Chapter II: Village Governments

Across the street from the activity room was an archive-like area, and I used a crowbar to pick the locks neatly. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info push the door in, there is a workbench on this side of the door, and behind it is a simple metal shelf, on which there is a large cardboard box and a large cardboard box of documents. I found the one labeled "Village Chronicle", brushed off the fine layer of dust on the lid, and opened the box.

"Wangxing Village, formerly known as Lingxing Village, can be tested to the Eastern Han Dynasty at the earliest, and built a Pingxing Platform on the northeast hill of the village. In 1967, it was renamed Wangxing Village..."The village chronicles are all the same, I put this one aside and went to the other contents.

I wasn't surprised that I didn't find the 2016 Murashi, but I just felt stuffy and uncomfortable in my chest. The leader reported to me that the last contact with the village was on December 31, 2016. I guess they didn't have the opportunity to catch up with the year-end inventory all night at the last minute of the new year as in previous years, and the biggest worry was just how to deal with the higher authorities.

However, I did find the name of Bai Yuelu in the birth registration information. Born in 1988, his father Bai Jianguo and mother Zhou Aiping were born in the county hospital. Where is the elementary school, where is the junior high school, where is the high school, etc. It's funny, I don't know how parents came up with the idea of naming their children "Yuelu" with such a dirty name. I always feel that something comes out of thin air, and I don't know what to think.

The office next to the archives is the village chief. As soon as you push it open, you are greeted by a messy desk piled high with all kinds of papers: folder-clipped, stapled with a stapler, or just handwritten on scattered scratch paper. The large thick booklet at the top had blackened stains, splattered and bloodstained, and looked like it had been frozen for a while, but not as long as ten years. There was also a large ball of bloody tissues in the paper basket under the table, and the telephone receiver on the right hand side was turned up on the table. I imagined the village chief sitting in a chair in front of me, wiping blood from nowhere, desperately trying to make a call.

I glanced at the last booklet he was looking at, the Yellow Pages of Government Offices. Maybe at the last minute, he was still desperately trying to get in touch with the outside world.

I sat in the same office chair he used to sit in, looking closely at his desk. According to the signatures on the various reports, the village chief's name is Chen Zhongzhong, and I guess he is the human form called "Lao Chen" before. Perhaps ten years ago, if not more, Chen sat in the place where I was sitting at the moment, wearing a gray jacket and the cheap suit pants that he thought were necessary to be a village chief. I guess he had a flat head, a little flat head, and the same sight in his eyes as I did at this time.

The computer on the desk hasn't gone into sleep yet.,Shake the mouse screen and light up again.,The wallpaper is a landscape painting of a grass.,The time display is December 31, 2016 11:59.。 To be honest, seeing this kind of flat box-like laptop actually made me feel a little nostalgic. I still remember when I was in high school, I once won the first place in my grade in the unified examination, and begged my father to buy me an Apple notebook. It was the best computer of its time, larger than A4 paper, thick, and made up of two parts that could be opened and closed. Although it was not as advanced as my current watch, it made me shine among my classmates at the time.

Lao Chen's computer minimized a few files, clicked on, all related to physics, what "A Brief History of Time", "Quantum Mechanics", "A Brief Analysis of Chaos Theory", etc., it felt as if he wanted to complete college physics. However, the pages of each chapter are not very deep. Maybe he tried hard, but this kind of scientific thing, as an ordinary middle-aged person, he really can't understand. He is very busy every day, those things in the village, dealing with all kinds of messy things above, whose family is overborn, whose sow is about to breed again. He had to solve these practical problems every day, and he didn't have time to delve into the mystical and profound science. Not everyone can be a scientist, but we all have our own responsibilities.

I opened a few drawers at hand, and there were stacks of papers. I went through it briefly, and it was all about the village, and I am afraid that it was the 2016 work report that he had not had time to sort out. I saw that there were some documents related to the construction of astronomical observatories, government approvals, land use reports, and so on. There are also pig vaccines, new regulations for the use of pesticides and fertilizers, and so on.

One of them is the details of the construction of the astronomical observatory. I flipped it open and looked at it carefully from beginning to end. Obviously, in addition to the normal astronomical telescopes and other observation instruments, they also built several high-power pan-electromagnetic wave receiving and transmitting instruments. Thinking of the topic of "detection and emission of cosmic frequencies" mentioned by Lao Chen and Bai Yuelu's humanoid rays before, I am afraid that the Wangxing Village Astronomical Observatory does more than just astronomical observation. It is very likely that Cen Xiao and Bai Yuelu came with scientific research projects, such as detecting deep space signals and so on.

Back in 2016, humans had just captured gravitational waves for the first time, verifying another prediction from the general theory of relativity. Information from the depths of the universe has passed through a vacuum of hundreds of millions of light-years, leaving a faint vibration like a dragonfly on a huge detection instrument, telling us that in that deepest part of the world's reach, hundreds of millions of years ago, two huge black holes merged with each other, stirring up the entire universe.

"Heaven and earth are yellow, and the universe is desolate. The sun and the moon are shining, and the sun and moon are shining. "For thousands of years, human beings have always looked up at the vast and deep starry sky above us. Because it makes us feel so small, unable to grasp any changes related to our own destiny, so lonely. But we can't stop asking, and we can't help but want to hear the answer from the other side of the starry sky, telling us that we are not alone in this endless universe.

However, I can better understand why the astronomical observatory was chosen in Wangxing Village. In addition to Bai Yuelu's personal relationship (but Cen Xiao is the person in charge of the observatory, Bai Yuelu is just a researcher under her, and I doubt that she has any ability to influence the site selection of the Academy of Sciences), Wangxing Village has complete infrastructure, and the quality of the villagers is generally high, and they can accept the "electromagnetic wave" facility. Moreover, it is located in the middle of nowhere, far away from all kinds of human activities, and will not be filled with all kinds of electrical appliances, subways, large electronic screens and so on. The high latitude, the wide field of view, and the absence of any tall buildings around it make it the best choice for such an observatory.

I sat in Lao Chen's seat, looking at all that he had left behind, trying to piece together the story of what had happened here: undoubtedly he had suffered some blows, he or someone else had been injured, and he was sitting here calling the higher authorities one by one, hoping for help. I saw that the phone books were all crumpled, apparently the result of hastily pinching the middle of the pages and turning the pages.

I tried to relax a bit, put my feet in the belly of the table, and looked around at the furnishings in front of me. My gaze fell on the drawer in the middle of my desk. According to the habit of ordinary people, the most frequently read documents for a period of time will be placed here. Luckily, the drawer wasn't locked, but it was very difficult to pull it, so when I looked down closely, I realized that the pulley was misaligned and stuck.

I folded the drawer and opened it, except for some commonly used office items, a bag of soft-wrapped gold Nanjing, a lighter, and all kinds of messy invoices, it was a brown paper folder with the words "Wangxing Village Astronomical Observation Center Project Report" on the cover. When I opened it, it was a stack of handwritten reports, with a beautiful font, quite a Wei monument style:

"Reporter: Cen Xiao."

"On May 13, 2016, the commissioning of basic equipment and the analysis of common frequencies in the surrounding area were carried out."

"On May 15, 2016, we received another frequency, but it was a village broadcast."

"On May 20, 2016, detailed debugging was carried out."

"On May 28, 2016, the town broadcast signal, power plant and various trace electromagnetic wave signal interference were cleared."

"On September 13, 2016, our receiver received for the first time some sort of frequency that has not yet been identified."

"On September 15, 2016, the frequency has a certain stability and continues to be received."

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It's just a simple report, after all, if they have any substantial progress, they will be directly reported to the relevant units at the higher level, not the village head, who does not understand science. I don't even know why she handed over this report to the village chief, because it seems that the village government does not have any authority over the astronomical observatory. Maybe it's just for peace of mind.

Suddenly, there was a burst of electromagnetic noise from the communicator around my waist.