Chapter 45: The Stars Shine Tonight (I)
I followed the light of the two of them out of the Bai family, passing by the ancient astrolabe engraved with the word "Moon Deer". Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoAlthough it was still a sunny day in my place, judging from the relaxed and tired posture of the two of them, it was already late at night.
Humans are very interesting creatures, and we can read a lot of information from other human beings. From a gesture, a look, a tone of a word. Psychologists call it "empathy", and in the comics it is called "bond", and it allows me to feel the natural intimacy between the two of them through these ten years.
"What time is it?" Bai Yuelu asked, while taking out his mobile phone to check the time, "It's still early, let's go?" ”
Cen Xiao nodded, took her hand, and the two of them walked slowly along the country road.
"How's dinner?" Bai Yuelu asked, "I know you don't like crowds that much..."
"I don't like strangers with different agendas." Cen Xiao said softly, "But with your family... Although I couldn't understand their logic at all a lot of the time, they seemed like good people. ”
"They're good people," Bai Yuelu's voice was full of a proud smile, "I think if you come a few more times, you'll be fed a fat person by my mother." ”
Cen Xiao chuckled twice, patted her shoulder, and her hand lingered there for two seconds before slowly falling down Bai Yuelu's thin back, "Thank you." ”
Bai Yuelu smiled, "I just took a rich second-generation lady to eat in a small mud house in the countryside, it's good that you didn't scold me." ”
Cen Xiao tilted his head and shook his body from side to side, "Our family... My parents won't be like your mom and you, and they will mend your clothes or anything. Sometimes I don't even know if they love me or just a wonderful daughter. ”
"Well, we're all envious of what we don't have." The short-haired Hikaru stretched out a hand to wrap his arms around her, "At least your parents won't talk about the mess you had when you were a kid during dinner." Speaking of this, Cen Xiao seemed to remember something, and laughed with a "poof".
"Well, the fighting power of the goose is very strong, remember it later." The white moon deer shrugged.
Cen Xiao laughed low twice, and walked leisurely between the paths. The path in front of me at this moment, winding and slender, was hidden between knee-high weeds and led to a small grassy slope. I guess it must be a very secluded place at night.
"Look, the stars." Bai Yuelu said.
Cen Xiao raised his head. The woman didn't speak for a moment, and I don't know what she was seeing. I think it must be starry at night.
"It's beautiful," she sighed.
Bai Yuelu also raised his head, and the two of them admired the sky at that time. "Yes," her voice was unusually quiet in the night breeze, "look, Auriga. ”
"Carved Dock, Rakai." Cen Xiao pointed to a place in the sky, and his tone was smug.
"Orion."
"Canis Minor."
"Look, you can even see Cassiopeia here!" Bai Yuelu excitedly pointed to one of the starry sky, "Look at that W-shape." ”
Cen Xiao's gaze followed the direction she pointed, and after a while, he praised softly: "Yes, it's so beautiful." "You can't see the stars in the city, and when I was a kid I had a set of books on astronomy," she said. I especially like to look at it and imagine what the stars should look like. ”
"It wasn't until I went to MIT, and the school was in the mountains, that I saw the stars on my way home for the first time." She tilted her head and watched intently, as if immersed in the beauty in front of her.
Bai Yuelu smiled beside her and said, "That's how I've looked at the stars since I was a child. Although there were no books on astronomy, my brother and I would compete to recognize the stars. ”
"This is interesting," Cen Xiao turned his head to look at her curiously, "Are your parents doing astronomical work?" ”
"Ha, no, it's not that good." Bai Yuelu waved his hand, "Our village was originally called Lingxing Village, which is said to have been used for astrology in ancient times. The original location of the Peak Observatory originally had a small pavilion. In front of the pavilion there was a large round stone plate, on which were engraved twenty-eight constellations, and what kind of four azimuths and the like, were later pried away. When I was a kid, my brother and I used to go to the mountains to play, and then I just watched that thing, and I learned a little bit. ”
Cen Xiao snorted meaningfully, looking at the white moon deer beside him who was looking up at the stars. After a while, he said softly: "You don't know how lucky you are." ”
"Ha, I still want a college professor's dad and a government official's mom." She found a large tree stump, wiped it with her hand, and sat down, looking at the starry sky, "Again, we all just want what we can't get." ”
"Perhaps..."Cen Xiao said lightly, "But looking at these stars, we are so small, everything I want seems so insignificant." ”
"yes," Hakutsuki Lu sighed, "especially when you know that there are many creatures in the universe that you don't know about. Then the two men fell silent again.
The two of them quietly enjoyed the night scene like this, and after a while, Bai Yuelu couldn't help but speak: "I know you don't want us to discuss this outside. But now there is no one, so ... What exactly do you think that thing is? ”
Cen Xiao didn't speak, just leaned on her and sat on the big tree stump. After a long time, he said: "We know that its infiltration in the three-dimensional world is in the form of electromagnetic waves." But the fourth dimension... I don't know what the fourth dimension should be. ”
It shows that for it, time is a fixed thing, just like length, width and height. It can stand outside of time and observe how something looks different at different times. ”
"Yes, but what about the future? What does the future look like for it? Cen Xiao shook his head and let out a long sigh: "It will pass through so many cones of time light, how many possibilities will be displayed in front of its eyes." Perhaps it will be able to see the dinosaurs continue to rule the planet at the same time, the world in which the Axis powers won World War II, and the future in which we are not here. ”
"Perhaps." Bai Yuelu shrugged, "Sometimes I wonder if our research has crossed the line?" Shouldn't we be involved in areas that we can't handle? It's like Albert Einstein and the atomic bomb. ”
"No, science is sinless." Cen Xiao shook his head, "It's like Einstein's formula for conservation of energy wasn't discovered for the purpose of building weapons. It just fell into the wrong hands. It is the duty of scientists to continue to expand the boundaries of science as we know it, which is the purest gift, to our population of intelligent beings. Ambitious politicians are the ones to blame for turning science into weapons. ”
Bai Yuelu shook his head, "But when we discover something new, we all have to think that someone will use it to do the wrong thing. That is why cloning technology is developing so slowly, and there is a scientific ethic involved in this. ”
"So what if we find something amazing?" Cen Xiao asked, "What if we found something that was enough to shock the world, but could pose a huge risk to humanity?" ”
"Then we have no choice but to ruin it."