Mona Kea Observatory, the main office of the global joint decipherment team.

At the request of two of the world's hottest young scientists, the joint team held a small secret meeting here.

In addition to Ding Sheng and Catherine, there were also leaders from various countries led by academicians Shen Heng and Wharton.

"Dr. Oxton, you said you were going to decipher the signal in five days?"

With Academician Wharton's questioning, the delegates of various countries pricked up their ears one after another, and even the sound of breathing was much lower than usual.

If this time request had been made by anyone other than Catherine, it would probably have only made the deciphering researchers laugh and even laugh.

After all, it is not easy for a large project with an estimated construction period of three years to be shortened to six months, and this is all due to the plug-in level decipherment program brought by Ding Sheng.

On this basis, if you want to shorten six months to five days, everyone knows how ridiculous it is.

Coincidentally, the person who made this request was Catherine, so the question was not funny at all, and it was serious.

After all, this is Katherine Oxton, and before we dive into her various glorious scientific achievements, let's take a look at what Science and Nature call her in their latest issues...

Reference answers for the scientific community.

"Yes. Refer to the answer solemnly nodded.

"Not to mention the possibility of solving the problem in this time, I think everyone has the same doubts as me, why five days?" Academician Wharton asked again.

Catherine and Ding Sheng glanced at each other and answered the question in a very short sentence, "The outpost is preparing to make a space jump and will arrive in the solar system in five days. ”

This news was like thunder on the ground, which directly made the originally quiet office explode in an instant.

At first, it was okay for the team leaders to communicate fluently in English, but as the emotions became more and more excited, everyone began to babble in different languages that they didn't understand each other.

“Wie k?nnte das sein？”

“Какэтомоглобыть?”

“Comment cela pourrait-il être?”

“これはどうでしょうか！”

“Π?? θαμπορο?σεναγ?νειαυτ?！”

“......”

All of the above, and so on.

Fortunately, the team leaders were all old and serious people after all, and they knew that it was pointless to argue, so they soon began to slowly quiet down.

Academician Wharton lifted his glasses on the bridge of his nose and stepped forward, "Dr. Oxton, I know I shouldn't deny your professionalism, but what you said... Is it true?"

As a result, everyone's eyes were focused on the young female scientist at this time.

"It's true. Catherine nodded solemnly again.

"Does anyone but us know about this?" asked Academician Wharton again.

"So it's a secret meeting. ”

At this moment, the quiet office fell into a dead silence.

About two minutes later.

"Hey, Dean Song, I'm Shen Heng, I request that all researchers in China with deciphering qualifications be recruited to participate in the 'Civilization Watch' program, yes, everyone..."

"Hey, National Academy of Sciences? I'm Russell Wharton, Operation Monakeya is asking for all researchers in the United States who are qualified to decipher... Yes, everybody, whether it's the National Academy of Engineering, the Medical School, or the Nature Foundation!"

"Hey, Royal Academy? Project Royal 009 is asking for all researchers in the UK who are qualified to decipher... I don't care if you go to the Prime Minister, Her Majesty the Empress, today, immediately, immediately, we need support!"

"Your Majesty Queen Margaret, Operation Copenhagen Deciphering is calling for all qualified deciphering researchers in the country...

"Operation Codenamed 'NFZX-01' requests that the Royal Society urgently enlist all qualified deciphering researchers in the country..."

“... Both the Federal Research Department and the Science Foundation are going to get involved, at all costs!"

"Your Royal Highness, although our domestic population is not large, we must also go all out, so I suggest that college students from all over the country can participate, by the way, there are still 2 high schools in the country, and excellent high school students should also be, in short, the more people, the better!"

"Hey..."

None of them questioned Catherine, and everyone chose to call their home country.

To be honest, this scene scared Ding Sheng a little.

He really didn't expect that not only did no one question Catherine, but they all tacitly chose to call their home country and ask for a call-up.

It's called professionalism!

Seeing the amazing cohesion that erupted when all mankind was a community with a shared future, Ding Sheng felt gratified to be a part of it.

...

"D, within 24 hours, more than 200,000 decipherers with relevant qualifications can be recruited around the world, and dozens of joint decipherment bases can be designed to start emergency decipherment operations, and there is great hope for five days. ”

After getting the repercussions from various countries, Catherine breathed a sigh of relief, and it was actually beyond her expectations that so many helpers could be recruited without making the news of the outpost battle public.

After all, there has never been such a concerted large-scale joint action in human history.

"It's still not enough. Ding Sheng shook his head slightly, "With the current progress, the situation is not optimistic, and even if we decipher the signal within five days, we don't have time to react, so we have to be faster." ”

With his hands propped up on the workbench, Ding Sheng was worried, but his eyes were like torches.

"Then continue to expand the scope of recruitment, but the resulting team is too large, lack of qualifications, difficult to cooperate and many other factors, but there is a certain possibility that the current progress will be affected. Catherine voiced her concerns.

"I do have an idea. ”

Every time it comes to such a time, Ding Sheng should open his mind.

"Tell me. ”

"Catherine, have you ever played a game? video games, online games, etc. Ding Sheng asked suddenly.

"Of course, your idea has something to do with the game?"

"No one on Earth has ever faced an extraterrestrial civilization, so this decipherment operation is different from any previous decipherment work, and there is no object for reference, we can only rely on the so-called qualifications and more importantly imagination to complete this project, but the truth is that with the signal decipher, the more important thing is imagination. Ding Sheng said.

"I agree with that. Catherine nodded.

To decipher extraterrestrial signals is to restore the written and linguistic information of extraterrestrial civilizations with the help of signals, and imagination is indeed very important.

"Some people have imagination, think about it, if it is no longer limited to researchers, but also involve teachers, students, workers, white-collar workers, and thousands of passers-by around the world, what will be the effect?" Ding Sheng continued.

"Everyone's imagination may be limited, but when it adds up, there is a lot of power, and the effect will definitely be very good. The only problem is finding a way to get everyone on board... Games, you just said games, yes, most people have played games, so your plan is games. ”

Catherine's IQ is really not covered, it can be understood at one point, and it goes down the trend, like mercury pouring into the ground, all the way, "Games need a carrier, and this carrier can be a computer, but the popularity of smartphones is higher." I get it, Ding, you want to fuse signal breakers and alien signals into a mobile game, so that everyone in the world can use their imagination to find answers in the game. ”

"Yes, I can make a game like this in a very short period of time, but now that the situation is urgent, I'm afraid I can't go through the normal process of shelving, promotion, and so on, where people may lose that little bit of autonomy. Ding Sheng added.

"I didn't hear clearly, what's right? Oh, by the way, I remember that there's still a piece of data that hasn't been processed, you get busy first. ”

Catherine said, turning and entering the lab next door.

"Guan Ju, let's start. ”

As a result, the pit man combination was officially launched.

"Ding Sheng, I need to decide on the name of this game. ”

"It's called, 'Before no one clears customs, the mobile phone can't do anything but make calls.'" "Yes, that's the essence of Ding Sheng's game.

"Wouldn't the name be too long. ”

"It's called 'brainstorming', and there's a huge prize pool for anyone who finds a clue. ”

Ding Sheng said that he understood a little about human nature, after all, it was to forcibly install the game on people's mobile phones and then forcibly let people play it, and it was also appropriate to give some benefits as motivation.

"The name brainstorming has been taken. ”

"Take it off the shelves. ”

Three hours.

A puzzle game called "Brainstorming" has successfully landed on every smartphone in the world under the strong "promotion" of Guan Ju.

Then, after another five minutes, everyone found that all the entertainment-related functions of their phones were locked in the game, except for the basic functions of making and receiving calls, sending and receiving messages, and navigation.

This is a game that seriously violates the right to freedom in life, and almost everyone's mind is that even if I don't play games for the rest of my life, I will never play this game if I throw my phone down from the eighteenth floor.

However, after seeing the clue rewards of up to $1 million that can be stacked up to $100 million, most people said that although this game is still a bit difficult, it is really fun, the interface is concise, the painting style is beautiful, and the operation is smooth, and whoever plays is my friend.

At the same time, it is surprising that mainstream mobile systems such as IOS and Android, as well as major mobile phone manufacturers around the world, have chosen to remain silent after receiving countless complaints and abuse.

One is to be silent about the technological gap, and the other is to be silent about entrepreneurs who know the truth behind the incident better than ordinary people.

In this way, under the invincible advantage of 'games and enterprises fly together, and the routines share the prize pool', in just half a day, "Brainstorming" swept the world, and the number of online participants at its peak once approached one billion.

From 200,000 to 1 billion, at least in terms of numbers, it is a leap in quantity.

Next, it's up to quality.