"Da Liu, please take a seat!"

Chen Xin motioned to sit down in the reception area in front of the office.

The two sat down on the sofa, and Da Liu asked curiously, "Mr. Chen, why are you here?"

Chen Xin smiled, didn't answer Liu Cixin's question directly, and instead asked, "Da Liu, what do you think of the existence of alien civilizations?"

Liu Cixin was slightly stunned, this question had been asked by many people when he was interviewed before, but it was a little unusual for Chen Xin to ask this question today.

Liu Cixin pondered for a moment and said: "From the perspective of scientific laws, it is impossible for aliens to exist without zài, because the natural laws of the universe are the same. Since the earth can evolve life in such a natural environment, and the scale of the universe is very large, there are hundreds of billions of stars in the Milky Way, the latest issue of the journal "New Discovery" said that it is estimated that there are 9 billion planets in the galaxy that are similar to the earth and suitable for life. With such a large number, it is hard to believe that life has not evolved, and it is hard to believe that it has not evolved intelligent life. ”

"But on the other hand, we are facing a very strange situation, that is, despite our best search, we still have not found extraterrestrial life, which is indeed a very strange problem, it is likely that our technology is not enough for us to find extraterrestrial life, and of course, one of the worst possibilities - the universe is a dark forest. ”

Chen Xin smiled: "Is there such a possibility, our solar system is hidden, and the outside world is actually very exciting, it's not that we can't find aliens, but that aliens can't find us." ”

Da Liu frowned and said, "Of course, this possibility cannot be ruled out, but this probability is too small among thousands of possibilities." ”

Chen Xin said: "But as long as it happens, then the probability is 100%!"

Liu Cixin was taken aback and asked, "Mr. Chen, did this possibility you said really happen?"

Chen Xin smiled: "Just yesterday, the Special United Nations General Assembly made a secret proposal to establish a new agency directly under the United Nations, this agency is called the Strategic Intelligence Bureau of Alien Civilizations, and I am the first director of the Foreign Intelligence Agency. ”

Before Liu Cixin could digest the information in Chen Xin's words, he saw Chen Xin get up and take out a copy of the document from the file bag on his desk, hand it to him, and said: " At present, there are no more than fifty people in the world who have read all the content of this article, and I will give you two choices now, or, you join the CIA and work incognito in the future, then you can see the content of this article, of course, if you don't agree, it doesn't matter, just when you haven't been here, return to China and continue to be your science fiction writer Da Liu, but you must not reveal any news here to the outside world. Where you go from here, it's up to you. ”

Liu Cixin looked at the Wen Jiàn in Chen Xin's hand, and faintly felt the heavy responsibility behind this Wen Jiàn, but as a science fiction writer, is there anything more tempting than understanding alien civilizations?

What's more, if an alien civilization really appears, what can he do if he doesn't join the CIA.

At least in this, he can get a lot more information than ordinary people can know.

Liu Cixin only thought about it for less than ten seconds, and then took the text directly from Chen Xin's hand.

Chen Xin had expected this, and said with a smile: "Very good, Da Liu, you go out with this information now, someone will take you to the prepared room to read this information, oh, by the way, remember to call Dr. David Brin in." ”

Liu Cixin nodded and left Chen Xin's office.

Soon, a bald old man walked in.

David Brin was recommended to the CIA by the White House, he is a famous American science fiction writer, born in California, USA, a doctor of space science, a physicist, and a scientific advisor to NASA.

David Brin is adept at bringing the vastness of the universe and the unique culture of various alien creatures to the reader's face. His novels "The Surging Tide", "The Postman", "The Battle of Ascension" and his short story "Cristallet" have all won "Hugo Awards".

The most famous work is the "Ascension" series of novels, which consists of two trilogies, the core concept of which is a sprawling civilization across the galaxy whose main mission is to "elevate" all known intelligent beings that breathe oxygen. In addition, his masterpieces include "The Victory of the Base", which is set in the Asimov "Base" series.

David Brin has a wide influence in the world of science and science fiction literature, and his background is much greater than Liu Cixin.

For such a talent, Chen Xin naturally can't let it go, he concocted the same method, and said what he just said to Liu Cixin and David Brin aside, David Brin thought about it for half an hour, and finally made the same choice as Da Liu.

For a whole day, Chen Xin and three other deputy directors screened 20 experts from all walks of life to join the Foreign Intelligence Agency.

Among them are eight sociologists, six scientists, and six science fiction writers.

After joining the CIA, their families were taken to live in a small town on the banks of the Hudson River in upstate New York, cutting off all contact with their former friends and family.

These people will use their expertise to help with the decision-making of human leadership.

And the first thing Chen Xin asked them to do was to compile an encyclopedia of alien civilizations based on the information provided by the steel hammer.

When interstellar immigrants come, this book will be distributed to all mankind as a general science fiction book, so that mankind can better understand the universe.

In addition, the United Nations has launched a plan for the preservation of human civilization.

They will send a special team to collect all kinds of humanities and technology materials in the history of mankind, and some important cultural relics and artworks will also be secretly packed and preserved, and then replaced in the museum with fakes that can almost blind the sight with fake and real people.

In addition, a large number of technical documents and outlines of scientific and technological development plans have also been carefully preserved.

Before you know it, it's late May.

The construction of the steel hammer on the asteroid Mathilde is also coming to an end, and he installed a total of six main engines and more than 20 small engines for attitude correction on the asteroid.

Chen Xin piloted the Dream spacecraft and slowly flew away from the surface of the Mathilde asteroid.

With the sound of a steel hammer, the three main engines installed at the tail end of the spacecraft silently burst into a blue glow, and these engines will give the asteroid Mathilde an acceleration of about 20 meters per second.

The Mathilde asteroid began to slowly deflect its massive body, heading in a direction it had never traveled before.

Through the porthole of the Dream, Chen Xin looked at the Mathilde asteroid that was gradually moving away in the void, and said to Gangzhen: "Ganggong, let's start the next stage of our operation." ”R1152