attributable to the key scientific data we provide. The comparison is completely trivial. As long as any civilization with a slight concept of equality will keep its promises. And even if the civilization with which we trade does not speak the concept of equality at all, it will do us nothing to lose. Because Data is something that can be copied, give it to you, and we won't lose it. I can continue to wait here for the next civilization that is suitable for trading."

Wei Feng was silent for a moment, then said, "A person has been here before me, right?"

"Yes, a man came here. We also made a deal with him and gave him a copy of these key scientific data. He promised to save and keep my master alive, but he broke his promise. ...he didn't do that."

Wei Feng sighed: "He didn't lose his trust. I actually belong to the same race and the same civilization as him. What he promised you, I will do it for him. Oh, no, no, it's not me. He did, but... after I sent these key scientific data back to my civilization and made my civilization make a technological leap, my civilization replaced me and him to fulfill the promise to you."

"That's fine," said the AI. "My master and I are here waiting for you to fulfill your promise."

"Where is your master?" Wei Feng asked.

"It's here." Ye Luo said again. At the same time, a light beam that was not very dazzling also lit up here. The beam of light pointed directly to the thing that seemed to be a platform that Wei Feng had just seen. It seems to be guiding Wei Feng.

Wei Feng walked towards the platform. When he walked to the front, Wei Feng discovered that there was a hibernation box inside this table. Its appearance and structure were very similar to the one he had captured in space, and both had a Martian civilization that was obviously different from human civilization. creation style.

Its cover is transparent~www.readwn.com~ So Wei Feng can see the scene inside the hibernation box directly through the cover. Like the hibernation box that I captured last time, there is also a frozen Martian in this hibernation box. It's just that this Martian looks much older than the last.

But according to Wei Feng's inspection, the last Martian died tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of years before they met him. And... this hibernator with the same length of time as the Martian... is it still alive?

Wei Feng asked this question. The artificial intelligence replied: "I can't give a clear answer to this question before the actual thawing project is implemented. However, compared with the previous time when my master hibernated, the hibernation technology has been greatly developed, so to the Until now, my master still has a 7% chance of being resurrected successfully."

"Is there only a seven percent probability?" Wei Feng murmured, "This probability seems to be a little lower."

"It has nothing to do with me whether the probability is high or not. My job is to maintain the operation of the base. I will only do what I do and ignore other things." The artificial intelligence replied. (To be continued.)(www..)