Outposts?

Literally, it can be understood as a pioneer base for a certain field or organization.

For example, an outpost set up by aliens.

Slowly, whispers began to erupt in the conference hall, and most of the researchers were working on some assumptions about the term.

For a time, all kinds of conjectures emerged.

However, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, no matter how good the team in the hall is, with only such a little information, no matter how much analysis is actually in vain.

Judging from the total number of non-repetitive extraterrestrial signals collected around the world, the decipherment team initially estimated that the information would be at least a piece of information with a complete meaning after being deciphered.

So it quickly dawned on everyone that it didn't make much sense to make too many meaningless assumptions based on the word "outpost".

It even directly turned the deciphering task upside down.

So after this kind of private discussion lasted for a few minutes, everyone quieted down and looked at Academician Shen Heng on the stage again.

"The Joint Commission has redivided everyone into decipherment teams according to their areas of expertise, and the detailed decipherment tasks have been distributed to each team, this is the first contact with extraterrestrial signals in human history, and what we have to do next is to come together, three years, we strive to overcome this problem within three years, good luck to us. ”

Next, it's time for the group to assemble and distribute tasks.

And the only problem is...

Three years?

Ding Sheng, who had been sitting in the corner of the back row, heard this time, and his head was big.

However, there was some relief in an instant, judging from Academician Shen Heng's sentence "I wish us good luck", I am afraid that according to the normal progress of the decipherment team, three years is already an optimistic and speedy estimate.

No way, it's too much work.

The reason is very simple, the birth and perfection of a civilized writing and language must condense the wisdom and painstaking efforts of countless sages, and the work of communicating two civilizations with pulse signals is obviously much more complicated to create a written language, and the difficulty will naturally go up.

However, the truth is, we simply don't have three years.

Looking at the determined gaze of all the decipherers in the conference hall, Catherine, who knew the truth, had a mixed heart in her heart.

In three months at the latest, the source of extraterrestrial signals will arrive in the solar system, and the so-called outpost, if Catherine guessed correctly, should be the name of this extraterrestrial signal emitter.

To put it into perspective, it means that the outposts of extraterrestrial civilizations are approaching the Earth, and it takes humans more than ten times longer just to decipher the extraterrestrial signals.

What a brutal truth that would be.

"The decipherment must be accelerated. ”

"Do you have a way?" Ding Sheng, who was sitting on the side, obviously heard Catherine's muttering.

"Nope. ”

Catherine shook her head, she is a quantum physicist and a nanoscientist, and she may have some academic background in astrophysics and various related fields, but that doesn't mean she can decipher extraterrestrial signals faster.

Because human beings have never had any contact with extraterrestrial civilizations, everyone present is actually crossing the river by feeling the stones, and it is completely unrealistic to want to ascend to the sky in one step.

Unless there is a person here who has been in contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, or has been to a world that has been in contact with an extraterrestrial civilization, and then happens to get a copy of the source code of the signal breaker...

That's right, it's me, Ding Sheng.

"I have a preliminary idea that I should be able to shorten this time a bit. While Ding Sheng spoke, he had already asked Guan Ju to call up the archive of the "Signal Decoder" again.

When he got this source code, Tony Stark just made a start, although the difficulty of everything at the beginning was solved, but the work other than the foundation still had to be solved by Ding Sheng, and the workload was not small.

"Do you need my help?" said Catherine.

"Nope. ”

Ding Sheng shook his head decisively.

It's not that it's hidden, it's mainly that the signal breaker in his hand is written by the Marvel version of the code for the main architecture, and there are some differences in the logic of the program on Earth, and it's a bit of a drag to get others involved, not for Catherine.

"And, there's more important things you need to do. Ding Sheng added.

"Monitoring outposts?"

Catherine reacted immediately.

A cutting-edge and huge deciphering team has been formed around the world, and Ding Sheng has participated in it, and the lineup has been unprecedented.

On the other hand, the fact that the outpost is approaching faster than the speed of light is known only to the two of them.

If you take care of this, you will lose the other.

"We need more information about the outpost, and this is something that you can only do, and only you can do it. ”

After that, Ding Sheng and Catherine briefly exchanged some mission details, and then started their respective missions.

Mona Kea Observatory, Huaxia Team 017 Temporary Research Institute.

Ding Sheng found a computer and continued to work as a coder day and night.

"Guan Ju, at my current speed, how long does it take to complete Mr. Stark's signal breaker?"

"The code part can only be hard typed, and it is estimated that it will take about seven days to complete, and it can be completed in less than three days, but to generate a complete decipher, it also needs to debug the monitoring and calibration part, and the time is positively correlated with the difficulty of the alien signal, which is difficult to estimate. ”

After Guan Ju recorded the extraterrestrial signal into his own archive, he used a quantum computer to do some comprehensive analysis, and the harvest was not much, almost zero.

"Well, I'm trying to buy as much time as possible. ”

As he spoke, the speed of Ding Sheng's fingers increased by half a minute.

In fact, Ding Sheng also thought about traveling through time and space again and going to Mr. Stark to borrow the completed version of the signal decipher, but considering that he was in two completely different universes, the versatility of the decipher was limited, and the debugging and calibration of the completed version would be a waste of time, so he dispelled this idea.

Moreover, with the complexity of time and space, if it is not a last resort, Ding Sheng is not willing to provoke easily.

——

London, England.

Disney's Marvel Studios super-blockbuster "The Avengers" is being released around the world, and the BFI cinema on the banks of the Thames has been basically full recently.

It was the beginning of another movie, and hundreds of people walked into the theater in an orderly manner, waiting for the movie to begin.

At this moment, a young man wearing a green robe who was eleven or twelve years old entered the theater and immediately attracted the attention of many people.

"Hey, little brother, where did you buy your cosplay equipment, the realism is simply top-notch. A little brother couldn't help but ask.

The boy glanced at the man like a fool, paid no attention to him, and took his own place to sit down.

The movie begins.

142 minutes later.

The movie ends.

"The Avengers are assembled, it's so beautiful!"

"All the superheroes are so handsome!"

"The Hulk is too good to fight!"

"Loki is a cook!"

Hearing the various conversations after the audience ended, the young man was so angry that his shoulders trembled and he gritted his teeth.

"Hey, little brother, you said you cos who is not good, but cos Loki..."

"That's right, if you don't resist, you're all beaten and cried by the Hulk. ”

So said the male audience.

"Little brother, don't listen to their nonsense, a bunch of rough men don't understand anything, how handsome Loki is. ”

"That's it, note the orphan. ”

The female audience replied.

The young man who was mixed with the flow of people clenched his fists silently, and only the Avengers knew about being beaten by the Hulk's iron and fat people, but now it's good...

"Damn, I didn't expect that when I first came to this world, someone would make this kind of movie to humiliate me. ”

The more I thought about it, the more angry I became.

I can't bear it, I don't need to endure it anymore.

"Get down on your knees!"

The teenager finally got angry.

Everyone who heard this voice looked back at the little boy in the middle of the crowd, remembered the plot in the movie, and couldn't help but laugh and bend over.

I didn't expect this person to be old, and he was still a comedian.

"I said, get down on your knees!" the boy roared, "you are born to be like this, this is the unbreakable truth of human beings, the temptation of freedom has robbed you of the joy of life, your desire to be enslaved, your crazy pursuit of power, your pursuit of status, in fact, you are full of bones..."

Syllable!

Before the young man finished his speech, a big hand reached out from the crowd, grabbed the young man's neck and lifted him.

"Manager, it's him, it's just that he didn't buy a ticket!"

Once again, the teenager struggled to be unceremoniously "invited" out by the theater security guards in countless strange eyes.

Sitting on a stone chair by the Thames, the boy took out a blue cube from his arms and looked up at the sky, his eyes full of melancholy.

What the hell is this special meow, the Rubik's Cube fails, the magic fails, and because of the change in time and space, my body has changed back to when I was a child...

Tired.